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Old 01-10-2014, 09:55 AM   #4
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IMHO, the first sentence is not an example of a suspended hyphen. The first phrase "bell, book and candle" is a Catholic term that that should be written as a compound with hyphens between each element, because it's used as an adjective:

bell-book-and-candle, incense-burning, medieval rubbish

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