The old proverb, “Too much freedery breeds despise,” is now rendered, “Familiarity breeds contempt.”
OBS. 25. When the introductory clause is short, the comma may be omitted; as “Charles Fox said that restorations are the most bloody of all revolutions.”—“Madame de Staël admits that she discovered, as she grew old, the men could not find out that wit in her at fifty, which she possessed at twenty-five.” {p111}
27. Numbers are divided by the comma into periods of three figures each.
The distance of the sun from the earth is usually stated at 95,000,000 miles.
OBS. 26. In a number expressing the year of an era, the comma is not used; as, July 4, 1876. In tabular work it is very neat and convenient to omit the comma, as in the following example:
The number of letters in 1600 lbs. of Pica is as follows:
| a | 17000 | |
| b | 3200 | |
| c | 6000 | |
| d | 8800 | |
| e | 24000, | etc. |
OBS. 27. In some offices the style requires all numbers less than 1,000 to be expressed in words; 1,000 and upwards in figures. Some printers insert the comma before hundreds, only when five figures or more occur.
28. Restrictive phrases or clauses are not set off by the comma.
He reviewed such regiments as were armed with Enfield rifles.