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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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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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Veneer’d with sanctimonious theory.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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ut while they talk’d above their heads I sawThe feudal warrior lady-clad ; which broughtMy book to mind: and opening this I read , 120Of old Sir Ralph a page or two that rangWith tilt and tourney ; then the tale of herThat drove her foes with slaughter from her walls,And much I praised her nobleness, and “ Where,”Ask’d Walter, patting Lilia’s head (she lay 125Beside him) “ lives there such a woman now ?”
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