item: #1 of 722 id: 10006 author: Boccaccio, Giovanni title: La Fiammetta date: None words: 13343 flesch: 64 summary: Oh, how often I laughed within my own breast, being enraptured with myself, and taking glory unto myself because of such things, just as if I were a real goddess! I replied, how far easier it is to say such things than to lead them to any good result. keywords: beauty; boccaccio; day; eyes; heart; ladies; love; men; soul; thee; things; thou; time; words; world cache: 10006.txt plain text: 10006.txt item: #2 of 722 id: 1001 author: Dante Alighieri title: Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell date: None words: 38463 flesch: 78 summary: Now go, for one sole will is in us both, Thou Leader, and thou Lord, and Master thou. Cord never shot an arrow from itself That sped away athwart the air so swift, As I beheld a very little boat Come o'er the water tow'rds us at that moment, Under the guidance of a single pilot, Who shouted, Now art thou arrived, fell soul? Phlegyas, Phlegyas, thou criest out in vain For this once, said my Lord; thou shalt not have us Longer than in the passing of the slough. keywords: air; art; art thou; behold; canto; circle; city; dost; doth; eyes; face; fear; feet; fire; god; good; guide; hand; head; heart; inferno; leader; left; life; look; man; master; people; place; right; round; soul; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; world cache: 1001.txt plain text: 1001.txt item: #3 of 722 id: 1005 author: Dante Alighieri title: Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell date: None words: 36768 flesch: 83 summary: But soon as he beheld I left them not, By other way, said he, By other haven shalt thou come to shore, Not by this passage; thee a nimbler boat Must carry. He thus to me in few: This shalt thou know, soon as our steps arrive Beside the woeful tide of Acheron. keywords: air; answer'd; art; canto; doth; e'en; earth; ere; evil; eyes; face; fear; feet; fell; fire; forth; god; guide; hand; hath; head; high; know; land; left; life; look; man; mark'd; master; o'er; place; power; rest; right; rock; round; seem'd; spake; spirit; steps; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turn'd; view; way; woe; words; world cache: 1005.txt plain text: 1005.txt item: #4 of 722 id: 1006 author: Dante Alighieri title: Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory date: None words: 36875 flesch: 82 summary: Thou hadst not hid thy sin the more: such eye Observes it. Moreover ye Have seen such men desiring fruitlessly; To whose desires repose would have been giv'n, That now but serve them for eternal grief. keywords: appear'd; canto; cause; day; doth; drew; e'en; earth; ere; evil; eyes; forth; god; good; guide; hand; hath; heart; heav'n; know; left; life; light; look; love; man; mountain; o'er; place; power; round; seem'd; song; soul; space; spirit; steps; sun; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; turn'd; view; virtue; voice; way; words cache: 1006.txt plain text: 1006.txt item: #5 of 722 id: 1007 author: Dante Alighieri title: Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise date: None words: 35652 flesch: 76 summary: Philosophy, said I, 'hath arguments, And this place hath authority enough 'T' imprint in me such love: for, of constraint, Good, inasmuch as we perceive the good, Kindles our love, and in degree the more, As it comprises more of goodness in 't. Such truth Learn I from him, who shows me the first love Of all intelligential substances Eternal: from his voice I learn, whose word Is truth, that of himself to Moses saith, 'I will make all my good before thee pass.' keywords: beam; beatrice; canto; cause; christ; day; doth; e'en; earth; ere; eyes; fair; forth; god; good; grace; great; hath; heav'n; holy; joy; life; light; long; look; love; man; mark; mind; nature; rest; round; saw; soul; spake; spirit; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; turn'd; view; virtue; voice; words; world cache: 1007.txt plain text: 1007.txt item: #6 of 722 id: 10085 author: None title: Moorish Literature Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions date: None words: 93114 flesch: 89 summary: Said the man, Go, drag him outside. And all agreed that the law was good; Save a cousin of the King, Who came and stood before him, With complaint and questioning; This law, which now your Highness Has on your lieges laid, I like it not, though many hearts It has exultant made. keywords: ali; arms; ben; bosom; brave; bright; bring; child; christian; city; country; daughter; day; death; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; find; fire; friend; girl; god; gold; good; granada; half; hand; head; heart; high; house; jackal; king; lady; land; lay; left; life; lion; lord; love; mahomet; man; meet; men; moorish; mother; night; people; place; sea; set; sidi; son; soul; steed; sultan; tears; tell; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; turn; water; way; white; wife; woman; words; zaida cache: 10085.txt plain text: 10085.txt item: #7 of 722 id: 103 author: Verne, Jules title: Around the World in Eighty Days date: None words: 64210 flesch: 76 summary: Hearing that Mr. Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant, and that his life was one of unbroken regularity, that he neither travelled nor stayed from home overnight, he felt sure that this would be the place he was after. You are Mr. Phileas Fogg? said the consul, after reading the passport. keywords: aouda; bombay; captain; day; days; detective; english; evening; eyes; fix; fogg; francis; good; great; guide; half; hand; having; hong; hours; journey; kong; left; london; man; master; miles; minutes; moment; new; o'clock; passengers; passepartout; past; phileas fogg; place; pounds; sea; servant; sir; station; steamer; thought; time; train; way; wind; world; yokohama; young cache: 103.txt plain text: 103.txt item: #8 of 722 id: 10314 author: Campanella, Tommaso title: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella; Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English date: None words: 31969 flesch: 84 summary: Notice the absence of Platonic _concetti_. Since the publication of the _rifacimento_ in 1623, his verses have been used among the _testi di lingua_ by Italians, and have been studied in the three great languages of Europe. keywords: adami; age; angelo; beauty; campanella; christ; day; death; divine; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; far; fire; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hope; lady; life; light; line; lord; love; man; men; michael; mind; nature; nay; philosophy; poems; reason; self; sense; sonnets; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; world; years cache: 10314.txt plain text: 10314.txt item: #9 of 722 id: 10458 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. date: None words: 25447 flesch: 82 summary: A SIMPLE SOUL CHAPTER I FÃ�LICITÃ� For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Evêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité. To Félicité his cowardice appeared a proof of his love for her, and her devotion to him grew stronger. keywords: aubain; bed; bird; castle; children; day; death; door; eyes; face; father; feet; hand; head; julian; left; madame; man; men; mother; night; order; people; room; thought; time; virginia; water; way; white; window; © licitã cache: 10458.txt plain text: 10458.txt item: #10 of 722 id: 10472 author: Wace title: Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut date: None words: 60015 flesch: 84 summary: This mighty army, meetly ordered and furnished with weapons, set forth on a day to give Arthur battle from Rome. Arthur and his baronage departed from the court to make them ready for battle. He knew not whether to give Arthur battle without delay, or to await the coming of the rearward of his host. keywords: arthur; battle; body; britons; city; company; counsel; day; dead; earl; end; fair; folk; god; good; hand; head; hengist; host; king; king arthur; knights; land; lord; love; man; men; merlin; near; passing; place; realm; reason; right; romans; rome; sea; strong; sword; thy; uther; vortigern cache: 10472.txt plain text: 10472.txt item: #11 of 722 id: 10577 author: None title: International Short Stories: French date: None words: 118064 flesch: 81 summary: And I sometimes said that I was growing old, and that fortune, who is a woman, does not care for old men. 'These men contradict themselves; this is a gang, decidedly a gang--are you a journalist, young man, or an apprentice in a pharmacy?' keywords: age; air; arms; babet; babylon; beautiful; child; come; croisilles; day; days; dear; death; don; door; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; god; good; hand; head; heart; hope; hour; house; jean; juan; judge; king; lady; lazare; left; letter; life; like; little; look; love; man; master; men; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; night; open; people; place; queen; room; saw; son; sun; thee; thought; time; trees; trenck; uncle; voice; water; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; world; years; young; zadig cache: 10577.txt plain text: 10577.txt item: #12 of 722 id: 10635 author: Hunt, Leigh title: Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 date: None words: 106985 flesch: 72 summary: [Footnote 10: Par che la dura quercia e 'l casto alloro, E tutta la frondosa ampia famiglia, Par the la terra e l'acqua e formi e spiri Dolcissimi d'amor sensi e sospiri. Ma non vi giunser prima ch'un uom pazzo Giacer trovaro in su l'estreme arene, Che, come porco, di loto e di guazzo Tutto era brutto, e volto e petto e schene. keywords: account; agrican; air; alfonso; angelica; ariosto; armida; arms; author; bear; beauty; berni; black; blood; body; boiardo; bosom; brother; camp; canto; cardinal; care; che; christian; city; clorinda; close; come; coming; con; countenance; country; course; court; day; days; dead; death; del; delight; duke; e che; e di; e la; e non; earth; enemy; este; eyes; face; family; far; father; ferrara; fire; footnote; forest; forth; friend; genius; già; gli; god; godfrey; gold; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; help; hero; honour; horse; husband; italian; jerusalem; kind; king; knights; ladies; lady; leave; length; letters; life; little; look; looking; love; lovers; loving; mai; man; manner; master; medoro; men; mind; moment; mother; nature; nel; night; non; order; orlando; paladin; panizzi; passage; passion; people; person; pity; più; place; poem; poet; poetry; poi; prasildo; present; prince; princess; purpose; quel; reader; reason; return; rinaldo; rome; round; sea; second; seeing; set; sister; son; soul; spirit; spot; story; suo; sweet; sword; taking; tasso; tears; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; tower; trees; truth; vain; vol; water; way; wife; wood; words; work; world; year; youth cache: 10635.txt plain text: 10635.txt item: #13 of 722 id: 10666 author: Various title: The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert date: None words: 33599 flesch: 73 summary: Madame Bovary_ in each number of the _Revue de Paris_, and Lamartine found there such power that it recurred to him again and again, as I am going to tell you. Before raising the curtain on these four pictures, permit me to inquire what colour, what stroke of the brush M. Flaubert employs--for this romance is a picture, and it is necessary to know to what school he belongs--what colour he uses and what sort of portrait he makes of his heroine. keywords: adultery; attorney; author; book; bovary; day; death; emma; eyes; fall; flaubert; gentlemen; government; heart; husband; lascivious; life; love; madame; morals; place; public; read; religion; rodolphe; thought; time; woman; work cache: 10666.txt plain text: 10666.txt item: #14 of 722 id: 10676 author: Rizal, José title: The Reign of Greed date: None words: 117370 flesch: 73 summary: I'm not_, I beg of my _professor_ to change the course of the conversation. The sentiment of charity_, MORE PREVALENT IN CATHOLIC COUNTRIES THAN IN OTHERS, and the thought of Him who, influenced by that same feeling, sacrificed himself for _humanity, moves (sic)_ keywords: air; arms; attention; basilio; ben; cabesang; camorra; capitan; captain; chapter; chinese; country; custodio; day; days; death; don; excellency; eyes; face; fact; father; friars; friend; general; girl; god; good; government; half; hand; head; house; irene; isagani; jeweler; juanito; juli; justice; left; life; look; makaraig; man; manila; matter; moment; money; mother; night; order; padre; padre irene; paulita; pelaez; people; person; pesos; philippines; place; placido; professor; question; quiroga; reason; room; salvi; sandoval; señor; shoulders; simoun; smile; spain; spanish; students; table; tales; things; thought; tiago; time; town; turn; voice; want; way; words; work; years; youth; zayb cache: 10676.txt plain text: 10676.txt item: #15 of 722 id: 10747 author: Rostand, Edmond title: Chantecler: Play in Four Acts date: None words: 39863 flesch: 92 summary: SCENE THIRD CHANTECLER, _the_ BLACKBIRD _in his cage, the_ CAT _still asleep on the wall, the_ GREY HEN _behind the_ OLD HEN'S _basket. My son, I am in such a state--I am in such-- A HEN [_Calling after_ CHANTECLER.] keywords: birds; blackbird; cat; chantecler; chicken; cock; cry; cuckoo; dawn; day; dear; duke; eyes; golden; good; grand; grey; guinea; head; hen; hen chantecler; hens; look; love; magpie; night; nightingale; owl; patou; peacock; pheasant; pigeon; scene; screech; song; tell; toad; tree; turkey; voice; white; wing; woodpecker cache: 10747.txt plain text: 10747.txt item: #16 of 722 id: 10814 author: Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo title: Legends, Tales and Poems date: None words: 105458 flesch: 74 summary: It should be borne in mind that the actual final syllable in a versa _agudo_ counts as two syllables, and that the next to the last actual syllable in a verso _ Notice the use of _haya_ instead of tenga, although possession is indicated.] keywords: --s; -de; accent; adj; adv; aire; ajorca de; al de; algunos de; allá; allí; alma de; alrededor de; altar; alto de; amor de; apenas; aquella; aquí; arco de; assonance; así; aunque; aún; aún de; becquer; bien; blanca; borde de; break; cada; calle de; castillo; century; cerca de; chispas de; church; cielo de; cima de; city; class; color; comenzaba á; como de; como el; como la; como los; como que; como un; compás de; con el; con la; con los; con que; con su; con un; contacto de; cosa de; cristo de; cross; cuando; cuando de; cuando el; cuando la; dar; day; de algún; de aquel; de aquellas; de asombro; de bellver; de cada; de costumbre; de don; de entre; de ese; de esos; de españa; de esta; de fortcastell; de fuego; de haber; de hierro; de horror; de la; de laiglesia; de los; de luz; de maese; de mi; de montagut; de muerte; de nuestra; de nuevo; de oro; de piedra; de que; de roma; de san; de santa; de sol; de su; de terciopelo; de tiempo; de todo; de toledo; de un; de urgel; de ver; de vida; decir; del; delante de; desde; después de; dijo; dios; diphthong; donde; doña; efecto; el agua; el camino; el capitán; el cielo; el cual; el de; el diablo; el día; el fondo; el joven; el mismo; el montero; el mundo; el más; el rostro; el señor; el sol; el viento; el órgano; ella; en aquel; en el; en la; en los; en mi; en su; en un; end; entonces; entre el; entre la; entre los; era; era el; espacio de; esta; estaba; este; esto; está; exclamó; face; fall; fin; following; fondo de; footnote; form; fuente de; fuera de; fué; garcés; gran; grito de; gustavo; habitantes de; había; había de; hacer; half; hasta; hasta el; hasta la; hasta que; hay; head; hendecasyllabic; hojas de; holy; hombre; hora de; idea; instante; inés; jirón de; juan de; la armadura; la ballesta; la brisa; la bruja; la cabeza; la cara; la catedral; la ciudad; la corriente; la corza; la cosa; la cruz; la cual; la cumbre; la fuente; la gente; la guerra; la hermosa; la hora; la iglesia; la imagen; la luz; la mano; la mañana; la media; la mirada; la misa; la muerte; la multitud; la más; la niebla; la noche; la obscuridad; la plaza; la primera; la puerta; la tarde; la tierra; la tribuna; la una; la verdad; la vida; la virgen; la vista; la voz; labios; large; las; life; light; look; los más; los ojos; los que; love; lugar; m. pl; madrid; mal; manos; mas; mayor; mejor; menos de; mientras; mind; mirada de; mitad de; momento; mujer; mujer de; mundo de; murmullo de; muy; más de; más que; nada; noche y; notice; nube de; nuestro; number; nunca; objeto de; ojos de; ojos en; oneself; otra; otro; palabras; palabras de; para; para el; para que; parecía; parte de; pero; pero el; pero la; pero que; pesar de; pie de; pies; place; plaza de; poco de; poem; poet; point; ponerse de; por el; por la; por los; por su; por un; present; puertas de; pues; punto de; pérez; que; que aún; que después; que el; que era; que había; que la; que parece; que por; que se; que sus; que sólo; que un; qué; rastro de; rayo de; refl; relación de; rhyme; rumor de; ruín de; saint; salir de; second; semejante á; seno de; ser; seville; señor; siempre; silencio de; sin; sin que; sobre el; sobre la; solo; soplo de; spain; spanish; story; strong; subst; sus; syllable; synalepha; sólo; tal; tan; tanto; teobaldo; tiempo; time; toda la; todo el; todos; torno de; town; través de; turn; una; valle de; veces; verses; vez; visto; voces de; volvió á; vowels; voz de; water; way; word; work; y al; y como; y con; y cuando; y de; y después; y el; y en; y la; y le; y lo; y más; y para; y por; y que; y se; y si; y sus; y un; y ya; y yo; y á; young; á --s; á -de; á la; á los; á mi; á poco; á quien; á su; á todo; á través; á un; ámbito de; éste; último cache: 10814.txt plain text: 10814.txt item: #17 of 722 id: 10859 author: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de title: Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre date: None words: 34653 flesch: 72 summary: That Providence, which lends its support when we ask but the supply of our necessary wants, had a blessing in reserve for Madame de la Tour, which neither riches nor greatness can purchase; this blessing was a friend. The spot to which Madame de la Tour fled had already been inhabited a year by a young woman of a lively, good natured, and affectionate disposition. keywords: children; day; dear; domingo; family; friend; good; heart; island; life; love; madame; man; margaret; mother; mountain; night; order; paul; return; river; rocks; sea; spot; tears; time; tour; trees; virginia cache: 10859.txt plain text: 10859.txt item: #18 of 722 id: 10868 author: Rolland, Romain title: Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War date: None words: 82997 flesch: 77 summary: Nothing can be more convenient than to detest those who differ from you, especially when you do not understand them; but poor Clerambault had not this resource, for he did understand perfectly. Clerambault leaned across the table where the dishes yet stood, and as he spoke his glance full of simple pleasure passed from one to the other of his three auditors, sure of meeting the reflection of his own happiness. keywords: believe; clerambault; country; course; day; days; death; enemy; eyes; face; faith; family; father; friend; future; god; good; hand; head; heart; human; ideas; left; life; living; look; love; madame clerambault; man; matter; maxime; men; mind; nature; peace; people; perrotin; poor; public; reason; right; rosine; saw; son; soul; spirit; tell; things; thought; time; truth; war; way; words; world; years cache: 10868.txt plain text: 10868.txt item: #19 of 722 id: 10885 author: Hunt, Leigh title: Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 date: None words: 96686 flesch: 71 summary: _Translation of Dante_, Smith's edition, p. 77. (Per similitudine di quelle valigie, che s'aprono per lo lungo, a guisa di cassa, significa quegli spartimenti, che Dante finge nell' Inferno.) keywords: account; air; angel; arms; author; battle; beatrice; blood; body; book; brother; charles; che; christian; church; circle; come; coming; con; dante; day; days; dead; death; del; divine; doubt; earth; emperor; evil; eyes; face; father; feeling; feet; fire; florence; florentine; footnote; foscolo; francesca; friend; genius; giant; gli; god; good; great; guido; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; hell; hope; horse; human; italian; italy; kind; king; lady; left; let; life; light; look; lord; love; man; manner; marsilius; master; men; mind; moment; morgante; mountain; nature; non; order; orlando; paladins; passage; people; pilgrims; place; poem; poet; poetry; point; poor; pope; pulci; purgatory; reader; reason; rest; rinaldo; roncesvalles; round; saying; second; set; son; soul; speak; spirit; stars; story; sun; sword; sã¬; tears; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; truth; virgil; voice; vol; way; wife; wish; words; work; world cache: 10885.txt plain text: 10885.txt item: #20 of 722 id: 10963 author: France, Hector title: The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest date: None words: 90141 flesch: 85 summary: I wanted to talk with you very peaceably, like the _other_, it is so nice. Hasten then, young man, hasten; take the good which comes to thee, and be not decoyed by idle fancies; wait not till to-morrow to be glad. keywords: --ah; --i; --it; --oh; --yes; --you; bed; captain; child; church; curé; daughter; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; holy; house; life; look; love; mademoiselle; man; marcel; mass; men; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; night; order; place; pretty; priest; ridoux; room; secret; servant; sir; soul; suzanne; things; thought; time; uncle; veronica; village; voice; want; way; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 10963.txt plain text: 10963.txt item: #21 of 722 id: 11060 author: France, Anatole title: The Aspirations of Jean Servien date: None words: 34641 flesch: 79 summary: Tall and straight as a young poplar, here stands Monsieur Jean Servien! But it was not peace Jean Servien had come to find. keywords: aunt; bargemont; bookbinder; boy; child; day; days; door; evening; ewans; eyes; face; father; felt; garneret; good; half; hand; head; heart; jean; jean servien; lad; life; look; love; madame; man; men; moment; monsieur; mother; room; servien; shop; son; thought; time; tudesco; voice; way; white; woman; work cache: 11060.txt plain text: 11060.txt item: #22 of 722 id: 11263 author: Verne, Jules title: The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" date: None words: 72929 flesch: 80 summary: I fall into that sort of slumber provoked by the regular trepidations of a train on the road, mingled with ear-splitting whistles and the grind of the brakes as the speed is slowed, and tumultuous roars as passing trains are met with, besides the names of the stations shouted out during the short stoppages, and the banging of the doors which are opened or shut with metallic sonority. And when this vast basin has dried up through evaporation, why should not a railroad be run across its sandy bed, so that trains can run through without transhipment at Baku and Uzun Ada? While we are waiting for the realization of this desideratum, it is necessary to take the steamboat, and that I am preparing to do in company with many others. keywords: baron; bluett; bombarnac; box; car; case; caterna; century; chao; china; chinese; company; day; engine; ephrinell; eyes; faruskiar; french; good; grand; half; hand; hour; journey; kilometres; kinko; left; line; look; major; man; miss; monsieur; morning; new; night; noltitz; o'clock; pan; passengers; pekin; place; platform; popof; railway; roumanian; run; russian; sea; second; sir; station; stop; table; think; time; town; train; transasiatic; treasure; turkestan; van; young; zinca cache: 11263.txt plain text: 11263.txt item: #23 of 722 id: 11417 author: Marie, de France, active 12th century title: French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France date: None words: 74314 flesch: 88 summary: Fair lady, for God's love, counsel me of your good grace, for I know not where to turn, nor how to govern the ship. At this word that fair lady, the wife of the Soudan, spoke suddenly, and said, Ah, sir, you have told the tale honestly, and very clear it is why she would have slain him. keywords: chamber; count; dame; day; eliduc; fair; friend; god; good; heart; husband; king; knight; know; lady; land; launfal; lay; lord; love; maiden; man; men; mind; queen; realm; reason; right; sir; tell; thibault; wife; words cache: 11417.txt plain text: 11417.txt item: #24 of 722 id: 11441 author: Saintine, X.-B. (Xavier-Boniface) title: The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe date: None words: 37040 flesch: 72 summary: At last Selkirk, forgetting perhaps in the ardor of combat the object of victory, seizes her vigorously by the skin of the neck, at the risk of strangling her; with the other hand he grasps her around the body. At last Selkirk speaks severely, and she submits, still protesting against it by her air of sadness and depression. keywords: 16mo; branches; cabin; captain; catherine; cents; chapter; dampier; day; eyes; feet; fire; god; grotto; hand; head; island; life; man; marimonda; master; moment; monkey; new; price; sail; sea; selkirk; shore; stradling; swordfish; thought; time; trees; voice; volume; waves; world; years cache: 11441.txt plain text: 11441.txt item: #25 of 722 id: 11556 author: Verne, Jules title: Facing the Flag date: None words: 57265 flesch: 76 summary: I indite the following message: On June 15 last Thomas Roch and his keeper Gaydon, or rather Simon Hart, the French engineer who occupied Pavilion No. 17, at Healthful House, near New-Berne, North Carolina, United States of America, were kidnapped and carried on board the schooner _ At last Thomas Roch embarks in the boat used for crossing the lake and is rowed over to his laboratory. keywords: boat; captain; captain spade; cavern; count; count d'artigas; cup; d'artigas; day; door; ebba; engineer; engineer serko; gaydon; hart; healthful; house; island; karraje; ker; ker karraje; lagoon; man; men; new; place; schooner; sea; secret; serko; spade; thomas roch; time; tug; tunnel; water; way cache: 11556.txt plain text: 11556.txt item: #26 of 722 id: 11674 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) date: None words: 91525 flesch: 79 summary: don Rafael Brull, member from Alcira, satisfied with his morning's work? No, don Rafael Brull was a gentleman with a District all his own: he came with a clean, undisputed and indisputable certificate of election, whether his own party or the Opposition were in the saddle. keywords: afternoon; alcira; andrés; arms; beauty; bernarda; blue; boy; brull; city; come; coming; cupido; day; days; deputy; doctor; don; don rafael; doña; eyes; face; family; father; feet; felt; friends; girl; good; hand; head; home; house; left; leonora; life; like; look; love; man; men; moment; money; mother; new; night; orange; orchard; party; passion; past; people; place; poor; rafael; ramón; river; room; saint; san; smile; son; things; thought; time; trees; voice; water; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 11674.txt plain text: 11674.txt item: #27 of 722 id: 11697 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel date: None words: 154784 flesch: 75 summary: At other times, Ulysses repeated the same game under the name of Indians and Conquerors. At other times this uncle would mention a certain Greek who in order to see his lady-love swam the Hellespont every night. keywords: air; arms; away; barcelona; beginning; black; blue; boat; body; captain; captain ferragut; caragol; city; coast; coming; country; dark; day; days; death; deck; depths; doctor; door; doña; end; enemy; existence; eyes; face; father; ferragut; fish; freya; german; glance; glass; going; gold; good; gulf; half; hand; harbor; head; home; hotel; hours; house; land; left; life; light; living; love; making; man; mare; mate; mediterranean; men; moment; morning; mother; mouth; naples; near; new; nostrum; order; passing; past; people; place; poor; port; red; return; room; sailor; sea; ship; silence; smile; son; steamer; street; surface; thing; thought; time; toni; trip; ulysses; uncle; vessel; voice; war; water; waves; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 11697.txt plain text: 11697.txt item: #28 of 722 id: 11737 author: Colette title: Barks and Purrs date: None words: 19102 flesch: 92 summary: TOBY _gets fidgety and blows through his nostrils_.) (TOBY _goes to the basket_.) keywords: away; basket; cat; day; dog; door; ears; eyes; fire; good; head; house; kiki; know; look; love; nose; paws; things; time; toby cache: 11737.txt plain text: 11737.txt item: #29 of 722 id: 1189 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Message date: None words: 5267 flesch: 78 summary: We had not come thirty leagues before we were talking of women and love. We had laid it down as an axiom at the very outset, that in theory and practice there was no such piece of driveling nonsense in this world as a certificate of birth; that plenty of women were younger at forty than many a girl of twenty; and, to come to the point, that a woman is no older than she looks. keywords: canon; countess; eyes; face; husband; juliette; love; woman cache: 1189.txt plain text: 1189.txt item: #30 of 722 id: 1194 author: Rougemont, Louis de title: The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont date: None words: 102704 flesch: 72 summary: At other times octopuses have been known to attack the divers down below, and hold them relentlessly under water until life was extinct. At other times, when no ordinary human being could detect the presence of water, she would point out to me a little knob of clay on the ground in an old dried-up water-hole. keywords: away; big; blacks; boat; bruno; camp; chief; children; civilisation; country; course; day; days; fact; feet; fire; fish; food; girls; good; half; head; home; hope; hut; island; jensen; kind; left; length; life; man; means; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; natives; night; people; place; round; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; thing; thought; time; tree; tribe; water; white; women; work; yamba; years cache: 1194.txt plain text: 1194.txt item: #31 of 722 id: 11946 author: Le Sage, Alain René title: La Tontine date: None words: 6039 flesch: 91 summary: Trippet Why, gentlemen, if you want to kill him, why not leave him in the hands of Dr. Peacock? Harriet Grant him his life, Mr. Colonel. Other works by this author may be found at http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/personnage.asp?key=130 La Tontine One Act by Le Sage Translated and Adapted by Frank J. Morlock C 1986 CHARACTERS English: Original French: Dr. Peacock M. Trousse-Galant Flem M. Bolus Worthy Eraste Harriet Marianne Jeremy Crispin Dudley Ambrose Trippet Frosine St. Slaughter * Sergeant Soldiers * keywords: dudley; flem; harriet; jeremy; peacock; trippet; worthy cache: 11946.txt plain text: 11946.txt item: #32 of 722 id: 12041 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Shadow of the Cathedral date: None words: 108561 flesch: 70 summary: Believe me, Gabriel, these archives are a pantheon of great men, but a pantheon, unluckily, from which no one emerges. His footsteps resounded on the pavement, his strides shortened by the tombs of prelates and great men of former days. keywords: ancient; antolin; bell; brother; canons; cardinal; cathedral; centuries; chapel; chapter; child; choir; church; claverias; cloister; country; day; days; death; don; door; end; esteban; eyes; face; faith; family; father; fear; gabriel; garden; god; good; great; head; holy; house; human; kings; life; little; look; love; luna; man; master; men; music; night; order; people; poverty; priest; religion; return; ringer; round; sagrario; saw; silence; silver; spain; spanish; stick; things; thought; time; toledo; uncle; way; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 12041.txt plain text: 12041.txt item: #33 of 722 id: 12051 author: Verne, Jules title: Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen date: None words: 120961 flesch: 80 summary: Doubtless Dick Sand could still add the foremast studding-sails to larboard, but it was difficult work under the present circumstances, and should it be necessary to take them in, in case of a squall, it could not be done fast enough. Without fear Mrs. Weldon saw Jack, in company with Dick Sand, spring out on the shrouds, climb to the top of the mizzen-mast, or to the booms of the mizzen-topmast, and come down again like an arrow the whole length of the backstays. keywords: africa; alvez; american; animal; benedict; blacks; board; boat; captain; captain hull; chapter; child; coast; companions; country; cousin; cousin benedict; day; days; dick sand; dingo; dog; end; eyes; fact; feet; friend; good; hand; harris; head; hercules; hull; jack; kazounde; know; land; left; man; miles; moment; mrs; natives; near; negoro; new; night; novice; pilgrim; place; portuguese; river; sea; ship; slaves; thought; time; tom; trees; water; way; weldon; whale; wind cache: 12051.txt plain text: 12051.txt item: #34 of 722 id: 12137 author: Hugo, Victor title: La Légende des Siècles date: None words: 59914 flesch: 81 summary: du grand feu dévorant, les lueurs Que jette le sourcil tragique des tueurs, Les guerres, s'arrachant avec leur griffe immonde Les frontières, haillon difforme du vieux monde, Les battements de coeur des mères aux abois, L'embuscade ou le vol guettant au fond des bois, Le cri de la chouette et de la sentinelle, Les fléaux, ne sont plus leur alarme éternelle. L'arbre, commencement de la forêt, est un tout. keywords: ainsi; après; autour; aux; avait; ayant; bas; bien; bon; bruit; c'est; c'est un; c'était; car; ce n'est; ce que; cela; ces; cette; chaque; chose; ciel; comme; comme il; comme un; coup; d'ombre et; d'un; dans ce; dans l'ombre; dans la; dans son; dans un; de ce; de cette; de la; de paris; de roland; de son; de tous; des; dessus; deux; devant; dieu; dit; donc; elle; encor; enfants; entre; est; et dans; et de; et dieu; et dit; et fait; et l'on; et la; et par; et pour; et qui; et sans; et se; et son; et sur; et tout; et vous; faire; fait; faut; fauve; femme; fils; fin; fit; fond; font; france; fut; gouffre; grand; haut; history; hommes; hugo; il la; il les; il pas; il se; il était; ils; immense; j'ai; jamais; je ne; joss; jour; l'air; l'autre; l'eau; l'empereur; l'enfant; l'heure; l'homme; l'oeil; l'ombre; l'ombre et; la bataille; la bouche; la brume; la clarté; la confiance; la guerre; la mort; la nuit; la porte; la table; la terre; la tombe; la tête; le ciel; le crapaud; le grand; le petit; le vent; les; leurs; long; lugubre et; lui; lumière; légende; mahaud; main; mais; man; mariage de; marquis; mer; moi; mon; monde; mourad; même; n'a; n'est; noir; note; nous; par; par la; paris; pas; pas un; peur; peut; pieds; plein; plus; poem; poet; point; pour; pour la; prend; puis; pâle et; père; qu'elle; qu'il; qu'on; qu'un; quand; quand il; quatre; que; quelque; qui; qui la; rien; roi; rois; rome; sang; sans; satan; semble; ses; seul; soir; sombre; sont; sort; sous; sous la; spirit; suis; sur ce; sur la; sur son; sur un; tant; temps; toi; ton; toujours; tour; tous; tout; tout un; toutes; travers; un des; un grand; un jour; une; vers; victor; vient; vieux; ville; vision; vit; voilà; voir; voit; voix; votre; vous; word; yeux; zéno; était; étions; éviradnus; être cache: 12137.txt plain text: 12137.txt item: #35 of 722 id: 1215 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Elixir of Life date: None words: 9544 flesch: 76 summary: Before long Don Juan had crossed the lofty, chilly suite of rooms in which his father lived; the penetrating influences of the damp close air, the mustiness diffused by old tapestries and presses thickly covered with dust had passed into him, and now he stood in the old man's antiquated room, in the repulsive presence of the deathbed, beside a dying fire. The taste of the Spanish people for ecclesiastical solemnities is so well known, that it should not be difficult to imagine the religious pantomime by which the Convent of San-Lucar celebrated the translation of the _blessed Don Juan Belvidero_ to the abbey-church. keywords: bartolommeo; belvidero; death; don; don juan; eyes; father; god; heart; juan; life; light; man; men; son; thought cache: 1215.txt plain text: 1215.txt item: #36 of 722 id: 12173 author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro title: The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome date: None words: 32213 flesch: 81 summary: To form a notion of what manner of man Calderon was, we must imagine a writer hardly inferior to Shakespeare in fertility of invention and dramatic insight, inspired by a religious fervour like that of Doune or Crashaw, and endowed with the wild and ethereal imagination of Shelley. We cannot deny the praise of great power to this strange and repulsive work, in which Calderon draws us onward by a deep and terrible dramatic interest, while doing cruel violence to our moral nature. keywords: aurelius; autos; beauty; calderon; carpophorus; carthy; chrysanthus; claudius; cynthia; daria; day; death; doth; drama; english; enter; escarpin; fair; faith; father; god; gods; heart; heaven; life; lord; love; mac; man; music; nisida; polemius; power; rome; sir; son; spanish; thee; thou; thy; time; voice; word cache: 12173.txt plain text: 12173.txt item: #37 of 722 id: 1220 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Atheist's Mass date: None words: 6993 flesch: 72 summary: I know; Arthez lived there; I went up there almost every day during my first youth; we used to call it then the pickle-jar of great men! I have blown on my frozen fingers in that _pickle-jar of great men_, which I should like to see again, now, with you. keywords: bianchon; bourgeat; day; desplein; house; life; man; mass; men; saint; surgeon; time cache: 1220.txt plain text: 1220.txt item: #38 of 722 id: 1230 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Pierre Grassou date: None words: 8050 flesch: 76 summary: Coming last from Bordeaux, he was just starting in Paris, selling old pictures and living on the boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle. true pictures! keywords: artist; elie; family; fougeres; francs; grassou; magus; man; painter; pictures; pierre; studio; vervelle; year cache: 1230.txt plain text: 1230.txt item: #39 of 722 id: 12341 author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl) title: Against the Grain date: None words: 59940 flesch: 59 summary: And, indeed, certain of these faces, with their monstrous, insane eyes, certain of these swollen, deformed bodies resembling carafes, induced in Des Esseintes recollections of typhoid, memories of feverish nights and of the shocking visions of his infancy which persisted and would not be suppressed. Bewildered, Des Esseintes looked on and listened to the cacophonous sounds of the names: the _Encephalartos horridus_, a gigantic iron rust-colored artichoke, like those put on portals of chateaux to foil wall climbers; the _Cocos Micania_, a sort of notched and slender palm surrounded by tall leaves resembling paddles and oars; the _Zamia Lehmanni_, an immense pineapple, a wondrous Chester leaf, planted in sweet-heather soil, its top bristling with barbed javelins and jagged arrows; the _Cibotium Spectabile_, surpassing the others by the craziness of its structure, hurling a defiance to revery, as it darted, through the palmated foliage, an enormous orang-outang tail, a hairy dark tail whose end was twisted into the shape of a bishop's cross. keywords: air; art; artificial; baudelaire; black; blue; body; books; brain; centuries; century; chapter; christian; church; cold; color; days; des; des esseintes; desire; end; esseintes; eyes; face; fact; fear; flesh; flowers; fontenay; form; glass; god; gold; green; hair; hands; having; head; house; human; ideas; language; latin; left; life; light; literature; love; man; master; memories; men; mind; moment; nature; odor; paris; past; people; place; plants; reading; red; room; rose; saint; sense; servant; sky; society; soul; style; table; thought; time; tones; water; way; white; window; wine; woman; works; world; years cache: 12341.txt plain text: 12341.txt item: #40 of 722 id: 12414 author: Barbusse, Henri title: The Inferno date: None words: 42131 flesch: 88 summary: He perceives that each man is an island of illimitable forces apart from his fellows, passionately eager to live his own life to the last degree of self-fulfilment, but continually thwarted by nature and by other men and women, until death interposes and sets the seal of oblivion upon all that he has dreamed and sought. I, like other men, am moulded out of infinity. keywords: anna; arms; close; day; death; door; evening; eyes; face; god; hands; head; heart; human; life; light; look; love; man; moment; people; room; things; thought; time; truth; voice; woman; words; world cache: 12414.txt plain text: 12414.txt item: #41 of 722 id: 1254 author: Rostand, Edmond title: Cyrano de Bergerac date: None words: 35669 flesch: 93 summary: DE GUICHE (who has controlled himself--smiling): Have you read 'Don Quixote'? CYRANO: I have! CYRANO: Tilt I 'gainst those who change with every breeze? DE GUICHE: . . keywords: bret; cadets; carbon; christian; cyrano; day; de guiche; door; duenna; eyes; good; guiche; hand; heart; le bret; ligniere; like; love; man; marquis; montfleury; nay; night; nose; play; poet; ragueneau; roxane; scene; second; sir; sister; time; tis; voice cache: 1254.txt plain text: 1254.txt item: #42 of 722 id: 1258 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: Ten Years Later date: None words: 267616 flesch: 80 summary: D'Artagnan had not had time to ask why his sword was not taken from him, when the door of the cabinet opened, and a valet de chambre called M. D'Artagnan! for a new king always seeks to get good men in his employment. keywords: aramis; asked; athos; baisemeaux; buckingham; cardinal; charles; chevalier; colbert; comte; court; d'artagnan; day; dear; door; doubt; duke; england; eyes; face; father; fouquet; france; friend; general; gentleman; god; good; great; guiche; half; hand; head; heart; honor; house; king; leave; left; letter; little; livres; look; lord; louis; love; m. de; m. fouquet; madame; mademoiselle; majesty; malicorne; man; manicamp; master; mazarin; mean; men; moment; money; monk; monseigneur; monsieur; monsieur d'artagnan; montalais; mother; order; paris; people; place; planchet; poor; porthos; present; prince; queen; raoul; return; right; royal; saw; service; set; sire; speak; tell; thing; thought; time; understand; voice; wardes; way; wish; word; years cache: 1258.txt plain text: 1258.txt item: #43 of 722 id: 12587 author: Hugo, Victor title: The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History date: None words: 208142 flesch: 84 summary: There was for Gwynplaine, who could see, a heartrending possibility that existed not for Dea, who was blind; he could compare himself with other men. Ursus, though differing from other men, was, as any other might have been, nailed to his post by that species of conscious reverie into which we are plunged by events all important to us, and in which we are impotent. keywords: abyss; air; anne; arms; barkilphedro; baron; black; blind; book; box; boy; chancellor; chapter; charles; child; clancharlie; clerk; close; cold; come; comprachicos; court; crowd; darkness; david; day; dea; dead; death; deep; depths; doctor; door; duchess; duke; earl; end; england; english; evening; evil; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; felt; fine; fire; form; france; god; good; great; green; gwynplaine; half; hand; happiness; having; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; homo; hooker; hour; house; human; inn; iron; james; josiana; justice; kind; king; know; lady; laugh; law; left; life; little; london; look; lord; love; low; majesty; man; master; means; men; mind; moment; mouth; nature; nicless; night; ocean; order; peer; peerage; people; place; point; power; present; public; queen; read; rock; rose; round; royal; saw; sea; second; set; shadow; sheriff; silence; snow; sort; soul; state; steps; stone; storm; terrible; things; think; thought; time; unknown; ursus; vessel; voice; wall; water; waves; way; white; wind; wolf; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 12587.txt plain text: 12587.txt item: #44 of 722 id: 12670 author: Strachey, Lytton title: Landmarks in French Literature date: None words: 51479 flesch: 62 summary: Parnassiens, Les_, 172, 173 Pascal, Blaise (1623-62), 41-44, 129, 144, 175, 176 _Lettres Provinciales_, 41-42, 43, 129 _Pensées_, 43-44 _Philosophes, Les_, 111-115, 118, 133, 134 _Pléiade, La_, 22-24, 31, 32 Pombal, 115 Pope, Alexander, 135 Pradon, Nicolas (1632-98), 55 _Précieux, Les_, 33-34, 41, 55 Prévost, l'Abbé (1697-1763), 157-158 _Manon Lescaut_, 157-158, 159 Rabelais, François (_c._ Montaigne was neither a great artist nor a great philosopher; he was not _great_ at all. keywords: age; art; beauty; book; century; character; day; drama; eighteenth; english; fact; form; france; french; genius; history; human; humanity; influence; language; les; life; light; literature; long; louis; love; man; middle; mind; molière; movement; nature; place; poetry; power; prose; qualities; racine; rousseau; sense; spirit; style; things; thought; time; verse; voltaire; words; work; world; writers; writing; years cache: 12670.txt plain text: 12670.txt item: #45 of 722 id: 12748 author: Renan, Ernest title: Recollections of My Youth date: None words: 86306 flesch: 70 summary: I passed thirteen years of my life under the charge of priests, and I never saw anything approaching to a scandal; all the priests I have known have been good men. At other times the text would be the passage from Jeremiah, _Mors ascendit per fenestras_ keywords: age; book; catholic; century; christianity; church; country; course; day; death; doubt; dupanloup; education; eyes; fact; faith; friend; god; good; having; heart; house; ideas; kind; life; like; little; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; order; paris; people; person; philosophy; place; point; present; priest; reason; regard; religion; respect; right; saint; school; seminary; spirit; state; study; sulpice; theology; things; thought; time; truth; way; work; world; years; young cache: 12748.txt plain text: 12748.txt item: #46 of 722 id: 12816 author: Sand, George title: The Devil's Pool date: None words: 39939 flesch: 81 summary: He was told that they would have to go through great forests, that there were many wicked animals there that ate little children, that Grise would not carry three, that she said so when they started, and that in the country they were going to there was no bed or supper for little monkeys. Little Marie is getting to be tall and strong, and she has nothing to do at home. keywords: beater; child; children; day; father; fire; germain; girl; good; hemp; house; little; love; man; marie; maurice; mind; mother; night; people; pierre; place; ploughman; poor; père; time; want; way; wife; woman; work cache: 12816.txt plain text: 12816.txt item: #47 of 722 id: 12867 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Banquet (Il Convito) date: None words: 84071 flesch: 59 summary: One is the novelty of my condition, which, from not having been experienced by other men, would not be so understood by them as by those who superintend such effects in their operation. Here we may recall to mind what is said above, that Love is a form of Philosophy, and therefore here is called her Soul; which Love is manifest in the use of Wisdom, and such use brings with it a wonderful beauty, that is to say, contentment under any condition of the time, and contempt for those things which other men make their masters. keywords: age; book; cause; chapter; desire; divine; god; good; heaven; human; knowledge; lady; life; light; love; man; men; mind; nature; nobility; order; people; perfect; place; power; reason; second; song; soul; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; way; wherefore cache: 12867.txt plain text: 12867.txt item: #48 of 722 id: 12900 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Poor Relations date: None words: 275104 flesch: 78 summary: Valerie, informed the same evening of this success, insisted that Hulot should go to invite Stidmann, Claude Vignon, and Steinbock to dinner; for she was beginning to tyrannize over him as women of that type tyrannize over old men, who trot round town, and go to make interest with every one who is necessary to the interests or the vanity of their task-mistress. And is it the fact, old man, she went on, that you have killed your brother and your uncle, ruined your family, mortgaged your children's house over and over again, and robbed the Government till in Africa, all for your princess? keywords: adeline; artist; baron; baron hulot; baroness; bed; betty; brother; brunner; business; care; cecile; child; children; cibot; come; count; cousin; crevel; daughter; day; days; dear; death; die; dinner; doctor; door; drawing; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; father; fellow; find; fortune; fraisier; francs; friend; german; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hector; home; honor; hortense; house; hulot; husband; josepha; kind; know; la cibot; lady; law; leave; left; life; lisbeth; little; live; look; looking; love; m. pons; madame; madame hulot; madame marneffe; mademoiselle; magus; making; man; marneffe; marriage; marshal; marville; matter; men; mind; mistress; mme; moment; money; monsieur; morning; morrow; mother; office; paris; passion; past; pay; people; pictures; place; pons; poor; popinot; position; poulain; president; prince; remonencq; right; room; round; rue; schmucke; second; set; short; sir; son; soul; state; steinbock; tell; things; think; thirty; thought; till; time; understand; valerie; victorin; want; way; wenceslas; wife; wish; woman; word; work; worth; years cache: 12900.txt plain text: 12900.txt item: #49 of 722 id: 12901 author: Verne, Jules title: The Moon-Voyage date: None words: 107121 flesch: 72 summary: These audacious travellers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane, and Captain Nicholl were to accomplish their journey in ninety-seven hours thirteen minutes and twenty seconds; consequently they could not reach the lunar disc until the 5th of December, at midnight, at the precise moment that the moon would be full, and not on the 4th, as some wrongly-informed newspapers had given out. It seems to me that I see our brave countrymen encamped at the bottom of a valley, on the borders of a Selenite stream, near the projectile, half buried by its fall, amidst volcanic remains, Captain Nicholl beginning his levelling operations, President Barbicane putting his travelling notes in order, Michel Ardan performing the lunar solitudes with his Londrès cigar-- Oh, it must be so; it is so! keywords: air; atmosphere; attraction; barbicane; bullet; cannon; captain; club; columbiad; day; days; disc; distance; earth; eyes; fact; fall; feet; friends; globe; gun; half; heat; hours; j.t; leagues; light; long; lunar; man; maston; means; michel; michel ardan; miles; moment; moon; mountains; movement; new; nicholl; order; place; point; president; president barbicane; projectile; question; rays; round; satellite; sea; space; speed; sun; surface; terrestrial; time; town; travellers; velocity; water; weight; work; world cache: 12901.txt plain text: 12901.txt item: #50 of 722 id: 12909 author: Jammes, Francis title: Romance of the Rabbit date: None words: 25297 flesch: 86 summary: Then poor old Rabbit leaped up. I love little children and suffer them to come unto me. keywords: blue; day; dogs; earth; evening; eyes; faith; father; flowers; francis; god; heart; life; love; man; mother; night; paradise; poet; rabbit; rose; sky; soul; sun; things; time; trees; water; white cache: 12909.txt plain text: 12909.txt item: #51 of 722 id: 13019 author: Lamartine, Alphonse de title: Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty date: None words: 64050 flesch: 72 summary: so that, she added, when you return after long days, to see once more this lonely spot, to wander beneath these trees, on the margin of these waves, to listen to the breeze and murmuring winds, you may see me once more, as living, as present, and as loving as I am here!... This radiance of beauty, this atmosphere of love, are not, as many think, only the fancies of a poet; the poet merely sees more distinctly what escapes the blind or indifferent eye of other men. keywords: air; beauty; dark; day; days; death; door; earth; evening; eyes; face; feel; god; hand; happiness; heart; heaven; hours; house; joy; julie; lake; left; life; light; lips; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; paris; raphael; room; soul; sun; tears; thought; time; trees; voice; waters; woman; words; world; youth cache: 13019.txt plain text: 13019.txt item: #52 of 722 id: 13058 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Teeth of the Tiger date: None words: 128487 flesch: 85 summary: He was suggesting to Don Luis Perenna one of those compacts which the police are often obliged to conclude in order to gain their ends. At least, that is what our good friend Don Luis Perenna declares. keywords: arsène; case; chief; cosmo; day; death; deputy; desmalions; don luis; door; eyes; face; fact; fauville; florence; gaston; good; hand; head; hippolyte; house; inspector; left; letter; levasseur; life; look; luis perenna; lupin; man; marie; mazeroux; minutes; mme; moment; monsieur; mornington; night; o'clock; perenna; place; police; prefect; préfet; room; sauverand; sergeant; teeth; thing; thought; time; voice; vérot; way; weber; words cache: 13058.txt plain text: 13058.txt item: #53 of 722 id: 13102 author: Boccaccio, Giovanni title: The Decameron, Volume II date: None words: 163772 flesch: 62 summary: Messer Amerigo possessed, a mile or so from Trapani, a goodly estate, to which he was wont not seldom to resort with his daughter and other ladies by way of recreation; and on one of these days, while there they tarried with Pietro, whom they had brought with them, suddenly, as will sometimes happen in summer, the sky became overcast with black clouds, insomuch that the lady and her companions, lest the storm should surprise them there, set out on their return to Trapani, making all the haste they might. Her husband's story shewed his wife that there were other ladies as knowing as she, albeit misfortune might sometimes overtake them and gladly would she have spoken out in defence of Ercolano's wife, but, thinking that, by censuring another's sin, she would secure more scope for her own, she launched out on this wise:--Fine doings indeed, a right virtuous and saintly lady she must be: here is the loyalty of an honest woman, and one to whom I had lief have confessed, so spiritual I deemed her; and the worst of it is that, being no longer young, she sets a rare example to those that are so. keywords: answer; art; aught; bade; bed; bruno; buffalmacco; calandrino; cause; city; come; company; damsel; daughter; day; days; death; door; doubt; fair; father; find; forthwith; fortune; girl; god; good; hand; hast; head; heart; home; honour; house; husband; king; ladies; lady; leave; let; life; like; love; maid; man; matter; meet; men; messer; minded; night; nought; novel; pietro; place; pleasure; priest; purpose; queen; quoth; reason; rest; set; shew; soul; story; tell; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tis; torello; twas; way; wife; wilt; woman; words cache: 13102.txt plain text: 13102.txt item: #54 of 722 id: 13159 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Lost Illusions date: None words: 255803 flesch: 76 summary: And strong as they were to endure their own ills, they felt keenly for Lucien's distress; they guessed that his stock of money was failing; and after all the pleasant evenings spent in friendly talk and deep meditations, after the poetry, the confidences, the bold flights over the fields of thought or into the far future of the nations, yet another trait was to prove how little Lucien had understood these new friends of his. Mother will look after little Lucien, and I can go back to work again, said she. keywords: angouleme; article; blondet; book; boy; brother; business; camusot; cerizet; chardon; chatelet; child; claud; cointet; come; coralie; country; court; d'arthez; d'espard; dauriat; david; david sechard; day; days; de bargeton; dear; des; door; etienne; eve; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; finot; florine; fortune; francs; friend; future; genius; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; interest; kind; kolb; law; leave; left; life; literature; little; live; long; look; looking; louise; lousteau; love; lucien; lucien chardon; lucien de; m. de; m. lucien; madame; making; man; marquise; matter; men; mind; mme; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; nathan; nature; o'clock; office; old; paper; paris; pay; people; petit; place; play; poet; poetry; poor; position; power; provincial; public; read; right; room; round; rubempre; rue; saw; sechard; second; set; sister; society; son; success; things; thought; time; time lucien; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 13159.txt plain text: 13159.txt item: #55 of 722 id: 13191 author: Girardin, Emile de, Mme title: The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers date: None words: 98167 flesch: 75 summary: Madame de Meilhan rushed frantically about until she found the sleepy clerk, who told her that M. de Meilhan had taken passage on the _Ontario_. On Sunday I went to hear mass in the beautiful church at Pont de l'Arche, a splendid ruin that looks like a heap of stony lacework, lovely guipure torn to pieces; while I was there a lady came in and sat beside me; it was Madame de Meilhan. keywords: day; days; de chateaudun; de l'arche; de meilhan; de monbert; dear; despair; door; edgar de; evening; eyes; face; flowers; friend; good; hand; happiness; head; heart; hope; house; idea; irene de; l'arche; lady; leave; letter; life; look; louise; love; m. de; madame; madame de; man; manner; mind; mlle; moment; monsieur; mother; nature; new; night; order; paris; people; pont; pont de; poor; presence; prince; raymond; return; richeport; roger; roger de; room; saw; soul; taverneau; tell; thought; time; valentine; villiers; voice; way; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 13191.txt plain text: 13191.txt item: #56 of 722 id: 13329 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home date: None words: 28520 flesch: 98 summary: GOLAUD _and little_ YNIOLD. MÉLISANDE _discovered at the brink of a spring. keywords: ablamore; alladine; arkël; astolaine; child; door; eyes; father; golaud; hands; light; little; look; man; mélisande; palomides; pélléas; room; servant; stranger; thee; thou; voice; yniold cache: 13329.txt plain text: 13329.txt item: #57 of 722 id: 13527 author: Verne, Jules title: Ticket No. "9672" date: None words: 49740 flesch: 78 summary: And it was in this way that the marriage of Hulda Hansen and Ole Kamp had been decided upon. This is the custom in Norway, where these pleasant duties are generally reserved for married women, so it was rather on Joel's account that Siegfrid Helmboe was to serve Hulda Hansen in this capacity. keywords: bergen; brother; christiania; dal; dame; dame hansen; day; days; fact; girl; good; hansen; help; hogg; house; hulda; hulda hansen; inn; joel; kamp; left; letter; man; mother; ole; professor; return; room; sandgoist; sister; sylvius; sylvius hogg; ticket; time; viking; way cache: 13527.txt plain text: 13527.txt item: #58 of 722 id: 13572 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life date: None words: 66045 flesch: 76 summary: You had the instinctive warning that to the greatly successful inventor, the modern king or knowing man--for civilization has come round the circle to the point where savagery commenced and the wise man rules--to the wizard, power, riches, beauty, all gravitate. what were such men but the knob on a post--the post remained and the knob was unscrewed for another to be put on every now and then. keywords: air; antonino; cantagnac; claudius; clemenceau; country; césarine; daniels; daughter; day; dead; death; door; eyes; face; father; felix; france; girl; good; hand; head; heart; hedwig; home; house; husband; italian; jew; kind; lady; left; life; love; madame; madame clemenceau; major; man; master; money; mother; munich; need; night; officer; paris; place; rebecca; room; sendlingen; stage; student; thought; time; voice; von; way; wife; woman; word; work cache: 13572.txt plain text: 13572.txt item: #59 of 722 id: 13626 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Forty-Five Guardsmen date: None words: 152085 flesch: 86 summary: You will do this? To breakfast with you, dear M. Chicot--to repair my wrongs toward you. my friend; and when I return from my mission-- Ah! true, dear M. Chicot; let us speak of your mission. keywords: arms; aurilly; borromée; bouchage; brother; chapter; chicot; day; dear; death; diana; door; duc; duke; ernanton; eyes; face; france; friend; gentlemen; good; hand; head; heart; henri; house; joyeuse; king; lady; left; letter; life; loignac; look; love; m. chicot; m. de; madame; majesty; maline; man; mayenne; men; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; paris; people; place; poor; prince; remy; return; right; room; sire; sword; thought; time; voice; way; wish; woman cache: 13626.txt plain text: 13626.txt item: #60 of 722 id: 13695 author: Zola, Émile title: A Love Episode date: None words: 120418 flesch: 84 summary: Little by little Helene grew somewhat easier; she saw that her entrance did not disturb them, and that their faces only expressed the quiet content of patient lovers. Helene and little Jeanne are reversions of type. keywords: abbe; air; arms; away; bed; chair; child; children; day; dear; deberle; doctor; door; end; evening; eyes; face; garden; good; hands; head; heart; helene; henri; house; jeanne; juliette; ladies; lady; left; life; like; lips; little; look; love; lucien; madame; madame deberle; malignon; mamma; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; night; open; paris; pauline; place; rambaud; room; rosalie; round; silence; smile; table; tears; thought; time; voice; white; window; woman; words cache: 13695.txt plain text: 13695.txt item: #61 of 722 id: 1373 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Study of a Woman date: None words: 3652 flesch: 75 summary: Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far from being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle glow which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something more than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking. keywords: eugene; listomere; madame; marquise; monsieur; rastignac cache: 1373.txt plain text: 1373.txt item: #62 of 722 id: 138 author: Doumic, René title: George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings date: None words: 68858 flesch: 78 summary: There is something morbid in Flaubert's case, and with equal clearness of vision George Sand points out to him the cause of it and the remedy. We must give George Sand credit for looking after him with admirable devotion. keywords: aurore; book; case; child; children; chopin; country; daughter; day; days; dudevant; dumas; fact; following; france; friend; george sand; good; heart; house; husband; ideas; indiana; kind; letter; life; literature; love; madame; man; marriage; maurice; men; michel; mind; mother; musset; nature; nohant; novel; order; paris; people; place; present; society; son; soul; stories; story; suffering; theatre; things; time; venice; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 138.txt plain text: 138.txt item: #63 of 722 id: 14052 author: Morley, John title: Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) date: None words: 190262 flesch: 64 summary: But good citizenship consists in doing or forbearing from certain actions, and to punish men on the inference that forbidden action is likely to follow from the rejection of a set of opinions, or to exact a test oath of adherence to such opinions on the same principle, is to concede the whole theory of civil intolerance, however little Rousseau may have realised the perfectly legitimate applications of his doctrine. There are some lines imperfectly commemorative of the trio-- Trois auteurs que Rousseau l'on nomme, Connus de Paris jusqu'à Rome, Sont différens; voici par où; Rousseau de Paris fut grand homme; Rousseau de Genève est un fou; Rousseau de Toulouse un atome. keywords: account; author; book; case; century; character; children; circumstances; conditions; contract; corr; country; d'epinay; day; days; death; diderot; discourse; doctrine; education; effect; emilius; end; faith; feeling; force; form; france; french; friend; general; geneva; god; good; government; great; hand; heart; heloïsa; history; house; human; hume; ideas; iii; imagination; influence; jean; kind; laws; letter; life; love; madame; man; men; mind; moment; moral; music; natural; nature; new; opinion; order; paris; passion; people; piece; place; power; present; public; reason; relations; religion; respect; rest; right; rousseau; saint; saw; second; self; sense; set; social; society; soul; sovereign; spirit; state; system; theresa; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; voltaire; way; women; words; work; world; worth; years; young cache: 14052.txt plain text: 14052.txt item: #64 of 722 id: 14233 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany date: None words: 34311 flesch: 75 summary: The village was quiet; chickens cackled and scratched in the streets, and in the gardens enclosed by stone walls, weeds and oats grew side by side. Little rocks covered with sea-weed dot the beach and look like black spots on its light surface. keywords: air; blue; castle; church; city; dark; day; dogs; door; eyes; feet; foot; grass; green; ground; head; left; life; light; man; men; ocean; order; people; place; rocks; room; saint; sea; sky; spread; stones; sun; thought; time; trees; walls; water; way; white; wind; window cache: 14233.txt plain text: 14233.txt item: #65 of 722 id: 14246 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Mercadet: A Comedy in Three Acts date: None words: 24479 flesch: 87 summary: Is this the way in which you are going to act with the hope of bending my father? Minard (seeing Mercadet approach) Here he comes. Yes, my dears, he finds it very hard to swim; he is certain to drown, poor M. Mercadet. keywords: brive; daughter; de la; francs; goulard; julie; justin; la brive; man; mercadet; minard; mme; pierquin; sir; verdelin; violette; yes cache: 14246.txt plain text: 14246.txt item: #66 of 722 id: 1425 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: El Verdugo date: None words: 3942 flesch: 78 summary: Clara was beautiful; and though she had three brothers and one sister, the wealth of the Marquis de Leganes seemed sufficient to justify Victor Marchand in believing that the young lady would be richly dowered. The marquis having been suspected by General G--t--r, who governed the province, of preparing an insurrection in favor of Ferdinand VII., the battalion commanded by Victor Marchand was quartered in the little town of Menda, to hold in check the neighboring districts, which were under the control of the Marquis de Leganes. keywords: clara; general; juanito; marquis; officer; town; victor cache: 1425.txt plain text: 1425.txt item: #67 of 722 id: 1426 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Recruit date: None words: 5554 flesch: 72 summary: On an evening in the month of November, 1793, the principal persons of Carentan were assembled in the salon of Madame de Dey, where they met daily. For the two preceding evenings Madame de Dey had closed her doors to the little company, on the ground that she was ill. keywords: brigitte; carentan; countess; dey; madame; madame de; man; son cache: 1426.txt plain text: 1426.txt item: #68 of 722 id: 1427 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: A Drama on the Seashore date: None words: 7574 flesch: 85 summary: The fisherman looked at us; then he continued: Pierre Cambremer, whom you have seen there, is the eldest of the Cambremers, who from father to son have always been sailors; their name says it--the sea bends under them. '--Another time, 'Pierre Cambremer, did you know your lad very nearly put out the eye of the little Pougard girl?'--'Ha! keywords: cambremer; croisic; father; fisherman; jacques; man; mother; pierre; rock; sea; son cache: 1427.txt plain text: 1427.txt item: #69 of 722 id: 14301 author: Benoît, Pierre title: Atlantida date: None words: 64463 flesch: 87 summary: What do you take to be the meaning of this word? _Antinea_ can only be a proper name, said Morhange. She drew her veil aside and I saw the poor anguished little face. keywords: ahaggar; anteouen; antinea; avit; ben; black; blue; captain; ceghéir; cheikh; country; day; days; dear; desert; door; evening; eyes; face; feet; find; great; gâo; hand; head; kind; left; lieutenant; life; look; man; mesge; moment; morhange; night; pale; red; rock; room; rose; saint; sir; sun; table; tanit; targa; thought; time; tuareg; voice; wall; water; way; white; window; woman; word; zerga cache: 14301.txt plain text: 14301.txt item: #70 of 722 id: 14305 author: Layamon title: Layamon's Brut date: None words: 71141 flesch: 79 summary: Now was Arthur good king, his people loved him, eke it was known wide, of his kingdom. They greeted Arthur anon with their noble words: Hail be thou, Arthur king, darling of Britons; and hail be thy people, and all thy lordly folk! keywords: arthur; bold; britons; come; day; earl; fair; folk; forth; gan; good; hand; hengest; host; king; knights; land; lay; lord; man; men; merlin; people; right; rome; saw; thee; thou; thy; uther; vortiger; went; words cache: 14305.txt plain text: 14305.txt item: #71 of 722 id: 14323 author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl) title: Là-bas date: None words: 90984 flesch: 77 summary: You see, old man, all this is as dark as a bottle of ink. On the other hand, Dr. Brown-Sequard rejuvenates infirm old men and revitalizes the impotent with distillations from the parts of rabbits and cavies. keywords: ages; answer; asked; bed; bell; blood; body; books; canon; carhaix; century; chantelouve; children; christ; church; cold; coming; course; day; days; dead; des; des hermies; devil; docre; door; durtal; eyes; face; fact; fire; flesh; gilles; god; good; gévingey; hands; head; heart; hermies; holy; home; human; husband; hyacinthe; jean; johannès; left; letters; life; look; love; man; marshal; mass; matter; men; middle; mme; moment; monsieur; night; paris; people; person; place; present; priest; question; rais; room; saint; satanism; soul; spite; subject; table; tell; things; think; thought; time; tower; unknown; voice; way; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 14323.txt plain text: 14323.txt item: #72 of 722 id: 1433 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Red Inn date: None words: 13183 flesch: 77 summary: Men of science, pacific yet useful, these young men did an actual good in the midst of so much misery, and formed a bond of sympathy with other men of science in the various countries through which the cruel civilization of the Republic passed. Few men have the courage to invoke an evil, even when just or necessary, and men are silent or forgive a wrong from hatred of uproar or fear of some tragic ending. keywords: andernach; crime; face; father; german; good; head; inn; landlord; man; men; moment; monsieur; prosper; room; taillefer; time; window cache: 1433.txt plain text: 1433.txt item: #73 of 722 id: 14420 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes date: None words: 187339 flesch: 69 summary: The unhappy man imagined that he was entirely made of glass; and, possessed with this idea, when any one approached him he would utter the most terrible outcries, begging and beseeching them not to come near him, or they would assuredly break him to pieces, as he was not like other men but entirely of glass from head to foot. Señor, the other replied, I don't meddle with theology; but this I know, that every one may serve God in his vocation, the more so as daddy Monipodio keeps such good order in that respect among all his children. keywords: andrew; antonio; arms; beauty; bed; brother; care; city; cornelia; corregidor; daughter; day; days; death; desire; don; don juan; door; duke; eyes; face; father; fear; find; friend; gentleman; girl; god; good; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; honour; house; husband; isabella; juan; lady; leave; left; leocadia; leonisa; life; look; lorenzo; love; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; moment; money; monipodio; mother; night; parents; people; person; place; poor; preciosa; present; queen; return; ricardo; richard; rodaja; room; saw; saying; servant; set; seã±or; son; soul; tell; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; woman; word; years cache: 14420.txt plain text: 14420.txt item: #74 of 722 id: 1456 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: An Episode under the Terror date: None words: 6829 flesch: 79 summary: Poor man!... Under the vaulted roof of St. Peter's at Rome, God would not have revealed Himself in greater majesty than here for the eyes of the Christians in that poor refuge; so true is it that all intermediaries between God and the soul of man are superfluous, and all the grandeur of God proceeds from Himself alone. keywords: god; house; lady; man; priest; sisters; stranger; way; wife; words cache: 1456.txt plain text: 1456.txt item: #75 of 722 id: 14628 author: Leighton, Mrs. title: The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleur & Blanchefleur A Mediæval Legend Translated from the French date: None words: 9656 flesch: 68 summary: Thus did Fleur and Blanchefleur take their journey back again to Spain, and when they were come the people received them with great joy, and crowned Fleur King in the place of his father Fenis, and Blanchefleur they crowned as Queen, and so this happy pair lived on united in tender love together to their hundredth year, and when Fleur was made King he embraced the Christian faith of his Blanchefleur, and caused all his people to become Christians and receive baptism, and soon after these things Fleur inherited the land of Hungary from his uncle, who died childless; but to Fleur and his Queen Blanchefleur was born a daughter, Bertha by name, who became wife to King Pepin of France, and mother of Charles, that great Emperor whose fame is known throughout the world. To the entreaties of his Queen, King Fenis thus made reply: 'Tell Fleur to be comforted, seeing that his Blanchefleur lives. keywords: admiral; blanchefleur; clarissa; heart; illustration; king; lord; love; queen; sir; tower cache: 14628.txt plain text: 14628.txt item: #76 of 722 id: 1475 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Gaudissart II date: None words: 4034 flesch: 71 summary: A long quarter of an hour went by in trying on other shawls; to no purpose. A woman alights from her splendid carriage before one of the expensive shops where shawls are sold in the Rue Vivienne. keywords: englishwoman; eyes; francs; gaudissart; head; lady; like; madame; shawl; shop cache: 1475.txt plain text: 1475.txt item: #77 of 722 id: 14954 author: Corneille, Pierre title: The Cid date: None words: 19611 flesch: 90 summary: She will return; she is coming--I see her; at least, for the sake of _her_ honor, Rodrigo, conceal thyself! _ love] of a people that worships him! keywords: chimène; count; death; don; don diego; don fernando; don rodrigo; elvira; father; honor; infanta; king; love; thee; thou cache: 14954.txt plain text: 14954.txt item: #78 of 722 id: 15067 author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl) title: The Cathedral date: None words: 130193 flesch: 64 summary: What have they to say to each other--they who have seen Saint Bernard, Saint Louis, Saint Ferdinand, Saint Fulbert, Saint Yves, Blanche of Castille--so many of the Elect walking past on their way into the starry gloom of the nave? Take Saint Thomas, the Treasure of God, as Saint Bridget calls him: where was he born? keywords: abbé; ages; altar; angels; arch; away; bavoil; bishop; black; blue; body; book; cathedral; century; chartres; choir; christ; church; churches; colour; convent; cross; day; death; door; doubt; durtal; earth; end; eyes; face; fact; father; figures; form; glass; glory; god; gold; good; great; green; gévresin; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; idea; image; jesus; john; lady; left; life; light; like; look; lord; love; madame; man; mary; meaning; middle; mind; mother; nave; notre; order; paris; picture; place; plomb; point; porch; prayer; priest; red; rose; round; saint; set; sisters; son; sort; soul; spirit; stone; symbolism; thought; time; town; use; virgin; walls; water; way; white; windows; women; words; work; world cache: 15067.txt plain text: 15067.txt item: #79 of 722 id: 15465 author: Halévy, Ludovic title: Parisian Points of View date: None words: 39334 flesch: 86 summary: Instead of fooling round with little white women in Paris, he will fool round with little yellow ones at Singapore.' We had played together when we were no higher than that at being little husband and wife. keywords: aunt; baroness; blacky; box; brutus; chamblard; courtalin; day; derline; dress; dresses; evening; eyes; general; good; horse; husband; look; louise; love; mamma; marriage; mme; morning; mother; papa; paris; pretty; prince; raoul; right; time; woman cache: 15465.txt plain text: 15465.txt item: #80 of 722 id: 15532 author: Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de title: Novelas Cortas date: None words: 70927 flesch: 82 summary: Lo conozco _de_ nombre. =cebón= _m._ fattened bullock, hog. keywords: ----=; --no; -a=; = =; = con; = el; = lo; = los; = page; = por; = un; = y; alcalde; allí; alma; antes; antes de; aquel; aquí; así; años; años de; ben; bien; bien de; capitán; carta; casa de; cinco; come; como; como el; como la; como los; como un; con el; con la; con los; con que; con su; con un; contra; cosa; cuadro; cuando; cuarenta; cómo; de aquella; de ceuta; de conocer; de esa; de este; de granada; de haber; de la; de los; de mi; de muy; de que; de quien; de ramón; de san; de ser; de su; de toda; de un; debió de; decir; decía; del; desde; después de; dicho; diez; diez y; digo; dijo; dim; dios; donde; dos; día; días; el boticario; el cielo; el cuadro; el cual; el de; el día; el frío; el hombre; el mismo; el mundo; el más; el otro; el papa; el pergamino; el pobre; el sol; el suelo; el tesoro; el tío; ellos; en el; en la; en los; en mi; en su; en un; entonces; entre; era; era el; esa; ese; eso; españa; españoles; esta; estaba; esto; está; fin; franceses; french; fué; garcía; general; gordas; haber; había; había de; hace; hacia; han; hasta; hay; hijos; historia; hizo; hombre de; hombres; hora; hoy; juan; la 15; la cabeza; la carta; la corneta; la mano; la mañana; la mesa; la muerte; la más; la noche; la otra; la puerta; la tierra; la una; la vida; las; lines; lleno de; lo que; luego; manos; medio; mil; mis; mismo; momento; morir; moro; mucho; muerte de; muerto; mujer; muy; más de; más que; nada; nadie; ni el; ni la; noche de; nombre; nos; nosotros; note; nuestro; o de; ojos; otra; otro; padre; para; para que; parece; parrón; parte; pasado; pero; pero el; place; poco; por el; por la; por los; por su; por un; pueblo; puede; pues; que el; que era; que había; que hay; que las; que mi; que por; que se; que todo; que un; que=; quien; qué; respondió; review; rey; rey de; se lo; sea; set; señas de; señor; sin; sino; sobre; sobre la; son; soy; spain; spanish; sus; tal; también; tan; tanto; tarde; tengo; tenía; tiempo; tiene; tierra de; time; toda la; todas; todo; todo el; todos los; torre; tres; un hombre; una; uno; unos; usted; ver; vez; vii; volvió; voy; voz; y al; y cinco; y como; y con; y de; y dijo; y el; y en; y es; y hasta; y la; y le; y los; y mi; y muy; y por; y que; y se; y si; y su; y un; y yo cache: 15532.txt plain text: 15532.txt item: #81 of 722 id: 15610 author: None title: First Love, and Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life date: None words: 16342 flesch: 72 summary: Cut thy hair off, shear thyself, shave thyself, good Maria, and to allay the bitterness of the shearing, I will give fifty _maravedis_, always on condition that thou dost hand me over the hair. Women, you must know, find a singular pleasure in playing the rôle of patroness, especially in regard to young men of pleasant manners and fashionable dress. keywords: clotilde; day; eyes; father; good; hair; hand; head; inocencio; juan; love; man; maria; mayor; play; room; time; way; woman; years cache: 15610.txt plain text: 15610.txt item: #82 of 722 id: 15745 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Man-Wolf and Other Tales date: None words: 64199 flesch: 82 summary: His partiality to the usages and customs of old times accounted for his having, for forty years past, worn the full-skirted plush coat, the velvet breeches, the black silk stockings, and the silver shoe-buckles of our grandfathers. Four years ago I was at his wedding as best man, and already there are two fat babies making the pretty little house in Crispin street to rejoice. keywords: air; bear; chapter; christian; cold; count; dark; day; dog; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; foot; fritz; gideon; good; hand; head; high; hugh; knapwurst; lay; left; life; look; lord; man; master; mind; moment; monsieur; nideck; night; open; people; rock; round; saw; silence; sir; snow; sperver; thought; time; tower; way; white; window; wolf; woman; years; young cache: 15745.txt plain text: 15745.txt item: #83 of 722 id: 1578 author: None title: Aucassin and Nicolete date: None words: 13938 flesch: 85 summary: They seized Nicolete and Aucassin, and bound Aucassin hand and foot, and cast him into one ship, and Nicolete into another. Father, quoth Aucassin, lo here is your mortal foe, who hath so warred on you with all malengin. keywords: aucassin; count; fair; father; god; king; lady; love; man; nicolete; quoth; tale; tell; thee; thou cache: 1578.txt plain text: 1578.txt item: #84 of 722 id: 15781 author: Espronceda, José de title: El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections date: None words: 52869 flesch: 80 summary: =rosa= _f._ rose. =vaguedad= _f._ vagueness; =con ----= vaguely, uncertainly. =valentía= _f._ valor, courage. keywords: ----=; -a=; = ----s=; = --se=; = dar; = hacer; adj; adv; allá; alma; amor; aquí; assonance; aun; blanca; byron; card; case; cielo; como; con; conj; corazón; cual; cuando; cuartetas; de