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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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noun

A hidden advantage or resource that can be used when needed to ensure success.

“The team's coach kept their best player on the bench, planning to use him as an ace in the hole in the second half.”

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And on the spike that split the mother’s heart

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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ut—for he heard of Arthur newly crown’d,Tho’ not without an uproar made by thoseWho cried, ‘He is not Uther’s son-—the KingSent to him, saying, ‘Arise, and help us thou!For here between the man and beast we die.’ And Arthur yet had done no deed of arms,But heard the call, and came: and GuinevereStood by the castle walls to watch him pass;But since he neither wore on helm or shieldThe golden symbol of his kinglihood, But rode a simple knight among his knights,And many of these in richer arms than he,She saw him not, or mark’d not, if she saw,One among many, tho’ his face was bare. But Arthur, looking downward as he past,Felt the light of her eyes into his life Smite on the sudden, yet rode on, and pitch’dHis tents beside the forest. Then he draveThe heathen; after, slew the beast, and fell’d 30 35 4s 5° 55
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