Dash (punctuation) : Dash
A dash is a punctuation mark, and is different from a hyphen. Several forms exist: the figure dash (‒), the en dash (–), the em dash (—), and the quotation dash (―).The em dash may be used (in pairs) to distinguish parenthetical text. It may be thought of as a "strong" separator, used where a comma would not do the job. For example, "As I ran, I saw—My God!—no one was following."
The quotation dash is used to introduce quoted text.
In computer programming, the figure dash, en dash, em dash, and quotation dash correspond to Unicode characters 0x2012, 0x2013, 0x2014, and 0x2015, respectively.
The HTML entity names for the en dash and the em dash are &ndash and &mdash, respectively. The equivalent HTML numeric character entity references are – and —, respectively.
See also: Wikipedia:Special characters.
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whose face shone with happiness, seemed to wish to speak, and to
and civility.
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and then the master kept me."
The joiner looked at his son sideways, and then took up his hammer
other people we must do as they wish; but there are some who would
with the silver fork of a master."
"And I am one of those, father," replied Robert, merrily; "but, as
It was necessary that I should first work in a great workshop"--
"To go on with your plan of the staircase," interrupted Michael,
smiling.
"Why?"
"Because I have sold it to him."
The joiner, who was planing a board, turned round quickly.
"Sold it!" cried he, with sparkling eyes.
"For the reason that I was not rich enough to give it him."
Michael threw down the board and tool.
"There he is again!" resumed he, angrily; "his good genius puts an
sells it to a rich man, who will take the honour.html">honour of it himself."
"Well, what harm is there done?" asked Genevieve.
"What harm!" cried the joiner, in a passion; "you understand nothing
never gives up his own inventions for money, no more than a soldier
for the honour it does him! Ah! thunder! if I had ever made a
my eyes! Don't you see, that a new invention is like a child to a
in the world, and it is only poor creatures who sell it."
Robert coloured a little.
"You will think differently, father," said he, "when you know why I
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