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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Letters anent your choice . . . show a foggy ignorance of the tremendous burden of the crown .
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The real crux of the speech was a statement by the Chancellor anent the "safeguarding" and McKenna duties, British equivalents of U. S. protective tariffs.
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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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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
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