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How often you will meet it
Rank 2,764 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,012 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
preposition
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Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Please see that he is attacked as per arrangement tomorrow.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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Salary £1, 4 shillings and 4 pence halfpenny per annum.
Nonsense Novels · Stephen Leacock · Chapter 2
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Books, roses, music,--what are those trifles to a man thinking upon cent per cent?
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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Where have you ever seen honest money, the money of labor, yield twelve or fourteen per cent?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The postage on this paper will be twenty cents per year, payable quarterly in advance, at the place where it is received.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 2