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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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(usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

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38 THE PRINCESS

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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rink deep, until the habits of the slave,The sins of emptiness, gossip and spiteAnd slander, die. (Better not be at allThan not be noblef Leave us: you may go: 80To-day the Lady Psyche will harangueThe fresh arrivals of the week before ;For they press in from all the provinces,And fill the hive.”She spoke, and bowing wavedDismissal : back again we crossed the court 85To Lady Psyche : as we enter’d in,There sat along the forms, like morning dovesThat sun their milky bosoms on the thatch,A patient range of pupils ; she herselfErect behind a desk of satin-wood, 90A quick brunette, well-molded, falcon-eyed,And on the hither side, or so she look’d,Of twenty summers. At her left, a child,In shining draperies, headed like a star,Her maiden babe, a double April old, 95Aglaia slept. We sat: the Lady glanced :Then Florian, but no livelier than the dameThat whisper’d “ Asses’ ears ” among the sedge,“My sister.” “Comely, too, by all that’s fair,”Said Cyril. “O hush, hush !” and she began. 100 a SS eee 92. on the hither side, below. 94. headed like a star, with golden hair 95. a double April old, two years old. Cf Enoch Arden, 57: “Ere he touch’d his one and twentieth May.”
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