amor; de don; de espronceda; de la; de los; de mi; de salamanca; de su; de un; death; del; diablo; diego; dios; dolor; don; doña; el alma; el amor; el corazón; el diablo; el mundo; el viento; ella; elvira; en el; en la; en los; en mi; en su; en un; end; english; entre; era; escosura; espronceda; estudiante de; fin; following; form; frente; funeral; félix; félix de; gambler; horas; hurra; ilusión; josé; juan; jugador; la vida; las; life; light; lines; literature; little; london; los; love; luego; luz; m. f.; madrid; mal; mas; meter; miguel; montemar; muerte; mujer; mundo; más; n. m.; noche; ojos; otra; para; paz; pecho; pers; place; play; poem; poet; por; prep; primero; que; que el; que la; que su; quién; qué; rime; salamanca; san; scheme; second; shift; siempre; sin; sobre; sol; son; spain; spanish; stress; student; sus; syllable; syllable verse; synalepha; tal; tanto; tercero; teresa; tierra; time; todo; turn; una; verse; vez; vida; viento; vol; vos; vowels; voz; way; word; work; y al; y con; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; y se; y si; y su; y un; year cache: 15781.txt plain text: 15781.txt item: #85 of 722 id: 15790 author: Racine, Jean title: Esther date: None words: 27307 flesch: 84 summary: --_Près de_, here in comparison with, more usually auprès de, in accordance with the tendency to use compound forms for secondary meanings. abîme, m., abyss, chasm. abolir, to abolish, wipe out. abondance, f., abundance. abri, m., shelter; mettre à l'--, to shield. absolu, absolute. abuser, to deceive. accabler, to overwhelm, crush. accepter, to accept; ne pas --, to decline. accompagner, to accompany. accord, m., chord (_of music_). keywords: aman; app; assuérus; autre; aux; c'est; ces; cette; choeur; ciel; d'un; dans; de son; des; devant; dieu; donc; enfin; est; esther; et la; faire; fait; french; gloire; hydaspe; israélite; j'ai; jamais; jour; king; les; leur; lui; mais; mardochée; mes; moi; mon; même; nos; note; nous; par; pas; peuple; peut; place; point; pour; que; quel; qui; racine; roi; sang; sans; scène; seigneur; ses; son; sont; sur; tes; toi; tous; tout; une; vos; votre; vous; yeux; élise cache: 15790.txt plain text: 15790.txt item: #86 of 722 id: 15878 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts date: None words: 30778 flesch: 86 summary: Godard (aside) I shall find out presently whether Pauline loves Ferdinand. THE STEPMOTHER A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS BY HONORE DE BALZAC Presented for the First Time in Paris At the Theatre-Historique May 25, 1848 PERSONS OF THE PLAY Comte de Grandchamp, a Napoleonic General Eugene Ramel, a State's Attorney Ferdinand Marcandal Doctor Vernon Godard An Investigating Magistrate Felix, servant to General de Grandchamp Champagne, a foreman Baudrillon, a druggist Napoleon, son to General de Grandchamp by his second wife Gertrude, second wife to General de Grandchamp Pauline, daughter to General de Grandchamp by his first wife Marguerite, maid to Pauline Gendarmes, Sheriff's Officer, the Clergy SCENE: Chateau of the General de Grandchamp, near Louviers, Normandy TIME: 1829 THE STEPMOTHER ACT I SCENE FIRST (A richly decorated drawing-room; on the walls are portraits of Napoleon I. and his son. keywords: child; come; doctor; father; ferdinand; general; gertrude; gertrude pauline; godard; good; love; madame; man; marguerite; pauline; ramel; scene; vernon; yes cache: 15878.txt plain text: 15878.txt item: #87 of 722 id: 15934 author: Claretie, Jules title: His Excellency the Minister date: None words: 132695 flesch: 78 summary: He recalled how, on that morning when Sulpice Vaudrey sat there for the first time, the morning following Pichereau's sudden dismissal from office, the editor of this daily press bulletin, like an automaton, mechanically and indifferently laid on the table of the minister a report wherein he said in full: Public opinion, by the mouth of the accepted journals, has for too long a time reposed confidence in the Pichereau administration, for the ministry to be troubled about the approaching and useless interpellation announced some days ago by Monsieur Vaudrey--of Isère--. And if you knew how charming Monsieur Vaudrey is--a delightful conversationalist--he has dined excellently--he was twice served with an entrée! Marianne listened, but her mind was wandering far away. keywords: adrienne; blue; carriage; day; days; dear; desire; door; duke; evening; excellency; expression; eyes; face; fact; friend; gerson; girl; glance; good; granet; guy; half; hand; head; heart; house; kayser; leave; left; life; light; lips; lissac; look; love; madame; madame vaudrey; mademoiselle; man; marianne; marsy; minister; ministry; mistress; molina; moment; monsieur; monsieur vaudrey; new; office; order; pale; paris; parisian; people; place; power; ramel; rosas; rue; sabine; salon; saw; smile; sulpice; sulpice vaudrey; think; thought; time; tone; uncle; vaudrey; voice; warcolier; way; white; wife; woman; world; yes; young cache: 15934.txt plain text: 15934.txt item: #88 of 722 id: 15946 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney date: None words: 21395 flesch: 85 summary: All the mirrors wherein he saw himself reflected stand for the faults of other people, in which we really see our own faults though we hate to recognise them as such. Dare I present myself before other dogs? keywords: animals; book; cat; day; dogs; eyes; fact; footnote; fortune; fox; god; good; jupiter; life; love; man; master; men; new; people; place; reason; thought; time; way; wolf cache: 15946.txt plain text: 15946.txt item: #89 of 722 id: 16085 author: Verne, Jules title: A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) date: None words: 7394 flesch: 75 summary: Here is the first aerial voyage undertaken by Pilatre des Rosiers and the Marquis d'Arlandes, four months after the discovery of balloons. See this game of balloons; it contains the whole history of the aerostatic art. keywords: air; balloon; blanchard; car; feet; gas; height; metres; unknown; voyage; wind cache: 16085.txt plain text: 16085.txt item: #90 of 722 id: 16148 author: Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James title: Fray Luis de León: A Biographical Fragment date: None words: 48344 flesch: 66 summary: On March 6, 1572, Luis de Leon, whose references to this matter are tinged with regret, uses words which seem to imply that a copy had reached Portugal; and an inquiry, opened at Cuzco in the autumn of 1575, revealed the fact that a transcription of the _Cantares que llaman de fray Luis de Leon_ had been made by Fray Luis Alvarez and conveyed by him to South America. Luis de Leon y Fr. keywords: alonso; ana de; augustinian; aunque; bartolomé de; bien; blanco; book; case; castro; chair; cit; como; con; con la; contra; cosa; court; cual; date; de fray; de guzman; de jesús; de la; de leon; de los; de medina; de mi; de salamanca; de su; de un; de zúñiga; del; dicho; diego; diego de; dijo; dios; documentos inéditos; domingo de; doubt; el de; el dicho; en el; en la; en su; esta; este; evidence; fact; footnote; francisco de; fray luis; garcía; gaspar de; general; getino; habia; habia de; inquisition; juan de; judges; las; leon en; leon y; león; libro; libro de; lo que; lope de; luis de; madrid; maestro; mancio; march; mas; mas de; mds; muy; opinion; order; para; para que; pedro de; poems; point; por; por el; por la; porque; prisoner; proceso; que; que el; que habia; que se; saint; segundo; ser; sin; spanish; supreme; sus; thought; time; todo; una; university; valladolid; verdad; vol; y con; y de; y el; y en; y la; y le; y lo; y por; y que; y se; y á; years; zúñiga; á la; á los cache: 16148.txt plain text: 16148.txt item: #91 of 722 id: 16206 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Analytical Studies date: None words: 172261 flesch: 71 summary: Would it be right to marry young women without providing a dowry and yet exclude them from the right of succeeding to property? Is not the world, moreover, full of young women who drag along pale and weak, sickly and suffering? keywords: adolphe; air; author; bed; book; caroline; case; charming; children; conjugal; country; day; dear; death; deschars; desire; doctor; dress; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; find; fine; fischtaminel; following; francs; friend; general; girl; good; hand; happiness; head; heart; home; house; human; husband; ideas; lady; law; laws; leave; left; life; look; love; madame; makes; making; manners; marriage; matter; means; meditation; men; mind; moment; monsieur; moral; morning; mother; nature; number; order; paris; passion; people; place; pleasure; point; poor; power; present; principles; question; reason; right; room; second; secret; sentiment; set; short; sir; society; soul; subject; system; taste; tell; things; thought; time; virtue; voice; want; way; wife; wish; wives; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 16206.txt plain text: 16206.txt item: #92 of 722 id: 16344 author: Laurie, André title: The Waif of the "Cynthia" date: None words: 70700 flesch: 77 summary: He was followed by a young gentleman, whom he presented to her in the following words: My daughter, this is Mr. Erik Hersebom, of whom I have often spoken to you, and who has just arrived at Paris. And poor Erik would turn away and stifle a sigh. keywords: alaska; board; bredejord; brown; captain; child; cynthia; day; days; doctor; erik; expedition; eyes; fact; family; fisherman; friends; good; hersebom; ice; island; left; life; malarius; man; new; noroe; o'donoghan; patrick; place; schwaryencrona; sea; stockholm; thought; time; tudor; vanda; vega; vessel; voyage; years cache: 16344.txt plain text: 16344.txt item: #93 of 722 id: 164 author: Verne, Jules title: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea date: None words: 104110 flesch: 79 summary: In reality the column of water would be shorter, as we are speaking of sea water, the density of which is greater than that of fresh water. So I contented myself with saying: By what name ought I to address you? Sir, replied the commander, I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus. keywords: air; animal; aronnax; board; boat; canadian; captain nemo; coast; companions; conseil; course; crew; day; days; depth; electric; eyes; feet; fish; frigate; good; half; hand; head; horizon; hours; ice; iron; island; land; life; light; long; man; master; midst; miles; minutes; moment; nautilus; ned; new; o'clock; ocean; platform; pressure; professor; red; room; rose; saloon; sea; seas; ship; sir; south; speed; submarine; surface; thought; time; vessel; water; waves; work; yards cache: 164.txt plain text: 164.txt item: #94 of 722 id: 16403 author: Feuillet, Octave title: Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume date: None words: 55345 flesch: 76 summary: Your cousin Pierre? No, but you are not-- Monsieur de Lucan! The dismayed mother was compelled to resign herself to the painful conviction that there really was in the world a man of sufficiently bad taste not to be in love with her daughter, and that this man unfortunately was Monsieur de Lucan. keywords: chateau; child; clotilde; daughter; day; de lucan; dear; dieu; eyes; friend; good; hand; head; heart; husband; julia; left; life; look; love; lucan; madame; malouet; man; mind; moment; monsieur; monsieur de; moras; mother; night; palme; place; sir; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world cache: 16403.txt plain text: 16403.txt item: #95 of 722 id: 16457 author: Verne, Jules title: All Around the Moon date: None words: 100199 flesch: 71 summary: Terra Mater_ herself, friend Ardan. Dear boys! interposed Ardan-- --The _eccentricity_ is _equal_ to _unity_! keywords: air; ardan; asked; atmosphere; attraction; barbican; captain; companions; continued; course; day; disc; distance; earth; eyes; fact; fall; feet; frenchman; friends; good; great; half; head; heat; hours; idea; left; life; light; long; lunar; m'nicholl; man; mare; marston; matter; means; miles; minutes; moment; moon; mountains; nature; new; north; observed; point; present; projectile; question; rays; reply; satellite; sea; second; space; sun; surface; terrestrial; thing; time; travellers; velocity; water; way; world cache: 16457.txt plain text: 16457.txt item: #96 of 722 id: 1651 author: Gaboriau, Emile title: The Mystery of Orcival date: None words: 105771 flesch: 84 summary: I must speak with him, though, said he, it's absolutely necessary--and the sooner the better; for perhaps I am wrong--I may be mistaken-- M. Lecoq and M. Plantat approached him, having carefully closed the door. M. Plantat perceived that M. Lecoq guessed his thoughts; and did not understand the detective's capriciousness; a little while before, he had been very loquacious, but now held his tongue. keywords: bed; bertha; body; count; courtois; crime; day; detective; doctor; door; eyes; face; friend; good; guespin; hand; head; hector; house; husband; jenny; judge; justice; know; laurence; left; letter; life; look; love; m. domini; m. lecoq; m. plantat; madame; man; mayor; moment; money; monsieur; night; old; paris; people; poor; room; sauvresy; thought; time; tremorel; wife cache: 1651.txt plain text: 1651.txt item: #97 of 722 id: 16865 author: Collodi, Carlo title: Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet date: None words: 42876 flesch: 87 summary: Poor Pinocchio ran quickly to the fireplace, where a saucepan was boiling, and was going to take off the lid to see what was in it, but the saucepan was only painted on the wall. Poor Pinocchio had no other relief than yawning, and his yawns were so tremendous that sometimes his mouth almost reached his ears. keywords: boys; dog; donkey; door; eyes; fairy; feet; fish; fox; geppetto; good; head; house; illustration; man; mouth; papa; pinocchio; puppet; school; time; voice; water; wood cache: 16865.txt plain text: 16865.txt item: #98 of 722 id: 16896 author: Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) title: Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 96475 flesch: 62 summary: Corinne_ met with gentler treatment from his friends, if not from himself. Corinne_ is straight, and the only question is which pair of three points it is to unite in an honourable way. keywords: air; arts; beautiful; character; city; conversation; corinne; country; d'erfeuil; day; death; effect; emotion; english; existence; eyes; father; fine; genius; good; happiness; heart; history; idea; imagination; impression; interest; italian; italy; kind; life; lord; lord nelville; love; man; manner; midst; mind; moment; music; nature; nelville; order; oswald; people; pleasure; power; present; respect; rome; sentiment; society; soul; thing; thought; time; woman; words; world cache: 16896.txt plain text: 16896.txt item: #99 of 722 id: 16978 author: Slattery, John T. (John Theodore) title: Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 date: None words: 61221 flesch: 66 summary: To Dante sin is not a mere vulgarity or the violation of a social convention or a soft infirmity of the blood. To Dante sin is the greatest evil of the world--not only because it is the source of all other evils, but because it is at once the denaturing of man--the damned are characterized as the woeful people who have lost the good of the understanding (Inf., III, 18), and it is also a defiance of God. keywords: age; beatrice; century; christ; church; circle; dante; day; days; death; divine; doctrine; earth; evil; eyes; face; faith; fire; florence; forth; glory; god; good; guide; heart; heaven; hell; human; know; lady; life; light; love; man; mind; nature; new; people; place; poet; power; punishment; purgatory; saw; sin; sins; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; thee; things; thou; thought; time; truth; virgil; vision; way; words; work; world; years cache: 16978.txt plain text: 16978.txt item: #100 of 722 id: 1698 author: Verne, Jules title: The Survivors of the Chancellor date: None words: 53471 flesch: 74 summary: I was alone with Robert Curtis to-day upon the poop, and could not help saying to him, Curtis, is your captain mad? Perhaps, sir, I might be allowed to ask what YOU think upon that matter, was his cautious reply. However, if it is to disappear, I expect Captain Curtis would be glad to see it take its departure as soon as possible after he has finished his repairs; it would save him a world of trouble in getting his ship afloat. keywords: andre; boatswain; captain; chancellor; chapter; crew; curtis; day; days; deck; falsten; feet; fire; hand; herbey; hold; hope; land; letourneur; man; miss; moment; morning; night; passengers; raft; sailors; sea; ship; time; vessel; water; waves; wind cache: 1698.txt plain text: 1698.txt item: #101 of 722 id: 17208 author: Perrault, Charles title: The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 date: None words: 18610 flesch: 80 summary: It was even whispered about the Court that she had Ogreish inclinations, and that, whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to prevent herself from falling upon them. Do you know that this house belongs to a cruel Ogre who eats little children? keywords: beard; bed; children; cinderella; day; fairy; king; mother; ogre; princess; queen; thumb; time; tuft; wife cache: 17208.txt plain text: 17208.txt item: #102 of 722 id: 1737 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Facino Cane date: None words: 5643 flesch: 82 summary: Gold is so much of a necessity of life for me, that I have never been without it; I must have gold to toy with and finger. Try to realize the scene, the shabby red-painted wineshop, the smell of wine, the yells of merriment; try to feel that you are really in the faubourg, among old people, working men and poor women giving themselves up to a night's enjoyment. keywords: bianca; cane; facino; gold; life; man; night; thought; time; venice cache: 1737.txt plain text: 1737.txt item: #103 of 722 id: 17375 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 date: None words: 110902 flesch: 75 summary: He might have traveled like others did, have gone amongst foreigners, to unknown countries beyond the sea, have interested himself somewhat in everything which other men are passionately devoted to, in arts and sciences, he might have enjoyed life in a thousand forms, that mysterious life which is either charming or painful, constantly changing, always inexplicable and strange. Just as other men keep the recollection of sweet and tender nights, so I remember sunrises in the morning mist, floating, wandering vapors, which were as pale as death, before the sun rose, and then as its first rays glided over the meadows, lighted up with a rosy tint, which delighted the heart. keywords: arms; bed; child; children; country; day; dear; dinner; door; dress; elaine; end; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; fellow; george; girl; good; hair; half; hands; head; heart; home; house; husband; left; life; limousin; lips; look; looking; love; madame; man; men; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; night; order; parent; people; place; room; round; saw; spite; table; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; years cache: 17375.txt plain text: 17375.txt item: #104 of 722 id: 17376 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 date: None words: 103940 flesch: 75 summary: Neither a princess out of some fairy tale, nor a frail beauty who was an expert in the art of reviving the ardor of old men, and of leading them astray, nor a woman who was disgusted with her ideals, that always turned out to be alike, and who dreamt of awakening the heart of one of those men who suffer, who have afforded so much alleviation to human misery, who seemed to be surrounded by a halo, and who never knew anything but the true, the beautiful and the good. But she did not pay much attention to that, as for some time she had noticed that old men at the seaside nearly all looked like gentlemen. keywords: arms; bed; captain; count; country; dark; day; days; dead; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; father; fellow; fire; friend; girl; good; hair; half; hands; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; lady; left; life; lips; look; looking; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; mistress; moment; monsieur; mother; night; old; order; people; place; pleasure; police; room; round; set; spite; think; thought; time; town; voice; water; way; white; wife; woman; word; years cache: 17376.txt plain text: 17376.txt item: #105 of 722 id: 17377 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 date: None words: 103507 flesch: 78 summary: At home, he said, my cross, at every moment, and he had become so proud of it, that he could not bear to see other men wearing any other ribbon in their button-holes. But just as a good father tries to get rid of his good wares out of doors, and only uses the damaged stuff at home for his children, so God bestows those women whom other men would not care to have, on the Talmudists. keywords: air; arms; bed; black; caravan; child; count; dark; day; days; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; hair; half; hands; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; kind; lady; life; lips; look; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; night; open; order; people; place; red; room; round; servant; table; things; thought; time; understand; voice; want; water; way; white; wife; wish; woman; years cache: 17377.txt plain text: 17377.txt item: #106 of 722 id: 175 author: Leroux, Gaston title: The Phantom of the Opera date: None words: 86484 flesch: 87 summary: He was quite reassured as to the fate of Raoul Chagny and Christine Daae; no one could have doubted the word of the weeping Erik that night. I am very fond of you, M. Raoul, you know. keywords: angel; asked; box; chagny; christine; christine daae; daae; day; death; door; dressing; erik; evening; eyes; face; ghost; giry; good; hand; head; house; lake; left; look; love; man; managers; mme; moment; moncharmin; music; night; opera; persian; raoul; richard; room; stage; thought; time; voice; wall; water; way cache: 175.txt plain text: 175.txt item: #107 of 722 id: 17581 author: Rostand, Edmond title: The Romancers: A Comedy in Three Acts date: None words: 9595 flesch: 91 summary: * * * THE ROMANCERS Persons in the Play SYLVETTE PERCINET STRAFOREL BERGAMIN (Percinet's father) PASQUINOT (Sylvette's father) BLAISE (A gardener) What's that? PERCINET. Nothing. BERGAMIN. keywords: abduction; bergamin; father; love; monsieur; pasquinot; percinet; straforel; sylvette; wall cache: 17581.txt plain text: 17581.txt item: #108 of 722 id: 17635 author: Christophe, Jules François title: Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z date: None words: 178627 flesch: 68 summary: Aquilina then took the name of Madame de la Garde. [Ursule Mirouet.] PORTENDUERE (Madame de,) born Kergarouet, a Breton, proud of her noble descent and of her race. keywords: 1830; abbe de; alphonse de; antoinette de; arcis; arthur de; bachelor; baron de; betty; birotteau; bridau; brother; business; cesar; charles; charles de; chief; children; classes; clerk; comte de; comtesse de; country; courtesan; cousin; daughter; de bargeton; de beauseant; de bourlac; de cadignan; de canalis; de chargeboeuf; de chaulieu; de gondreville; de l'estorade; de la; de langeais; de lenoncourt; de listomere; de lora; de macumer; de manerville; de maufrigneuse; de montauran; de montcornet; de nucingen; de paris; de portenduere; de rastignac; de restaud; de rhetore; de rochefide; de serizy; de valentin; de vandenesse; de verneuil; death; department; des; diane de; doctor; duc de; duchesse de; empire; establishment; family; father; felix de; francois; francs; friend; general de; government; great; head; henri de; history; home; house; hulot; husband; jacques; jean; josephine de; law; left; leon de; life; little; louis; louise de; love; lucien de; m. de; madame de; mademoiselle de; malin de; man; marie; marquis de; marriage; married; member; middle; mignon; mistress; mlle; mme; mother; near; paris; paul de; peasantry; philippe; place; pons; preceding; prince de; princesse de; provincial; raphael de; reign; restoration; rubempre; rue; saint; savarus; savinien de; scenes; second; sister; son; time; town; wealthy; widow; wife; woman; years; young cache: 17635.txt plain text: 17635.txt item: #109 of 722 id: 17650 author: Petrarca, Francesco title: The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch date: None words: 194056 flesch: 81 summary: SONNET CXLVI. But if in valorous heart Love sleepeth not, Whene'er you meet her, friend, for me bespeak Some passing tears, perchance one pitying sigh. MACGREGOR. keywords: age; alas; amor; angel; avignon; bear; beauty; behold; blest; bliss; bosom; breast; bright; cardinal; care; cause; charms; che; church; city; cold; colonna; come; country; course; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desire; die; doth; e'en; earth; emperor; ere; eyes; face; fair; faith; fame; far; fate; father; fear; feel; feet; find; fire; foe; form; fortune; friend; god; gold; good; grace; great; green; grief; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; honour; hope; hour; house; human; italy; john; joy; kind; king; know; lady; laura; laurel; left; letter; life; light; living; long; look; lord; love; lovely; macgregor; man; meet; memory; men; milan; mind; mortal; nature; ne'er; nott; o'er; padua; pain; passion; past; people; petrarch; pity; place; poet; pope; power; praise; present; pride; proud; rest; return; roman; rome; save; sea; seem'd; set; shade; shall; shore; sighs; sleep; song; sonnet; sorrow; soul; speech; spirit; stars; state; stay; sun; sure; sweet; tears; tell; tender; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; till; time; tis; tongue; true; truth; vain; vaucluse; venice; view; virtue; visconti; voice; war; way; wish; woe; words; world; year; youth cache: 17650.txt plain text: 17650.txt item: #110 of 722 id: 18445 author: Murger, Henri title: Bohemians of the Latin Quarter date: None words: 102115 flesch: 81 summary: Pray, mademoiselle, continued Rodolphe, in exchange for the trifling service which my good angel has permitted me to render you, may I ask you to do me a favor? Asking already, thought the actress, as she regarded Rodolphe with more attention. Colline, continued Rodolphe, ring a little for the waiter. keywords: artist; bed; bohemians; carolus; chapter; coat; colline; day; days; dear; dinner; door; dress; evening; eyes; face; fellow; felt; find; fire; francine; francs; friend; furniture; girl; glass; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; jacques; landlord; leave; left; letter; life; look; love; mademoiselle; man; marcel; mimi; mistress; moment; money; monsieur; morning; musette; night; order; pay; phemie; piece; place; poet; poor; porter; rodolphe; room; schaunard; sir; table; things; thought; time; want; way; white; work; young; youth cache: 18445.txt plain text: 18445.txt item: #111 of 722 id: 18472 author: Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de title: The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol date: None words: 23317 flesch: 67 summary: _Zeokinizul_ was soon perfectly recovered, and then his Generals whose Ardour had been restrain'd by Fear and Grief, soon made their Enemies feel, that their King was restored to them, for they forced them to repass the _Nhir_ with considerable Loss; and the most Skilful in Military Affairs do not scruple to affirm, than if the _Kofirans_ had not been headed by a General prudent even to a Fault, not so much as a single Soldier would have been left to have given the Queen of _Ghinoer_ an Account of their Expedition. Besides, do you think that I am so blind to mine own Interest, as to provide _Zeokinizul_ with a young ambitious Mistress, who will be for monopolizing the royal Favour, and never be satisfied till she has grasp'd the Disposal of all Offices and Honours? keywords: bassa; country; heart; jeflur; kam; kelirieu; king; kingdom; kofirans; lenertoula; liamil; love; master; mistress; mollak; monarch; order; passion; people; person; prince; queen; tho; time; zeokinizul cache: 18472.txt plain text: 18472.txt item: #112 of 722 id: 18545 author: France, Anatole title: A Mummer's Tale date: None words: 50219 flesch: 82 summary: CHAPTER III Madame Nanteuil lived with her daughter in a little flat on the fifth story of a house in the Boulevard Saint-Michel, whose windows opened upon the garden of the Luxembourg. An officer's widow and the mother of an actress, Madame Nanteuil, whose real name was Nantean, treasured these trophies. keywords: chevalier; constantin; day; days; dead; dear; death; doctor; doulce; eyes; fellow; felt; félicie; good; hand; head; house; left; life; ligny; look; love; madame; madame nanteuil; man; marc; mind; monsieur; mother; nanteuil; night; order; past; people; play; pradel; robert; room; socrates; stage; theatre; think; thought; time; trublet; voice; women cache: 18545.txt plain text: 18545.txt item: #113 of 722 id: 18832 author: Sue, Eugène title: A Cardinal Sin date: None words: 43812 flesch: 76 summary: Now, young man, was I presumptuous in affecting providential airs toward you? That remains to be seen! Listen, young man; I have fought fifty-seven duels, and can therefore dispense with the fifty-eighth. keywords: child; countess; day; dear; duke; eyes; father; florestan; francs; friend; girl; godmother; good; heart; herem; letter; life; louis; madame; man; mariette; moment; monsieur; poor; ramon; richard; saint; son; woman; words; yes cache: 18832.txt plain text: 18832.txt item: #114 of 722 id: 18839 author: Belloc, Hilaire title: Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance date: None words: 24506 flesch: 81 summary: Je vous suyvray donc d'une face plaisante, Dussé-je trespasser de l'estude vaincu, Et ne fust-ce qu'à fin que la race suyvante Ne me reproche point qu'oysif j'aye vescu._ Muses. à la mort: keywords: age; bellay; bon; century; ces; charles; comme; de la; death; des; dieu; est; france; french; kind; les; letters; life; line; mais; malherbe; man; men; middle; mind; modern; mon; note; par; paris; plus; poet; pour; que; qui; renaissance; rome; ronsard; second; son; sont; stanza; sur; things; time; verse; villon; vostre; vous; words; work; years cache: 18839.txt plain text: 18839.txt item: #115 of 722 id: 18857 author: Verne, Jules title: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth date: None words: 86680 flesch: 79 summary: I was, therefore, in constant communication with, at all events the letters of, Sir Humphry Davy, Captain Franklin, and other great men. Four horses were prepared for us, two to carry the baggage, and two to bear the important weight of myself and uncle. keywords: air; boy; chapter; day; days; earth; end; eyes; fact; feet; gallery; good; granite; great; guide; half; hand; hans; harry; head; hour; iceland; idea; interior; journey; kind; lava; leagues; left; light; look; man; matter; means; mind; moment; ocean; order; place; professor; raft; reply; rock; saw; sea; sneffels; soil; state; thought; time; uncle; water; way; words; world cache: 18857.txt plain text: 18857.txt item: #116 of 722 id: 18876 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) date: None words: 99957 flesch: 79 summary: Josephina was different from other women who hardly aroused his desire. She knew that love was a reality for other women, but she had never succeeded in finding it. keywords: afternoon; arms; artist; beauty; bed; black; body; concha; cotoner; countess; daughter; day; days; dead; death; desire; expression; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; hands; head; house; husband; josephina; left; life; look; love; madrid; mariano; master; men; milita; mother; new; night; painter; painting; people; picture; poor; renovales; rome; room; silence; sort; studio; things; thought; time; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 18876.txt plain text: 18876.txt item: #117 of 722 id: 18972 author: Voltaire title: Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate date: None words: 31628 flesch: 76 summary: Zadig_ had clandestinely convey'd both the Bitch and the Horse away, secur'd him, and carried him before the grand Desterham, who condemn'd him to the _Knout_, and to be confin'd for Life in some remote and lonely Part of _Siberia_. The Queen who recollected full well the Lines that were wrote on the Fragment of _Zadig's_ Tablet, order'd that Part of it to be produc'd: Both the broken Pieces being put together, they answered exactly the Indentures; and then the Verses which _Zadig_ had written, in a Flight of Loyalty, ran thus, _Tyrants are prone to flagrant Crimes; To Clemency his Crown he owes; To Concord and to peaceful Times, Love only is the worst of Foes._ Upon this the King order'd _Zadig_ to be instantly brought before him; and his two Friends and the Lady to be that Moment discharg'd. _ keywords: astarte; babylon; cador; cause; chap; court; day; eyes; friend; good; head; heart; hermit; honour; king; lady; life; man; master; moment; night; order; place; queen; self; sir; tho; thou; time; tis; world; zadig cache: 18972.txt plain text: 18972.txt item: #118 of 722 id: 1925 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Droll Stories — Volume 1 date: None words: 58452 flesch: 73 summary: And then to make use of him she experimented on the goodness of her good man, and without giving him leave to go further than her chin, since she looked upon herself as belonging to Rene, Blanche, in return for the flowers of age which Bruyn offered her, coddled him, smiled upon him, kept him merry, and fondled him with pretty ways and tricks, which good wives bestow upon the husbands they deceive; and all so well, that the seneschal did not wish to die, squatted comfortably in his chair, and the more he lived the more he became partial to life. On the bridge the little boys would stop playing with the ball, and would call out, Good day, Mr. Seneschal and he would reply, jokingly, Enjoy yourselves, my children, until you get whipped. keywords: bed; blanche; canon; cardinal; child; chiquon; come; crowns; day; death; devil; door; evening; eyes; fact; friend; god; good; hand; head; heart; house; husband; king; ladies; lady; life; little; lord; love; madame; man; men; night; order; people; priest; saw; saying; seneschal; things; thou; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words cache: 1925.txt plain text: 1925.txt item: #119 of 722 id: 19315 author: Leopardi, Giacomo title: The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi date: None words: 28636 flesch: 78 summary: That look to me, indeed, has fatal been: And yet, I could not bring myself, midst all My sufferings, that cruel day to blame. But mortal life, When lovely youth has gone, Is colored with no other light, And knows no other dawn. keywords: age; breast; day; days; dear; death; dost; earth; eyes; fate; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hope; life; light; love; man; nature; o'er; race; rest; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; unto; voice; world; youth cache: 19315.txt plain text: 19315.txt item: #120 of 722 id: 19362 author: Verne, Michel title: In the Year 2889 date: None words: 5732 flesch: 77 summary: His labors are incessant, and there is no doubt at all that in earlier times any man would have succumbed under the overpowering stress of the toil which Mr. Smith has to perform. The first thing that Mr. Smith does is to connect his phonotelephote, the wires of which communicate with his Paris mansion. keywords: chronicle; day; fritz; man; smith; time; wilkins; years cache: 19362.txt plain text: 19362.txt item: #121 of 722 id: 1940 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Christ in Flanders date: None words: 7121 flesch: 78 summary: Then old men succeeded to thy young lovers; decrepitude came to thy feet and made thee hideous. At first sight of the bareheaded man in the brown camlet coat and trunk-hose, and plain stiff linen collar, they noticed that he wore no ornaments, carried no cap nor bonnet in his hand, and had neither sword nor purse at his girdle, and one and all took him for a burgomaster sure of his authority, a worthy and kindly burgomaster like so many a Fleming of old times, whose homely features and characters have been immortalized by Flemish painters. keywords: boat; god; life; light; man; mother; poor; sea; skipper; thee; thou; time; woman cache: 1940.txt plain text: 1940.txt item: #122 of 722 id: 1941 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Letters of Two Brides date: None words: 85959 flesch: 82 summary: I am beginning my journal this morning, and I picture to myself that yours is already started, and that, in a few days, I shall be at home in your beautiful Gemenos valley, which I know only through your descriptions, just as you will live that Paris life, revealed to you hitherto only in our dreams. I know you; you are a coward, and you will submit to the yoke of family life with a lamblike docility. keywords: armand; brother; child; children; day; days; dear; death; eyes; family; father; feeling; felipe; gaston; girl; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; house; husband; joy; know; l'estorade; letter; life; little; look; louise; love; macumer; man; marriage; men; mind; mme; moment; morning; mother; nature; night; old; paris; passion; place; poor; renee; room; self; society; soul; think; thought; time; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 1941.txt plain text: 1941.txt item: #123 of 722 id: 1943 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Louis Lambert date: None words: 40890 flesch: 68 summary: This line of study, this peculiar taste, elevated his heart, purified, ennobled it, gave him an appetite for the divine nature, and suggested to him the almost womanly refinement of feeling which is instinctive in great men; perhaps their sublime superiority is no more than the desire to devote themselves which characterizes woman, only transferred to the greatest things. Louis had sought for proofs of his theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their biographers, supply very curious particulars as to the operation of their understanding. keywords: boys; brain; day; doubt; end; eyes; fact; genius; god; happiness; heart; ideas; lambert; left; life; light; louis; louis lambert; love; mademoiselle; man; master; men; mind; monsieur; nature; power; school; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; villenoix; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 1943.txt plain text: 1943.txt item: #124 of 722 id: 1968 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix date: None words: 18543 flesch: 57 summary: The family was a respectable one, though its right to the particle which Balzac always carefully assumed, subscribing himself _de_ Balzac, was contested. The only really unpleasant thing about him that I know, and even this is perhaps due to ignorance of all sides of the matter, is a slight touch of snobbishness now and then, especially in those late letters from Vierzschovnia to Madame de Balzac and Madame Surville, in which, while inundating his mother and sister with commissions and requests for service, he points out to them what great people the Hanskas and Mniszechs are, what infinite honor and profit it will be to be connected with them, and how desirable it is to keep struggling engineer brothers-in-law and ne'er-do-well brothers in the colonies out of sight lest they should disgust the magnates. keywords: author; balzac; de balzac; fact; form; french; genius; good; history; kind; law; les; letters; life; literature; madame; man; paris; scenes; scott; society; things; think; time; way; woman; work; writer; years cache: 1968.txt plain text: 1968.txt item: #125 of 722 id: 19711 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: The Buried Temple date: None words: 49535 flesch: 58 summary: But in Nature there is no moral reaction; for this emanates from our own thoughts or the thoughts of other men. 31 Yes, human life, viewed as a whole, may appear somewhat sorrowful; and it is easier, in a manner pleasanter even, to speak of its sorrows and let the mind dwell on them, than to go in search of, and bring into prominence, the consolations life has to offer. keywords: cause; day; destiny; existence; fatality; force; good; happiness; heart; human; injustice; justice; laws; life; love; man; men; mind; moment; moral; morality; mystery; nature; past; power; reason; right; things; thought; time; truth; universe; unknown; world cache: 19711.txt plain text: 19711.txt item: #126 of 722 id: 1977 author: Racine, Jean title: Phaedra date: None words: 14126 flesch: 89 summary: And if my pride of heart must needs be humbled, Aricia should have been the last to tame it. Hearts turn towards you that were kept away By Theseus. keywords: aricia; blood; death; eyes; father; gods; heart; heav'n; hippolytus; life; love; oenone; phaedra; scene; son; tears; theramenes; theseus cache: 1977.txt plain text: 1977.txt item: #127 of 722 id: 19942 author: Voltaire title: Candide date: None words: 36201 flesch: 78 summary: As Miss Cunegonde had a great disposition for the sciences, she breathlessly observed the repeated experiments of which she was a witness; she clearly perceived the force of the Doctor's reasons, the effects, and the causes; she turned back greatly flurried, quite pensive, and filled with the desire to be learned; dreaming that she might well be a _sufficient reason_ for young Candide, and he for her. At length Candide, having always had a taste for metaphysics, made Cacambo ask whether there was any religion in that country. keywords: abbé; baron; cacambo; candide; captain; country; cunegonde; day; dear; eyes; father; god; going; good; house; jesuit; king; love; man; martin; master; men; miss; pangloss; people; pleasure; sheep; sir; things; time; venice; voltaire; woman; world cache: 19942.txt plain text: 19942.txt item: #128 of 722 id: 20015 author: D'Annunzio, Gabriele title: The Child of Pleasure date: None words: 99858 flesch: 78 summary: I Andrea Sperelli dined regularly every Wednesday with his cousin the Marchesa d'Ateleta. For Andrea Sperelli was expecting Elena Muti. keywords: air; andrea; andrea sperelli; arm; breath; carriage; day; days; death; delfina; desire; donna; door; dream; elena; end; evening; eyes; face; fire; francesca; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; know; lady; left; life; light; lips; look; love; low; man; maria; mind; moment; morning; morrow; mouth; music; new; old; open; pain; pale; passion; piazza; pleasure; point; princess; red; rome; room; rose; round; rutolo; sea; sense; shadow; silence; sky; smile; soul; sperelli; spirit; steps; sun; table; tears; things; thought; time; trees; villa; voice; way; white; window; woman; words cache: 20015.txt plain text: 20015.txt item: #129 of 722 id: 20122 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Queen's Necklace date: None words: 128203 flesch: 87 summary: And that, according to you, M. de Charny, is to make M. de Cagliostro burn his thousand copies. Approach, M. de Charny, he said. keywords: andrée; beausire; boehmer; cagliostro; cardinal; chapter; charny; countess; day; doctor; door; eyes; francs; good; hand; house; jeanne; king; ladies; lady; leave; left; look; louis; love; m. de; madame; madame de; majesty; man; money; monseigneur; monsieur; motte; necklace; oliva; people; philippe; place; queen; right; rohan; room; saw; sir; taverney; thought; time; wish; woman cache: 20122.txt plain text: 20122.txt item: #130 of 722 id: 20144 author: Virgil title: The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad date: None words: 12611 flesch: 76 summary: Shoots o'er the humid orb its golden ray, 155 Unhappy Dido and her guest of Troy Together in the woods the chase enjoy, When ev'ry mind is on the sport intent, From gather'd clouds with livid light'ning rent, Of rain and pelting hail, a horrid show'r, 160 With peals of thunder on their heads I'll poor: All fly the storm, and in one dark retreat, The Trojan hero, and the Queen shall meet; There will I be; there if unchang'd your mind, Shall Hymen's chain at once the lovers bind». 195 It seem'd what Nature's self would choose to wear; Her auburn locks in easy tresses play'd, Now hid her snowy neck, and now betray'd; No muse can paint what playful zephyr show'd, Nor tell the charm that modesty bestow'd: 200 Not the stiff airs that prudish virtue arm, The foes of love, the bane of ev'ry charm: keywords: air; bear; bosom; care; dido; english; ev'ry; eyes; fame; fate; god; heart; jove; love; mind; night; nuptial; o'er; passion; pow'r; queen; rage; shore; sister; soul; thro; æneas cache: 20144.txt plain text: 20144.txt item: #131 of 722 id: 2027 author: Molière title: Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite date: None words: 18791 flesch: 88 summary: ORGON If you were not my mother, I should say Such things! ORGON keywords: cleante; come; damis; dorine; elmire; good; heart; heaven; love; madame; man; mariane; orgon; pernelle; sir; tartuffe; valere cache: 2027.txt plain text: 2027.txt item: #132 of 722 id: 20380 author: Coppée, François title: Ten Tales date: None words: 29156 flesch: 77 summary: we stood facing each other, shaking hands, and exposing, in a laugh of cordial delight, our teeth, which in old times we used to exercise on the same crust of poverty. She even gave up the idea of taking a nurse in the house, fearing for the new-born the close air of that corner of old Paris, and contented herself with taking every Sunday with her husband a little excursion to Argenteuil to see her son with his nurse Voisin, who was overwhelmed with coffee, sugar, soap, and other dainties. keywords: bayard; black; captain; child; day; days; end; eyes; fellow; girl; good; hair; hands; head; heart; house; illustration; leon; life; madame; man; men; morning; mother; night; norine; paris; place; poor; room; shop; son; table; time; white; woman; years cache: 20380.txt plain text: 20380.txt item: #133 of 722 id: 20572 author: Audoux, Marguerite title: Marie Claire date: None words: 40640 flesch: 91 summary: Whenever he was making fun of anybody, his queer little eyes used to look for mine, and whenever he gave an opinion he used to turn to me as though he expected me to approve or disapprove. A few days afterwards she took us to the railway station, and that evening we went to a big house, where there were a lot of little girls. keywords: aimée; day; door; eyes; face; farm; farmer; head; house; look; marie; room; saw; sheep; sister; sister marie; thought; time; voice; white cache: 20572.txt plain text: 20572.txt item: #134 of 722 id: 20646 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 83546 flesch: 70 summary: The electoral cyclone in which they had been enveloped in Corsica crossed the sea in their wake like the blast of a sirocco, followed them to Paris and blew madly through the apartments on Place Vendôme, which were thronged from morning till night by the usual crowd, increased by the constant arrival of little men as dark as carob-beans, with regular, bearded faces, some noisy, buzzing and chattering, others silent, self-contained and dogmatic, the two types of the race in which the same climate produces different results. She was quite alone in life, was little Felicia. keywords: air; bey; children; cold; daudet; day; days; dear; doctor; door; duke; end; evening; eyes; face; family; father; felicia; fellow; floor; francs; friend; good; géry; hair; hand; head; heart; hemerlingue; honor; house; idea; jansoulet; jenkins; joyeuse; life; light; like; look; madame; man; matter; moment; money; monpavon; monsieur; morning; mother; nabob; new; office; open; paris; parisian; paul; people; place; room; ruys; saint; smile; society; son; story; table; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; word; work; years; young cache: 20646.txt plain text: 20646.txt item: #135 of 722 id: 20724 author: About, Edmond title: The Man With The Broken Ear date: None words: 60913 flesch: 78 summary: When interrogated regarding the reasons which could have brought him to part with a trust as precious as the body of M. Fougas, he said that he had kept it in his house fifteen years with every imaginable respect and care, but that at the end of that time, becoming beset with visions and being awakened almost every night by the Colonel's ghost coming and pulling at his feet, he concluded to sell it for twenty crowns to a Berlin amateur. But the rector of the parish did not hesitate to say, in five or six houses, that the cure of a man as desperately sick as M. Fougas, would be an evidence of the power and mercy of God. keywords: 23d; arms; army; body; child; clementine; colonel; colonel fougas; day; days; dear; death; doctor; emperor; eyes; family; father; fougas; france; friend; god; good; half; hand; heart; honor; hope; house; langevin; left; leon; life; love; m. fougas; man; meiser; mlle; monsieur; mother; new; nibor; paris; people; place; poor; renault; sambucco; soldier; son; time; want; water; way; world; years cache: 20724.txt plain text: 20724.txt item: #136 of 722 id: 21040 author: Dolores, Carmen title: Brazilian Tales date: None words: 25015 flesch: 77 summary: Yes, but I saw other men suffer, and in the end the spectacle of joy gave me the same sensations as the discourses of an idiot. Other works are _The Struggle_, _ keywords: ahasverus; assis; book; brazilian; camillo; colonel; crime; day; end; eyes; house; josé; know; letters; life; literature; machado; man; maria; new; novel; pigeon; prometheus; rita; spanish; thought; time; villela; woman; work; world cache: 21040.txt plain text: 21040.txt item: #137 of 722 id: 2127 author: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de title: Paul and Virginia date: None words: 47076 flesch: 70 summary: Madame de la Tour desired me to perform the same office for her child also, together with her friend, who gave her the name of Virginia. He was much attached to Margaret, and not less to Madame de la Tour, whose negro woman, Mary, he had married on the birth of Virginia; and he was passionately fond of his wife. keywords: children; day; dear; domingo; family; friend; good; great; happiness; heart; heaven; island; life; love; madame; man; margaret; mother; mountain; nature; night; order; paul; pierre; return; rocks; sea; son; spot; tears; time; tour; trees; virginia; virtue; world cache: 2127.txt plain text: 2127.txt item: #138 of 722 id: 21327 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories date: None words: 107128 flesch: 82 summary: Just think that for twenty years I might have gone and had kisses in the woods, like other women. As soon as dinner was over René turned to his wife, and said: My dear, I have just met Pierre again, and I am going to carry him off for a walk and a chat along the boulevards to remind us of old times. keywords: air; arms; bed; boule; cold; country; day; days; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; fire; francs; friend; girl; good; half; hands; head; heart; home; house; husband; left; life; like; little; loiseau; look; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; night; o'clock; order; people; place; red; room; round; saw; sleep; table; things; think; thought; time; uncle; voice; want; water; way; white; wife; woman; years cache: 21327.txt plain text: 21327.txt item: #139 of 722 id: 21329 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 79068 flesch: 73 summary: But, when she heard the drums close at hand, seized with a nervous frenzy at her inability to escape that obsession, or, it may be, infected by the unhealthy curiosity that encompassed her, she raised the curtain with a jerk, and her pale, ardent little face appeared, resting on both hands, at the window. Marvels of all colors, with little eyes like black pearls. keywords: air; black; carriages; chamber; children; close; creature; day; days; dear; death; door; duke; election; end; expression; eyes; face; felicia; good; great; géry; hand; head; heart; hemerlingue; honor; hour; house; jansoulet; jenkins; left; life; light; look; love; madame; man; merquier; mind; moment; monpavon; monsieur; mora; morning; mother; nabob; open; order; paris; paul; people; place; public; room; saint; salon; son; standing; table; think; thought; time; tone; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; years cache: 21329.txt plain text: 21329.txt item: #140 of 722 id: 21489 author: Verne, Jules title: The Secret of the Island date: None words: 64478 flesch: 76 summary: But, Captain Harding, exclaimed the sailor, our working days will not be many, and if you go also we shall be two pair of hands short! We shall return to-morrow, replied Cyrus Harding, but it is necessary that I should go to the corral. Cyrus Harding and Herbert having immediately called Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Neb into the dining-room of Granite House, told them what had happened. keywords: ayrton; boat; brig; captain; captain harding; colonists; companions; convicts; corral; cyrus harding; day; engineer; fire; gideon; granite; granite house; harding; herbert; house; island; lava; lincoln; man; moment; neb; nemo; night; pencroft; reporter; return; sailor; sea; settlers; spilett; time; vessel; water; work cache: 21489.txt plain text: 21489.txt item: #141 of 722 id: 2154 author: Verne, Jules title: Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition date: None words: 64021 flesch: 78 summary: You are Mr. Phileas Fogg? said the consul, after reading the passport. It answers exactly to that of Mr. Phileas Fogg. keywords: aouda; bombay; captain; chapter; day; days; detective; english; evening; fix; fogg; francis; good; great; guide; half; hand; having; hong; hours; journey; kong; left; london; man; master; miles; minutes; moment; new; o'clock; passengers; passepartout; past; phileas fogg; place; pounds; sea; servant; sir; station; steamer; thought; time; train; way; wind; world; young cache: 2154.txt plain text: 2154.txt item: #142 of 722 id: 21655 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories date: None words: 110501 flesch: 81 summary: When she came down to breakfast of a morning, little Jeanne went and held up her face for a kiss, and that was the only greeting she received. The stillness around made them all silent for a long while, but at last Jeanne said: How I should like to travel! keywords: air; arms; away; baron; baroness; bed; child; château; country; day; days; dead; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; girl; good; hands; head; heart; house; husband; jeanne; julien; left; life; little; look; love; madame; man; mind; morning; mother; night; paul; people; place; room; rosalie; round; son; tears; things; think; thought; time; trees; voice; want; wife; woman; wood cache: 21655.txt plain text: 21655.txt item: #143 of 722 id: 21838 author: Daudet, Ernest title: Which? Or, Between Two Women date: None words: 73229 flesch: 79 summary: She found herself in the same position she had occupied years before; the same danger threatened her happiness with destruction--Philip loved Dolores. The soldiers came to the house in pursuit of young Philip, who had taken refuge in this room. keywords: antoinette; bridoul; chamondrin; child; château; coursegol; daughter; day; death; dolores; evening; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; happiness; heart; hope; house; left; life; love; man; marquis; moment; order; paris; philip; place; prison; room; thought; time; vauquelas; voice; wife; words; years cache: 21838.txt plain text: 21838.txt item: #144 of 722 id: 21868 author: Uchard, Mario title: French and Oriental Love in a Harem date: None words: 81877 flesch: 74 summary: After all, an easy-going soul, and the best of uncles! he went on; they all look like ecclesiastics; have you taken orders, then? Why, uncle, these five months past we have been in mourning for you. keywords: aunt; barbassou; come; course; daughter; day; days; dear; evening; eyes; fellow; find; friend; good; great; gul; hadidjé; harem; heart; house; kiusko; kondjé; lady; left; life; love; madame; man; matter; mind; mohammed; moment; mother; nazli; order; paris; pasha; place; poor; right; room; subject; thought; time; tone; turkish; uncle; way; wife; woman; world; young; zouhra cache: 21868.txt plain text: 21868.txt item: #145 of 722 id: 21870 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: Luna Benamor date: None words: 34345 flesch: 78 summary: At other times she wandered aimlessly through Royal Street, or walked in the direction of the Alameda, explaining the landmarks of the city to Aguirre at her side. The only son of _Caldera_ was in there, sometimes in bed, in obedience to his mother, who could conceive of no illness without the cup of hot water and seclusion between the bed-sheets; at other times he sat up, his jaws supported by his hands, gazing obstinately into the furthermost corner of the room. keywords: aguirre; black; child; city; consul; day; days; end; eyes; family; father; gibraltar; girl; good; hands; head; house; jews; land; life; light; lion; love; luna; man; mother; near; people; place; poor; race; sea; son; spoke; street; time; town; voice; white; women; world cache: 21870.txt plain text: 21870.txt item: #146 of 722 id: 21967 author: Donkersley, J. title: Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) date: None words: 16129 flesch: 86 summary: Can that faith which acts not be sincere? Usurping all the rights of David's sway, An impious stranger, now for eight years past, Hath weltered in the blood of Judah's kings Unpunished,--odious murderer of her sons; And now e'en raiseth her perfidious arm 'Gainst God: and you, though nourished in the camp Of Josaphat, the saintly king, are one Of the upholders of this tottering state; Who led our armies under Joram's son, And who alone revived our towns alarmed When the abrupt decease of Ochoziah Dispersed all his camp at Jehu's sight; God fear, I say you, and His word affects me! Great God! keywords: abner; athaliah; child; choir; david; day; god; joad; joas; josabet; king; mathan; queen; son; temple; thou; thy; zachariah cache: 21967.txt plain text: 21967.txt item: #147 of 722 id: 2198 author: Basile, Giambattista title: Stories from the Pentamerone date: None words: 79674 flesch: 74 summary: XII VIOLET Envy is a wind which blows with such violence, that it throws down the props of the reputation of good men, and levels with the ground the crops of good fortune. But knowing that to reply to great men is a folly, and like plucking a lion by the beard, he withdrew, cursing his fate, which had led him to the court only to curtail the days of his life. keywords: brother; children; daughter; day; eyes; face; fairy; father; girl; good; ground; hand; having; head; heart; home; house; king; leave; life; love; mother; mouth; night; ogre; ogress; palace; poor; prince; queen; saying; set; son; sun; things; time; water; way; wife; wish; woman; wood; words; world cache: 2198.txt plain text: 2198.txt item: #148 of 722 id: 22018 author: Lermina, Jules title: The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I date: None words: 87155 flesch: 83 summary: Madame Caraman had the next day called for her _protégée_, and in walking home together, she said: Do you know, Clary, what I have heard to-day--the Count of Monte Cristo is said to be in Marseilles. Take Spero with you. keywords: anselmo; aslitta; benedetto; captain; caraman; chapter; child; clary; coucou; count; cristo; danglars; day; death; door; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; haydee; head; house; jacopo; lady; left; life; look; luciola; madame; major; man; mercedes; moment; monsieur; monte; mother; right; room; saw; son; spero; thought; time; valentine; villefort; voice; way; wife; woman; words cache: 22018.txt plain text: 22018.txt item: #149 of 722 id: 22069 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. date: None words: 102671 flesch: 83 summary: All the great artists are those who can make other men see their own particular illusion. Bravo, young man! keywords: air; bed; brother; day; days; dear; doctor; door; evening; eyes; face; father; find; friend; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; jean; left; life; look; looking; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; mme; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; new; night; open; order; people; pierre; roland; room; rosémilly; round; sea; son; soul; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; wife; woman; word; years; young cache: 22069.txt plain text: 22069.txt item: #150 of 722 id: 22086 author: Lermina, Jules title: The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II date: None words: 82830 flesch: 86 summary: When the vicomte entered the gallery of the cafe, he looked observingly about him, and then approached a group of young men who all wore plain black clothing and whose manners were somewhat military. Evenings we young girls used to go there to get water, and then--then he went past. keywords: anselmo; benedetto; bobichel; caillette; carmen; count; day; door; eyes; fanfaro; father; fougereuse; girdel; girl; god; gontram; good; hand; house; irene; jane; larsagny; look; louison; man; marquis; monsieur; mother; pierre; right; robeckal; rolla; room; simon; spero; talizac; thought; time; vicomte; voice; way; woman; words cache: 22086.txt plain text: 22086.txt item: #151 of 722 id: 22411 author: Leblanc, Georgette title: The Choice of Life date: None words: 52417 flesch: 80 summary: Before then, I suffered, I was all astray, an ill wind hovered round me; and, on the sands of other lives, there was never a trace of my footsteps where I believed that I had passed. Is there anything definite amid the uncertainty of these blind efforts, these unaccountable impulses, which have so often, ever since the first awakening of my unconsciousness, urged me towards other women? keywords: beauty; dark; day; eyes; face; flowers; girl; good; hair; hands; happiness; head; heart; house; life; light; lives; look; love; mind; moment; nature; room; rose; silence; sky; soul; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; words cache: 22411.txt plain text: 22411.txt item: #152 of 722 id: 22522 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: Artists' Wives date: None words: 26834 flesch: 79 summary: say what you like, the artist is made for family life, and that is so true, that those among us who do not marry, take refuge in temporary companionships, like travellers who, tired of being always home-less, end by settling in a room in some hotel, and pass their lives under the hackneyed notice of the signboard: Apartments by the month or night? An ill-regulated existence, without compass or rudder, subversive ideas contrary to all social conventionality, contempt of family life and its happiness, cerebral excitement sought for in the abuse of tobacco and strong drink, without mentioning anything else, this constitutes the terrible artistic element from which your dear Aunt is desirous of withdrawing you; but I must repeat, that while I fully comprehend her anxiety, nay her remorse even at having consented to such a marriage, I cannot see that matters have reached a point calculated to warrant your petition. keywords: child; day; dear; evening; eyes; family; fellow; friends; hair; home; house; husband; illustration; life; love; madame; man; marriage; married; moment; paris; poet; room; thought; time; voice; wife; woman; work; years cache: 22522.txt plain text: 22522.txt item: #153 of 722 id: 22662 author: Gautier, Théophile title: The Mummy's Foot date: None words: 4414 flesch: 73 summary: Fancy a _pagne_, or skirt, all formed of little strips of material bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy. THE MUMMY'S FOOT By Théophile Gautier Translated By Lafcadio Hearn 1908 I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called _marchands de bric-à-brac_ in that Parisian _argot_ which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. keywords: daughter; eyes; foot; hermonthis; louis; paper; pharaoh; princess; princess hermonthis cache: 22662.txt plain text: 22662.txt item: #154 of 722 id: 22759 author: Verne, Jules title: The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras date: None words: 66132 flesch: 76 summary: Forward_ was such an extraordinary ship that they felt it might be no laughing matter, and they must be sure before they denied it. The sailors continued silently watching the _Forward_, whose preparations for departure were drawing to an end; there was not one of them who pretended that Johnson had only been laughing at the young sailor. keywords: bay; bell; board; brig; cape; captain; clawbonny; coast; cold; commander; crew; day; degrees; doctor; dog; feet; forward; franklin; good; hatteras; ice; icebergs; island; johnson; left; man; men; miles; north; pen; point; pole; sailors; sea; shandon; ship; simpson; snow; south; strait; temperature; time; wall; wind cache: 22759.txt plain text: 22759.txt item: #155 of 722 id: 23054 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Dean's Watch date: None words: 7801 flesch: 86 summary: As we were comfortably seated, toasting chestnuts over the fire and enjoying a jug of wine, little Annette, the housemaid, appeared in a black calico dress and velvet turban, with rosy cheeks and lips like a cluster of cherries. I saw little Annette looking as fresh and fair as a rose, and smiling fondly at me with her lips and eyes. keywords: annette; door; eyes; good; grédel; little; madoc; man; night; time; wilfred cache: 23054.txt plain text: 23054.txt item: #156 of 722 id: 23057 author: Mérimée, Prosper title: How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896 date: None words: 1703 flesch: 86 summary: On learning that I had just come from college at Fontainebleau, he remarked, with a wry face: My lieutenant died last night. Who is the oldest lieutenant? This gentleman, who came last night, replied the sergeant calmly. keywords: captain; fire; redoubt cache: 23057.txt plain text: 23057.txt item: #157 of 722 id: 23063 author: Coppée, François title: The Lost Child date: None words: 5805 flesch: 78 summary: Whereupon M. Godefroy rushed to the Prefect, whose hand he pressed till that functionary winced with the pain. What sort of weather this morning? demanded M. Godefroy curtly, as he buttoned his undervest of gray swandown upon a stomach that was already a little too prominent. keywords: banker; boy; carriage; child; father; godefroy; man; raoul; sun cache: 23063.txt plain text: 23063.txt item: #158 of 722 id: 2318 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Droll Stories — Volume 2 date: None words: 59242 flesch: 65 summary: The nuns of the said Poissy were good young ladies, who now this way, now that, cheated God to the profit of the devil, as many others did, which was but natural, because our nature is weak; and although they were nuns, they had their little imperfections. The following, however, must be added, for the benefit of all of whom it may concern:--The good man to whom we owe fables and stories of sempiternal authority only used his tool on them, having taken his material from others; but the workmanship expended on these little figures has given them a high value; and although he was, like M. Louis Ariosto, vituperated for thinking of idle pranks and trifles, there is a certain insect engraved by him which has since become a monument of perennity more assured than that of the most solidly built works. keywords: bed; chapter; church; court; day; death; demon; devil; eyes; father; gentleman; god; good; head; heart; holy; honour; house; husband; jacques; king; know; ladies; lady; life; lord; love; madame; man; master; men; nature; night; noble; order; people; place; pleasure; present; queen; said; shrew; sister; son; spite; things; thinking; thought; time; town; way; wife; woman; words cache: 2318.txt plain text: 2318.txt item: #159 of 722 id: 23227 author: None title: Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French date: None words: 12044 flesch: 90 summary: Then to speech did one address him: Mates, young Aucassin, God bless him! Aucassin, said she, fair sweet friend, take counsel what you will do! keywords: aucassin; count; father; friend; god; king; land; love; nicolette; sir; story; sweet; way cache: 23227.txt plain text: 23227.txt item: #160 of 722 id: 23489 author: Verne, Jules title: Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery date: None words: 56950 flesch: 80 summary: You, Mr. Godfrey, you--on the bridge? Yes, I, captain. If the wind has not changed? No, Mr. Godfrey, no. keywords: animals; captain; carefinotu; chapter; day; dream; feet; fire; godfrey; good; half; head; island; kolderup; left; life; man; miles; moment; new; night; north; phina; place; point; professor; professor tartlet; round; savages; saw; sea; sequoia; ship; shore; smoke; tartlet; thought; time; tree; turcott; uncle; water; way; william cache: 23489.txt plain text: 23489.txt item: #161 of 722 id: 2365 author: La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) title: The Princess De Montpensier date: None words: 10936 flesch: 66 summary: The Duc took the opportunity to throw himself at her feet and describe all that he had suffered because of her suspicions, and though the Princess was unable to forget what the Duc d'Anjou had said to her, the behaviour of the Duc de Guise did much to reassure her. He had a touch of the same sickness as the Duc de Guise, and continuing to invent important reasons, he stayed for two days at Champigny, without being obliged to do so by anything but the charms of Madame de Montpensier, for her husband did not make any noticeable effort to detain him. keywords: comte; de guise; duc d'anjou; duc de; husband; king; love; madame; montpensier; princess cache: 2365.txt plain text: 2365.txt item: #162 of 722 id: 23700 author: Boccaccio, Giovanni title: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio date: None words: 310245 flesch: 60 summary: Wherefore he fell to passing continually before her house, now afoot and now on horseback, as the occasion served him, insomuch that she and many other ladies got wind of the cause of his constant passings to and fro and oftentimes made merry among themselves to see a man thus ripe of years and wit in love, as if they deemed that that most pleasant passion of love took root and flourished only in the silly minds of the young and not otherwhere. Then was the body carried into a church and the sad mother, repairing thither with many other ladies, kinswomen and neighbours, began to weep without stint and make sore moan over him, according to our usance. keywords: abbot; abode; arms; art; aught; avail; bed; body; bruno; calandrino; cast; cause; chamber; chanced; city; come; coming; company; counsel; damsel; daughter; day; days; dead; death; desire; door; end; exceeding; eyes; fair; fashion; father; favour; fear; finding; folk; footnote; fortune; friend; gentleman; girl; god; good; hand; hath; having; head; hearing; heart; hold; home; honour; house; husband; i.e.; ill; king; know; knowing; ladies; lady; leave; left; let; life; look; lord; love; madam; maid; man; matter; means; men; messer; mind; mistress; morning; nay; night; occasion; pass; place; pleasure; present; purpose; queen; quoth; reason; return; save; saying; seeing; set; somewhat; son; sore; speak; story; taking; tell; thee; thereof; thine; things; thither; thou; thought; thy; time; utmost; water; way; weeping; whenas; wife; wise; wit; woman; words; world; worth; years cache: 23700.txt plain text: 23700.txt item: #163 of 722 id: 23819 author: None title: La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier date: None words: 32206 flesch: 92 summary: When each has gained the shelter of his home, King Carle will in his chapel be at Aix, To celebrate Saint Michael's solemn feast. --Nay, quoth King Carle, A sage you are in council, well I know: By this mustache and by this beard of mine, So far away from me you shall not go. keywords: aoi; barons; battle; blow; brave; carle; count; count rollánd; day; dead; death; emir; emperor; field; france; franks; french; ganelon; god; gold; good; hand; king; king carle; knights; land; lord; man; marsile; men; olivier; pagans; right; rollánd; spain; strike; sword; thee; thou; white cache: 23819.txt plain text: 23819.txt item: #164 of 722 id: 2414 author: Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century title: Cliges: A Romance date: None words: 47272 flesch: 85 summary: For never was Helen received at Troy with such great joy, when Paris had brought her thither, that there will not be yet greater joy felt throughout the whole land of the king, my uncle, anent you and me. And such men are more mocking than jays. keywords: alexander; aught; body; cliges; day; duke; emperor; god; good; greeks; heart; john; joy; king; knight; lady; lord; love; man; matter; men; quoth; right; tell; thou; wish cache: 2414.txt plain text: 2414.txt item: #165 of 722 id: 2445 author: Voltaire title: Letters on England date: None words: 38043 flesch: 64 summary: was a more than great man, the director answers in the very same strain, and adds, that the member elect may also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in quality of director, must also have some share in this greatness. He proves that there is no such thing as a celestial matter which goes from west to east since the comets traverse those spaces, sometimes from east to west, and at other times from north to south. keywords: age; bodies; body; cause; country; descartes; earth; england; english; father; france; french; god; good; great; isaac; king; laws; letter; light; lord; man; mankind; manner; matter; men; moon; motion; nation; nature; newton; opinion; people; persons; philosophy; power; reason; regard; religion; sir; soul; thou; time; world; years cache: 2445.txt plain text: 2445.txt item: #166 of 722 id: 2528 author: Mason, Amelia Gere title: The Women of the French Salons date: None words: 92594 flesch: 68 summary: I do not know but Mme de Coulanges has already sent you word of our after-dinner conversations at Gourville's about people who have taste above or below their intelligence. de Staal de Launay, said Grimm. keywords: age; beauty; century; character; charm; circle; conversation; days; de la; de lambert; de lespinasse; de rambouillet; de scudery; de sevigne; de stael; de tencin; death; esprit; fashion; fayette; fine; friends; friendship; genius; good; great; heart; husband; influence; intellect; letters; life; light; literature; love; manners; mind; mlle; mme; nature; passion; people; period; power; read; salon; social; society; soul; spirit; talent; taste; things; thought; time; wit; women; world; years cache: 2528.txt plain text: 2528.txt item: #167 of 722 id: 2536 author: Molière title: Amphitryon date: None words: 15590 flesch: 91 summary: So I took heart for our fighters. You care for hearts full of false tenderness, for those women with the laudable and fine talent of knowing how to smother their husbands with caresses in order to make them oblivious of the existence of lovers. keywords: alc; alcmene; amph; amphitryon; cle; come; heart; jup; love; merc; night; sos; sosie cache: 2536.txt plain text: 2536.txt item: #168 of 722 id: 2551 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Droll Stories — Volume 3 date: None words: 55064 flesch: 70 summary: Well said, good man, cried the king. They are great ladies. keywords: abbey; abbot; amador; bastarnay; bertha; child; children; court; day; dear; eyes; father; girl; god; good; heart; house; jehan; king; know; ladies; lady; life; lord; love; madame; man; men; monk; night; order; people; pleasure; poor; provost; queen; saying; servant; sire; son; things; time; way; wife; woman cache: 2551.txt plain text: 2551.txt item: #169 of 722 id: 2587 author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro title: Life Is a Dream date: None words: 17951 flesch: 84 summary: Alas, poor man, that I, myself so helpless, Could better help you than by barren pity, And my poor presence-- SEG. A stranger from across the mountain there, Who, having lost his way in this strange land And coming night, drew hither to what seem'd A human dwelling hidden in these rocks, And where the voice of human sorrow soon Told him it was so. keywords: capt; clo; clotaldo; day; dream; ev'n; fife; heaven; king; life; lord; man; night; poland; prince; ros; royal; seg; segismund; self; sir; sleep; son cache: 2587.txt plain text: 2587.txt item: #170 of 722 id: 26216 author: Lermina, Jules title: The Son of Monte-Cristo date: None words: 106954 flesch: 89 summary: Hardly had he passed the gallery than he was attracted by a group of young men earnestly conversing together. They are young men, are they not? Yes, but you need not be alarmed--they are only a little gay. keywords: arms; benedetto; bobichel; caillette; carmen; chapter; child; cristo; cyprien; day; door; esperance; eyes; face; fanfar; father; fongereues; france; francine; girl; good; goutran; gudel; hand; head; house; irène; jane; life; madame; man; marquis; men; moment; monsieur; monte; mother; night; place; poor; robeccal; room; sanselme; simon; sir; son; talizac; time; vicomte; voice; way; woman; words cache: 26216.txt plain text: 26216.txt item: #171 of 722 id: 26386 author: Laboulaye, Édouard title: Laboulaye's Fairy Book date: None words: 47402 flesch: 85 summary: They had gone two leagues from the town when Graceful saw Fido talking with the ants, who were marching in regular troops, carrying all their provisions with them. In common with the stories of Charles Perrault, literary parent of the fairy tale, Laboulaye's charming narratives have a certain unique quality due to the fact that they were intended and collected for the author's own children, were told to them round the fireside in the evening, and so received at first hand the comment and suggestion of a bevy of competent, if somewhat youthful, critics. keywords: castle; charming; child; day; door; eyes; fairy; finette; giant; gold; good; graceful; great; hand; head; heart; house; king; life; man; master; morning; mother; night; pazza; people; prince; saw; sire; time; voice; way; woman; young; yvon cache: 26386.txt plain text: 26386.txt item: #172 of 722 id: 26623 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Brass Bell; or, The Chariot of Death date: None words: 36550 flesch: 81 summary: And yet I did not kill that same Caesar, who has reduced our people to slavery and is now about to divide among his soldiers the lands of our fathers, I did not kill him when I was making off with him on my horse! You, my fine Bull, you took great Caesar prisoner? asked the horse-dealer mockingly. When my senses returned, I found myself lying on straw, along with a great number of other men, in a vast shed. keywords: albinik; arms; army; battle; bull; caesar; children; day; dealer; eyes; father; gallic; gaul; hand; head; horse; interpreter; left; master; meroë; moment; mother; roman; sea; slave; son; time; valleys; vannes; wife; women; words cache: 26623.txt plain text: 26623.txt item: #173 of 722 id: 26730 author: Vollmöller, Karl title: Turandot, Princess of China: A Chinoiserie in Three Acts date: None words: 18246 flesch: 95 summary: CALAF _hearkens, though his eyes are still riveted on the picture. (CALAF _rises, makes an obeisance, and stands with noble bearing between the two thrones, facing the spectators. keywords: adelma; altoum; aside; barak; brigella; calaf; father; head; heart; heaven; love; man; pantalone; prince; princess; tartaglia; thou; turandot; zelima cache: 26730.txt plain text: 26730.txt item: #174 of 722 id: 26838 author: Saintsbury, George title: A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 date: None words: 197816 flesch: 65 summary: [416] Since, long ago, I formed the opinion of _Adolphe_ embodied above, I have, I think, seen French criticisms which took it rather differently--as a personal confession of the confusions of a wasted youth, misled by passion. Like almost everybody of her time she wrote in the extreme _rhétoriqueur_ style--so much so indeed as to lead even Pasquier into the blunder of supposing that Rabelais hit at her in the dialect of the Limousin scholar. keywords: artamène; astrée; author; beauty; beginning; book; case; century; chapter; character; chief; class; country; course; court; crébillon; cyrus; daughter; day; de la; deal; death; des; doubt; eighteenth; end; english; extent; fact; fairy; fashion; father; fiction; form; france; french; friend; general; girl; god; good; greek; guinevere; half; hamilton; hand; hero; heroine; historical; history; honour; human; husband; importance; influence; instance; interest; kind; king; knight; knowledge; ladies; lady; lancelot; late; leave; les; lesage; life; like; literature; little; love; madame; making; man; mandane; manner; manon; marivaux; marriage; matter; means; men; middle; mistress; mme; names; nature; need; new; note; novel; novelist; original; pages; paris; passion; people; person; phrase; place; point; power; present; pretty; prince; princess; proper; prose; queen; rabelais; rate; read; reader; reading; real; reason; right; romance; rousseau; saint; second; sense; sensibility; set; sidenote; sir; sister; sort; special; stories; story; style; subject; tale; telling; things; think; thought; time; title; verse; voltaire; volume; way; ways; wife; word; work; writer; years cache: 26838.txt plain text: 26838.txt item: #175 of 722 id: 27068 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan date: None words: 102825 flesch: 75 summary: A sort of sarcophagus rose between these decorations, and on it was inscribed in ancient Spanish lettering: The Senior Inquisitor, Don Jaime Febrer. THE DEAD COMMAND by VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ Author of Sonnica From the Spanish LOS MUERTOS MANDAN Translation by Frances Douglas [Illustration] New York Duffield & Company 1919 PART FIRST THE DEAD COMMAND CHAPTER I A MAJORCAN PALACE Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. keywords: black; blue; boy; captain; centuries; chaplain; city; dark; day; days; dead; don jaime; door; enemy; existence; eyes; face; family; father; fear; febrer; friends; girl; good; grandfather; green; half; hand; head; house; ironworker; island; iviza; jaime; jaime febrer; life; love; majorca; mallorquí; man; margalida; men; mind; minstrel; mother; new; night; order; palma; past; peasant; people; place; presence; pèp; red; respect; room; sea; señor; silence; small; son; sun; things; thought; time; tower; trees; valls; voice; way; white; women; words; world; years; youth cache: 27068.txt plain text: 27068.txt item: #176 of 722 id: 27072 author: Molière title: The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant) date: None words: 4164 flesch: 94 summary: (Gorgibus_ comes out of his house