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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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assures

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To make sure and secure.

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Poetry examples for assures

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

other deaths may be there. He advances to the crib, and looks

in on the sleeping children. He assures himself that they are

alive. It startles him to fresh hope; he turns back to his

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much of it. Jean de Bosschère has written a book upon Elskamp, and he

assures me that Elskamp is a great and important poet, and some day,

perhaps, I may understand it. De Bosschère seems to me to see or to feel

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Yet dread not this--the proof of all the past

Assures the future that my love will last;

But--Oh, Medora! nerve thy gentler heart;

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