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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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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/Used In Literature ↓

A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

In a Sentence

Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.

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Poetry examples for advertisement

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

on the passage in Voltaire's _Charles XII_. prefixed as the

"Advertisement" to the poem. Voltaire seems to have known very little

about the man or his history, and Byron, though he draws largely on his

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account of his life ... furnished by the kindness of a citizen of that

Republic," i.e. Geneva. The note, which is now entitled "Advertisement,"

is taken bodily from the pages of a work published in 1786 by the Swiss

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