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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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tremendous

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/tɹəˈmɛndəs/Used In Literature ↓

Awe-inspiring; terrific.

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amount tremendous. tremendouspower tremendousimpact tremendousinfluence tremendousgrowth tremendous
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Poetry examples for tremendous

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The steady tramp of sixteen to twenty miles a day did the women

good; the food _en route_ was abundant and eaten with tremendous

appetite. The pilgrims on arrival in London were a justification in

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English ecclesiastical system. Puritanism, a phenomenon of the most

tremendous importance at a certain period of English history, has so

completely disappeared from the modern world, that the utterances of a

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