"bionts" hidden in books

BECAUSE IT OUGHT NOT TO SUCCEED

So warfare to destroy big business is FOOLISH BECAUSE IT CAN NOT SUCCEED and wicked BECAUSE IT OUGHT NOT TO SUCCEED.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

because it ought not to succeed

So warfare to destroy big business is foolish because it can not succeed and wicked because it ought not to succeed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

but I ought not to sit

I am full of heaviness, but I ought not to sit weeping and wailing in another person's house, nor is it well to be thus grieving continually.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

but it ought not to surprise

This fact must distress, but it ought not to surprise us.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

but I ought not to save

I feel I’m lying head downwards in a sort of pit, but I ought not to save myself.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But I ought not to speak

When she had conquered him, she said, slyly, "But I ought not to speak of these things to you except through a solicitor.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

by itself of nourishing the stem

At the base of the stem of this animal-plant, in many of the Crinoïdæ, we find a sort of spreading root, which is implanted in the rocks, and is capable of growing by itself, of nourishing the stem, and of producing new ones.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

But in one night there sprang

But in one night there sprang from the tomb of Tristan a green and leafy briar, strong in its branches and in the scent of its flowers.
— from The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier

believe it or not that she

I am well acquainted with all her movements—and I tell you, believe it, or not, that she refuses me in view of another lover.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

body important or not the state

'Very likely, Harry—for whether they think proper attention to the body important or not, the state of the mind depends very much upon it.
— from Effie Maurice Or What do I Love Best by Fanny Forester

But I ought not to say

But I ought not to say these things to you," she said, with a quick thought of his profession.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

butter in or near the spring

Evidently he had kept the butter in or near the spring.
— from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

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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