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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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just about

Part of SpeechadverbUsed In Literature ↓

Approximately, very nearly.

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‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘Just about.’

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Poetry examples for just about

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

southern cities where the colored population at the begin-

ing of the war was slightly above 50,000 and just about

equal to that of Chicago. These are Birmingham, Ala.,

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not just moralizing. It is Good News, not just good advice, it is gospel, not just law

Supremely, it is about God and what he has done, not just about us and about what we

ought to do."9*

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fries and cheeseburgers and vanilla frappes with people like Buddy

Willard. I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about

anything else. No matter how much I eat, I never put on weight.

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