indention
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But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score.
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When quotation marks occur at the beginning of a line of poetry, they should go back into the indention space.
From Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
Write verse as verse; do not give it equal indention or length of line with prose.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
"See, Walter," he exclaimed pointing to a square indention in the soft soil.
From The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
There was a little indention here—a tiny cove.
From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Alice B. Emerson
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