Example Sentences
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Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.
From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.
Golden-nob is 'a variety of apple'; see E.D.D.: and as a special name, which the passage implies, it should be hyphened.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English
These slight differences are by no means accidental, because Alms-basket is hyphened to count as two words and thereby cause the long word to be the 151st word.
From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin
To meet the supposed legal exigencies the two names were simply hyphened.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
The shortening of the first line is never a blemish, but a too short second line following a hyphened first line is always a fault.
From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
