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by Lanerk and Nithsdale to

To-morrow we shall bid adieu to the Scotch Arcadia, and begin our progress to the southward, taking our way by Lanerk and Nithsdale, to the west borders of England.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by littles and naturally that

Besides,' said Betty, with logical good faith, 'I shall have a debt to pay off, by littles, and naturally that would bring me back, if nothing else would.' ' Must it be done?' asked Mrs Boffin, still reluctant, of the Secretary.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

bandílang langyaw A nation that

Násud nga nagpailálum sa bandílang langyaw, A nation that allowed themselves to be subject to a foreign power.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

but liquids and never touch

Never use a spoon for anything but liquids, and never touch anything to eat, excepting bread, celery, or fruit, with your fingers.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

bad lights and noises to

Take, then, the yoke upon our shoulders; bend our neck beneath the heavy legality of its weight; regard something else than our feeling as our limit, our master, and our law; be willing to live and die in its service,—and, at a stroke, we have passed from the subjective into the objective philosophy of things, much as one awakens from some feverish dream, full of bad lights and noises, to find one's self bathed in the sacred coolness and quiet of the air of the night.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

betel leaves areca nuts tobacco

When the return visit is made by the bride and bridegroom, the sister of the latter, and other relations and friends, should accompany them, and they should take with them a lot of betel leaves, areca nuts, tobacco, and sweetmeats.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

be licensed as now the

To remedy the overcrowding, with which the night inspections of the sanitary police cannot keep step, tenements may eventually have to be licensed, as now the lodging-houses, to hold so many tenants, and no more; or the State may have to bring down the rents that cause the crowding, by assuming the right to regulate them as it regulates the fares on the elevated roads.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by lamplight at night the

It is a feast of blood, a feast that maddens armies and that intoxicates civilians, women and children, who read, by lamplight at night, the feverish story of massacre.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

being loved and not the

And the same holds as in the previous instances; the state of being loved follows the act of being loved, and not the act the state.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

be loved and nothing that

For the vice being cursed, all that ought to be loved, and nothing that ought to be hated, will remain.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

black letters and nicely tied

He is presented with a huge pile of foolscap paper, very neatly folded, beautifully engrossed and endorsed in black letters, and nicely tied up with red tape, which, with sundry plans, surveys, and grants, are secured in a large despatch box, on which are inscribed in gold letters the ' Epaigwit estate .'
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

been love and not the

It had been love and not the lover that Hope had hungered for from the first.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

back lass and no two

"Put the gin back, lass, and no two words about it."
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

being laid as near the

In general, however, they are partial to the emphasis being laid as near the beginning of the word as possible.
— from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

by love as not to

Had I, by the grace of God, found such a mistress, I think that none could ever have ioved her more perfectly than I.” “Yet am I of opinion,” said Parlamente, “that you would not have been so blinded by love as not to bind up your arm better than he did.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

back late at night too

Coming back late at night too.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

been like a nightmare to

But Charlotte Tracy was so glad to hear the sound again that she did not care about comments from the servants; Dorothy's face, dull and tired, above the dead black of the widow's attire, had been like a nightmare to her.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

brother late at night to

I had been directed to call on him in the President's offices, in Salt Lake City, where he was concealed, for the moment, under the name of "Mack"—the name that he used "on the underground"—and I went with my brother, late at night, to see him there.
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon

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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