"Hyphen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1826 he applied to the legislature to change his name to James Cooper Fenimore, since there were no men of his mother's family to continue the name. The request was not granted, but the change was made to James Fenimore-Cooper. He soon dropped the hyphen.] ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... modern builders of what Chordal calls the hyphen Corliss engine claim to have made a great advance by putting a post under the center of the frame, but whether in acknowledgment that the frame would be likely to go down or the stonework come up I could never make out. What I should fear ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various
... met by the boys was Camp Hyphen. This was quite a pretentious establishment with a smaller tent adjunct. The adjunct stood for the hyphen, and it now lay in a heap like a discarded potato sack, its store of supplies settled uncertainly ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... remarks of the hyphened eald-fder, "hyphens are risky toys to play with in fixing texts of pre-hyphenial antiquity"; eald-fder could only grandfather. eald here can only mean honored, and the hyphen is unnecessary. Cf. "old fellow," "my old man," etc.; and ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... long time, but I succeeded in the end. In her vacant intellect a vague correlation was established between sound and taste, a correspondence between the two senses, an appeal from one to the other, and consequently a sort of connection of ideas—if one can call that kind of instinctive hyphen between two organic functions an idea—and so I carried my experiments further, and taught her, with much difficulty, to recognize ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... no such thing, Heinrich." Miller's voice deepened. "The hyphen cannot be recognized. You are either ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... the mouth of the great river Yang-tsze-Chiang; but we shall soon pass into a branch of it called the Woo-Sung, and find Shang-hai, for it is correctly written with a hyphen between the syllables," replied the commander. "But the tide is right; and we can go over the bar without any delay, the pilot says. It is about twelve miles up the river to the town; and, as you ...
— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic
... its own words into new combinations; it can join two, and sometimes even more than two, of the words which it already has, and form out of them a new one. Much more is wanted here than merely to attach two or more words to one another by a hyphen; this is not to make a new word: they must really coalesce and grow together. Different languages, and even the same language at different stages of its existence, will possess this power of forming new words by the combination of old in very different degrees. The ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... male, male-female, male-female, female, female-male, and female-male. The sex intergrades, the four hyphenated classes, nearly all have some degree of persistent thymus. If its influence is partial, the emphasis is before the hyphen, upon the ostensible. If its influence is unchecked, the emphasis is after the hyphen upon the apparently latent sex. The sex difficulties produced in these people by the conflict between their conscious ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.
... no end to the ways a little ambitious game can be played. One device much in favor is for the wife to attach her own family name to that of her husband by means of a hyphen. By this arrangement she does not entirely lose her individuality; as a result we have a splendid assortment of hybrid names, such as Van Cortland-Smith and Beekman-Brown. Be they never so incongruous these double-barrelled cognomens serve their purpose ...
— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory
... and registered at the leading hotels. They were destined to introduce the hyphen on English soil, and plant the orchards on whose ancestral branches should ultimately hang the Anglo-Saxon race, the progenitors of ...
— Comic History of England • Bill Nye
... 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 Faustusthe blushing maiden acknowledged her error in trusting to the eye more than the intellectand ...
— 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; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the following nouns, separating the base from the termination by a hyphen. Also give ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
... gap, without the hyphen, means the apparatus in which sparks take place; it is also called a spark discharger. (2) Spark-gap, with the hyphen, means the air-gap between the opposed faces of the electrodes in which ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins
... which by analogy incline to a union of their parts without a hyphen, should be so written, and have but one capital: as, "Eastport, Eastville, Westborough, Westfield, Westtown, Whitehall, Whitechurch, Whitehaven, Whiteplains, Mountmellick, Mountpleasant, Germantown, Germanflats, Blackrock, Redhook, Kinderhook, Newfoundland, Statenland, Newcastle, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... the lunar disc, across the equator and on the zero meridian, lies the centre gulf, Sinus Medii, a sort of hyphen ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne
... Hyphen.—Use the hyphen (-) (1) between the parts of compound words that have not become consolidated, and (2) between syllables when a ...
— Graded Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... the Folio '32 exactly corresponds, save that the speaker is Prin., not Qu.; ore-rules is written as two words without the hyphen, and strives for striues. I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 • Various |
