anent

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Evangelist Sunday made another prophecy, anent his stop in St. Louis.

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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