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The adjunct stood for the hyphen, and it now lay in a heap like a discarded potato sack, its store of supplies settled uncertainly in nearby bushes. "My, and they had just joined the League," wailed Jack. "I suppose we will all have to put up for the reinforcements." "We are not an insurance company," Ed objected. "Why should we make good for a storm?" "Because we have a calamity clause.
"We are at 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.
None but nature-lovers came that way. Others drove out by the road past Trescott's, seeing more of corn and barn, but less of rock, moss, and fern. Mr. Cornish was to return on Friday with the Honorable De Forest Barr-Smith, who lived in London and "represented English capital." To us Westerners the very hyphen of his name spoke eloquently of £ s. d.
He called it the Will to Live a phrase invented by Prussian professors who would like to exist, but can't. Afterwards he asked people to worship the Life-Force; as if one could worship a hyphen. His misunderstanding of Shakespeare arose largely from the fact that he is a Puritan, while Shakespeare was spiritually a Catholic.
It is noticeable also that even at this time, ten years after the village was founded, the spelling, "Ann Arbour," is followed in numerous places while the Argus in its headline gives it, "Ann-Arbor," with a hyphen. As with religion and politics, as represented by the newspapers of the day, so with education.
They all listened; and this was what they heard proceeding from within the wardrobe, a sob coming in as a sort of hyphen between each word of the little fellow's prayer. "Dod bess pa an' Conny an' Liz an' 'ittle Ciss an' Jupp, de porter man, an' Mary an' an' all de oders an' make me dood boy an' I'll neber do it again, amen!"
A thousand circumstances may stretch that hyphen which at once links and separates the sign-syllables of the wonderful fact; an impossibility, of physical conditions, may be between; but the fact subsists and in rare moments we know it when that which belongs to us comes invisibly and takes us to itself; when we feel the footsteps afar off which may or may not be feet of the flesh turned toward us.
And her mother said to her teacher,—there in Dresden: ’She will be the greatest soprano, won’t she?’ And he said: ’Madame, she has only that one chance—to be the greatest.’" Jack laughed. "But why ’Lorne’?" he asked suddenly. "Why not ’Burnett,’ since she’s your uncle’s child?" "Oh, that’s straight enough; there’s a hyphen there. My uncle died and my aunt married a title.
Four and a half years later, on November 1, 1897, the Astoria came formally into being, and the two hotels linked by the hyphen and merged under one management. That point where Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street cross is one of the great corners of New York.
Edgar Allan Poe used the word "tale" with similar meaning; but this term is so indefinite and vague that it has been discarded by later critics. It is customary at the present day to use the word "short-story," which Professor Brander Matthews has suggested spelling with a hyphen to indicate that it has a special and technical significance.
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