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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

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

a king's accession to a confederacy

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monopoly

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/məˈnɒpəˌli/Used In Literature ↓

A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.

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Poetry examples for monopoly

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

its original, not designed rigidly to fetter their commerce) was re'en-

acted, with new and oppressive provisions; a monopoly being

secured to English merchants, English ships, and English navigators,

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