by the door_; Sganarelle _by the window_.) Gor. But, Mr. Gorgibus, can I see your daughter? SAB. keywords: doctor; gorgibus; sgan; sganarelle; sir cache: 27072.txt plain text: 27072.txt item: #177 of 722 id: 27074 author: Molière title: The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé) date: None words: 3976 flesch: 94 summary: Let us go together then. (_Exeunt_ VALÈRE _and_ LA VALLÉE.) In French, compare _parbleu, corbleu_, &c., and _deuce, zounds, egad_, &c., in English. keywords: ang; bar; barbouillé; doc; doctor; gor cache: 27074.txt plain text: 27074.txt item: #178 of 722 id: 27103 author: Gréville, Henry title: The Little Russian Servant date: None words: 5465 flesch: 83 summary: On the eve of St. John, when young girls plait crowns of flowers, which they throw into the river to see if they are to be married within the year, Mavra went, like the others, to consult fate after this graceful fashion. Mavra was left alone in the workroom, a large, well-lighted chamber, furnished simply with tables and chairs for the use of the innumerable women and girls invariably attached to the service of those noble ladies who knew so well how to maintain their rank in that blessed time of serfdom. keywords: countess; day; eyes; girl; house; lady; mavra; mother; serge; time cache: 27103.txt plain text: 27103.txt item: #179 of 722 id: 27163 author: Powys, John Cowper title: Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations date: None words: 91658 flesch: 59 summary: What the scepticism of Montaigne does is to clear out of the path all the individual claims to extraordinary insight of the philosophic great men of the world, by means of showing how, under the pressure of obstinate and malicious reality, such explanations of the universe break down and such great men collapse and become as blind, helpless, groping and uncertain as all the rest of us. He chuckles over the unfortunate lapses in the careers of great men much as a mischievous gossip in a tavern might chuckle over similar lapses in the careers of local potentates. keywords: age; art; balzac; beauty; blake; books; byron; child; conrad; days; deep; earth; fact; feeling; figure; france; genius; gods; gourmont; hand; heart; henry; high; human; humanity; humour; imagination; individual; interest; james; kind; les; let; life; light; like; literature; living; long; love; manner; matter; men; mind; moment; montaigne; music; mystery; nature; new; nietzsche; passion; passionate; people; persons; place; pleasure; poetry; power; race; real; reason; regard; remy; secret; self; sense; sort; soul; spirit; style; thing; thought; time; voltaire; way; wilde; women; words; work; world; writer cache: 27163.txt plain text: 27163.txt item: #180 of 722 id: 27201 author: Brieux, Eugène title: Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux date: None words: 89375 flesch: 95 summary: [_Going on reading_] About using whites of eggs to take the sharpness out of sorrel, To take out ink-stains. [_Going to the terrace_]. keywords: attorney; bouzole; bunerat; come; day; dear; etchepare; féliat; general; gods; going; good; life; look; love; lucienne; madame; madame guéret; madame nérisse; madame vagret; mademoiselle; man; meuriot; mieris; monsieur; mouzon; pakh; people; president; priest; recorder; rené; rheou; right; satni; sokiti; steward; thérèse; time; want; women; work; yanetta; yaouma cache: 27201.txt plain text: 27201.txt item: #181 of 722 id: 27384 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Regent's Daughter date: None words: 86557 flesch: 83 summary: Shoot no one, Gaston de Chanlay, replied the man with the lantern, calmly; and put up your pistols. If not, Gaston de Chanlay--by virtue of that right which you gave me, of your own free will, over your life--if not, I declare, on my honor, I will blow your brains out with my own hand! keywords: bastille; bretagne; captain; carriage; chanlay; chevalier; daughter; day; door; dubois; duke; eyes; father; gaston; good; hand; helene; house; jonquiere; leave; left; letter; life; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; montlouis; owen; paris; place; pontcalec; regent; room; think; thought; time; voice; wish; word cache: 27384.txt plain text: 27384.txt item: #182 of 722 id: 27385 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental date: None words: 132743 flesch: 78 summary: At a few minutes past four D'Harmental saw Buvat turning the corner of the Rue du Temps-Perdu. What! cried Buvat, fixing his great eyes on Clarice, M. du Rocher--it is not possible! Papa is dead, said little Bathilde, leaving the corner where she was playing with her doll, and running to her mother; is it true that papa is dead? Alas! keywords: abbe; bathilde; boniface; brigaud; buvat; captain; chevalier; child; d'harmental; day; dear; denis; door; dubois; duc; duchess; evening; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; highness; hour; house; king; left; life; louis; love; madame; madame de; mademoiselle; maine; man; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; morning; mother; new; night; o'clock; open; place; poor; prince; raoul; regent; room; royal; rue; saw; thought; time; valef; voice; window; young cache: 27385.txt plain text: 27385.txt item: #183 of 722 id: 27537 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 2 date: None words: 88127 flesch: 78 summary: The news went round that M. Frederick was going to marry Madame Dambreuse. They were staring at the portrait of a woman, with this fine traced underneath in black letters: Mademoiselle Rosanette Bron, belonging to M. Frederick Moreau of Nogent. keywords: air; arms; arnoux; black; cisy; dambreuse; day; days; deslauriers; door; doubt; dussardier; end; evening; eyes; face; fact; fashion; feeling; fellow; francs; frederick; friend; good; hand; having; head; heart; house; idea; kind; left; life; like; long; look; love; madame; madame arnoux; madame dambreuse; mademoiselle; making; man; martinon; maréchale; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morning; order; paris; people; place; regimbart; right; room; roque; rosanette; round; rue; sort; table; thing; thought; time; tis; tone; way; white; woman; word cache: 27537.txt plain text: 27537.txt item: #184 of 722 id: 27575 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 86091 flesch: 80 summary: Here, Carthage, Hamilcar, Hannibal, Narr' Havas, the Numidian hero, and Spendius, the Greek slave, the lions in bondage, the pomegranate trees which they sprinkled with silphium, the whole a strange and barbaric world; then Charles Bovary, the chemist Homais, his son Napoléon and his daughter Athalie, provincial life in the time of the Second Empire; _bourgeois_ adultery, _diligences_ and notaries' clerks. However, amid a rain of impositions, order was gradually re-established in the class; and the master having succeeded in catching the name of Charles Bovary, having had it dictated to him, spelt out, and re-read, at once ordered the poor devil to go and sit down on the punishment form at the foot of the master's desk. keywords: arm; art; bed; black; blue; bovary; charles; chemist; child; country; day; days; doctor; door; emma; end; evening; eyes; face; fine; flaubert; foot; garden; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; homais; home; house; left; life; little; look; love; léon; madame; madame bovary; man; monsieur; mother; night; open; page; people; place; red; rodolphe; room; rose; rouen; round; servant; set; table; things; think; thought; time; voice; wall; water; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; yonville; young; | | cache: 27575.txt plain text: 27575.txt item: #185 of 722 id: 27594 author: Rizal, José title: An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere date: None words: 70322 flesch: 85 summary: Trunks of palm trees, dipping and swaying, join the two banks, and if, as bridges, they leave much to be desired for trembling old men and poor women who must cross with heavy baskets on their heads, on the other hand they make fine gymnastic apparatus for the young. Young man, he said, I was your father's friend: I wish you to consider me yours. keywords: alcalde; alférez; aunt; basilio; brother; captain; children; clara; country; crisóstomo; curate; day; don; door; doña; dámaso; elias; excellency; eyes; face; father; general; god; good; government; hand; head; home; house; husband; ibarra; life; little; love; man; manila; maria; men; moment; mother; night; people; pueblo; señor; sisa; son; think; thought; tiago; time; victorina; voice; water; way; wife; woman; young cache: 27594.txt plain text: 27594.txt item: #186 of 722 id: 27690 author: Malot, Hector title: Nobody's Girl (En Famille) date: None words: 75396 flesch: 90 summary: Simultaneously, little Perrine and her mother uttered a cry. No, little Perrine was not a thief, nor a beggar, nor a vagabond. keywords: day; english; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; head; house; left; m. vulfran; man; maraucourt; matter; moment; monsieur; mother; night; palikare; perrine; place; road; room; rosalie; son; talouel; things; thought; time; voice; vulfran; want; way; woman; words; work cache: 27690.txt plain text: 27690.txt item: #187 of 722 id: 27711 author: Goncourt, Edmond de title: Germinie Lacerteux date: None words: 76665 flesch: 79 summary: The larger ones, ten years old at most, would stop and talk, like little women, at the _portes cochères_. The conclusion of her story was as follows: When little Germinie Lacerteux arrived in Paris, being then less than fifteen years old, her sister, desirous to have her begin to earn her living at once, and to help to put bread in her hand, obtained a place for her in a small café on the boulevard, where she performed the double duties of lady's maid to the mistress of the café and assistant to the waiters in carrying on the main business of the establishment. keywords: air; arms; bed; black; body; child; children; creature; day; days; dead; death; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; francs; germinie; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; jupillon; left; life; look; love; mademoiselle; maid; mind; mistress; moment; money; morning; mother; night; old; order; people; place; room; saw; shop; sort; street; things; thought; time; varandeuil; way; woman; words; work; years cache: 27711.txt plain text: 27711.txt item: #188 of 722 id: 27724 author: Gautier, Théophile title: The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 date: None words: 69349 flesch: 69 summary: XVIII Tahoser in vain awaited Pharaoh, and then reigned over Egypt. A swift army, practised to marching, goes faster than a migrating people which drags with it women, children, old men, baggage, and tents; so the distance was rapidly diminishing between the Egyptian troops and the Israelite tribes. keywords: arms; black; blue; body; cut; daughter; day; dead; dress; egypt; egyptian; end; evandale; eyes; face; feet; flowers; funeral; gods; gold; golden; granite; green; ground; hair; hand; head; heart; king; left; life; light; lines; lips; lord; love; man; men; mummy; nile; nofré; palace; pharaoh; poëri; ra'hel; red; room; rose; shape; sort; sun; tahoser; thamar; thought; time; walls; water; way; white; woman cache: 27724.txt plain text: 27724.txt item: #189 of 722 id: 27789 author: Souvestre, Pierre title: A Royal Prisoner date: None words: 51521 flesch: 84 summary: Scarcely had the ridiculous Wulf disappeared when Juve seized Fandor by the shoulder. Oh, M. Juve, what do you think? keywords: annion; christian; d'orsel; detective; door; fandor; fantômas; frederick; girl; good; hesse; juve; king; left; madame; majesty; man; marie; marquis; moment; monsieur; paris; pascal; place; right; room; royal; sire; susy; thought; time; way; weimar; wulf cache: 27789.txt plain text: 27789.txt item: #190 of 722 id: 27794 author: Allain, Marcel title: Fantômas date: None words: 102964 flesch: 81 summary: I fail to understand your attitude, young man. A sharp ring at the bell startled him from his chair, and not giving his man-servant time to answer it, he went himself to the door and took from a messenger a telegram which he hastily tore open and read: Have found in the Dordogne drowned body of young man, face unrecognisable, from description possibly Charles Rambert. keywords: beltham; charles; charles rambert; crime; day; detective; door; etienne; etienne rambert; eyes; face; fantômas; father; good; great; gurn; half; hand; head; juve; know; lady; lady beltham; langrune; left; little; m. rambert; magistrate; man; marquise; men; minutes; mme; moment; murderer; night; people; president; princess; rambert; room; sir; son; thought; thérèse; time; train; valgrand; way; woman; work; young cache: 27794.txt plain text: 27794.txt item: #191 of 722 id: 27872 author: Saintsbury, George title: A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century date: None words: 234182 flesch: 66 summary: It may remove some bars in their way; but I can frankly admit that I do not think it need definitely superinduce them, or that it is altogether fair to accumulate the _post hocs_ with their inevitable suggestion of _propter_. [510] In a novel by a contemporary of his, otherwise not worth notice, Sir Walter Scott was accused of _pruderie_ bête; I am sure the adjective and substantive are much better mated in my text. keywords: art; author; balzac; beauty; beginning; beyle; book; brother; business; case; century; chapter; character; charles; chateaubriand; chief; child; class; close; country; course; criticism; critics; daughter; day; days; de kock; de la; de paris; dead; deal; death; des; description; doubt; dumas; end; england; english; extent; fact; fair; family; fashion; father; fiction; fils; flaubert; form; france; french; friend; gautier; general; genius; george; girl; good; great; half; hand; having; hero; heroine; history; hope; house; hugo; human; husband; ill; importance; instance; interest; jean; kind; lady; later; les; letters; life; literature; little; long; love; m. de; madame; makes; making; man; manner; marriage; matter; maupassant; means; men; middle; modern; moment; mother; mérimée; nature; need; new; novel; novelist; order; original; pages; paris; passion; paul de; people; person; place; poetry; point; position; power; present; prose; purpose; quality; question; rate; read; reader; reading; real; reason; respect; right; romance; romantic; saint; sand; save; scene; scott; second; sense; set; shows; sidenote; society; somewhat; sort; stage; stories; story; style; subject; tale; thackeray; things; thought; time; title; treatment; verse; victor; vie; view; vigny; volume; want; way; ways; wife; woman; word; work; writer; writing; years; young; zola cache: 27872.txt plain text: 27872.txt item: #192 of 722 id: 27894 author: Verne, Jules title: The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love date: None words: 22039 flesch: 74 summary: Plunged in his reflections, Martin Paz hastened his steps to see the _saya_ of the young girl sweep the threshold of the paternal dwelling; and Sarah herself, half-opening then her mantilla, cast on him a bewildering glance of gratitude. Any other than the Indian, Martin Paz, would have, indeed, perished in the waters of the Rimac; to escape death, his surprising strength, his insurmountable will, and especially his sublime coolness, one of the privileges of the free hordes of the _pampas_ of the New World, had all been found necessary. keywords: andré; certa; city; daughter; day; don; don vegal; father; girl; hand; house; indian; jew; lima; man; martin paz; mestizo; mountains; sambo; samuel; sarah; spaniard; vegal; young cache: 27894.txt plain text: 27894.txt item: #193 of 722 id: 28076 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Original Short Stories, Complete, Volumes 1-13 An Index to All Stories date: None words: 363 flesch: 74 summary: This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. Then double-click on 28076-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named FILES to any name you wish, such as MAUPASSANT. keywords: directory cache: 28076.txt plain text: 28076.txt item: #194 of 722 id: 28093 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Confessions of Arsène Lupin date: None words: 68329 flesch: 86 summary: But you're suspicious as well: 'Why should that confounded Lupin hand the business over to me,' say you, 'instead of keeping it for himself, hunting down the murderer and rifling his pockets, if there was a robbery?' Was good old Lupin! keywords: arsène; baron; case; chief; day; doctor; door; dugrival; end; evening; eyes; face; farmer; father; floor; ganimard; good; hand; head; house; husband; inspector; know; left; look; lupin; man; matter; minutes; moment; money; people; place; right; room; son; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman cache: 28093.txt plain text: 28093.txt item: #195 of 722 id: 28209 author: Thomas, Bertha title: Famous Women: George Sand date: None words: 66258 flesch: 63 summary: Yet the book is not a child's book; it is _about_ children, but not for them. Madame Dupin _mère_ was living in a retired part of the country, in the very centre of France, on the little property of Nohant, which she had bought with what the Revolution had left her out of her late husband's fortune. keywords: art; artist; aurore; author; book; chapter; character; children; chopin; country; day; days; dudevant; dupin; family; france; french; friends; future; genius; george sand; good; having; head; heart; home; imagination; life; love; lélia; madame sand; mind; moment; mother; nature; new; nohant; novel; order; paris; people; place; poet; power; present; price; public; sand; self; social; society; son; spirit; story; study; thought; time; way; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 28209.txt plain text: 28209.txt item: #196 of 722 id: 28333 author: Allain, Marcel title: Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas date: None words: 94551 flesch: 82 summary: Just then an office boy appeared: Monsieur Fandor, you are being asked for at the telephone. This seemed to astonish Madame Marguerite considerably: But, Monsieur Fandor, if you wish to interview one of the puisne judges, it would be ten times quicker for you to go and see him at his own home: here, at the Palais, it's almost certain he will refuse to answer you.... Don't bother about that, Madame Marguerite! keywords: affair; barbey; baroness; cranajour; danidoff; day; dead; dear; dollon; door; elizabeth; elizabeth dollon; eyes; face; fandor; fantômas; find; good; hand; house; jacques; jacques dollon; journalist; jules; juve; jérôme fandor; know; left; madame; mademoiselle; magistrate; man; moment; monsieur; monsieur fandor; mother; nanteuil; nibet; police; poor; princess; room; rue; sonia; tell; thomery; thought; time; toulouche; vibray; voice; way; young cache: 28333.txt plain text: 28333.txt item: #197 of 722 id: 28480 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Frontier date: None words: 58940 flesch: 87 summary: Philippe Morestal, old Morestal's son, afraid of war! Philippe Morestal is right, monsieur. keywords: corbier; day; eyes; face; father; france; frontier; german; good; jorancé; look; love; man; marthe; mme; moment; monsieur; morestal; philippe; philippe morestal; right; road; room; saint; saw; suzanne; thought; time; voice; war; way; words; élophe cache: 28480.txt plain text: 28480.txt item: #198 of 722 id: 28488 author: Molière title: Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite date: None words: 18191 flesch: 94 summary: People always resent holy men. Orgon. Good God! keywords: cleante; damis; dear; dorine; elmire; god; good; heart; love; man; mariane; monsieur; orgon; pernelle; scene; tartuffe; valere cache: 28488.txt plain text: 28488.txt item: #199 of 722 id: 28657 author: Verne, Jules title: A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories date: None words: 67772 flesch: 78 summary: Marie rose with cries of despair, and hurried to the bed of old Jean Cornbutte. [Illustration: Marie rose with cries of despair, and hurried to the bed of old Jean Cornbutte.] keywords: air; andré; aubert; balloon; blanc; burgomaster; chapter; cold; cornbutte; counsellor; daughter; day; doctor; father; feet; gerande; good; hand; head; hour; house; ice; illustration; jean; left; life; little; louis; man; marie; master; moment; monsieur; mont; night; niklausse; penellan; place; quiquendone; rose; sailors; sea; ship; snow; thought; time; town; tricasse; van; vasling; wind; words; zacharius cache: 28657.txt plain text: 28657.txt item: #200 of 722 id: 28695 author: France, Anatole title: Our Children: Scenes from the Country and the Town date: None words: 6164 flesch: 87 summary: [Illustration] Here are little boys like knights of old, and little girls who are heroines. And Fanny goes out into the yard, where there are trees and grass and flowers and little birds. keywords: bread; day; fanny; france; good; grandmother; illustration; little; miss cache: 28695.txt plain text: 28695.txt item: #201 of 722 id: 28858 author: Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre title: The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition date: None words: 3806 flesch: 84 summary: Tailpiece 063a.jpg the Clerk Entreating Forgiveness of The President 063.jpg Page Image 072.jpg 063.jpg Page Image 070.jpg keywords: day; gentleman; husband; image; lady; page; prologue; tailpiece; tale; volume; wife cache: 28858.txt plain text: 28858.txt item: #202 of 722 id: 29004 author: Zola, Émile title: English Translations of Works of Emile Zola An Index to the Project Gutenberg Works of Zola in English date: None words: 1048 flesch: 93 summary: The Fortune of the Rougons INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII The Fat and the Thin INTRODUCTION THE FAT AND THE THIN CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI Therese Raquin PREFACE THERESE RAQUIN CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII L'Assommoir CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII The Dream CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII Nana and Others NANA CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CAPTAIN BURLE CHAPTER keywords: chapter; iii cache: 29004.txt plain text: 29004.txt item: #203 of 722 id: 29021 author: Perrault, Charles title: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault date: None words: 28534 flesch: 77 summary: The Queen said more than once to her son, in order to bring him to speak freely to her, that a young man must e'en take his pleasure; but he never dared to trust her with his secret; he feared her, tho' he loved her; for she was of the race of the Ogres, and the King would never have married her, had it not been for her vast riches; it was even whispered about the court, that she had Ogreish inclinations, and that, whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to refrain from falling upon them. Do ye know that this house belongs to a cruel Ogre, who eats up little children? Ah! dear Madam, answered Little Thumb (who trembled every joint of him, as well as his brothers) what shall we do? keywords: beard; bed; blue; children; cinderilla; day; fairy; father; illustration; king; love; man; mother; ogre; perrault; princess; queen; riquet; skin; son; time; way; wife; years cache: 29021.txt plain text: 29021.txt item: #204 of 722 id: 29029 author: Souvestre, Pierre title: A Nest of Spies date: None words: 101458 flesch: 83 summary: Monsieur Juve of the detective force: Colonel Hofferman, head of the Second Bureau. Is that your opinion, Colonel? Hofferman frankly replied: It is my opinion, Monsieur Juve. keywords: arrest; baron; bobinette; brocq; bureau; captain; car; colonel; commandant; corporal; day; de loubersac; de naarboveck; dear; death; detective; door; dumoulin; evening; eyes; face; fandor; fantômas; girl; good; hand; head; henri; house; journalist; juve; leave; lieutenant; look; loubersac; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; monsieur fandor; monsieur juve; naarboveck; nichoune; night; place; police; question; room; second; think; thought; time; vagualame; vinson; voice; way; wilhelmine; woman cache: 29029.txt plain text: 29029.txt item: #205 of 722 id: 29402 author: Various title: The French Immortals: Quotes and Images, Complete date: None words: 6581 flesch: 21 summary: Jules Caretie A ROMANCE OF YOUTH Francois Coppee FROMONT AND RISLER Alphonse Daudet CINQ MARS Alfred de Vigny M.M. AND BEBE Gustave Droz MONSIEUR DE CAMORS Octave Feuillet THE RED LILY Anatole France ABBE CONSTANTIN Ludovic Halevey CHRYSANTHEME Pierre Loti CONSCIENCE Hector Malot ZIBELINE Phillipe de Massa THE CHILD OF A CENTURY   Alfred de Musset SERGE PANINE   George Ohnet AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER   Emile Souvestre A WOODLAND QUEEN   Andre Theuriet THE INK STAIN, By Rene Bazin All that a name is to a street� its honor, its spouse Came not in single spies, but in battalions Distrust first impulse Felix culpa Happy men don't need company Hard that one can not live one's life over twice If trouble awaits us, hope will steal us a happy hour or two Lends�I should say gives Men forget sooner Natural only when alone, and talk well only to themselves Obstacles are the salt of all our joys One doesn't offer apologies to a man in his wrath People meeting to have it out usually say nothing at first Silence, alas! keywords: day; happiness; life; love; man; men; people; pleasure; things; time; women; world cache: 29402.txt plain text: 29402.txt item: #206 of 722 id: 29413 author: Verne, Jules title: The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras date: None words: 134455 flesch: 79 summary: You have a great deal of faith, Doctor. Very well, I shall be exhausted sooner than you think; and now, Shandon, if we can get a nearer view of this phenomenon, I should be the gladdest of doctors. keywords: air; altamont; american; bay; bears; bell; board; brig; captain; chapter; clawbonny; coast; cold; companions; crew; day; days; degrees; doctor; duke; end; fact; feet; forward; good; hatteras; hours; house; ice; illustration; island; johnson; land; latitude; left; man; men; miles; moment; morning; new; north; place; point; pole; right; sailors; sea; set; shandon; ship; sledge; snow; sound; temperature; thought; time; wall; water; way; wind; winter cache: 29413.txt plain text: 29413.txt item: #207 of 722 id: 29468 author: Paulson, Arvid title: The Story of Don Quixote date: None words: 95658 flesch: 69 summary: At last Don Quixote was ready to mount his hack, and they steered their beasts in the direction of Saragossa. CHAPTER XI OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF THE CORTES OF DEATH Sancho did his best to imbue his master with a new inspiration; for Don Quixote was a sorry sight as he was riding along on his hack. Then he succeeded in hoisting poor Don Quixote up on his donkey, which seemed the easiest mount for him, while he tied the pieces of his arms on Rocinante. keywords: adventure; barber; books; chapter; curate; day; day don; don antonio; don fernando; don luis; don quixote; don sancho; duchess; duke; dulcinea; end; errant; eyes; face; gave; gentleman; good; governor; hand; head; inn; knight; knight don; knight errant; lady; life; love; man; mancha; master; master don; men; moment; read; rocinante; sancho; sancho panza; set; squire; squire sancho; story; thought; time; village; way; wife; words; world cache: 29468.txt plain text: 29468.txt item: #208 of 722 id: 29521 author: Gautier, Théophile title: Enamels and Cameos and other Poems date: None words: 14681 flesch: 87 summary: Envious of Art, fair Nature wrought To overpass Murillo's fame,-- From Andalusia here she brought The face that lights the second frame. Wilt serve unto my love, And be my love's own wings? O, but we 're like, poor heart! keywords: beauty; blue; day; dove; dream; eyes; face; fair; flowers; form; gleam; grace; hand; hath; heart; high; life; light; lips; love; marble; pale; red; rose; sea; set; snow; song; soul; sun; sweet; thou; white; wild cache: 29521.txt plain text: 29521.txt item: #209 of 722 id: 29577 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: Mayflower (Flor de mayo): A Tale of the Valencian Seashore date: None words: 63811 flesch: 87 summary: The wife of Pascualo _el Retor_, besides, a good-natured fat-head who ate out of her hand and never dared peep inside his own house; but all there, when it came to making a living out of the sea--a pot of money, earned, every cent of it, by good, honest, straightforward fishing. But you're going to see, Rosario, and this whole town is going to see, how Pascualo _el llanut_ goes about things like this! No, Pascualo, no, begged Rosario, seizing him by his powerful hands. keywords: beach; black; boat; boy; boys; brother; cabañal; day; deck; dolores; eyes; face; fish; garbosa; girl; god; good; hand; head; home; house; husband; life; line; look; man; mayflower; men; mind; mother; night; pascualet; pascualo; people; place; rector; red; rosario; roseta; sailors; sea; shore; siñá; talk; tavern; things; thought; time; tio; tona; tonet; town; water; way; white; wind; women; world cache: 29577.txt plain text: 29577.txt item: #210 of 722 id: 29894 author: Sue, Eugène title: A Romance of the West Indies date: None words: 116105 flesch: 75 summary: This unhappy man, thought the chevalier, has not the slightest idea of the danger he runs; it is a pity to disabuse his blindness; it is like striking a child; it is snaring a sitting pheasant; it is killing a sleeping man; on the honor of De Croustillac, it gives me scruples. her wine is so good, her service so fine, her servants so attentive--if she is worth three or four millions, I consent to take the risk my predecessors did, and to make the widow happy, on the honor of De Croustillac! keywords: adventurer; air; angela; beard; blue; buccaneer; captain; chemerant; chevalier; cliff; colonel; croustillac; day; de chemerant; devil; duke; end; eyes; face; father; friend; frigate; gascon; good; governor; griffen; hand; head; highness; house; husband; james; king; left; life; lord; love; madame; man; master; moment; monmouth; night; order; place; priest; room; rutler; secret; sir; speak; spite; surprise; thought; time; widow; wife; wish; woman; words cache: 29894.txt plain text: 29894.txt item: #211 of 722 id: 29916 author: Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de title: Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. date: None words: 128105 flesch: 66 summary: The issue of a few days will determine, and then if the result be favorable, I may safely welcome the return of Don Lope Gomez Arias. I beg your pardon, Don Lope Gomez Arias, responded the valet, with most ludicrous solemnity, but I am firmly resolved to quit your service in good earnest; for I perceive you are bent on getting into new difficulties, and I feel no inclination to go in search of fresh adventures. keywords: aguilar; alonso; answered; appearance; arms; cause; cañeri; chief; christian; continued; countenance; country; courage; danger; daughter; day; dear; death; don; don alonso; don antonio; don lope; don manuel; don rodrigo; duenna; emotion; eyes; fate; father; features; feelings; feri; girl; gomez arias; good; granada; ground; hand; heart; honor; hope; lady; left; leonor; life; look; lope gomez; love; malique; man; manner; master; means; mind; moment; monteblanco; moors; nature; night; object; place; power; present; queen; renegade; roque; señor; state; thee; theodora; thou; thy; time; tone; unfortunate; valet; voice; way; woman; words; young cache: 29916.txt plain text: 29916.txt item: #212 of 722 id: 2992 author: Molière title: The Middle-Class Gentleman date: None words: 18753 flesch: 90 summary: ACT THREE SCENE VI (Monsieur Jourdain, Madame Jourdain, Dorante, Nicole) MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: MADAME JOURDAIN: Don't you intend, one of these days, to go to school and have yourself whipped at your age? MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: keywords: cleonte; covielle; dancing; dancing master; dorante; lucile; madame jourdain; man; master; monsieur jourdain; music; music master; nicole; philosophy; philosophy master; sir cache: 2992.txt plain text: 2992.txt item: #213 of 722 id: 30012 author: Rostand, Edmond title: L'Aiglon date: None words: 36074 flesch: 95 summary: FANNY _quickly leaves the_ DUKE _and speaks respectfully after making a profound curtsey._] My Lord! THE DUKE. [_Throwing himself on the_ DUKE _and stopping him. keywords: archduchess; attaché; bombelles; countess; dietrichstein; duke; emperor; eyes; fanny; father; flambeau; france; gentz; good; hand; lackey; left; look; lord; louisa; love; man; maria; maria louisa; marmont; mask; metternich; night; obenaus; prince; prokesch; sedlinzky; sir; son; tailor; theresa; tiburtius; tis; voice; yes; young cache: 30012.txt plain text: 30012.txt item: #214 of 722 id: 30123 author: Voltaire title: Micromegas date: None words: 7737 flesch: 76 summary: Voltaire's lengthy correspondences do not contain anything that might indicate the period in which _Micromegas_ was published. Micromegas_ is directed against Fontenelle; but does not speak of the date of publication. keywords: dwarf; earth; feet; micromegas; nature; planet; saturn; sirian; soul; time cache: 30123.txt plain text: 30123.txt item: #215 of 722 id: 30236 author: Valera, Juan title: Pepita Ximenez date: None words: 67833 flesch: 69 summary: On beholding Don Luis one could not but confess that Pepita Ximenez was aesthetic by instinct. Don Luis, as if the devil himself had had the arrangement of the matter, found himself face to face with the count, who was speaking as follows: She's a cunning one, this same Pepita Ximenez, with more fancies and whims than the Princess Micomicona. keywords: antoñona; beauty; count; country; day; desire; don; don luis; eyes; father; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; house; leave; life; love; making; man; mind; moment; mother; nature; night; order; pepita; pepita ximenez; place; power; present; priest; purpose; reverend; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; vicar; village; woman; words; world; years cache: 30236.txt plain text: 30236.txt item: #216 of 722 id: 30278 author: Rizal, José title: Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' date: None words: 90370 flesch: 85 summary: When a man as judge condemns another to death or destroys his future forever, he does it with impunity and makes use of the force of other men to carry out his sentence. Listen, priests, judges, you who think yourselves different from other men, and who claim other rights for yourselves! keywords: alcalde; alferez; aunt; body; captain; chapter; clara; country; crisostomo; curate; day; dead; don; doña; dámaso; elias; excellency; eyes; face; father; father dámaso; god; good; government; half; hand; head; house; husband; ibarra; life; linares; little; look; love; man; maria; mother; night; order; people; place; priest; salví; san; school; señor; son; think; thought; tiago; time; town; voice; water; way; woman; young cache: 30278.txt plain text: 30278.txt item: #217 of 722 id: 30442 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: Letters from My Windmill date: None words: 48572 flesch: 86 summary: She turned round slowly and revealed a pitiful peasant's face, wrinkled, cracked, earth coloured, and framed in long strands of brownish lace, like old women wear hereabouts. That's old people for you! keywords: --oh; air; blue; day; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; farm; father; fine; goat; good; grass; hands; head; house; left; life; like; look; man; men; mistral; monsieur; morning; mother; mule; night; open; paris; people; place; poor; pope; red; road; room; round; sea; seguin; sky; table; thought; time; trees; water; way; white; wind; windmill; wine; years cache: 30442.txt plain text: 30442.txt item: #218 of 722 id: 30586 author: Allain, Marcel title: The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales date: None words: 56258 flesch: 87 summary: Juve seized Fandor by the arm. The old woman who, a few moments before, had been dozing, now quickly sprang out of bed, and, tearing off her bandages, revealed the placid features of detective Juve. keywords: beard; beltham; chaleck; detective; dixon; doctor; door; end; fandor; fantômas; floor; good; hand; head; house; josephine; journalist; juve; lady; left; look; loupart; m. juve; man; men; michel; moment; place; police; right; room; rue; sir; thought; time; valgrand; voice; way; woman; young cache: 30586.txt plain text: 30586.txt item: #219 of 722 id: 30596 author: Maurois, André title: General Bramble date: None words: 26358 flesch: 78 summary: How the deuce did you see, old man, that my breeches were laced at the side? Then, in a corner of a ruined village, they had come across a green felt hat and a fearsome moustache, which turned out reassuringly to belong to a rocking, tottering old man; and the Tommies--who are a primitive and adventurous race--were glad of the protection of this wild old totem of the Frankish tribe. keywords: army; aurelle; barefoot; beltara; bramble; british; church; colonel; colonel parker; course; day; doctor; dundas; england; english; french; friend; general; good; king; left; major; man; men; messiou; order; painter; parker; right; sir; thought; time; war; work; years cache: 30596.txt plain text: 30596.txt item: #220 of 722 id: 30794 author: Unknown title: The Princess of Ponthieu (in) The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository date: None words: 11428 flesch: 55 summary: Thibault who had not ventured to lift his eyes upon her while they were before the Sultan, now endeavoured to discover, with the nicest penetration, her beauties; which the thin gauze, of which her veil was made, did not altogether conceal. There has not passed one day in the nine years I have been married to the Sultan, on which I have not talked of my dear Thibault to the faithful Sayda, with a torrent of tears. keywords: count; daughter; love; ponthieu; princess; queen; sultan; thibault; thought; time cache: 30794.txt plain text: 30794.txt item: #221 of 722 id: 31056 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: The Grandee date: None words: 96061 flesch: 80 summary: The kind greeting of her old _fiancé_ had suddenly awoke all her recollections, all her illusions, and all the joys and sorrows of old times that slumbered in the depth of her soul like birds amid the leaves of a tree. At other times she took a knife and said her death had come, and told her to turn down her nightgown so that she could cut her throat easier. keywords: amalia; antonio; away; baron; child; count; creature; daughter; day; days; don; door; eyes; face; fact; father; fernanda; friends; garnet; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; josefina; lady; lancia; left; life; lips; long; look; looking; love; luis; making; man; manin; manuel; maria; mind; paco; pedro; people; place; quiñones; room; servant; señor; smile; thought; time; tone; town; voice; way; words; years cache: 31056.txt plain text: 31056.txt item: #222 of 722 id: 31288 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Conscript: A Story of the French war of 1813 date: None words: 60467 flesch: 83 summary: When he passed through Champagne, or Lorraine, or Alsace, people gathering the harvest or the vintage would leave everything to run and see him; women, children, and old men would come a distance of eight or ten leagues to line his route, and cheer and cry, _Vive l'Empereur! Vive l'Empereur!_ The poor villagers, women, children, and old men, came and went with sorrowful faces. keywords: arms; aunt; battle; catharine; city; cold; day; emperor; end; enemy; eyes; fire; god; goulden; grédel; hand; head; home; joseph; left; man; march; men; moment; monsieur; morning; near; night; people; prussians; river; road; sergeant; soldiers; thought; time; village; way; zébédé cache: 31288.txt plain text: 31288.txt item: #223 of 722 id: 31289 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: Waterloo: A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 date: None words: 77988 flesch: 81 summary: All along the road, in the little gardens, women and old men, everybody, were at work, digging, planting, and watering. The great plains of Champagne with the smoking villages to the right and to the left, where the women, children, and old men were wandering about in groups, half naked, one carrying a miserable old mattress, another with a few pieces of furniture on his cart, while the snow was falling from the sky, and the cannon roared in the distance, and the Cossacks were flying about like the wind with kitchen utensils and even old clocks hanging to their saddles, shouting hurrah! keywords: arms; aunt; battalion; battle; buche; cannon; catherine; commandant; country; day; emperor; english; eyes; father; father goulden; fire; good; goulden; grédel; guard; half; head; joseph; left; man; men; moment; morning; o'clock; officers; order; people; prussians; rear; right; road; saw; soldiers; think; thought; time; village; work; zébédé cache: 31289.txt plain text: 31289.txt item: #224 of 722 id: 31542 author: Rolland, Romain title: Pierre and Luce date: None words: 22268 flesch: 88 summary: Poor Pierre!... And if he happens to be delicate in character, tender of heart and frail as to body in the way Pierre was, he experiences a disgust and horror which he does not dare confide to others for all these brutalities, these nastinesses, all this nonsense of fruitful and devouring nature--this breeding sow that gobbles up her litter of pigs. keywords: air; brother; day; death; eyes; girl; good; hands; head; heart; life; lips; look; love; luce; order; people; philip; pierre; right; thought; time; war; way cache: 31542.txt plain text: 31542.txt item: #225 of 722 id: 31565 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions date: None words: 1172 flesch: 58 summary: The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) The Alkahest, The Quest of the Absolute (La Recherche de l'Absolu) Christ in Flanders (Jesus-Christ en Flandre) The Purse (La Bourse) Vendetta (La Vendetta) Madame Firmiani (Mme. Firmiani) keywords: les; scenes; vie cache: 31565.txt plain text: 31565.txt item: #226 of 722 id: 31662 author: Zamacois, Eduardo title: Their Son; The Necklace date: None words: 35601 flesch: 87 summary: Not for one instant did it occur to him that these grave, rich gentlemen--old men who never win the favors of the demi-monde along the flowery path of real affection--might be envying his beauty and his youth. Many men have sown wild oats in their youth till they have tired of them, and have in riper years become model husbands, applied themselves to business and died leaving millions. keywords: alicia; amadeo; berlanga; boy; darlés; day; don; engineer; enrique; eyes; face; good; kind; life; look; love; man; manolo; manuel; men; necklace; new; night; rafaela; room; silversmith; student; thought; time; way; wife; woman; years; zureda cache: 31662.txt plain text: 31662.txt item: #227 of 722 id: 31752 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Gold Sickle; Or, Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul date: None words: 25700 flesch: 81 summary: These are, no doubt, the heads of enemies who have been killed by your fathers, friend Joel? With us, in olden days, friend Joel, these trophies were also preserved, but preserved in cedar oil when they were the heads of a hostile chieftain. keywords: armel; daughter; druids; family; father; friend; gaul; guest; head; hena; hesus; isle; joel; julyan; man; margarid; mother; new; romans; sen; son; story; stranger; traveler; war; wife cache: 31752.txt plain text: 31752.txt item: #228 of 722 id: 31759 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Infant's Skull; Or, The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium date: None words: 21333 flesch: 80 summary: Closely pursued from various sides by the serfs of the castle, Yvon made several doublings in the yard in order to escape his tormentors, but perceiving Marceline, who, standing upon the first step of the turret stairs that she was about to ascend, contemplated the idiot with pity, he ran towards the young girl, and throwing himself at her feet said joining his hands: Pardon me, Marceline, but protect poor Yvon against these wicked people! Climb the stairs quick! Last year he caused the poisoning of your father by Queen Imma and her accomplice the bishop of Laon; to-day he caused you to be poisoned by Blanche, your wife, and to-morrow the Count of Paris will be King! Louis understood what Yvon was saying, although his mind was beclouded by the approach of death. keywords: blanche; calf; chapter; day; death; end; eyes; family; father; forester; hugh; idiot; king; louis; marceline; new; paris; queen; seigneur; serf; wife; world; year; yvon cache: 31759.txt plain text: 31759.txt item: #229 of 722 id: 31782 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres date: None words: 84655 flesch: 81 summary: I accept, good old man! Is it craziness or cowardly terror on the part of those priests? It is unbridled ambition and inveterate cupidity, good old man. keywords: arms; bear; bishop; bishopess; brother; burg; cautin; chram; clotaire; count; day; death; eyes; family; father; fire; frankish; franks; gaul; god; gold; good; great; hands; head; hermit; holy; house; karadeucq; king; knees; left; leudes; life; lord; loysik; man; master; men; mother; neroweg; night; odille; order; people; ronan; seigneur; slaves; son; sons; time; vagres; voice; wife; women; years cache: 31782.txt plain text: 31782.txt item: #230 of 722 id: 32527 author: Florian title: The adventures of Alphonso and Marina: An Interesting Spanish Tale date: None words: 5211 flesch: 69 summary: The governor, informed of the exploits of Don Alphonso, loaded him with praises and caresses; but Marina, requesting to be heard, declared to the governor in presence of the whole village, her sex; giving, at the same time, a relation of her adventures, the death of the bravo by Don Alphonso, and the circumstances which rendered him excusable. Marina, whose thoughts were continually employed on her lover, had sent a shepherd, in whom she could confide, to Granada, to procure information concerning Don Alphonso, Alonzo, and Henriquez. keywords: alcaid; alphonso; don; don alphonso; henriquez; lover; marina; time cache: 32527.txt plain text: 32527.txt item: #231 of 722 id: 32596 author: France, Anatole title: The Revolt of the Angels date: None words: 74286 flesch: 74 summary: It seemed to Bouchotte that she had known Monsieur Maurice d'Esparvieu for a long time, and holding him for a man of delicacy, she gave him her confidence. Hereupon Théophile came in, and Bouchotte called upon him to thank Monsieur Maurice d'Esparvieu, who had been amiable enough to be the bearer of a handsome offer from Madame la Comtesse de la Verdelière. keywords: abbé; angel; arcade; arms; aubels; beauty; books; bouchotte; chapter; church; d'esparvieu; day; days; des; earth; eyes; face; fire; france; friend; gaétan; gilberte; god; good; guardian; guinardon; hand; head; heart; heaven; house; ialdabaoth; istar; left; library; life; look; love; madame; man; maurice; maurice d'esparvieu; men; mind; moment; monsieur; monsieur sariette; morning; nature; night; order; people; place; prince; rené; room; sariette; son; spirit; table; things; thought; théophile; time; voice; war; way; woman; work; world; young; zita cache: 32596.txt plain text: 32596.txt item: #232 of 722 id: 32743 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Silver Cross; Or, The Carpenter of Nazareth date: None words: 39556 flesch: 74 summary: The pharisee, standing up, thus prayed to himself: My God, I thank thee for that I am not as other men, who are thieves, unjust, adulterers, who indeed are like the publican I see there. The soldiers hastened in a tumult, seeing, from the light of the torches, several men; some still reclining, others rising, others again on their feet, rushed upon them, menacing them with their swords and sticks, for some were only armed with sticks, and all cried out: 'Where is the Nazarene? keywords: aurelia; caiphus; crowd; day; death; friend; genevieve; god; house; jane; jesus; law; man; master; men; nazarene; nazareth; pilate; pontius; poor; seigneur; slave; soldiers; son; time; voice; words cache: 32743.txt plain text: 32743.txt item: #233 of 722 id: 32972 author: Verne, Jules title: Round the World in Eighty Days date: None words: 58212 flesch: 80 summary: As Mr. Fogg was leaving the station a policeman approached him, and said, Mr. Phileas Fogg, is it not? It is, replied Phileas. And how is your master, Mr. Phileas Fogg? Oh, quite well, and as punctual to his time as ever; but Mr. Fix, you do not know that we have got a young lady with us. keywords: aouda; bank; board; bombay; club; day; days; detective; english; fix; fogg; francis; great; guide; half; hong; hours; journey; kong; lady; left; london; man; master; miles; minutes; moment; mrs; o'clock; partout; passe; passengers; past; phileas fogg; place; pounds; sea; servant; sir; steamer; thought; time; train; way; world cache: 32972.txt plain text: 32972.txt item: #234 of 722 id: 33021 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Carlovingian Coins; Or, The Daughters of Charlemagne A Tale of the Ninth Century date: None words: 43712 flesch: 77 summary: Is that great Emperor, whose name fills the world, surrounded by a court where nothing is thought of but dainties and gluttony? Limping, and leaning on his cane, the Emperor moved towards the door, making a sign to the others to follow; but stopping short at the threshold, he turned to Octave: You, go to Hugh, my Master of the Hounds, and notify him that I shall hunt deer in the forest of Oppenheim. keywords: abbot; amael; breton; brittany; charles; country; daughters; day; emperor; eyes; forest; frankish; franks; gaul; good; grandfather; grandson; great; hand; head; horse; lad; left; louis; man; moment; morvan; night; octave; order; palace; people; pious; thetralde; thou; time; vortigern; war; young cache: 33021.txt plain text: 33021.txt item: #235 of 722 id: 33062 author: Saintsbury, George title: A Short History of French Literature date: None words: 235593 flesch: 65 summary: She lived chiefly, and latterly almost wholly, at Nohant, being greatly attached to the country; and she wrote many charming sketches of country life with felicitous introduction of _patois_, such as _La Mare au Diable_, _François le Champi_, _La Petite Fadette_. Le Temple de Cupido_, an early work of _rhétoriqueur_ character for the most part, in dizains of ten and eight syllables alternately, a Dialogue of two Lovers, an Eclogue to the King; _L'Enfer_, a vigorous and picturesque description of his imprisonment in the Châtelet, and some poems bearing a strong Huguenot impression. keywords: a. de; academy; account; adam de; ages; appearance; appears; art; arthurian; artificial; attempt; attention; author; beginning; bien; boileau; book; bossuet; case; centuries; century; certain; chanson de; chansons; chapter; character; characteristics; charles; chief; church; class; collection; comedy; comic; composition; contemporaries; contemporary; corneille; country; course; court; criticism; critics; date; day; days; de france; de la; de maistre; de paris; de saint; de sévigné; deal; death; degree; des; description; diderot; doubt; dramatist; duke de; early; edition; eighteenth; end; england; english; et de; et la; example; excellence; expression; extent; extreme; f. de; fact; faculty; family; farce; fashion; father; fiction; fifteenth; fontaine; form; fortune; fourteenth; france; françois; french; general; genius; good; great; guillaume; half; hand; head; henri; historical; history; hugo; idea; importance; inferior; influence; interest; italian; jean de; joseph de; kind; king; language; latin; length; les; letters; life; lines; literature; louis; love; m. de; madame de; mademoiselle de; malherbe; man; manner; marie de; marot; master; means; mediaeval; memoirs; men; mention; mere; merit; middle; model; molière; montaigne; moral; movement; names; narrative; nature; new; notice; novelist; number; order; original; paris; passages; passion; period; persons; philosophy; pieces; pierre; place; plays; pléiade; poems; poet; poetry; point; politics; popularity; position; pour; power; present; principal; proper; prose; provençal; quant; que; question; qui; rabelais; racine; range; rank; raoul de; renaissance; renart; reputation; result; revolution; robert de; roman; romances; ronsard; rousseau; saint; satire; school; second; sense; series; set; seventeenth; sidenote; sixteenth; social; society; son; spirit; stage; study; style; subject; success; sui; sur; talent; tales; tendency; things; thirteenth; thought; time; title; tongue; tragedy; use; value; variety; verse; victor; view; vigour; vols; voltaire; volume; vos; vous; way; wit; words; work; writer; writing; years; young cache: 33062.txt plain text: 33062.txt item: #236 of 722 id: 33114 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Iron Pincers; or, Mylio and Karvel: A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades date: None words: 45229 flesch: 81 summary: Morise interrupts her labors, remains thoughtful for a moment and, contemplating one of the copper vases which is rather more rounded than the rest, smiles and says to her husband: That copper vase reminds me of the capers of poor Mylio, your brother. Immediately Karvel the Perfect steps in, he advances towards his brother with a smile of ineffable tenderness, and pointing with his finger at the knights who are holding Mylio addresses Montfort: What! keywords: abbot; alyx; brother; carcassonne; child; children; church; court; crusaders; day; death; eyes; florette; friend; god; good; goose; hands; heart; heretics; karvel; know; lady; languedoc; lavaur; life; love; man; marphise; men; moment; montfort; mylio; order; perfect; priests; reynier; skin; son; sword; trouvere; voice; war; wife; women; words cache: 33114.txt plain text: 33114.txt item: #237 of 722 id: 33244 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: Maximina date: None words: 115763 flesch: 79 summary: Come now; imagine that I am a guest coming this very moment.... (_Miguel went to the anteroom and came back again, making low bows_). Good afternoon, Don Miguel, said the boat-woman, showing genuine joy in her face, where the fires of alcohol were flaming more than ever brilliantly; I was beginning to think that I should not see you again. keywords: afternoon; alfonso; aunt; bed; child; cousin; day; days; don; don miguel; door; dress; enrique; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; idea; juana; julia; leave; life; look; love; madrid; making; man; matter; maximina; mendoza; miguel; mind; moment; mother; open; place; present; reason; right; rivera; room; saavedra; saying; señor; sister; smile; son; thing; thought; time; uncle; utrilla; voice; way; wife; woman; words; world cache: 33244.txt plain text: 33244.txt item: #238 of 722 id: 33274 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Abbatial Crosier; or, Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess date: None words: 42507 flesch: 81 summary: Tell us, young man, whether we still have a long way to ride before we reach the abbey of Meriadek. There we heard other slaves crying that the dikes had burst. keywords: abbess; abbey; amael; apprentices; aër; berthoald; bonaik; charles; chief; convent; day; eloi; eyes; face; father; god; goldsmith; good; hands; intendant; jew; man; men; meroflede; mother; night; ricarik; rosen; seigneur; septimine; slaves; son; time; voice cache: 33274.txt plain text: 33274.txt item: #239 of 722 id: 33386 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Tremendous Event date: None words: 57955 flesch: 84 summary: Through the fray Simon saw Dolores, sitting erect on a horse all covered with foam. And you, Simon? Simon Dubosc did not reply. keywords: antonio; arms; bakefield; day; dieppe; dolores; dubosc; eyes; face; father; forsetta; girl; gold; great; ground; hand; head; indian; isabel; left; life; little; lord; love; man; miss; moment; new; right; rolleston; sand; saw; sea; simon; simon dubosc; thought; time; water; way; woman; wreck; young cache: 33386.txt plain text: 33386.txt item: #240 of 722 id: 3339 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 01 date: None words: 51494 flesch: 78 summary: And to think, good Dagobert, that you wash almost every evening at our resting-place. My father, who is still foreman at Mr. Hardy's, tells me that worthy man has also taken into his house the son of old Dagobert. keywords: air; black; blanche; burgomaster; children; dagobert; day; death; dog; door; eyes; face; father; gabriel; general; girls; goliath; good; hand; head; horse; jovial; letter; man; moment; morok; mother; night; orphans; paris; prophet; rodin; rose; saw; silence; sister; soldier; time; voice; white; window; words cache: 3339.txt plain text: 3339.txt item: #241 of 722 id: 3340 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 02 date: None words: 68082 flesch: 74 summary: There are here, you see, mothers who in their misery sell their own daughters--slaves that are scourged--men that carry other men, like beasts of burden.--Brothers, the good work will prosper in this country! Yes, in this country--and in every land of oppression, distress, corruption, and slavery. Are there not other men, on whom you can avenge yourself! keywords: adrienne; agricola; bailiff; black; blacksmith; bunch; cardoville; dagobert; day; dear; djalma; door; eyes; father; frances; gabriel; general; georgette; girl; good; half; hands; heart; house; indian; lady; letter; look; madame; man; moment; morning; mother; paris; poor; right; rodin; room; rose; simon; sir; son; tell; time; wife; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 3340.txt plain text: 3340.txt item: #242 of 722 id: 3341 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 03 date: None words: 57940 flesch: 74 summary: A man of the world, who joined great courage to rare independence of spirit, speaking of the princess (to whom Adrienne de Cardoville went, according to her expression, to fight a pitched battle), said of her as follows: In order to avoid having Madame de Saint-Dizier for an enemy, I, who am neither bashful nor cowardly, have, for the first time in my life, been both a noodle and a coward. Let us mention, at last, that the Prince of Saint-Dizier, having died many years since, his very large personal fortune had descended to his younger brother, the father of Adrienne de Cardoville; and he, having died eighteen months ago, that young lady found herself to be the last and only representative of that branch of the family of the Renneponts. keywords: abbe; adrienne; baleinier; cardoville; d'aigrigny; dagobert; day; dear; dizier; doctor; door; father; frances; girl; good; grivois; hand; house; madame; man; marquis; mdlle; moment; mother; mrs; princess; rose; saint; sir; time; voice; wife; woman; words cache: 3341.txt plain text: 3341.txt item: #243 of 722 id: 3342 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 04 date: None words: 47353 flesch: 77 summary: how good you are! said poor Mother Bunch, for she was not aware of the thousand devices of the monastic spirit, and thought herself already sure of gaining just wages honorably. Do not think that, M. Dagobert, said Mother Bunch. keywords: adrienne; agricola; bacchanal; bunch; cardoville; cephyse; convent; dagobert; day; dear; door; eyes; father; florine; girl; good; hand; house; jacques; man; mdlle; mother; mother bunch; place; queen; rose; sister; soldier; son; superior; time; yes cache: 3342.txt plain text: 3342.txt item: #244 of 722 id: 3343 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 date: None words: 38823 flesch: 70 summary: Since the Revolution of July, Father d'Aigrigny had thought proper to remove for the moment to this temporary habitation all the secret archives and correspondence of his Order--a prudent measure, since he had every reason to fear that the reverend fathers would be expelled by the state from that magnificent establishment, with which the restoration had so liberally endowed their society. In spite of his usual impassibility, Rodin appeared visibly uneasy and absent in mind; he answered even more briefly than usual to the commands and questions of Father d'Aigrigny, who had but just entered the room. keywords: company; day; dear; door; eyes; family; faringhea; father; father d'aigrigny; francois; gabriel; great; half; house; life; man; moment; notary; priest; rennepont; rodin; room; saint; samuel; sir; society; son; time; words; years cache: 3343.txt plain text: 3343.txt item: #245 of 722 id: 3344 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 06 date: None words: 46715 flesch: 74 summary: Then he said to her good-naturedly, Who do you want, my dear? M. Rodin, repeated Rose-Pompon, stoutly, opening her bright blue eyes to their full extent, and looking Rodin full in the face. de Cardoville Rodin continued, with a grave and agitated air: Your blindness frightens me, my dear, young lady; the past should have given you some anxiety for the future, since, more than any one, you have already suffered from the fatal influence of this Company, whose existence you regard as a dream! keywords: abbe; adrienne; baleinier; cardoville; d'aigrigny; dagobert; day; dear; door; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; house; jesuit; lady; madame; magistrate; man; marshal; mdlle; moment; mother; pompon; rodin; rose; simon; sir; words; young cache: 3344.txt plain text: 3344.txt item: #246 of 722 id: 3345 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 07 date: None words: 43925 flesch: 74 summary: Oh God! said M. Hardy, drawing back in horror: he makes no answer! Since I am in presence of M. de Blessac, resumed Rodin, I am forced to ask him, if he can deny having addressed many letters to the Rue du Milieu des Ursins, at Paris under cover of M. Rodin. A carriage with post horses, in which was M. Hardy, with M. de Blessac, the unworthy friend who was betraying him in so infamous a manner, entered at this moment the courtyard of the factory. keywords: adrienne; agricola; angela; bunch; cardoville; day; dear; djalma; eyes; factory; father; florine; friend; girl; good; hardy; heart; house; know; love; madame; man; mdlle; mother; prince; rodin; room; think; time; words; workmen; young cache: 3345.txt plain text: 3345.txt item: #247 of 722 id: 3346 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 08 date: None words: 34952 flesch: 76 summary: He saw that between Adrienne de Cardoville and M. de Montbron, he was about to be placed in what is vulgarly termed a regular fix. This evasive question gave Adrienne time to recover her self-possession. keywords: adrienne; box; cardoville; count; day; dear; death; djalma; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; heart; house; lady; love; man; marshal; mdlle; moment; montbron; morok; pompon; prince; rodin; rose; sir; time; voice cache: 3346.txt plain text: 3346.txt item: #248 of 722 id: 3347 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 09 date: None words: 46941 flesch: 74 summary: And therefore, resumed Father d'Aigrigny, Father Rodin only reproached me with the military roughness of my means. Thank you, M. Rousselet, said Father d'Aigrigny; do you know at what hour Dr. Baleinier will return? He will not be long, father, for he wishes to perform before night the painful operation, that will have a decisive effect on the condition of Father Rodin. keywords: baleinier; cardinal; cephyse; cholera; countenance; crowd; death; doctor; door; eminence; eyes; face; father; father d'aigrigny; father rodin; gabriel; good; hand; head; jacques; life; lord; man; moment; morok; prelate; princess; quarryman; reverend; right; rodin; room; sister; time; voice; words cache: 3347.txt plain text: 3347.txt item: #249 of 722 id: 3348 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 10 date: None words: 45410 flesch: 75 summary: No less embarrassed than her cousin, Adrienne de Cardoville remained seated. cried Adrienne de Cardoville, with deep joy.. keywords: adrienne; agricola; cardoville; dagobert; day; djalma; door; eyes; father; good; happiness; hardy; heart; know; lady; lord; love; man; marshal; mdlle; moment; mother; pompon; prince; rodin; rose; sir; young cache: 3348.txt plain text: 3348.txt item: #250 of 722 id: 3349 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Wandering Jew — Volume 11 date: None words: 49189 flesch: 76 summary: Without satisfying his curiosity, Faringhea replied: At what hour to morrow does Father Rodin go to the Rue Saint Francois? Very early. Do not, at all events, forget to remind Father Rodin to go to chapel to-morrow morning. keywords: adrienne; blanche; d'aigrigny; dagobert; day; dear; death; djalma; door; eyes; face; faringhea; father; good; half; hand; heart; lady; lord; love; man; marshal; moment; princess; rodin; room; rose; saint; sister; thought; time; voice; words; young cache: 3349.txt plain text: 3349.txt item: #251 of 722 id: 33516 author: Verne, Jules title: Abandoned date: None words: 68205 flesch: 74 summary: You are going to enter the service of Captain Cyrus Harding? Another respondent grunt was uttered by the ape. The Return -- Discussion -- Cyrus Harding and the Stranger -- Port Balloon -- The Engineer's Devotion -- A touching Incident -- Tears flow 166 CHAPTER XVI A Mystery to be cleared up -- The Stranger's first Words -- Twelve Years on the Islet -- Avowal which escapes him -- The Disappearance -- Cyrus Harding's Confidence -- Construction of a Mill -- The first Bread -- An Act of Devotion -- Honest Hands 176 CHAPTER XVII Still alone -- The Stranger's Request -- keywords: -the; ayrton; boat; bonadventure; captain; coast; colonists; companions; corral; cyrus; cyrus harding; day; engineer; forest; gideon; good; granite; granite house; harding; herbert; house; illustration; island; jup; left; lincoln; man; mercy; miles; neb; new; night; pencroft; reporter; sailor; sea; settlers; shore; spilett; stranger; tabor; time; trees; vessel; water; work cache: 33516.txt plain text: 33516.txt item: #252 of 722 id: 33575 author: Goldoni, Carlo title: The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern date: None words: 68751 flesch: 97 summary: _Ger._ Go slowly. Count _and_ keywords: ang; baron; candida; coronato; cot; count; crispino; dal; daughter; dear; evarist; exit; fan; father; friend; gas; geltrude; ger; gian; goldoni; good; heart; house; love; man; mar; marq; nina; phil; scene; signor; sir; susanna; time; want; wish cache: 33575.txt plain text: 33575.txt item: #253 of 722 id: 33609 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: Marguerite de Valois date: None words: 204191 flesch: 84 summary: Do you think he is bad looking? He is charming, said Marguerite, laughing, and I am compelled to acknowledge that fury renders Monsieur de La Mole unjust; but hush! King Henry drives you to it; De Mouy conspires with you, does he not? keywords: bed; blood; brother; catharine; charles; cloak; coconnas; come; d'alençon; day; de la; de mouy; dear; death; door; duc; duke; evening; eyes; face; france; françois; friend; gentlemen; god; good; guise; hand; head; heart; heaven; henry; horse; hurière; king; king charles; la mole; leave; left; life; lips; long; look; louvre; love; madame; madame de; majesty; man; marguerite; maurevel; maître; mole; moment; monsieur; mother; navarre; night; open; order; pale; place; queen; room; rue; réné; saint; sauve; sire; son; sword; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; young cache: 33609.txt plain text: 33609.txt item: #254 of 722 id: 33618 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Branding Needle; or, The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter date: None words: 37191 flesch: 75 summary: It was these words, that flew from mouth to mouth: Queen Brunhild is passing--she is taken prisoner to be delivered to Fredegonde's son! Aye, such was the hatred, the disgust, the horror, the dread inspired in Gaul by those two names--Fredegonde and Brunhild--that large numbers of people found it impossible to resist the curiosity of knowing and seeing what was to be the issue of the capture of Brunhild by Fredegonde's son. Alas, fresh disasters will befall Gaul, with the renewal of the sanguinary conflict! Oh, indeed frightful disasters--frightful--because the crimes of Fredegonde pale before those of Brunhild, our present Queen, the Queen of the people of Burgundy. Father, can the crimes of Brunhild surpass Fredegonde's? Ronan, said Odille carrying both her hands to her temples. keywords: archdeacon; bishop; brother; brunhild; chalon; children; clotaire; death; eyes; fredegonde; gaul; good; great; head; king; loysik; madam; man; men; monastery; monk; order; people; queen; queen brunhild; ronan; sigebert; slaves; son; time; valley; voice cache: 33618.txt plain text: 33618.txt item: #255 of 722 id: 33778 author: Fogazzaro, Antonio title: The Patriot (Piccolo Mondo Antico) date: None words: 126744 flesch: 82 summary: [E] _Luisina_: little Luisa, _ina_ But I had intended to speak to you of another matter, Signora Teresa went on, without giving Franco time to protest. keywords: answer; arms; away; barborin; bed; boat; child; church; coming; commissary; dark; day; dear; don franco; door; engineer; ester; eyes; face; father; franco; friend; garden; giacomo; gilardoni; god; good; grandmother; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; lake; lawyer; leave; left; letter; life; light; look; love; luisa; maironi; man; marchesa; maria; moment; open; oria; pasotti; pedraglio; piero; place; poor; professor; room; rose; signora; silence; soul; table; thought; time; uncle; voice; wife; woman; words; years cache: 33778.txt plain text: 33778.txt item: #256 of 722 id: 33792 author: Verhaeren, Emile title: Poems of Emile Verhaeren date: None words: 9120 flesch: 81 summary: He comes, a fair ambassador, From white lands built with marble o'er. Where coils of drownèd hay Float far away; And the wild breeze Buffets the alders and the walnut-trees; Knee-deep in water great black oxen stand, Lifting their bellowings sinister on high To the distorted sky; As now the night creeps onward, all the land, Thicket and plain, Grows cumbered with her clinging shades immense. keywords: black; day; doth; eyes; gold; heart; les; life; light; mid; o'er; rain; round; silence; snow; soul; white; wind cache: 33792.txt plain text: 33792.txt item: #257 of 722 id: 33799 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Blood of the Arena date: None words: 106155 flesch: 79 summary: He had not climbed up, step by step, as had other _matadores_, serving long years first as _peón_ and _banderillero_ at the side of the _maestros_. They talked of the old plaza of Madrid where only bulls that _were_ bulls and bull-fighters that _were_ bull-fighters were recognized. keywords: animal; arms; bandit; beast; body; bull; carmen; danger; day; days; death; don; door; doña; enthusiasm; eyes; face; family; feet; felt; fighter; fighting; friends; gallardo; gold; good; great; hand; head; horns; house; juan; lady; left; life; madrid; man; manager; marquis; matador; money; mother; nacional; neck; people; place; plaza; plumitas; poor; public; red; ring; room; saw; seville; señora; silence; sol; street; swordsman; thee; thou; thought; time; white; wife; wild; women; world cache: 33799.txt plain text: 33799.txt item: #258 of 722 id: 33800 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 1 date: None words: 103376 flesch: 77 summary: Murphy's discretion was faultless; and although when in private he was very precise in my-lording Rodolph, yet before strangers he was very careful not to address him otherwise than as _M. Rodolph_. After your lesson is concluded, you will occupy yourself in household matters, or embroider some pretty little article of dress for yourself; then you will practise your writing for an hour or two, and, when that is done, join your aunt in her round of visits to the different operations of the farm; in the summer, to see how the reapers get on in the hay field; in harvest-time, to observe the reapers, and afterwards to enjoy the delight with which the gleaners pick up the scattered ears of grain; by this time you will have almost tired yourself, and gathering a large handful of wild herbs, carefully selected by you as the known favourites of your dear Musette, you turn your steps homewards-- But we go back through the meadow, dear M. Rodolph, do we not? inquired La Goualeuse, as earnestly as though every syllable her ears drank in was to be effectually brought to pass. keywords: air; black; bras; child; chouette; chourineur; d'harville; david; day; dear; doctor; door; end; eyes; fellow; fleur; francs; friend; georges; girl; good; goualeuse; half; hand; head; heart; highness; house; left; life; like; look; lord; m. rodolph; madame; man; marie; mean; mind; moment; money; murphy; ogress; person; pipelet; place; poor; right; rodolph; room; rouge; royal; rue; sarah; schoolmaster; sir; think; time; tone; voice; way; woman; words; work; years cache: 33800.txt plain text: 33800.txt item: #259 of 722 id: 33801 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 2 date: None words: 102424 flesch: 73 summary: What? Nothing; only, you see, my time is everything to me, and I am already a little behindhand, through coming here to watch over poor Madame Morel; and you must know that an hour in one way, and an hour in another, that by little and little makes whole days; well, a day is thirty sous, and, whether we gain something or nothing, we must live; but bah! All this premised, we will ask the reader to imagine the loud, harsh voice of the personage we have been describing, shouting from the distance at which he first recognised Madame d'Harville and Sarah: Holla! holla! keywords: child; children; chouette; clara; clémence; cold; d'harville; day; dear; door; dubreuil; eyes; face; farm; father; fleur; friend; georges; girl; good; goualeuse; hand; having; head; heart; house; husband; kind; lady; left; life; look; lord; love; madame; madame d'harville; madame georges; man; marie; mind; moment; morel; mother; night; person; pity; place; present; rigolette; rodolph; room; schoolmaster; time; tone; tortillard; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work cache: 33801.txt plain text: 33801.txt item: #260 of 722 id: 33802 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 3 date: None words: 99413 flesch: 77 summary: You don't half know your own good fortune, M. Rodolph; you have drawn a real prize in the lottery of good luck to have me for a neighbour, I can assure you. There, M. Rodolph, said Anastasie, opening the door of her dog-hole, say if that is not enough to break one's heart! Lamentable spectacle! keywords: child; clã; d'harville; daughter; day; dear; eyes; father; ferrand; francs; girl; good; goualeuse; hand; having; head; house; jacques; left; life; look; louise; louve; lucenay; m. de; m. ferrand; m. rodolph; madame; madame d'harville; man; mence; mind; moment; money; morel; mother; notary; person; pipelet; remy; right; rodolph; room; saint; sir; time; voice; way; wife; woman; word cache: 33802.txt plain text: 33802.txt item: #261 of 722 id: 33803 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 4 date: None words: 101259 flesch: 79 summary: Indeed you shall not; you shall accompany us, M. de Lucenay and me, to Madame de Senneval's; she gives a party, and has frequently asked me to introduce you to her. And M. de Lucenay threw himself back in a sort of small sofa with two backs, and, crossing his left knee over his right, took his foot in his hand, whilst he continued to utter the most distressing exclamations. keywords: amandine; boat; brother; calabash; children; chouette; come; day; dear; door; eyes; father; fleur; florestan; francs; françois; germain; girl; good; goualeuse; hand; having; head; heart; house; letter; look; louve; lucenay; madame; man; marie; martial; mind; moment; money; mother; nicholas; place; poor; prison; remy; right; rigolette; rodolph; room; saint; son; time; vicomte; voice; way; widow; woman; work cache: 33803.txt plain text: 33803.txt item: #262 of 722 id: 33804 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 5 date: None words: 81000 flesch: 78 summary: And how is poor Germain? You remembered me then, it seems, for the sake of bestowing me on another, murmured poor Germain, almost involuntarily. keywords: boiteux; cecily; cut; day; dear; door; eyes; father; fellow; ferrand; gargousse; germain; good; gringalet; gros; half; hand; head; heart; house; jacques; life; look; love; madame; man; master; mind; moment; money; notary; pique; poor; prison; prisoners; right; rigolette; rodolph; room; sir; skeleton; time; turnkey; vinaigre; voice; way; woman; word cache: 33804.txt plain text: 33804.txt item: #263 of 722 id: 33805 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 6 date: None words: 80695 flesch: 74 summary: How delighted I should be, if the doctor would only allow me to write a few lines to Madame Georges, I am sure she must be so very uneasy; and so must M. Rodolph, too, added Fleur-de-Marie, pensively sighing. Martial found it quite galling enough to be called the son of a man who was guillotined; how, then, could he endure being taunted with the disgraceful ends of all his family? Well, but, at least, you will defer your departure till I have been enabled to see and speak with M. Rodolph; you have returned to virtue, and I promised you a reward if you would but forsake evil ways, and I wish to keep my word. keywords: child; clémence; d'harville; daughter; day; dear; death; doctor; eyes; father; ferrand; fleur; friend; germain; girl; good; hand; head; heart; hope; jacques; life; lord; louise; love; madame; man; marie; mind; moment; mother; past; polidori; poor; present; prince; princess; rodolph; sarah; time; voice; woman; words cache: 33805.txt plain text: 33805.txt item: #264 of 722 id: 33867 author: Aicard, Jean title: King of Camargue date: None words: 79589 flesch: 82 summary: The dream in which Renaud saw Livette was explained to him several times by Monsieur le curé, but always to no purpose. And this is what little Livette saw when she approached the gipsy camp. keywords: air; arms; beast; black; blanchet; body; bull; camargue; church; curé; day; days; death; desert; drover; end; eyes; face; feet; gipsy; god; good; ground; hand; having; head; heart; horse; king; know; left; life; livette; look; love; man; maries; mind; moment; monsieur; night; people; place; poor; queen; rampal; reeds; renaud; rhône; saintes; sand; sea; thought; time; water; way; white; woman; zinzara cache: 33867.txt plain text: 33867.txt item: #265 of 722 id: 33868 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps date: None words: 79425 flesch: 77 summary: THE CASQUE'S LARK; or, _Victoria, the Mother of the Camps._ That wondrous drama opens with this, the fifth of the stories--_The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps_. keywords: arms; army; battle; brother; camp; captain; chief; day; death; douarnek; ellen; elwig; eyes; frankish; franks; friend; gallic; gaul; great; hand; head; house; left; life; man; marion; moment; mother; neroweg; night; order; rhine; sampso; schanvoch; sister; soldiers; son; sword; tetrik; time; victoria; voice; wife; woman; words cache: 33868.txt plain text: 33868.txt item: #266 of 722 id: 33896 author: Dante Alighieri title: Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. date: None words: 87919 flesch: 78 summary: This view satisfied thinkers to the time of Hooker (_E.P._ I. iii.), but was criticised by Bacon, _Nov. Org. The Divine Comedy_ have been corrected using the Italian-English Princeton University Press edition (trans. keywords: 12_s; 8vo; argument; art; authority; beauty; book; cambridge; cause; character; charles; che; christ; church; city; college; come; commedia; course; crown 8vo; dante; day; demy 8vo; divine; earth; edition; emperor; empire; end; england; english; essays; faith; fcap; feeling; florence; follows; footnote; form; general; ghibelline; glory; god; good; government; greek; guelf; heaven; history; idea; iii; illustrations; inf; italian; italy; john; judgment; justice; king; language; late; latin; law; laws; letters; liberty; life; like; literature; ll.d; lord; love; m.a; man; manifest; mankind; maps; meaning; means; men; mind; modern; monarch; nature; new; non; order; parad; parts; peace; people; peter; poem; poet; poetry; pope; portrait; power; prince; principle; professor; public; purg; purpose; question; race; reason; right; roman; rome; rule; second; sense; series; sir; society; son; soul; spirit; state; subject; temporal; things; thought; time; truth; universal; university; vicar; virgil; vols; volume; way; words; work; world; year cache: 33896.txt plain text: 33896.txt item: #267 of 722 id: 33928 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man) The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 date: None words: 109508 flesch: 84 summary: Said Forestier to him: Look at the stalls; nothing but middle-class folk with their wives and children, good noodlepates who come to see the show. George murmured, Dear little Made, as he pressed her to him. keywords: air; arm; bed; boy; day; dear; door; duroy; evening; eyes; face; fellow; find; forestier; francs; friend; george; good; hand; having; head; heart; home; house; husband; left; looking; love; madame; madeleine; man; marelle; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; morrow; o'clock; order; paper; paris; people; place; pretty; right; rival; room; rose; round; sir; susan; thought; time; tone; voice; walter; want; way; wife; woman; word cache: 33928.txt plain text: 33928.txt item: #268 of 722 id: 33931 author: Perrault, Charles title: Popular Tales date: None words: 62747 flesch: 77 summary: On the 4th of March, 1700, when the fashion for fairy tales was at its height, she wrote to the Comte d'Ayen on the subject of harmless literature for _demoiselles_, and asked him to procure something, 'mais non des contes de fées ou de _Peau d'Ane_, car je n'en veux point[7].' Ce fut alors que le pauvre Maistre-d'Hôtel desespera de la pouvoir encore tromper. keywords: alla; aprés; aussi; aux; avoit; beast; beau; bien; bien de; bien que; bois; boots; c'est; cat; ce qui; cela; cendrillon; cependant; cette; charles; children; cinderella; coeur; comme; contes; contes de; d'une; dans ce; dans la; dans son; dans un; de carabas; de ce; de la; de luy; de son; de tout; de vous; des; deux; dire; dit; dit la; dés; elle; elle avoit; elle la; encore; enfans; est; estoit; et de; et la; faire; fairies; faisoit; fait; faut; femme; fille; fit; fois; folk; footnote; form; fort; fut; fées; girl; good; grand; hop; idea; il avoit; il