"isab" hidden in books

I saw a bastard

Here I saw a bastard of the late King of Sweden’s come to kiss his hands; a mighty modish French-like gentleman.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I sloping around by

—I saw him before I met you, says I, sloping around by Pill lane and Greek street with his cod’s eye counting up all the guts of the fish.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I slept at Baker

III I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the room.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

in society and became

But, with the infatuation of her sex, she kept them to furnish the sole evidence by which she lost her place in society and became a lost woman.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

is simply a beautiful

It is simply a beautiful, cultivated, endless, wonderful wilderness.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

its side all by

Dì ka makakabling ánang aparadur nga mau rang usa, You can’t turn that chiffonier over on its side all by yourself.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I say aching because

I say aching, because they conflicted with many of my inherited beliefs, or rather traditions.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

in Seattle and by

You've robbed me right and left from the time you cleared dock in Seattle, and by the hinges of hell I won't stand it any more!
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

I should already begin

Yet had I reached you last summer before the month of August, a considerable portion of my time would be now elapsed, and I should already begin to think of my departure.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

in scarlet and black

A figure in scarlet and black came to the window, and stood there looking down upon us.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

indescribably soft and balmy

The air became indescribably soft and balmy, full of a gentle caress.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

is swollen and bloated

Every stage-conventionality she ever picked up (and she has them all) has got the dropsy too, and is swollen and bloated hideously.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

its savagery and became

"Then"—his voice lost its savagery, and became soft and tender—"then, Dulnop, lad, ye shall have thy Cunora; and as for Rolla and I—" Corrus turned and walked away, that his friend might not see what was in his eyes.
— from The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint

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