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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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properties

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈpɹɒpətiz/Used In Literature ↓

Something that is owned.

In a Sentence

Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).

Origin

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Common Phrases

. propertiesproperties physicalproperties mechanicalproperties chemical
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Poetry examples for properties

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

our old players, who kept most of their plays many years in manuscript as

mere play-house properties, to be chaneed and mangled by every new

actor's humour and fancy. As this was the case of most of our old plays,

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had time to study them. They bind up with undisputed ethics more or

less preposterous theories concerning life and death, the properties

of matter, man, God, the universe, the laws of nature, the food we

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