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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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in a way that is correct and exact; without error

She measured the ingredients accurately to ensure the cake turned out perfectly.

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locust

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈləʊ.kəst/Used In Literature ↓

Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).

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. locuststreet locusttrees locustbean locustgrove locusttree locustlocust blacklocust honey
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Poetry examples for locust

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.