anent
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Dolmage-Heath Lima, Peru Sir: In your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Reichstag opened late last week, a day of merely perfunctory debate was followed by important party caucuses anent the Locarno Treaties.
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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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I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.'
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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
