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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 a way that is correct and exact; without error

She measured the ingredients accurately to ensure the cake turned out perfectly.

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rip

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɹɪp/Used In Literature ↓

A tear (in paper, etc.).

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van rip. ripoff ripopen rip
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Poetry examples for rip

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

(5) outside it is warm and blue and April. And I have to digest Darwin, Marx,

and Wagner. I'd like to rip out my brain and set it to assimilating the printed

hieroglyphics in this book, and send my body down to the tennis courts in

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