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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.

Writers often choose accommodation when discussing complex ideas.

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partly

Part of SpeechadverbPronunciation/ˈpɑːtli/Used In Literature ↓

In part, or to some degree, but not completely.

In a Sentence

they partly finished the house so they could move in before winter;  the car was partly visible in the garage

Origin

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Common Phrases

because partlydue partlypartly onlypartly least
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Poetry examples for partly

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Plutarch's _Artaxerxes_, Langhorne's Translation, 1838, p. 699), was

introduced partly to pacify the Countess Guiccioli, who had quarrelled

with him for maintaining that "love was not the loftiest theme for true

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