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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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So great was the outcry that in less than six

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Andrew Marvell·1621–1678
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NTRODUCTION. xlv were yet to pass before the expulsion of theStuarts at the Revolution. We need say little more of politics. In aprivate letter at South Kensington, datedNovember 5, 1674, and addressed to EdwardThompson, afterwards Mayor and M.P. forYork, Marvell half-jestingly wrote : " I am gladthat Clergy begin to show their good affectionto King killing and Emperor killing." Early in1677 he represented himself to Edward Thomp-son's elder brother. Sir Henry Thompson, asone who had no employment but idleness, andwho " am so oblivious that I should forget myown name did I not see it sometimes in afriend's superscription." * On March 6, 1677,Marvell wrote in a letter to his constituents :'* God direct all counsels to the true remedy ofthe urgent condition of this poor nation, whichI hope there is no reason to despair of." On the 20th of March a debate took place upona Bill for securing the Protestant religion.This Bill required the Sovereign to take an oaththat he did not believe in transubstantiation, buthe could refuse on condition that he handedover to the bishops the filling up of ecclesias- *The original is in the collection of Mr. AlfredMorrison.
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