Like the Israelites of old, they had been driven from their homes at the bidding of an angry king, who, even while he exiled them, threw every difficulty in the way of their departure. — from The Refugees
A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle
we had expected to take every day
Our scientific machine—the great Virginia Burke rocker—the patent bee-hive, from which we had expected to take every day at least two pounds of the precious comb—was now nothing but so much useless lumber. — from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson
with huge elephants to the equal danger
A hundred vales are his, a hundred mouths, And hundred-fold the flood that meets the main ; nor wonder I that the Indians that dwell at the very 166 portals of day are yet of the hue of night, nor that in their land vast serpents engage in combat with huge elephants, to the equal danger and the common destruction of either; for they envelop and bind their prey in slippery coils so that they cannot disengage their feet nor in any wise break the scaly fetters of these clinging snakes, but must needs find vengeance by hurling their vast bulk to the ground and crushing the foe that grips them by the weight of their whole bodies. — from The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Apuleius
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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?