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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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entirely

Part of SpeechadverbPronunciation/ɪnˈtaɪəli/Used In Literature ↓

To the full or entire extent.

In a Sentence

It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.

Origin

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Common Phrases

different entirelynew entirely. entirelyupon entirelyentirely almost
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Poetry examples for entirely

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

to promote virtue and chastity, though the custom of the age made the

authors not entirely abstain from expressions not then esteemed gross, but

which now must offend every modest ear.

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printed : I thought not convenient to mix them with this volume, which

of itself is entirely new. And indeed it would have rendered the book so

voluminous, that ladies and gentlewomen would have found it scarce

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of Italy — which Rossetti put into print when preparing the

volume of 1870, we can for once entirely agree with him and

his editor as to the propriety of its remaining unpublished. 4

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