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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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T.S. Eliot·1888–1965·modernist literature
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observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon!Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)It may be Prester John's balloonOr an old battered lantern hung aloftTo light poor travellers to their distress."She then: "How you digress!" And I then: "Some one frames upon the keysThat exquisite nocturne, with which we explainThe night and moonshine; music which we seizeTo body forth our vacuity."She then: "Does this refer to me?""Oh no, it is I who am inane." "You, madam, are the eternal humorist,The eternal enemy of the absolute,Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!With your air indifferent and imperiousAt a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"And--"Are we then so serious?"
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