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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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wink

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

An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for wink

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

together eyes pout gestures stickily point made glints squinting who’s

a wink bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big wobbly foot-steps

every goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old feller

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I'll lean upon her breast and I'll whisper in her ear

That I cannot get a wink o'sleep for thinking of my dear;

I hunger at my meat and I daily fade away

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