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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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par

Part of SpeechnounUsed In Literature ↓

A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for par

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever

paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from par-

ticular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they repre-*

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of stories. Many of the stories are very old. Some of

them must have been handed down from Indian par-

ents to Indian children for hundreds, and perhaps

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