incog

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He wished now he had never adopted it, but then his plan of staying in Wandsborough incog, would have fallen through, and that he did not wish at all.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

"And throw out—vaguely, of course, very vaguely—that we are swells, but in strict incog."

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Thrust home like this, not over-gratified by a manner which seemed to say, 'Listen to an authority,' and desiring to keep an incog.,

From The Hills and the Vale by Jefferies, Richard

Their dress is picturesque; and I have seen the Capitan Pacha, more than once, wearing it as a kind of incog.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

If Bismarck bars our barrels, tubs, or cans, Forcing our pork to make its way incog, Upset his schemes, and overthrow his plans, And clear a pathway for the native hog.

From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various