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• So don't judge harshly of me there-anent About Edinburgh, I have been going to write to you for days past. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• Wouldst thou be clearly informed anent(220) the only true and sure foundation of fellowship with God, the way of entertaining it, the honour or happiness of it, and sweet fruits of it, that fulness of joy that accompanies it? —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Accordingly, I made Nanse send the bit lassie, our servant, Jenny Heggins, for a couple of bottles of Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout, asking if he could pawn his word anent its being genuine, as it was for a gentleman in delicate health. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• The heartless moral code of the cynical young pleasure-seeking male is summed up in the cant phrase anent women: "Find and forget!" —  Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
• In defiance and utter contradiction of all the sapient predictions there anent, it seemed that this dreamy, poetizing Everett Gray was absolutely successful in his new vocation of man-of-business The news that he had become a partner in the firm he had entered as a clerk was communicated in a letter from himself to Lady Beauchamp. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

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