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In text, a measured space inwards from the left-hand margin, indicating the beginning of a paragraph. This practice is stylistically correct in handwritten documents but has declined in word processing, where a double ‘carriage return’ (or line space) separates paragraphs.



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But they who received the order to fire trembled so that three guards fell by the discharge, and the five remaining balls hissed on to splinter the vault, plow the ground, or indent the pillars of the cavern.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Rajah Muda Saffir, caught by the hurricane the preceding night as he had been about to beat across to Borneo, had scurried for shelter within one of the many tiny coves which indent the island's entire coast.
The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St.
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Irving, Washington View in context
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