item: #1 of 12 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: #2 of 12 id: 12315 author: Sherwood, Mary Martha title: Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times date: None words: 32263 flesch: 62 summary: His aunt, Mrs. Margaret Dymock, was his housekeeper, and so careful had she always been, for she had kept house for her brother, the late laird, that the neighbours said she had half-starved herself, in order to keep up some little show of old hospitality. Nothing, however, which has been said of Mrs. Margaret Dymock goes against that which might be said with truth, that there was a fund of kindness in the heart of the venerable spinster, though it was sometimes choked up and counteracted by her desire to make a greater appearance than the family means would allow. keywords: aunt; child; day; dymock; father; having; jacob; lady; laird; man; margaret; mind; moor; mrs; place; poor; rebecca; salmon; shanty; shed; tamar; time; tower; way; woman; work cache: 12315.txt plain text: 12315.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 20071 author: Meade, L. T. title: Sue, A Little Heroine date: None words: 76570 flesch: 92 summary: If he's the son of my old friend, more than ever is he my care now; and you this evening, little Connie, shall tell me your story. Purty little Connie? keywords: agnes; anderson; boy; child; children; come; connie; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; fire; fur; giles; girl; good; great; harris; heart; home; john; little; look; man; mother; mrs; night; pickles; poor; ronald; room; sue; thought; time; voice; warren; wery; wot; yer cache: 20071.txt plain text: 20071.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 35196 author: Reid, Mayne title: Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye date: None words: 135519 flesch: 80 summary: Therefore, master Jack _must_ remain here. Father Rogier, one of the former, is there with similar motive, and for the same purpose, his sort are sent everywhere--to enslave the souls of men and get money out of their purses, in order that other men, princes, and priests like himself, may lead luxurious lives, without toil and by trickery. keywords: boat; body; boulogne; captain; captain ryecroft; chapter; coracle; course; court; dark; day; days; dick; door; drawing; exclaims; eyes; face; father; fear; fellow; ferry; gentleman; george; girl; goes; good; gwen; gwendoline; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; inside; jack; kind; lady; left; length; lewin; life; linton; little; llangorren; look; love; mahon; major; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; morgan; mother; mrs; murdock; need; night; oars; people; place; priest; reason; river; rogier; room; ryecroft; set; shenstone; sort; speech; standing; stream; table; taking; tell; thing; thought; till; time; volume; waterman; way; wingate; woman; word; wye; wynn cache: 35196.txt plain text: 35196.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 35784 author: Reid, Mayne title: Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye date: None words: 136315 flesch: 80 summary: Therefore, Master Jack _must_ remain here. So ends our Romance of the Wye--a drama of happy _denouement_ to most of the actors in it; and, as hoped, satisfactory to all who have been spectators. keywords: bit; boat; body; boulogne; captain; captain ryecroft; chapter; coracle; course; court; dark; day; days; dick; door; drawing; exclaims; eyes; face; father; fear; fellow; ferry; gentleman; george; girl; goes; good; gwen; gwendoline; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; inside; jack; kind; know; lady; left; length; lewin; life; linton; little; llangorren; look; love; mahon; major; making; man; mary; men; mind; miss; morgan; mother; mrs; murdock; need; new; night; oars; people; place; priest; reason; river; rogier; room; ryecroft; set; shenstone; sort; speech; standing; stream; table; tell; thing; thought; till; time; waterman; way; wingate; woman; word; wye; wynn cache: 35784.txt plain text: 35784.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 36220 author: Robins, Elizabeth title: My Little Sister date: None words: 63269 flesch: 92 summary: And while I recalled these things, in the back of my head, I kept repeating: Mother, mother! His wife, that Princess of Wales, who even before her marriage had been the idol of England was our idol too--apart from her high destiny as mother of the future King, (the little Prince born in the same year as Bettina)--and mother of that fascinating figure in the story, the solitary Princess of her house, three years younger than the youngest of our family. keywords: aunt; aurore; bettina; betty; day; door; eric; eyes; face; good; hand; head; helmstone; help; hermione; home; house; josephine; know; lady; life; london; look; looking; lord; madame; man; mind; moment; mother; night; people; ranny; room; round; sister; things; thought; time; voice; way; window; woman; world cache: 36220.txt plain text: 36220.