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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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embroidered

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəd/Used In Literature ↓

To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.

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. embroideredsilk embroideredcloth embroideredembroidered richly
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Poetry examples for embroidered

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

"4. Next after Sir Edmonbury, so mounted, came a priest in a

surplice, with a cope embroidered with dead bones, skeletons,

skulls, and the like, giving pardons very plentifully to all

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deliberately. When they are seated they take money out of

embroidered purses at their girdles and begin arranging it on the

carpet_.)

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