- The city must have these improvements paved streets more schools better sanitation and a park.
- A guild comprised men of a single class tailors, fishmongers, or goldsmiths.
- Everything was favorable, it was a wheat-raising district, there were no rival mills, the means of transportation were excellent.
- The personal adornments of the eighteenth century "blood" were elaborate, wigs, cocked hat, colored breeches, red-heeled shoes, cane, and muff.
- The chief of the engineers reported "The route, taken as a whole, is practicable enough, but near Clifton, where the yards must be placed, it leads through a rocky defile."
[The Dash]
[94a.] The dash may be used instead of the marks of parenthesis, especially where informality is desired.
- Right: She fell asleep—would you believe it?—in the middle of the lecture.
- Right: That fellow actually—of course this is between you and me—stole money from his father.
[b.] Insert a dash when a sentence is broken off abruptly.
- Right: The next morning—let's see, what happened the next morning?
[c.] The dash may be used near the end of a sentence, before a summarizing statement or an afterthought.
- Right: When you have carried in the wood and the water, and milked the cows, and fed all the stock and the poultry, and mended the harness—when you have done these things, you may consider the rest of the evening your own.
- Right: Barnes played a mischievous trick one day—in fact, Barnes was always into mischief.
[d.] The use of the dash to end sentences is childish.
- Childish: At dawn I went on deck—far off to the left was a cloud, I thought, on the edge of the water—it grew more distinct as we angled toward it—it was land—before noon we had sailed into harbor.
- Right: At dawn I went on deck. Far off to the left was a cloud, I thought, on the edge of the water. It grew more distinct as we angled toward it. It was land. Before noon we had sailed into harbor.