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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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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.

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Dictionary Entry

nobleman

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ˈnəʊbl̩mən/Used In Literature ↓

A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

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Poetry examples for nobleman

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

* Hie txample of some, &c.] i. e. Hemine;e and Condell; who in lC23 published the first

edition of Shakespeare's VVorks. They dedicated thein to tills same nobleman, then £arl of

Montgomery^ and hU elder brother, William Earl of Pembroke.

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at, whose lameness and infirmities made the satire equally poignant.

In either supposition, a powerful and leading nobleman was offended,

to whose party all seem to have drawn, whose loose conduct, in that

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Oxfordshire. After a grammatical education at the school of Burford, he

entered a nobleman into Wadham college in 1659, only twelve years old;

and, in 1661, at fourteen, was, with some other persons of high rank,

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