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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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noun

(usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

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marches

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈmɑːtʃɪz/Used In Literature ↓

A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for marches

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Ycry stiff in this sense, and justly rejected by Mr. Warburton, who restores arm-gaunt, and

ex|Mains it of a war-horse grown gaunt or lean by lon^ marches and frequent fights. But why

roust Antony, after a profound peace and a long revel m tlie arms of Cleopatra, upon hU return

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Vivie and others of the W.S.P.U. organized great pilgrimages--the

marches of the Brown Women--from Scotland, Wales, Devon and Norfolk

to London, to some goal in Downing Street or Whitehall, some

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Religious Zeal of Cortes ; Discontent of the Mexicans ; Dangerous Position of the Spaniards ; Trans-

actions at the Court of Spain ; Velasquez dispatches an Expedition against Cortes ; Cortes marches

against Narvaez ; Defeats and takes him Prisoner ; His Politic Conduct after Victory ; His Forces

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