"proant" hidden in books

picturesque ruins of a native temple

It lay at the base of a projecting spur of rock, and was overlooked by the picturesque ruins of a native temple.
— from Alive in the Jungle: A Story for the Young by Eleanor Stredder

persevere right on and not turn

There belonged to this court several gates, an east, a south, and a north gate; and when the people of the land went into this court to worship, they were not to go out at that gate by which they came in, but out of the gate over against it, to show that true Christians should persevere right on, and not turn back, whatever they meet with in the way.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

property right over a novel that

What could better satisfy this condition than a property right over a novel that did not exist before I wrote it?
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

peculiar race opposing anything new that

They are a peculiar race, opposing anything new that comes to them from the outside world, and clinging stubbornly to the ways and manners of their ancestors.
— from Harper's Young People, March 7, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

pike received orders about noon to

Howard saw the rebel cavalry moving off in that direction, and David McM. Gregg, whose division was near White's Creek where it crosses the Baltimore pike, received orders about noon to guard Slocum's right and rear.
— from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Abner Doubleday

pigtail reads out a novel to

As we picture to ourselves the society of eighty years ago, we must imagine hundreds of thousands of groups of women in great high caps, tight bodies, and full skirts, needling away, whilst one of the number, or perhaps a favoured gentleman in a pigtail, reads out a novel to the company.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

pushed rapidly on all night the

The column now pushed rapidly on; all night the weary march was kept up.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

perfect realization of a natural tendency

But the point to be insisted on here is, that artificial simplification of language is no fantastic craze, but merely a perfect realization of a natural tendency, which the history of language shows to exist.
— from International Language, Past, Present & Future With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

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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