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  • When he vanished from their sight the King inspected the fish; and finding them all charred black as charcoal, was utterly bewildered and said to the Wazir, “Verily this is a matter whereanent silence cannot be kept, and as for the fishes, assuredly some marvellous adventure connects with them.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Stuarts; also against the infringements and invasions of the just powers of eldership, whereanent, I uttered my paper, called a

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • When he vanished from their sight the King inspected the fish; and finding them all charred black as charcoal, was utterly bewildered and said to the Wazir, "Verily this is a matter whereanent silence cannot be kept, and as for the fishes, assuredly some marvellous adventure connects with them."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • But to come to the second reason, whereanent it more instantly behoveth to show you that he hath been wiser than yourselves, since meseemeth you reck nothing of the foreordinance of the Gods and know yet less of the effects of friendship: -- I say, then, that you of your judgment, of your counsel and of your deliberation, gave Sophronia to Gisippus, a young man and

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • "Verily this is a matter whereanent silence cannot be kept.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • Many other topics are touched in this suggestive little treatise, whereanent a few critiques are available; as thus, “The author has done good service to religion by this publication: it will shake the doubts of the sceptical, strengthen the trust of the wavering, and delight the faith of the confirmed.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

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