"Hyphen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... standard transliteration: Ton d' apameibomenos prosephe podas okus Achilleus Each element ("Ton ... prosephe" and "podas okus Achilleus") is used several dozen times in the Iliad; the complete line occurs at least ten times.] a Lancashire Bag-pipe [anomalous hyphen in original] Wit. Nor to Chuch? [spelling unchanged] & Reparteee bien [spelling unchanged] and d'on on slip shoe: [text unchanged: compare Note on III.ix] Wit. At Sir Patient Fancy's, my Father-in-law. [? for .] for the use and comfort of Man ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... of the suitors had either declined the contest, or made such work as the devil could not read if his pardon depended on it, all eyes were bent on the stranger. Aldobrand stepped gracefully forward, arranged the types without omission of a single letter, hyphen, or comma, imposed them without deranging a single space, and pulled off the first proof as clear and free from errors, as if it had been a triple revise! All applauded the worthy successor of the immortal ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... far as to make a particular declaration, "That neither he nor his privy council shall or will, at any time hereafter, commit or command to prison, or otherwise restrain, any man for not lending money, or for any other cause which, in his conscience,[**joined-up though no hyphen] he thought not to concern the public good, and the safety of king and people." And he further declared, "That he never would be guilty of so base an action as to pretend any cause of whose truth he was not fully satisfied."[***] But this ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume
... how the policy of Home Rule adopted by the Liberal Party made me, as it did so many other people in the United Kingdom, first a Liberal-Unionist and then a Unionist without a hyphen. Unfortunately, however, the Unionist Party did not for very long offer me a quiet and secure political haven. Like the Duke of Devonshire, whom I always regarded during his life as my leader in politics, I had to weigh my anchor during the tempest ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... too womanly, unless your appearance is deceptive, to know the true difference between a semicolon and a hyphen. No matter; you have every qualification, it seems, including a good manner and a pleasant smile. You're engaged—on probation; I mean to say, for this one week we'll consider you simply my guest, but willing to help me out with my correspondence. Then, if you like the place and I ...
— Nobody • Louis Joseph Vance
... altered, for example where a word was duplicated or a letter duplicated around a hyphen. Hyphenations ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... really quite simple, if you realize that the aim of the closing paragraph is merely to bring in a personal hyphen between the person writing and the ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post |
