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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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doyen

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/dwɑˈjæ̃/Used In Literature ↓

A commander in charge of ten men.

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de doyen. doyenamong doyenet doyendes doyendoyen ledoyen dudoyen general
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Poetry examples for doyen

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Woods written shortly after my dissertation had been presented,

in which he said that Josiah Royce, the doyen of American philo-

sophers, had spoken of it "as the work of an expert’. Mr William

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