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But in the same vein, he can get in some telling jabs: Oxbridge philosophers, to be cursory, Are products of a middle-class nursery: Their arguments are anent What Nanny really meant.

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Rosendahl's statement anent the temperature was meant to refer to the desert section lying east of Banning.

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Fifteen-minute pause after dessert to listen to burst of rhetoric from unemployed husband anent, State of Union.

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Kansas City, Mo. For information anent the repeal of an old rule, thanks.�ED.

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These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker