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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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jealousy

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈdʒɛləsi/Used In Literature ↓

A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for jealousy

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

marriage, he has passed over the offered flower "such as May never bore,"

the rose herself "turns away with jealousy," and gives him thorns for

thanks: nothing left of it for hand or lip but collapsed blossom and

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decency sake, but I will insert it here as proper to the subject we are

now upon. Philaster being violently agitated by jealousy, ancl firmly be-

lieving his mistress to have been 'loose, thus speaks of a letter which he

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Strength and delicacy are here in perfect union. In like manner Post-

humus in Cymbeline, act ii, agitated by as violent a jealousy of his wife,

thus describes her seeming modesty :

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