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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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come into

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To inherit (money).

In a Sentence

After his father died, he came into a large fortune.

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Poetry examples for come into

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nuous reader* peruse them, and he will find them so able to speak their

own worth, that they need not come into the world with a trumpet, since

any one of these incomparable pieces, well understood, will^rove a Pre-

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or whether he gave any special heed to the man himself, with whom he must

have come into some sort of personal relation, we have no means of

knowing. We know, however, perfectly well what the poet thought of the

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And as he reconciled concrete and abstract here, so he had left

his short breath, in those earlier lines, behind, and had come into

the long sweep and open water of great style: --

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