"jsa" hidden in books

JOHNSON Samuel assumed

[Albert Savarus.] JOHNSON (Samuel), assumed name of the police-agent, Peyrade.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Janet severely and

" "I don't believe fifty thousand mice would," said Janet, severely; "and we have to be as quiet as one mouse.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Jo sighed and

" Jo sighed, and proceeded to burst the buttons off her glove, in doing up her cuff, but at last both were ready, and sailed away, looking as 'pretty as picters', Hannah said, as she hung out of the upper window to watch them.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

joints straight and

2. Make a bait rod of three joints, straight and sound, 14 oz. or less in weight, 10 feet or less in length, to stand a strain of 1-1/2 lbs.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Just slowly and

Just slowly and imperceptibly, as the harvest seasons and rainy seasons passed by, his mockery had become more tired, his superiority had become more quiet.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

just such a

There was Count Tarrocco (who was in attendance on the Prince of Portugal), and, as she told Lady Mar, "just such a Roman Catholic as you."
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

jewels scattered about

Our Queen, around her device, which I have described, placed many trophies, such as cracked mirrors, fans, rumpled plumes, pearls, broken quivers, precious stones and jewels scattered about, bits of broken chains, the whole to signify the abandoning of all worldly pomp, since, now that her husband was dead, her mourning for him was never to cease, and without the grace of God and the courage which He had given her, she would have succumbed to her great grief and distress.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

John such a

Well, John, such a man as you are!"
— from Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson

Jerry started across

Jerry started across the roof, and in he went.
— from Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People by William Walker Atkinson

Juliet Sutherland and

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

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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