Who persuaded the Tsar to break his word anent Port Arthur?. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
Al. Fairbrother, editor of Everything, campions the word anent, and says it is a smooth and juicy word. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Comments] Reference
The heartless moral code of the cynical young pleasure-seeking male is summed up in the cant phrase anent women: "Find, ... and forget!". From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
She has given me many a troubled hour, Mr. Campbell, and she ought to say some word anent it. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Fife] Reference
Sederunt anent Cessios of the 22nd of December 1882. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Gettysburg, because of recent publications there-anent. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The last news from Rhode Island, however, records a rumour anent a. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
"I'd a dream anent him last night that makes me think he's comin". From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
Wodrow, "to be weel attested, and I have writ to Mr Reid anent it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Report anent Innovations in Public Worship, presented to the General. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
It gave us, for example, an anecdote anent the utterances of a certain prominent. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
He answered the question anent the use of Patrimondi in the metropolis, and then said directly. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The conversation anent the subject of the coal kept recurring to her mind with odd persistency. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
The Sage has got the Triple Alliance on the brain; spends his mornings in drafting questions there anent. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891] Reference
There had all along been a great deal of chopping and changing anent the position of the Mafeking garrison. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
(Cæsar's complaint anent the horse vehicles was even more unfounded than his grievance over the time-table.). From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The main object of his official progress was to collect information for new legislation anent the municipalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Thus, when I throw forth some philosophical thought anent things celestial, you will seize it in its very flight?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Had the Colonel in his wisdom seen anything in its suppression advantageous to the "Military Situation," the truth anent. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
In spite of his declaration anent a bluff, he was not prepared to push the matter of the check to the end he had threatened. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
In defiance and utter contradiction of all the sapient predictions there anent, it seemed that this dreamy, poetizing Everett. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Quite naturally, when the Doctor, speaking anent the then infantile Thomas Haviland Hicks, Jr., said, "Mr. Hicks, it's a boy!". From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
The much debated topic anent the likelihood of the Sixth Division being sent to join Methuen was settled at last -- to our chagrin. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
On the contrary, many anecdotes were told anent it after turning in that evening, the time when we indulged in yarning amongst ourselves after. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
A few days later Trevannion reported progress to his wife anent the new assistant, whom for some strange reason he had grown positively to like. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Was it owing to the bright morning, or to the fact of its being Christmas, or to the sweet feelings I had lying hidden in my heart anent my darling?. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
John anent no drinks within two miles of the city has been withdrawn, so you may settle down in the Stromovka or the Kinsky Garden for the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
The policy of the Americans anent the Philippines was continually shifting during the first five years of their occupation, and only since ex-Governor. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Many a head jerked curiously to the side to meet his stare, and more than one remark was dropped anent the old Siwash with so strange a look upon his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Council of the 'Ulamá in July 1879 anent Khaír-ud-din's proposed reform, which would have placed the Sultán in the position of a constitutional sovereign. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
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