anent

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Out of a rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past.

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I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.'

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The Naval Conference There has been the usual amount of come-on in the French press during the past week anent the exact location of the next war.

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MINNIE�The usual Cinderella story anent the transformation of Minnie, the ugly duckling, into Minnie, the bird of Paradise, thanks to truelove and a permanent wave.

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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