item: #1 of 20
id: 15357
author: Pinero, Arthur Wing
title: The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
date: None
words: 26461
flesch: 90
summary: AGNES sinks upon the settee; AMOS and GERTRUDE remain, stiffly and silently, in the attitude of people who are waiting for the departure of a disagreeable person.] H'm--[To AGNES.
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item: #2 of 20
id: 15788
author: Granville-Barker, Harley
title: Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts
date: None
words: 35636
flesch: 91
summary: [_Ranging himself with_ FARRANT.] The matter is beyond_ FARRANT.
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item: #3 of 20
id: 17500
author: Hardy, Thomas
title: The Return of the Native
date: None
words: 145380
flesch: 83
summary: The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. Next day she went her ways as usual, and continued her custom of walking in the heath with no other companion than little Eustacia, now of the age when it is a matter of doubt with such characters whether they are intended to walk through the world on their hands or on their feet; so that they get into painful complications by trying both.
keywords: aunt; boy; cantle; charley; christian; clym; course; dark; day; days; door; egdon; end; eustacia; evening; eyes; face; fairway; feel; fire; form; furze; girl; good; grandfer; half; hand; having; head; heath; home; hour; house; husband; lay; left; life; light; look; love; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; path; place; present; reddleman; room; round; saw; sort; thing; thomasin; thought; time; tis; venn; voice; walk; want; way; wife; wildeve; window; wish; woman; words; world; yeobright; yes
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item: #4 of 20
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; | |
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item: #5 of 20
id: 2775
author: Ford, Ford Madox
title: The Good Soldier
date: None
words: 77690
flesch: 82
summary: But she had seen so many women make eyes at Edward�hundreds and hundreds of women, in railway trains, in hotels, aboard liners, at street corners. And that was the end of Edward�for the Spanish dancer of passionate appearance wanted one night of him for his beaux yeux.
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item: #6 of 20
id: 31112
author: Smith, James Edgar
title: The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts
date: None
words: 17364
flesch: 98
summary: [_Dimsdell sits, half reclining. _Dimsdell becomes rigid; with arm uplifted as if to strike a death blow.
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item: #7 of 20
id: 3146
author: Hardy, Thomas
title: Two on a Tower
date: None
words: 95970
flesch: 78
summary: In marrying Swithin Lady Constantine had played her card,--recklessly, impulsively, ruinously, perhaps; but she had played it; it could not be withdrawn; and she took this morning's luncheon as an episode that could result in nothing to her beyond the day's entertainment. II Swithin St. Cleeve lingered on at his post, until the more sanguine birds of the plantation, already recovering from their midwinter anxieties, piped a short evening hymn to the vanishing sun.
keywords: astronomer; bishop; blount; brother; church; cleeve; column; coming; course; day; days; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; going; good; half; hand; home; house; lady constantine; left; letter; life; look; louis; love; man; marriage; matter; mind; moment; morning; night; place; position; room; round; sir; swithin; swithin st; tabitha; thing; thought; time; torkingham; tower; viviette; way; welland; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young; youth
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item: #8 of 20
id: 32432
author: Glaspell, Susan
title: Fidelity: A Novel
date: None
words: 102210
flesch: 88
summary: He held her close and murmured soothing little things. She fairly palpitated with that desire to hear little things--what Bob Horton did for a living, whether Helen Matthews still gave music lessons.
keywords: amy; deane; edith; eyes; face; feeling; girl; good; harriett; home; house; life; little; looking; love; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; people; ruth; ruth holland; stuart; talk; ted; things; thinking; thought; time; town; voice; way; woman; years
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item: #9 of 20
id: 33
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: The Scarlet Letter
date: None
words: 85519
flesch: 68
summary: And now, through the chamber which these spectral thoughts had made so ghastly, glided Hester Prynne leading along little Pearl, in her scarlet garb, and pointing her forefinger, first at the scarlet letter on her bosom, and then at the clergyman's own breast. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE Thou wilt love her dearly, repeated Hester Prynne, as she and the minister sat watching little Pearl.