en; il estoit; il faut; il la; il luy; il ne; il y; ils; india; jamais; je ne; jour; king; l'ogre; la barbe; la bonne; la cadette; la chasse; la cour; la forest; la houppe; la maison; la même; la porte; la princesse; la teste; le chat; le maistre; le petit; le prince; le roy; les; leur; long; lui; luy; luy dit; m. de; madame; madame de; main; mais; mais il; mais la; man; marquis de; mere; mes; moins; mon; monde; moral; mother; märchen; même; n'en; n'est; nous; ogre; par; par la; paris; pas; pas de; peau; people; pere; perrault; peu; peut; place; plus; point; pour; pour la; puss; qu'elle; qu'elle ne; qu'il; qu'on; quand; que; que la; que sa; que son; que vous; quelque; qui; qui avoit; qui estoit; qui luy; reine; rien; riquet; roi; s'en; sans; ses; si la; sont; stories; story; sur; sur la; tales; tant; temps; thumb; tous; tout; toutes; un de; un si; une; version; voir; vous; wife; wishes; yeux; à la; étoit cache: 33931.txt plain text: 33931.txt item: #269 of 722 id: 33933 author: Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich title: The Life-Work of Flaubert, from the Russian of Merejowski date: None words: 6009 flesch: 63 summary: Every one knows, for instance, that writers of talent, artists or musicians, are in the majority of cases men of the most unpractical nature, that their eccentricities and irresponsibility verge not uncommonly on complete moral disintegration, that they are bad fathers of families and bad husbands, and that while expressing great sensitiveness in the forcible language of their works, they very often show themselves in real life to be at heart hard and unfeeling egotists. Every detail of the picture which in the others awakens loathing and terror, evokes in him a joy that is outside the ken of other men. keywords: art; artist; flaubert; heart; idea; life; love; man; men; work; world cache: 33933.txt plain text: 33933.txt item: #270 of 722 id: 33943 author: Marx, Magdeleine title: Woman date: None words: 55478 flesch: 88 summary: What other woman would dare the supreme immodesty of displaying a bare forehead? Other women have passed over the ageless earth who were as alive, as charming, as stirring. keywords: air; arms; black; body; child; day; door; evening; eyes; face; flesh; good; hands; head; heart; house; human; life; light; look; love; moment; morning; mother; people; place; red; room; round; set; street; suffering; things; time; truth; turn; voice; way; window; woman; words; work cache: 33943.txt plain text: 33943.txt item: #271 of 722 id: 34058 author: Claretie, Jules title: The Crime of the Boulevard date: None words: 55745 flesch: 81 summary: This man was the good little M. Bernardet, who passed for a man of genius of his kind, at the Sureté, and for whom Moniche had often repaired coats and rehemmed trousers. M. Bernardet was, no doubt, breakfasting with his family, for it was Sunday, and the police officer, meeting Moniche the evening before, had said to him: To-morrow is my birthday. keywords: bernardet; dantin; day; dead; door; doubt; eyes; face; felt; ginory; head; jacques; life; little; look; m. ginory; m. rovère; magistrate; man; mme; moment; moniche; monsieur; officer; order; papers; police; portrait; pradès; retina; room; rovère; saw; secret; thought; time; woman; word cache: 34058.txt plain text: 34058.txt item: #272 of 722 id: 34305 author: Sue, Eugène title: Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins date: None words: 96064 flesch: 74 summary: exclaimed M. Dutertre, as he saw M. Pascal pass the parlour window. M. Pascal did not appear to have heard the words of M. Dutertre, and said to him: Who is that young girl who just went out of here? keywords: abbé; antonine; archduke; canon; captain; charles; child; come; cook; day; dear; diégo; doctor; dom; door; dutertre; eyes; face; frantz; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; highness; hope; house; husband; know; letter; long; lord; love; m. pascal; madame; madeleine; man; marquise; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; mother; pablo; pascal; prince; sir; sophie; thought; time; voice; wish; woman; words; years; young cache: 34305.txt plain text: 34305.txt item: #273 of 722 id: 34308 author: Sue, Eugène title: Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins date: None words: 94840 flesch: 79 summary: I have a number of large capitalists as backers, and I often act as an intermediary between them and young men of prospective wealth. Tell me, now, young man, haven't you good cause to regard me in the light of a guardian angel, or a beneficent Providence? keywords: captain; child; cloarek; daughter; day; dear; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; godmother; good; hand; head; herem; house; kind; lacombe; left; letter; life; louis; love; m. louis; madame; man; mariette; matter; moment; monsieur; night; onésime; poor; read; richard; room; sabine; saint; segoffin; suzanne; think; time; way; woman; words; years; yvon cache: 34308.txt plain text: 34308.txt item: #274 of 722 id: 34327 author: Zweig, Stefan title: Paul Verlaine date: None words: 13864 flesch: 67 summary: Pauvre Lelian_, an anagram of Paul Verlaine, which Verlaine often used when speaking of himself. Verlaine, man of moods _par excellence_, adjusts himself to life in his own manner. keywords: child; childhood; element; force; form; french; great; les; life; literature; man; paul; poems; poet; poetry; power; rimbaud; soul; tender; time; verlaine; yearning; years cache: 34327.txt plain text: 34327.txt item: #275 of 722 id: 34338 author: Kock, Paul de title: Monsieur Cherami date: None words: 127504 flesch: 87 summary: Oh! good-day, Monsieur Cherami--glad to see you. The bridegroom's uncle was watching the carriages, and, another one having taken the place of that from which the bride had alighted, he was determined not to be behindhand again in offering his hand to the ladies; so he hurried to the door, leaving Monsieur Cherami still talking, and confined himself to an inclination of the head as he muttered: Excuse me, monsieur; but I have no time; there are some ladies whom I must assist--I cannot talk any longer. keywords: adolphine; bérinière; cane; count; day; dear; dieu; duel; eyes; face; fanny; father; fellow; find; francs; friend; going; good; gustave; hand; head; house; husband; leave; left; look; love; madame; man; moment; monléard; monsieur; monsieur batonnin; monsieur cherami; monsieur gerbault; monsieur gustave; people; place; right; room; saying; sister; thought; time; uncle; way; wedding; widow; woman; word; yes; young cache: 34338.txt plain text: 34338.txt item: #276 of 722 id: 34343 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: The Betrothal A Sequel to the Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Five Acts and Eleven Scenes date: None words: 21731 flesch: 97 summary: (_They all go out, except_ TYLTYL _and_ JOY, _who remain standing face to face. THE SECOND GIRL (_Rushing up to_ TYLTYL _and kissing him_.) keywords: ancestor; children; destiny; fairy; good; joy; kiss; light; love; rosarelle; time; tyltyl; way cache: 34343.txt plain text: 34343.txt item: #277 of 722 id: 34345 author: Sue, Eugène title: Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins date: None words: 182100 flesch: 73 summary: Worse still, M. de Beaumesnil, who had gone to Italy with their only child, a daughter, who was ordered south by the physicians,--M. de Beaumesnil died quite recently in Naples, in consequence of having been thrown from his horse, so if Madame de Beaumesnil dies, as they apprehend, her daughter will be left an orphan at the age of fifteen or sixteen years. Yes, replied the hunchback, for, in putting the question thus, he hoped to attain his object without endangering the secret he thought he had discovered in relation to Madame de Beaumesnil; yes, did you never hear that M. de Beaumesnil had an illegitimate child? keywords: barbançon; baron; baron de; child; commander; daughter; day; de beaumesnil; de la; de macreuse; de maillefort; de mornand; de ravil; de senneterre; dear; door; duc de; duchess; ernestine; ernestine de; evening; eyes; face; fact; friend; gerald; gerald de; girl; good; hand; heart; herminie; house; hunchback; lady; life; love; m. bouffard; m. de; m. gerald; m. le; m. olivier; madame barbançon; madame de; mademoiselle; man; marquis; marquis de; marriage; matter; mlle; monsieur; mother; olivier; poor; right; rochaiguë; room; thought; time; way; woman; words cache: 34345.txt plain text: 34345.txt item: #278 of 722 id: 34390 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn the Champion: A Tale of the Jacquerie date: None words: 84855 flesch: 78 summary: Next I come to render a great service to poor Master Marcel. Indeed Marguerite Marcel soon entered the room. keywords: adam; alison; arms; aveline; bonhomme; caillet; champion; conrad; day; death; denise; devil; english; eyes; father; friend; gloriande; good; hands; head; husband; jacques; jocelyn; john; king; knight; left; let; maillart; man; marcel; marguerite; master; master marcel; mazurec; men; moment; nointel; order; paris; people; poor; regent; right; rufin; seigneur; sire; time; voice; wicked; wife; william; words cache: 34390.txt plain text: 34390.txt item: #279 of 722 id: 34452 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion date: None words: 36458 flesch: 78 summary: At the same moment other pirates rushed in. Posted upon the platform of these towers, the Northmans hurled against their foe stones, bolts, javelins, fire-brands, heavy beams of wood, and also fragile little vases filled with a corrosive dust that blinded whoever sought to board them, while other pirates, armed with long scythes, cut the cordage of the hostile ships. keywords: abbey; anne; arms; charles; count; daughter; denis; eidiol; eyes; father; fultrade; gaëlo; ghisèle; guyrion; head; iron; king; martha; men; monk; mother; northmans; order; paris; pirates; rolf; rothbert; rustic; shigne; simple; soldiers; time; voice cache: 34452.txt plain text: 34452.txt item: #280 of 722 id: 34531 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Pilgrim's Shell; Or, Fergan the Quarryman: A Tale from the Feudal Times date: None words: 92417 flesch: 76 summary: These and a number of other seigneurs, descendants of the leudes of Clovis or of the chieftains of the bands of Charles Martel, dropping their Frankish names, or joining to them the Gaulish names of the regions that they took possession of, had themselves called seigneurs, sires, dukes or counts, of Paris, of Plouernel, of Montmorency, of Nevers, of Tonnerre, of Ponthieu, etc., etc. Distinguished above all and occupying the place of honor, was the legate of the Pope; then followed, to the right and left of the Duke of Aquitaine, Bohemond, Prince of Taranto; Tancred; Robert Courte-Heuse, Duke of Normandy; Heracle, seigneur of Polignac; Siegfried, seigneur of Sabran; Gerhard, Duke of Roussillon; Radulf, seigneur of Haut-Poul; Arnulf, sire of Beaugency; and other seigneurs of Frankish origin, beside the knight, Walter the Pennyless. keywords: arms; azenor; bailiff; bezenecq; bishop; blood; bourgeois; child; children; church; city; colombaik; commune; communiers; count; crusaders; daughter; day; death; duke; episcopals; eyes; face; father; feet; fergan; garin; gaul; god; hands; head; holy; horse; iron; jerusalem; joan; king; laon; left; man; master; mayor; men; moment; neroweg; order; people; peter; place; plouernel; quarryman; right; seigneur; serf; son; time; voice; war; wife; william; woman; words cache: 34531.txt plain text: 34531.txt item: #281 of 722 id: 34544 author: Diderot, Denis title: This is not a Story date: None words: 8849 flesch: 86 summary: As he was leaving Mademoiselle de La Chaux´s home the envoy left a roll of fifty louis smoothly on her mantelpiece. The history of Tanié and la Reymer is missing, as is the end of the history of Mademoiselle de La Chaux. keywords: --i; chaux; gardeil; madame; mademoiselle; reymer; tanié; time; woman cache: 34544.txt plain text: 34544.txt item: #282 of 722 id: 34653 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Three Eyes date: None words: 64358 flesch: 82 summary: They consisted of a will, dated five years back, in which Noël Dorgeroux, while naming me as his residuary legatee, gave and bequeathed to his god-daughter, Bérangère Massignac the piece of ground known as the Yard and everything that the Yard might contain on the day of his death. But nobody knows what has become of Bérangère Massignac. keywords: amphitheatre; bérangère; crowd; day; death; discovery; door; dorgeroux; doubt; expression; eyes; face; father; formula; god; hand; head; house; left; life; look; love; man; massignac; moment; noël; noël dorgeroux; people; pictures; place; prévotelle; right; screen; secret; thing; théodore; time; uncle; velmot; victorien; voice; wall; way; words; yard cache: 34653.txt plain text: 34653.txt item: #283 of 722 id: 34828 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 date: None words: 87932 flesch: 78 summary: In order to conceal his agitation, Frederick kept walking from right to left in the dining-room. From this day forth, Arnoux was still more cordial than before; he invited the young man to dine with his mistress; and ere long Frederick frequented both houses at the same time. keywords: air; apartment; arm; arnoux; black; carriage; clerk; close; dambreuse; day; days; deslauriers; door; evening; eyes; face; fashion; fellow; felt; francs; frederick; friend; glass; good; hair; hand; head; heart; house; hussonnet; left; long; look; love; madame arnoux; mademoiselle; making; man; maréchale; matter; men; mind; moment; money; monsieur; mother; order; paris; pellerin; people; place; present; regimbart; right; room; rosanette; round; rue; shop; sort; sénécal; table; things; thought; time; tis; tone; voice; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; work cache: 34828.txt plain text: 34828.txt item: #284 of 722 id: 34870 author: Kuhns, Oscar title: Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian date: None words: 50062 flesch: 72 summary: She slept, till in her dreaming ear, the bowers Whispered, the gay birds warbled of the dawn; The river roared; the winds to the young flowers Made love; the blithe bee wound its dulcet horn: Roused by the mirth and melodies of morn, Her languid eyes she opens, and perceives The huts of shepherds on the lonely lawn; The phenomena of nature became types of religious life--even the writings of pagan antiquity were treated symbolically and made to reveal prophecies of Christian doctrine; Vergil, in a famous passage, was supposed to have foretold the coming of the Savior, and even the _Ars Amatoria_ of Ovid, of the earth earthy, if ever poem was, was interpreted in terms of Christian mysticism. keywords: ariosto; beatrice; beauty; boccaccio; book; century; character; city; comedy; dante; day; death; earth; eyes; father; florence; god; great; heart; heaven; hell; italian; italy; lady; language; latin; life; light; like; literature; love; man; men; new; orlando; period; petrarch; place; poem; poetry; poets; soul; spirit; story; study; tasso; thee; thou; thought; time; way; wife; works; world; years cache: 34870.txt plain text: 34870.txt item: #285 of 722 id: 34910 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: The Inner Beauty date: None words: 8389 flesch: 74 summary: No longer will such absolute power be vested in the baser side of things, and henceforth, even the most terror-stricken of souls will know that there is somewhere a place of refuge.... Certain it is that the natural and primitive relationship of soul to soul is a relationship of beauty. keywords: beauty; day; goodness; life; love; silence; soul; word cache: 34910.txt plain text: 34910.txt item: #286 of 722 id: 34931 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Woman of Mystery date: None words: 80571 flesch: 87 summary: It was in this way that she became acquainted with Paul Delroze at Rome and met him again at Naples and Syracuse, from which town Paul accompanied the d'Andevilles on a long excursion through Sicily. But at last Paul enjoined him to keep silent or to speak in a whisper: You can imagine that, as they thought fit to preserve their lines of communication, they must have done something to make them unserviceable to the French. keywords: bernard; car; château; comtesse; conrad; corvigny; d'andeville; day; delroze; enemy; eyes; face; father; french; german; hand; hermann; hermine; house; karl; know; left; look; major; men; moment; ornequin; paul; paul delroze; place; prince; right; room; shot; sir; spy; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; élisabeth cache: 34931.txt plain text: 34931.txt item: #287 of 722 id: 34939 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Secret of Sarek date: None words: 96536 flesch: 88 summary: Ask Your Dealer for a Complete List of A. L. Burt Company's Popular Copyright Fiction Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The. After House, The. keywords: boat; boy; conrad; d'hergemont; day; dead; death; don; door; doubt; druid; end; eyes; face; father; françois; god; good; half; hand; head; honorine; island; left; life; look; luis; maguennoc; man; mind; moment; mother; otto; past; people; place; priory; right; round; sarek; saw; sea; son; stone; stéphane; things; thought; time; voice; vorski; véronique; want; way; white; woman; words cache: 34939.txt plain text: 34939.txt item: #288 of 722 id: 34957 author: Bazin, René title: The Children of Alsace (Les Oberlés) date: None words: 76703 flesch: 82 summary: For it is the country of Alsace, with her woes and sorrows and sufferings, her aspirations and hopes and dreams, which speaks to us through the mouth of Jean Oberlé, the hero, who mysteriously feels the influence of soil upon his soul, and is drawn to France, since Alsace is sighing under the German yoke, and her weeping soul has fled to France, there to wait the day of delivery and freedom! For the moment let us forget them and go and say 'How do you do?' to Jean Oberlé. keywords: alsace; alsatian; alsheim; bastian; country; day; door; eyes; face; farnow; father; forest; france; german; good; hand; head; house; jean; jean oberlé; left; look; love; lucienne; m. oberlé; m. ulrich; madame; man; moment; mother; near; oberlé; odile; right; road; room; round; saw; son; strasburg; thought; time; trees; ulrich; uncle; voice; von; way; wood; words; years cache: 34957.txt plain text: 34957.txt item: #289 of 722 id: 34987 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Blacksmith's Hammer; or, The Peasant Code: A Tale of the Grand Monarch date: None words: 73156 flesch: 74 summary: Mademoiselle Plouernel contemplated in wrapt enthusiasm the spectacle presented to her eyes, all the more indifferent to the danger that threatened her, seeing she did not believe in death. Ah, cried the captain of the St. Eloi, to dare come out to our help in such a storm, the commander of that caravel must be as generous a man as skilful and intrepid a sailor! Struck by these words Mademoiselle Plouernel followed with increased interest the manoeuvres of the caravel, that steadily tacked its way towards the distressed brigantine. keywords: abbot; bertha; brittany; brother; castle; count; day; dear; death; eyes; face; family; father; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; house; john; king; lebrenn; left; letter; little; louis; love; madam; mademoiselle; mademoiselle plouernel; man; marchioness; mezlean; moment; monsieur; mother; nominoë; order; people; plouernel; salaun; serdan; soldiers; son; tankeru; thought; tilly; time; tina; voice; witt; words cache: 34987.txt plain text: 34987.txt item: #290 of 722 id: 35004 author: Mérimée, Prosper title: Abbé Aubain and Mosaics date: None words: 83296 flesch: 83 summary: We were down on all fours to raise her up on end, and M. de Peyrehorade was also tugging at the rope, although he had no more strength than a chicken, good man! Then there came into the hall by a door opposite to that by which Charles had entered several young men of noble bearing and richly clad. keywords: alphonse; black; captain; clair; count; countess; country; day; dear; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; find; friend; good; half; hand; head; hour; house; left; look; love; lucrezia; léon; madam; man; massigny; mateo; men; mind; moment; night; people; peyrehorade; place; poor; professor; read; roger; room; round; saint; set; son; statue; story; tamango; tell; thought; time; venus; voice; watch; way; white; wife; woman; word; years cache: 35004.txt plain text: 35004.txt item: #291 of 722 id: 35023 author: Filon, Augustin title: Garrick's Pupil date: None words: 52728 flesch: 79 summary: The passion which actresses inspire in young men of indigent circumstances and timid disposition is the most romantic and delightful of all, since it unites every impossibility and chimera. The mother of young Lord Mowbray whom you resemble so closely? The same. But why has the portrait remained unfinished? The death of the original interrupted the sittings. keywords: child; crowd; day; death; door; esther; eyes; face; fisher; frank; friend; george; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; house; joshua; lady; lebeau; left; life; little; lord; lord mowbray; love; man; marsham; mind; miss; moment; mowbray; mrs; night; o'flannigan; old; order; place; reuben; set; sir; street; thought; time; vereker; voice; way; woman; woodville; words; years; young cache: 35023.txt plain text: 35023.txt item: #292 of 722 id: 35067 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Pocket Bible; or, Christian the Printer: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century date: None words: 166736 flesch: 76 summary: What a man says to God men may hear, replied the Admiral with ancient loftiness. Good men! Read the sacred Book. keywords: admiral; anna; antonicq; arms; bell; blood; bridget; brother; captain; cardinal; catherine; catholic; cause; charles; children; christian; church; city; coligny; cornelia; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; duke; enemy; ernest; estienne; eyes; face; faith; family; father; feet; fire; franc; friend; girl; god; good; hands; head; heart; held; hena; hervé; holy; honor; house; huguenots; john; josephin; king; lebrenn; left; letter; life; love; loyola; madam; man; master; men; moment; monk; monsieur; mother; new; night; odelin; order; paris; people; place; plouernel; poor; prince; queen; rennepont; return; robert; rochelle; saw; seeing; sister; soldiers; son; taupin; thought; time; voice; wife; women; words; work cache: 35067.txt plain text: 35067.txt item: #293 of 722 id: 35155 author: Manzoni, Alessandro title: The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni date: None words: 168695 flesch: 72 summary: Bortolo was a good man, and in the main generous, but, like other men, he had his failings; and as this motive really had a place in his calculations, we have thought it our duty to state it. Poor Don Abbondio remained for a moment, as if spell-bound, and then with heavy and lagging steps took the path which led towards his home. keywords: abbondio; agnes; ask; bed; bread; cardinal; castle; children; christopher; city; company; convent; countenance; country; crowd; curate; day; don; door; duty; eyes; father; friar; gertrude; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; know; leave; left; life; lord; lucy; man; master; milan; mind; moment; mother; new; night; open; order; people; perpetua; person; place; poor; power; renzo; return; road; roderick; saying; signor; silence; things; think; thought; time; unknown; village; voice; way; wish; woman; words; world; yes cache: 35155.txt plain text: 35155.txt item: #294 of 722 id: 35524 author: None title: Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell date: None words: 43654 flesch: 82 summary: She whom my heart in dream already loves Will under childlike curls have great blue eyes; Her voice will be as sweet as that of doves, Her skin a faint rose like a dream that dies. And, cups of sapphire effervescing bright, Blue eyes have made me drunk with spring's delight! keywords: arms; black; blood; blue; body; calm; dawn; day; days; death; des; dream; earth; evening; eyes; face; feet; fire; flesh; flowers; forest; france; gold; golden; green; hair; hands; heart; hour; joy; kisses; les; life; like; lips; long; love; man; mercure; moon; mouth; night; o'er; pale; rain; red; round; sea; shadow; shall; silence; skies; sky; slow; song; soul; summer; sun; thee; thou; thy; time; trees; verhaeren; voice; white; wind; women; world cache: 35524.txt plain text: 35524.txt item: #295 of 722 id: 35633 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution date: None words: 169234 flesch: 74 summary: Struck with the excellent education of Monsieur John Lebrenn, father offered him the freedom of our library, and made him promise to come and visit us on his holidays. And suppose equality were to reign among men--what conclusion do you draw from that? Monsieur John Lebrenn being the equal of my father, bonds of friendship could exist between them. keywords: abbot; arms; army; assembly; blood; bonaparte; brother; castillon; cause; chapter; charlotte; child; citizen; committee; commune; convention; council; count; country; daughter; day; days; dear; death; desmarais; door; enemies; eyes; face; family; father; fear; france; french; friend; general; god; good; guard; hall; hand; head; heart; hope; house; hubert; husband; jesuit; john; john lebrenn; king; law; leave; lebrenn; left; life; like; live; louis; love; madam; man; members; moment; monsieur; morrow; mother; national; new; oliver; order; paris; people; place; plouernel; representatives; republic; revolution; right; robespierre; room; sister; son; tell; thought; time; victoria; voice; war; way; wife; woman; words; xvi; year cache: 35633.txt plain text: 35633.txt item: #296 of 722 id: 35723 author: Pont-Jest, René de title: Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) date: None words: 81471 flesch: 80 summary: Lise Olsdorf and Paul Meyrin unconsciously underwent this purely physiological experience. Vexed and desperate, wondering whether it was that Lise Olsdorf dreaded him or that she was merely a coquette and laughing at him, Paul Meyrin determined to force her hand. keywords: barineff; child; daubrel; daughter; day; eyes; girl; going; good; hand; heart; husband; law; left; life; lise; love; madame; marthe; meyrin; mme; moment; mother; olsdorf; painter; pampeln; paris; paul; paul meyrin; petersburg; pierre; prince; prince olsdorf; princess; room; son; soublaieff; thought; time; vera; wife; woman cache: 35723.txt plain text: 35723.txt item: #297 of 722 id: 35792 author: Symonds, John Addington title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 date: None words: 162711 flesch: 68 summary: [623] It may be interesting to compare this scarcely disguised satire with the official flatteries of _Canzone_ ii. The changes wrought by Poliziano in the structure of _ottava rima_, his majesty and linked sweetness long drawn out, were unknown to Boiardo. keywords: age; ages; alberti; allegory; amor; ariosto; art; arts; author; beatrice; beauty; beneath; boccaccio; boiardo; bologna; book; canto; carducci; century; chapter; character; che; chivalry; christ; christian; church; cit; city; close; come; comedy; compare; composition; conception; conditions; country; court; culture; d'ancona; dante; day; days; death; decameron; della; desire; dialects; divine; e di; e la; earth; edition; elements; emotion; end; epic; example; expression; eyes; fact; fair; famiglia; family; fancy; far; father; feeling; ferrara; fifteenth; fine; firenze; florence; florentine; following; form; fourteenth; francesco; french; general; genius; giovanni; gli; god; golden; good; grace; greek; guido; half; hand; hath; heart; heaven; high; history; honor; house; human; humor; ibid; ideal; iii; imagination; influence; italian; italy; jacopone; kind; king; knowledge; lady; language; latin; learning; legend; letters; life; light; lines; literature; lorenzo; love; lyrics; man; manner; master; material; medici; medieval; men; middle; mind; mio; modern; moral; morgante; mother; music; national; nature; new; noble; non; northern; note; novelle; order; original; orlando; pandolfini; passage; passion; people; period; petrarch; picture; più; place; play; pleasure; poem; poetry; poets; point; poliziano; power; present; prose; provençal; pulci; purpose; qualities; read; real; reason; renaissance; rest; rima; rinaldo; roland; romance; rome; sacchetti; sacre; scene; second; self; sense; set; shows; sicilian; simple; society; son; songs; sonnets; soul; speech; spirit; stage; stanzas; studies; study; style; subject; sweet; tale; thee; things; thou; thought; time; tongue; town; treatment; truth; tuscan; type; use; venice; vernacular; verse; view; vision; vita; vol; volg; way; white; women; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 35792.txt plain text: 35792.txt item: #298 of 722 id: 3581 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01 date: None words: 20761 flesch: 64 summary: On the Tuesday, however, M. de la Boetie summoned him to aid him, as he said, in discharging the last office of a Christian. M. de Belot called in the afternoon to see him, and M. de la Boetie, taking his hand, said to him: I was on the point of discharging my debt, but my kind creditor has given me a little further time. keywords: account; boetie; book; brother; essays; french; god; good; honour; letter; life; man; men; mind; monsieur; montaigne; paris; place; present; sir; things; time cache: 3581.txt plain text: 3581.txt item: #299 of 722 id: 3582 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02 date: None words: 17364 flesch: 49 summary: That, like examples in the progress of nature demonstrate to us, she has fortified me in my other faculties proportionably as she has left me unfurnished in this; I should otherwise have been apt implicitly to have reposed my mind and judgment upon the bare report of other men, without ever setting them to work upon their own force, had the inventions and opinions of others been ever been present with me by the benefit of memory. Plato, in the civil regimen that he models according to his own fancy, leaves to it the decision of several things of very great importance, and will, amongst other things, that marriages should be appointed by lot; attributing so great importance to this accidental choice as to ordain that the children begotten in such wedlock be brought up in the country, and those begotten in any other be thrust out as spurious and base; yet so, that if any of those exiles, notwithstanding, should, peradventure, in growing up give any good hope of himself, he might be recalled, as, also, that such as had been retained, should be exiled, in case they gave little expectation of themselves in their early growth. keywords: body; chapter; city; contrary; death; duke; enemy; good; iii; judgment; king; life; man; manner; means; memory; men; nature; place; power; reason; soul; things; time; truth; valour; victory; war cache: 3582.txt plain text: 3582.txt item: #300 of 722 id: 3583 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 03 date: None words: 19050 flesch: 60 summary: And this it is that makes me sometimes doubt in my own mind, whether a divine, or a philosopher, and such men of exact and tender prudence and conscience, are fit to write history: for how can they stake their reputation upon a popular faith? I have, in my time, known men of command checked for having rather obeyed the express words of the king's letters, than the necessity of the affairs they had in hand. keywords: age; day; days; death; die; end; eyes; fear; good; hand; iii; imagination; king; life; man; manner; men; nature; people; place; pleasure; power; reason; subject; things; time; tis; use; way; world; years cache: 3583.txt plain text: 3583.txt item: #301 of 722 id: 3584 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04 date: None words: 18338 flesch: 51 summary: I am of a quite contrary humour to other men, for I always despise it; but when I am sick, instead of recanting, or entering into composition with it, I begin, moreover, to hate and fear it, telling them who importune me to take physic, that at all events they must give me time to recover my strength and health, that I may be the better able to support and encounter the violence and danger of their potions. Elsewhere the old husbands lend their wives to young men; and in another place they are in common without offence; in one place particularly, the women take it for a mark of honour to have as many gay fringed tassels at the bottom of their garment, as they have lain with several men. keywords: children; custom; fortune; good; judgment; knowledge; laws; life; man; manner; men; nature; opinion; people; place; power; public; reason; things; thou; time; tis; way; women; world cache: 3584.txt plain text: 3584.txt item: #302 of 722 id: 3585 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05 date: None words: 19082 flesch: 54 summary: 3.]--that our life resembles the great and populous assembly of the Olympic games, wherein some exercise the body, that they may carry away the glory of the prize: others bring merchandise to sell for profit: there are also some (and those none of the worst sort) who pursue no other advantage than only to look on, and consider how and why everything is done, and to be spectators of the lives of other men, thereby the better to judge of and regulate their own. And this I can say, as having myself made trial of it, that having formerly taken the liberty of my own swing and fancy, and omitted or neglected certain rules of the discipline of our Church, which seemed to me vain and strange coming afterwards to discourse of it with learned men, I have found those same things to be built upon very good and solid ground and strong foundation; and that nothing but stupidity and ignorance makes us receive them with less reverence than the rest. keywords: authority; children; education; fine; good; hand; having; judgment; knowledge; learning; life; man; men; mind; opinion; people; pupil; reason; soul; study; things; time; tis; truth; understanding; use; way; words cache: 3585.txt plain text: 3585.txt item: #303 of 722 id: 3586 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06 date: None words: 28697 flesch: 58 summary: I do not take upon me to direct what other men should do in the government of their families, there are plenty that meddle enough with that, but only give an account of my method in my own: Mihi sic usus est: tibi, ut opus est facto, face. He cannot think himself sufficiently rid of vice, if he must yet contend with it in other men. keywords: --horace; age; art; children; common; contrary; country; day; death; enemy; est; father; fortune; friendship; god; good; king; life; love; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; people; place; pleasure; reason; rest; soul; things; thou; time; tis; use; virtue; way; wives; world cache: 3586.txt plain text: 3586.txt item: #304 of 722 id: 3587 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07 date: None words: 24308 flesch: 59 summary: Every one knows the story of Scaevola, that having slipped into the enemy's camp to kill their general, and having missed his blow, to repair his fault, by a more strange invention and to deliver his country, he boldly confessed to Porsenna, who was the king he had a purpose to kill, not only his design, but moreover added that there were then in the camp a great number of Romans, his accomplices in the enterprise, as good men as he; and to show what a one he himself was, having caused a pan of burning coals to be brought, he saw and endured his arm to broil and roast, till the king himself, conceiving horror at the sight, commanded the pan to be taken away. Item, there is a saying that it is a good thing to have a good name, that is to say, credit and a good repute; but besides this, it is really convenient to have a well-sounding name, such as is easy of pronunciation and easy to be remembered, by reason that kings and other great persons do by that means the more easily know and the more hardly forget us; and indeed of our own servants we more frequently call and employ those whose names are most ready upon the tongue. keywords: arms; battle; body; condition; day; death; end; enemy; est; fear; fortune; good; great; honour; king; letters; life; man; manner; means; men; mind; money; names; pain; people; place; pleasure; reason; things; thou; time; tis; war; way; world cache: 3587.txt plain text: 3587.txt item: #305 of 722 id: 3588 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08 date: None words: 17018 flesch: 60 summary: The better half of their lives they lived upon the glory they had acquired in their youth; great men after, 'tis true, in comparison of others; but I do not know whether it may have the same operation upon other men that it has upon me, but when I hear our architects thunder out their bombast words of pilasters, architraves, and cornices, of the Corinthian and Doric orders, and suchlike jargon, my imagination is presently possessed with the palace of Apollidon; when, after all, I find them but the paltry pieces of my own kitchen door. keywords: affairs; age; arms; caesar; death; divine; god; good; honour; horses; judgment; king; life; man; men; opinion; people; present; reason; sort; soul; subject; things; time; tis; use; way; words; years cache: 3588.txt plain text: 3588.txt item: #306 of 722 id: 3589 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09 date: None words: 20630 flesch: 57 summary: All story is full of such examples, and every man is able to produce so many to himself, or out of his own practice or observation, that I sometimes wonder to see men of understanding give themselves the trouble of sorting these pieces, considering that irresolution appears to me to be the most common and manifest vice of our nature witness the famous verse of the player Publius: Malum consilium est, quod mutari non potest. [Such are the minds of men, that they change as the light with which father Jupiter himself has illumined the increasing earth. keywords: body; condition; conscience; day; death; end; enemy; fear; fortune; good; having; judgment; life; man; means; men; nature; pain; people; pieces; reason; self; soul; things; thou; time; tis; use; vice; virtue; wine cache: 3589.txt plain text: 3589.txt item: #307 of 722 id: 3590 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10 date: None words: 24688 flesch: 53 summary: No corruption could so universally have infected men that some one would not escape the contagion which makes me suspect that his own taste was vicious, whence it might happen that he judged other men by himself. He judged other men by himself I cannot well refuse to play with my dog I do not much lament the dead, and should envy them rather I had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old age keywords: affairs; affection; age; arms; children; condition; death; father; good; great; having; honour; judgment; knowledge; life; man; men; nature; opinion; order; pleasure; reason; soul; things; time; tis; truth; use; virtue; work; years cache: 3590.txt plain text: 3590.txt item: #308 of 722 id: 3591 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11 date: None words: 26137 flesch: 57 summary: Neither, indeed, have I so great an intimacy with many men as is requisite to make a right judgment of them; and those with whom my condition makes me the most frequent, are, for the most part, men who have little care of the culture of the soul, but that look upon honour as the sum of all blessings, and valour as the height of all perfection. And whoever will observe will, I believe, find it experimentally true, that occasions of the least lustre are ever the most dangerous; and that in the wars of our own times there have more brave men been lost in occasions of little moment, and in the dispute about some little paltry fort, than in places of greatest importance, and where their valour might have been more honourably employed. keywords: actions; beauty; contrary; death; die; est; fear; fortune; glory; god; good; honour; ill; judgment; knowledge; life; man; means; men; mind; non; opinion; people; place; play; public; reason; reputation; soul; things; time; tis; truth; use; value; virtue; way; world cache: 3591.txt plain text: 3591.txt item: #309 of 722 id: 3592 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12 date: None words: 23451 flesch: 56 summary: But as Philopoemen condemned wrestling, wherein he excelled, because the preparatives that were therein employed were differing from those that appertain to military discipline, to which alone he conceived men of honour ought wholly to apply themselves; so it seems to me that this address to which we form our limbs, those writhings and motions young men are taught in this new school, are not only of no use, but rather contrary and hurtful to the practice of fight in battle; and also our people commonly make use of particular weapons, and peculiarly designed for duel; and I have seen, when it has been disapproved, that a gentleman challenged to fight with rapier and poignard appeared in the array of a man-at-arms, and that another should take his cloak instead of his poignard. Of which there are other examples, but this is one: Philistus, general of the naval army of Dionysius the younger against the Syracusans, presented them battle which was sharply disputed, their forces being equal: in this engagement, he had the better at the first, through his own valour: but the Syracusans drawing about his gally to environ him, after having done great things in his own person to disengage himself and hoping for no relief, with his own hand he took away the life he had so liberally, and in vain, exposed to the enemy. keywords: age; anger; arms; cause; chapter; children; day; death; emperor; end; fear; fortune; hand; having; honour; king; life; man; manner; men; people; person; place; pleasure; reason; things; time; tis; use; valour; virtue; war; way; words cache: 3592.txt plain text: 3592.txt item: #310 of 722 id: 3593 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 13 date: None words: 29885 flesch: 49 summary: There might, on the contrary, many examples be produced of great men whom pleasures have made to neglect the conduct of their affairs, as Mark Antony and others; but where love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal forces, I make no doubt but the last would win the prize. For besides that it is a disease very much to be feared in itself, it begins with me after a more sharp and severe manner than it is used to do with other men. keywords: age; army; art; body; caesar; condition; contrary; day; death; disease; example; force; fortune; good; health; honour; life; man; men; nature; opinion; people; physic; physicians; reason; sick; things; time; tis; use; virtue; war; way; world; years cache: 3593.txt plain text: 3593.txt item: #311 of 722 id: 3594 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14 date: None words: 23778 flesch: 55 summary: --Cicero, De Offic., iii. 17.] insomuch that the sage Dandamis, hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras, and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which, to second and authorise, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigour; many vicious actions are introduced, not only by their permission, but by their advice: Ex senatus consultis plebisquescitis scelera exercentur. For private man, as he was, it is more easy; and in such kind of work, I think a man may justly not be ambitious to offer and insinuate himself. keywords: actions; age; business; conscience; contrary; death; fortune; good; hand; justice; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; need; opinion; people; place; pleasure; public; reason; soul; things; thoughts; time; tis; use; way; world cache: 3594.txt plain text: 3594.txt item: #312 of 722 id: 3595 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15 date: None words: 26172 flesch: 62 summary: --Virgil, Georg., ii. 511.] and withdraw them from the sight of other men; who avoid health and cheerfulness, as dangerous and prejudicial qualities. Order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune; that good men may curse the occasion, and that he who wrongs you may tremble but to think on't. keywords: age; beauty; body; contrary; custom; desire; est; eyes; favour; god; good; hand; honour; husband; know; ladies; leave; life; love; man; marriage; men; mind; nature; people; plato; pleasure; reason; soul; things; thou; time; tis; use; venus; virtue; way; wife; women; words; world cache: 3595.txt plain text: 3595.txt item: #313 of 722 id: 3596 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16 date: None words: 21649 flesch: 55 summary: Melanthius being asked what he thought of the tragedy of Dionysius, I could not see it, said he, it was so clouded with language; so most of those who judge of the discourses of great men ought to say, I did not understand his words, they were so clouded with gravity, grandeur, and majesty. 'Tis for the most ignorant to look at other men over the shoulder, always returning from the combat full of joy and triumph. keywords: advantage; day; end; folly; fortune; gold; good; judge; judgment; king; knowledge; life; man; matter; men; mind; opinion; people; place; reason; right; sort; thing; time; tis; use; way; words; world cache: 3596.txt plain text: 3596.txt item: #314 of 722 id: 3597 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17 date: None words: 26460 flesch: 63 summary: They were both variously great men, and certainly, according to the age, rare and great, each of them in his kind: but what destiny was it that placed them in these times, men so remote from and so disproportioned to our corruption and intestine tumults? [The gifts of great men are unknown to me. keywords: affairs; age; care; condition; death; evil; fortune; god; good; government; house; humour; laws; liberty; life; look; love; man; men; mind; nature; particular; people; place; pleasure; reason; sort; state; things; time; tis; travel; way; world cache: 3597.txt plain text: 3597.txt item: #315 of 722 id: 3598 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18 date: None words: 28505 flesch: 60 summary: Two of my acquaintance, great men in this faculty, have, in my opinion, lost half, in refusing to publish at forty years old, that they might stay till threescore. Of Physiognomy. CHAPTER X OF MANAGING THE WILL Few things, in comparison of what commonly affect other men, move, or, to say better, possess me: for 'tis but reason they should concern a man, provided they do not possess him. keywords: affairs; age; cause; contrary; day; death; end; fortune; good; having; health; ignorance; knowledge; life; man; means; men; mind; nature; opinion; people; place; reason; right; socrates; sort; soul; things; time; tis; truth; use; way; world; years cache: 3598.txt plain text: 3598.txt item: #316 of 722 id: 3599 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19 date: None words: 25823 flesch: 59 summary: [Young men are taken away by violence, old men by maturity. This happened in my time: certain men were condemned to die for a murder committed; their sentence, if not pronounced, at least determined and concluded on. keywords: age; art; body; day; disease; end; est; good; health; laws; life; man; men; mind; nature; need; opinion; people; plato; pleasure; reason; sleep; socrates; subject; thee; things; thou; time; tis; truth; use; way; world cache: 3599.txt plain text: 3599.txt item: #317 of 722 id: 35993 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha date: None words: 233136 flesch: 67 summary: I am Sancho Panza, his squire, and he is that wayworn knight Don Quixote de la Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Figure. quoth Don Quixote. keywords: account; adventure; answer; arms; ass; barber; beauty; body; chapter; company; curate; day; days; death; don antonio; don diego; don fernando; don louis; don quixote; don sancho; duchess; duke; dulcinea; errant; eyes; face; father; fortune; friend; friend sancho; gentleman; good; governor; great; ground; hand; head; heart; heaven; history; hold; home; honour; house; kind; knight; knight don; know; lady; leave; left; let; life; like; long; look; lord; love; man; mancha; manner; master; master don; men; mind; new; order; people; person; place; pray; present; priest; quoth don; quoth sancho; rest; return; right; rozinante; sancho; sancho panza; saw; set; shall; short; sigã±or don; sir; squire; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; toboso; truth; way; wife; words; world; worship cache: 35993.txt plain text: 35993.txt item: #318 of 722 id: 36013 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Mysterious Sketch date: None words: 5353 flesch: 86 summary: But Van Spreckdal did not seem to pay any attention to these things and promptly sat down at my little table: Mister Venius, he went on, I've come to... After a minute Van Spreckdal raised his head: Are you the author of this sketch? keywords: door; eyes; face; head; man; rap; sketch; spreckdal; van cache: 36013.txt plain text: 36013.txt item: #319 of 722 id: 36040 author: McCarthy, Justin title: George Sand date: None words: 7386 flesch: 58 summary: Women who never saw one of her books,--nay, who never heard even her _nom de plume_, have been stirred by emotions of doubt or fear, or repining or ambition, which they never would have known but for George Sand, and perhaps but for George Sand's uncongenial marriage. I have sometimes felt tempted thus to lose myself in speculating on what might have happened if the woman whom all the world knows as George Sand had been happily married in her youth to the husband of her choice. keywords: genius; george; george sand; life; literature; marriage; men; sand; society; woman; world cache: 36040.txt plain text: 36040.txt item: #320 of 722 id: 36098 author: Baudelaire, Charles title: The Flowers of Evil date: None words: 8038 flesch: 78 summary: does thy heart not at times fly away? does thy heart not at times fly away? keywords: autumn; eyes; heart; love; neath; night; sea; skies; sky; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thine; thou; thy; times cache: 36098.txt plain text: 36098.txt item: #321 of 722 id: 36174 author: Wilkinson, William Cleaver title: French Classics date: None words: 123244 flesch: 71 summary: Amiel judges the present age and the current tendency of things: The age of great men is going.... Other literary men have been egotists--since. keywords: age; author; book; bossuet; case; character; chateaubriand; corneille; course; day; death; end; english; example; eyes; fact; fame; father; feel; following; form; france; french; friend; fénelon; genius; god; good; great; hand; heart; history; hugo; human; kind; king; lamartine; letters; life; literary; literature; little; louis; love; madame; man; men; mind; molière; montaigne; nature; order; pascal; people; place; poet; point; power; present; quality; rabelais; racine; readers; rousseau; sand; second; self; sense; spirit; style; subject; taste; thing; thought; time; truth; victor; voltaire; way; woman; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 36174.txt plain text: 36174.txt item: #322 of 722 id: 36199 author: Gyp title: Bijou date: None words: 64939 flesch: 86 summary: II. IN the evening as they were driving through Pont-sur-Loire on their way back to Bracieux, M. de Rueille said to Denyse: There is no mistake about it, Bijou, my dear with you there is no chance of passing by unnoticed. M. de Rueille is vexed with Mademoiselle Denyse! Come here, Bijou! called out the marchioness, and the young girl tripped across the room to her grandmamma, and knelt down on the cushions at her feet. keywords: bijou; bracieux; clagny; come; denyse; eyes; giraud; good; grandmamma; jean; jeanne; know; little; looking; love; m. de; madame; man; marchioness; pierrot; room; rueille; time; way; young cache: 36199.txt plain text: 36199.txt item: #323 of 722 id: 3625 author: Keim, Albert title: Honoré de Balzac date: None words: 45507 flesch: 63 summary: Honore de Balzac says that his father was secretary to the Grand Council under Louis XV, and Laure Surville, his sister, wrote that under Louis XVI he was attorney to the Council. Honore de Balzac received visits from his parents at Easter and at the time of the distribution of prizes. keywords: balzac; berny; business; cost; day; days; de balzac; eyes; family; father; form; francs; friends; future; good; hand; hanska; heart; home; honore; honore de; hope; house; ideas; laure; letters; life; louis; man; marriage; men; mme; money; months; mother; new; order; paris; rue; second; set; sister; society; son; sort; spite; time; way; woman; work; writing; years cache: 3625.txt plain text: 3625.txt item: #324 of 722 id: 36448 author: Symonds, John Addington title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 2 date: None words: 214428 flesch: 62 summary: We are moving among Italian _bourgeois_ in the masquerade of heroes and princesses. beauty of the work, iv. 131; has the childlike character of Italian _trecento_ prose, 131; S. Anthony preaching to the fishes, quoted as a specimen of its style, 134 Firenzuola, Agnolo, the friend of Aretino, v. 83; their correspondence, 410 _note_ 1; a member of the _Vignajuoli_ keywords: 114; academy; account; act i.; action; age; ages; alexander; andrea; antonio; architecture; aretino; ariosto; aristotle; art; attention; author; bandello; beauty; bembo; bernardo; berni; boccaccio; boiardo; bologna; book; borgia; burlesque; canto; capitoli; cardinal; casa; century; chapter; character; charles; che; chief; christian; church; cities; city; close; colonna; comedies; comedy; comparison; composition; conception; conditions; contemporary; contrast; correspondence; corruption; court; criticism; culture; dante; day; death; della; description; dialogue; divine; doni; drama; duke; earth; edition; effect; elements; epic; epoch; europe; eyes; fact; family; fancy; far; father; feeling; ferrara; florence; florentine; folengo; footnote; force; form; francesco; french; frescoes; friend; friendship; furioso; general; genius; giovanni; god; golden; good; greek; guicciardini; hands; heart; history; home; honor; house; human; humor; husband; i. p.; ideal; iii; importance; influence; interest; italian; italy; king; language; lasca; latin; learning; leo; letters; life; light; lines; literature; lodovico; lorenzo; love; lucrezia; maccaronic; machiavelli; man; manners; mantua; maria; marriage; material; matter; medici; medieval; member; men; method; michelangelo; middle; milan; mind; modern; molza; moment; moral; mother; movement; murder; naples; nation; national; nature; new; noble; non; note; novelle; object; order; original; orlando; padua; painters; painting; papacy; passage; passion; pastoral; people; period; petrarch; philosophy; pictures; pietro; più; place; play; pleasure; poems; poet; poetry; point; poliziano; pomponazzi; portrait; power; present; princes; prologue; prose; public; purpose; qualities; quarrel; question; reason; relation; religion; renaissance; revival; roman; romance; romantic; rome; sannazzaro; satire; savonarola; scene; scholars; school; science; second; self; sense; series; set; siena; sixteenth; society; son; sonnets; soul; spirit; state; studies; study; style; subject; system; tale; tasso; thought; time; tragedy; translation; treatment; trissino; truth; tuscan; type; urbino; use; venetian; venice; verse; view; viii; vittoria; vol; way; wife; women; words; work; world; writers; years cache: 36448.txt plain text: 36448.txt item: #325 of 722 id: 36479 author: Wicksteed, Philip H. (Philip Henry) title: Dante: Six Sermons date: None words: 43869 flesch: 85 summary: [Illustration] LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1879 (_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_) _PREFACE. AS A CITIZEN OF FLORENCE_ There are probably few competent judges who would hesitate to give Dante a place of honour in the triad of the world's greatest poets; and amongst these three Dante occupies a position wholly his own, peerless and unapproached in history. keywords: 16mo; author; beatrice; church; cloth; crown 8vo; dante; death; demy 8vo; divine; earth; edition; fcap; florence; footnote; frontispiece; god; heart; heaven; hell; history; human; illustrated; illustrations; inferno; john; justice; life; light; love; m.a; man; new; paradise; peace; poem; poet; portrait; post 8vo; power; price; purgatory; rev; royal; second; self; series; sin; soul; things; thou; thought; time; virgil; vols; volume; works; years cache: 36479.txt plain text: 36479.txt item: #326 of 722 id: 3664 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Yvette date: None words: 24924 flesch: 85 summary: Said Servigny to her: As many follies as YOU may please, Mam'zelle. But to accomplish that she must have been of good birth, so that, when the exasperated father should approach her with having stolen his son's love, she might say in a proud voice: My name is Yvette Obardi. keywords: air; bed; daughter; eyes; girl; head; life; love; mam'zelle; mamma; man; marquise; mother; muscade; people; prince; room; saval; servigny; thought; time; women; yvette cache: 3664.txt plain text: 3664.txt item: #327 of 722 id: 36658 author: None title: Tales from the Old French date: None words: 52003 flesch: 82 summary: Then she directed that the others be made ready; richly and nobly she appareled them with great love. This day a year past I was here, as vain and foolish as thou knowest, fair sweet father, and told thee all my sins in anger and sore wrath, without fear or repentance; and now I would tell them again in great love and great compunction, if it may be that God, who is life eternal, grant me to-day a good end. keywords: damsel; day; eliduc; fair; father; god; good; hath; heart; hermit; king; knight; know; land; let; lord; love; man; men; right; saith; set; sir; tell; thee; thou; thought; time; wife; wise cache: 36658.txt plain text: 36658.txt item: #328 of 722 id: 36858 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire date: None words: 63211 flesch: 87 summary: Old men who had been nailed for ten years to their arm-chairs, and who never thought of moving, were oppressed by grief at knowing that the gates remained shut. I have seen old men in despair because they had nothing to snuff; they even went so far as to snuff ashes; some at this time smoked the leaves of the large walnut-tree by the arsenal, and liked it well. keywords: arms; burguet; children; city; day; door; end; eyes; father; fire; fritz; good; hand; head; house; left; little; lord; man; men; moses; o'clock; people; place; right; room; saw; sergeant; soldiers; sorlé; street; sâfel; things; thought; time; way; wife; wine; years; zeffen cache: 36858.txt plain text: 36858.txt item: #329 of 722 id: 36859 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Invasion of France in 1814 date: None words: 66307 flesch: 83 summary: At night, when the moon sheds her light upon this field and those immense stones, all covered with snow, when the north wind blows among the frost-covered branches, making them rattle and clatter like cymbals, you might fancy you heard the wild cry of the Germans at the moment of surprise, the shrieks of the women, the neighings of the horses, the rumbling of the chariots in the defile; for it seems that these people brought with them, in their skin-covered carriages, women, children, old men, and all that they possessed in gold, and silver, and movables, like the Germans setting out for America. The same day, toward five in the evening, he reached the summit of the Hengst, and halted with the patriarch of forest-hunters, old Materne. keywords: arms; catherine; claude; day; divès; doctor; door; end; enemy; eyes; face; farm; fire; frantz; gaspard; germans; good; hand; head; hullin; jean; jérome; left; lefèvre; little; look; louise; man; marc; materne; men; moment; people; place; poor; red; right; road; round; saw; snow; thee; thou; thought; time; voice; way; yégof cache: 36859.txt plain text: 36859.txt item: #330 of 722 id: 36860 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Plébiscite; or, A Miller's Story of the War By One of the 7,500,000 Who Voted "Yes" date: None words: 82837 flesch: 77 summary: To establish his dynasty he took an oath before God and man to the Republic, and then he trampled upon his oath and the Republic; he brought destruction upon thousands of good men, who were defending the laws against him; he has enriched thousands of thieves who uphold him; he has corrupted our youth by the evil example of the prosperity of brigands, and the misfortunes of the well-disposed; he has brought low everything that was worthy of respect, he has exalted everything which excites disgust and contempt. Good man! keywords: alsace; army; children; christian; coming; country; cousin; cousin george; day; door; emperor; end; eyes; france; french; george; germans; good; grédel; head; home; horses; house; jacob; left; little; man; men; mill; moment; money; monsieur; morning; officers; paris; people; phalsbourg; place; prussians; right; saw; soldiers; sous; things; thought; time; town; village; want; war; way; wife; wine cache: 36860.txt plain text: 36860.txt item: #331 of 722 id: 37225 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 date: None words: 54110 flesch: 79 summary: You see, dear Monsieur Lebrenn, that I know you to be the very cream of honesty. I beg your pardon, monsieur; plain people like us-- Well, dear Monsieur Lebrenn, in the days of chivalry, tourneys were held, and at those tourneys several of my ancestors, whom you see there, and he waved his hand towards the pictures, took a hand. keywords: arms; boy; children; count; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; eyes; family; father; fla; george; gildas; girl; grandfather; hand; head; jeanike; lebrenn; linendraper; madam; madam lebrenn; man; merchant; moment; monsieur; monsieur george; monsieur lebrenn; mother; order; people; place; plouernel; republic; right; sacrovir; shop; son; street; time; wife; words; years cache: 37225.txt plain text: 37225.txt item: #332 of 722 id: 37285 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories date: None words: 277099 flesch: 74 summary: This great axiom, uttered by Catherine, would seem to have ruled all the policy of this merchant race, which never lacked great men till its destinies had grown great, and which broke down a little too soon under the degeneracy which is always the end of royal dynasties and great families. I will follow the example of a king who pacified his realm by striking down greater men than you are who dared to defy him. keywords: age; air; blois; blood; body; boy; brother; calvin; cardinal; catherine; catherine de; charles; child; christophe; church; château; cornélius; court; crown; daughter; day; days; de condé; dear; death; die; don; door; doubt; duc; duke; earth; end; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; faith; father; feet; fine; form; france; francis; friend; gambara; general; genius; gentlemen; girl; god; good; grand; great; guises; hand; head; heart; heaven; henri; high; history; hope; hour; house; human; husband; ideas; infinite; juan; king; lambert; law; leave; lecamus; left; life; light; look; louis; love; madame; man; marie; master; medici; men; mind; minna; moment; monsieur; mother; music; natural; nature; number; paris; people; place; poor; power; prince; prince de; queen; queen catherine; room; round; royal; saint; saw; science; second; secret; seraphita; set; silence; sire; son; soul; speak; spirit; state; strength; swedenborg; tell; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; wilfrid; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 37285.txt plain text: 37285.txt item: #333 of 722 id: 3733 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel date: None words: 52208 flesch: 88 summary: Walter thanks M. Georges Duroy very much, and is at home on Saturdays. Take Duroy, who is here, with you and initiate him into the business. keywords: day; door; duroy; evening; eyes; forestier; francs; friend; georges; good; hand; head; home; husband; left; love; madeleine; man; marelle; mme; o'clock; order; room; suzanne; thought; time; walter; wife; woman cache: 3733.txt plain text: 3733.txt item: #334 of 722 id: 37399 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc date: None words: 102725 flesch: 75 summary: With her mind upon the chaste motives that had decided her to assume male attire so long as her divine mission compelled her to live in camps near soldiers; remembering also with what zeal priests had admitted her to communion when, clad in her martial outfit, she came to thank God for having granted her victory, Joan Darc asks herself by what mental aberration another set of priests of Christ can see in her a blasphemer and an idolatress after the fashion of the gentiles! CANON MAURICE (reads)--'Sixthly: Joan, you said that often you caused the divine names of Jesus and Mary to be placed at the head of the letters, which you addressed to captains and others, and that afterwards, at the bottom of the said letters, you drew the revered sign of the cross. Joan Darc smiles disdainfully at hearing these ecclesiastics condemn her for having endeavored to escape her enemies who sold her for ten thousand gold sous to the English. CANON MAURICE (reads)--'Ninthly: Joan, you said your saints promised paradise to you if you preserved your virginity and devoted yourself to God, and that you were as certain of paradise as if you were now in the enjoyment of the bliss of the blessed. keywords: answer; arms; battle; bishop; bishop cauchon; blood; canon; captains; cauchon; charles; church; daughter; day; dear; death; enemy; english; eyes; face; father; fear; france; french; gaul; girl; god; good; hands; head; help; holy; inspired; james; jeannette; joan; joan darc; john; judges; king; left; long; loyseleur; maid; man; master; men; merlin; moment; mother; order; orleans; people; poor; saints; sire; soldiers; thought; time; town; vii; virgin; voice; vol; war; woman; words cache: 37399.txt plain text: 37399.txt item: #335 of 722 id: 37416 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Princess of Bagdad: A Play In Three Acts date: None words: 18295 flesch: 91 summary: _ NOURVADY _bows to_ LIONNETTE _and goes out by the left, passing in front of_ JOHN, _who, standing with his arms folded, pretends not to see the provoking salute_ NOURVADY _gives him_.) to the room at the end, where they remain some moments talking in sight of the public; and, when_ JOHN _is gone away, they remain there, walking up and down, during the scene between_ LIONNETTE _and_ NOURVADY.) keywords: commissary; godler; house; john; lionnette; love; man; mother; nourvady; richard; trévelé cache: 37416.txt plain text: 37416.txt item: #336 of 722 id: 37453 author: Kock, Paul de title: The Barber of Paris date: None words: 122194 flesch: 81 summary: It was really for little Blanche that somebody was singing and accompanying himself on the guitar. As to little Blanche, I have a suspicion that they are keeping her in a subterranean dungeon. keywords: barber; blanche; chaudoreille; chevalier; child; château; day; dear; devil; door; evening; eyes; face; friend; girl; going; good; hand; house; julia; leave; left; love; mademoiselle; man; marcel; marguerite; marquis; master; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; night; paris; people; place; poor; room; shop; speak; sword; tell; time; touquet; urbain; villebelle; voice; way; wish; woman; years cache: 37453.txt plain text: 37453.txt item: #337 of 722 id: 3748 author: Verne, Jules title: A Journey into the Interior of the Earth date: None words: 74555 flesch: 81 summary: As for me, after long resistance, I was overcome by sleep, and fell off at the end of the sofa, while uncle Liedenbrock went on calculating and rubbing out his calculations. But my geological instinct was stronger than my prudence, and uncle Liedenbrock heard my exclamation. keywords: air; axel; centre; chapter; course; crater; day; days; doubt; earth; end; eyes; feet; fire; gallery; globe; good; granite; gräuben; guide; half; hand; hans; head; heat; hour; iceland; lava; lay; leagues; left; liedenbrock; light; look; man; mind; moment; place; point; professor; raft; reason; rocks; round; saknussemm; sea; shore; silence; snæfell; surface; thought; time; uncle; wall; water; way; wind; words; world cache: 3748.txt plain text: 3748.txt item: #338 of 722 id: 37599 author: Coster, Charles de title: The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere date: None words: 99245 flesch: 87 summary: The procession continued, until at last Ulenspiegel was left alone with the Landgrave. But at last Ulenspiegel made a sign, and when silence had at last been restored he spake, saying: You are here, my friends, in our power. keywords: answer; arms; bailiff; blood; body; claes; crying; day; days; dead; death; drink; duke; emperor; eyes; face; father; fire; flanders; florins; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; katheline; king; lady; lamme; let; look; lord; love; majesty; man; men; money; mother; nele; night; people; poor; prince; round; said; sea; soetkin; soldiers; son; tell; time; time ulenspiegel; ulenspiegel; voice; water; way; wife; wine; woman cache: 37599.txt plain text: 37599.txt item: #339 of 722 id: 37635 author: Smith, George Barnett title: Victor Hugo: His Life and Work date: None words: 64305 flesch: 65 summary: One of them is the volume of the _Contemplations_, paid for by public subscription when Victor Hugo was in exile, and presented to Madame Victor Hugo. M. Victor Hugo spent the night by the side of the mother and the corpse.' keywords: author; book; century; chamber; character; charles; children; day; death; drama; england; following; france; french; friends; general; general hugo; genius; glory; good; government; heart; history; honour; house; human; humanity; king; liberty; life; light; literature; louis; love; m. hugo; madame hugo; man; men; mother; napoleon; nature; new; occasion; order; paris; people; personal; piece; place; play; poems; poet; power; public; second; social; stage; subject; thought; time; victor hugo; way; work; world; writer; years cache: 37635.txt plain text: 37635.txt item: #340 of 722 id: 37668 author: Coster, Charles de title: Flemish Legends date: None words: 54746 flesch: 86 summary: Ah, 'tis ale of fair repute throughout the land, this ale, fit for kings or for good devils like yourself! Yes, said the devil, those were good times. keywords: anne; brother; coming; day; devil; drink; gans; god; good; halewyn; head; heart; house; jesus; lady; lord; magtelt; maid; man; master; men; mie; miserable; night; roel; saying; sir; smetse; smith; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; way; wife cache: 37668.txt plain text: 37668.txt item: #341 of 722 id: 37979 author: Verga, Giovanni title: Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga date: None words: 28846 flesch: 84 summary: Take a good dose of _ecalibbiso_ tea, which does not cost anything, suggested _massaro_ Just take example from poor _comare_ keywords: ass; daughter; day; eyes; face; fair; girl; gnà; good; gramigna; hands; head; house; jeli; joseph; mara; massaro; mother; padrone; saint; son; time; turiddu; way; white; wife cache: 37979.txt plain text: 37979.txt item: #342 of 722 id: 3808 author: Verne, Jules title: Robur the Conqueror date: None words: 52621 flesch: 78 summary: Hence we can look forward to such contrivances-- Which would never fly! said secretary Phil Evans. Phil Evans would have passed for one of the happiest men in the world, and even in the United States, if it had not been for Uncle Prudent. keywords: aeronef; ahead; air; albatross; atmosphere; cabin; colleagues; day; deck; end; engineer; escape; evans; feet; flying; frycollin; ground; hour; institute; island; left; machine; master; men; miles; moment; morning; new; night; o'clock; phil evans; power; president; prudent; robur; screws; sea; secretary; ship; speed; time; tom; turner; uncle; uncle prudent; way; weldon; wind; work; world cache: 3808.txt plain text: 3808.txt item: #343 of 722 id: 38110 author: None title: Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends date: None words: 74589 flesch: 84 summary: The stories written by such men as these are racy of their soil, and give the very form and pressure of their times. He bade him also to seek out such knights as should pass through the town to refresh and solace themselves in the company of his lord. keywords: amile; amis; aucassin; child; count; daughter; day; days; emperor; father; friend; god; good; graelent; hand; heart; house; king; knight; lady; land; lord; love; man; men; nicolette; place; right; robert; set; sir; sire; son; thee; thing; thou; time; way; wife; words; world; years cache: 38110.txt plain text: 38110.txt item: #344 of 722 id: 38142 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence date: None words: 125164 flesch: 74 summary: you have calmed madame, and you must stay, M. David, because, if left alone, she will have trouble with poor M. Frederick. Indeed, on yesterday, M. David, he said to me, cheerfully: 'Mother, now when I see the castle of Pont Brillant rising in the distance,--that once made me so unhappy,--I throw upon it only a glance of friendly regard and defiance.' And you will see, madame, if, in eight or ten years, the name of Frederick Bastien will not resound more gloriously than that of the young marquis. keywords: boat; brillant; child; come; d'infreville; david; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; florence; frederick; frederick bastien; friend; good; half; hand; heart; henri; hope; house; husband; jacques; left; letter; life; little; love; luceval; m. bastien; m. david; madame; madame bastien; madame d'infreville; marguerite; marie; marquis; michel; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; night; pont; poor; room; son; tell; thought; time; valentine; voice; way; wife; woman; words; yes cache: 38142.txt plain text: 38142.txt item: #345 of 722 id: 38165 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Cabin [La barraca] date: None words: 60216 flesch: 76 summary: But doubtless the señor, not wishing to arise at that hour, had let his turn go, and at five, when the water was intended for others, he had raised the flood-gate without permission from anybody (the _first_ offence), and attempted to water his fields, resolving to oppose, by main force, the orders of the _atandador_, which constituted the _third_ and last offence. By Pedro A. de Alarcón_ CAESAR OR NOTHING _ keywords: arms; barret; batiste; bed; blood; cane; city; copa; day; don; door; eyes; face; family; farm; father; fields; girl; good; hands; head; house; huerta; land; life; man; master; mother; new; night; order; people; pepeta; pimentó; plain; red; road; roseta; tavern; teresa; time; valencia; water; white; wife; women; words; work; years cache: 38165.txt plain text: 38165.txt item: #346 of 722 id: 3822 author: Lawton, Frederick title: Balzac date: None words: 108419 flesch: 66 summary: In the _Comedy_, the number of _dramatis personae_ is exceedingly large. Perhaps, after all, in such connection, the one or two of Balzac's plays that went so resolutely off the old lines--the _Resources of Quinola_ and _Mercadet_,--may have served, in remembrance, despite their insignificance beside the novels, which were the true drama, to awaken the attention of professional dramatists, especially as one after another story of the _Comedy_ was dramatized. keywords: account; author; balzac; book; capital; century; characters; chief; comedie; comedy; country; date; daughter; day; days; de balzac; death; des; doctor; end; eve; family; father; fiction; fine; francs; french; friends; general; genius; good; hand; hanska; head; heart; history; home; honore; house; hugo; husband; influence; kind; lady; laure; law; left; letters; life; literature; louis; love; madame; madame balzac; madame de; man; marriage; men; mind; money; monsieur; months; mother; nature; novelist; novels; number; order; paris; people; piece; place; play; present; publisher; read; real; relations; room; rue; saint; school; second; sister; society; son; sort; speak; story; style; subject; things; thought; time; visit; way; werdet; wife; woman; work; world; writing; years cache: 3822.txt plain text: 3822.txt item: #347 of 722 id: 38247 author: Coster, Charles de title: The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere date: None words: 84793 flesch: 85 summary: VIII Claes having caught a big salmon, that salmon was eaten one Sunday by himself and by Soetkin, Katheline, and little Ulenspiegel, but Katheline ate no more than a bird. Now on the first of April Ulenspiegel did as he had been bidden, and posted himself in the chimney. keywords: air; arms; art; aye; baes; black; claes; coming; dame; day; days; dog; dost; drink; eat; emperor; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; flanders; florins; folk; god; good; hands; having; head; heart; holy; house; katheline; king; lamme; left; like; look; love; low; majesty; man; master; men; mother; nele; night; pay; philip; red; saw; seeing; soetkin; son; thee; thou; thy; time; town; ulenspiegel; water; way; wife; wine; woman; word cache: 38247.txt plain text: 38247.txt item: #348 of 722 id: 38255 author: Bazin, René title: Autumn Glory; Or, The Toilers of the Field date: None words: 66830 flesch: 83 summary: Following them came the farmers and their wives; widows, distinguishable by the band of velvet in front of their coifs; older men, men of position; these all issuing from the nave, among them many a grave face still under the influence of devotion, in which like walking saints they seemed wholly absorbed. André replied, too abruptly: She did for you once, old man. keywords: andré; coming; cripple; day; door; driot; eléonore; eyes; face; farmer; father; françois; fromentière; girl; good; hand; head; home; house; jean; la fromentière; left; little; look; lumineau; man; marais; mathurin; nesmy; night; place; room; rose; round; rousille; sallertaine; son; standing; thought; time; toussaint; voice; way; words; work; young cache: 38255.txt plain text: 38255.txt item: #349 of 722 id: 38293 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: The Joy of Captain Ribot date: None words: 63716 flesch: 80 summary: I found myself happy, and this happiness incited me to show towards Doña Cristina great deference and gentleness of speech. And when I read the book, I thought that A Married Woman would have been a good name for the story, so nobly and so truly does it present a type of the true and devoted wife in Cristina Martí--one of the great creations in modern literature. keywords: amparo; captain; castell; cristina; day; doña; emilio; eyes; face; friend; good; hand; head; heart; house; husband; isabelita; lady; law; life; little; look; love; man; martí; moment; mother; night; place; pleasure; ribot; room; sabas; soul; thought; time; valencia; voice; way; wife; woman; words; world cache: 38293.txt plain text: 38293.txt item: #350 of 722 id: 38331 author: Kock, Paul de title: Frédérique, vol. 1 date: None words: 110382 flesch: 86 summary: The grisette likes young men; the lorette prefers men of mature years. Isn't it true that young men are brought into the world to marry young women?' 'I don't know, mademoiselle.' 