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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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put an end to

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To terminate or abolish.

In a Sentence

He put an end to the loud music by pulling the plug.

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Poetry examples for put an end to

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

actual event, but "what he had heard at Athens about the affair of that

girl who was so near being put an end to while you were there."

According to the letter which Moore published (_Life_, p. 178), and

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