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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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recension

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ɹɪ̈ˈsɛnʃ(ə)n/Used In Literature ↓

A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

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Poetry examples for recension

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Again, if we examine the Latin text, there seems reason to suppose that it

fairly represents the very recension which Chaucer used. It abounds with

side-notes and glosses, all in Latin; and the glosses correspond to those

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