'What's that? keywords: armantine; balloquet; baron; dance; dauberny; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fellow; friend; frédérique; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; husband; lady; leave; left; little; look; love; madame; madame dauberny; mademoiselle; man; messieurs; mignonne; mind; moment; money; monsieur; monsieur sordeville; pay; people; place; poor; right; rochebrune; room; saying; sordeville; speak; talk; thing; thought; time; way; woman; word; work; yes; young cache: 38331.txt plain text: 38331.txt item: #351 of 722 id: 38332 author: Kock, Paul de title: Frédérique, vol. 2 date: None words: 109303 flesch: 88 summary: I walked into the reception room with him, and there, after bidding me adieu, Ballangier murmured: She's mighty pretty, that little woman sewing in there! I don't believe in these _friendships_ between ladies and young men. keywords: arm; balloquet; colinet; concierge; day; door; dupont; eyes; face; find; friend; frédérique; georgette; girl; good; hand; head; home; house; leave; left; little; look; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; mardeille; mignonne; moment; monsieur; morrow; neighbor; paris; poor; pretty; right; room; rosette; saying; thought; time; want; way; woman; yes; young cache: 38332.txt plain text: 38332.txt item: #352 of 722 id: 38393 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 date: None words: 69252 flesch: 77 summary: Don Rosendo Belinchon, a cod merchant of such renown, a dealer in toothpicks as well? No, Don Rosendo did not deal in toothpicks; he made them. Then, hearing Don Rosendo touch upon the matter of the slaughter-house, he left his seat, and, arriving in the first row, cried out excitedly, This is not fair play. keywords: belinchon; cecilia; daughter; day; days; don; don melchor; don roque; don rosendo; door; doña; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; gonzalo; good; hand; head; house; left; letter; life; light; look; love; man; matter; maza; men; mind; mother; pablito; paper; paula; people; peña; place; room; sarrio; sea; señor; silence; sister; smile; thing; thought; time; tone; town; venturita; voice; way; years cache: 38393.txt plain text: 38393.txt item: #353 of 722 id: 38394 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 date: None words: 69621 flesch: 78 summary: I think it was Don Gonzalo. What resources does the town offer to young men? keywords: belinchon; cecilia; child; day; days; don; don rosendo; door; duke; eyes; face; father; friends; girl; gonzalo; good; hair; hand; head; house; husband; law; left; life; light; look; love; man; maria; mayor; pablito; party; people; peña; place; room; rosendo; sarrio; señor; sister; thought; time; tone; town; ventura; voice; want; way; wife; youth cache: 38394.txt plain text: 38394.txt item: #354 of 722 id: 38411 author: Palacio Valdés, Armando title: Froth: A Novel date: None words: 122039 flesch: 79 summary: Thus far his almsgiving had superior merits to that of other men. She met every day other men of more attractive manners and of more amusing conversation. keywords: calderón; care; carmen; castro; child; clementina; cobo; daughter; day; days; dear; door; doubt; drawing; duke; esperanza; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; friend; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; ladies; lady; law; leave; left; life; look; love; madrid; man; matter; mind; moment; money; mother; nature; osorio; party; pepa; pepe; place; pretty; raimundo; ramon; ramoncito; room; round; salabert; señora; sister; smile; taking; thought; time; tone; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; youth cache: 38411.txt plain text: 38411.txt item: #355 of 722 id: 38458 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) date: None words: 170743 flesch: 79 summary: She was accustomed to seeing other men make an effort to be gracious and show her flattering attentions, while Michael manifested a haughty character, like her own, arguing with her, and even daring to contradict her. The only man of whom I have ever thought the least bit, the only one I ever considered at all different from other men, she continued in a half whisper, is you.... keywords: afternoon; air; alicia; atilio; carlo; casino; castro; colonel; coming; country; day; days; death; desire; don; duchess; end; eyes; face; feeling; fortune; francs; friend; gambling; gardens; general; good; half; hand; head; hours; house; lady; left; lewis; life; living; look; looking; love; lubimoff; luck; making; man; marcos; martinez; matter; men; michael; moment; monaco; money; monte; mother; new; night; novoa; order; paris; people; person; place; play; poor; present; prince; prince lubimoff; prince michael; princess; professor; room; sea; sirena; smile; son; spadoni; table; talk; things; thought; time; toledo; trees; villa; voice; want; war; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 38458.txt plain text: 38458.txt item: #356 of 722 id: 38486 author: Garibaldi, Giuseppe title: Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 90492 flesch: 67 summary: Cavour,' we are told, founded in 1847 with his friends, Cesare Balbo, Santa Rosa, Buoncampagni, Castelli, and other men of moderate constitutional views, the _Risorgimento_, of which he became the editor; and the principles of the new periodical were announced to be 'independence of Italy, union between the princes,' and the people's progress in the path of reform, and a league between the Italian States. THE MONTIGIANIS While the conflict in Trastevere was going on, the Montigianis, headed by Cucchi, Guerzoni, Bossi, Adamoli, and other brave men did not remain with their hands folded. keywords: arms; army; attilio; captain; cardinal; chapter; chief; city; clelia; companions; country; day; dead; death; door; enemy; eyes; face; father; fire; forest; french; friends; garibaldi; gasparo; general; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; house; irene; italian; italy; julia; leave; left; liberty; life; love; manlio; men; moment; muzio; night; noble; number; orazio; order; papal; people; place; present; priests; prince; republic; roman; rome; sea; silvio; soldiers; thought; time; troops; way; women; words; world; wounded; years cache: 38486.txt plain text: 38486.txt item: #357 of 722 id: 38530 author: Spence, Lewis title: Legends & Romances of Spain date: None words: 115907 flesch: 66 summary: Again, exalted and sensitive minds in all ages have been peculiarly amenable to feminine criticism, as we can see in perusing the biographies of such men as Goethe. These preciosities, to which many men of letters in all ages have been addicted, had no more effect upon the main stream of Castilian literature than such attempts ever have upon the literary output of a country. keywords: adventure; alfonso; amadis; arms; army; ballads; battle; beauty; book; cantares; castilian; castle; century; cervantes; chivalry; christian; cid; city; combat; constantinople; country; court; damsel; daughter; day; days; death; don; emperor; english; esplandian; father; fell; fernando; form; god; good; great; guzman; hand; head; hearing; heart; hermit; history; horse; infantes; island; king; knight; lady; language; leave; left; life; lisuarte; literature; lockhart; lord; love; magic; manner; master; men; moorish; moors; morning; oriana; original; palmerin; people; perion; place; princess; queen; quixote; return; roderic; romance; romantic; royal; sea; set; son; spain; spanish; spirit; story; sword; thee; thou; thy; time; verse; way; work; world; years; young cache: 38530.txt plain text: 38530.txt item: #358 of 722 id: 38532 author: O'Rell, Max title: Woman and Artist date: None words: 56293 flesch: 85 summary: Why, then--it must be Philip ... Who occupies it, said Lorimer; he is only waiting for your presence, dear Dora, before beginning to work again. A thousand curios from all the ends of the earth had been accumulated in this beloved apartment, and here, too, stood Dora's Pleyel piano and Philip's bookcase of precious volumes on art, all richly bound. keywords: child; day; dear; door; dora; english; eva; eyes; face; gabrielle; general; good; hands; heart; hobbs; house; husband; life; look; lorimer; love; lussac; man; new; people; philip; picture; portrait; room; sabaroff; sir; studio; think; thought; time; wife; woman; work; yes cache: 38532.txt plain text: 38532.txt item: #359 of 722 id: 3901 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01 date: None words: 17774 flesch: 55 summary: The habit of living in this peaceful manner soon united me tenderly to my cousin Bernard; my affection was more ardent than that I had felt for my brother, nor has time ever been able to efface it. I recall every circumstance of time, place, and persons; I see the maid or footman busy in the chamber, a swallow entering the window, a fly settling on my hand while repeating my lessons. keywords: affection; age; day; effect; father; heart; idea; lambercier; life; love; man; master; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; rousseau; thought; time; tree; years cache: 3901.txt plain text: 3901.txt item: #360 of 722 id: 3902 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02 date: None words: 16922 flesch: 48 summary: The good bishop of Bernex, with less wit than Francis of Sales, resembled him in many particulars, and Madam de Warrens, whom he loved to call his daughter, and who was like Madam de Chantel in several respects, might have increased the resemblance by retiring like her from the world, had she not been disgusted with the idle trifling of a convent. At length I arrived at Annecy, and saw Madam de Warrens. keywords: appearance; basile; care; day; good; heart; idea; journey; life; madam; means; religion; situation; thought; time; warrens; woman cache: 3902.txt plain text: 3902.txt item: #361 of 722 id: 3903 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03 date: None words: 16570 flesch: 56 summary: Madam de Warrens inhabited an old house, but large enough to have a handsome spare apartment, which she made her drawing-room. The magnificence I had been accustomed to at Turin was not to be found at Madam de Warrens, but in lieu of it there was neatness, regularity, and a patriarchal abundance, which is seldom attached to pompous ostentation. keywords: abbe; count; good; heart; house; idea; life; madam; maitre; man; place; situation; thought; time; warrens cache: 3903.txt plain text: 3903.txt item: #362 of 722 id: 3904 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04 date: None words: 17078 flesch: 60 summary: Mademoiselle de G---- was a young lady of Berne, very amiable; who, having been sent from that country for some youthful folly, had imitated Madam de Warrens, at whose house I had sometimes seen her; but not having, like her, a pension, she had been fortunate in this attachment to Mademoiselle Galley, who had prevailed on her mother to engage her young friend as a companion, till she could be otherwise provided for. It must be owned, that in choosing the profession of music, I hit on that I was least calculated for; yet my voice was good and I copied neatly; but the fatigue of long works bewilders me so much, that I spend more time in altering and scratching out than in pricking down, and if I do not employ the strictest attention in comparing the several parts, they are sure to fail in the execution. keywords: country; day; heart; idea; journey; life; madam; mademoiselle; man; means; music; paris; person; pleasure; thought; time; warrens cache: 3904.txt plain text: 3904.txt item: #363 of 722 id: 3905 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05 date: None words: 20622 flesch: 51 summary: Madam de Warrens herself was uneasy, agitated, wandering about the house and happily--finding the phial empty--guessed the rest. Madam de Warrens was fond of it merely for this purpose, seeking none but common plants to use in her medical preparations; thus botany, chemistry, and anatomy were confounded in my idea under the general denomination of medicine, and served to furnish me with pleasant sarcasms the whole day, which procured me, from time to time, a box on the ear, applied by Madam de Warrens. keywords: anet; chambery; day; good; happiness; heart; house; idea; inclination; life; madam; madam de; man; music; person; thought; time; warrens; woman; world cache: 3905.txt plain text: 3905.txt item: #364 of 722 id: 3906 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06 date: None words: 19815 flesch: 51 summary: We endeavored to comfort each other for the pain of parting, by forming plans for our reunion; and it was concluded, that after staying five or six weeks at Montpelier (which would give Madam de Larnage time to prepare for my reception in such a manner as to prevent scandal) Not thoroughly satisfied in my own mind on the rectitude of this expedition, as I advanced towards the Bridge of St. Esprit (which was equally the road to Saint-Andiol and to Chambery) I began to reflect on Madam de Warrens, the remembrance of whose letters, though less frequent than those from Madam de Larnage, awakened in my heart a remorse that passion had stifled in the first part of my journey, but which became so lively on my return, that, setting just estimate on the love of pleasure, I found myself in such a situation of mind that I could listen wholly to the voice of reason. keywords: books; day; good; happiness; heart; house; idea; larnage; length; life; madam; madam de; man; manner; moment; pleasure; thought; time; warrens cache: 3906.txt plain text: 3906.txt item: #365 of 722 id: 39062 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: The Last Lion, and Other Tales date: None words: 17661 flesch: 77 summary: But _Magdalena_ stopped laughing, thinking of the mother, of her desperate grief when she would return to the house. And _Magdalena_ would draw himself up with military rigidity, close his mouth and inflate his cheeks, momentarily expecting two blows, delivered simultaneously by both hands, to expel the air from the ruddy globe of his face. keywords: bed; blasco; cabin; caldera; day; doctor; eyes; friends; girl; good; guild; hands; head; house; ibáñez; life; lion; magdalena; man; mother; poor; sagreda; son; time; valencia; vicente; visanteta; women cache: 39062.txt plain text: 39062.txt item: #366 of 722 id: 3907 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07 date: None words: 32522 flesch: 65 summary: I stayed, and M. de Montaigu set out on his journey, taking with him another secretary, one M. Follau, who had been recommended to him by the office of foreign affairs. Bollau perceiving he had to do with a madman, left him there, and M. de Montaigu having nobody with him, except a young abbe of the name of Binis, who wrote under the secretary, and was unfit to succeed him, had recourse to me. keywords: account; ambassador; day; dupin; good; heart; house; love; m. de; madam; madam de; man; manner; means; mind; moment; montaigu; music; paris; person; place; respect; secretary; thought; time; venice; work cache: 3907.txt plain text: 3907.txt item: #367 of 722 id: 3908 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08 date: None words: 23362 flesch: 63 summary: I made Madam le Vasseur my secretary; I had lodged her with her daughter, and husband, nearer to myself; and she, to save me the expense of a servant, came every morning to make my fire, and to do such other little things as were necessary. I forgot all the wrongs he had done me, and at my return from Geneva, and after he had made the tour of France with Grimm and other friends to alleviate his affliction, I went to see him, and continued my visits until my departure for the Hermitage. keywords: author; day; effect; friends; good; great; grimm; heart; house; madam; man; manner; means; mind; moment; person; piece; situation; time; years cache: 3908.txt plain text: 3908.txt item: #368 of 722 id: 3909 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09 date: None words: 37711 flesch: 65 summary: Upon her answering in the affirmative, Madam d'Epinay pressed her to give her the letters of Madam d'Houdetot, assuring her that she would reseal them in such a manner as it should never be known. Madam d'Epinay came and took us all three in her coach; her farmer carted away my little baggage, and I was put into possession the same day. keywords: d'epinay; d'houdetot; diderot; friend; friendship; good; grimm; heart; hermitage; letter; life; love; madam; madam d'epinay; man; manner; means; mind; moment; paris; person; thought; time cache: 3909.txt plain text: 3909.txt item: #369 of 722 id: 391 author: None title: The Song of Roland date: None words: 33045 flesch: 89 summary: Saint Gabriel once more to him comes down, And questions him Great King, what doest thou? They're neath a cliff, in a vale by themselves; With his right hand King Charles hath them blessed, Them Jozerans shall lead, also Godselmes. AOI. CCXXIII keywords: admiral; answers; aoi; archbishop; barons; battle; charles; clear; come; count; day; emperour; field; france; franks; god; gold; good; great; grief; guenes; hand; hath; head; horse; king; land; lord; man; men; oliver; pagans; right; rollant; slain; strike cache: 391.txt plain text: 391.txt item: #370 of 722 id: 3910 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10 date: None words: 23724 flesch: 65 summary: She sent me young fat pullets from Mons, and her intention was to come and see me the year following had not a journey, upon which Madam de Luxembourg determined, prevented her. I answered politely and respectfully to Monsieur and Madam de Luxembourg, but I did not accept their offers, and my indisposition and timidity, with my embarrassment in speaking; making me tremble at the idea alone of appearing in an assembly of people of the court. keywords: castle; country; de luxembourg; friend; good; heart; house; letter; luxembourg; m. de; madam; madam de; man; manner; montmorency; paris; person; time; work cache: 3910.txt plain text: 3910.txt item: #371 of 722 id: 3911 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11 date: None words: 18915 flesch: 61 summary: Madam de Luxembourg, who thought as I did, would not usurp the authority of the mother; M. de Luxembourg, a man of mild and easy character, did not like to contradict her. The repeated afflictions which fell upon M. de Luxembourg still attached me to him the more, and consequently to Madam de Luxembourg; for they always seemed to me to be so sincerely united, that the sentiments in favor of the one necessarily extended to the other. keywords: day; de luxembourg; emilius; great; letters; m. de; madam de; manner; marechal; mind; opinion; persons; subject; thought; time; work cache: 3911.txt plain text: 3911.txt item: #372 of 722 id: 3912 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12 date: None words: 29881 flesch: 60 summary: The time of communion approaching, I wrote to M. de Montmollin, the minister, to prove to him my desire of communicating, and declaring myself heartily united to the Protestant church; I also told him, in order to avoid disputing upon articles of faith, that I would not hearken to any particular explanation of the point of doctrine. After taking these steps I made myself easy, not doubting but M. de Montmollin would refuse to admit me without the preliminary discussion to which I refused to consent, and that in this manner everything would be at an end without any fault of mine. keywords: author; country; friendship; geneva; having; heart; house; island; king; letter; life; lord; madam; man; manner; marshal; means; moment; motiers; neuchatel; people; person; state; time cache: 3912.txt plain text: 3912.txt item: #373 of 722 id: 39133 author: Hugo, Victor title: The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda date: None words: 58093 flesch: 96 summary: _ SCENE VI The Man, Fabiano Fabiani THE MAN (_stopping_ Fabiani). Gilbert _takes_ keywords: aside; claude; come; day; didier; duke; esmeralda; eyes; fabiani; frollo; gilbert; god; good; jane; joshua; king; l'angely; laffemas; life; lord; love; madame; man; marion; marquis; night; people; phoebus; queen; renard; saverny; simon; want; woman; yes cache: 39133.txt plain text: 39133.txt item: #374 of 722 id: 39145 author: Vivanti, Annie title: The Devourers date: None words: 92353 flesch: 91 summary: When they alighted at the peaceful country station, there was Mrs. Avory and little Nancy and the grandfather awaiting them; and there were more greetings and more noise. In Valeria's terror-stricken heart maternal love had pushed all else aside, and only one thought possessed her--the thought of keeping Nancy out of danger, out of reach of Edith's light breath, out of reach of Edith's tender kisses; while Nino, seeing her with little Nancy on her lap or at her side all day, gradually grew to look upon her in the light of Valeria the mother, and lost sight of her as Valeria the betrothed. keywords: aldo; anne; away; baby; bemolle; black; blue; book; carlo; child; clarissa; day; dear; door; edith; evening; eyes; face; francs; fräulein; giacomo; girl; good; hair; hand; hat; head; heart; house; left; letter; life; little; looking; love; man; marie; mind; money; mother; mrs; music; nancy; new; night; nino; people; play; room; round; small; table; things; thought; time; valeria; violin; voice; white; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 39145.txt plain text: 39145.txt item: #375 of 722 id: 392 author: Tasso, Torquato title: Jerusalem Delivered date: None words: 128119 flesch: 68 summary: V The Cyclades seemed to swim amid the main, And hill gainst hill, and mount gainst mountain smote, With such great fury met those armies twain; Here burnt a ship, there sunk a bark or boat, Here darts and wild-fire flew, there drowned or slain Of princes dead the bodies fleet and float; Here Caesar wins, and yonder conquered been The Eastern ships, there fled the Egyptian queen: VI Antonius eke himself to flight betook, The empire lost to which he would aspire, Yet fled not he nor fight for fear forsook, But followed her, drawn on by fond desire: XXXVI Great Prince, quoth Tancred; set before thine eyes Rinaldo's worth and courage what it is, How much our hope of conquest in him lies; Regard that princely house and race of his; He that correcteth every fault he spies, And judgeth all alike, doth all amiss; For faults, you know, are greater thought or less, As is the person's self that doth transgress. keywords: argantes; armed; arms; blood; bold; bright; bring; camp; cast; christian; courage; day; dear; death; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; fall; fear; fell; fierce; fight; fire; foes; force; forth; fortune; godfrey; good; great; guide; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; hope; king; knight; laid; land; lay; left; let; life; like; looks; lord; love; man; men; naught; oft; pagan; place; power; praise; prince; proud; quoth; rest; rinaldo; saw; secret; set; shall; shield; slain; stood; strange; strength; strong; sweet; sword; tancred; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; town; vain; war; way; words; wrath cache: 392.txt plain text: 392.txt item: #376 of 722 id: 39401 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Frontiersmen date: None words: 73951 flesch: 75 summary: These huts were arranged in a circle, and in the centre was one smaller than the others; and from the fact, that it was more neatly as well as securely constructed, Ichabod _guessed_ that it must be occupied by Singing-Bird. Rogers, who now found he would not be suffered to proceed in the making of the arrest, by the actual touching of the person of Ichabod, cried out-- Ichabod Jenkins, I arrest you by virtue of ---- but his voice was drowned in the yells of the Senecas; and the two intruders were immediately seized and bound. keywords: attack; barton; bird; brother; cottage; day; direction; eagle's; enemy; eyes; faces; fire; forest; friend; good; great; guthrie; ichabod; indians; know; life; look; moment; new; night; pale; panther; party; place; ralph; rifle; ruth; saw; senecas; singing; time; tuscarora; want; way; wing cache: 39401.txt plain text: 39401.txt item: #377 of 722 id: 39640 author: Iriarte, Tomás de title: Literary Fables of Yriarte date: None words: 5260 flesch: 90 summary: So cease, good friends, your idle din. A painter I know, For such little jobs precisely the man; Can write titles out fair, and make pasteboard to show Like leather or parchment, if any one can. keywords: day; fable; friend; good; man; master; monkey; time; tis; way; work cache: 39640.txt plain text: 39640.txt item: #378 of 722 id: 39834 author: Deledda, Grazia title: After the Divorce: A Romance date: None words: 82243 flesch: 84 summary: The last time we were here, said Aunt Bachissia, those wings were little things; now they are growing, growing. Well, then, said Giacobbe, lowering his voice and closing one eye as he pointed to the white house, Aunt Martina is up there, and to save bread she eats little children; don't you see her? The boy seemed to be impressed, and allowed himself to be led back to the cottage, still insisting, however, upon riding his stick. keywords: air; aunt; aunt bachissia; away; bachissia; black; brontu; child; costantino; day; dejas; devil; door; evening; eyes; face; giacobbe; giovanna; god; going; good; hands; head; heart; house; isidoro; know; life; look; man; martina; moment; mother; night; old; people; porredda; priest; room; sky; soul; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; want; white; woman; work; yellow cache: 39834.txt plain text: 39834.txt item: #379 of 722 id: 4000 author: Various title: The Immortals: Masterpieces of Fiction, Crowned by the French Academy — Complete date: None words: 361 flesch: 72 summary: Then double-click on 4000-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any name you wish, such as IMMORTALS. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. keywords: directory cache: 4000.txt plain text: 4000.txt item: #380 of 722 id: 40004 author: Coster, Charles de title: The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 2 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere date: None words: 91589 flesch: 88 summary: Said Gilline: Ulenspiegel has eyes shining like a swan about to die. poor Ulenspiegel! Why do you lament? asked he. keywords: arms; art; aye; bailiff; beat; beggar; black; blood; day; dead; death; dost; drink; duke; eyes; face; fire; florins; folk; friend; girl; god; gold; good; hand; having; head; heart; katheline; king; lamme; land; leave; long; love; man; master; men; messire; money; monk; nele; night; pay; poor; prince; provost; red; said; saint; sea; ship; soldiers; son; thee; thou; time; tis; town; ulenspiegel; water; way; white; wife; wind; wine; women; word cache: 40004.txt plain text: 40004.txt item: #381 of 722 id: 40075 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Knight of Malta date: None words: 112135 flesch: 74 summary: Reine des Anbiez, who, without discontinuing her song, every now and then turned to him with a charming glance, to which the Chevalier Honorât de Berrol responded with all the ardour of an infatuated and betrothed lover. Reine des Anbiez continued to sing. keywords: abbé; anbiez; arms; baron; black; bohemian; brother; captain; chebec; child; ciotat; clerk; coast; commander; day; des; door; doubt; elzear; erebus; eyes; father; forte; galley; girl; god; good; hadji; hand; head; honorât; isnard; laramée; left; life; little; lord; love; luquin; maison; master; moment; monseigneur; peyrou; pierre; pirates; pog; port; raimond; raimond v.; recorder; red; reine; reis; right; rocks; saw; sea; stephanette; time; trimalcyon; voice; watchman; words; years; young cache: 40075.txt plain text: 40075.txt item: #382 of 722 id: 40133 author: Kock, Paul de title: Sister Anne (Novels of Paul de Kock, Volume X) date: None words: 144444 flesch: 80 summary: Without awaiting a reply, Dubourg bade Ménard stand on the chair; then, placing his hands upon a certain rotund portion of the professor's anatomy, he put forth all his strength to lift him into the bed. That fool of a cook gives us beefsteak every day; how can I help growing fat? I expect great things from the arrival of Frédéric's father; he has been to the pavilion and seen Sister Anne, and a change is coming, I am sure of it. keywords: anne; baron; bed; chambertin; child; comte; constance; count; day; days; dear; dubourg; eyes; face; father; find; friend; frédéric; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; husband; know; leave; left; life; little; look; love; madame; man; mind; moment; money; monsieur; monsieur chambertin; monsieur dubourg; monsieur frédéric; monsieur ménard; montreville; mother; night; paris; people; place; poor; room; sister; sister anne; son; tell; thought; time; village; way; wife; woman; young cache: 40133.txt plain text: 40133.txt item: #383 of 722 id: 4014 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: Arsene Lupin date: None words: 72098 flesch: 91 summary: The Duke shook hands with Guerchard, saying, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance, M. Guerchard. Really, M. Guerchard, said the Duke, shrugging his shoulders. keywords: bonavent; charmerace; charolais; door; drawing; duke; eyes; face; firmin; formery; germaine; good; gournay; grace; guerchard; hall; hand; house; inspector; look; lupin; m. formery; mademoiselle; man; martin; millionaire; night; room; sonia; time; tone; victoire; voice cache: 4014.txt plain text: 4014.txt item: #384 of 722 id: 4017 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin date: None words: 66902 flesch: 84 summary: At dawn, when they entered the oratory which had been used as a cell for young Isidore Beautrelet, they realized that young Isidore Beautrelet had vanished. On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had administered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly, that he could only have escaped by a window situated at a height of seven or eight feet in the wall; and lastly--a charming detail, this--that he could only have reached this window by using the back of his warder as a footstool. keywords: arsene; arsene lupin; beautrelet; book; chateau; day; document; door; end; eyes; face; father; filleul; ganimard; gesvres; hand; hollow; isidore; isidore beautrelet; left; letter; look; louis; lupin; magistrate; man; men; mlle; moment; monsieur; morning; needle; o'clock; paper; place; raymonde; right; road; room; saint; secret; think; time; valmeras; veran; way; words cache: 4017.txt plain text: 4017.txt item: #385 of 722 id: 40203 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes date: None words: 61830 flesch: 85 summary: This advice seemed to commend itself to the detective, for he partially rose and said, very formally: Monsieur Wilson, my friend and assistant--Monsieur Arsène Lupin. Monsieur Lupin, there are two men in the world at whom I am never astonished: in the first place, myself--and then, Arsène Lupin. keywords: arsène; arsène lupin; baron; day; destange; diamond; door; englishman; floor; friend; ganimard; gerbois; good; hand; herlock; herlock sholmes; house; lady; left; letter; lupin; madame; mademoiselle; man; men; minutes; moment; monsieur; monsieur sholmes; morning; place; room; rue; sholmes; time; way; wilson cache: 40203.txt plain text: 40203.txt item: #386 of 722 id: 40219 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War date: None words: 82931 flesch: 75 summary: I can act and think like other men? The poor slave had never been so happy; never had the air seemed to him purer, or nature more lovely--everything smiled on him, and made holiday for him, for that moment he was about to begin really living the life of other men, without any bitter afterthought; the past was no more than a dream. keywords: american; black; breed; brother; canadian; captain; carmela; chief; day; desert; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; friend; glance; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hunter; indian; jaguar; john; know; lanzi; left; length; life; man; men; moment; monk; order; quoniam; rifle; right; soldier; time; tranquil; voice; way; words cache: 40219.txt plain text: 40219.txt item: #387 of 722 id: 40491 author: Du Boisgobey, Fortuné title: The Red Lottery Ticket date: None words: 51703 flesch: 81 summary: Had Monsieur Dargental any enemies? You had no sooner gone out this morning than a magistrate, accompanied by a number of policemen, came here with Monsieur de Puymirol, who was under arrest. keywords: albert; blanche; book; cab; caumont; countess; dargental; day; friend; gabrielle; george; hand; house; left; lescombat; letters; madame; magistrate; man; monsieur; mother; pocket; puymirol; time; verdon cache: 40491.txt plain text: 40491.txt item: #388 of 722 id: 40492 author: Nerval, Gérard de title: Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois date: None words: 17627 flesch: 80 summary: In thus bringing out a fresh version of _Sylvie_, not to include the all too few illusive lyrics done into English by Mr. Lang, his exquisite sonnet on Gérard, and the lovely lines upon Sylvie et Aurélie, were a deplorable omission. A love more fair than Sylvie, and as kind? ANDREW LANG. keywords: adrienne; aunt; aurélie; brother; day; dodu; eyes; father; forest; good; green; gérard; left; life; loisy; love; man; night; rose; sylvie; thought; thy; time; village; way; years cache: 40492.txt plain text: 40492.txt item: #389 of 722 id: 40518 author: Kock, Paul de title: The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) date: None words: 97930 flesch: 81 summary: That is true, mesdames--I beg pardon; this is the authentic news: the son of the Marquis de Marvejols, young Comte Léodgard, is married! Married! cried Madame de Ravenelle, unable to control a movement of surprise; and she glanced at her niece; but the latter remained impassive and simply pressed her lips tightly together, like one who was not at all surprised by what she heard. I would like to speak to Monsieur le Comte Léodgard de Marvejols. keywords: ambroisine; bahuchet; bathilde; blanche; chevalier; child; comte; count; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; friend; giovanni; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; hôtel; jarnonville; left; letter; love; léodgard; madame; man; marquis; marvejols; master; miretta; moment; monsieur; night; passedix; place; plumard; room; santoval; time; valentine; way; wife cache: 40518.txt plain text: 40518.txt item: #390 of 722 id: 40602 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War date: None words: 102532 flesch: 74 summary: That is true, Señorita; but pray excuse him, he is an old sailor, but little accustomed to society--he felt embarrassed and almost in his wrong place with you; but few men know their profession so well as he, or are so firm and intrepid in danger. All these men, on reaching certain grades, merely change their uniform, while retaining in the new rank where accident places them their vices and low habits; hence young men of good family are not at all inclined to accept an epaulette, and despise a profession regarded with so little honour by the respectable classes of society. keywords: arms; black; blue; brig; canadian; captain; carmela; chief; colonel; commandant; comrades; corvette; davis; day; don; eyes; face; father; fire; fox; friend; general; glance; good; hacienda; half; hand; head; heart; hunter; indian; jaguar; length; life; man; men; mexican; minutes; moment; monk; night; officers; order; place; round; scalper; silence; time; tranquil; tree; voice; way; white; young cache: 40602.txt plain text: 40602.txt item: #391 of 722 id: 40618 author: Clemenceau, Georges title: The Surprises of Life date: None words: 61466 flesch: 76 summary: And yet, from that time forward, good days followed one another without break. I can still see those splendid shafts, golden yellow, marbled with sanguine red, on which the bird would sometimes stand motionless, swelling his copper-coloured throat, or at other times hop and flutter and cheep and softly twitter, to win a glance or a silent smile from his friend. keywords: abbé; aunt; church; come; country; course; curé; day; days; death; door; earth; eyes; father; flower; friend; giambolo; god; good; hand; home; husband; jean; jehovah; law; left; life; like; living; love; man; master; men; mind; money; monsieur; order; people; piot; place; pleasure; point; reason; return; right; rosalie; saw; simon; son; things; thought; time; village; way; white; wife; words; work; world; years; young cache: 40618.txt plain text: 40618.txt item: #392 of 722 id: 40741 author: Kock, Paul de title: Paul and His Dog, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIII) date: None words: 103836 flesch: 85 summary: Monsieur Chamoureau was a man of about thirty-five years of age, who appeared fully forty; not that his face was lined or his features altered; on the contrary, his ears were red and his complexion ruddy. All this, however, did not prevent Monsieur Chamoureau from considering himself a very handsome man. keywords: agathe; arm; ball; business; chamoureau; child; concierge; country; day; dear; domino; door; edmond; eyes; face; find; francs; freluchon; friend; good; hand; head; home; honorine; house; ladies; lady; leave; ledrux; left; look; love; madame; man; monsieur; monsieur chamoureau; monsieur edmond; paris; people; person; place; right; room; thélénie; time; way; wife; woman; young cache: 40741.txt plain text: 40741.txt item: #393 of 722 id: 40862 author: Kock, Paul de title: The Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVI) date: None words: 73923 flesch: 83 summary: Monsieur de--what name did you say? Monsieur de Roncherolle. However, it depicts the man, and I recognize Monsieur de Roncherolle in every line; he shows himself in that letter as he was in society!--Excuse me for interrupting you and pray go on. keywords: chicotin; child; count; day; dear; find; flower; friend; georget; girl; good; grangeville; house; jéricourt; know; madame; man; monsieur; monsieur de; neighbor; paris; place; right; roncherolle; room; saint; time; violette; way cache: 40862.txt plain text: 40862.txt item: #394 of 722 id: 40949 author: Vivanti, Annie title: The Outrage date: None words: 54735 flesch: 91 summary: _Au revoir dans l'eau_, she said to little Mireille and to the German nursery governess, Frieda. Little Mireille fell asleep with a pale smudgy face resting against Frieda's arm. keywords: arm; child; chérie; claude; cry; day; door; eva; eyes; face; feet; florian; frieda; fritz; george; german; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; left; life; light; little; look; louise; loulou; man; mireille; miss; mother; mrs; room; round; soul; speak; thought; voice; whitaker; white; words; world cache: 40949.txt plain text: 40949.txt item: #395 of 722 id: 41083 author: Kock, Paul de title: My Neighbor Raymond (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XI) date: None words: 123765 flesch: 85 summary: We had just arrived at my landing, when Monsieur Raymond suddenly opened his door and appeared before us in his shirt and cotton nightcap, with a candle in one hand, and a key in the other. Monsieur Raymond stared with all his eyes, and Nicette laughed aloud. keywords: agathe; aunt; bed; caroline; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady; leave; left; little; look; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; marsan; men; moment; monsieur; monsieur raymond; morning; neighbor; nicette; night; paris; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; pretty; pélagie; raymond; room; shop; sister; things; thought; time; vauvert; way; wife; woman; word; young cache: 41083.txt plain text: 41083.txt item: #396 of 722 id: 41172 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The White Scalper: A Story of the Texan War date: None words: 97156 flesch: 74 summary: Oh, he continued, pretending to be mistaken as to the impression he produced; excuse me, Colonel, for speaking in this way, but I love Doña Carmela so dearly that I love all she loves; though old men are egotistic, as you are aware, I have been busy on your behalf during my absence. Almost immediately he noticed several men coming gently up; they were four in number, as he soon made out, and carrying a fifth in their arms. keywords: american; army; black; brother; carmela; chief; colonel; comanches; davis; day; deer; enemy; face; father; fox; friend; general; good; hand; head; heart; hope; horse; hunter; indians; jaguar; john; left; life; man; men; mexican; minutes; moment; order; place; rancho; return; right; sandoval; scalper; smile; time; tranquil; village; voice; warriors; way; white; word cache: 41172.txt plain text: 41172.txt item: #397 of 722 id: 41509 author: Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de title: The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (Louis XVII) date: None words: 70529 flesch: 79 summary: Between me and the gentle girl rose the high wall of ancestry, that destroyer of happiness, which seeks to make us unlike other men. No other man exists. keywords: amélie; arms; blood; brezé; brother; captain; carbonari; cause; chapter; child; daughter; day; death; documents; door; duchess; eyes; face; family; fate; father; france; giacinto; girl; god; great; hands; head; heart; house; jean; king; lecazes; life; little; look; louis; love; majesty; man; marquis; moment; mother; naundorff; night; papers; pierre; place; prison; rené; royal; sister; soliviac; thérèse; time; tis; vilon; voice; volpetti; wife; woman; words cache: 41509.txt plain text: 41509.txt item: #398 of 722 id: 41537 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno date: None words: 117091 flesch: 83 summary: Dante, as has been said (_Inf._ vi. 36), is hard put to it to make them subject to corporal pains and yet be only shadows. In _Inf._ xxi. keywords: arms; art; blood; bolgia; canto; century; charles; church; circle; citizens; city; close; come; comedy; course; dante; day; death; doth; earth; emperor; ere; exile; eyes; face; family; father; feet; find; fire; florence; florentine; ghibeline; god; good; guido; hand; having; head; heaven; high; iii; inf; inferno; italian; italy; king; know; lay; left; lies; life; like; love; man; master; men; mind; nobles; party; passage; people; place; poet; pope; power; purg; reason; right; round; says; second; set; shades; shall; son; soul; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; turn; virgil; way; words; world; xii; xxvii; xxx; years cache: 41537.txt plain text: 41537.txt item: #399 of 722 id: 41645 author: Kock, Paul de title: The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) date: None words: 135654 flesch: 84 summary: I believe, monsieur, that while Monsieur Auguste was talking to me in Madame Destival's courtyard, you whispered in my ear: 'Look out for yourself!' It's possible, my child, quite possible.--Look you, Mamzelle Denise, you're a pretty girl---- Very polite of you, Monsieur Bertrand. Don't worry, Monsieur Bertrand, I shall never have any feeling but friendship for Monsieur Auguste; and if it's the dread of my loving him that keeps him from coming to the village, why, tell him he can come as often as he likes. keywords: athalie; auguste; aunt; bertrand; child; coco; dalville; day; dear; denise; destival; door; eyes; face; fellow; find; friend; girl; good; great; hand; house; leave; left; lieutenant; look; love; madame; madame destival; man; marquis; men; money; monin; monsieur; monsieur auguste; monsieur bertrand; monsieur dalville; monsieur destival; monsieur monin; mère; neighbor; paris; people; place; poor; right; room; table; thomassinière; thought; time; village; virginie; want; way; woman cache: 41645.txt plain text: 41645.txt item: #400 of 722 id: 41881 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Corsican Brothers date: None words: 30638 flesch: 83 summary: It was the last dwelling-place of our famous ancestress Savilia, the widow of Lucien de Franchi. But a glance from Lucien de Franchi checked this intention in the bud. keywords: brother; chateau; colona; day; door; franchi; friend; hand; house; letter; louis; lucien; madame; man; minutes; moment; monsieur; mother; orlandi; place; renaud; room; time cache: 41881.txt plain text: 41881.txt item: #401 of 722 id: 41934 author: Collins, Joseph title: Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life date: None words: 89140 flesch: 59 summary: Only such men understand the necessity of defending _unguibus et rostris_, even against our allies, the juridical ground we have conquered. Then there are many young men carrying the banner of literature in Italy to-day who do not call themselves Futurist, and whose writings contain less of the grotesque, which has been made familiar to Italian readers by Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb. keywords: american; art; author; beauty; book; butler; century; children; church; conduct; country; d'annunzio; day; days; death; display; england; fact; fame; fellow; fiction; form; france; french; god; good; government; house; human; individual; italian; italy; kind; knows; letters; liberty; life; literary; literature; london; love; man; men; mind; modern; mother; nature; new; order; papini; past; people; period; place; play; pleasure; poems; poet; poetry; point; power; present; public; purpose; qualities; reader; reality; right; romances; rome; save; self; sentiment; signor; soul; state; stories; success; things; thought; time; view; volume; war; way; wilson; woman; words; work; world; writers; writings; years; young cache: 41934.txt plain text: 41934.txt item: #402 of 722 id: 41949 author: Rostand, Edmond title: Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts date: None words: 39844 flesch: 91 summary: CHRISTIAN, CARBON OF HAUGHTY-HALL, LE BRET, THE CADETS, _later_ CYRANO. IV._ ROXANE _alone, two_ SISTERS _a moment_. keywords: aside; bret; cadet; carbon; christian; cyrano; day; door; duenna; eyes; french; friend; good; guiche; hand; heart; house; le bret; letter; lignière; love; marquis; montfleury; nose; play; poet; ragueneau; roxane; scene; second; sir; sister; stage; time; verse; voice; words cache: 41949.txt plain text: 41949.txt item: #403 of 722 id: 41990 author: Trueba, Antonio de title: The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance date: None words: 162247 flesch: 69 summary: Can it be possible that he who carried me on his shoulders, and seated me at his table, is Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the conqueror in the mountains of Oca, the son of Diego Lainez, the descendant of the Judges of Castile, the most noble, honoured, powerful, and brave cavalier of Spain? Rodrigo Diaz is he who took you on his shoulders, seated you at his table, and intends to share his bed with you, replied the son of Diego Lainez. I tell you, hastened to answer Alvar, fearing the look of Fernan, that Beatrice, the maiden whom you and Don Rodrigo rescued at the inn, has me almost dead with love. keywords: arms; bandits; bellido; brave; brother; burgos; carrion; castle; cavaliers; cid; count; day; desire; diego; don; don fernando; don garcia; don rodrigo; don sancho; don suero; doña; eyes; father; fight; girl; god; good; great; guillen; hand; heart; honour; infanta; king; leon; life; love; man; martin; master; men; moors; mother; order; page; people; place; rodrigo; son; soul; sword; tell; teresa; time; vengador; vivar; way; woman; words; ximena cache: 41990.txt plain text: 41990.txt item: #404 of 722 id: 42096 author: About, Edmond title: The King of the Mountains date: None words: 65775 flesch: 84 summary: The poor, good man knew no malice. My head fell on my breast, and I sat, helpless, by the side of the livid and shivering old man. keywords: ann; athens; band; brigands; country; daughter; day; dimitri; english; eyes; face; feet; francs; good; greek; hadgi; hand; harris; head; heart; house; king; ladies; left; life; madame; man; mary; men; money; monsieur; mountains; mrs; night; order; path; place; poor; ransom; simons; soldiers; stavros; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; vasile; wish cache: 42096.txt plain text: 42096.txt item: #405 of 722 id: 42115 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trail-Hunter: A Tale of the Far West date: None words: 103689 flesch: 81 summary: He was a man of thirty at the most, with masculine and expressive features; his face possessed a remarkable intelligence, and was stamped with that natural majesty found among the savage children of the prairie; he was tall and well built; and his muscular limbs evidenced a vigour and suppleness against which few men would have contended with advantage. Don Miguel descended in a straight line from Acamarichtzin, first king of Mexico, whose name had been preserved in the family as a precious relic. keywords: ambrosio; andrés; brother; cedar; chief; clara; comanches; curumilla; desert; don; don miguel; doña; eyes; face; father; fray; friend; general; glance; good; governor; hacendero; hand; head; heart; horse; hunters; indian; leave; left; life; man; men; mexican; miguel; missionary; moment; monk; night; order; pablo; place; red; rose; round; seraphin; squatter; stranger; time; unicorn; valentine; voice; way; wish; words cache: 42115.txt plain text: 42115.txt item: #406 of 722 id: 42117 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert date: None words: 87112 flesch: 80 summary: For a stranger, Don Valentine, Bloodson remarked, you were well acquainted with the history of this country. I resign myself to inaction; carry out your schemes as you think proper, Don Valentine. keywords: apaches; black; bloodson; brother; cat; cedar; chief; clara; curumilla; daughter; desert; don; doña; ellen; enemies; father; fire; friend; girl; glance; good; ground; hand; head; heart; horses; hunter; indian; left; life; man; miguel; moment; order; pablo; red; squatter; time; valentine; village; voice; warriors; white; words; young cache: 42117.txt plain text: 42117.txt item: #407 of 722 id: 42119 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky Mountains date: None words: 103352 flesch: 81 summary: Does he bring me the number of young men I asked of the nation? I remember nothing further; men resembling demons rushed into the hacienda, seized my sister and myself, and set out at the full speed of their horses. keywords: bloodson; brother; camp; cedar; chief; don; ellen; eyes; face; father; find; friend; gazelle; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; hour; hunter; indian; left; life; man; miguel; moment; monk; mother; nathan; night; pablo; red; round; seraphin; son; squatter; time; unicorn; valentine; voice; way; white; words; young cache: 42119.txt plain text: 42119.txt item: #408 of 722 id: 42148 author: Pirandello, Luigi title: Three Plays date: None words: 67426 flesch: 93 summary: An ordinary envelope? MANAGER _and_ FATHER. (THE FATHER, MANAGER _and_ STEP-DAUGHTER _go back into the office again (off) for a moment. keywords: agazzi; amalia; belcredi; course; daughter; dear; doctor; donna; door; father; frola; henry; lady; landolph; laudisi; look; manager; matilda; mother; nolli; people; ponza; right; signora; sirelli; son; step; time; wife cache: 42148.txt plain text: 42148.txt item: #409 of 722 id: 42532 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Gold-Seekers: A Tale of California date: None words: 73648 flesch: 79 summary: Don Sebastian and Don Louis separated with a frigid bow, like men who are persuaded they will never meet again. My faith, Don Louis! keywords: adventurers; angela; brother; caballero; captain; chief; colonel; company; cornelio; count; country; curumilla; day; don; don cornelio; don louis; doña; eyes; face; father; friend; general; good; guaymas; hand; head; heart; hunter; life; louis; man; men; mexican; mexico; moment; night; order; place; san; sebastian; smile; time; valentine; voice; way; wish; word; years cache: 42532.txt plain text: 42532.txt item: #410 of 722 id: 42535 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Tiger-Slayer: A Tale of the Indian Desert date: None words: 95117 flesch: 81 summary: They forget that the Great Spirit has only given them, like other men, one mouth and two hands. The Indians' plan would have met with perfect success through the arrangement of the campaigners, and the Guetzalli colonists would have been surprised, had other men than Belhumeur and his friends been on the route of the Indian army. keywords: anita; apaches; bear; belhumeur; black; capataz; chief; count; country; cucharés; daughter; day; desert; don; don martial; don sylva; doña; eagle; eyes; father; fire; friend; glance; good; great; hacendero; hacienda; hand; head; horse; indian; left; lepero; life; louis; man; martial; men; mexican; moment; night; place; river; rose; round; señor; stranger; sylva; tigrero; time; voice; warriors; way; words cache: 42535.txt plain text: 42535.txt item: #411 of 722 id: 42742 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Indian Chief: The Story of a Revolution date: None words: 77796 flesch: 79 summary: Well? But, Don Cornelio continued, at sunrise Don Louis left the camp, accompanied by Don Valentine; and though it is now near midday, he has not yet returned. Thanks, count, thanks; and now, by heavens, ask of me anything you please, and I shall not know how to repay the pleasure you have caused me. Good heavens! keywords: adventurers; angela; brother; camp; captain; chief; colonel; cornelio; count; country; curumilla; don; don louis; doña; father; french; frenchmen; general; good; great; guerrero; hand; head; heart; hunter; laville; left; louis; love; man; men; mexican; missionary; moment; order; place; present; sir; time; valentine; voice; way; words cache: 42742.txt plain text: 42742.txt item: #412 of 722 id: 42757 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Countess of Charny; or, The Execution of King Louis XVI date: None words: 69025 flesch: 81 summary: But these atoms had their joy and grief just like the other atoms called king, queen, nobles; the mill of God, held by fatality, ground crowns and thrones to dust at the same time, and crushed Catherine's happiness no less harshly than if she wore a diadem. My opinion is, that to put the king in front of the priests in the coming tide, the rising storm, is to have priests and king broken by the same wave. keywords: andrea; assembly; beausire; billet; blood; book; boy; captain; catherine; cents; charny; country; day; death; die; doctor; door; dumouriez; france; friend; general; gilbert; good; guards; hand; head; house; king; lady; left; life; louis; love; madame; maillard; majesty; man; master; men; national; new; order; palace; paris; people; pitou; queen; right; room; royal; set; son; swiss; taking; time; tuileries; voice; want; way; woman cache: 42757.txt plain text: 42757.txt item: #413 of 722 id: 42834 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico date: None words: 83714 flesch: 70 summary: There, a man may ransom himself by making a present; but we must avow, to the honour of the Indian fair sex, that few men do so. The door was hardly ajar ere several men burst into the inn, thrusting each other aside in their haste, as if afraid of being followed. keywords: anita; body; capataz; carnero; chief; colonel; convent; country; day; don; door; doña; excellency; eyes; face; frenchman; friend; general; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; hunter; indian; left; life; man; martial; master; mexican; mexico; moment; night; order; peons; place; present; room; round; sebastian; señor; smile; spite; tigrero; time; valentine; voice; way; wish; words cache: 42834.txt plain text: 42834.txt item: #414 of 722 id: 43473 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trappers of Arkansas; or, The Loyal Heart date: None words: 89409 flesch: 77 summary: Because I wish you to partake of something I have prepared for you before you mount on horseback; you cannot refuse me, can you, dear uncle? she said, with that coaxing smile of spoilt children which delights the hearts of old men. But, Belhumeur asked, is it today--do you say, old man, that she is to be burnt? Yes. Is there still time, then? Alas! keywords: belhumeur; black; camp; captain; chief; comanches; doctor; don; doña; eagle; elk; eyes; fire; friend; general; girl; god; good; guide; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hunter; indians; lady; left; life; loyal; luz; man; men; moment; mother; night; order; place; prairies; ramón; set; smile; son; time; uncle; voice; warriors cache: 43473.txt plain text: 43473.txt item: #415 of 722 id: 4349 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: Wisdom and Destiny date: None words: 56561 flesch: 68 summary: To the soul that is slowly awakening all appears sacrifice; but few things indeed are so called by the soul that at last lives the life whereof self-denial, pity, devotion, are no longer indispensable roots, but only invisible flowers. And think you that when the hour sounds the gift of a Socrates or Marcus Aurelius--who lived many lives, for many a time had they compassed their whole life around--do you think such a gift is not worth a thousand times more than what would be given by him who had never stepped over the threshold of consciousness? keywords: beauty; consciousness; day; death; desire; destiny; duty; eyes; good; happiness; heart; joy; justice; know; life; light; love; man; men; reason; sage; self; sorrow; soul; strength; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; wisdom; world cache: 4349.txt plain text: 4349.txt item: #416 of 722 id: 43633 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Royal Life Guard; or, the flight of the royal family. A historical romance of the suppression of the French monarchy date: None words: 79089 flesch: 81 summary: How could I believe that a king, having sworn in the presence of three hundred thousand citizens, would not hold his pledge to be as sacred as that of other men? Upon my honor, replied Gilbert laughing, great men complain of ingratitude and they are really the ungrateful ones. keywords: assembly; barnave; billet; book; brother; carriage; catherine; cents; charny; choiseul; count; country; day; dead; death; doctor; door; drouet; eyes; face; family; father; france; gilbert; going; good; guards; half; hand; head; heart; horses; hour; house; isidore; king; lady; life; lord; love; man; men; mirabeau; mother; national; new; order; paris; people; pitou; place; queen; right; road; room; royal; saw; thought; time; town; voice; way; woman; words cache: 43633.txt plain text: 43633.txt item: #417 of 722 id: 437 author: Anonymous title: The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by Himself date: None words: 57491 flesch: 86 summary: My widowed mother, finding herself without a husband or anyone to take care of her, decided to lie at the side--I mean, stay on the side--of good men and be like them. They don't want to see good men in their homes. keywords: bread; chest; constable; day; door; find; god; good; hands; head; help; house; inside; know; lazarillo; lazaro; left; let; life; look; man; master; men; money; night; people; place; tell; things; thought; time; tormes; water; way; wife; wine; woman; work cache: 437.txt plain text: 437.txt item: #418 of 722 id: 43716 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Adventurers date: None words: 96619 flesch: 77 summary: She fancied that, like most other men, Don Tadeo, deeply wounded in his pride, loved her still without being willing to admit it, and that the virulent reproaches he had addressed to her, were flashes of that ill-extinguished fire which still smouldered in his heart, and whose flame she should succeed in reviving. madam, my history is that of many young men, and may be summed up in two words--weakness and ignorance. keywords: antinahuel; brother; bustamente; chief; city; country; curumilla; dark; day; death; don; don tadeo; doña; eyes; face; father; friend; general; girl; good; gregorio; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; indian; lanec; leave; life; linda; look; louis; love; man; men; moment; night; order; people; place; rosario; round; set; smile; soldiers; time; tone; toqui; trangoil; valdivia; valentine; voice; woman; words cache: 43716.txt plain text: 43716.txt item: #419 of 722 id: 4380 author: Barbusse, Henri title: Under Fire: The Story of a Squad date: None words: 116288 flesch: 86 summary: * * Tiens, old man, says Tulacque, as he comes up. Some natives cross our path, old men or ill-shapen, contorted in their walk, stunted in the face; and even young people, too, over whom hovers the mystery of secret disorders or political connections. keywords: air; arms; away; barque; bertrand; bit; black; blaire; body; chap; cocon; cold; corner; dark; day; days; dead; dirty; earth; end; evening; eyes; face; feet; fire; fouillade; good; gray; great; ground; half; hand; head; hole; lamuse; leave; left; life; like; line; look; looking; man; marthereau; men; middle; moment; morning; mouth; mud; night; open; paradis; people; pepin; place; poor; rain; red; rest; road; seeing; set; shell; sky; soldiers; sort; talk; things; think; time; trench; trenches; turn; voice; volpatte; wall; want; war; water; way; white; wind; wine; woman; wounded cache: 4380.txt plain text: 4380.txt item: #420 of 722 id: 4383 author: Hémon, Louis title: Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country date: None words: 46603 flesch: 79 summary: To Maria Chapdelaine, glancing inattentively here and there, there was nothing in all this to make one feel lonely or afraid. Maria Chapdelaine drew the cloak about her, slipped her hands under the warm robe of gray goat-skin and half closed her eyes. keywords: chapdelaine; cold; come; country; day; days; door; earth; eutrope; evening; eyes; face; father; forest; françois; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; land; life; man; maria; men; morning; mother; night; paradis; people; snow; spring; thought; time; way; wind; winter; woods; work; world; years cache: 4383.txt plain text: 4383.txt item: #421 of 722 id: 43838 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure date: None words: 58016 flesch: 83 summary: Because poor Don Tadeo will be so happy to hear from us. Don Gregorio, in whose hands Don Tadeo had placed his power and authority, urged on by Louis, hastened the preparations for the departure on the morrow. keywords: antinahuel; brother; camp; chief; count; curumilla; daughter; don; don gregorio; don tadeo; doña; father; friend; general; good; gregorio; head; horse; indian; joan; lanec; left; linda; louis; man; men; rosario; time; toqui; trangoil; valentine; voice; warriors; woman cache: 43838.txt plain text: 43838.txt item: #422 of 722 id: 43925 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border date: None words: 98042 flesch: 79 summary: The Redskins are not, like other men, easy to question; cunning and finesse obtain no advantage over these doubtful natives. The elders of the tribe regard him as a genius superior to other men, arranging events as he pleases, and able, if he will, to change the course of the future. keywords: black; brother; buffalo; camp; chief; count; day; desert; eye; eyes; face; father; fire; flower; fort; friend; girl; glance; good; hand; head; heart; hunter; indians; ivon; life; love; man; master; men; moment; mother; natah; natah otann; night; otann; prairie; redskins; round; son; time; voice; warriors; way; white; wolf; woman; words cache: 43925.txt plain text: 43925.txt item: #423 of 722 id: 44034 author: Guimbaud, Louis title: Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet date: None words: 92116 flesch: 79 summary: Alfred Asseline: _Victor Hugo intime_. But actual friendship between Madame Victor Hugo and Juliette was hindered for a long time, by the fear of English criticism, and of those Guernseyites of whom Victor Hugo wrote, that they made even the scenery of the island look prim. keywords: a.m.; april; beloved; care; child; claire; daughter; day; days; dear; death; desire; evening; eyes; fear; february; friend; future; god; good; guernsey; happiness; heart; hope; house; illustration; joy; juliette; juliette drouet; kiss; left; les; letter; life; little; love; madame; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; need; night; p.m.; paris; past; place; poet; pradier; room; rue; soul; think; thought; thursday; time; toto; victor hugo; way; wish; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday cache: 44034.txt plain text: 44034.txt item: #424 of 722 id: 44196 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City date: None words: 123448 flesch: 78 summary: The Buffalo Comanches were hunting on the prairies; their warriors and young men were absent. You must always put faith in my words, young man, Brighteye remarked, sententiously. keywords: addick; brighteye; brother; camp; canadian; chief; city; day; desert; don; don estevan; don mariano; don miguel; don stefano; doã±a; eagle; eglantine; eyes; face; father; fire; flying; forest; friend; glance; good; ground; hand; head; heart; heaven; horse; hour; hunter; indian; leave; left; length; life; man; marksman; moment; night; order; place; present; priest; red; return; silence; stefano; time; voice; way; wish; wolf; words; young cache: 44196.txt plain text: 44196.txt item: #425 of 722 id: 44303 author: Mirbeau, Octave title: A Chambermaid's Diary date: None words: 102024 flesch: 86 summary: He stole oats, coal, eggs, all sorts of little things that could be sold without giving any trace of their origin. It is almost too grand for little people like us, and we have not enough furniture for it. keywords: bed; captain; child; célestine; day; desire; door; evening; eyes; face; father; francs; garden; georges; girl; good; hair; hands; head; heart; house; joseph; left; life; lips; look; love; madame; man; masters; matter; mind; mme; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mouth; new; night; paris; people; place; pretty; room; rose; servants; silence; society; sort; soul; spite; table; talk; things; thought; time; voice; way; william; woman; words; work; xavier cache: 44303.txt plain text: 44303.txt item: #426 of 722 id: 44375 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure date: None words: 75717 flesch: 77 summary: In killing you, now you are in my power, I should only be making use of reprisals? That is perfectly true, _caballero_, I must even confess that you could not possibly have a stronger reason for doing so. Now, where are the cards? It was then discovered that these three gallant _caballeros_, who never played, had each a pack of cards in his pocket. keywords: brother; caballero; colonel; day; don; don estevan; don fernando; don guzman; don pedro; don torribio; doña; eyes; face; far; father; fear; fire; forest; girl; good; ground; hacendero; hacienda; hand; head; heart; hermosa; horse; hunter; leave; left; life; long; look; man; master; men; mexican; moment; order; place; right; señor; smile; thought; tigercat; time; travellers; unknown; voice; words cache: 44375.txt plain text: 44375.txt item: #427 of 722 id: 44380 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Buccaneer Chief: A Romance of the Spanish Main date: None words: 104938 flesch: 74 summary: Count Don Stenio de Bejar was a true Spaniard of the age of Charles V., dry, stiff, full of pride and self-sufficiency, always with his hand on his hip, and his head thrown back when he deigned to speak, which, happened to him as rarely as possible, not through any want of sense, as he was far from being a fool; but through indolence and contempt of other men, whom he never looked at without half closing his eyes, and raising the corners of his lips disdainfully. They proceeded separately on tiptoe to the principal square, where they joined other men armed like themselves, who, having arrived first, were waiting. keywords: adventurers; brother; captain; case; clara; count; day; don; doña; duke; engagé; excellency; eyes; face; filibusters; glance; good; governor; hand; hatto; head; heart; island; lady; leave; let; lord; major; man; master; michael; moment; monk; montbarts; order; place; present; right; room; sancho; sir; sister; smile; spaniards; spanish; stranger; time; voice; way; wish; word cache: 44380.txt plain text: 44380.txt item: #428 of 722 id: 44384 author: Gourmont, Remy de title: A Virgin Heart: A Novel date: None words: 39430 flesch: 86 summary: Most of them liked to give themselves little by little, playing their desire against their sense of shame M. Hervart flattered himself that he knew all about women; he knew that who let herself be touched will let herself be wholly possessed. This answer set M. Hervart thinking: Does she know as much about it as all that? keywords: boys; day; days; des; desire; eyes; face; garden; girl; gratienne; hand; head; heart; lanfranc; leonor; life; look; love; m. des; m. hervart; mme; moment; rose; thinking; thought; time; way; woman; words; xavier cache: 44384.txt plain text: 44384.txt item: #429 of 722 id: 44399 author: Aimard, Gustave title: Stoneheart: A Romance date: None words: 62851 flesch: 79 summary: At last Don Torribio answered in husky tones: You have given me twenty-four hours; I demand forty-eight to come to my determination. Don Fernando and his friend, as we have related, left the hacienda a little before Don Torribio. keywords: camp; chief; colonel; come; don; don estevan; don fernando; don josé; don pedro; don torribio; doña; eyes; father; friend; good; governor; hacienda; hand; hermosa; horse; indians; left; life; love; major; man; manuela; men; moment; place; presidio; right; señor; stoneheart; tigercat; time; vaquero; words cache: 44399.txt plain text: 44399.txt item: #430 of 722 id: 44421 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Rebel Chief: A Tale of Guerilla Life date: None words: 117620 flesch: 76 summary: The meal was silent, as usual, save that the ice seemed to be broken between the young lady and young man; and--what they had never done before--they now talked together! The weapons of other men crowning the heights on the right and left could be seen glistening in the beams of the rising sun. keywords: adventurer; antonio; brother; case; city; count; country; cousin; day; dolores; dominique; don; don andrés; don antonio; don jaime; don melchior; door; doña; excellency; eyes; face; friend; general; good; hacienda; hand; head; heaven; horse; hour; lady; leave; left; length; life; man; men; mexico; minutes; miramón; moment; oliver; order; place; president; right; room; señor; smile; soldiers; time; troops; voice; way; word cache: 44421.txt plain text: 44421.txt item: #431 of 722 id: 44448 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican War date: None words: 126150 flesch: 74 summary: Perhaps so; but, unhappily, few men comprehend their duties in the same way. However brave a man may be it is not without a feeling of instinctive terror that he finds himself suddenly cut off from society and shut up far from the company of other men, deprived of light and almost of the vital air necessary for the due play of the lungs. keywords: adventurer; aníbal; aurelio; brother; canadian; chief; count; country; daughter; day; death; don; don aníbal; doña; emilia; eyes; face; father; friend; general; good; hacendero; hacienda; hand; head; heart; horse; hunter; indian; leave; left; length; life; man; melchior; mexican; moment; mother; order; place; redskins; right; round; running; señor; sotavento; spaniards; spanish; stag; tell; time; voice; warriors; water; way; wish; words cache: 44448.txt plain text: 44448.txt item: #432 of 722 id: 44454 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Smuggler Chief: A Novel date: None words: 101999 flesch: 74 summary: Suddenly loud shouts were heard, and three heavy bodies of men, commanded by Don Juan, General Pedro Sallazar, and Leon Delbès, debouched from three different streets. It is my fault, Leon continued, with an oath. keywords: brother; captain; case; chief; city; convent; country; crevel; day; diego; don; eyes; face; father; fell; general; good; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; indians; inez; juan; know; ladies; leave; left; leon; life; love; man; maria; mayor; men; moment; night; order; pedro; place; road; room; round; sayotkatta; silence; sister; smugglers; soto; spaniards; tahi; thanks; time; voice; way; wilhelm; words; young cache: 44454.txt plain text: 44454.txt item: #433 of 722 id: 44514 author: Aimard, Gustave title: Last of the Incas: A Romance of the Pampas date: None words: 58700 flesch: 82 summary: As Don Torribio uttered these words, Doña Concha appeared, accompanied by Don Sylvio. A few days later, she continued, Don Sylvio fell into an ambuscade--why did you do that, Don Torribio? I wished to avenge myself on a rival, but I did not order his death. keywords: asked; blas; bombero; brothers; capataz; carmen; chief; concha; don; don sylvio; don torribio; don valentine; doña; estancia; eyes; face; father; fire; gauchos; good; gualichu; hand; head; heart; horse; indians; know; left; life; major; man; mercedes; moment; nocobotha; pedrito; pincheira; round; sylvio; time; valentine; voice cache: 44514.txt plain text: 44514.txt item: #434 of 722 id: 44574 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Missouri Outlaws date: None words: 50599 flesch: 86 summary: After presenting the scalps taken by myself and young men to the sachems, and receiving their thanks, I was going to my wigwam to visit my father, detained at home by old wounds, when I suddenly saw a young girl leaning against the ark of the first man. As far as I can judge, this pirate or this outlaw, whichever you choose to call him, is not a man like other men. keywords: brother; camotte; captain; chief; clinton; desert; dickson; durand; eye; face; father; friend; george; girl; good; hand; head; hunter; indian; joshua; man; matter; men; mitchell; moment; numank; oliver; outlaw; right; samuel; sir; squatter; time; tom; valley; way cache: 44574.txt plain text: 44574.txt item: #435 of 722 id: 44672 author: Aimard, Gustave title: Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge date: None words: 118645 flesch: 74 summary: In this way, the interior of San Miguel was soon encumbered with young men and old men, women, and children, and cattle--most of whom, unable to find lodgings in the houses, were forced to bivouac in the yards; which, however, was but a trifling inconvenience to them in a country where it hardly ever rains, and where the nights are not cold enough to render sleeping in the open air unpleasant. The women, children, and old men were sheltered under tents or _jacales_ made of branches, to protect them from the copious morning dew, while all the men capable of bearing arms were exercised, so as in case of attack to assist in the common defence. keywords: bandit; brother; captain; chiefs; country; days; don; doña; eyes; face; family; father; fear; friend; glance; good; great; hacienda; head; heart; hernando; horse; hunter; indians; kidd; lady; left; life; majordomo; man; marianna; marquis; master; moment; night; order; paredes; place; rancho; room; round; rufino; ruiz; senator; señor; sister; smile; son; speak; spite; stranger; stronghand; thought; tigrero; time; voice; way; wish; word; young cache: 44672.txt plain text: 44672.txt item: #436 of 722 id: 45047 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West date: None words: 75587 flesch: 82 summary: 'Shouldn't wonder, he went on, smiling, but that, without paint and powder, your bridegroom would be pretty jealous if he had me for best man and I drew the bridesmaids' eyes to my corner. There are young men who love as strongly as you, whose sweethearts are in that band; fathers who sorrow like my nephew, whose da'ters are there cooped up. keywords: band; bill; blood; breeds; brother; camp; captain; captain kidd; chapter; cherokee; chief; cold; crows; dearborn; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; girl; gold; good; guide; half; hand; having; head; horse; hour; hunter; indian; jim; joe; kidd; kind; knife; lady; left; leon; lieutenant; life; look; maclan; man; men; miss; mountain; new; old; place; red; ridge; right; river; rosario; round; set; sir; snow; tent; thing; time; trapper; voice; want; water; way; white; women; yellowstone; young cache: 45047.txt plain text: 45047.txt item: #437 of 722 id: 45401 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Guide of the Desert date: None words: 64511 flesch: 74 summary: Strange anomaly of character in certain men, and which is so often met with, especially among the Brazilian half-castes; with them their word is everything, nothing will induce them to break it. Nearly in the centre of the encampment, at the summit of a little hill of a scarcely perceptible slope, several men, whose arms and clothing were in a better position, and their appearance less fierce than those of their companions, were seated on the grass smoking their cigarettes. keywords: captain; chief; country; day; desert; diogo; don; excellency; eyes; fear; general; good; guaycurus; half; hand; having; head; horse; indian; journey; leave; left; life; look; lord; malco; man; marquis; moment; night; niom; order; painter; people; señor; tarou; time; voice; wish; word; zeno cache: 45401.txt plain text: 45401.txt item: #438 of 722 id: 45402 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Insurgent Chief date: None words: 85784 flesch: 75 summary: Let my sons sleep; sleep is good for young men, answered the chief, with a benevolent smile. These propositions, communicated by us to the allied captains, have been, I ought to state, well received by them; however, before engaging themselves definitely, and contracting an offensive alliance with the palefaces here assembled, against other men of the same colour, the captains wish to be assured that these conditions will be strictly and honourably executed by the whites, and that the red warriors will not afterwards have to repent having opened a complacent ear to perfidious counsels. keywords: brother; cabral; camp; chief; don; doubt; emile; friend; general; gueyma; hand; head; horses; indian; ladies; left; look; madame; man; marchioness; master; moment; order; pablo; painter; pincheyra; place; position; right; santiago; señor; speak; thought; time; town; tyro; voice; way; wish; word; zeno cache: 45402.txt plain text: 45402.txt item: #439 of 722 id: 45403 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Flying Horseman date: None words: 59335 flesch: 78 summary: It was Don Zeno Cabral. Meanwhile the Pincheyras, who had had a moment's hope when they had seen Don Zeno Cabral, with such skill and such cool bravery, launch himself into the precipice to attempt to find a passage, suddenly felt that hope extinguished in their hearts, when all of a sudden the tree on which the adventurous young man was holding rolled into the abyss. keywords: brother; cabral; camp; chief; don; emile; eye; friend; general; good; gueyma; hand; head; horse; indian; ladies; look; man; marchioness; mataseis; men; moment; montonero; pablo; partisan; sacatripas; señor; time; tyro; voice; wish; zeno cache: 45403.txt plain text: 45403.txt item: #440 of 722 id: 45424 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: Taking the Bastile; Or, Pitou the Peasant A Historical Story of the Great French Revolution date: None words: 77914 flesch: 84 summary: If you are a husband you ought to buy it to see how other men are managed by their wives; if you are a wife you can doubtless get hints that you have never thought of before on how to manage your husband. It gives the English secrets for catching alive all kinds of birds; it tells how to know the true value of skins, as well as how to skin all animals; deodorize, stretch, and cure them; to dress and tan skins, furs and leather; to tan with or without the wool or hair; to skin and stuff birds; baits and hooks for fishing; how to fish successfully without nets, lines, spears, snares, bobs, or bait (a great secret), how to choose and clean guns; how to breed minks for their skins (hundreds of dollars can be made by any boy or young man who knows how to breed minks), etc. keywords: andrea; ange; arms; aunt; bastile; billet; blood; book; boy; catherine; cents; chapter; charny; children; city; count; countess; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; farmer; father; fire; flesselles; france; friend; gilbert; good; governor; great; hand; head; heart; horse; king; lady; launay; life; look; lord; louis; love; majesty; man; master; men; mrs; new; order; paper; paris; people; pitou; price; queen; read; right; royal; soldiers; thought; time; town; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; young cache: 45424.txt plain text: 45424.txt item: #441 of 722 id: 45465 author: Verhaeren, Emile title: The Sunlit Hours date: None words: 4134 flesch: 83 summary: Thy breast is there, an offering, Thy hands reach out to me, Naive and tender whispering Is breathed and heard by thee. Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers XXIV. keywords: eyes; garden; heart; light; love; soul; thee; thou cache: 45465.txt plain text: 45465.txt item: #442 of 722 id: 45466 author: Verhaeren, Emile title: Afternoon date: None words: 4444 flesch: 81 summary: Then is the hour, the day, the night so part of us That happiness which breathes upon us hears no thing Except the ardent throbbing of your heart and mine When quick embraces heart to yearning heart do bring. It is the pleasant hour when lamps are lit, The vow To love each other through the live-long day From depths of heart made luminous by it. keywords: eyes; garden; hands; heart; hours; light; love; sun cache: 45466.txt plain text: 45466.txt item: #443 of 722 id: 45467 author: Verhaeren, Emile title: The Evening Hours date: None words: 4149 flesch: 86 summary: And we are jealous more than it is meet Of these poor, gentle, friendly memories Who seat themselves with us beside the fire With winter flowers laid across thin knees. Before the day is spent Go out and wander in the garden walks And pluck with gentle hands The few remaining flowers that on their stalks Are not yet sadly bent toward the mould. keywords: eyes; flowers; garden; hands; light; love; time cache: 45467.txt plain text: 45467.txt item: #444 of 722 id: 45470 author: Verhaeren, Emile title: The Love Poems (From Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'après-midi, Les Heures du Soir) date: None words: 13372 flesch: 79 summary: Your strength is to be infinitely pure and frail; to cross with burning heart all dark roads, and to have preserved, in spite of mist or darkness, all the rays of the dawn in your childlike soul. XXVII Ardour of senses, ardour of hearts, ardour of souls, vain words created by those who diminish love; sun, you do not distinguish among your flames those of evening, of dawn, or of noon! keywords: day; evening; eyes; flowers; garden; hands; heart; hour; life; light; love; soul; summer; sun cache: 45470.txt plain text: 45470.txt item: #445 of 722 id: 45512 author: Laclos, Choderlos de title: Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society. date: None words: 142250 flesch: 74 summary: To-day I have taken the resolution to eat in my room--shall only leave it now and then for a short walk: those oddities will be imputed to my health; I have declared I was _devoured with spleen_; I have also talked of a little fever; it will be sufficient to speak in a weak and languid voice to make that go down; and for an alteration in my countenance, rely on your pupil, _love will provide for it_.