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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 make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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touch on

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.

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We touched on the subject of wages, but we didn't reach a conclusion.

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Poetry examples for touch on

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lence in the sublime, and shewn how near they approach in splendor to the

5redt sun of the British Theatre ; let us now just touch on their comedies and

raw one parallel of a very different kind. Horace makes a doubt whe-

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