"Hyphenated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as well as others, similarly. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text, including that of titles and headings. The issue of end-of-line hyphenation was difficult, as normal usage in the 1880's often hyphenated words which have since ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... Mary-Constance Ballard Richardson, in spite of the dignity of her hyphenated name, was a wee morsel. Swathed in fine linen, she showed to the unprejudiced eye no signs of great beauty. With a wrinkly-red skin, a funny round nose, a toothless mouth—she was like every other normal baby ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... organic compounds are discouraging to the beginner and amusing to the layman, but that is because neither of them realizes that they are not really words but formulas. They are hyphenated because they come from Germany. The name given above is no more of a mouthful than "a-square-plus-two-a-b-plus-b-square" or "Third Assistant Secretary of War to the President of the United States of America." The ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
... Ground (but struck only the Ground) It appears that the "-sel" was mistakenly introduced during printing, as the word "Counsel" in the previous sentence was split over two lines and hyphenated ("Coun-sel".) However, this mistake is not ...
— The Wonders of the Invisible World • Cotton Mather
... Page 194: speakeasys sic | | Page 205: viola amended to voila | | Page 210: suede sic | | Page 220: apertif amended to aperitif | | | | Where there is an equal number of instances of a word | | being hyphenated and unhyphenated, or an equal number of | | instances of a spelling of a word, both versions have | | been retained: oberkellner/ober-kellner; | | Max-Joseph-Platz/Max-Joseph-platz; and | | Johannisberger/Johannesberger. | ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
... wrongs of Abel Grouse [Growse] and no biscuit aboard [buiscuit] as mine is the biggest, perhaps yours [bigest, perhaps your's] However I do not despair [do no despair] the attorney in our town [at-attorney: mis-hyphenated at end of line] housekeeper [occurs with and without hyphenation] Yes, sir, your presence does astonish me [you presence] when it lost you, its dearest only friend [it's] Hey! ods life, I must sooth her [odslife] Ods life! I'm in a furious passion! ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold
... such as "armchair" and "arm-chair", was retained. The Bear Garden is not hyphenated when used in titles but is hyphenated ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... both names hyphenated in body text Freawaru text reads "Ereawaru" Hrethel ... at the loss of his eldest son Herebeald (139-42) text reads "-41" Wythergyld name ...
— The Tale of Beowulf - Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats • Anonymous
... The following words were spelled/hyphenated inconsistently in the original text and have not been changed: over-eating, overeating; centre, center; Cowan, Cowen; ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey
... metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology. | | Page 158: Liebnitz amended to Leibnitz. | | Page 168: perserved amended to preserved. | | Page 172: rougish amended to roguish; crows amended to | | crowns. | | | | Where there is an equal number of instances of a word | | being hyphenated and unhyphenated, both versions | | of the word have been retained: dung-hill/dunghill; | | and new-comers/newcomers. | | | | A single footnote on page 90 has been moved | | to the endnotes, and the notes numbers re-indexed. A | | page reference was ...
— Candide • Voltaire
... of hyphenated citizenship has evidently had its effect upon a San Francisco youngster, American born, who recently rebelled fiercely when his Italian father whipped ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... a younger son of an English duke, and I contributed the hyphenated surname of a New York swell, and between us we soon had all the dances on Miss Gage's card taken by the most distinguished people. We really studied probability in the forgery, and we were proud of the air of reality it wore in the carefully differenced handwritings, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... States on Washington's Birthday and other patriotic occasions, and then repeated on the Fourth of July every year for the next decade it would do much towards combating that dangerous "aggressive hyphenated Americanism," that has sprung up in our country and whose baneful effects it will take much earnest teaching to obliterate. When all native-born children of foreign parentage, and when all citizens of foreign birth know the story of the struggle and sacrifice ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
... drop old Washburn, cut out the Becketts, and take courage and invite the hyphenated Smiths. A hint from him pays handsome dividends! and he is distinctly proud of the family and anxious to push it along to ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train
... large households are the rule. In a family where there are only girls, the eldest is the heir, and she may only marry with a cadet of another family by his joining his name with hers. Perhaps it is this that originally set the fashion for hyphenated names. ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various
... to hyphenated words have been left as in the original. Inconsistencies in spelling and other unexpected spelling have been retained as ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris |
