"Hyphen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... — N. vinculum, link; connective, connection; junction &c. 43; bond of union, copula, hyphen, intermedium[obs3]; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus. bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser|, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string &c. (filament) 205. fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the Hyphen" is an attempt of the present critic to demonstrate why relations between the United States and Mother England must necessarily be closer than those between the States and any of the really foreign powers. So patent and so inevitable ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... Mrs. Fay-Wyman, of whom I assume that you of course know, even if you have not met her, as you may easily have done, or her daughter, Miss Edith Fay-Wyman, had not left town last week for their country house, Rose-In-Flower, at Hyphen-by-the-Sea, a most delightful spot. Mr. Edes and I have spent several week ends there. I am prevented from spending longer than week ends because I am kept at home by my two darling twin daughters. Mrs. Fay-Wyman is a sweet woman and I do so wish ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... 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
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