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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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verb

To finish successfully.

She worked hard to accomplish her goals before the deadline.

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pus

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

A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

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. puscells pus
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Poetry examples for pus

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

home I would stand before the bathroom mirror and break one of the boils.

Yellow pus would spurt and splatter on the mirror. And little white hard

pits. In a horrible way it was fascinating that all that stuff was in there. But

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