42. When a sentence is abrupted (1) to form a heading, or (2) for a signature, or (3) to admit a {p118} new paragraph, or for other purposes, a dash is used at the break; as:

From the preceding tables we are now able to formulate in concise language the—

GRAND RESULT.

1. The number of employees . . . is at least 1,250,000.—Mass. Labor Report.

It is useless for you to dissemble in the presence of—

Yours, etc.

JOHN SMITH.

The greatest cowards in our regiment were the greatest rascals in it. There was Sergeant Kumber and Ensign—

We’ll talk of them, said my father, another time.—Sterne.