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individual objects of

The individual objects of which I am speaking are also a riddle, and have a double sense: nor can you fix them in your mind, either as being or not-being, or both, or neither.
— from The Republic by Plato

is only on

"The thaw is only on the surface of the earth; there is quite a different temperature at a greater height in the atmosphere."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

is often or

When there exists an inherited or instinctive tendency to the performance of an action, or an inherited taste for certain kinds of food, some degree of habit in the individual is often or generally requisite.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

it occurred or

The first thing to notice about what is believed, i.e. about the content of a belief, is that it is always complex: We believe that a certain thing has a certain property, or a certain relation to something else, or that it occurred or will occur (in the sense discussed at the end of Lecture IX); or we may believe that all the members of a certain class have a certain property, or that a certain property sometimes occurs among the members of a class; or we may believe that if one thing happens, another will happen (for example, "if it rains I shall bring my umbrella"), or we may believe that something does not happen, or did not or will not happen (for example, "it won't rain"); or that one of two things must happen (for example, "either you withdraw your accusation, or I shall bring a libel action").
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

in one of

If Epps was not drunk, and in one of his beastly humors, this was, in general, satisfactory.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

it out of

“You shall not get it out of me to-ni
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

in our old

The Pilgrim set sail for the windward, and left us to go on in our old way.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

into one of

[130] CHAPTER XV FATE PLAYS ME IN THE SHALLOWS To-day I dived into one of my boxes for some warmer underclothing and stumbled upon a pair of rubber-soled shoes for deck wear.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

innocence out of

Othmar knew nothing of, and cared as little for, this girl whose face looked with so frank an audacity, so wistful an innocence, out of the brilliant drawing of Loswa.
— from Othmar by Ouida

in order of

On the morning of the 15th they drew up in order of battle.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

into one of

She turned in the street and kissed me quite demonstratively; but the next moment she lapsed into one of her brown studies.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

in our ordinary

For life, as it appears in our ordinary consciousness, is full of illusions.
— from Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers

it out of

“Didn’t we run our heads into danger all over the tropics of the Orient, didn’t we goad up danger an’ search for it and roust it out of its hidin’ places and—Why, confound you—” In about ten minutes I stopped him, an’ sez in a quiet voice: “Well, then, if I was you, I’d go on down to Ty Jones’s and take on with him again.”
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason

infants of one

The eastern ruler, they said, slew only the infants of one poor village, but their emperor, more ruthless, claimed the lives of all the young children of his whole empire.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

independently of others

Each branch adopts measures, makes arrangements, appointments, etc., independently of others.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

in our own

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

is one of

In all the troubles and vicissitudes of Hamlet's life, young Lord Horatio remained his unfaltering friend; and this tribute to friendship is one of the best in Shakspere.
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

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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