Wolsey’s return to power was discussed openly as a probability,—a result which Anne Boleyn never ceased to fear.
There are three kinds of power,—wealth, strength, and talent.
The value of our actions will be confirmed and established by those two sure and sateless destroyers of all other things,—Time and Death.
The present time has one advantage over every other,—it is our own.
Those who submit to encroachments to-day are only preparing for themselves greater evils for to-morrow,—humiliation or resistance.
OBS. 33. In a portion of the examples under this rule, the dash appears to supply the place of viz., or namely.
40. A dash placed between two numbers indicates that the natural series between those numbers is understood.
OBS. 34. If a writer refer to “pp. 90, 95,” he means those two pages only; but if he cite “pp. 90–95,” the reference is to pages 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, and 95.—In dates of the same century, the figures denoting the century are omitted in the second number: “He has the Farmer’s Almanac for 1810–70,—sixty-one years.” (It will be observed, that, under this rule, the short or en dash is used.)
The style of the Government Printing Office, Washington, requires an apostrophe to denote the elision of the centuries; as 1889–’90.
41. An Ellipsis of letters is denoted by a dash.