What was his death but the key-stone of a gloomy arch removed, and now the arch begins to fall in a thousand fragments, each crushing and mangling piecemeal! — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
for Eating Cooking and Market Protection
62 Plums for a Private Garden 63 Pruning and Training 66 Manures 68 Thinning 69 Gages 69 Market Plums 70 [Pg xi] Gathering, Packing, Marketing 72 Storing and Keeping 74 Insect Enemies 75 Orchard House 77 Damsons 78 Bullaces 78 Important Points 78 Drying by Evaporation 78 Bottling 79 Plum Jelly 82 CHERRIES— "Keeping" Fruit, Suitable Soil, Aspect, Sorts Recommended by R.H.S. and Mr Bunyard for Eating, Cooking and Market, Protection, Pruning, Training, Cherries on Walls, Insect Attacks, Distances, Manures, Marketing, Derivation of the Word 83-88 THE MULBERRY— Origin of the Word, Soil, Situation, Aspect, Shape, Culture, Pruning, Trees in Pots, Use of Fruit 89-91 APPENDIX— The Propagation of the Pear 92 — from The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Edward Bartrum
from early Christianity and modern Protestantism
It prevailed so universally in Wurzburg that it left her with the name of the Rococo City, intrenched in a period of time equally remote from early Christianity and modern Protestantism. — from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells
for example calls at my plantation
A British officer, a major Muckleworth, for example, calls at my plantation, and takes my fine horses and fat beeves, my pigs, my poultry and grain; but at parting, launches out for me a fist full of yellow boys! — from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems
from Egyptian cigarettes and making purchases
But the impassive Hindoo paid no attention to his youthful admirers, but went on blowing wreaths of smoke from Egyptian cigarettes, and making purchases of magical apparatus with which to astonish the natives of his beloved India. — from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans
for example constituted as my physical
I place my finger, for example, constituted as my physical system now is, in the flame of a burning candle, and hold it there for a given time. — from Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan
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?