Thenabouts Definition

Our friend, Simon Jennings, could not sleep that night ; his reveries and scheming lasted from the rum-punch’s final drop, at ten p.m., to circiter two, a.m., and then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted “ steal it ;” and so, not till nearly four, he began to shut his eyes and dream again, as his usual fashion was, of adding up receipts in five figures, and of counting out old Bridget’s hoarded gold.

Seven years ago my wife, Rupert Brooke and I were eastbound from New York, and—then or thenabouts—I wrote from shipboard an open letter on the theater to the Editor of Drama.