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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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Cliff Klingenhagen

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Edwin Arlington Robinson·1869–1935
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liff Klingenhagen had me in to dineWith him one day; and after soup and meat,And all the other things there were to eat,Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wineAnd one with wormwood. Then, without a signFor me to choose at all, he took the draughtOf bitterness himself, and lightly quaffedIt off, and said the other one was mine. And when I asked him what the deuce he meantBy doing that, he only looked at meAnd grinned, and said it was a way of his.And though I know the fellow, I have spentLong time a-wondering when I shall beAs happy as Cliff Klingenhagen is.
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