anent

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He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies.

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

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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.

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Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death.

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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