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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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adjective

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

accurate knowledge

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chuck

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tʃʌk/Used In Literature ↓

Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

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Common Phrases

. chuckberry chuckwagon chucksaid chuck
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Poetry examples for chuck

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

their jobs. My father had lost his job. Gene’s father sat on his front porch

all day. All the fathers were without jobs except Chuck’s who worked in

a meat plant. He drove a red car with the meat company’s name on the

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Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily push witless

creases of screaming warmth chuck pil- lows are noise funnily swallows

swallowing revolv- ingly pompous a the swallowed mottle with smooth or

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The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”

But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot;

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