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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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corrected

Part of Speech: verbPronunciation: /kəˈɹɛktɪd/Used In Literature ↓

To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

In a Sentence

The navigator corrected the course of the ship.

Origin

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Poetry examples for corrected

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

gentleman had taken the pains (or rather the pleasure) to read over;

wherein he had all along corrected' several faults (some very gross) which

had crept in by the frequent imprinting of them. His corrections were

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and before Beaumont and Fletcher's plays can be endured by such Attic

ears, they must be corrected into prose, as if, because well-brewed porter is

a wholesome draught, therefore claret and burgundy must be dashed witli

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\nd h.id their equal life: vices which were

M.innerH abroad, did grow corrected tliere:

riii'v who possest a l)ox and half-crown spent

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