"mahant" hidden in books

mankind as having a natural tendency

As we are, all of us, proud in some degree, pride is universally blamed and condemned by all mankind; as having a natural tendency to cause uneasiness in others by means of comparison.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

mysterious air handed a note to

In the morning a maid with a mysterious air handed a note to Darya Pavlovna.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

morbid at his age not to

It would have been morbid at his age not to enjoy it.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

moves all hearts as now thy

Standard sublime, that moves all hearts, as now thy form unrolls, Our dead seem shrouded in thy folds, stirred by the breath of souls!
— from Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

Memoirs and History are not the

printed at London in 1703; Memoirs and History are not the same words; yet, as a mistake had occurred, might this not be the book, the date, 1703, being so near to 1704?
— from On the Supply of Printed Books from the Library to the Reading Room of the British Museum by Panizzi, Anthony, Sir

milk and honey and nothing to

Chicken and eggs, and butter and new bread, and milk and honey, and nothing to do.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

miles an hour and never turn

They could travel from sunrise to sunset at ten miles an hour and never turn a hair.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Mateel against him and now that

I have only lived for the past few months to guard Mateel against him, and now that she is no longer in danger, I am ready for the worst.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

miraculous addressing his advent not to

He, whose advent is intended for the encouragement of men to exercise their reason and their conscience; whose exhortation is "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear;" that pure Being, who is the chief preacher of Humility, and the great teacher of man's responsible condition—surely, he would hardly come in any way astoundingly miraculous, addressing his advent not to faith, but to sight, and challenging the impossibility of unbelief by a galaxy of spiritual wonders.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

means at hand and now turned

This done, he found no further means at hand and now turned his attention once more to Gesafam.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

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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