anent

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Last week, at the Department of Commerce, Candidate Hoover received reports anent his great expectation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Letters anent your choice . . . show a foggy ignorance of the tremendous burden of the crown .

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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