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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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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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excelsior

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɛkˈsɛlsɪɔː/Used In Literature ↓

The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for excelsior

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

I had slept on the lounge in the parlor. The lounge had lost some of

its excelsior, and the springs wound their way upwards like steel

serpents. So strenuous had been the day I could have slumbered

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