Read full poem →and the Marquis of Hamilton, poems in which it is difficult to find a
line that moves. Indeed, seventeenth-century elegies are not as a rule
pathetic. A poem in the simple, piercing strain and the Wordsworthian
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In general; most often.
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“We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen.”
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Poetry examples for “as a rule”
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Read full poem →not, as a rule, include in the term the writers of
law books.