Many compounds require a linking element or interfix between the parts. Common interfixes are -s, -es, -n, -en, -e.

Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?

For an ex-chainman, the locating business was money for jam at $25.00 for a light morning's work.

Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way […]