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order moues Now in now out

'For when you breath, the ayre in order moues, 'Now in, now out, in time and measure trew; 'And when you speake, so well she dauncing loues, 'That doubling oft, and oft redoubling new, 'With thousand formes she doth her selfe endew 'For all the words that from our lips repaire 'Are nought but tricks and turnings of the ayre.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

on Monday night is none other

Beside the portrait ran a "story," which said in part: "It leaked out yesterday that the 'mysterious stranger' who suddenly appeared off Hunston in an elegant private yacht on Monday night, is none other than Ferris Stanhope, well-known author of novels of the pink-tea type….
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

or my name is not O

Send me and Stafford back again this minute to Rosanna, and we’ll bring you the three votes as dead as crows in an hour’s time, or my name is not O’Dougherty now.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

or my name is not Owens

At any rate I’ll start out in search of his camp in the morning just as soon as I have eaten my breakfast, and if I discover it I’ll find some way to get hold of that money or my name is not Owens.”
— from The Mail Carrier by Harry Castlemon

our moral nature is not only

In other words, our moral nature is not only the conscience by which we approve and condemn, but also all the other endowments by which we originate or work out what is approvable or condemnable.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

of my nature if not of

He is my own child, the inheritor of my nature, if not of my name."
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

offered me no insult none of

This man offered me no insult, none of them offered me anything except kind words and flowers.”
— from Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

one must never involve neglect of

Your pursuit of the one must never involve neglect of the other; for these are the two sides--one moral, the other mental--of that unique process of self-conquest which Ruysbroeck calls "the gathering of the forces of the soul into the unity of the spirit": the welding together of all your powers, the focussing of them upon one point.
— from Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People by Evelyn Underhill

on Monday night in New Orleans

If sometimes in their zeal to keep me busy they have booked me in Winnipeg on Monday night, in New Orleans on Tuesday night, with little side-trips to San Diego, California, and Presque Isle, Maine, on Wednesday and Thursday, not to mention grand finales at Omaha and Key West on Friday and Saturday, I view that sequence rather as a tribute to my agility than as a matter to be unduly captious about.
— from From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by John Kendrick Bangs

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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