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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 finish successfully.

She worked hard to accomplish her goals before the deadline.

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tuck

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /tʌk/Used In Literature ↓

An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.

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Poetry examples for tuck

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,

I tuck’d my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;

You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.

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