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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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In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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Tox. Dyvers countryes and tymes have used alwayes

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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ome bowes are used in some places nowe, and wereused also in Homers dayes, for Pandarus bowe, the bestshooter among al the Trojanes, was made of two Goatehomes joyned togyther, the lengthe wherof sayth Homer,was xvi. handbredes, not far diflEering from the lengthe ofour bowes. Scripture maketh mention of brasse bowes. Iron bowes,and style bowes, have been of longe tjrme, and also noweare used among the Turkes, but yet they must nedes beunprofitable. For yf brasse, iron or style, have theyr ownestrength and pith in them, they be farre above mannesstreng^: yf they be made meete for mannes strengthe,theyr pithe is nothyng worth to shoote any shoote wyth all. The Ethiopians had bowes of palme tree, whiche seemedto be very stronge, but we have none experience of them.The lengthe of them was iiii. cubites. The men of Indehad theyr bowes made of a rede, whiche was of a greatstrengthe. And no marvayle though bowe and shaftes weremade thereof, for the redes be so great in Inde, as Herodo-
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