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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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Dictionary Entry

ance

Part of SpeechadverbUsed In Literature ↓

(frequency) One and only one time.

In a Sentence

I have only once eaten pizza.

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Poetry examples for ance

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

1 HE first edition of these plays in this volume having found that accept*

ance as to give us encouragement to make a second impression, we were

very desirous they might come forth as correct as might be: And we were

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