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 38347 author: Green, Anna Katharine title: The Millionaire Baby date: None words: 70591 flesch: 83 summary: All the waters in the dock had been dragged, yet the work went on, some said under the very eye of Mrs. Ocumpaugh. Had I not possessed the advantage of being already known to Mrs. Ocumpaugh, I should have immediately given up all hope of ever obtaining access to her presence; and even with this fact to back me, I approached the house with very little confidence in my ability to win my way through the high iron gates I had so frequently passed before without difficulty. keywords: bungalow; carew; child; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; good; gwendolen; hand; heart; hour; house; left; life; little; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; ocumpaugh; place; river; room; saw; secret; story; thought; time; way; woman; words cache: 38347.txt plain text: 38347.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 4774 author: Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works) title: The Merry Devill of Edmonton date: None words: 12991 flesch: 93 summary: Good night, Waltham--who, ho, ho, boy! Good old Mounchensey, is thy hap so ill, That for thy bounty and thy royall parts Thy kind alliance should be held in scorn, And after all these promises by Clare Refuse to give his daughter to thy son, Only because thy Revenues cannot reach To make her dowage of so rich a jointure keywords: arthur; brian; clare; come; fabell; good; host; jerningham; love; man; milliscent; mountchensey; night; raph; sir; sir arthur; smug; thee; thou cache: 4774.txt plain text: 4774.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 50372 author: Russell, William Clark title: The Tragedy of Ida Noble date: None words: 59686 flesch: 80 summary: Don Christoval and Don Lazarillo will be wanting to see you, now you're awake. Don Christoval and Don Lazarillo were seated at the table drinking coffee; the atmosphere was charged with the delicate aroma of the berry, blended with the perfume of choice Cuba tobacco. keywords: boat; boy; butler; cabin; captain; deck; don; don christoval; don lazarillo; door; dopping; english; eyes; face; hand; head; know; lady; look; looking; man; mariana; men; miss; night; noble; portlack; schooner; sea; ship; sir; skylight; spaniard; time; vessel; way cache: 50372.txt plain text: 50372.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 61380 author: Pohl, Frederik title: The Five Hells of Orion date: None words: 11956 flesch: 85 summary: Their job was to watch McCray, and they would do their job; and even more, not one of them could have looked away to save his life from the spectacle of a creature as odd and, from their point of view, hideously alien as Herrell McCray. Herrell McCray was a navigator, which is to say, a man who has learned to trust the evidence of mathematics and instrument readings beyond the guesses of his common sense. keywords: bank; body; hatcher; herrell; jodrell; light; mccray; mind; room; ship; suit; thought; time; way cache: 61380.txt plain text: 61380.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 62416 author: Cummings, Ray title: Juggernaut of Space date: None words: 17232 flesch: 92 summary: In my hand the pot bellied little Radak gun, so unfamiliar, gave me an uneasy feeling. Grim, stealthy events creeping upon us--little things here on Earth just involving me and those few others; and with them, giant events mysteriously taking place out in the great vault of the stars. keywords: blaine; crimson; earth; head; lei; mack; mind; radak; ratan; red; shorty; space; tahn; taro; vivian cache: 62416.txt plain text: 62416.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 63709 author: Walton, Bryce title: Prisoner of the Brain-Mistress date: None words: 8491 flesch: 82 summary: I went with little Draken. Even facing torture, and possible death, I thought of them as perfect little feet. keywords: brain; city; draken; eyes; face; feet; jokan; man; mohln; robots; time; world cache: 63709.txt plain text: 63709.txt