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anent

[uh-nent] / əˈnɛnt /




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Sirs: Anent your story on the Army's new Chief-of-Staff: That No. 1 man, U. S. Military Academy, Class of '98�how did he come out?

From Time Magazine Archive

Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam."

From Time Magazine Archive

I'd liever finnd thee sittin', ��� Wi' a bowl o' cruds an' cream, Wheer t' foxglove bells ring through the dells, ��� Anent a Dartmoor stream.

From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William

Anent which latter subject I have heard him declare that he doubted whether there was any man living who could really read an old Irish manuscript. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Anent "Orpheus at the Zoo," the following facts may interest you.

From Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" by Various




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