Sentence examples for Anent from inspiring English sources

From: The Dormitory of D.R. To: Miss X [NOT FOR CIRCULATION] You force me to observe, anent your hysteria re lost virginity (see pp. 1-36 of the letter left on my doorstep last night), that not once has the slightest interest been evinced or mention made in reference to my lost virginity.

networks will no longer natter negatively anent Nixon; there will be ping-pong every where & paeans of praise for Padre Peale's power of positive pthinking...but in 1972, Nixon's the one.

Anent this estimation, I am informed that Jackson mused for a time, then uttered something.

An autodidact with a fondness for words such as "braggadocio" and "anent," he went on to co-write, with Barbara Becnel, nine children's books decrying the gangster life style.

It will not contain any of the hackneyed words, hectic, anent, or meticulous.

Note on the Social Revolution: "It will be noted," says a piece of promotional Cunard-White Star literature anent the Queen Elizabeth, "that once again top class quite properly becomes First Class in name, as it has always been in quality.

Indeed, its fustian reports anent this and that are almost as remote from modern Scotland as Xenophon's Anabasis.

Bruce Paley Castle Morris, Pembrokeshire A further consideration anent Mr Corbyn is that only once since 1721 have we elected a prime minister with a beard.

A pedant writes: Anent the above, I feel it is incumbent upon me to point out... Smallweed acerbically counters: Don't bother, old fruit.

The New Yorker, March 5 , 1927P. 17 We understand, anent the recent Aimee McPherson show, that all revival ceremonies are a form of mass hypnosis.

Insiders said he was likely to split Mr Carter's responsibilities with Jeremy Heywood, Mr Brown's perm-anent secretary.