[3] Signed, Adelaide, _for Madame de_ Rosemonde. keywords: adieu; answer; cause; cecilia; chevalier; danceny; day; de valmont; dear; friend; friendship; good; happiness; heart; honour; hope; idea; leave; left; letter; love; madame; marchioness; merteuil; moment; morning; night; opportunity; paris; pleasure; reason; return; tender; thing; thought; time; tourvel; valmont; viscount; volanges; way; wish; woman; word; yesterday cache: 45512.txt plain text: 45512.txt item: #446 of 722 id: 45822 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician date: None words: 95333 flesch: 85 summary: Where is that horrid old man who frightens me to death? The Lord provides, returned the old gentleman, no doubt, young man; but the hand of man is one of the means. keywords: andrea; balsamo; baron; black; book; boy; brother; cardinal; carriage; cents; chapter; chon; coach; coming; countess; daughter; dauphiness; day; door; dubarry; duke; eyes; father; gentleman; gilbert; girl; gold; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; highness; horses; house; jean; king; lady; left; life; look; lord; lorenza; love; man; master; mind; new; nicole; page; paris; place; poor; princess; quote; read; right; room; rousseau; royal; saw; set; sister; speak; stranger; street; taverney; thought; time; voice; want; way; window; woman; words; work; young; youth cache: 45822.txt plain text: 45822.txt item: #447 of 722 id: 45857 author: Vandérem, Fernand title: Two banks of the Seine (Les Deux Rives) date: None words: 96881 flesch: 84 summary: This man--I shall not conceal his name any longer--is my best friend, M. Cyprien Raindal, brother of M. Raindal of the Institute.... Once more M. Raindal was carried away by the bitterest reflections against him. keywords: black; boerzell; brother; carriage; chambannes; come; course; cyprien; cyprien raindal; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; family; father; francs; friend; galician; gerald; girl; good; hand; head; house; leave; left; life; lips; little; look; love; m. cyprien; m. de; m. pums; m. raindal; madame; mademoiselle; marquis; master; men; meuze; mind; mme; morning; new; order; people; place; pums; right; room; rue; schleifmann; smile; table; thought; thérèse; time; tone; uncle; voice; way; white; woman; words; work; young; zozé cache: 45857.txt plain text: 45857.txt item: #448 of 722 id: 46125 author: Quevedo, Francisco de title: Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper date: None words: 67322 flesch: 73 summary: Victor Hugo; La Mosaïque, Le Musée des Familles, Le Magasin Pitoresque, Le Grand Tacagno _de_ Quevedo, Les Contes _d_'Edgar Poe, _et aussi_ L'histoire de France et la Revolution _de_ Michelet _et quantité d'autres. Never did I hear such an empty sounding jingling name, or so like the clattering of a bell, as beginning in _Don_ and ending in _dan_. keywords: art; author; bed; book; chap; cloak; come; day; diego; don; drawings; face; father; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; illustration; king; leave; life; little; lord; madrid; man; master; men; money; mother; night; pablo; people; place; play; quevedo; rest; saw; servants; set; sir; spain; street; thing; thought; time; uncle; vierge; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 46125.txt plain text: 46125.txt item: #449 of 722 id: 46247 author: Gourmont, Remy de title: The Book of Masks date: None words: 31600 flesch: 68 summary: (Tr. 42) Some stanzas of _Bateau ivre_ belong to true and great poetry: Et dès lors je me suis baigné dans le poème De la mer, infusé d'astres et latescent, Dévorant les azurs verts où, flottaison blême Et ravie, un noyé pensif parfois descend, To find new expressions, Huysmans materializes the spiritual and the intellectual spheres, thus giving his style a precision somewhat heavy and a lucidity rather unnatural: _rotten souls_ (like teeth) and _cracked hearts_ (like an old wall); it is picturesque and nothing else. keywords: adam; art; author; aux; beauty; book; child; comme; dans; dead; death; des; dreams; est; eyes; flowers; form; genius; god; good; hour; idea; images; les; life; literature; little; living; long; love; mallarmé; man; men; nature; night; poems; poet; poetry; point; que; qui; remains; roses; sea; silence; son; soul; sur; things; thought; time; une; verlaine; verses; white; women; words; work; world; writer cache: 46247.txt plain text: 46247.txt item: #450 of 722 id: 46276 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California date: None words: 76209 flesch: 74 summary: The excellence of the work was better shown in the cement, not mud, or ground gypsum, having resisted the weather and particularly the sandy winds themselves, though they had worn the _dobies_ (_adobes_, sun dried bricks) away deeply in places, without making airholes through. That lady had been completely changed in character by her bath in the Gulf, a magic wrought by _Pacific_ water which may recommend it in the future to the lovers of peaceful married life vexed by an irritating aunt. keywords: air; american; aníbal; apaches; arms; benito; blood; body; brother; captain; chapter; chief; clear; coming; cut; daughter; dead; death; dolores; don; don benito; door; doña; englishman; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; friend; gentleman; gladsden; ground; gun; hacienda; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; hunter; ignacio; indians; jorge; josé; knife; lady; left; life; like; little; man; matasiete; men; mexican; moment; new; oliver; order; pearl; pedrillo; place; red; rest; right; set; shot; smoke; spanish; thar; thought; time; voice; war; water; way; white; wild; young cache: 46276.txt plain text: 46276.txt item: #451 of 722 id: 46343 author: Leroux, Gaston title: The Man with the Black Feather date: None words: 66343 flesch: 82 summary: 100 (See page 157) Theophrastus Longuet, awake! 200 THE MAN WITH THE BLACK FEATHER CHAPTER I M. THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET DESIRES TO IMPROVE HIS MIND AND VISITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS M. Theophrastus Longuet was not alone when he rang the bell of that old-time palace prison, the Conciergerie: he was accompanied by his wife Marceline, a very pretty woman, uncommonly fair for a Frenchwoman, of an admirable figure, and by M. Adolphe Lecamus, his best friend. And under the vaults of the Catacombs, among their avenues and crossways, where stretch the tragic walls covered with the bony wrecks of men, the funeral march of Chopin raised its lamentation before an audience of æsthetes, of artists, of Bulgarians, of Moldo-Wallachians, of frequenters of first-nights, of M. Mifroid, and M. Theophrastus Longuet, who sleeps peacefully on his chair as he always does at the theatre. keywords: adolphe; air; cartouche; catacombs; day; door; end; express; eyes; face; fact; find; friend; good; hand; head; house; lecamus; life; look; m. de; m. longuet; man; marceline; matter; men; mifroid; night; nox; paper; paris; petito; place; reason; signor; station; story; street; theophrastus; theophrastus longuet; time; train; voice; way; wife; words; years cache: 46343.txt plain text: 46343.txt item: #452 of 722 id: 46517 author: Serao, Matilde title: The conquest of Rome date: None words: 87220 flesch: 74 summary: The Honourable Sangiorgio finished his meal hastily, inwardly gnawed with impatience to get a close view of these statesmen, these party leaders, and then once more made for Montecitorio. The Honourable Sangiorgio climbed to the third floor, to the library. keywords: air; angelica; arm; black; blue; carriage; castelforte; chamber; cold; dark; day; deputies; deputy; donna; door; evening; eyes; face; floor; francesco; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; honourable; hour; house; lady; left; life; light; look; love; man; mind; minister; moment; new; oldofredi; pale; people; piazza; place; politics; red; rome; room; round; sangiorgio; scalia; shoulders; silence; silvio; smile; soul; standing; table; think; thought; time; voice; waiting; want; way; white; wife; woman; word cache: 46517.txt plain text: 46517.txt item: #453 of 722 id: 46547 author: Cyrano de Bergerac title: A Voyage to the Moon date: None words: 42800 flesch: 67 summary: Original _of All Things; of Atomes_; _and of the Operation of the Senses_. Cyrano, at first in the position rather of the Christian than of the Cyrano of M. Rostand's play, by his gallantry and wit compelled them to accept him, and even won among these braves the title of _démon de la bravoure_. keywords: air; author; bodies; body; company; country; cyrano; day; death; doubt; earth; fire; god; good; hand; hath; heat; life; little; man; manner; matter; men; moon; nature; people; place; reason; self; soul; sun; things; thought; time; voyage; water; way; work; world; years cache: 46547.txt plain text: 46547.txt item: #454 of 722 id: 46597 author: Verne, Jules title: In Search of the Castaways A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue date: None words: 140168 flesch: 78 summary: Lord Glenarvan is not at the castle, replied Lady Helena; but I am his wife, and if I can supply his place with you---- You are Lady Glenarvan? said the young girl. Tom obeyed; and the bottle found under such singular circumstances was placed on the cabin-table, around which Lord Glenarvan, Major MacNabb, and Captain John Mangles took their seats, together with Lady Helena; for a woman, they say, is always a little inquisitive. keywords: australia; ayrton; board; britannia; captain; captain grant; captain mangles; cart; coast; companions; country; course; day; days; dear; document; duncan; evening; eyes; father; feet; fire; friends; geographer; glenarvan; good; grant; half; hand; helena; hope; horses; hour; illustration; indian; journey; lady; lady glenarvan; lady helena; left; lord glenarvan; macnabb; major; mary; miles; moment; mountain; mulready; natives; new; night; o'clock; paganel; party; place; point; quartermaster; reach; river; robert; sailors; sea; search; sidenote; thalcave; thought; time; travelers; vessel; water; way; wilson; wind; words; yacht cache: 46597.txt plain text: 46597.txt item: #455 of 722 id: 4661 author: Verlaine, Paul title: Madame Aubin date: None words: 2159 flesch: 86 summary: A Servant Aubin Madame Marie Aubin Peltier An Officer The action takes place in the room of a hotel. MARIE It was agreed? keywords: aubin; marie; peltier cache: 4661.txt plain text: 4661.txt item: #456 of 722 id: 4665 author: Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) title: Signora Fantastici (A Dramatic Proverb) date: None words: 4215 flesch: 87 summary: MADAME DE KRIEGSCHENMAHL: MADAME DE KRIEGSCHENMAHL: keywords: kriegschenmahl; madame; rodolphe cache: 4665.txt plain text: 4665.txt item: #457 of 722 id: 467 author: La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) title: The Princess of Cleves date: None words: 62117 flesch: 41 summary: It was a long time ere the Viscount could get from him an account of the conversation; at last the Duke related it to him, and Monsieur de Chartres, without being in love, no less admired the virtue, wit and merit of Madam de Cleves, than did Monsieur de Nemours himself; they began to examine what issue could reasonably be hoped for in this affair; and however fearful the Duke de Nemours was from his love, he agreed with the Viscount, that it was impossible Madam de Cleves should continue in the resolution she was in; they were of opinion nevertheless that it was necessary to follow her orders, for fear, upon the public's perceiving the inclination he had for her, she should make declarations and enter into engagements with respect to the world, that she would afterwards abide by, lest it should be thought she loved him in her husband's lifetime. The Queen-Dauphin asked Monsieur de Cleves for a little picture he had of his wife's, to compare it with that which was just drawn; everybody gave their judgment of the one and the other; and Madam de Cleves ordered the painter to mend something in the headdress of that which had been just brought in; the painter in obedience to her took the picture out of the case in which it was, and having mended it laid it again on the table. keywords: court; dauphin; de chartres; de cleves; de nemours; de tournon; duke; duke de; husband; king; know; love; madam de; monsieur; nemours; passion; prince; queen; thought; time; viscount cache: 467.txt plain text: 467.txt item: #458 of 722 id: 46766 author: Gourmont, Remy de title: A Night in the Luxembourg date: None words: 29452 flesch: 80 summary: She thinks me a man like other men, and yet, if I had been alone, her glance would have been much more lively, for she desires soft words, she desires kisses. I Shall I not become superior to other men, when I have heard, when I have understood? keywords: book; day; elise; epicurus; eyes; flowers; friend; gods; gourmont; hand; happiness; ideas; life; love; man; master; men; mind; moment; pleasure; rose; things; thought; time; truth; women; words; work; world cache: 46766.txt plain text: 46766.txt item: #459 of 722 id: 468 author: Prévost, abbé title: Manon Lescaut date: None words: 62665 flesch: 71 summary: 'I acknowledge,' continued Manon, 'that I was dazzled by all this magnificence. Manon Lescaut (this she told me was her name) seemed gratified by the visible effect of her own charms. keywords: course; day; death; door; father; good; hands; heart; hope; hour; house; lescaut; life; love; manner; manon; means; mind; mistress; moment; money; new; night; order; paris; return; thought; tiberge; time cache: 468.txt plain text: 468.txt item: #460 of 722 id: 4683 author: Voltaire title: Socrates date: None words: 9290 flesch: 88 summary: And Xantippe, the wife of Socrates has promised to give him to me in marriage. But Socrates is the tutor of Aglaea. keywords: aglaea; anitus; drixa; judges; man; melitus; socrates; sophronine; xantippe cache: 4683.txt plain text: 4683.txt item: #461 of 722 id: 46909 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 2 date: None words: 76138 flesch: 79 summary: 'Amongst those whom she cured of irremediable diseases are mentioned Mademoiselle de Palfresne, Anne Lirieux, Marie Duchemin, François Dufai, and Madame de Jumillac _née_ d'Osseville. It has been necessary for me to make three journeys into different regions for _Bouvard and Pécuchet_ before finding their setting, that best fit for action. keywords: beginning; book; bouilhet; bouvard; century; children; church; croisset; day; days; dear; death; evening; eyes; face; father; flaubert; friend; god; good; gustave; hand; head; heart; history; house; idea; jeufroy; kind; letter; life; literature; louis; love; madame; man; master; men; mind; months; morning; mother; nature; new; night; order; paris; people; place; poet; public; pécuchet; reading; reason; return; rouen; saint; second; soul; study; style; subject; table; things; thought; time; uncle; victor; victorine; way; wish; words; work; world; writing; years cache: 46909.txt plain text: 46909.txt item: #462 of 722 id: 46960 author: Boschère, Jean de title: Beasts & Men Folk Tales Collected in Flanders and Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère date: None words: 42366 flesch: 89 summary: Bring those first! I will bring everything in good time, said Reynard; trust me for that. In good time Bellyn returned to the Court and handed to the astonished King the bag which Reynard had sent. keywords: bear; birds; bruin; cat; cock; day; dog; eyes; fox; friend; giant; good; head; house; illustration; king; man; peasant; place; poor; reynard; road; sponsken; time; tree; way; wolf; world cache: 46960.txt plain text: 46960.txt item: #463 of 722 id: 46967 author: Guerrazzi, Francesco Domenico title: Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century date: None words: 91806 flesch: 73 summary: Good man, you in the simplicity of your heart gave advice like the most learned of the Fathers of the Church. I imitate this charitable example wisely, since I do not consider our country dead, but as if asleep by enchantment; and I watch her day and night, uttering over her the words of love, but oftener still of grief and anger; at times with reviving salts, or other stimulants, I endeavor to recall her to life; at other times I thrust my hands in her hair, or put to her lips a living coal as God gave to Isaiah, or I pierce her flesh near the heart to see if from thence gushes out living blood. keywords: arms; battle; bed; blood; brother; cardinal; cecchino; child; children; cosimo; country; day; dead; death; don; door; duchess; duke; earth; enemy; eyes; face; family; father; fear; feel; francesco; galleys; god; good; great; hair; hand; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; husband; isabella; john; knight; lady; leave; left; lelio; letter; life; lionardo; little; look; lord; love; man; maria; medici; men; mind; moment; mother; nature; order; people; place; power; right; room; saw; saying; sir; son; soul; sun; thought; time; titta; troilo; truth; voice; wife; wish; woman; words; world cache: 46967.txt plain text: 46967.txt item: #464 of 722 id: 4700 author: Regnard, Jean François title: The Unforseen Return date: None words: 7057 flesch: 94 summary: Roger: Tell Mr. Edward that his father is back--but not to worry, I will wait for him here--and try to do all I can. Roger: (entering) Good day, child. keywords: edward; house; lucy; mrs; prim; richly; roger cache: 4700.txt plain text: 4700.txt item: #465 of 722 id: 47002 author: Gautier, Judith title: The Usurper: An Episode in Japanese History date: None words: 102330 flesch: 87 summary: After the feast this evening, no sooner had she re-entered her apartments, than the divine Kisaki summoned me: 'Farou,' she said, 'Prince Nagato leaves Kioto to-night. Prince Nagato returned to his palace, where he found assembled some twenty samurai, his vassals, who came to ask his orders. keywords: army; castle; city; day; death; enemy; eyes; face; fatkoura; fide; general; girl; ground; hand; head; heart; hieyas; iwakura; kisaki; know; left; life; light; loo; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mikado; moment; moura; nagato; omiti; open; osaka; palace; prince; queen; raiden; sea; shogun; soldiers; thought; tika; time; tosa; voice; war; water; way; woman; yoke; yori cache: 47002.txt plain text: 47002.txt item: #466 of 722 id: 47218 author: Gautier, Judith title: The Daughter of Heaven date: None words: 31935 flesch: 88 summary: The_ FAITHFUL PRINCE _and the_ WINGED PRINCE _receive her at the foot of the steps. [FAITHFUL PRINCE _orders the_ SOLDIERS _to remove a rock, which hides a small bronze door. keywords: arrow; bearer; child; day; death; emperor; empress; faithful; fount; general; golden; heaven; ladies; lotus; majesty; men; palace; prince; scene; soldiers; son; sovereign; tartar; tartar emperor; throne; time; years cache: 47218.txt plain text: 47218.txt item: #467 of 722 id: 47333 author: None title: Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers date: None words: 52651 flesch: 82 summary: The Roman arch trembled as though it were beaten by fierce winds; and as a number of little lights went out, the sun was obscured, and so were the luminaries of the night. Here is to our golden wedding! And here is to his christening, little mother! keywords: air; arms; bed; celinina; child; children; christmas; church; cold; day; end; eyes; face; father; felt; god; good; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; house; juan; lady; life; love; man; mass; migajas; moment; mother; night; organ; pacorrito; people; place; room; snow; soul; street; supper; table; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; world; year cache: 47333.txt plain text: 47333.txt item: #468 of 722 id: 47486 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: Joyzelle date: None words: 19266 flesch: 95 summary: This is the hour, Arielle, when love must watch.... Your son's fate is wholly inscribed within a circle of love. keywords: arielle; arms; eyes; hands; happiness; joyzelle; lancéor; life; look; love; merlin cache: 47486.txt plain text: 47486.txt item: #469 of 722 id: 4752 author: Dufresny, Charles Rivière title: The Spirit of Contradiction date: None words: 6939 flesch: 91 summary: Townly: Listen, my dear wife-- Lucas: I tell you that-- Townly: I want you to know that-- Lucas: (to Mrs. Townly) That I and your husband-- Townly: You say that you want Mr. Nelson for a son-in-law, right? Oronte Lucas, the gardener Lucas Angelica Angelique Edward Richly Valere Mr. Nelson M. Thibaudois Lawyer Notary Lackey Lackey Six men, two women The scene is a garden before Mr. Townly's house in London. keywords: angelica; edward; lucas; mrs; nelson; townly cache: 4752.txt plain text: 4752.txt item: #470 of 722 id: 4753 author: Dufresny, Charles Rivière title: The Forfeiture date: None words: 4877 flesch: 92 summary: BELISE: Oh, sister. BELISE: Who looks with frigidity on the most charming of men. keywords: araminte; belise; frontin; isabelle; valere cache: 4753.txt plain text: 4753.txt item: #471 of 722 id: 47587 author: Brandes, Georg title: Anatole France date: None words: 13769 flesch: 71 summary: In his capacity as combatant France has written the last two volumes of his _Histoire Contemporaine_, published his speeches in the _Cahier de la Quinzaine_, spoken at the unveiling of Renan's statue and at Zola's grave, and written the Introduction to Combe's collected speeches It is one of the signs of the times that he should now be the man to whom the Prime Minister of France applies to have his utterances placed before the French reading public. France, however, was also the Christian name of his unassuming father--he was France Thibaut. keywords: art; author; bergeret; books; day; france; history; irony; life; madame; man; men; monsieur; people; place; putois; renan; roman; story; time; years cache: 47587.txt plain text: 47587.txt item: #472 of 722 id: 47697 author: Delpit, Albert title: Odette's Marriage A Novel, from the French of Albert Delpit, Translated from the "Revue des Deux Mondes," by Emily Prescott date: None words: 40154 flesch: 87 summary: Do you not see how careful he is to spend as much time as possible at home with us all; he is either with us four, or with dear Odette all the time. Do you know I am worried to death over these slanders about our poor, dear Odette. keywords: child; claude; corinne; day; dear; descoutures; elaine; eyes; father; germaine; grenoble; heart; left; life; love; man; mme; mother; odette; paul; room; sister; son; thing; thought; time; wife cache: 47697.txt plain text: 47697.txt item: #473 of 722 id: 47769 author: Pérez Galdós, Benito title: Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor date: None words: 73926 flesch: 82 summary: Faith, she's very pretty, and does not look like the daughter of such a wolf--God forgive me, I mean good man. These horrible things are only for us men, born for conflict; sometimes we find ourselves in the sad strait of wrenching the life from other men. keywords: augustine; blood; calle; candiola; city; convent; daughter; day; dead; del; don; enemy; eyes; face; father; fire; french; friend; god; good; hand; house; josé; las; left; life; little; man; mariquilla; men; moment; montoria; near; night; order; people; pilar; place; poor; san; saragossa; señor; siege; soldiers; son; street; time; virgin; walls; way; wounded cache: 47769.txt plain text: 47769.txt item: #474 of 722 id: 4788 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Mademoiselle Fifi date: None words: 20391 flesch: 71 summary: 11 Boule de Suif . . . . . In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, Boule de Suif, which met with an instant and tremendous success. keywords: boule; carré; coach; commander; cornudet; count; eyes; french; ladies; lamadon; left; loiseau; madame; man; men; night; officer; order; prussian; room; soldiers; suif; time; voice; way; women cache: 4788.txt plain text: 4788.txt item: #475 of 722 id: 48504 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: The Double Garden date: None words: 44865 flesch: 63 summary: He enjoyed not only their dazzling presence: he also hoped--probably unwisely, so deep and confused is that mystery--he also hoped, by dint of questioning them, to surprise, with their aid, I know not what secret law or idea of nature, I know not what private thought of the universe, which perhaps betrays itself in those ardent moments in which it strives to please other beings, to beguile other lives and to create beauty. Again we have the Milfoil and the St. John's Wort, little flowers, once useful, that march along the roads, like silent school-girls, clad in a dull uniform; the vulgar and innumerous Bird's Groundsel; her big brother, the Hare's Lettuce of the fields; then the dangerous black Nightshade; the Bitter-sweet, who hides herself; the creeping Knotweed, with the patient leaves: all the families without show, with the resigned smile, wearing the practical grey livery of autumn, which already is felt to be at hand. keywords: chance; consciousness; day; days; death; earth; existence; eyes; face; flowers; force; form; future; god; good; hand; happiness; human; justice; kind; laws; life; light; look; love; man; men; moment; nature; new; order; place; point; power; reason; soul; space; things; thought; time; trees; unknown; way; world cache: 48504.txt plain text: 48504.txt item: #476 of 722 id: 48731 author: Hugo, Victor title: Les Misérables, v. 1/5: Fantine date: None words: 110641 flesch: 80 summary: They are all little men, Sire, and it would take two of them to make one of your grenadiers. His canons and vicars were good old men, walled up like him in this diocese which had no issue to the Cardinal's hat, and who resembled their bishop with this difference, that they were finished while he was completed. keywords: age; bed; bishop; brother; certain; champmathieu; chapter; child; children; cold; come; cosette; country; day; death; door; end; eyes; face; fact; fantine; father; francs; girl; god; good; hair; hand; head; heart; heaven; hour; house; javert; jean; jean valjean; left; life; little; long; look; madame; madeleine; magloire; man; mayor; mind; moment; monseigneur; monsieur; morning; mother; night; open; paris; people; place; public; room; saw; sir; sister; sort; soul; species; street; table; thing; tholomyès; thought; time; town; valjean; voice; way; white; window; woman; word; work; years cache: 48731.txt plain text: 48731.txt item: #477 of 722 id: 48773 author: Mirbeau, Octave title: Calvary: A Novel date: None words: 81082 flesch: 84 summary: Juliette! At last Juliette moves her head, heaves a sigh and murmurs, as if in a dream: So much so that the unfortunate fellow, in the midst of his rage and sobs, could brag about the fact that Juliette had received a good education. keywords: air; arms; bed; body; child; day; days; dear; death; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; hand; head; heart; house; jean; juliette; kind; left; life; lirat; look; love; madame; man; marie; men; mintié; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; new; night; noise; order; people; pity; place; red; road; room; sea; sort; soul; spy; street; things; thought; time; trees; voice; way; woman; words; work cache: 48773.txt plain text: 48773.txt item: #478 of 722 id: 48818 author: Pérez Galdós, Benito title: Marianela date: None words: 61070 flesch: 83 summary: All last night I fancied I was talking to you and to Nela.--Poor little Nela! You shall no longer be hapless little Nela, but a good, and honest, and useful woman. keywords: beauty; blind; boy; brother; child; cárlos; day; doctor; don; eyes; face; fancy; father; florentina; girl; god; golfin; good; hand; head; house; life; look; love; man; mind; mines; mother; nature; nela; new; night; pablo; round; señor; sofía; soul; teodoro; things; time; virgin; voice; want; way; work; world cache: 48818.txt plain text: 48818.txt item: #479 of 722 id: 48884 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Love in a Mask; Or, Imprudence and Happiness date: None words: 17259 flesch: 80 summary: It was only then, in the surprise she felt at her own despair, that she realized how dear Léon had become to her, and she now admitted to herself that she could never be happy without him. Léon de Préval, a young cavalry officer, had just made his way into the Opera Ball. keywords: child; elinor; eyes; friend; gernancé; happiness; heart; love; léon; mind; mme; moment; roselis; time; woman cache: 48884.txt plain text: 48884.txt item: #480 of 722 id: 4906 author: Baron, Monsieur (Michel) title: The Lucky Man date: None words: 17077 flesch: 96 summary: Jenny: Madam? Laura: Tell Cadwell that madam (pointing to Arabella) wishes to speak to him. Slice: Is it you, sir, they call Mr. Cadwell? Cadwell: keywords: arabella; bendish; cadwell; jenny; laura; madam; olivia; selina; sir; worthy cache: 4906.txt plain text: 4906.txt item: #481 of 722 id: 49315 author: Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de title: Ourika date: None words: 10693 flesch: 82 summary: To save me from slavery, and choose for me such a benefactress as Madame de B., was twice bestowing life upon me. Success gives courage, and every one was sure of being estimated a little above their real worth, by Madame de B.; for, without knowing it, she lent them a part of her own, and after seeing or listening to her people, fancied themselves like her. keywords: charles; de b.; grief; happiness; heart; life; madame; madame de; mind; ourika cache: 49315.txt plain text: 49315.txt item: #482 of 722 id: 49318 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Afloat (Sur l'eau) date: None words: 33902 flesch: 74 summary: Other men are also sought after, but in a lesser degree; for instance, generals, who, neglected by society and not held in much greater consideration than _députés,_ are yet in demand amongst the middle classes. Other men, however, who run through at a glance the narrow circle of human satisfactions, remain dismayed before the emptiness of happiness, the monotony and poverty of earthly joys. keywords: bernard; blue; boat; breeze; cannes; country; day; days; death; end; evening; eyes; face; good; gulf; heart; human; illustration; left; life; light; look; love; man; men; moment; o'clock; open; order; people; saint; sea; sir; sky; sun; time; trees; water; waves; white; wind; woman; world; years cache: 49318.txt plain text: 49318.txt item: #483 of 722 id: 49372 author: Hugo, Victor title: Ninety-Three date: None words: 125968 flesch: 81 summary: When priests are good they are better than other men. I see no reason why Fauchet, who has mistresses, should try to prevent other men from having wives. keywords: alain; army; book; bridge; brittany; cannon; captain; children; cimourdain; commander; convention; corvette; danton; darkness; day; death; direction; door; enemy; escape; eyes; face; feet; fire; floor; forest; france; gauvain; general; georgette; god; good; gros; ground; hall; hand; head; human; illustration; imânus; iron; jean; king; ladder; lantenac; lay; left; life; light; lord; louis; man; marat; marquis; means; men; moment; mother; open; paris; peasants; people; place; plateau; priest; radoub; rené; republic; revolution; robespierre; room; safety; saint; saw; sea; second; sergeant; set; ship; shot; silence; soldiers; soul; sound; tellmarch; terrible; time; tourgue; tower; vendée; voice; wall; war; way; wind; woman; word cache: 49372.txt plain text: 49372.txt item: #484 of 722 id: 49410 author: Vega, Garcilaso de la title: The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega, Surnamed the Prince of Castilian Poets, Translated into English Verse With a Critical and Historical Essay on Spanish Poetry and a Life of the Author date: None words: 85131 flesch: 67 summary: Garcilasso de la Vega._ Nat. 1503. In this situation of things, it may not be wholly unacceptable to the public to receive, though from an inferior hand, a translation of Garcilasso de la Vega, the chastest and perhaps the most celebrated of the poets of Castile. keywords: albanio; arms; author; beauty; boscán; castilian; cause; character; compositions; country; day; dear; death; deep; desire; die; divine; don; duke; earth; ease; elegance; emperor; esq; ev'n; eyes; face; fancy; fear; fernando; fire; flowers; footnote; force; friend; garcilasso; genius; glory; gold; good; grace; green; grief; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; high; hope; joy; kind; king; lady; language; length; life; little; love; man; meet; men; merit; mind; nature; nemoroso; night; o'er; pass; past; pedro; place; poetry; poets; power; present; read; rest; rich; round; salicio; soul; spain; spanish; spirit; style; sun; sweet; sword; taste; tears; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; vega; verses; versification; way; white; wish; words; work; world; writers; youth cache: 49410.txt plain text: 49410.txt item: #485 of 722 id: 49438 author: Rolland, Romain title: The Fourteenth of July, and Danton: Two Plays of the French Revolution date: None words: 53765 flesch: 90 summary: _ WESTERMANN _stops for a moment, then continues. _ WESTERMANN _then rises._] There are some idiots who say that I'm your enemy. keywords: bastille; billaud; béquart; camille; contat; crowd; danton; desmoulins; friends; gonchon; good; great; hand; head; hoche; hulin; hérault; judge; launey; liberty; look; love; lucile; man; marat; men; nation; order; people; philippeaux; republic; revolution; right; robespierre; saint; time; vadier; varenne; vintimille; westermann cache: 49438.txt plain text: 49438.txt item: #486 of 722 id: 49450 author: Petrarca, Francesco title: Petrarch's Secret; or, the Soul's Conflict with Passion Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine date: None words: 51615 flesch: 85 summary: Think also of the shortness of our life, concerning which many great men have left their books. Not to speak of other men, I call to witness Her who has ever been the ruling spirit of my life; you yourself also I call to witness how many times I have pondered over my own misery and over the subject of Death; with what floods of tears I have sought to wash away my stains, so that I can scarce speak of it without weeping; yet hitherto, as you see, all is in vain. keywords: body; case; cicero; day; death; desire; end; eyes; god; good; hand; heart; hope; know; life; look; love; man; men; mind; nature; petrarch; place; reason; s. augustine; soul; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; wish; words; world cache: 49450.txt plain text: 49450.txt item: #487 of 722 id: 49678 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 date: None words: 181511 flesch: 74 summary: We must explain to Parisians; who will probably not know what are the two trades we have referred to under the names of _marette_ and _pipée. I have italicised the words _his wife_, because those who contested my right to the name of _Davy de la Pailleterie_ sought to prove that I was illegitimate. keywords: abbé; age; alexandre; arms; army; battle; bed; bonaparte; boy; cairo; camp; chapter; chief; child; choron; command; cotterets; country; day; days; de la; dead; dear; death; dermoncourt; deviolaine; division; door; duc; dumas; emperor; end; enemy; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; fine; following; forest; france; french; friend; general; god; good; gun; half; hand; head; heart; hiraux; home; horses; hours; house; italy; king; leave; left; letter; life; look; louis; madame; man; mantua; march; matter; means; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; napoleon; news; night; o'clock; officers; open; order; paris; people; picot; place; prince; prisoners; read; republic; return; road; room; round; saint; second; set; shot; soissons; soldiers; son; spite; state; tell; thought; time; town; troops; villers; war; way; wife; word; years cache: 49678.txt plain text: 49678.txt item: #488 of 722 id: 49784 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: The Last Vendée; or, the She-Wolves of Machecoul date: None words: 264208 flesch: 82 summary: Young men, who had hardly seen Mary and Bertha, and did not know them, spoke of the daughters of the Marquis de Souday with meaning smiles, expressive of hopes, if not of memories. Ah, young man, young man! exclaimed Courtin; they may well say youth and imprudence go together. keywords: aubin; baron; bed; bertha; body; bonneville; château; coming; courte; courtin; cry; dear; death; direction; door; eyes; face; farmer; father; feet; find; friend; general; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; hour; house; jacques; jean; jean oullier; joie; joseph; leave; left; life; like; little; logerie; look; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; marquis; marquis de; mary; matter; maître; mean; men; michel; michel de; mind; moment; monsieur; monsieur michel; mother; nantes; night; order; pascal; peasant; petit; picaut; pierre; place; poor; road; room; rosine; saint; saw; sister; soldiers; souday; spite; steps; strength; thought; time; trigaud; vendéan; voice; want; way; widow; woman; words; yes cache: 49784.txt plain text: 49784.txt item: #489 of 722 id: 50043 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: Poems date: None words: 8365 flesch: 87 summary: O that my prayers, morose and dim, With the dishevelled moon may reach And reap the night to the world's rim THE HEART'S FOLIAGE Neath the azure crystal bell Of my listless melancholy All my formless sorrows wholly Sink to rest, and all is well; Symbols all, the plans entwine: Water lilies, flowers of pleasure, Palms desirous, slow with leisure, Frigid mosses, pliant bine. And some make us dream of unknown sorrows, Of peasants at the windows of a factory, Of a gardener turned weaver, Of a summer afternoon in a wax-work show, Of the thoughts of a queen on beholding sick man in a garden, Of an odour of camphor in the forest, Of a princess locked in a tower on a day of rejoicing, Of men sailing all the week on the stagnant waters of a canal. keywords: day; dreams; eyes; gold; hands; heart; house; lilies; moon; mother; pity; sisters; soul cache: 50043.txt plain text: 50043.txt item: #490 of 722 id: 50307 author: Petrarca, Francesco title: Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch date: None words: 5644 flesch: 79 summary: L'infinita bellezza, ch'altrui abbaglia, Non vi s'impara; ché quei dolci lumi S'acquistan per ventura e non per arte. O anime gentili ed amorose, S'alcuna ha 'l mondo; e voi nude ombre e polve; Deh restate a veder qual è 'l mio male. keywords: beauty; che; del; earth; eyes; gli; heart; laura; love; mia; mio; non; occhi; petrarch; qual; sonnet; thou; words cache: 50307.txt plain text: 50307.txt item: #491 of 722 id: 50311 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel date: None words: 92001 flesch: 77 summary: Said Gontran: Look, here are two good types. Other men had ere now paid attentions to her in the fashionable world without getting anything from her in return save the mockery of a playful young woman. keywords: air; andermatt; big; bretigny; brother; charlotte; christiane; daughter; day; days; dear; doctor; end; eyes; father; felt; girl; gontran; good; hand; head; heart; honorat; hotel; latonne; left; look; love; madame; man; marquis; men; mind; moment; morning; order; oriol; paul; people; place; père; right; road; round; saw; things; thought; time; tone; voice; water; way; woman cache: 50311.txt plain text: 50311.txt item: #492 of 722 id: 50489 author: Baudelaire, Charles title: Poems in Prose date: None words: 6120 flesch: 72 summary: I know exactly the place for us, poor soul! You shall be the queen of men who have green eyes, and whose throats I have clasped by night in my caresses; of those that love the sea, the vast tumultuous green sea, formless and multiform water, the place where they are not, the woman whom they know not, the ominous flowers that are like the censers of an unknown rite, the odours that trouble the will, and the savage and voluptuous beasts that are the emblems of their folly. keywords: country; day; evening; eyes; fancioulle; life; love; man; prince; soul; world cache: 50489.txt plain text: 50489.txt item: #493 of 722 id: 51145 author: Le Sage, Alain René title: Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks date: None words: 104942 flesch: 69 summary: Belflor made no difficulty in complying with this request; but when in turn he asked that of the Student, the latter, unwilling to discover himself to any person in Madrid, replied, that he was Don Juan de Maros, and that he should eternally bear in his remembrance the debt of gratitude which he owed to the Count. However, I know your valour, Don Juan: will you accompany me? keywords: alvaro; apartment; asmodeus; belflor; cavalier; count; daughter; day; dear; death; demon; devil; don; don cleophas; don fabricio; don juan; don luis; don pedro; donna; eyes; fabricio; father; friend; good; great; grief; hand; heart; heaven; honour; house; illustration; interrupted; know; lady; leandro; leave; left; leonora; life; look; love; madrid; man; marcella; mendoza; mind; mistress; moment; night; noble; passion; place; return; room; sage; signor; son; student; tears; theodora; thought; time; toledan; wife; words; world; zambullo cache: 51145.txt plain text: 51145.txt item: #494 of 722 id: 5115 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters date: None words: 127597 flesch: 84 summary: no you are not of wood, dear good great heart! Dear good friend, the friend of my heart, the old troubadour is as well as ten thousand men--who are well, and he is gay as a finch, because the sun shines again and copy is progressing. keywords: age; antoine; aurore; beginning; book; bourgeois; charming; children; country; croisset; cruchard; day; days; dear; evening; flaubert; flaubert nohant; flaubert paris; france; friend; g. sand; george; george sand; god; good; great; gustave; head; heart; hope; house; idea; kind; left; letter; life; love; madame; man; master; maurice; men; mind; moment; month; morning; mother; need; new; news; nohant; novel; o'clock; order; paris; people; play; poor; reading; real; rest; return; right; rouen; saint; sand; talk; things; thought; time; today; troubadour; want; way; week; work; working; world; years cache: 5115.txt plain text: 5115.txt item: #495 of 722 id: 51820 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Honoré de Balzac date: None words: 47361 flesch: 76 summary: Young man, young man, what I am showing you now, no master could teach you! Thus, to the enthusiastic Poussin, that old man had become, by an abrupt transfiguration, art itself, art with its secrets, its unruly impulses, and its reveries. keywords: cambremer; countess; day; dey; door; eyes; face; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; light; love; madame; man; merret; moment; monsieur; mother; nature; order; painter; people; place; porbus; poussin; priest; room; saw; silence; son; stranger; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work cache: 51820.txt plain text: 51820.txt item: #496 of 722 id: 5193 author: Dufresny, Charles Rivière title: The Double Widowing date: None words: 9904 flesch: 88 summary: Other works by this author may be found at http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/personnage.asp?key=130 THE DOUBLE WIDOWING BY RIVIERE DUFRESNY TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY FRANK J. MORLOCK C 1986 CHARACTERS, four men, six women: The Countess, an imperious woman of no particular age Mr. Bramble, her steward Widow, Bramble's wife Tuneless, the Countess's butler who composes music Desmond, Mr. Bramble's nephew, a sentimentalist in love with Arabella Arabella, the Widow's niece, a rationalist in love with Desmond Maid, the Countess's maid Lucy, the Widow's maid Mr. MacPherson, a servant of the Countess Mrs. MacPherson, his wife The scene is set in a room in the Countess's country house. Lucy I am delighted to see you return, sir. keywords: arabella; bramble; countess; desmond; husband; lucy; macpherson; tuneless; widow cache: 5193.txt plain text: 5193.txt item: #497 of 722 id: 52225 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: The Temptation of St. Anthony date: None words: 51489 flesch: 81 summary: Honor marriage; the Holy Spirit is feminine! (_Hilarion has disappeared; and Anthony, carried along by the crowd, arrives in the presence of_--) THE CARPOCRATIANS (_reclining with women upon scarlet cushions._) The sobs of the women cease--and after an interval of silence_,) ALL (_psalmody together_): Fair! keywords: anthony; apollonius; appears; arms; beholds; beneath; black; blood; blue; body; cross; damis; darkness; day; dead; death; desire; devil; dost; earth; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; flaubert; flowers; form; god; gods; gold; good; ground; hair; hands; head; heart; heaven; hilarion; illustration; jesus; left; life; light; love; man; men; midst; open; order; people; place; red; saint; sea; soul; spirit; stars; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; voice; way; wind; woman; world cache: 52225.txt plain text: 52225.txt item: #498 of 722 id: 52356 author: Leopardi, Giacomo title: Essays and Dialogues date: None words: 76205 flesch: 75 summary: Now these men, whose life normally lasts only forty years, that is, half the time granted by nature to other men, would experience every moment an intensity of life, twice as strong as ours, because their growth, maturity, and decline are accomplished twice as rapidly as with us. Both are often despised for their difference in manner of life and opinions from other men, who neither do justice to their ability nor to the writings they put forth in proof of it. keywords: age; body; book; condition; contrary; day; death; desire; earth; existence; experience; fact; friend; future; glory; good; hand; happiness; hope; hour; human; jove; knowledge; leopardi; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; opinion; people; philosophy; place; pleasure; power; present; race; reason; spirit; state; sun; things; thought; time; truth; way; wish; words; world; writings; years cache: 52356.txt plain text: 52356.txt item: #499 of 722 id: 52617 author: Boccaccio, Giovanni title: The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels date: None words: 200996 flesch: 63 summary: _Bernardo_ answered in this manner. _Bernardo_ confessed, that his description of the Chamber was true, and acknowledged moreover, that these other things did belong to his Wife: keywords: abbot; affection; againe; answer; backe; bee; body; chamber; city; comfort; company; count; daughter; day; dayes; dead; death; desire; divers; doe; elsee; faire; father; favour; forth; fortune; friends; gentleman; god; good; great; hand; hath; heard; hearing; himselfe; holy; home; honour; hope; house; husband; kinde; king; ladies; lady; let; life; like; little; lord; love; madam; man; manner; marriage; matter; meanes; mee; men; mother; neere; night; novell; occasion; owne; passe; people; perceiving; person; place; pleasing; power; purpose; queene; quoth; reason; regard; respect; rest; saide; seeing; seene; selfe; shee; sonne; soule; spake; speeches; teares; thee; things; thither; thou; thought; thy; time; true; way; whatsoever; whereof; wife; woman; words; world; young cache: 52617.txt plain text: 52617.txt item: #500 of 722 id: 52618 author: Boccaccio, Giovanni title: The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels date: None words: 165014 flesch: 69 summary: Florentynes_ (who purposely came to make themselves merry) as neighbouring Husbandmen of the Village: _Bruno_ was to begin the service, with the Pils in a faire Cup, and _Buffalmaco_ followed him with another Cup, to deliver the wine out of the Flaggon, all the company beeing set round, as in a circle; and _Bruno_ with _Buffalmaco_ being in the midst of them, _ After these, and many more like loving speeches had passed between them, according as _Nathan_ very instantly requested, _Mithridanes_ returned back with him to the Pallace, where many dayes he highly honored & respected him, comforting & counselling him, to persever alwayes in his honourable determination. keywords: affection; againe; argument; art; backe; bed; bee; beleeve; bin; bruno; buffalmaco; calandrino; chamber; come; command; comming; company; day; dayes; desire; divers; doe; doore; faire; forth; fortune; friend; gentleman; gisippus; good; great; hand; hast; hath; head; hearing; hee; himselfe; home; honour; house; husband; kinde; king; ladies; lady; life; like; long; lord; love; madame; man; manner; matter; meanes; mee; men; morning; neere; night; novell; occasion; order; owne; place; power; quoth; reason; regard; rest; saide; saying; seeing; seene; selfe; sent; shame; shee; signior; sir; soone; speake; speeches; tell; thee; thing; thorello; thou; thy; time; way; whatsoever; whereof; wife; woman; words; world; yong cache: 52618.txt plain text: 52618.txt item: #501 of 722 id: 5275 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 01 date: None words: 5469 flesch: 70 summary: JOCONDE with joy the king's proposal heard; On which the latter with his friend conferr'd; Said he, 'twere surely right to have a book, In which to place the names of those we hook, The whole arrang'd according to their rank, And I'll engage no page remains a blank, So many conquests proud of having made, And over full the BOOK of--those who'd play'd; Said gay Astolphus we will now, my friend, Return the shortest road and poaching end; keywords: care; day; fair; joconde; king; love; roman; tales; thought; wish cache: 5275.txt plain text: 5275.txt item: #502 of 722 id: 5276 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 02 date: None words: 2937 flesch: 83 summary: honourable ladies round, No doubt he many times has served the same; 'Tis such impostors characters defame. And then for hearing those of larger size, The husband-confessor prepared his ears:-- Said she, Good father, ('mid a flood of tears), keywords: garlick; husband; lady; lord; peasant; wife cache: 5276.txt plain text: 5276.txt item: #503 of 722 id: 5277 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 03 date: None words: 4665 flesch: 78 summary: ON this, the third with candour interfer'd; She thought that oft the god of love appear'd, Good husbands playfully to fret and vex, Sometimes to rally couples: then perplex; But warmer as the conversation grew, She, anxious that each disputant might view Herself victorious, (or believe it so,) Exclaim'd, if either of you wish to show Who's in the right, with argument have done, And let us practise some new scheme of fun, To dupe our husbands; she who don't succeed Shall pay a forfeit; all replied, Agreed. A LITTLE time, as if asleep, he lay Considering how to act, or what to say; Then rose, (his spouse believing not awake,) And softly treading, lest the room should shake; The pack-thread follow'd to the outer door, And thence concluded (what he might deplore,) That his dear partner from her faith would stray, And some gallant that night design'd to play The lover's part and draw the secret clue, When she would rise, and with him freaks pursue, While he (good husband!) quietly in bed Might sleep, not dreaming that his wife had fled. keywords: day; gallant; girl; husband; lady; muleteer; servant; wife cache: 5277.txt plain text: 5277.txt item: #504 of 722 id: 5278 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 04 date: None words: 3712 flesch: 73 summary: WHEN Gasperin returned, our crafty wight, Before the wife addressed her spouse at sight; Said he the cash I've to your lady paid, Not having (as I feared) required its aid; To save mistakes, pray cross it in your book; The lady, thunderstruck, with terror shook; Allowed the payment; 'twas a case too clear; On this she stopt, and Richard dropt his chin, Rejoiced to 'scape from such unwelcome din. BARTHOLOMEA, pleased with what had passed; No disposition showed to hold him fast; The downcast husband felt such poignant grief, With ills where age can scarcely hope relief, That soon he left this busy stage of life, And Pagamin the widow took to wife. keywords: day; ev'ry; gascon; husband; lady; twas; wife cache: 5278.txt plain text: 5278.txt item: #505 of 722 id: 5279 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05 date: None words: 6101 flesch: 75 summary: THe Alexandrian swore and cursed his lot; The pirate soon the lady's story got, And, taking her aside, his share required Such impudence Alaciel's patience tired, Who, ev'ry thing refused with haughty air; Of this, howe'er, the robber was aware; In Venus' court no novice was he thought; To gain the princess anxiously he sought; Said he, you'd better take me as a friend; I'm more than pirate, and you'll comprehend, As you've obliged one dying swain to fast, You fast in turn, or you'll give way at last; 'Tis justice this demands: we sons of sea Know how to deal with those of each degree; Remember you will nothing have to eat, Till your surrender fully is complete. THIS compliment was followed by his sighs, And frank confession, both from tongue and eyes; Our lover far in little time could go; At length, he offered on her to bestow, His hand and heart, and ev'ry thing beside, Which custom sanctions when we seek a bride. keywords: alaciel; ev'ry; fair; hispal; length; love; pirate; princess; tis; twas cache: 5279.txt plain text: 5279.txt item: #506 of 722 id: 5280 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 06 date: None words: 3676 flesch: 80 summary: But Damon (such the husband's name), 'tis clear, Thought otherwise, as we shall make appear. Though charms she had, still Damon would remain, To her who had his heart a faithful swain: keywords: calista; cup; damon; husband; time; tis; wife cache: 5280.txt plain text: 5280.txt item: #507 of 722 id: 5281 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 07 date: None words: 6351 flesch: 78 summary: Such things he never would to me propose; Not e'en a monarch would the like disclose; I'm 'bove temptation, presents would not do:-- Not Plutus' stores, if offered to my view; A paltry pilgrim to presume indeed, To think that I would such a blackguard heed, Ambassadress my rank! His fondness into fervent friendship grew; As such gay Atis visited anew; He often came, but Argia was sincere, And firmly to her vow would now adhere: Old Anselm too, had sworn, by heav'n above; No more to be suspicious of his love; keywords: anselm; belle; dog; ev'ry; fair; judge; lady; love; pilgrim; tis; twas cache: 5281.txt plain text: 5281.txt item: #508 of 722 id: 5282 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: The Tales and Novels, v9: Belphegor and Others date: None words: 3074 flesch: 80 summary: THE youth exerted ev'ry art to please; But all in vain: he only seemed to teaze: Whate'er he said, however nicely graced, Ill-humour, inexperience, or distaste, Induced the belle, unlearned in Cupid's book; To treat his passion with a froward look. TO MISS DE CHAMMELAY YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. keywords: belphegor; demon; ev'ry; fair; honesta; matthew; wife cache: 5282.txt plain text: 5282.txt item: #509 of 722 id: 5283 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 09 date: None words: 3077 flesch: 80 summary: THE youth exerted ev'ry art to please; But all in vain: he only seemed to teaze: Whate'er he said, however nicely graced, Ill-humour, inexperience, or distaste, Induced the belle, unlearned in Cupid's book; To treat his passion with a froward look. TO MISS DE CHAMMELAY YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. keywords: belphegor; demon; ev'ry; fair; honesta; matthew; wife cache: 5283.txt plain text: 5283.txt item: #510 of 722 id: 5284 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 10 date: None words: 945 flesch: 86 summary: I father Andrew want, the wight replied, Who's oft to Alice confessor and guide: With Andrew, cried the other, would you speak? SISTER JANE WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child, In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled Her sister-nuns around the lattice pressed; On which the abbess thus her flock addressed: Live like our sister Jane, and bid adieu To worldly cares:--have better things in view. keywords: alice; kiss; sister cache: 5284.txt plain text: 5284.txt item: #511 of 722 id: 5285 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 11 date: None words: 4269 flesch: 77 summary: Fifteen arrived, the sire with anxious care, Of NATURE'S works declaimed,--but not the FAIR: An age, when those, for solitude designed, Should be to scenes of seriousness confined, Nor joys of youth, nor soft ideas praised The flame soon spreads when Cupid's torch is raised. And when his eyes at length your charms beheld, His glowing breast with softest passion swelled; Superior lustre beamed at ev'ry view; No pleasures pleased: his soul was fixed on you. keywords: author; care; catella; fair; jack; minutolo; richard; tales; works cache: 5285.txt plain text: 5285.txt item: #512 of 722 id: 5286 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 12 date: None words: 3175 flesch: 74 summary: But naught to husbands, parents, friends, reveal; From ev'ry one the mysterious conceal. O parents, husbands! be advised by me; Constraint with wives or children won't agree; 'Tis then the god of love exerts his art, To find admittance to the throbbing heart. keywords: cradle; friar; holy; husband; tithe; wife cache: 5286.txt plain text: 5286.txt item: #513 of 722 id: 5287 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 13 date: None words: 2922 flesch: 77 summary: But should I lose, thenceforth I'll them address.-- Said Reynold, readily I acquiesce; My life I'd venture, should you to an inn, For, in the town, I've neither friend nor kin, TO their proposal Reynold soon agreed, keywords: ev'ry; fair; night; prayer; reynold; twas cache: 5287.txt plain text: 5287.txt item: #514 of 722 id: 5288 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 14 date: None words: 3705 flesch: 77 summary: A YOUTH of Lamporechio, gay and bold, One day this gard'ner met as I am told; And after conversation 'bout the place, Said, he should like nun's service to embrace, And that he wished sincerely to be hired: He'd gratis do whatever was required. Said Nuto (such we find the gard'ner's name), Believe me, friend, you will be much to blame; Some other service seek, I recommend; These convent-dames will ne'er their whimseys end. keywords: convent; daughter; day; hermit; mother; nuns; place; tis cache: 5288.txt plain text: 5288.txt item: #515 of 722 id: 5289 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15 date: None words: 4415 flesch: 74 summary: TO Florence then returned a youth from France; Where he had studied,--more than complaisance: Well trained as any from that polished court; To Fortune's favours anxious to resort; Gallant and seeking ev'ry FAIR to please; Each house, road, alley, soon he knew at ease; The husbands, good or bad, their whims and years, With ev'ry thing that moved their hopes or fears; What sort of fuel best their females charmed; What spies were kept by those who felt alarmed; The if's, for's, to's, and ev'ry artful wile, That might in love a confidant beguile, Or nurse, or father-confessor, or dog; When passion prompts, few obstacles can clog. Don't think, said I, that either can deceive; I ev'ry thing shall hear, you may believe; Know, Nicia is a man, who well may say, He's trusted without measure ev'ry day. keywords: ev'ry; fair; husband; lady; nicia; painter; thing; tis cache: 5289.txt plain text: 5289.txt item: #516 of 722 id: 5290 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 16 date: None words: 4326 flesch: 77 summary: ONE night Camillus had a party met, Of youthful beaux and belles, a charming set, And, 'mong the rest, fair Constance was a guest; The evening passed in jollity and jest; For few to holy converse seemed inclined, And none for Methodists appeared designed: Not one, but Constance, deaf to wit was found, And, on her, raillery went briskly round. What use this eloquence, and what your aim? Such charms alone as your's could me inflame; Their pow'r is great, but fully I declare, I do not like advances from the FAIR. keywords: belle; camillus; constance; ev'ry; fair; flame; heart; love cache: 5290.txt plain text: 5290.txt item: #517 of 722 id: 5291 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 17 date: None words: 3366 flesch: 78 summary: BUT now, cried Alice, favour me I pray, And tell at once, without reserve, the way That you obtained such wit as you possess, And all particulars to me confess. A hundred secrets you retain at ease; Can one so greatly shock and you displease?-- You talk at random, Agnes, she replied; Now, would you for the remedy decide, Upon your word, if you were in my place?-- Yes, madam, said the nun, and think it grace; Still more I'd do, if necessary thought; Your health, by me, would ev'ry way be sought, And, if required by you to suffer this, Not one around would less appear remiss; Sincere affection for you I have shown, And my regard I'll ever proudly own. keywords: abbess; alice; antoinetta; ev'ry; fair; tis; wit cache: 5291.txt plain text: 5291.txt item: #518 of 722 id: 5292 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 18 date: None words: 4316 flesch: 77 summary: The parson much his penitent abused; Said he, with sensual views to be amused, Is such a sin, 'tis scarcely worse to steal; The sight is just the same as if you feel. Our penitent most humbly pardon sought; Said he, if e'er to life again I'm brought, No jealousy, suspicion's hateful bane, Shall ever enter my distracted brain. keywords: anne; care; devil; ev'ry; friar; howe'er; sight; thing; tis cache: 5292.txt plain text: 5292.txt item: #519 of 722 id: 5293 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 19 date: None words: 3881 flesch: 77 summary: What! said the abbess: pretty scandal here, When in the house of God such things appear; Ashamed to death you ought to be, no doubt, Who brought you thither?--such we always scout. Beneath their veils were beauteous sparkling eyes; The holy-water scarcely would suffice. keywords: abbess; doctor; ev'ry; eyes; rest; thought; tis cache: 5293.txt plain text: 5293.txt item: #520 of 722 id: 5294 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 20 date: None words: 3229 flesch: 75 summary: A SMILE her innocence from Rustick drew; Said he, in me you little learning view; But what I've got, I'll readily divide, And nothing from your senses try to hide. ON saying this, her garment off he took; Put on his spectacles to overlook; And parson John, without delay, began; Said he (as o'er her person now he ran), This part umbilical will make the mare A noble breast, and strength at once declare: Then further on the pastor placed his hand, keywords: ev'ry; hell; john; peter; rustick; tis cache: 5294.txt plain text: 5294.txt item: #521 of 722 id: 5295 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 21 date: None words: 3088 flesch: 78 summary: The bargain was, the lover should enjoy The belle he wished, and who had proved so coy. Said Satan, soon I'll make her lend an ear, In ev'ry thing more complaisant appear; But then, instead of what thou might'st expect, To be obedient and let me direct, The devil, having thus obliged a friend, He'll thy commands obey, thou may'st depend, The very moment; and within the hour Thy humble servant, who has got such pow'r, Will ask for others, which at once thou'lt find; Make no delay, for if thou art so blind, Thou comprehend'st, thy body and thy soul The lovely fair no longer shall control, But Satan then upon them both shall seize, And with them do-whatever he may please: 'Gainst this the spark had not a word to say; 'Twas pleasing to command, though not obey. LARGE sums his purse received;--the devil went just where commanded, and to Rome was sent, From whence his highness store of pardons got; No journey long, though distant was the spot, But ev'ry thing with magick ease arose, And all was soon accomplished that he chose. keywords: ev'ry; nuns; thou; thought; tub; view cache: 5295.txt plain text: 5295.txt item: #522 of 722 id: 5296 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 22 date: None words: 3869 flesch: 76 summary: And they so earnestly the science sought, That by experience both the art had learned, And ev'ry thing most perfectly discerned. THESE sisters eagerly had made one day An assignation with the lover gay; To have the entertainment quite complete, They'd Bacchus, Ceres too, who Venus greet: With perfect neatness all the meats were served, And naught from grace and elegancy swerved; The wines, the custards, jellies, creams, and ice: The decorations, ev'ry thing was nice; What pleasing objects and delights were viewed! keywords: andrew; ear; ev'ry; fair; theresa; thing; tis cache: 5296.txt plain text: 5296.txt item: #523 of 722 id: 5297 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 23 date: None words: 3757 flesch: 75 summary: Till on Olympus' mount the gods we see, In council met, to whom I'll state the case; On this the new-made goddess left the place, In ev'ry thing contented as a dove, And fully witnessed by the god of love. but should they cause A belle to lose a portion of applause, A handsome fortune give, and you'll behold, That ev'ry thing can be repaired by gold. keywords: aminta; cleon; ev'ry; fair; love; thing; tis cache: 5297.txt plain text: 5297.txt item: #524 of 722 id: 5298 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 24 date: None words: 3540 flesch: 80 summary: BOTH husbands madly ran from cross to square, And with their foolish clamours rent the air; I'm saddled, hooted one; I'm girth'd, said this; The latter some perhaps will doubt, and hiss; Such things however should not be disbelieved For instance, recollect (what's well received), Contains: The Indiscreet Confession The Contract The Quid Pro Quo, or The Mistakes THE INDISCREET CONFESSIONS FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got, Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot, Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed, keywords: ev'ry; father; girl; husband; lady; mistress; view cache: 5298.txt plain text: 5298.txt item: #525 of 722 id: 5299 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 25 date: None words: 3048 flesch: 85 summary: Such love In parents we must all approve, What's the use; Said Richard, of all our affection? keywords: bed; kate; kitty; love; night; nightingale cache: 5299.txt plain text: 5299.txt item: #526 of 722 id: 53020 author: Leopardi, Giacomo title: The Poems of Leopardi date: None words: 29612 flesch: 78 summary: Here do I pass my years, abandoned, hidden, And without love or life; and needs amid A rabble so malignant, bitter grow; Here I discard all pity and all virtue, And a despiser of mankind become, Because of those around me; and, meanwhile, The cherished time of youth escapes, more dear Than fame or laurels, dearer than the pure Radiance of day and vital breath; I lose thee Without a joy, and uselessly, in this Inhuman dwelling-place, immersed in woes, Of barren life thou solitary flower! Thou oft shalt see me, taciturn and lone, Wandering in bowers, or through the verdant meads, Or on the grass reclining, well content If I have leisure from deep heart to sigh. keywords: age; beauty; day; days; death; didst; dost; doth; earth; eyes; fair; fate; find; gaze; heart; hope; land; leopardi; life; love; man; mind; nature; night; o'er; poems; poet; race; song; soul; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; vain; woe; world; years; youth cache: 53020.txt plain text: 53020.txt item: #527 of 722 id: 53154 author: Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe title: Cameron of Lochiel date: None words: 89029 flesch: 79 summary: Said he: 'Will't They say there is no one left in these houses except old men, women, and children. keywords: archie; arms; blanche; brother; canada; canadian; captain; children; country; d'haberville; day; days; dear; death; dumais; english; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fellow; france; french; friend; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; ice; josé; jules; left; life; lochiel; long; love; man; manor; men; moment; mother; new; night; order; place; poor; priest; quebec; raoul; river; saw; seigneur; set; son; story; thought; time; uncle; voice; water; way; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 53154.txt plain text: 53154.txt item: #528 of 722 id: 53317 author: Pérez Galdós, Benito title: The Novel on the Tram date: None words: 8900 flesch: 80 summary: Poor woman! Poor woman! How terrible! keywords: countess; eyes; face; know; lady; letter; man; mudarra; time; tram; woman cache: 53317.txt plain text: 53317.txt item: #529 of 722 id: 53905 author: Deledda, Grazia title: Nostalgia date: None words: 79762 flesch: 85 summary: At last she did take herself off, and at last Regina was really alone with her husband, but it was too late for her to feel great comfort in the fact. In the book before us, we know all about Regina, we are, as it were, inside her; but the other personages are known to us only in so far as she knows them. keywords: antonio; arduina; away; baby; bed; black; book; child; day; days; dear; dream; eyes; face; gabrie; girl; good; hair; half; hand; heart; home; house; husband; lady; life; light; like; little; looking; love; madame; marianna; moment; mother; people; princess; regina; river; rome; room; round; signora; soul; things; thought; time; voice; want; water; white; wife; window; woman; work; world cache: 53905.txt plain text: 53905.txt item: #530 of 722 id: 53918 author: Deledda, Grazia title: The Woman & the Priest date: None words: 44906 flesch: 80 summary: Up the hilly road, as though ascending from the depths of the valley, came figures of old men with gnarled sticks hanging from their wrists by leather straps, and women whose heads wrapped in voluminous kerchiefs looked too large for their small bodies. This man fled from other men because he was afraid of committing murder or some other great crime. keywords: agnes; antiochus; boy; church; door; eyes; face; god; hands; head; house; life; man; men; mother; night; paul; priest; room; round; thought; time; village; wall; way; wind; woman cache: 53918.txt plain text: 53918.txt item: #531 of 722 id: 54222 author: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente title: Blood and Sand date: None words: 110638 flesch: 79 summary: Good bulls! In the square of the town, enclosed with carts and boarded scaffolding, old bulls would be loosed, veritable castles of flesh, covered with seams and scars, with enormous sharp horns, brutes that for many years had been baited at all the holidays in the province, venerable animals who knew Latin. keywords: angustias; animal; arena; banderillero; bandit; bull; carmen; clothes; corrida; country; crowd; danger; day; days; don; door; doña; espada; eyes; face; family; fellow; felt; fighting; friends; gallardo; gold; good; hand; head; horns; house; josé; juan; lady; left; life; madrid; man; marquis; master; matador; men; money; mother; nacional; neck; night; people; place; plaza; plumitas; poor; public; red; room; round; seville; señora; silence; sol; think; thought; time; torero; way; white; wife; woman; world cache: 54222.txt plain text: 54222.txt item: #532 of 722 id: 54614 author: Serao, Matilde title: The Land of Cockayne: A Novel date: None words: 145712 flesch: 83 summary: The pastry-shops of Purgatoria ad Arco, San Pietro a Maiella, and Costantinopoli Streets still exist, owned by the younger brothers, all more or less black and dirty, full of buzzing flies, but giving out that intoxicating smell of burnt sugar, apples, fruit, and crumbling pastry that all Naples boys, women, and old men long for. The Cardinal Archbishop and the canons were doing service at the high altar to Naples' holy patron, that he might perform the miracle; behind the balustrade, to the side of the high altar, stood a solitary, favoured, happy group of old men and women, all in black, with white neckerchiefs and cravats, the men uncovered, the women with a black veil over their hair, a group watched, commented on, and envied by all the other devotees. keywords: amati; ask; bianca; black; carmela; cesare; coming; crescenzio; crowd; daughter; day; doctor; don; donna; door; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; formosa; fragalà; francs; gennaro; girl; god; going; good; hair; half; hands; head; heart; house; left; life; look; lottery; love; luisella; man; margherita; maria; marquis; medium; men; mind; money; mother; naples; numbers; open; pale; parascandolo; pasqualino; people; poor; right; room; round; san; shop; shut; silence; thought; time; trifari; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; young cache: 54614.txt plain text: 54614.txt item: #533 of 722 id: 54619 author: Serao, Matilde title: Farewell Love! A Novel date: None words: 66785 flesch: 88 summary: When did you see Cesare? she asked, taking up her purse, across which _Anna Dias_ was stamped, and her sunshade. This year he came in the first week of July; and he was determined to stay until Anna Dias left. keywords: anna; caracciolo; cesare; cesare dias; day; dear; dias; door; eyes; face; giustino; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; laura; life; love; luigi; man; moment; people; right; room; sister; smile; soul; stella; thought; time; voice; white; wish; woman cache: 54619.txt plain text: 54619.txt item: #534 of 722 id: 54672 author: Diderot, Denis title: Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, The Indiscreet Toys date: None words: 80045 flesch: 76 summary: I know nothing so caustic as those sweet-tongued folks, when they set on, intermitted Mirzoza; and imagining that it was through regard for her that Selim excused himself, Let not my presence restrain you, added she: we are contriving to amuse ourselves; and I promise upon my honour to apply to myself all the obliging things you shall say of my sex, and to leave the rest to other women. Olympia, continued Mangogul, wife of the chief cashier of Hasna, had coiffed herself with a young officer, captain in Selim's regiment. keywords: air; answer; author; banza; bed; body; brama; chap; company; congo; conversation; court; day; dear; eyes; favorite; feet; find; friend; genius; good; great; hand; head; heart; highness; house; husband; ladies; left; life; love; madam; mangogul; mirzoza; mistress; moment; mouth; night; opinion; order; people; person; place; pleasure; pray; present; prince; rest; ring; selim; set; sir; soul; subject; sultan; things; thought; time; tis; toy; toys; trial; turn'd; wife; wit; women; word; years; young cache: 54672.txt plain text: 54672.txt item: #535 of 722 id: 549 author: Azuela, Mariano title: The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution date: None words: 38471 flesch: 87 summary: Natera shook hands with Demetrio effusively while Luis Cervantes said: With men like General Natera and Colonel Demetrio Macias, we'll cover our country with glory. He left me gasping--and a hell of a lot of other men with more experience than me, too! Luis Cervantes vouchsafed no answer. keywords: anastasio; arms; blondie; camilla; cervantes; demetrio; eyes; face; general; girl; god; good; hand; head; hell; horses; like; look; luis; luis cervantes; man; men; montanez; paint; pancracio; quail; revolution; right; soldiers; time; venancio; villa; want; war; way; woman cache: 549.txt plain text: 549.txt item: #536 of 722 id: 56528 author: Zola, Émile title: Germinal date: None words: 180819 flesch: 83 summary: That's it, old man, isn't it? Fists were stretched towards him, mothers spitefully pointed him out to their boys, old men spat as they looked at him. keywords: air; arms; bed; bread; captain; catherine; chaval; children; coal; company; darkness; day; door; earth; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; girl; god; good; hands; head; hennebeau; hour; house; idea; jeanlin; left; levaque; like; little; look; madame; maheu; maheude; man; mates; men; midst; miners; moment; montsou; morning; mother; night; pale; people; pit; place; rasseneur; road; room; saw; settlement; silence; spite; strike; things; thought; time; turn; voice; voreux; water; way; wife; woman; work; years; zacharie; étienne cache: 56528.txt plain text: 56528.txt item: #537 of 722 id: 56988 author: Nodier, Charles title: Franciscus Columna The Last Novella of Charles Nodier date: None words: 8999 flesch: 70 summary: On the contrary, all scholars know, and the majority of non-scholars are not ignorant of the fact that it is the work of Francesco Colonna or Columna, a Dominican monk in the monastery of Treviso, where he died in 1467, whatever some scatterbrained writers of life stories have to say on the matter, who confuse him with Doctor Francesco di Colonia, whose name is almost homonymous with him and who survived him for all of sixty years. Francesco Colonna, born at the start of that year was twice made an orphan, losing his father, killed on the day before he was born, and his mother who died giving birth to him. keywords: abbot; apostolo; book; day; francesco; life; love; lowrich; moment; polia; time; treviso cache: 56988.txt plain text: 56988.txt item: #538 of 722 id: 5704 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1 date: None words: 40140 flesch: 64 summary: Would it be right to marry young women without providing a dowry and yet exclude them from the right of succeeding to property? Is not the world, moreover, full of young women who drag along pale and weak, sickly and suffering? keywords: author; book; celibates; day; find; france; girls; good; happiness; heart; human; husband; ideas; law; laws; life; love; man; manners; marriage; meditation; millions; moment; nature; number; order; passion; people; pleasure; point; power; present; secret; soul; subject; thought; time; virtue; wife; wives; women; work; world cache: 5704.txt plain text: 5704.txt item: #539 of 722 id: 57202 author: Nodier, Charles title: The Legend of Sister Beatrix date: None words: 6372 flesch: 75 summary: It's you, dear Beatrix, said the sister in a voice for the dulcet tones of which there is no word in any language known to man. The Legend of Sister Beatrix Charles Nodier (1780-1844) Not far from the highest peak in the Jura, but descending a little down its slope facing west, one could still see, going on for half a century ago, a mass of ruins that had belonged to the church and the convent of Our Lady of the Flowering Thorns. keywords: beatrix; day; holy; lady; life; mary; sister; time; virgin cache: 57202.txt plain text: 57202.txt item: #540 of 722 id: 5728 author: None title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian date: None words: 33147 flesch: 83 summary: Little Don Rocco was limping along towards his hermitage of St. Luke with awkward steps, his arms in parentheses, and his back arched, knitting his brows at the road-bed as he went along. It is a fine case, Don Rocco, said Professor Marin, gathering up the cards and smiling beatifically, while his neighbor on the right raved furiously against poor Don Rocco. keywords: church; countess; crowd; day; dear; don rocco; door; doretta; evelina; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; know; life; little; look; lucia; man; men; moro; odoardo; people; priest; professor; room; signor; time; way; window; years cache: 5728.txt plain text: 5728.txt item: #541 of 722 id: 58173 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: The Great Invasion of 1813-14; or, After Leipzig Being a story of the entry of the allied forces into Alsace and Lorraine, and their march upon Paris after the Battle of Leipzig, called the Battle of the Kings and Nations date: None words: 74683 flesch: 84 summary: At night time, when the moon sheds her soft light upon this field and those immense stones, all covered with snow, when the north wind blows and whistles among the frost-covered branches, making them rustle and clatter like cymbals, you might fancy you heard the wild cry of the Germans at the moment of surprise, the shrieks and groans of the women, the neighings of the horses, the hoarse rumbling of the chariots in the defile; for it appears that these people brought with them, in their skin-covered carriages, women, children, old men, and all that they possessed in gold, and silver, and moveables, like the Germans setting out for America. That very day, about five o'clock in the evening, he reached the summit of the Hengst, and stopped at the dwelling of the patriarch of the forest rangers, old Materne. keywords: air; arms; catherine; claude; cossacks; day; divès; doctor; door; end; eyes; farm; fire; fool; frantz; gaspard; germans; good; hand; head; hour; house; hullin; jean; jerôme; kasper; left; lefévre; like; look; louise; man; marc; materne; men; moment; mountain; mountaineers; pale; people; place; poor; red; right; road; rock; round; saw; set; snow; thick; thought; time; village; voice; way; woman; yégof cache: 58173.txt plain text: 58173.txt item: #542 of 722 id: 58723 author: Barine, Arvède title: Bernardin de St. Pierre date: None words: 51052 flesch: 72 summary: But men of genius and great men are not fools.... That arch-sentimentalist, Napoleon Bonaparte, kept Paul et Virginie under his pillow during his Italian campaign; so at least he assured Saint-Pierre, but as he is known to have made precisely the same remark to Tom Paine about the Rights of Man, he must not be understood _au pied de la lettre_. keywords: air; author; bernardin; bernardin de; book; children; country; day; de saint; earth; end; eyes; france; french; god; good; happiness; heart; hennin; ideas; isle; know; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; order; paul; people; pierre; place; providence; reason; return; rousseau; saint; sea; things; thought; time; trees; virginia; way; work; world; years; études cache: 58723.txt plain text: 58723.txt item: #543 of 722 id: 58967 author: France, Anatole title: The Procurator of Judea date: None words: 5012 flesch: 78 summary: Have twenty years sufficed to make my hair white enough and my cheeks sunken enough for you to no longer recognize your friend Aelius Lamia? On hearing this name, Pontius Pilate got down from the litter in as sprightly a manner as the weariness due to his age and the gravity of his bearing allowed him. The following day, at suppertime, Aelius Lamia went to the house of Pontius Pilate. keywords: day; gods; jerusalem; jews; judea; lamia; man; pilate; pontius; rome cache: 58967.txt plain text: 58967.txt item: #544 of 722 id: 5899 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 date: None words: 42560 flesch: 67 summary: Whether wives should or should not be put under instruction--such is the question before us. Before applying ourselves to the examination of these three methods of living together, which must necessarily have different influences upon the happiness of husbands and wives, we must take a rapid survey of the practical object served by the bed and the part it plays in the political economy of human existence. keywords: bed; beds; book; conjugal; day; dear; evening; eyes; friend; good; hand; happiness; head; heart; home; house; husband; leave; life; love; madame; man; marriage; means; meditation; men; moment; nature; order; people; place; point; power; sir; soul; subject; system; thought; time; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 5899.txt plain text: 5899.txt item: #545 of 722 id: 5903 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 date: None words: 28843 flesch: 55 summary: There was no occasion for him now to interpolate extraneous matter; nay, his readers told him plainly that what they wanted of him was more Don Quixote and more Sancho Panza, and not novels, tales, or digressions. Oh, never, surely, was there knight So served by hand of dame, As served was he, Don Quixote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack-- or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse's name, and Don Quixote of La Mancha is my own; for though I had no intention of declaring myself until my achievements in your service and honour had made me known, the necessity of adapting that old ballad of Lancelot to the present occasion has given you the knowledge of my name altogether prematurely. keywords: armour; book; case; castle; cervantes; chapter; chivalry; don quixote; doubt; end; good; great; hand; humour; inn; knight; language; life; love; man; mancha; master; panza; preface; sancho; second; sort; spain; spanish; story; thee; things; thou; time; words; work; world; years cache: 5903.txt plain text: 5903.txt item: #546 of 722 id: 5904 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 02 date: None words: 4374 flesch: 58 summary: He told him, and the nonsense he had talked when found and on the way home, all which made the licentiate the more eager to do what he did the next day, which was to summon his friend the barber, Master Nicholas, and go with him to Don Quixote's house. DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 2. CHAPTER IV. OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so gay, so exhilarated at finding himself now dubbed a knight, that his joy was like to burst his horse-girths. keywords: don; don quixote; knight; lance; master; quixote cache: 5904.txt plain text: 5904.txt item: #547 of 722 id: 5905 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03 date: None words: 7965 flesch: 60 summary: Wounded no, said Don Quixote, but bruised and battered no doubt, for that bastard Don Roland has cudgelled me with the trunk of an oak tree, and all for envy, because he sees that I alone rival him in his achievements. At this instant Don Quixote began shouting out, Here, here, valiant knights! keywords: barber; books; curate; don; don quixote; housekeeper; knight; quixote; sancho; thou cache: 5905.txt plain text: 5905.txt item: #548 of 722 id: 5906 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04 date: None words: 12691 flesch: 51 summary: The Biscayan had an inscription under his feet which said, Don Sancho de Azpeitia, which no doubt must have been his name; and at the feet of Rocinante was another that said, Don Quixote. IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and the renowned Don Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to deliver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least have split and cleft them asunder from top to toe and laid them open like a pomegranate; and at this so critical point the delightful history came to a stop and stood cut short without any intimation from the author where what was missing was to be found. keywords: chrysostom; don; don quixote; errant; god; good; knight; life; love; marcela; sancho; thee; thou; time; village; worship cache: 5906.txt plain text: 5906.txt item: #549 of 722 id: 5907 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 05 date: None words: 6094 flesch: 49 summary: Sancho was the first to come to, and finding himself close to his master he called to him in a weak and doleful voice, Senor Don Quixote, ah, Senor Don Quixote! What wouldst thou, brother Sancho? answered Don Quixote in the same feeble suffering tone as Sancho. Know, friend Sancho, answered Don Quixote, that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer. keywords: chrysostom; don; don quixote; love; quixote; rocinante; sancho; thee; thou cache: 5907.txt plain text: 5907.txt item: #550 of 722 id: 59072 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Secret Tomb date: None words: 73485 flesch: 88 summary: At last Dorothy smiled with an indescribable sensation of joy and deliverance. Dorothy! keywords: air; captain; caravan; chagny; château; count; countess; d'estreicher; day; delarue; diamonds; door; dorothy; end; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; hand; head; look; mademoiselle; man; marquis; maître; medal; men; moment; place; quentin; raoul; right; roborey; room; round; saint; set; time; wall; way; webster; word cache: 59072.txt plain text: 59072.txt item: #551 of 722 id: 5908 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 06 date: None words: 6557 flesch: 52 summary: There is the point, senora, replied Sancho Panza, that I without dreaming at all, but being more awake than I am now, find myself with scarcely less wheals than my master, Don Quixote. Don Quixote of La Mancha, answered Sancho Panza, and he is a knight-adventurer, and one of the best and stoutest that have been seen in the world this long time past. keywords: bed; carrier; don; don quixote; good; innkeeper; master; quixote; sancho cache: 5908.txt plain text: 5908.txt item: #552 of 722 id: 5909 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 07 date: None words: 21843 flesch: 49 summary: Four times he stopped, and as many times did his laughter break out afresh with the same violence as at first, whereat Don Quixote grew furious, above all when he heard him say mockingly, Thou must know, friend Sancho, that of Heaven's will I was born in this our iron age to revive in it the golden or age of gold; I am he for whom are reserved perils, mighty achievements, valiant deeds; and here he went on repeating the words that Don Quixote uttered the first time they heard the awful strokes. