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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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Robert Browning·1812–1889
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e advanced to the council-table: 70And, "Please your honors," said he, "I'm able,By means of a secret charm, to drawAll creatures living beneath the sun,That creep or swim or fly or run,After me so as you never saw! 75And I chiefly use my charmOn creatures that do people harm,The mole and toad and newt and viper;And people call me the Pied Piper."(And here they noticed round his neck 80A scarf of red and yellow stripe,To match with his coat of the self-same check;And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;And his fingers, they noticed, were ever strayingAs if impatient to be playing 85Upon this pipe, as low it dangledOver his vesture so old-fangled.)"Yet," said he, "poor piper as I am,In Tartary I freed the Cham,Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats; 90I eased in Asia the NizamOf a monstrous brood of vampire-bats:And as for what your brain bewilders,If I can rid your town of ratsWill you give me a thousand guilders?" 95"One? fifty thousand!"--was the exclamationOf the astonished Mayor and Corporation.
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