"Hyphen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... activities hope to combat disloyalty, which the club members believe to exist among a number of the immigrants of certain nationalities. The main aim of the club, as its leaders state, is to assist in the Americanization of the Finnish women in America—to eliminate the hyphen, to ...
— A Stake in the Land • Peter Alexander Speek
... books in this series are consistently printed with a hyphen in "lieutenant-colonel", some chapters in this book were printed with and some without. I added the hyphen where missing in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Charles Belknap Hyphen Jackson of Boston, Mass.," said he, "the greatest little trouble-maker that ever crossed the hills—with a bracelet on one wrist and a watch on the other and a one-shot eyeglass and a gold cigareet ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... terrible gripe [terribe gripe: error corrected, archaic form retained] "'And how do you earn it?' inquired the farmer. [farmer.'] my light-footed comrade and I [invisible hyphen ...
— The Rambles of a Rat • A. L. O. E.
... 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 ...
— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory
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