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As regards most legislation even that

As regards most legislation, even that affecting labor and the forests, I got on fairly well with the machine.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

and return much less easily to

The new species arising from natural selection maintain themselves much more permanently, and return much less easily to the original form, than is the case with products of artificial selection, and accordingly maintain themselves during a much longer time than the artificial races produced by man.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

are realized much less enjoy the

At the moment, though— "I doubt you'll be around to know if your threats are realized, much less enjoy the results.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

A Rocky Mountain locomotive engineer told

A Rocky Mountain locomotive engineer told us that at certain places they change locomotives and let the machine rest, as a locomotive always kept in full heat soon got out of order.
— from Around the Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

all right Mr Lee except that

"It's all right, Mr. Lee, except that we were forced to answer that we could not handle the business."
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

a rosy mouth long enough to

" About fifteen years before this night some one had brought to the orphan asylum connected with this convent, du Sacre Coeur, a round, dimpled bit of three-year-old humanity, who regarded the world from a pair of gravely twinkling black eyes, and only took a chubby thumb out of a rosy mouth long enough to answer in monosyllabic French.
— from The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

a robe made long enough to

[Pg ii.277] Nevertheless, I say unto you: 'Have me a robe made, long enough to touch the ground, but without a train.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

anecdotes represent much less events that

The glaring mendacity that characterises the Lives of the Catholic Saints, probably to a greater extent than any other important branch of existing literature, makes it not unreasonable to hope that many of the foregoing anecdotes represent much less events that actually took place than ideal pictures generated by the enthusiasm of the chroniclers.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

This tab, called Hiding in Plain Sight, shows you passages from notable books where your word is accidentally (or perhaps deliberately?) spelled out by the first letters of consecutive words. Why would you care to know such a thing? It's not entirely clear to us, either, but it's fun to explore! What's the longest hidden word you can find? Where is your name hiding?

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