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, I have now come to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or inn is beyond a doubt enchanted, because those who have so atrociously diverted themselves with thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings of another world? keywords: adventure; ass; don quixote; god; good; hand; head; king; knight; man; master; right; rocinante; sancho; senor; thee; thou; time; way; worship cache: 5909.txt plain text: 5909.txt item: #553 of 722 id: 5910 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 08 date: None words: 4829 flesch: 43 summary: That night they reached the very heart of the Sierra Morena, where it seemed prudent to Sancho to pass the night and even some days, at least as many as the stores he carried might last, and so they encamped between two rocks and among some cork trees; but fatal destiny, which, according to the opinion of those who have not the light of the true faith, directs, arranges, and settles everything in its own way, so ordered it that Gines de Pasamonte, the famous knave and thief who by the virtue and madness of Don Quixote had been released from the chain, driven by fear of the Holy Brotherhood, which he had good reason to dread, resolved to take hiding in the mountains; and his fate and fear led him to the same spot to which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been led by theirs, just in time to recognise them and leave them to fall asleep: and as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evildoing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Gines, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass, not troubling himself about Rocinante, as being a prize that was no good either to pledge or sell. Aurora made her appearance bringing gladness to the earth but sadness to Sancho Panza, for he found that his Dapple was missing, and seeing himself bereft of him he began the saddest and most doleful lament in the world, so loud that Don Quixote awoke at his exclamations and heard him saying, O son of my bowels, born in my very house, my children's plaything, my wife's joy, the envy of my neighbours, relief of my burdens, and lastly, half supporter of myself, for with the six-and-twenty maravedis thou didst earn me daily I met half my charges. keywords: don; don quixote; good; quixote; sancho; thou; time cache: 5910.txt plain text: 5910.txt item: #554 of 722 id: 5911 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 09 date: None words: 20665 flesch: 47 summary: As they, both of them, desired nothing more than to hear from his own lips the cause of his suffering, they entreated him to tell it, promising not to do anything for his relief or comfort that he did not wish; and thereupon the unhappy gentleman began his sad story in nearly the same words and manner in which he had related it to Don Quixote and the goatherd a few days before, when, through Master Elisabad, and Don Quixote's scrupulous observance of what was due to chivalry, the tale was left unfinished, as this history has already recorded; but now fortunately the mad fit kept off, allowed him to tell it to the end; and so, coming to the incident of the note which Don Fernando had found in the volume of Amadis of Gaul, Cardenio said that he remembered it perfectly and that it was in these words: Luscinda to Cardenio. The history relates that it was with the greatest attention Don Quixote listened to the ragged knight of the Sierra, who began by saying: Of a surety, senor, whoever you are, for I know you not, I thank you for the proofs of kindness and courtesy you have shown me, and would I were in a condition to requite with something more than good-will that which you have displayed towards me in the cordial reception you have given me; but my fate does not afford me any other means of returning kindnesses done me save the hearty desire to repay them. keywords: don; don quixote; dulcinea; father; fernando; good; knight; lady; letter; love; luscinda; master; quixote; sancho; thee; thou; time; way; worship cache: 5911.txt plain text: 5911.txt item: #555 of 722 id: 5912 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 10 date: None words: 6091 flesch: 31 summary: I called my waiting-maid to me, that there might be a witness on earth besides those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his promise, shed more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured man. The moment the speaker mentioned the name of Don Fernando, Cardenio changed colour and broke into a sweat, with such signs of emotion that the curate and the barber, who observed it, feared that one of the mad fits which they heard attacked him sometimes was coming upon him; but Cardenio showed no further agitation and remained quiet, regarding the peasant girl with fixed attention, for he began to suspect who she was. keywords: cardenio; city; curate; don; feet; fernando; luscinda; parents cache: 5912.txt plain text: 5912.txt item: #556 of 722 id: 5913 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 11 date: None words: 4898 flesch: 43 summary: The curate, seeing the danger of discovery that threatened his scheme, at once pounced upon the beard and hastened with it to where Master Nicholas lay, still uttering moans, and drawing his head to his breast had it on in an instant, muttering over him some words which he said were a certain special charm for sticking on beards, as they would see; and as soon as he had it fixed he left him, and the squire appeared well bearded and whole as before, whereat Don Quixote was beyond measure astonished, and begged the curate to teach him that charm when he had an opportunity, as he was persuaded its virtue must extend beyond the sticking on of beards, for it was clear that where the beard had been stripped off the flesh must have remained torn and lacerated, and when it could heal all that it must be good for more than beards. Like the recollection of a dream, the quarrel he had had with Don Quixote came back to Cardenio's memory, and he described it to the others; but he was unable to say what the dispute was about. keywords: cardenio; curate; don; don quixote; master; quixote cache: 5913.txt plain text: 5913.txt item: #557 of 722 id: 5914 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 12 date: None words: 10854 flesch: 58 summary: 'Don Quixote,' he must have said, senora, observed Sancho at this, otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance. On hearing this, Don Quixote said to his squire, Here, Sancho my son, bear a hand and help me to strip, for I want to see if I am the knight that sage king foretold. keywords: curate; don; don quixote; dorothea; good; knight; quixote; sancho; thee; thou; worship cache: 5914.txt plain text: 5914.txt item: #558 of 722 id: 5915 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 13 date: None words: 37782 flesch: 46 summary: That is the truth, replied Anselmo, and relying upon that I will tell thee, friend Lothario, that the desire which harasses me is that of knowing whether my wife Camilla is as good and as perfect as I think her to be; and I cannot satisfy myself of the truth on this point except by testing her in such a way that the trial may prove the purity of her virtue as the fire proves that of gold; because I am persuaded, my friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he detects her in an impropriety? Camilla was struck with alarm at hearing what Lothario said, and with much anger, and great good sense, she reproved him and rebuked his base design and the foolish and mischievous resolution he had made; but as woman has by nature a nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail when she sets herself deliberately to reason, Camilla on the spur of the moment thought of a way to remedy what was to all appearance irremediable, and told Lothario to contrive that the next day Anselmo should conceal himself in the place he mentioned, for she hoped from his concealment to obtain the means of their enjoying themselves for the future without any apprehension; and without revealing her purpose to him entirely she charged him to be careful, as soon as Anselmo was concealed, to come to her when Leonela should call him, and to all she said to him to answer as he would have answered had he not known that Anselmo was listening. keywords: anselmo; arms; camilla; day; don; dorothea; fernando; friend; god; good; heart; heaven; honour; house; husband; lady; leonela; life; lothario; love; man; quixote; thee; thou; time; way; words cache: 5915.txt plain text: 5915.txt item: #559 of 722 id: 5916 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14 date: None words: 44571 flesch: 47 summary: At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by the light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some one was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to him to be a window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich castles, such as he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his affections; and with this idea, not to show himself discourteous, or ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head and approached the hole, and as he perceived the two wenches he said: I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your thoughts of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a return can be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle birth, for which you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom love renders incapable of submission to any other than her whom, the first moment his eyes beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his soul. One of those who supported it, leaving the burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler could not protect against the clownish assault) that poor Don Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight. keywords: barber; canon; castle; curate; daughter; day; don luis; don quixote; errant; eyes; father; god; good; great; hand; inn; judge; knight; lady; leave; man; master; pack; rocinante; saddle; sancho; senor; thee; thou; time; truth; way; words; world; zoraida cache: 5916.txt plain text: 5916.txt item: #560 of 722 id: 5917 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 15 date: None words: 17108 flesch: 46 summary: At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by the light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some one was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to him to be a window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich castles, such as he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his affections; and with this idea, not to show himself discourteous, or ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head and approached the hole, and as he perceived the two wenches he said: I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your thoughts of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a return can be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle birth, for which you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom love renders incapable of submission to any other than her whom, the first moment his eyes beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his soul. The guests had by this time made peace with the landlord, for, by persuasion and Don Quixote's fair words more than by threats, they had paid him what he demanded, and the servants of Don Luis were waiting for the end of the conversation with the Judge and their master's decision, when the devil, who never sleeps, contrived that the barber, from whom Don Quixote had taken Mambrino's helmet, and Sancho Panza the trappings of his ass in exchange for those of his own, should at this instant enter the inn; which said barber, as he led his ass to the stable, observed Sancho Panza engaged in repairing something or other belonging to the pack-saddle; and the moment he saw it he knew it, and made bold to attack Sancho, exclaiming, Ho, sir thief, I have caught you! keywords: barber; curate; don; don luis; don quixote; dorothea; father; good; inn; judge; luis; pack; saddle; sancho; thou; time cache: 5917.txt plain text: 5917.txt item: #561 of 722 id: 5918 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 16 date: None words: 10034 flesch: 40 summary: The canon was amazed to hear the medley of truth and fiction Don Quixote uttered, and to see how well acquainted he was with everything relating or belonging to the achievements of his knight-errantry; so he said in reply: I cannot deny, Senor Don Quixote, that there is some truth in what you say, especially as regards the Spanish knights-errant; and I am willing to grant too that the Twelve Peers of France existed, but I am not disposed to believe that they did all the things that the Archbishop Turpin relates of them. Cardenio hung the buckler on one side of the bow of Rocinante's saddle and the basin on the other, and by signs commanded Sancho to mount his ass and take Rocinante's bridle, and at each side of the cart he placed two officers with their muskets; but before the cart was put in motion, out came the landlady and her daughter and Maritornes to bid Don Quixote farewell, pretending to weep with grief at his misfortune; and to them Don Quixote said: Weep not, good ladies, for all these mishaps are the lot of those who follow the profession I profess; and if these reverses did not befall me I should not esteem myself a famous knight-errant; for such things never happen to knights of little renown and fame, because nobody in the world thinks about them; to valiant knights they do, for these are envied for their virtue and valour by many princes and other knights who compass the destruction of the worthy by base means. keywords: books; canon; chivalry; curate; don; don quixote; good; knights; master; quixote; sancho; thou; truth cache: 5918.txt plain text: 5918.txt item: #562 of 722 id: 5919 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 17 date: None words: 2666 flesch: 39 summary: To which Don Quixote returned, I know not what more there is to be said; I only guide myself by the example set me by the great Amadis of Gaul, when he made his squire count of the Insula Firme; and so, without any scruples of conscience, I can make a count of Sancho Panza, for he is one of the best squires that ever knight-errant had. And above all when they carry such an appearance of truth with them; for they tell us the father, mother, country, kindred, age, place, and the achievements, step by step, and day by day, performed by such a knight or knights! keywords: canon; don; knight; quixote; sancho cache: 5919.txt plain text: 5919.txt item: #563 of 722 id: 5920 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 18 date: None words: 6476 flesch: 52 summary: One of those who supported it, leaving the burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler could not protect against the clownish assault) that poor Don Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight. They all offered their services to Eugenio but he who showed himself most liberal in this way was Don Quixote, who said to him, Most assuredly, brother goatherd, if I found myself in a position to attempt any adventure, I would, this very instant, set out on your behalf, and would rescue Leandra from that convent (where no doubt she is kept against her will), in spite of the abbess and all who might try to prevent me, and would place her in your hands to deal with her according to your will and pleasure, observing, however, the laws of chivalry which lay down that no violence of any kind is to be offered to any damsel. keywords: curate; don; don quixote; father; goatherd; good; leandra; quixote; rocinante; sancho cache: 5920.txt plain text: 5920.txt item: #564 of 722 id: 5922 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 19 date: None words: 17673 flesch: 55 summary: Tell me, Senor Don Quixote, said the barber here, among all those who praised her, has there been no poet to write a satire on this Lady Angelica? I can well believe, replied Don Quixote, that if Sacripante or Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a trimming; for it is naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and rejected by their ladies, whether fictitious or not, in short by those whom they select as the ladies of their thoughts, to avenge themselves in satires and libels--a vengeance, to be sure, unworthy of generous hearts; but up to the present I have not heard of any defamatory verse against the Lady Angelica, who turned the world upside down. The bachelor, though he was called Samson, was of no great bodily size, but he was a very great wag; he was of a sallow complexion, but very sharp-witted, somewhere about four-and-twenty years of age, with a round face, a flat nose, and a large mouth, all indications of a mischievous disposition and a love of fun and jokes; and of this he gave a sample as soon as he saw Don Quixote, by falling on his knees before him and saying, Let me kiss your mightiness's hand, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, for, by the habit of St. Peter that I wear, though I have no more than the first four orders, your worship is one of the most famous knights-errant that have ever been, or will be, all the world over. keywords: adventure; bachelor; barber; chapter; curate; don quixote; errant; god; good; history; master; panza; samson; sancho; senor; teresa; thee; thou; truth; way; world cache: 5922.txt plain text: 5922.txt item: #565 of 722 id: 5923 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 20 date: None words: 13203 flesch: 56 summary: he repeats three times; and he says he utters these thanksgivings at seeing that he has now got Don Quixote and Sancho fairly afield, and that the readers of his delightful history may reckon that the achievements and humours of Don Quixote and his squire are now about to begin; and he urges them to forget the former chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to fix their eyes on those that are to come, which now begin on the road to El Toboso, as the others began on the plains of Montiel; nor is it much that he asks in consideration of all he promises, and so he goes on to say: Don Quixote and Sancho were left alone, and the moment Samson took his departure, Rocinante began to neigh, and Dapple to sigh, which, by both knight and squire, was accepted as a good sign and a very happy omen; though, if the truth is to be told, the sighs and brays of Dapple were louder than the neighings of the hack, from which Sancho inferred that his good fortune was to exceed and overtop that of his master, building, perhaps, upon some judicial astrology that he may have known, though the history says nothing about it; all that can be said is, that when he stumbled or fell, he was heard to say he wished he had not come out, for by stumbling or falling there was nothing to be got but a damaged shoe or a broken rib; and, fool as he was, he was not much astray in this. Said Don Quixote, Sancho, my friend, night is drawing on upon us as we go, and more darkly than will allow us to reach El Toboso by daylight; for there I am resolved to go before I engage in another adventure, and there I shall obtain the blessing and generous permission of the peerless Dulcinea, with which permission I expect and feel assured that I shall conclude and bring to a happy termination every perilous adventure; for nothing in life makes knights-errant more valorous than finding themselves favoured by their ladies. With these, and other discussions of the same sort, they passed that night and the following day, without anything worth mention happening to them, whereat Don Quixote was not a little dejected; but at length the next day, at daybreak, they descried the great city of El Toboso, at the sight of which Don Quixote's spirits rose and Sancho's fell, for he did not know Dulcinea's house, nor in all his life had he ever seen her, any more than his master; so that they were both uneasy, the one to see her, the other at not having seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know what he was to do when his master sent him to El Toboso. keywords: don quixote; dulcinea; god; good; housekeeper; knights; lady; master; sancho; senor; thee; thou; time; toboso; world; worship cache: 5923.txt plain text: 5923.txt item: #566 of 722 id: 5924 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 21 date: None words: 12031 flesch: 53 summary: Well, said Don Quixote, if that be thy determination, good Sancho, sensible Sancho, Christian Sancho, honest Sancho, let us leave these phantoms alone and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures; for, from what I see of this country, we cannot fail to find plenty of marvellous ones in it. Thy advice is not bad, said Don Quixote, for of enemies the fewer the better; and he was drawing his sword to carry into effect Sancho's counsel and suggestion, when the squire of the Mirrors came up, now without the nose which had made him so hideous, and cried out in a loud voice, Mind what you are about, Senor Don Quixote; that is your friend, the bachelor Samson Carrasco, you have at your feet, and I am his squire. keywords: don quixote; errant; good; grove; knight; master; mirrors; rocinante; sancho; squire; thou; time; way; worship cache: 5924.txt plain text: 5924.txt item: #567 of 722 id: 5925 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 22 date: None words: 12110 flesch: 54 summary: He of the green gaban would have offered resistance, but he found himself ill-matched as to arms, and did not think it prudent to come to blows with a madman, for such Don Quixote now showed himself to be in every respect; and the latter, renewing his commands to the keeper and repeating his threats, gave warning to the gentleman to spur his mare, Sancho his Dapple, and the carter his mules, all striving to get away from the cart as far as they could before the lions broke loose. The traveller drew rein, amazed at the trim and features of Don Quixote, who rode without his helmet, which Sancho carried like a valise in front of Dapple's pack-saddle; and if the man in green examined Don Quixote closely, still more closely did Don Quixote examine the man in green, who struck him as being a man of intelligence. keywords: diego; don diego; don lorenzo; don quixote; errant; gentleman; good; knight; lions; lorenzo; sancho; senor; thou; time cache: 5925.txt plain text: 5925.txt item: #568 of 722 id: 5926 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 23 date: None words: 6384 flesch: 60 summary: Don Quixote would not enter the village, although the peasant as well as the bachelor pressed him; he excused himself, however, on the grounds, amply sufficient in his opinion, that it was the custom of knights-errant to sleep in the fields and woods in preference to towns, even were it under gilded ceilings; and so turned aside a little out of the road, very much against Sancho's will, as the good quarters he had enjoyed in the castle or house of Don Diego came back to his mind. IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS Don Quixote had gone but a short distance beyond Don Diego's village, when he fell in with a couple of either priests or students, and a couple of peasants, mounted on four beasts of the ass kind. keywords: basilio; camacho; don; don quixote; quiteria; quixote; sancho; sword; thou; time cache: 5926.txt plain text: 5926.txt item: #569 of 722 id: 5927 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 24 date: None words: 2537 flesch: 53 summary: At once all assailed Quiteria and pressed her, some with prayers, and others with tears, and others with persuasive arguments, to give her hand to poor Basilio; but she, harder than marble and more unmoved than any statue, seemed unable or unwilling to utter a word, nor would she have given any reply had not the priest bade her decide quickly what she meant to do, as Basilio now had his soul at his teeth, and there was no time for hesitation. Basilio, however, reviving slightly, said in a weak voice, as though in pain, If thou wouldst consent, cruel Quiteria, to give me thy hand as my bride in this last fatal moment, I might still hope that my rashness would find pardon, as by its means I attained the bliss of being thine. keywords: basilio; camacho; quiteria; thou cache: 5927.txt plain text: 5927.txt item: #570 of 722 id: 5928 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 25 date: None words: 3157 flesch: 51 summary: Tie me and hold thy peace, said Don Quixote, for an emprise like this, friend Sancho, was reserved for me; and said the guide, I beg of you, Senor Don Quixote, to observe carefully and examine with a hundred eyes everything that is within there; perhaps there may be some things for me to put into my book of 'Transformations.' The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough, said Sancho Panza. They were inclined to pull Don Quixote up again, as they could give him no more rope; however, they waited about half an hour, at the end of which time they began to gather in the rope again with great ease and without feeling any weight, which made them fancy Don Quixote was remaining below; and persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept bitterly, and hauled away in great haste in order to settle the question. keywords: cousin; don; don quixote; quixote; sancho cache: 5928.txt plain text: 5928.txt item: #571 of 722 id: 5929 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 26 date: None words: 10724 flesch: 57 summary: It was about four in the afternoon when the sun, veiled in clouds, with subdued light and tempered beams, enabled Don Quixote to relate, without heat or inconvenience, what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos to his two illustrious hearers, and he began as follows: A matter of some twelve or fourteen times a man's height down in this pit, on the right-hand side, there is a recess or space, roomy enough to contain a large cart with its mules. O valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, we who are here enchanted in these solitudes have been hoping to see thee, that thou mayest make known to the world what is shut up and concealed in this deep cave, called the cave of Montesinos, which thou hast entered, an achievement reserved for thy invincible heart and stupendous courage alone to attempt. keywords: ape; cousin; don; don quixote; good; master; montesinos; quixote; sancho; senor; things; time cache: 5929.txt plain text: 5929.txt item: #572 of 722 id: 593 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I date: None words: 89405 flesch: 80 summary: It seemed to me as if we had just saved the whole of France, and had done something that other men could not have done, something simple, and really patriotic. Said the jeweler: What is your name, sir? Lantin--I am in the employ of the Minister of the Interior. keywords: air; arms; bed; body; close; cold; country; day; days; dead; doctor; door; end; evening; eyes; face; fire; girl; good; hair; hands; head; heart; house; jean; laugh; left; life; like; little; look; looking; love; madame; man; maupassant; men; mind; monsieur; morning; mother; night; open; order; people; place; red; room; round; saw; simon; table; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 593.txt plain text: 593.txt item: #573 of 722 id: 5930 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 27 date: None words: 8140 flesch: 55 summary: Before it was daylight the man with the lances and halberds took his departure, and soon after daybreak the cousin and the page came to bid Don Quixote farewell, the former returning home, the latter resuming his journey, towards which, to help him, Don Quixote gave him twelve reals. In truth and earnest, I assure you gentlemen who now hear me, that to me everything that has taken place here seemed to take place literally, that Melisendra was Melisendra, Don Gaiferos Don Gaiferos, Marsilio Marsilio, and Charlemagne Charlemagne. keywords: don; don quixote; good; master; melisendra; pedro; quixote; sancho; thee; thou; time cache: 5930.txt plain text: 5930.txt item: #574 of 722 id: 5931 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 28 date: None words: 7716 flesch: 54 summary: To which the duchess made answer, that worthy Sancho is droll I consider a very good thing, because it is a sign that he is shrewd; for drollery and sprightliness, Senor Don Quixote, as you very well know, do not take up their abode with dull wits; and as good Sancho is droll and sprightly I here set him down as shrewd. By stages as already described or left undescribed, two days after quitting the grove Don Quixote and Sancho reached the river Ebro, and the sight of it was a great delight to Don Quixote as he contemplated and gazed upon the charms of its banks, the clearness of its stream, the gentleness of its current and the abundance of its crystal waters; and the pleasant view revived a thousand tender thoughts in his mind. keywords: don; don quixote; duchess; duke; knight; lady; master; quixote; sancho; thou cache: 5931.txt plain text: 5931.txt item: #575 of 722 id: 5932 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 29 date: None words: 14340 flesch: 51 summary: They all felt fresh wonder, but particularly Sancho and Don Quixote; Sancho to see how, in defiance of the truth, they would have it that Dulcinea was enchanted; Don Quixote because he could not feel sure whether what had happened to him in the cave of Montesinos was true or not; and as he was deep in these cogitations the duke said to him, Do you mean to wait, Senor Don Quixote? Why not? replied he; here will I wait, fearless and firm, though all hell should come to attack me. WHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN THIS BOOK Great was the pleasure the duke and duchess took in the conversation of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; and, more bent than ever upon the plan they had of practising some jokes upon them that should have the look and appearance of adventures, they took as their basis of action what Don Quixote had already told them about the cave of Montesinos, in order to play him a famous one. keywords: don; don quixote; duchess; duke; dulcinea; god; good; knight; lady; master; quixote; sancho; senor; thee; toboso; world cache: 5932.txt plain text: 5932.txt item: #576 of 722 id: 5933 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 30 date: None words: 17523 flesch: 57 summary: To eruct, Sancho, said Don Quixote, means to belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all-powerful there. All seemed somewhat put out by this dull, confused, martial harmony, especially Don Quixote, who could not keep his seat from pure disquietude; as to Sancho, it is needless to say that fear drove him to his usual refuge, the side or the skirts of the duchess; and indeed and in truth the sound they heard was a most doleful and melancholy one. keywords: art; don; don quixote; duchess; duennas; duke; eyes; god; good; governor; great; horse; knight; quixote; sancho; thee; thou; thy; way cache: 5933.txt plain text: 5933.txt item: #577 of 722 id: 5934 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 31 date: None words: 6438 flesch: 61 summary: And whom do they call Don Sancho Panza? asked Sancho. The answer was, Senor, there is written and recorded the day on which your lordship took possession of this island, and the inscription says, 'This day, the so-and-so of such-and-such a month and year, Senor Don Sancho Panza took possession of this island; many years may he enjoy it.' keywords: don; don quixote; good; governor; man; quixote; sancho; senor; thou cache: 5934.txt plain text: 5934.txt item: #578 of 722 id: 5935 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 32 date: None words: 8316 flesch: 61 summary: The unfortunate duenna hearing herself thus conjured, by her own fear guessed Don Quixote's and in a low plaintive voice answered, Senor Don Quixote--if so be you are indeed Don Quixote--I am no phantom or spectre or soul in purgatory, as you seem to think, but Dona Rodriguez, duenna of honour to my lady the duchess, and I come to you with one of those grievances your worship is wont to redress. Sancho ordered the chamber to be cleared, the majordomo and the carver only remaining; so the doctor and the others withdrew, and then the secretary read the letter, which was as follows: It has come to my knowledge, Senor Don Sancho Panza, that certain enemies of mine and of the island are about to make a furious attack upon it some night, I know not when. keywords: doctor; don; don quixote; duchess; duke; farmer; good; hand; lady; quixote; sancho; senor cache: 5935.txt plain text: 5935.txt item: #579 of 722 id: 5936 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 33 date: None words: 16853 flesch: 57 summary: All I know, sirs, replied the page, is that I am a real ambassador, and that Senor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of fact, and that my lord and lady the duke and duchess can give, and have given him this same government, and that I have heard the said Sancho Panza bears himself very stoutly therein; whether there be any enchantment in all this or not, it is for your worships to settle between you; for that's all I know by the oath I swear, and that is by the life of my parents whom I have still alive, and love dearly. Said the other combatant, Senor governor, I will tell you in a very few words. keywords: daughter; don; duchess; duke; father; god; good; government; governor; man; panza; quixote; sancho; senor; teresa; thee; worship cache: 5936.txt plain text: 5936.txt item: #580 of 722 id: 5937 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 34 date: None words: 9599 flesch: 55 summary: It struck Don Quixote that it was the voice of Sancho Panza he heard, whereat he was taken aback and amazed, and raising his own voice as much as he could, he cried out, Who is below there? Who is that complaining? Who should be here, or who should complain, was the answer, but the forlorn Sancho Panza, for his sins and for his ill-luck governor of the island of Barataria, squire that was to the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha? keywords: don; don quixote; duke; god; good; quixote; ricote; sancho; thee; thou; time; tosilos cache: 5937.txt plain text: 5937.txt item: #581 of 722 id: 5938 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 35 date: None words: 7748 flesch: 58 summary: On seeing it Don Quixote said, That knight was one of the best knights-errant the army of heaven ever owned; he was called Don Saint George, and he was moreover a defender of maidens. WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME When Don Quixote saw himself in open country, free, and relieved from the attentions of Altisidora, he felt at his ease, and in fresh spirits to take up the pursuit of chivalry once more; and turning to Sancho he said, Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man. keywords: don; don quixote; dulcinea; history; landlord; man; master; saint; sancho; senor; thou cache: 5938.txt plain text: 5938.txt item: #582 of 722 id: 5939 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 36 date: None words: 5100 flesch: 53 summary: The servants of Don Vicente carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades, and so ended the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was the insuperable and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad story? Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered them, and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a harangue to them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on them. He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up to him he said, Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are more merciful than cruel. keywords: don; don quixote; quixote; roque; sancho; thee; thou cache: 5939.txt plain text: 5939.txt item: #583 of 722 id: 5940 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 37 date: None words: 1086 flesch: 58 summary: The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said, Come with us, Senor Don Quixote, for we are all of us your servants and great friends of Roque Guinart's; to which Don Quixote returned, If courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, is daughter or very nearly akin to the great Roque's; carry me where you please; I will have no will but yours, especially if you deign to employ it in your service. Welcome, I say, valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha; not the false, the fictitious, the apocryphal, that these latter days have offered us in lying histories, but the true, the legitimate, the real one that Cide Hamete Benengeli, flower of historians, has described to us! Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese. keywords: don; quixote; roque cache: 5940.txt plain text: 5940.txt item: #584 of 722 id: 5941 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 38 date: None words: 4814 flesch: 63 summary: Don Antonio traversed the whole apartment with Don Quixote and walked round the table several times, and then said, Now, Senor Don Quixote, that I am satisfied that no one is listening to us, and that the door is shut, I will tell you of one of the rarest adventures, or more properly speaking strange things, that can be imagined, on condition that you will keep what I say to you in the remotest recesses of secrecy. Don Quixote was puzzled, wondering what could be the object of such precautions; whereupon Don Antonio taking his hand passed it over the bronze head and the whole table and the pedestal of jasper on which it stood, and then said, This head, Senor Don Quixote, has been made and fabricated by one of the greatest magicians and wizards the world ever saw, a Pole, I believe, by birth, and a pupil of the famous Escotillo of whom such marvellous stories are told. keywords: antonio; don; don antonio; don quixote; head; quixote; sancho cache: 5941.txt plain text: 5941.txt item: #585 of 722 id: 5942 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 39 date: None words: 9963 flesch: 59 summary: Don Quixote told Don Antonio that the plan adopted for releasing Don Gregorio was not a good one, for its risks were greater than its advantages, and that it would be better to land himself with his arms and horse in Barbary; for he would carry him off in spite of the whole Moorish host, as Don Gaiferos carried off his wife Melisendra. The viceroy went over to Don Antonio, and asked in a low voice did he know who the Knight of the White Moon was, or was it some joke they were playing on Don Quixote. keywords: antonio; don; don quixote; general; good; gregorio; knight; quixote; sancho; viceroy; white cache: 5942.txt plain text: 5942.txt item: #586 of 722 id: 5943 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 40 date: None words: 8871 flesch: 62 summary: Is it possible, Sancho, said Don Quixote, that thou dost still think that he yonder is a real lacquey? Body o' me, senor! is your worship in a condition now to inquire into other people's thoughts, above all love thoughts? Look ye, Sancho, said Don Quixote, there is a great difference between what is done out of love and what is done out of gratitude. keywords: altisidora; don; don quixote; duke; god; good; life; night; quixote; sancho; sleep; thee; thou cache: 5943.txt plain text: 5943.txt item: #587 of 722 id: 5944 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 41 date: None words: 4318 flesch: 58 summary: That day and night they travelled on, nor did anything worth mention happen them, unless it was that in the course of the night Sancho finished off his task, whereat Don Quixote was beyond measure joyful. By this dinner-time arrived, and Don Quixote and Don Alvaro dined together. keywords: alvaro; don; don quixote; quixote; sancho; thou cache: 5944.txt plain text: 5944.txt item: #588 of 722 id: 59441 author: Gálvez, Manuel title: Nacha Regules date: None words: 79753 flesch: 83 summary: Monsalvat heard the man out in silence. But Monsalvat's self-possession held the rowdy in check. keywords: afternoon; arnedo; day; doctor; door; eugenia; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; human; julieta; kind; left; life; like; living; look; love; man; moment; money; monsalvat; moreno; mother; nacha; new; people; right; room; sister; society; street; thought; time; torres; voice; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 59441.txt plain text: 59441.txt item: #589 of 722 id: 5945 author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 42 date: None words: 4665 flesch: 60 summary: OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED As nothing that is man's can last for ever, but all tends ever downwards from its beginning to its end, and above all man's life, and as Don Quixote's enjoyed no special dispensation from heaven to stay its course, its end and close came when he least looked for it. At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two boys quarrelling on the village threshing-floor one of whom said to the other, Take it easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it again as long as thou livest. keywords: curate; don; don quixote; good; niece; quixote; sancho cache: 5945.txt plain text: 5945.txt item: #590 of 722 id: 5958 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3 date: None words: 32875 flesch: 74 summary: Certain women of a lymphatic temperament will pretend to have the spleen and will even feign death, if they can only gain thereby the benefit of a secret divorce. Two-thirds of such women are enabled to win their independence by this single manoeuvre, which is no more than a review of their forces. keywords: baron; bed; book; conjugal; day; dear; doctor; friend; good; hand; headache; house; human; husband; life; love; madame; marriage; meditation; men; moment; monsieur; mother; night; order; passion; place; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world cache: 5958.txt plain text: 5958.txt item: #591 of 722 id: 60166 author: Berger, Marcel title: The Ordeal by Fire By a Sergeant in the French Army date: None words: 129931 flesch: 88 summary: Sitting there motionless, I dedicated my pitying sympathy to them and thought how few men there were among all the thousands I had seen marching past this afternoon, who were not leaving some woman at home, wife or lover, and some child of their flesh.... On other days we went into other matters: to do with the advance under fire, of the artillery and infantry (we knew all about that!) keywords: air; arms; beginning; bouillon; brother; captain; chapter; coming; company; country; day; days; end; enemy; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; find; fire; good; guillaumin; half; hand; head; heart; henriot; hold; hope; hour; idea; jeannine; judsi; lamalou; left; life; line; little; look; looking; lot; man; matter; men; mind; moment; morning; new; news; order; paris; people; place; platoon; playoust; point; poor; rest; right; road; round; sergeant; set; things; think; thought; time; tone; train; turn; valpic; voice; war; way; word; work; yards; years cache: 60166.txt plain text: 60166.txt item: #592 of 722 id: 6033 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part date: None words: 27373 flesch: 79 summary: At this moment, little Adolphe, who doesn't know what to do in this rolling box, has sadly twisted himself up into a corner, and his grandmother anxiously asks him, What is the matter? I'm hungry, says the child. Madame de Fischtaminel has called to pay Madame Caroline a visit. keywords: adolphe; caroline; carriage; charles; country; day; dear; deschars; dress; fischtaminel; francs; good; home; house; husband; law; life; look; love; madame; man; matter; morning; mother; short; son; time; wife; women; yes cache: 6033.txt plain text: 6033.txt item: #593 of 722 id: 6088 author: None title: The Lay of the Cid date: None words: 43699 flesch: 93 summary: In happy hour, Cid Campeador, most surely wast thou born. In the city of Valencia, my lord Cid Campeador Did not tarry, but the parley, he prepared himself therefor. keywords: alfonso; alvar; battle; carrión; cid; cid campeador; dame; daughters; day; don; fañez; forth; gave; god; good; hand; heart; heirs; honor; hour; king; lord cid; man; men; minaya; moors; night; o'er; thee; thou; thy; twain; valencia cache: 6088.txt plain text: 6088.txt item: #594 of 722 id: 615 author: Ariosto, Lodovico title: Orlando Furioso date: None words: 308452 flesch: 75 summary: XXXIV Then to the County cried: I never knew A man more opportune my wants to stead; I know not whether any one to you Perchance may have announced my pressing need Of such fair arms, -- or you conjectured true, -- As well as of that goodly sable weed. The cause which bred The solemn usage is, that on such day The king from sovereign peril saved his head, After four months, consumed in doleful wise, 'Mid tears and groans, with death before his eyes. keywords: agramant; anew; arms; astolpho; band; battle; bear; bed; beneath; blood; blow; bold; bore; bradamant; breast; bright; brother; care; cause; cavalier; champion; charles; cheer; child; city; close; count; courser; crew; cruel; dame; damsel; day; days; dead; dear; death; deed; deemed; desire; die; duke; earth; end; ere; evil; eyes; face; fair; faith; fall; fame; fear; feet; fell; field; fierce; find; fire; fly; foe; force; forth; fortune; foul; france; fury; gentle; god; good; gryphon; guide; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; honour; hope; horse; host; ill; intent; king; knight; know; lady; lance; lay; leave; left; let; lies; life; little; lord; love; maid; makes; man; marphisa; martial; men; mid; mighty; monarch; need; new; nought; orlando; pain; pair; paynim; peer; place; prey; rage; repair; rest; return; rinaldo; rodomont; rogero; roland; round; royal; save; saw; sea; shall; shame; shield; sight; sir; slain; son; sore; spear; steed; stood; stream; strife; sun; sword; tale; tears; tell; thee; thither; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; town; train; twas; vain; valiant; view; visage; warrior; way; whilere; wide; wind; woe; woman; world; wrought; young; youth; zerbino cache: 615.txt plain text: 615.txt item: #595 of 722 id: 61712 author: Ferval, Claude title: Cleopatra date: None words: 85510 flesch: 75 summary: At last Antony was in his mistress's arms. He was as wax in her hands, and when she asserted that Octavia had always been the secret ally of her brother, and that both at Tarentum and at Rome Antony had been their plaything, he made no protest and his silence was like acquiescence. keywords: alexandria; antony; arms; away; battle; city; cleopatra; coming; country; cæsar; day; days; death; desire; egypt; egyptian; end; evening; eyes; face; feet; friends; future; glory; gods; gold; good; hand; happiness; head; heart; hour; imperator; leave; life; light; love; mark antony; master; mind; mistress; moment; new; octavia; octavius; order; passion; people; place; power; queen; return; rome; set; things; thought; time; victory; war; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 61712.txt plain text: 61712.txt item: #596 of 722 id: 62937 author: Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de title: Viimeisen Aabenserraagin vaiheet date: None words: 10907 flesch: 56 summary: Mitä muuten sinulla on pojista, joita et saa nähdä ja jotka eivät urhoollisuudessa ole sinun vertaisiasi? Espanjatar, joka juuri oli lakannut laulamasta ja joka vielä piti kitaria käsissään, huudahti: Sehän onkin herra Maurilainen! keywords: aaben; aabenserraagi; aina; alas; asti; blanca; blanca oli; blanca sanoi; carloksen; carlos; don; don carlos; eikä; eivät; ennen; enää; esi; ettei; että; fén; granadaan; haamet; haamet ei; haamet oli; haamet sanoi; haametin; heidän; herra; herttuan; huomasi; huudahti; hän; hän ei; hän oli; hän sanoi; hänelle; hänen; häntä; isiensä; isänsä; ja hänen; joiden; joka; joka ei; joka oli; jos; jossa; jota; jumala; juuri; jälkeen; kaikki; kaksi; kanssa; kautta; keskelle; kohden; koko; kristityt; kuin; kuinka; kuitenkin; kun; kun aaben; kun hän; kätensä; kävi; lautrec; lähti; maurilainen; milloinkaan; minua; minulle; minä; mitään; muinoin; mutta; myöskin; niin; niin hän; niin kuin; niistä; nousi; nuori; nyt; nähdä; näin; näkyi; nämät; näytti; olen; olet; oli; oli hänen; olisi; olivat; ollut; otti; ovat; pian; pitkin; pois; rakastaa; rakkauden; rakkaus; ritari; rodrigon; sai; samassa; sanoi; santa; sen; siellä; siihen; silloin; sinun; sinä; sitä; sydämensä; taas; tai; takaisin; tehdä; tehnyt; toinen; tuli; tuo; tuon; tytär; tämä; tänne; tässä; tätä; täällä; vaan; vastaan; vastasi; vasten; vei; vielä; vihdoin; viimeisen; virkkoi; voi cache: 62937.txt plain text: 62937.txt item: #597 of 722 id: 6363 author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro title: Life Is a Dream date: None words: 24791 flesch: 86 summary: Who discredits threatened ill, Specially an ill previsioned By one's study, when self-love Makes it his peculiar business?-- Thus then crediting the fates Which far off my science witnessed, All these fatal auguries Seen though dimly in the distance, I resolved to chain the monster That unhappily life was given to, To find out if yet the stars Owned the wise man's weird dominion. All those circles of pure snow, All those canopies of crystal, Which the sun with rays illumines, Which the moon cuts in its circles, All those orbs of twinkling diamond, All those crystal globes that glisten, All that azure field of stars Where the zodiac signs are pictured, Are the study of my life, Are the books where heaven has written Upon diamond-dotted paper, Upon leaves by sapphires tinted, With light luminous lines of gold, In clear characters distinctly All the events of human life, Whether adverse or benignant. keywords: astolfo; basilius; calderon; clarin; clotaldo; day; death; doth; dream; estrella; fate; feet; heaven; honour; king; know; life; lord; man; prince; rosaura; scene; second; sigismund; soldiers; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; wild cache: 6363.txt plain text: 6363.txt item: #598 of 722 id: 6371 author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro title: The Purgatory of St. Patrick date: None words: 37538 flesch: 81 summary: Every torment that doth dwell For ever with the thirsty fiends of hell -- Dark brood of that dread mother, The seven-necked snake, whose poisoned breath doth smother The fourth celestial sphere; In fine, its horror and its misery drear Within me reach so far, That I myself upon myself make war, When in the arms of sleep A living corse am I, for it doth keep Such mastery o'er my life, that, as I dream, A pale foreshadowing threat of coming death I seem. POLONIA. They drag him along to the fourth penal Field, which was full of great Fires, in which all manner of Torments were to be seen. keywords: calderon; cave; dark; day; death; devils; doth; earth; end; enius; faith; fear; fire; god; good; hand; heaven; ireland; king; life; lord; lucy; luis; man; men; messingham; montalvan; night; patrick; paul; philip; place; polonia; purgatory; scene; sea; soldier; soul; sun; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; way; world cache: 6371.txt plain text: 6371.txt item: #599 of 722 id: 6372 author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro title: The Wonder-Working Magician date: None words: 24367 flesch: 88 summary: Love love. Why, I wept whole days together When it was the day for weeping. MOSCON. keywords: calderon; clarin; cyprian; day; demon; doth; end; exit; florus; god; good; governor; great; heaven; house; justina; lelius; life; livia; love; lysander; man; moscon; power; scene; sir; sun; thee; thou; thy; tis; way cache: 6372.txt plain text: 6372.txt item: #600 of 722 id: 6403 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part date: None words: 28193 flesch: 74 summary: Adolphe thanks Caroline, and catches a glimpse of bliss: he has converted his wife into a sister, and hopes to be a bachelor again. My husband had already said to me several times, 'My dear, young women never dress well; your mother liked to have you look like a stick,--she had her reasons for it. keywords: adolphe; author; caroline; day; dear; ferdinand; fischtaminel; francs; friend; good; heart; house; husband; justine; lady; life; love; madame; marriage; men; monsieur; paris; place; society; things; time; trouble; want; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 6403.txt plain text: 6403.txt item: #601 of 722 id: 6448 author: Sue, Eugène title: Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 date: None words: 156940 flesch: 78 summary: I should like to send my bandeau of pearls to good little Rigolette. This walk, peculiar to grisettes, ought to be attributed, without doubt, to three causes: To their desire to be thought handsome; to their fear of an admiration expressed in pantomime too expressive; to the desire that they always have to lose as little time as possible in their peregrinations. keywords: cecily; child; children; clémence; daughter; day; days; dear; death; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; ferrand; fleur; friend; germain; girl; good; grand; great; gringalet; half; hand; happiness; head; heart; highness; hope; house; jacques; kind; leave; left; life; look; lord; love; madame; man; marie; moment; money; mother; night; notary; pique; place; poor; prince; princess; prisoners; rigolette; rudolph; sir; skeleton; speak; think; thought; time; vinaigre; voice; wish; woman; words; years cache: 6448.txt plain text: 6448.txt item: #602 of 722 id: 6562 author: Molière title: The Pretentious Young Ladies date: None words: 12200 flesch: 87 summary: [Footnote: _Mascarille_ was played by Molière, and has a personality quite distinct from the servant of the same name in the _Blunderer_ and the _Love-Tiff_. [Footnote: _Cyrus_ and _Mandane_ are the two principal characters of Mademoiselle de Scudéry's novel _ keywords: cat; footnote; gorg; jod; ladies; mad; man; masc; mascarille; molière; play; scene; time; way; word cache: 6562.txt plain text: 6562.txt item: #603 of 722 id: 6563 author: Molière title: The Blunderer date: None words: 24001 flesch: 90 summary: SCENE I.--LELIO, _disguised as an Armenian;_ MASCARILLE. HIPPOLYTA, _daughter to_ ANSELMO. keywords: ans; celia; father; good; house; leand; leander; lel; lelio; let; man; masc; mascarille; master; money; passion; scene; shall; sir; time; truf; trufaldin; word cache: 6563.txt plain text: 6563.txt item: #604 of 722 id: 6564 author: Molière title: The Love-Tiff date: None words: 19796 flesch: 91 summary: ALBERT, _father to Lucile_. _Mandatum tuum euro diligenter_. keywords: alb; eras; good; gr.-re; gros; heart; love; lucile; mar; masc; pol; rené; scene; sir; time; val; valère; éraste cache: 6564.txt plain text: 6564.txt item: #605 of 722 id: 6602 author: Sue, Eugène title: Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 date: None words: 178434 flesch: 81 summary: When I did not see you any more, I said to myself, 'Good little Goualeuse is not made for Paris; she is a real flower of the forest, as the song says, and these flowers cannot live in the capital; the air is not good enough for them. Good heaven, M. Rudolph! cried Miss Dimpleton, running back, pale and trembling; here are a commissary of police and the guard! Divine justice watches over me! said Pipelet, in a burst of religious gratitude; they come to arrest Cabrion! keywords: brother; calabash; child; children; chouette; come; d'harville; daughter; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; ferrand; find; fleur; francois; francs; germain; girl; good; goualeuse; hand; head; heart; house; know; lady; leave; left; letter; life; look; lord; louise; louve; lucenay; madame; man; marie; martial; moment; money; morel; mother; mrs; nicholas; night; notary; pipelet; place; poor; prison; remy; room; rudolph; saint; sir; thought; time; voice; widow; wife; wish; woman; yes cache: 6602.txt plain text: 6602.txt item: #606 of 722 id: 6680 author: Molière title: The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts date: None words: 13714 flesch: 85 summary: LA M. (_Returning_). Yes. LA M. (_Returning_). keywords: bores; footnote; good; hand; king; love; man; marquis; men; molière; orphise; play; scene; sir; time; éraste cache: 6680.txt plain text: 6680.txt item: #607 of 722 id: 6681 author: Molière title: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband date: None words: 10320 flesch: 89 summary: Six months after the brilliant success of the _Précieuses Ridicules_, Molière brought out at the Théâtre du Petit-Bourbon a new comedy, called _Sganarelle, ou le Cocu Imaginaire_, which I have translated by _Sganarelle, or the self-deceived Husband_. Let me endeavour then by care... SCENE XIV.--SGANARELLE, SGANARELLE'S WIFE, _standing at the door of her house, with_ LELIO. keywords: act; aside; cel; celia; husband; lel; lelio; love; maid; molière; scene; sgan; sganarelle; sir; wife cache: 6681.txt plain text: 6681.txt item: #608 of 722 id: 6737 author: Rizal, José title: The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere date: None words: 179336 flesch: 77 summary: [85] The full dress of the Filipino women, consisting of the _camisa, pañuelo_, and _saya suelta_, the latter a heavy skirt with a long train. He must be obeyed or else the alcalde will put us all in jail, added several other old men sadly. keywords: alcalde; alferez; answer; arms; asked; attention; aunt; basilio; blood; boy; capitan; captain; chapter; children; church; civil; clara; come; country; crisostomo; curate; damaso; day; days; dead; death; don; doña; elias; end; excellency; eyes; face; fact; father; flowers; fray; friars; friend; general; girl; god; good; government; great; guard; half; hand; head; holy; home; house; husband; ibarra; isabel; leave; left; let; life; look; love; man; manila; maria; matter; men; moment; money; mother; native; new; night; order; padre; pale; people; philippines; place; poor; present; salvi; set; señor; silence; sinang; sir; sisa; sister; smile; soldiers; son; sons; spain; spaniards; spanish; spite; talk; tell; things; thought; tiago; time; tone; town; victorina; voice; want; water; way; woman; words; work; years; young; youth cache: 6737.txt plain text: 6737.txt item: #609 of 722 id: 6740 author: Molière title: Don Garcia of Navarre; Or, the Jealous Prince. A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts. date: None words: 18251 flesch: 81 summary: DONNA INEZ, _a Countess, in love with Don Silvio, beloved by Mauregat, the usurper of the Kingdom of Leon_. DON GARCIA, _Prince of Navarre, in love with Elvira_. keywords: don; donna; eliza; elv; elvira; garc; garcia; heart; heaven; inez; lord; love; madam; prince; scene cache: 6740.txt plain text: 6740.txt item: #610 of 722 id: 6742 author: Molière title: The School for Husbands date: None words: 14173 flesch: 89 summary: [Footnote: The original has _un poulet_, literally a chicken, because love-letters were folded so as to represent a fowl, with two wings; this shape is now called _cocotte_, from _coq_, and, though no longer used to designate a billet-doux, is often employed in familiar phraseology, in speaking of a girl who does not lead a moral life. SCENE II.--LÉONOR, ISABELLA, LISETTE; ARISTE _and_ SGANARELLE, _conversing in an under-tone, unperceived_. LEO. keywords: brother; heart; honour; husbands; isa; isabella; love; molière; scene; school; sgan; sganarelle; sir; val; valère cache: 6742.txt plain text: 6742.txt item: #611 of 722 id: 6861 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts date: None words: 28922 flesch: 88 summary: Vautrin and Raoul de Frescas. In the name of mercy, where is my son? The Duke What, Raoul de Frescas? Vautrin Fernand de Montsorel is on his way here. keywords: charles; de christoval; de frescas; de montsorel; de vaudrey; duchesse de; duke; frescas; grace; house; inez; joseph; lafouraille; mademoiselle de; man; marquis; monsieur; mother; raoul; raoul de; saint; scene; son; vautrin cache: 6861.txt plain text: 6861.txt item: #612 of 722 id: 6923 author: Molière title: The Miser date: None words: 22565 flesch: 96 summary: (_comes in running, and throws_ HARPAGON _down_). (HARPAGON _feels in his pocket_, JACQUES _holds out his hand, but_ HARPAGON _only pulls out his handkerchief, and says_,) keywords: cle; eli; father; fro; jac; jacques; know; love; marianne; money; scene; sir; val; valère cache: 6923.txt plain text: 6923.txt item: #613 of 722 id: 7009 author: Molière title: Monsieur De Pourceaugnac date: None words: 13256 flesch: 95 summary: MR. POUR. Is it right to make fun like that of strangers who come here? MR. POUR. keywords: 1st; era; father; jul; know; man; oro; people; phy; pour; pourceaugnac; sbri; sbrigani; scene; sir; swiss cache: 7009.txt plain text: 7009.txt item: #614 of 722 id: 7067 author: Molière title: The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants magnifiques) date: None words: 11382 flesch: 88 summary: One is sometimes too hasty in coming to tell great people things they don't care about, and I pray you to excuse me. ERI. It is not with you he is in love, Madam. ERI. keywords: ari; cli; clitidas; eri; iph; love; madam; princess; scene; sos; sostratus cache: 7067.txt plain text: 7067.txt item: #615 of 722 id: 7075 author: Bernhardt, Sarah title: The Idol of Paris date: None words: 68167 flesch: 84 summary: He is in love with little Esperance Darbois. Poor little Esperance regained her health very slowly. keywords: albert; arms; chapter; child; count; countess; cousin; darbois; daughter; day; dear; doctor; duke; esperance; eyes; face; father; frahender; françois; friend; genevieve; girl; good; hand; head; jean; left; life; little; love; madame; man; maurice; mlle; morlay; mother; perliez; room; styvens; thought; time; way cache: 7075.txt plain text: 7075.txt item: #616 of 722 id: 7114 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories date: None words: 85933 flesch: 82 summary: Little Jeanne herself, with the natural instinct of children, took no notice of her, never went up to kiss her good-night, never went into her room. And little mother, as she carelessly examined the objects, would reply: Do not give yourself so much trouble, my poor Lison. keywords: air; aunt; baron; baroness; bed; child; country; day; days; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; girl; good; hands; head; heart; home; house; husband; jeanne; julien; left; life; lison; look; love; madame; man; maupassant; mind; monsieur; morning; mother; night; paul; people; place; priest; road; room; rosalie; round; sea; set; thought; time; trees; voice; way; wife; woman; work; years cache: 7114.txt plain text: 7114.txt item: #617 of 722 id: 7178 author: Proust, Marcel title: Swann's Way date: None words: 198607 flesch: 59 summary: And so it was that, for a long time afterwards, when I lay awake at night and revived old memories of Combray, I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which a Bengal fire or some electric sign will illuminate and dissect from the front of a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness: broad enough at its base, the little parlour, the dining-room, the alluring shadows of the path along which would come M. Swann, the unconscious author of my sufferings, the hall through which I would journey to the first step of that staircase, so hard to climb, which constituted, all by itself, the tapering 'elevation' of an irregular pyramid; and, at the summit, my bedroom, with the little passage through whose glazed door Mamma would enter; in a word, seen always at the same evening hour, isolated from all its possible surroundings, detached and solitary against its shadowy background, the bare minimum of scenery necessary (like the setting one sees printed at the head of an old play, for its performance in the provinces) to the drama of my undressing, as though all Combray had consisted of but two floors joined by a slender staircase, and as though there had been no time there but seven o'clock at night. During that autumn my parents, finding the days so fully occupied with the legal formalities that had to be gone through, and discussions with solicitors and farmers, that they had little time for walks which, as it happened, the weather made precarious, began to let me go, without them, along the 'Méséglise way,' wrapped up in a huge Highland plaid which protected me from the rain, and which I was all the more ready to throw over my shoulders because I felt that the stripes of its gaudy tartan scandalised Françoise, whom it was impossible to convince that the colour of one's clothes had nothing whatever to do with one's mourning for the dead, and to whom the grief which we had shewn on my aunt's death was wholly unsatisfactory, since we had not entertained the neighbours to a great funeral banquet, and did not adopt a special tone when we spoke of her, while I at times might be heard humming a tune. keywords: air; aunt; bed; charming; church; combray; coming; course; day; days; desire; dinner; door; evening; existence; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feeling; forcheville; form; françoise; friend; gilberte; girl; good; grandmother; guermantes; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; idea; kind; lady; leave; left; life; look; love; m. swann; making; mamma; man; memory; mind; mme; moment; morning; mother; music; new; night; odette; order; parents; paris; people; person; phrase; place; play; pleasure; point; rest; room; saint; saying; sense; set; smile; sort; swann; things; think; thought; time; truth; verdurin; vinteuil; water; way; window; woman; words; world; years cache: 7178.txt plain text: 7178.txt item: #618 of 722 id: 7241 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes date: None words: 99535 flesch: 88 summary: Great blemishes in other men we spy, Which in ourselves we pass most kindly by. Of other men the powers of chance and storm Their dues collected in substantial form; While smiling Fortune, in her kindest sport, Took care to waft his vessels to their port. keywords: aesop; age; air; ass; bear; beasts; beneath; bird; book; care; case; cat; come; course; day; dead; death; dog; dogs; doubt; eagle; edition; fable; face; fair; fate; fear; fontaine; fortune; fox; friend; god; gods; gold; good; great; hath; head; heart; heaven; home; house; human; king; know; leave; life; lion; love; madame; man; master; men; mind; monkey; nature; need; new; o'er; people; phaedrus; place; poet; power; race; rat; reason; rest; saw; set; sheep; shepherd; sir; son; story; sweet; thing; thought; thy; till; time; tis; truth; twas; vain; viii; war; way; wife; wise; wolf; work; world; xii; years; young cache: 7241.txt plain text: 7241.txt item: #619 of 722 id: 7279 author: Molière title: The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman date: None words: 21217 flesch: 98 summary: MR. JOUR. You see we are quite ready. MR. JOUR. keywords: cle; cov; dan; dor; jour; jourdain; love; mas; master; mrs; mus; nic; phil; prof; scene; sir cache: 7279.txt plain text: 7279.txt item: #620 of 722 id: 728 author: Howells, William Dean title: Emile Zola date: None words: 4130 flesch: 54 summary: M. Brunetiere says Zola's characters are not true to the French fact; that his peasants, working-men, citizens, soldiers are not French, whatever else they may be; but this is merely M. Brunetiere's word against Zola's word, and Zola had as good opportunities of knowing French life as Mr. Brunetiere, whose aesthetics, as he betrays them in his instances, are of a flabbiness which does not impart conviction. The present is always holding in solution the elements of the future and the past, in fact; and whilst Zola still lived, in the moments of his highest activity, the love and hate, the intelligence and ignorance, of his motives and his work were as evident, and were as accurately the measure of progressive and retrogressive criticism, as they will be hereafter in any of the literary periods to come. keywords: books; fact; man; people; work; zola cache: 728.txt plain text: 728.txt item: #621 of 722 id: 7417 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Resources of Quinola: A Comedy in a Prologue and Five Acts date: None words: 30168 flesch: 87 summary: PERSONS OF THE PROLOGUE Philip II., King of Spain Cardinal Cienfuegos, Grand Inquisitor The Captain of the Guards The Duke of Olmedo The Duke of Lerma Alfonso Fontanares Lavradi, known as Quinola A halberdier An alcalde of the palace A familiar of the Inquisition The Queen of Spain The Marchioness of Mondejar PERSONS OF THE PLAY Don Fregose, Viceroy of Catalonia Grand Inquisitor Count Sarpi, secretary to the Viceroy Don Ramon, a savant Avaloros, a banker Mathieu Magis, a Lombard Lothundiaz, a burgess Alfonso Fontanares, an inventor Lavradi, known as Quinola, servant to Fontanares Monipodio, a retired bandit Coppolus, a metal merchant Carpano, a locksmith Esteban, workman Girone, workman The host of the Golden Sun A bailiff An alcalde Faustine Brancadori Marie Lothundiaz, daughter to Lothundiaz Dona Lopez, duenna to Marie Lothundiaz Paquita, maid to Faustine SCENE: Spain--Valladolid and Barcelona TIME: 1588-89 THE RESOURCES OF QUINOLA PROLOGUE SCENE FIRST (The scene is laid at Valladolid, in the palace of the King of Spain. SCENE ELEVENTH The Grand Inquisitor, Fontanares, Quinola and the Duke of Olmedo. keywords: avaloros; come; don; don ramon; duke; faustine; fontanares; fregose; good; king; lothundiaz; love; magis; man; marchioness; marie; master; mathieu; monipodio; paquita; persons; quinola; ramon; sarpi; scene; senor cache: 7417.txt plain text: 7417.txt item: #622 of 722 id: 7444 author: Molière title: Psyche date: None words: 16390 flesch: 88 summary: Seek not your hearts to shield; To pine is law, and ye must yield. PALEMON. Is aught more worthless born Than hearts that love will scorn? VERTUMNUS. The penalty is suited to the offence; and Love, on this glorious day, avenges himself of lack of love by an excess of love. PSY. keywords: agl; charms; cid; death; eyes; gods; grief; heart; heaven; love; psy; psyche; scene; thou cache: 7444.txt plain text: 7444.txt item: #623 of 722 id: 7451 author: Molière title: The Countess of Escarbagnas date: None words: 6188 flesch: 94 summary: I should think, Madam, that during your stay in Paris you made many a conquest among the people of quality. COUN. But, Madam, we shall see if my comedy, with its interludes and dances, will counteract in your mind the progress which the two strophes have made. COUN. keywords: coun; countess; julia; madam; thibaudier; visc cache: 7451.txt plain text: 7451.txt item: #624 of 722 id: 749 author: John of Damascus, Saint title: Barlaam and Ioasaph date: None words: 83500 flesch: 68 summary: Then he turned him round toward the king's son and said, Tell me now, thou man, whose soul is enlightened, will Christ accept me, if I forsake my evil deeds and turn to him? Yea, said that preacher of truth; Yea, he receiveth thee and all that turn to him. The very fact that your foul idols are commended by many men of marvellous wisdom, and established by kings, while the Gospel is preached by a few men of no mark, sheweth the might of our religion and the weakness and deadliness of your wicked doctrines. keywords: away; barlaam; body; christ; day; death; earth; evil; father; forth; glory; god; gods; good; great; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; ioasaph; king; life; light; like; lord; love; man; men; mind; power; present; saith; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; world cache: 749.txt plain text: 749.txt item: #625 of 722 id: 750 author: None title: The High History of the Holy Graal date: None words: 158970 flesch: 84 summary: When he hath the piece of the cloth and the sword he closeth the coffin again, and forthwith cometh to the door of the chapel and seeth mount, in the midst of the grave-yard as it seemed him, great knights and horrible, and they are appareled as it were to combat, and him thinketh that they are watching for him and espy him. This Alain had eleven brethren, right good knights, like as he was himself. keywords: body; castle; chapel; cometh; court; damsel; day; forest; forth; god; goeth; good; great; hall; hath; head; hermit; hold; horse; joy; king; king arthur; knight; lady; land; lord; love; man; messire gawain; queen; right; saith king; saith lancelot; saith messire; saith perceval; save; seeth; set; shield; sir knight; son; sore; sword; tell; thither; time; wherefore; whereof; world cache: 750.txt plain text: 750.txt item: #626 of 722 id: 7541 author: Dumas, Alexandre title: Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes date: None words: 4397 flesch: 60 summary: Entire Gutenberg Edition of Dumas Celebrated Crimes (3.4mb) http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext01/dcrim11.txt QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM DUMAS' CELEBRATED CRIMES CELEBRATED CRIMES By Alexandre Dumas (Pere) keywords: crimes; day; dumas; france; iron; man; marquise; mary; nature; people cache: 7541.txt plain text: 7541.txt item: #627 of 722 id: 7543 author: La Fontaine, Jean de title: Quotes and Images From The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine date: None words: 2745 flesch: 75 summary: Who, suddenly, on feeling of the hand, Resistance feign'd, and seem'd to make a stand; But since these liberties were nothing new, They other fun and frolicks would pursue; The nosegay at the fond gallant was thrown; The flow'rs he kiss'd, and now more ardent grown They romp'd and rattl'd, play'd and skipt around; At length the fair one fell upon the ground; Our am'rous spark advantage took of this, And nothing with the couple seem'd amiss. UNLUCKILY, a neighbour's prying eyes Beheld their playful pranks with great surprise, She, from her window, could the scene o'erlook; When this the fond gallant observ'd, he shook; Said he, by heav'ns! WHEN Gasperin returned, our crafty wight, Before the wife addressed her spouse at sight; Said he the cash I've to your lady paid, Not having (as I feared) required its aid; To save mistakes, pray cross it in your book; The lady, thunderstruck, with terror shook; Allowed the payment; 'twas a case too clear; keywords: ev'ry; fontaine; love; neighbour; wife cache: 7543.txt plain text: 7543.txt item: #628 of 722 id: 7549 author: Maupassant, Guy de title: Quotes and Images From The Short Stories of Maupassant date: None words: 2864 flesch: 77 summary: Old Judas The Little Cask Boitelle A Widow The Englishmen of Etretat Magnetism A Fathers Confession A Mother of Monsters An Uncomfortable Bed A Portrait The Drunkard The Wardrobe The Mountain Pool A Cremation Misti Madame Hermet The Magic Couch QUOTATIONS: SHORT STORIES VOLUME I. Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies Dependent, like other emotions, on surroundings Devouring faith which is the making of martyrs and visionaries Freemasonry made up of those who possess Great ones of this world who make war I am learning my trade Insolent like all in authority Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother Like all women, being very fond of indigestible things Presence of a woman, that sovereign inspiration Spirit of order and arithmetic in the business house Subtleties of expression to describe the most improper things Thin veneer of modesty of every woman Thrill of furious and bestial anger which urges on a mob to massacre SHORT STORIES VOLUME II. without believing, nevertheless, in God Pines, close at hand, seemed to be weeping Preserved in a pickle of innocence She was an ornament, not a home SHORT STORIES keywords: days; god; life; love; man; mother; stories; stories volume; volume cache: 7549.txt plain text: 7549.txt item: #629 of 722 id: 7551 author: Montaigne, Michel de title: Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne date: None words: 11432 flesch: -32 summary: Thou diest because thou art living Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it Though nobody should read me, have I wasted time Threats of the day of judgment Thucydides: which was the better wrestler Thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain 'Tis all swine's flesh, varied by sauces 'Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private 'Tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance--Augustine 'Tis evil counsel that will admit no change 'Tis far beyond not fearing death to taste and relish it 'Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions 'Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool 'Tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well 'Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good 'Tis no matter; it may be of use to some others 'Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them 'Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men 'Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward 'Tis He judged other men by himself He may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reason He may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his hand He must fool it a little who would not be deemed wholly a fool keywords: age; death; die; fear; folly; good; great; ignorance; judgment; knowledge; life; man; men; opinions; pleasure; things; tis; virtue cache: 7551.txt plain text: 7551.txt item: #630 of 722 id: 7555 author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques title: Quotes and Images From The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau date: None words: 1382 flesch: -19 summary: Jean Bapiste Rousseau Knew how to complain, but not how to act Law that the accuser should be confined at the same time Left to nature the whole care of my own instruction Less degree of repugnance in divulging what is really criminal Letters illustrious in proportion as it was less a trade Loaded with words and redundancies Looking on each day as the last of my life Love of the marvellous is natural to the human heart Make men like himself, instead of taking them as they were Making their knowledge the measure of possibilities Making me sensible of every deficiency Manoeuvres of an author to the care of publishing a good book Men, in general, make God like themselves Men of learning more tenaciously retain their prejudices Mistake wit for sense A subject not even fit to make a priest of A man, on being questioned, is immediately on his guard Adopted the jargon of books, than the knowledge they contained All animals are distrustful of man, and with reason All your evils proceed from yourselves! keywords: love; man; men; rousseau cache: 7555.txt plain text: 7555.txt item: #631 of 722 id: 7567 author: Bazin, René title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Ink Stain by René Bazin The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 242 flesch: 73 summary: All that a name is to a street--its honor, its spouse Came not in single spies, but in battalions Distrust first impulse Felix culpa Happy men don't need company Hard that one can not live one's life over twice If trouble awaits us, hope will steal us a happy hour or two Lends--I should say gives Men forget sooner Natural only when alone, and talk well only to themselves Obstacles are the salt of all our joys One doesn't offer apologies to a man in his wrath People meeting to have it out usually say nothing at first Silence, alas! keywords: life cache: 7567.txt plain text: 7567.txt item: #632 of 722 id: 7568 author: Bentzon, Th. title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Jacqueline by Therese Bentzon The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 249 flesch: 29 summary: Pride supplies some sufferers with necessary courage Seemed to enjoy themselves, or made believe they did Seldom troubled himself to please any one he did not care for Small women ought not to grow stout Sympathetic listening, never having herself anything to say The bandage love ties over the eyes of men The worst husband is always better than none This unending warfare we call love Unwilling to leave him to the repose he needed Waste all that upon a thing that nobody will ever look at Women who are thirty-five should never weep This eBook was produced by David Widger JACQUELINE By Therese Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) keywords: women cache: 7568.txt plain text: 7568.txt item: #633 of 722 id: 7569 author: Bernard, Charles de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 246 flesch: 42 summary: Let ultra-modesty destroy poetry Love is a fire whose heat dies out for want of fuel Mania for fearing that she may be compromised Material in you to make one of Cooper's redskins Misfortunes never come single No woman is unattainable, except when she loves another Obstinacy of drunkenness Recourse to concessions is often as fatal to women as to kings Regards his happiness as a proof of superiority She said yes, so as not to say no These are things that one admits only to himself Those whom they most amuse are those who are best worth amusing Topics that occupy people who meet for the first time Trying to conceal by a smile (a blush) This eBook was produced by David Widger GERFAUT By Charles de Bernard Antipathy for her husband bordering upon aversion Attractions that difficulties give to pleasure Attractive abyss of drunkenness Consented to become a wife so as not to remain a maiden Despotic tone which a woman assumes when sure of her empire Evident that the man was above his costume; a rare thing! keywords: woman cache: 7569.txt plain text: 7569.txt item: #634 of 722 id: 7570 author: Bourget, Paul title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 273 flesch: -50 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger COSMOPOLIS By Paul Bourget Conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity Despotism natural to puissant personalities Egyptian tobacco, mixed with opium and saltpetre Follow their thoughts instead of heeding objects Has as much sense as the handle of a basket Have never known in the morning what I would do in the evening I no longer love you Imagine what it would be never to have been born Mediocre sensibility Melancholy problem of the birth and death of love Mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself No flies enter a closed mouth Not an excuse, but an explanation of your conduct One of those trustful men who did not judge when they loved Only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood Pitiful checker-board of life Scarcely a shade of gentle condescension Sufficed him to conceive the plan of a reparation That suffering which curses but does not pardon That you can aid them in leading better lives? The forests have taught man liberty There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas There is always and everywhere a duty to fulfil Thinking it better not to lie on minor points Too prudent to risk or gain much Walked at the rapid pace characteristic of monomaniacs Words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: love cache: 7570.txt plain text: 7570.txt item: #635 of 722 id: 7571 author: Claretie, Jules title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Zilah by Jules Claretie The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 329 flesch: 46 summary: Life is a tempest Man who expects nothing of life except its ending Nervous natures, as prompt to hope as to despair No answer to make to one who has no right to question me Not only his last love, but his only love Nothing ever astonishes me One of those beings who die, as they have lived, children Pessimism of to-day sneering at his confidence of yesterday Playing checkers, that mimic warfare of old men Poverty brings wrinkles Sufferer becomes, as it were, enamored of his own agony Superstition which forbids one to proclaim his happiness Taken the times as they are The Hungarian was created on horseback There were too many discussions, and not enough action Unable to speak, for each word would have been a sob What matters it how much we suffer Why should I read the newspapers? This eBook was produced by David Widger PRINCE ZILAH keywords: life cache: 7571.txt plain text: 7571.txt item: #636 of 722 id: 7572 author: Coppée, François title: Widger's Quotes and Images from A Romance of Youth by François Coppée The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 341 flesch: 45 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger A ROMANCE OF YOUTH By Francois Coppee Break in his memory, like a book with several leaves torn out Dreams, instead of living Egotists and cowards always have a reason for everything Eternally condemned to kill each other in order to live Fortunate enough to keep those one loves God forgive the timid and the prattler! The sincere age when one thinks aloud Tired smile of those who have not long to live Trees are like men; there are some that have no luck Universal suffrage, with its accustomed intelligence Upon my word, there are no ugly ones (women) Very young, and was in love with love Voice of the heart which alone has power to reach the heart Were certain against all reason When he sings, it is because he has something to sing about If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: leaves cache: 7572.txt plain text: 7572.txt item: #637 of 722 id: 7573 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 276 flesch: 19 summary: No one has ever been able to find out what her thoughts were Pass half the day in procuring two cakes, worth three sous She was of those who disdain no compliment Such artificial enjoyment, such idiotic laughter Superiority of the man who does nothing over the man who works Terrible revenge she would take hereafter for her sufferings The poor must pay for all their enjoyments The groom isn't handsome, but the bride's as pretty as a picture Void in her heart, a place made ready for disasters to come Wiping his forehead ostentatiously Word sacrifice, so vague on careless lips Would have liked him to be blind only so far as he was concerned If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: man cache: 7573.txt plain text: 7573.txt item: #638 of 722 id: 7574 author: Vigny, Alfred de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 587 flesch: 13 summary: It is a drawing-room tiger A queen's country is where her throne is Adopted fact is always better composed than the real one Advantage that a calm temper gives one over men All that he said, I had already thought Always the first word which is the most difficult to say Ambition is the saddest of all hopes Art is the chosen truth Artificialities of style of that period Artistic Truth, more lofty than the True As Homer says, smiling under tears Assume with others the mien they wore toward him But how avenge one's self on silence? Dare now to be silent when I have told you these things Daylight is detrimental to them Deny the spirit of self-sacrifice Difference which I find between Truth in art and the True in fac Doubt, the greatest misery of love Friendship exists only in independence and a kind of equality Happy is he who does not outlive his youth Hatred of everything which is superior to myself He did not blush to be a man, and he spoke to men with force Hermits can not refrain from inquiring what men say of them History too was a work of art I have burned all the bridges behind me In pitying me he forgot himself In every age we laugh at the costume of our fathers In times like these we must see all and say all It is not now what it used to be keywords: men; truth cache: 7574.txt plain text: 7574.txt item: #639 of 722 id: 7575 author: Droz, Gustave title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé by Gustave Droz The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 479 flesch: -21 summary: And I shall say 'damn it,' for I shall then be grown up Answer No, but with a little kiss which means Yes As regards love, intention and deed are the same In his future arrange laurels for a little crown for your own It (science) dreams, too; it supposes It is silly to blush under certain circumstances Learned to love others by embracing their own children Life is not so sweet for us to risk ourselves in it singlehanded Love in marriage is, as a rule, too much at his ease Man is but one of the links of an immense chain Rather do not give--make yourself sought after Reckon yourself happy if in your husband you find a lover Recollection of past dangers to increase the present joy Respect him so that he may respect you Shelter himself in the arms of the weak and recover courage Sometimes like to deck the future in the garments of the past The heart requires gradual changes The future that is rent away The recollection of that moment lasts for a lifetime The future promises, it is the present that pays Their love requires a return There are pious falsehoods which the Church excuses Ties that unite children to parents are unloosed Ties which unite parents to children are broken To be able to smoke a cigar without being sick To love is a great deal--To know how to love is everything We are simple to this degree, that we do not think we are When time has softened your grief Why mankind has chosen to call marriage a man-trap If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: love cache: 7575.txt plain text: 7575.txt item: #640 of 722 id: 7576 author: Feuillet, Octave title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 441 flesch: 15 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger MONSIEUR DE CAMORS By Octave Feuillet A man never should kneel unless sure of rising a conqueror A defensive attitude is never agreeable to a man Bad to fear the opinion of people one despises Believing that it is for virtue's sake alone such men love them Camors refused, hesitated, made objections, and consented Confounding progress with discord, liberty with license Contempt for men is the beginning of wisdom Cried out, with the blunt candor of his age Dangers of liberty outweighed its benefits Demanded of him imperatively--the time of day Determined to cultivate ability rather than scrupulousness Disenchantment which follows possession Do not get angry. Have not that pleasure, it is useless to incur the penalties He is charming, for one always feels in danger near him Inconstancy of heart is the special attribute of man Intemperance of her zeal and the acrimony of her bigotry Knew her danger, and, unlike most of them, she did not love it Man, if he will it, need not grow old: the lion must Never can make revolutions with gloves on Once an excellent remedy, is a detestable regimen One of those pious persons who always think evil Pleasures of an independent code of morals Police regulations known as religion Principles alone, without faith in some higher sanction Property of all who are strong enough to stand it Put herself on good terms with God, in case He should exist Semel insanivimus omnes.' keywords: man cache: 7576.txt plain text: 7576.txt item: #641 of 722 id: 7577 author: France, Anatole title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Red Lily by Anatole France The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 903 flesch: 28 summary: She is happy, since she likes to remember Should like better to do an immoral thing than a cruel one Simple people who doubt neither themselves nor others Since she was in love, she had lost prudence So well satisfied with his reply that he repeated it twice Superior men sometimes lack cleverness That sort of cold charity which is called altruism That if we live the reason is that we hope That absurd and generous fury for ownership The most radical breviary of scepticism since Montaigne The door of one's room opens on the infinite The past is the only human reality -- Everything that is, is past The one whom you will love and who will love you will harm you The violent pleasure of losing The discouragement which the irreparable gives The real support of a government is the Opposition The politician never should be in advance of circumstances There is nothing good except to ignore and to forget There are many grand and strong things which you do not feel They are the coffin saying: 'I am the cradle' To be beautiful, must a woman have that thin form Trying to make Therese admire what she did not know Umbrellas, like black turtles under the watery skies Unfortunate creature who is the plaything of life Let us give to men irony and pity as witnesses and judges Life as a whole is too vast and too remote Life is made up of just such trifles Life is not a great thing Little that we can do when we are powerful keywords: life; love cache: 7577.txt plain text: 7577.txt item: #642 of 722 id: 7578 author: Halévy, Ludovic title: Widger's Quotes and Images from L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halévy The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 249 flesch: 58 summary: The folly lies in keeping it Often been compared to Eugene Sue, but his touch is lighter One half of his life belonged to the poor One may think of marrying, but one ought not to try to marry Succeeded in wearying him by her importunities and tenderness The women have enough religion for the men The history of good people is often monotonous or painful To learn to obey is the only way of learning to command If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. In order to make money, the first thing is to have no need of it Love and tranquillity seldom dwell at peace in the same heart Never foolish to spend money. keywords: money cache: 7578.txt plain text: 7578.txt item: #643 of 722 id: 7579 author: Loti, Pierre title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 179 flesch: -10 summary: the natural perversity of inanimate things Contemptuous pity, both for my suspicions and the cause of them Dull hours spent in idle and diffuse conversation Efforts to arrange matters we succeed often only in disarranging Found nothing that answered to my indefinable expectations Habit turns into a makeshift of attachment I know not what lost home that I have failed to find Irritating laugh which is peculiar to Japan Japanese habit of expressing myself with excessive politeness Ordinary, trivial, every-day objects Prayers swallowed like pills by invalids at a distance Seeking for a change which can no longer be found Trees, dwarfed by a Japanese process When the inattentive spirits are not listening Which I should find amusing in any one else,--any one I loved If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. This eBook was produced by David Widger CHRYSANTHEME By Pierre Loti Ah! keywords: find cache: 7579.txt plain text: 7579.txt item: #644 of 722 id: 7580 author: Malot, Hector title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Conscience by Hector Malot The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 330 flesch: 34 summary: As ignorant as a schoolmaster As free from prejudices as one may be, one always retains a few Confidence in one's self is strength, but it is also weakness Conscience is a bad weighing-machine Conscience is only an affair of environment and of education Find it more easy to make myself feared than loved For the rest of his life he would be the prisoner of his crime Force, which is the last word of the philosophy of life He did not sleep, so much the better! Neither so simple nor so easy as they at first appeared One does not judge those whom one loves People whose principle was never to pay a doctor Power to work, that was never disturbed or weakened by anything Reason before the deed, and not after Repeated and explained what he had already said and explained She could not bear contempt The strong walk alone because they need no one We are so unhappy that our souls are weak against joy We weep, we do not complain Will not admit that conscience is the proper guide of our action You love me, therefore you do not know me If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: conscience cache: 7580.txt plain text: 7580.txt item: #645 of 722 id: 7581 author: Massa, Philippe, marquis de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Zibeline by Phillipe de Massa The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 198 flesch: 44 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger ZIBELINE By Phillipe de Massa All that was illogical in our social code Ambiguity has no place, nor has compromise But if this is our supreme farewell, do not tell me so! Every man is his own master in his choice of liaisons If I do not give all I give nothing Indulgence of which they stand in need themselves Life goes on, and that is less gay than the stories Men admired her; the women sought some point to criticise Only a man, wavering and changeable keywords: ebook cache: 7581.txt plain text: 7581.txt item: #646 of 722 id: 7582 author: Musset, Alfred de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred de Musset The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 702 flesch: 26 summary: she cried, you will never know how to love We have had a mass celebrated, and it cost us a large sum What you take for love is nothing more than desire What human word will ever express thy slightest caress When passion sways man, reason follows him weeping and warning Who has told you that tears can wash away the stains of guilt Wine suffuses the face as if to prevent shame appearing there You believe in what is said here below and not in what is done You play with happiness as a child plays with a rattle You turn the leaves of dead books Your great weapon is silence Youth is to judge of the world from first impressions If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. It is a pity that you must seek pastimes Make a shroud of your virtue in which to bury your crimes Man who suffers wishes to make her whom he loves suffer Men doubted everything: the young men denied everything No longer esteemed her highly enough to be jealous of her Of all the sisters of love, the most beautiful is pity Perfection does not exist Pure caprice that I myself mistook for a flash of reason Quarrel had been, so to speak, less sad than our reconciliation Reading the Memoirs of Constant Resorted to exaggeration in order to appear original Sceptic regrets the faith he has lost the power to regain Seven who are always the same: the first is called hope keywords: life; love cache: 7582.txt plain text: 7582.txt item: #647 of 722 id: 7583 author: Ohnet, Georges title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Serge Panine by George Ohnet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 425 flesch: 31 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger SERGE PANINE By George Ohnet A man weeps with difficulty before a woman A uniform is the only garb which can hide poverty honorably Antagonism to plutocracy and hatred of aristocrats Because they moved, they thought they were progressing Cowardly in trouble as he had been insolent in prosperity Enough to be nobody's unless I belong to him Even those who do not love her desire to know her Everywhere was feverish excitement, dissipation, and nullity Flayed and roasted alive by the critics Forget a dream and accept a reality Hard workers are pitiful lovers He lost his time, his money, his hair, his illusions Is it by law only that you wish to keep me? keywords: man cache: 7583.txt plain text: 7583.txt item: #648 of 722 id: 7584 author: Souvestre, Émile title: Widger's Quotes and Images from An Attic Philosopher in Paris by Émile Souvestre The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 507 flesch: 21 summary: My patronage has become her property No one is so unhappy as to have nothing to give Not desirous to teach goodness Nothing is dishonorable which is useful Our tempers are like an opera-glass Poverty, you see, is a famous schoolmistress Power of necessity Prisoners of work Progress can never be forced on without danger Question is not to discover what will suit us Richer than France herself, for I have no deficit in my budget Ruining myself, but we must all have our Carnival Satisfy our wants, if we know how to set bounds to them Sensible man, who has observed much and speaks little So much confidence at first, so much doubt at las Sullen tempers are excited by the patience of their victims The happiness of the wise man costs but little The man in power gives up his peace Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation Virtue made friends, but she did not take pupils We do not understand that others may live on their own account Do they understand what makes them so gay? Each of us regards himself as the mirror of the community Ease with which the poor forget their wretchedness Every one keeps his holidays in his own way Fame and power are gifts that are dearly bought Favorite and conclusive answer of his class--I know Fear of losing a moment from business Finishes his sin thoroughly before he begins to repent Fortune sells what we believe she gives Her kindness, which never sleeps Houses are vessels which take mere passengers Hubbub of questions which waited for no reply I make it a rule never to have any hope Ignorant of what there is to wish for Looks on an accomplished duty neither as a merit nor a grievance Make himself a name: he becomes public property Moderation is the great social virtue More stir than work keywords: know; work cache: 7584.txt plain text: 7584.txt item: #649 of 722 id: 7585 author: Theuriet, André title: Widger's Quotes and Images from A Woodland Queen by André Theuriet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 296 flesch: 13 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger A WOODLAND QUEEN By Andre Theuriet Accustomed to hide what I think Amusements they offered were either wearisome or repugnant Consoled himself with one of the pious commonplaces Dreaded the monotonous regularity of conjugal life Fawning duplicity Had not been spoiled by Fortune's gifts How small a space man occupies on the earth Hypocritical grievances I am not in the habit of consulting the law I measure others by myself It does not mend matters to give way like that Like all timid persons, he took refuge in a moody silence More disposed to discover evil than good Nature's cold indifference to our sufferings Vague hope came over him that all would come right Vexed, act in direct contradiction to their own wishes Women: they are more bitter than death Yield to their customs, and not pooh- pooh their amusements You have considerable patience for a lover You must be pleased with yourself--that is more essential If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: search operation cache: 7585.txt plain text: 7585.txt item: #650 of 722 id: 7798 author: Dufresny, Charles Rivière title: The Village Coquette; Or, The Supposed Lottery date: None words: 9403 flesch: 91 summary: Do I owe Lucas respect? Enter Lucas and the Baron.) keywords: argon; baron; girard; lisette; love; lucas; marry; widow cache: 7798.txt plain text: 7798.txt item: #651 of 722 id: 7896 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Eight Strokes of the Clock date: None words: 64328 flesch: 87 summary: III THE CASE OF JEAN LOUIS Monsieur, continued the young girl, addressing Serge Rénine, it was while I was spending the Easter holidays at Nice with my father that I made the acquaintance of Jean Louis d'Imbleval.... Rénine interrupted her: Excuse me, mademoiselle, but just now you spoke of this young man as Jean Louis Vaurois. I saw the writing on the envelope: Prince Serge Rénine. keywords: andrée; case; d'ormeval; day; door; dutreuil; eyes; face; friend; good; gorne; hand; hortense; house; husband; jean; left; life; look; louis; lourtier; madame; man; moment; pancaldi; right; room; rose; rénine; thing; time; way; wife; woman; word cache: 7896.txt plain text: 7896.txt item: #652 of 722 id: 79 author: Schwartau, Winn title: Terminal Compromise date: None words: 220349 flesch: 85 summary: Other computers, such as those in Air Force One, inside missile silos, or in the Pentagon War Room are additionally protected by the secret C3I programs which 'super-hardens' the computers against the intense magnetic pulses associated with above ground nuclear explosions. Don't you go around poking into other computers, too? keywords: agency; ahmed; air; alex; american; answer; attention; bank; big; bob; business; calls; care; case; city; communications; company; computer; control; country; couple; course; crime; data; day; days; dead; deal; defense; desk; dgraph; door; doug; duncan; end; eyes; face; fact; fbi; flight; foster; freedom; friend; george; getting; good; government; group; guess; guy; hackers; half; hand; head; hell; help; higgins; high; home; homosoto; hours; house; idea; information; jacobs; job; kind; kirk; know; left; life; like; line; listen; look; looking; lot; making; man; marvin; matter; max; message; miles; mind; money; months; morning; nancy; national; need; network; new; news; nsa; number; office; open; paper; people; phone; pierre; place; point; police; power; president; press; privacy; problem; program; public; question; read; reason; remember; rickfield; right; room; scott; scott mason; screen; seconds; secret; security; senator; service; set; shit; simple; sir; software; sonja; speak; spook; state; story; street; system; talk; things; think; thought; thousands; time; today; troubleaux; tyrone; united; van; virus; viruses; voice; washington; way; weeks; white; words; work; working; world; wrong; years; yes; york cache: 79.txt plain text: 79.txt item: #653 of 722 id: 7927 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Celibates date: None words: 188761 flesch: 74 summary: Occasionally he would meet old men taking their walks abroad like himself. On the days when the drawings took place, an observer might watch with curiosity the crowd of old women, cooks, and old men assembled about the door of this building; a sight as remarkable as the cue of people about the Treasury on the days when the dividends are paid. keywords: abbe; agathe; bed; birotteau; bridau; brigaut; brother; child; colonel; cousin; day; days; dear; death; descoings; desroches; doctor; door; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; father; flore; francs; friend; gamard; general; gilet; girl; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hochon; home; house; issoudun; jacques; jean; joseph; lawyer; leave; left; letter; life; little; look; love; madame; madame bridau; madame descoings; madame hochon; mademoiselle; maid; man; matter; max; maxence; men; mind; money; monsieur; monsieur hochon; morning; mother; new; night; o'clock; paris; pay; people; persons; philippe; pierrette; place; poor; property; provins; rogron; room; rouget; saint; sister; son; sylvie; table; things; think; thought; time; tiphaine; town; troubert; uncle; vicar; vinet; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 7927.txt plain text: 7927.txt item: #654 of 722 id: 7950 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Jealousies of a Country Town date: None words: 107056 flesch: 72 summary: Could worse luck befall a political party than this--to be represented by old men at a time when its ideas are already stigmatized as old-fashioned? The restored dynasty, moreover, was surrounded by triple ranks of eligible old men and gray-headed courtiers; the young noblesse was reduced to a cipher, and this Victurnien guessed at once. keywords: abbe; alencon; armande; athanase; blondet; bousquier; camusot; chesnel; chevalier; come; cormon; court; d'esgrignon; day; days; dear; du bousquier; du croisier; duchess; end; eyes; face; family; father; francs; girl; good; granson; hand; head; heart; house; husband; left; life; long; love; madame; mademoiselle; mademoiselle cormon; maid; man; marquis; marriage; men; mind; mlle; mme; moment; money; monsieur; mother; noble; paris; people; persons; place; poor; president; room; salon; saw; society; son; suzanne; things; thought; time; town; troisville; valois; victurnien; way; wife; woman; world; years; young cache: 7950.txt plain text: 7950.txt item: #655 of 722 id: 7958 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: The Napoleon of the People date: None words: 8185 flesch: 82 summary: Napoleon being out of the country, France allowed the people in Paris to worry the life out of her. Napoleon steps aboard of a little cockleshell, a mere nothing of a skiff, called the _Fortune_, and in the twinkling of an eye, and in the teeth of the English, who were blockading the place with vessels of the line and cruisers and everything that carries canvas, he lands in France for he always had the faculty of taking the sea at a stride. keywords: army; emperor; france; man; men; napoleon; people; soldier; thing; way; world cache: 7958.txt plain text: 7958.txt item: #656 of 722 id: 7967 author: Rolland, Romain title: Jean-Christophe Journey's End date: None words: 195579 flesch: 84 summary: Once more Christophe stood gazing down from the staircase window. At last Christophe only spoke to her as little as possible; and she was grateful to him for it. keywords: air; anna; arms; bed; body; boy; braun; child; christophe; day; days; dead; dear; death; desire; door; dreams; earth; emmanuel; evening; eyes; face; faith; feeling; force; free; friend; georges; girl; god; good; grazia; hand; happiness; head; heart; help; house; human; ideas; interest; jacqueline; joy; life; light; living; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; mother; music; nature; need; olivier; open; paris; past; people; place; pleasure; reason; rest; room; set; silence; smile; sort; soul; suffering; sun; talk; tell; things; think; thinking; thought; time; time christophe; town; turn; vain; voice; want; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 7967.txt plain text: 7967.txt item: #657 of 722 id: 7979 author: Rolland, Romain title: Jean-Christophe, Volume I date: None words: 233911 flesch: 85 summary: At last Christophe heard a door open, and, still growling and chaffing, Hassler came shuffling. At last Christophe replied gaily through the partition. keywords: ada; air; arms; bed; boy; child; children; christophe; day; days; dead; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; family; father; frau; friends; german; girl; god; good; gottfried; grandfather; half; hands; hassler; head; heart; home; house; idea; ill; jean; jean michel; joy; laughing; left; letter; life; like; lips; look; louisa; love; making; man; mannheim; melchior; mind; minna; moment; morning; mother; music; need; night; otto; people; piano; play; pleasure; read; room; rosa; round; sabine; schulz; set; silence; sitting; sleep; smile; soul; spite; table; talk; talking; tears; tell; things; thinking; thought; time; town; turn; voice; want; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 7979.txt plain text: 7979.txt item: #658 of 722 id: 8079 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts date: None words: 19754 flesch: 93 summary: Monsieur--I simply came to learn-- Rousseau (presenting Dupre to De Verby) General, M. Dupre. du Brocard (to Dupre, who scrutinizes De Verby) M. Dupre, I have thought that it would be a good thing-- Dupre (interrupting her) Later, madame, later. keywords: brocard; dupre; giraud; joseph; jules; know; madame; mme; mother; pamela; rousseau; sir; verby cache: 8079.txt plain text: 8079.txt item: #659 of 722 id: 8148 author: Baroja, Pío title: Youth and Egolatry date: None words: 45221 flesch: 70 summary: A number of years ago I was in the habit of visiting the Ateneo, and I used to argue there with the habitués, who in general have succeeded in damming up the channels through which other men receive ideas. Such men even as Angel Guimerá, the dramatist, a Catalan separatist who has been under surveillance for years, or Pere Aldavert, who has suffered imprisonment in Barcelona because of his opinions, while they speak for the proletariat, nevertheless have had scant sympathy for Ferrer's ideas. keywords: azorín; baroja; basque; books; city; country; course; day; days; del; don; fact; family; father; french; general; good; hand; having; history; house; ideas; lerroux; life; literature; madrid; man; matter; men; mind; morality; music; new; number; opinion; party; people; place; present; rhetoric; san; sebastian; señor; society; spain; spanish; style; talk; time; today; war; way; world; writer; years cache: 8148.txt plain text: 8148.txt item: #660 of 722 id: 8149 author: Rolland, Romain title: Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House date: None words: 171120 flesch: 80 summary: Christophe Olivier recovered his joy in the light: Christophe transmitted to him something of his abounding vitality, his physical and moral robustness, which, even in sorrow, even in injustice, even in hate, inclined to optimism. Once more Christophe found himself alone, more solitary than ever, in that great, hostile, stranger city. keywords: air; antoinette; art; bed; brother; children; christophe; colette; country; day; days; dear; death; door; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; feeling; fine; france; french; friend; german; girl; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hecht; home; house; ideas; interest; jeannin; joy; kohn; left; life; light; like; living; look; love; lévy; madame; man; matter; men; middle; mind; moment; money; mother; music; need; new; olivier; paris; people; play; pleasure; poor; power; public; reason; rest; room; round; set; silence; sister; sort; soul; spite; sylvain; talk; talking; things; thought; time; want; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 8149.txt plain text: 8149.txt item: #661 of 722 id: 8150 author: Balzac, Honoré de title: A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant date: None words: 4151 flesch: 82 summary: Return in the cab, it is paid for, Madame Marmus was saying when Madame Adolphe arrived at the door. Madame Adolphe returns to the pavilion to propose an emetic, and scolds the professor for not having returned with Madame Marmus. keywords: adolphe; cab; driver; madame; man; marmus; professor; science cache: 8150.txt plain text: 8150.txt item: #662 of 722 id: 8166 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 date: None words: 68335 flesch: 72 summary: Thus shall it then be lost by ways not few, And changed suddenly, when those that have it To other men that after come shall leave it. This by Alexander being considered, one day in the hippodrome (which was a place appointed for the breaking and managing of great horses), he perceived that the fury of the horse proceeded merely from the fear he had of his own shadow, whereupon getting on his back, he run him against the sun, so that the shadow fell behind, and by that means tamed the horse and brought him to his hand. keywords: abbey; art; body; book; cakes; cause; century; chapter; come; coming; country; course; cut; day; devil; doth; drink; drinking; eat; edition; end; fair; fashion; father; find; foot; form; french; friar; friend; gargantua; god; gold; good; grangousier; ground; gymnast; hand; hath; head; heart; horse; john; kind; king; left; lib; life; lord; making; man; manner; master; means; men; money; monk; nature; order; paris; pass; picrochole; place; ponocrates; rabelais; reason; rest; right; seeing; set; tail; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; use; virtue; water; way; whilst; white; wine; women; words; work; world; year cache: 8166.txt plain text: 8166.txt item: #663 of 722 id: 8167 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 date: None words: 50537 flesch: 69 summary: But see how that might be remedied: they must be wiped and made rid of the flies with fair foxtails, or great good viedazes, which are ass-pizzles, of Provence. Said Carpalim, Pantagruel's footman, It is Greek, I have understood him. keywords: believe; body; book; cause; chapter; city; company; country; court; day; devil; dogs; doth; drink; end; epistemon; fair; father; fingers; fire; foot; friend; giants; god; good; great; ground; half; hand; hath; head; heart; king; knowledge; lady; law; left; little; lord; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; money; mouth; number; pantagruel; panurge; paris; people; place; rest; right; salt; saying; seeing; sir; stone; teeth; thaumast; thee; think; thou; time; truth; water; way; wine; women; world; year cache: 8167.txt plain text: 8167.txt item: #664 of 722 id: 8168 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 date: None words: 84947 flesch: 63 summary: Household C. Fine C. Nobbing C. Pretty C. Fierce C. Touzing C. Astrolabian C. Brawny C. Tumbling C. Algebraical C. Compt C. Fambling C. Venust C. Repaired C. Overturning C. Aromatizing C. Soft C. Shooting C. Tricksy C. Wild C. Culeting C. Paillard C. Renewed C. Jagged C. Gaillard C. Quaint C. Pinked C. Broaching C. Starting C. Arsiversing C. Addle C. Fleshy C. Polished C. Syndicated C. Auxiliary C. Slashed C. Hamed C. Stuffed C. Clashing C. Leisurely C. Well-fed C. Wagging C. Cut C. Flourished C. Scriplike C. Smooth C. Fallow C. Encremastered C. Depending C. Sudden C. Bouncing C. Independent C. Graspful C. Levelling C. Lingering C. Swillpow C. Fly-flap C. Rapping C. Crushing C. Perinae-tegminal C. Reverend C. Creaking C. Squat-couching C. Nodding C. Dilting C. Short-hung C. Disseminating C. Ready C. Massive C. Bearlike C. hound-like C. Manual C. Partitional C. Mounted C. Absolute C. Patronymic C. Sleeked C. Well-set C. Cockney C. Diapered C. Gemel C. Auromercuriated C. Spotted C. Turkish C. Robust C. Master C. Burning C. Appetizing C. Seeded C. Thwacking C. Succourable C. Lusty C. Urgent C. Redoubtable C. Jupped C. Handsome C. Affable C. Milked C. Prompt C. Memorable C. Calfeted C. Fortunate C. Palpable C. Raised C. Boxwood C. Barbable C. Odd C. Latten C. Tragical C. Steeled C. Unbridled C. Transpontine C. Stale C. Hooked C. Digestive C. Orange-tawny C. Researched C. Active C. Embroidered C. Encompassed C. Vital C. Glazed C. Strouting out C. Magistral C. Interlarded C. Jolly C. Monachal C. Burgher-like C. Lively C. Subtle C. Empowdered C. Gerundive C. Hammering C. Ebonized C. Franked C. Clashing C. Brasiliated C. Polished C. Tingling C. Organized C. Powdered Beef C. Usual C. Passable C. Positive C. keywords: able; answer; bear; blood; body; book; bridlegoose; c. c.; c. de; care; cause; chance; chapter; children; coming; contrary; counsel; country; court; cuckold; day; days; death; devils; dice; discourse; doth; earth; end; epistemon; eyes; fair; fashion; father; fellow; fire; fool; fortune; friar; friend; future; god; good; great; hand; hath; having; head; heart; herb; hold; holy; house; husband; john; judgment; jupiter; kind; king; know; labour; law; leave; left; life; like; like c.; love; manner; marriage; matter; means; members; men; mind; nature; near; new; number; opinion; pantagruel; pantagruelion; panurge; people; person; philosopher; place; point; present; pretty; purpose; quoth; quoth panurge; reason; rest; return; right; second; set; sir; sort; soul; spirits; thee; thereto; things; thou; thy; time; trouil; truth; use; virtue; water; way; whereof; wife; wine; women; words; world; worships; yea; year cache: 8168.txt plain text: 8168.txt item: #665 of 722 id: 8169 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 date: None words: 68365 flesch: 78 summary: Well, 'tis a happy thing to meet with good men! Our pilot (good man!) was pulling maggots out of the seamen's noses. keywords: 'em; air; arms; art; belly; book; bou; catchpole; chapter; chitterlings; country; cut; day; dead; death; decretals; devil; drink; epistemon; father; fear; fellow; fine; fish; friar; friar john; friend; god; gold; good; half; hand; hatchet; hath; head; heart; heaven; help; hold; holy; homenas; island; john; kind; king; know; lard; leave; left; life; lord; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; nay; pantagruel; panurge; people; place; pope; quoth; right; saying; sea; set; ship; sir; son; storm; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tis; use; want; water; way; wind; wine; words; work; world; xenomanes cache: 8169.txt plain text: 8169.txt item: #666 of 722 id: 8170 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 date: None words: 48940 flesch: 79 summary: Some say in your world that sack is a word used in all tongues, and justly admitted in the same sense among all nations; for, as Aesop's fable hath it, all men are born with a sack at the neck, naturally needy and begging of each other; neither can the most powerful king be without the help of other men, or can anyone that's poor subsist without the rich, though he be never so proud and insolent; as, for example, Hippias the philosopher, who boasted he could do everything. By gold, it is gold, quoth Panurge, good old gold, I'll assure you. keywords: aedituus; ass; birds; bottle; chapter; country; day; devil; drink; end; fine; fri; friar; god; gold; golden; good; great; gripe; half; hand; hawks; island; john; kind; king; lantern; law; left; man; manner; men; motteux; new; number; pan; pantagruel; panurge; people; place; pray; queen; quoth; rest; right; set; silvered; sort; speak; temple; thee; things; thou; time; tis; want; water; way; white; wine; world cache: 8170.txt plain text: 8170.txt item: #667 of 722 id: 831 author: Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century title: Four Arthurian Romances date: None words: 192742 flesch: 86 summary: Then what do I think of him so much, if he pleases me no more than other men? Never, my whole life long, do I wish to be served by other man than you. keywords: arms; battle; body; cause; chretien; cliges; come; court; damsel; day; death; delay; desire; emperor; enide; erec; eyes; fair; fear; footnote; friend; gawain; god; good; grief; hand; head; heart; honour; horse; joy; king; knight; know; lady; lancelot; land; leave; life; lion; lord; lord yvain; love; man; men; need; news; people; place; queen; replies; return; right; shield; sire; son; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; town; truth; way; wish; word; yvain cache: 831.txt plain text: 831.txt item: #668 of 722 id: 8426 author: Verlaine, Paul title: Poems of Paul Verlaine date: None words: 7094 flesch: 87 summary: Slowly turns the gold to red O'er the humble darkening vales; Little trees that flatly spread, Where some feeble birdling wails. Cast down thine eyes, poor soul, shut out the unblest: A deadliest temptation. keywords: blue; day; dream; eyes; fair; heart; hope; light; love; o'er; sky; soul; sun; thou; tis; voice cache: 8426.txt plain text: 8426.txt item: #669 of 722 id: 8491 author: None title: Chronicle of the Cid date: None words: 121821 flesch: 70 summary: And with that, in her strong anger against her brother King Don Sancho, she said, I am a woman, and well know that I cannot strive with him in battle; but I will have him slain either secretly or openly. When Alimaymon knew that he was coming with so great a power, he was greatly dismayed, thinking that he came against him; and he sent to remind him of the love and the honour which he had shown unto him in the days of his brother King Don Sancho, and of the oath which he had taken; and to beseech him that he would continue in peace with him. keywords: abeniaf; alvar; battle; body; brother king; christians; cid; cid campeador; cid ruydiez; city; company; counsel; count; daughters; day; days; don alfonso; don sancho; doña; father; fañez; god; good; great; hand; hath; honour; horse; infantes; king bucar; king don; king yahia; knights; left; lord; man; men; moors; people; place; right; saying; thou; thought; time; town; valencia cache: 8491.txt plain text: 8491.txt item: #670 of 722 id: 8496 author: Baroja, Pío title: The Quest date: None words: 67591 flesch: 81 summary: After work Manuel went off to the boardingrhouse and took counsel with Roberto. Don Telmo's departure was paid for by the student and Don Manuel. keywords: alonso; bizco; black; boy; custodio; dark; daughter; day; days; del; don; door; doña; eyes; face; fellow; girl; good; ground; half; hand; head; house; ignacio; justa; landlady; las; leandro; left; let; life; madrid; manuel; men; milagros; moment; money; mother; near; night; petra; place; red; road; roberto; room; señor; shop; son; street; table; tavern; telmo; thought; time; uncle; vidal; voice; wall; want; way; white; wife; woman; work; years cache: 8496.txt plain text: 8496.txt item: #671 of 722 id: 8511 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1 date: None words: 44323 flesch: 70 summary: And the sufferers who listened to these marvellous stories with increasing feverishness were like little children who, after hearing one fine fairy tale, ask for another, and another, and yet another. Moreover, the ailing ones were constantly drinking milk, and asking for biscuits, like little children. keywords: bernadette; carriage; case; child; day; days; doctor; eyes; face; faith; father; girl; hand; hope; hyacinthe; jonquiere; lady; left; life; lourdes; madame; man; marie; moment; mother; order; pierre; priest; sister; story; suffering; thought; time; train; virgin; water; years cache: 8511.txt plain text: 8511.txt item: #672 of 722 id: 8512 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 date: None words: 41022 flesch: 71 summary: At this, little Madame Desagneaux, with her pretty, light wavy-haired head, began to say that it served Madame de Jonquiere right for refusing her services. It must be admitted that she was bravely seconded by little Madame Desagneaux, who displayed such enthusiastic zeal that Sister Hyacinthe asked her, with a smile: Why don't you take the vows? keywords: child; cure; day; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; grotto; head; hospital; left; life; lord; lourdes; madame; man; marie; moment; morning; order; patients; people; pierre; priest; sick; station; time; virgin; ward; water; way cache: 8512.txt plain text: 8512.txt item: #673 of 722 id: 8513 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 date: None words: 40378 flesch: 73 summary: M. de Guersaint meantime brought up the rear, screening the little conveyance so that it might not be upset by the jostling; whilst Marie turned her head, still endeavouring to see the sheet of flame spread out before the Grotto, that lake of little sparkling waves which never seemed to diminish, although the procession continued to flow from it without a pause. Poor little girls are received into it, and shielded from the perils of the highways. keywords: air; bernadette; church; day; eyes; face; grotto; guersaint; hand; head; heart; left; little; lourdes; madame; man; marie; moment; night; order; people; pierre; pilgrims; place; priest; procession; room; tapers; time; town; virgin; way cache: 8513.txt plain text: 8513.txt item: #674 of 722 id: 8514 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 date: None words: 37763 flesch: 74 summary: It seemed as though a divine breath were passing, rolling those billows of little pale faces which were as numerous as the waves of an ocean. Little girl, she said, we have one of our patients here in great pain, and not expected to recover. keywords: child; come; crowd; cure; day; death; doctor; eyes; face; faith; father; grotto; hands; heart; lady; left; life; lourdes; madame; marie; moment; pierre; priest; room; sick; sister; thought; time; virgin; voice; way; woman cache: 8514.txt plain text: 8514.txt item: #675 of 722 id: 8515 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 date: None words: 45375 flesch: 76 summary: She no longer remembered what squares she had crossed, what streets she had traversed, as she roamed through that infamous Lourdes, that Lourdes which killed little children, that Lourdes which she cursed. What! exclaimed little Madame Desagneaux, you will go to Berneville on the 15th? keywords: bernadette; carriage; child; day; end; eyes; face; father; good; grotto; guersaint; heart; hyacinthe; left; life; lourdes; madame; man; marie; moment; monsieur; people; pierre; pilgrims; priest; sister; suffering; things; thought; time; train; virgin; woman cache: 8515.txt plain text: 8515.txt item: #676 of 722 id: 8558 author: Zola, Émile title: L'Assommoir date: None words: 92031 flesch: 88 summary: By Emile Zola CHAPTER I GERVAISE Gervaise had waited and watched for Lantier until two in the morning. When Gervaise awoke about five o'clock, stiff and sore, she burst into wild sobs, for Lantier had not come in. keywords: air; bed; boche; children; coupeau; day; door; eyes; face; father; francs; gervaise; good; goujet; hands; head; home; house; husband; lantier; left; look; lorilleux; men; mme; money; morning; mother; nana; night; people; place; room; saw; shop; street; table; things; thought; time; virginie; water; way; wife; window; wine; woman; work cache: 8558.txt plain text: 8558.txt item: #677 of 722 id: 8598 author: Wilson, Epiphanius title: Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac date: None words: 3885 flesch: 66 summary: INTRODUCTION TO THE DRAMAS OF BALZAC BY EPIPHANIUS WILSON AND J. WALKER MCSPADDEN CONTENTS Balzac as a Dramatist By Epiphanius Wilson Introduction By J. Walker McSpadden BALZAC AS A DRAMATIST BY EPIPHANIUS WILSON Honore de Balzac is known to the world in general as a novel-writer, a producer of romances, in which begin the reign of realism in French fiction. _Mercadet_ was not given with them in this printing, but appeared in a separate duodecimo, under the title of _Le Faiseur_, from the press of Cadot, in 1853. keywords: balzac; life; mercadet; play; situation; time; vautrin cache: 8598.txt plain text: 8598.txt item: #678 of 722 id: 8600 author: Zola, Émile title: L'Assommoir date: None words: 159738 flesch: 87 summary: But I would never beat you, if you would only try me, Madame Gervaise. At length, after a long silence, he appeared to make up his mind, and took his pipe out of his mouth to say all in a breath: Madame Gervaise, will you allow me to lend you some money? keywords: air; arms; bed; big; bit; black; boche; child; children; corner; coupeau; day; days; dieu; door; drink; end; evening; eyes; face; floor; francs; gervaise; glass; good; goujet; half; hands; head; home; house; husband; iron; lantier; left; lerat; life; look; looking; lorilleux; madame; madame gervaise; men; money; monsieur; morning; mother; mother coupeau; mouth; nana; night; people; place; room; round; rue; shop; sous; street; table; things; thought; time; virginie; voice; want; water; way; white; window; wine; woman; work; zinc cache: 8600.txt plain text: 8600.txt item: #679 of 722 id: 8606 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts date: None words: 33388 flesch: 98 summary: _Enter, on the right, the_ FAIRY, _in the shape of an old woman, and_ LIGHT, _followed by_ TYLTYL _and_ MYTYL. They all enter the dazzling garden, except_ NIGHT _and the_ CAT.) keywords: bird; blue; bread; cat; child; children; dog; door; fairy; fire; granny; happiness; light; look; man; mytyl; oak; sugar; time; tree; tyltyl; water cache: 8606.txt plain text: 8606.txt item: #680 of 722 id: 8721 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 date: None words: 45796 flesch: 68 summary: But at last Pierre tore himself away from the sublime spectacle. At last Pierre ended by feeling as though he were transported into some /salon/ of the time of Charles X, in one of the episcopal cities of the French provinces. keywords: abbe; benedetta; black; boccanera; book; cardinal; church; city; dario; day; don; eminence; eyes; face; faith; father; good; great; heart; holy; l'abbe; left; life; love; man; moment; monsieur; morning; nani; new; people; pierre; pope; priest; roman; rome; room; time; vatican; vigilio; words; work; world; years cache: 8721.txt plain text: 8721.txt item: #681 of 722 id: 8722 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 date: None words: 44327 flesch: 66 summary: Pebbled, deserted inclines stretched out, and steps followed steps, worn and white, under the burning sun; but at last Pierre reached the door and went in. Without Rome new Italy could not have existed; Rome represented the glory of ancient time; in her dust lay the sovereign power which we wished to re-establish; she brought strength, beauty, eternity to those who possessed her. keywords: benedetta; centuries; city; dario; day; days; eyes; face; father; glory; good; hand; heart; italy; left; life; love; man; marble; men; monsignor; narcisse; new; order; orlando; palace; palatine; passion; people; pierre; pope; power; pride; priest; right; rome; room; set; soil; son; time; tombs; walls; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 8722.txt plain text: 8722.txt item: #682 of 722 id: 8723 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 date: None words: 48071 flesch: 68 summary: Some day, no doubt, it would all be rebuilt, but how interesting was this phase of the city's evolution: old Rome expiring and new Rome just dawning amidst countless difficulties! And in these gardens of Rome Pierre ever found the same clipped box-shrubs, the same eucalypti with white trunks and pale leaves long like hair, the same ilex-trees squat and dusky, the same giant pines, the same black cypresses, the same marbles whitening amidst tufts of roses, and the same fountains gurgling under mantling ivy. keywords: away; benedetta; church; city; dario; day; dear; evening; eyes; father; good; hand; heart; holy; houses; left; leo; life; love; man; millions; money; monsignor; nani; narcisse; order; people; peter; pierre; poor; pope; priest; prince; right; roman; rome; room; things; thought; time; vatican; way; white; work; world; xiii; young cache: 8723.txt plain text: 8723.txt item: #683 of 722 id: 8724 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4 date: None words: 63928 flesch: 71 summary: However, a sound of coughing made Pierre turn, and he started on perceiving Cardinal Sarno, whom he had not heard enter. But I like to think that he has also realised the touching significance of that marriage--old Rome, in the person of that candid, loving child giving herself to young Italy, that upright, enthusiastic young man who wears his uniform so jauntily. keywords: away; basket; benedetta; black; boccanera; book; cardinal; church; congregation; count; dario; day; dear; don; eminence; evening; eyes; face; father; figs; frascati; god; good; hands; holy; life; love; man; mind; moment; monsignor; nani; order; people; pierre; pope; power; prada; priest; rome; room; santobono; silence; things; thought; time; vigilio; way; white; world; young cache: 8724.txt plain text: 8724.txt item: #684 of 722 id: 8725 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 date: None words: 51904 flesch: 69 summary: At last Pierre raised his eyes to the Vatican, but facing the piazza there was here merely a confused jumble of walls, amidst which only two gleams of light appeared on the floor of the papal apartments. so as to give Pierre time to breathe and recover himself somewhat before crossing the threshold of the sanctuary. keywords: book; cardinal; church; day; dear; death; end; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; heart; holy; left; leo; life; love; man; moment; new; order; people; pierre; pope; priest; rome; room; silence; son; soul; things; thought; time; truth; work; world; xiii; young cache: 8725.txt plain text: 8725.txt item: #685 of 722 id: 8772 author: Molière title: The Learned Women date: None words: 17912 flesch: 91 summary: (_to_ HENRIETTE, _as he presents_ CLITANDRE). PHI., ARM. _and_ BEL. keywords: ari; arm; bel; chry; cli; clitandre; heart; hen; henriette; love; mind; phi; scene; sir; sister; tri; trissotin cache: 8772.txt plain text: 8772.txt item: #686 of 722 id: 8775 author: Hugo, Victor title: Poems date: None words: 71739 flesch: 88 summary: Have you, O Greek, O mocker of old days, Have you not sometimes with that oblique eye Winked at the Farnese Hercules?--Alone, Have you, O Faun, considerately turned From side to side when counsel-seekers came, And now advised as shepherd, now as satyr?-- Have you sometimes, upon this very bench, Seen, at mid-day, Vincent de Paul instilling Grace into Gondi?--Have you ever thrown That searching glance on Louis with Fontange, On Anne with Buckingham; and did they not Start, with flushed cheeks, to hear your laugh ring forth From corner of the wood?--Was your advice As to the thyrsis or the ivy asked, When, in grand ballet of fantastic form, God Phoebus, or God Pan, and all his court, Turned the fair head of the proud Montespan, Calling her Amaryllis?--La Fontaine, Flying the courtiers' ears of stone, came he, Tears on his eyelids, to reveal to you The sorrows of his nymphs of Vaux?--What said Boileau to you--to you--O lettered Faun, Who once with Virgil, in the Eclogue, held That charming dialogue?--Say, have you seen Young beauties sporting on the sward?--Have you Been honored with a sight of Molière Seize, then, each blissful second, Live, for joy _sinks in night_, And those whose tale is reckoned, Have had their days of light. keywords: angel; arms; bear; black; blood; blue; breath; brow; child; children; close; dark; darkness; day; dead; dear; death; doth; dream; earth; eyes; face; fair; fall; father; fear; feet; flowers; france; free; gloom; glory; god; gold; good; grave; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; home; hour; king; land; les; life; lips; little; look; lord; love; magazine; man; men; mother; night; o'er; past; people; place; play; power; proud; red; rest; rose; round; sea; shade; shadow; sky; sleep; smile; song; soul; star; sun; sweet; sword; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; walls; war; way; white; wild; wind; world; years; young cache: 8775.txt plain text: 8775.txt item: #687 of 722 id: 8776 author: Molière title: The Impostures of Scapin date: None words: 15388 flesch: 98 summary: SCA. SCA. keywords: arg; father; ger; géronte; lea; love; oct; sca; scapin; sil; sir; son cache: 8776.txt plain text: 8776.txt item: #688 of 722 id: 8779 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 01 date: None words: 2240 flesch: 85 summary: I for thy profit pond'ring now devise, That thou mayst follow me, and I thy guide Will lead thee hence through an eternal space, Where thou shalt hear despairing shrieks, and see Spirits of old tormented, who invoke A second death; and those next view, who dwell Content in fire, for that they hope to come, Whene'er the time may be, among the blest, Into whose regions if thou then desire T' ascend, a spirit worthier then I Must lead thee, in whose charge, when I depart, Thou shalt be left: for that Almighty King, Who reigns above, a rebel to his law, Adjudges me, and therefore hath decreed, That to his city none through me should come. I to him in few: Bard! by that God, whom thou didst not adore, I do beseech thee (that this ill and worse I may escape) to lead me, where thou saidst, That I Saint Peter's gate may view, and those Who as thou tell'st, are in such dismal plight. keywords: fear; hath; thee; thou; way cache: 8779.txt plain text: 8779.txt item: #689 of 722 id: 8780 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 02 date: None words: 2151 flesch: 82 summary: He thus to me in few: This shalt thou know, soon as our steps arrive Beside the woeful tide of Acheron. But soon as he beheld I left them not, By other way, said he, By other haven shalt thou come to shore, Not by this passage; thee a nimbler boat Must carry. keywords: god; master; spirits; thee; thou; words cache: 8780.txt plain text: 8780.txt item: #690 of 722 id: 8781 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 03 date: None words: 2036 flesch: 84 summary: He answer'd straight: These are yet blacker spirits. As cranes, Chanting their dol'rous notes, traverse the sky, Stretch'd out in long array: so I beheld Spirits, who came loud wailing, hurried on By their dire doom. keywords: hell; love; spirits; thee; thou cache: 8781.txt plain text: 8781.txt item: #691 of 722 id: 8782 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 04 date: None words: 2086 flesch: 86 summary: For thee, Here shalt thou tarry, who through clime so dark Hast been his escort. Now may'st thou see, my son! keywords: guide; hath; race; thee; thou; world cache: 8782.txt plain text: 8782.txt item: #692 of 722 id: 8783 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 05 date: None words: 4147 flesch: 81 summary: But not yet fifty times shall be relum'd Her aspect, who reigns here Queen of this realm, Ere thou shalt know the full weight of that art. So to the pleasant world mayst thou return, As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell? keywords: art; forth; god; guide; mind; round; thee; thou; words cache: 8783.txt plain text: 8783.txt item: #693 of 722 id: 8784 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 06 date: None words: 24371 flesch: 83 summary: Against a rock I leant and wept, so that my guide exclaim'd: What, and art thou too witless as the rest? Pass thou therefore on. keywords: answer'd; art; canto; doth; e'en; earth; ere; eyes; face; feet; fell; forth; guide; hand; hath; head; land; left; look; man; o'er; place; rest; right; rock; round; seem'd; spake; spirit; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turn'd; way; words; world cache: 8784.txt plain text: 8784.txt item: #694 of 722 id: 8785 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 07 date: None words: 18824 flesch: 83 summary: He answer'd: Thou shalt see Not far from hence Antaeus, who both speaks And is unfetter'd, who shall place us there Where guilt is at its depth. Against a rock I leant and wept, so that my guide exclaim'd: What, and art thou too witless as the rest? keywords: answer'd; art; doth; e'en; earth; eyes; face; feet; fell; forth; guide; hath; head; land; left; man; o'er; rest; rock; round; spake; spirit; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turn'd; view; way; words; world cache: 8785.txt plain text: 8785.txt item: #695 of 722 id: 8786 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 08 date: None words: 6699 flesch: 81 summary: He thus replied: Nearer than thou dost hope, there is a rock From the next circle moving, which o'ersteps Each vale of horror, save that here his cope Is shatter'd. Teacher, I thus began, if speedily Thyself and me thou hide not, much I dread Those evil talons. keywords: earth; end; fire; flame; forth; guide; hath; man; rest; spirit; tell; thee; thou; words cache: 8786.txt plain text: 8786.txt item: #696 of 722 id: 8787 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 09 date: None words: 3331 flesch: 83 summary: in Juno's breast For Semele against the Theban blood, As more than once in dire mischance was rued, Such fatal frenzy seiz'd on Athamas, That he his spouse beholding with a babe Laden on either arm, Spread out, he cried, The meshes, that I take the lioness And the young lions at the pass: then forth Stretch'd he his merciless talons, grasping one, One helpless innocent, Learchus nam'd, Whom swinging down he dash'd upon a rock, And with her other burden self-destroy'd The hapless mother plung'd: and when the pride Of all-presuming Troy fell from its height, By fortune overwhelm'd, and the old king With his realm perish'd, then did Hecuba, A wretch forlorn and captive, when she saw Polyxena first slaughter'd, and her son, Her Polydorus, on the wild sea-beach Next met the mourner's view, then reft of sense Did she run barking even as a dog; Such mighty power had grief to wrench her soul. His visage seem'd In length and bulk, as doth the pine, that tops Saint Peter's Roman fane; and th' other bones Of like proportion, so that from above The bank, which girdled him below, such height Arose his stature, that three Friezelanders Had striv'n in vain to reach but to his hair. keywords: guide; rock; round; spirit; thee; thou; thy; time; way cache: 8787.txt plain text: 8787.txt item: #697 of 722 id: 8788 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 10 date: None words: 3458 flesch: 85 summary: The image of my own, on either hand Through agony I bit, and they who thought I did it through desire of feeding, rose O' th' sudden, and cried, 'Father, we should grieve Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us: thou gav'st These weeds of miserable flesh we wear, 'And do thou strip them off from us again.' If thou wouldst know Who are these two, the valley, whence his wave Bisenzio slopes, did for its master own Their sire Alberto, and next him themselves. keywords: art; eyes; feet; hath; head; ice; thee; thou cache: 8788.txt plain text: 8788.txt item: #698 of 722 id: 8789 author: Dante Alighieri title: The vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. date: None words: 36767 flesch: 83 summary: But soon as he beheld I left them not, By other way, said he, By other haven shalt thou come to shore, Not by this passage; thee a nimbler boat Must carry. He thus to me in few: This shalt thou know, soon as our steps arrive Beside the woeful tide of Acheron. keywords: air; answer'd; art; canto; doth; e'en; earth; ere; evil; eyes; face; fear; feet; fell; fire; forth; god; guide; hand; hath; head; high; know; land; left; life; look; man; mark'd; master; o'er; place; power; rest; right; rock; round; seem'd; spake; spirit; steps; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turn'd; view; way; woe; words; world cache: 8789.txt plain text: 8789.txt item: #699 of 722 id: 8790 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 1 date: None words: 4346 flesch: 83 summary: He disappear'd; and I myself uprais'd Speechless, and to my guide retiring close, Toward him turn'd mine eyes. Moreover ye Have seen such men desiring fruitlessly; To whose desires repose would have been giv'n, That now but serve them for eternal grief. keywords: eyes; guide; hath; heaven; sun; thee; thou; turn'd cache: 8790.txt plain text: 8790.txt item: #700 of 722 id: 8791 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 2 date: None words: 6518 flesch: 85 summary: Why are thy thoughts thus riveted? my guide Exclaim'd, that thou hast slack'd thy pace? Come, cruel one! Come and behold the' oppression of the nobles, And mark their injuries: and thou mayst see. keywords: answer'd; eyes; god; guide; hand; life; look; steps; thee; thou; thy; turn'd; way cache: 8791.txt plain text: 8791.txt item: #701 of 722 id: 8792 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 date: None words: 9035 flesch: 82 summary: That land, through which Adice and the Po Their waters roll, was once the residence Of courtesy and velour, ere the day, That frown'd on Frederick; now secure may pass Those limits, whosoe'er hath left, for shame, To talk with good men, or come near their haunts. The curb Is of a harsher sound, as thou shalt hear (If I deem rightly), ere thou reach the pass, Where pardon sets them free. keywords: doth; e'en; ere; evil; eyes; god; good; hath; light; love; man; spirit; thee; thou; thought; way; words cache: 8792.txt plain text: 8792.txt item: #702 of 722 id: 8793 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 4 date: None words: 7810 flesch: 81 summary: I said, in whom repentant tears Mature that blessed hour, when thou with God Shalt find acceptance, for a while suspend For me that mightier care. If thou hast ever mark'd those holy sounds Of gospel truth, 'nor shall be given ill marriage,' keywords: desire; earth; eyes; god; good; hath; heav'n; love; man; mount; shade; spirit; thee; thou; time; way; words cache: 8793.txt plain text: 8793.txt item: #703 of 722 id: 8794 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 5 date: None words: 9262 flesch: 78 summary: Thou hadst not hid thy sin the more: such eye Observes it. Mine eyes no more Had knowledge of her; yet there mov'd from her A hidden virtue, at whose touch awak'd, The power of ancient love was strong within me. keywords: beatrice; doth; ere; eyes; fire; hath; love; o'er; sight; song; sun; thee; thou; turn'd; view; voice; way; words cache: 8794.txt plain text: 8794.txt item: #704 of 722 id: 8795 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete date: None words: 36879 flesch: 82 summary: Thou hadst not hid thy sin the more: such eye Observes it. Moreover ye Have seen such men desiring fruitlessly; To whose desires repose would have been giv'n, That now but serve them for eternal grief. keywords: appear'd; canto; cause; day; doth; drew; e'en; earth; ere; evil; eyes; forth; god; good; guide; hand; hath; heart; heav'n; know; left; life; light; look; love; man; mountain; o'er; place; power; round; seem'd; song; soul; space; spirit; steps; sun; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; turn'd; view; virtue; voice; way; words cache: 8795.txt plain text: 8795.txt item: #705 of 722 id: 8796 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 date: None words: 15140 flesch: 75 summary: Ne'er then was penalty so just as that Inflicted by the cross, if thou regard The nature in assumption doom'd: ne'er wrong So great, in reference to him, who took Such nature on him, and endur'd the doom. Consider thou, If to excel be worthy man's endeavour, When such life may attend the first. keywords: beatrice; canto; doth; e'en; earth; forth; god; good; hath; heav'n; life; light; love; man; mind; nature; sun; thee; thou; thy; truth; turn'd; virtue; words; world cache: 8796.txt plain text: 8796.txt item: #706 of 722 id: 8797 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 2 date: None words: 7579 flesch: 77 summary: he Did gird on me; in such good part he took My valiant service. say the cause, Which bringeth thee so near: and wherefore, say, Doth the sweet symphony of Paradise Keep silence here, pervading with such sounds Of rapt devotion ev'ry lower sphere? Mortal art thou in hearing as in sight; Was the reply: and what forbade the smile Of Beatrice interrupts our song. keywords: day; doth; eyes; good; great; hath; heav'n; light; love; saw; spirit; thee; thou; time; voice; world cache: 8797.txt plain text: 8797.txt item: #707 of 722 id: 8798 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3 date: None words: 13041 flesch: 76 summary: Philosophy, said I, 'hath arguments, And this place hath authority enough 'T' imprint in me such love: for, of constraint, Good, inasmuch as we perceive the good, Kindles our love, and in degree the more, As it comprises more of goodness in 't. Such truth Learn I from him, who shows me the first love Of all intelligential substances Eternal: from his voice I learn, whose word Is truth, that of himself to Moses saith, 'I will make all my good before thee pass.' keywords: beatrice; doth; e'en; earth; ere; eyes; god; grace; hath; heav'n; holy; light; love; round; soul; spake; sun; thee; thou; thy; truth; view; virtue; world cache: 8798.txt plain text: 8798.txt item: #708 of 722 id: 8799 author: Dante Alighieri title: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete date: None words: 35718 flesch: 76 summary: Philosophy, said I, 'hath arguments, And this place hath authority enough 'T' imprint in me such love: for, of constraint, Good, inasmuch as we perceive the good, Kindles our love, and in degree the more, As it comprises more of goodness in 't. Such truth Learn I from him, who shows me the first love Of all intelligential substances Eternal: from his voice I learn, whose word Is truth, that of himself to Moses saith, 'I will make all my good before thee pass.' keywords: beam; beatrice; canto; cause; christ; day; doth; e'en; earth; ere; eyes; fair; forth; god; good; grace; great; hath; heav'n; holy; joy; life; light; long; look; love; man; mark; mind; nature; rest; round; saw; soul; spake; spirit; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; turn'd; view; virtue; voice; words; world cache: 8799.txt plain text: 8799.txt item: #709 of 722 id: 8800 author: Dante Alighieri title: An Index of The Divine Comedy by Dante date: None words: 393 flesch: 72 summary: Then double-click on 8800-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any name you wish, such as DANTE. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. keywords: directory cache: 8800.txt plain text: 8800.txt item: #710 of 722 id: 8992 author: Verne, Jules title: The Blockade Runners date: None words: 18291 flesch: 79 summary: When he had reached the Captain, he looked fixedly at him, and said, Captain James Playfair? Because it is on board the _Dolphin_ that I wish to serve, and under the orders of Captain James Playfair. keywords: board; captain; charleston; crockston; dolphin; girl; good; halliburtt; james; james playfair; jenny; man; miss; playfair; ship; time cache: 8992.txt plain text: 8992.txt item: #711 of 722 id: 9070 author: Molière title: The Imaginary Invalid date: None words: 19883 flesch: 93 summary: (MR. ARGAN _and_ MR. ARG. keywords: ang; angélique; arg; argan; bel; bene; ber; brother; béralde; cle; daughter; dia; diafoirus; doctor; father; good; lou; love; man; marriage; purgon; scene; sir; time; toi; toinette cache: 9070.txt plain text: 9070.txt item: #712 of 722 id: 9105 author: La Rochefoucauld, François duc de title: Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims date: None words: 35563 flesch: 76 summary: 24.--When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men. 157.--The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it. keywords: believe; death; desire; duke; edition; faults; fortune; friends; good; heart; life; love; man; manner; maxims; men; merit; mind; passions; people; persons; praise; pride; qualities; reason; rochefoucauld; self; taste; things; time; vanity; wish; women; world cache: 9105.txt plain text: 9105.txt item: #713 of 722 id: 9150 author: Verne, Jules title: Dick Sands, the Boy Captain date: None words: 104854 flesch: 71 summary: Dick, tell me, what do you think about it? With a critical eye Dick Sands looked long and steadily at the spout. Dick Sands proposed that it should be the four younger negroes who should be assigned the task of keeping watch during the night, in attendance upon himself; but Actæon insisted so strongly upon the necessity of Dick's having his full share of rest, that the others were soon brought to the same conviction, and Dick was obliged to yield. keywords: africa; air; alvez; benedict; board; boat; captain; child; coast; course; cousin; crew; day; days; deck; dick; dick sands; dingo; dog; end; feet; forest; good; half; hand; harris; head; hercules; hope; hull; illustration; jack; kind; land; left; little; look; man; means; men; miles; moment; mrs; mrs weldon; natives; negoro; negroes; new; night; order; party; pilgrim; place; poor; river; sea; ship; shore; slaves; time; tom; trees; water; way; weldon; whale; wind cache: 9150.txt plain text: 9150.txt item: #714 of 722 id: 9164 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 date: None words: 43343 flesch: 72 summary: He had seen everything, and become disgusted with everything, no longer believing in the existence of great men, or of truth, but living peacefully enough on universal malice and folly. And at last Pierre entered the basilica, his heart upset, overflowing with the bitterness stirred up by the recollection of Abbe Rose's story--that bankruptcy of charity, the frightful irony of a holy man punished for bestowing alms, and hiding himself that he might still continue to bestow them. keywords: affair; baron; baroness; camille; charity; child; day; duthil; duvillard; eyes; face; fellow; gerard; good; hand; heart; house; l'abbe; laveuve; left; life; man; massot; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; paris; pierre; priest; room; salvat; thought; time; way; work; world; years cache: 9164.txt plain text: 9164.txt item: #715 of 722 id: 9165 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 date: None words: 37524 flesch: 73 summary: Remembering the staircase which conducted to Salvat's lodging, Pierre began to climb it amidst a loud screaming of little children, who suddenly became quiet, letting the house sink into death-like silence once more. Francois, laden with academical laurels, first on the pass list for the Ecole Normale, had entered that college where young men are trained for university professorships, and was there preparing for his Licentiate degree, while Antoine, who on reaching the third class at the Lycee Condorcet had taken a dislike to classical studies, now devoted himself to his calling as a wood-engraver. keywords: brother; day; eyes; face; faith; father; felt; francois; good; guillaume; hand; heart; house; life; love; madame; man; moment; monsieur; paris; pierre; priest; room; salvat; silence; theodore; thought; time; toussaint; way; woman; work; years cache: 9165.txt plain text: 9165.txt item: #716 of 722 id: 9166 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3 date: None words: 42136 flesch: 76 summary: Dupot, a thin, bald, short-sighted, spectacled little man, wore his usual expression of boredom and weariness; but in reality he was very wide awake and extremely courageous. Ah! that lame and halting Charity, which proffers help when men are dead! keywords: baron; barroux; chamber; day; dear; duthil; duvillard; eve; eyes; face; fellow; fonsegue; general; gerard; hands; house; left; life; man; minister; moment; monferrand; monsieur; order; paris; people; pierre; place; poor; room; salvat; silviane; thought; time; way; woman cache: 9166.txt plain text: 9166.txt item: #717 of 722 id: 9167 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 date: None words: 40107 flesch: 77 summary: Priest that he was, cut off from love and the avocations of other men, he would surely find nothing but hurt and suffering among creatures who were all nature, freedom and health. With her quiet atheism, indeed, she had never imagined that a priest could be different from other men. keywords: brother; day; death; eyes; face; grand; guillaume; hand; heart; idea; justice; life; love; man; marie; men; moment; morning; order; paris; pierre; rose; salvat; things; thought; time; truth; way; woman; work cache: 9167.txt plain text: 9167.txt item: #718 of 722 id: 9168 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 date: None words: 44027 flesch: 76 summary: These words impressed Pierre, and he again thought of a gigantic vat stretching yonder from one horizon to the other, a vat in which the coming century would emerge from an extraordinary mixture of the excellent and the vile. Very dignified, in fact almost haughty, she acknowledged most of the salutations addressed to her with a mere nod, giving her little withered hand only to those people with whom she was well acquainted. keywords: brother; day; dear; death; duthil; duvillard; eyes; father; good; grand; guillaume; hand; heart; idea; justice; labour; life; love; madame; man; massot; moment; new; order; paris; people; pierre; place; silviane; thomas; time; want; way; work; world cache: 9168.txt plain text: 9168.txt item: #719 of 722 id: 9548 author: Sandars, Mary Frances title: Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings date: None words: 96618 flesch: 61 summary: Madame de Balzac is given minute directions about the flowers which are to decorate the house in the Rue Fortunee, as a surprise to Madame Honore; and as we read, we can imagine Balzac's pride and delight when he wrote the name. Madame de Balzac worked hard, and long before her death in April, 1882, the whole of Balzac's debts were paid off. keywords: balzac family; berny; books; correspondance; day; days; de balzac; de paris; death; des; doubt; end; eyes; fact; francs; friends; future; gautier; genius; girardin; good; hand; health; heart; honore; honore de; house; idea; left; les; letter; lettres; life; love; lovenjoul; m. balzac; m. de; madame; madame balzac; madame de; madame hanska; madame honore; man; mind; money; months; mother; novels; place; play; power; revue de; room; rue; sister; society; son; spite; spoelberch; surville; theatre; thought; time; time balzac; vicomte; vol; way; woman; words; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 9548.txt plain text: 9548.txt item: #720 of 722 id: 9618 author: Verne, Jules title: The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras date: None words: 47701 flesch: 80 summary: I am sure Mr. Altamont is going to claim a higher rate for his countrymen, said Johnson, smiling. Next morning, Altamont Bell and the Doctor repaired to the Porpoise. keywords: altamont; american; bay; bears; bell; captain; chapter; clawbonny; companions; day; doctor; duk; good; hatteras; house; ice; illustration; johnson; man; men; north; pole; right; round; sea; set; ship; sledge; snow; time; water; way; work cache: 9618.txt plain text: 9618.txt item: #721 of 722 id: 9869 author: Musset, Alfred de title: The Confession of a Child of the Century date: None words: 82848 flesch: 83 summary: Such men are incapable of loving a faithless woman and their conduct, under the circumstances, is admirable in its firmness. At the same time, the objects which excite his desire are never attained with sangfroid; all that the debauchee loves, he takes violent possession of; his life is a fever; his organs, in order to search the depths of joy, are forced to avail themselves of the stimulant of fermented liquors, and sleepless nights; in the days of ennui and of idleness, he feels more keenly than other men the disparity between his impotence and his temptations, and, in order to resist the latter, pride must come to his aid and make him believe that he disdains them. keywords: arms; bed; brigitte; child; day; death; desgenais; door; evening; evil; eyes; face; father; friend; god; good; hand; head; heart; hour; house; leave; life; lips; love; madame; man; men; mistress; moment; nature; night; order; past; pierson; room; speak; tears; thought; thy; time; woman; word; young cache: 9869.txt plain text: 9869.txt item: #722 of 722 id: 9987 author: None title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish date: None words: 44941 flesch: 78 summary: At other times he speaks of the world and of men, of foreign countries and of remote ages, with so much gravity and judgment that he seems like an old man who has retired from the world laden with wisdom and experience. Poor dear man! keywords: adrian; baker; berta; country; day; death; door; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; house; john; joseph; life; little; look; man; moment; moors; night; nurse; organ; people; room; street; thought; time; treasure; voice; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 9987.txt plain text: 9987.txt