anent

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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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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