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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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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

a king's accession to a confederacy

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battered

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

In a Sentence

The firemen battered down the door.

Origin

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Common Phrases

women batteredwoman batteredchild batteredold battered. battereddown batteredbattered badly
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Poetry examples for battered

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

roust Antony, after a profound peace and a long revel m tlie arms of Cleopatra, upon hU return

to Rome, have nothing to ride but an old battered lean war-horse? Besides, lean horses are

seldom remarkable like this for neighing loud and vigorously. By arm we all understand thd

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had repaired itself by one of Nature's magic processes. So one day

our battered heroine doffed the invalid garments of Michaelis and

donned those of any well-dressed woman of 1912, including a thick

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The impregnable disease their vain attempts did mock;

They mined it near, they battered from afar

With all the cannon of the medicinal war;

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