keywords: black; bosom; character; child; chillingworth; clergyman; custom; day; dimmesdale; eyes; face; forest; forth; good; governor; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hester; hester prynne; house; human; kind; letter; life; light; look; man; men; mind; minister; moment; mother; nature; new; pearl; people; physician; place; public; roger; scarlet; sin; smile; soul; spirit; thee; thou; thought; time; town; truth; wild; woman; world; years
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item: #10 of 20
id: 35485
author: Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
title: The Doctor's Wife: A Novel
date: None
words: 170181
flesch: 74
summary: Mr. Lansdell begged her to write him a line to say if Tuesday would suit Mr. Gilbert. After that struggle about the ottoman, there had been many other struggles in which Isabel had pleaded for smaller and less expensive improvements, only to be blighted by that hard common sense with which Mr. George Gilbert was wont--on principle--to crush his wife's enthusiasm.
keywords: afternoon; black; books; bright; church; country; course; cousin; creature; dark; day; deal; dear; death; dinner; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; friend; garden; george gilbert; gilbert; girl; good; graybridge; gwendoline; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; isabel; isabel gilbert; isabel sleaford; izzie; jeffson; kind; lady; lansdell; left; letter; life; like; little; looking; lord; love; low; man; manner; master; men; midlandshire; mind; miss; mordred; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; pale; people; person; place; poor; pretty; priory; raymond; roland lansdell; room; sigismund; sleaford; smith; story; summer; surgeon; talk; tea; thing; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; years; young
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item: #11 of 20
id: 42395
author: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
title: The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts
date: None
words: 23579
flesch: 98
summary: [_ELIZABETH comes in. [_As LADY KITTY goes out ELIZABETH comes in.
keywords: anna; arnold; c.-c; come; course; dear; elizabeth; good; hughie; lady kitty; love; man; porteous; teddie; thing
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item: #12 of 20
id: 4264
author: James, Henry
title: The Golden Bowl — Complete
date: None
words: 211965
flesch: 75
summary: “Maggie herself of course--astonishing little Maggie.” This gave Charlotte time to go on.
keywords: air; amerigo; assingham; case; charlotte; colonel; come; companion; course; day; dear; effect; eyes; face; fact; fanny; father; find; friend; going; good; great; hand; having; head; help; home; hour; husband; idea; instant; left; life; look; maggie; making; man; matter; mean; mind; minute; moment; mrs; need; new; occasion; particular; people; place; point; present; prince; princess; question; reason; right; room; round; sense; things; think; thought; time; truth; verver; view; want; way; wife; woman; words; world
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item: #13 of 20
id: 4360
author: Corelli, Marie
title: Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
date: None
words: 145372
flesch: 83
summary: Following out this thought, I said aloud: What sort of looking man was this Count Romani? I had little time left me for reflection; each moment that passed brought me nearer to the end I had planned and foreseen. CHAPTER XXIII.
keywords: air; arms; beauty; black; blood; body; care; child; cold; conte; course; dark; day; days; dead; death; door; doubt; eccellenza; evening; eyes; fabio; face; fair; fellow; ferrari; friend; god; gold; good; guido; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; house; husband; know; lay; leave; left; life; lips; look; love; low; man; men; mere; mind; moment; morning; naples; night; nina; place; rest; romani; room; rose; round; signor; silence; smile; sort; soul; sweet; thing; thought; time; vault; vincenzo; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; world
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item: #14 of 20
id: 43971
author: Merrick, Leonard
title: One Man's View
date: None
words: 38741
flesch: 86
summary: Where has dear Mamie gone? she asked. You are a critic, Mrs. Heriot.
keywords: baines; cheriton; course; day; dear; door; father; field; girl; good; heriot; home; life; little; love; mamie; man; mind; miss; mrs; night; room; stage; street; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman
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item: #15 of 20
id: 4520
author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
title: Aaron's Rod
date: None
words: 116595
flesch: 92
summary: It was so sudden that Aaron _heard_ nothing any more. She tried to find out what sort of wife Aaron had--but, except that she was the daughter of a publican and was delicate in health, she could learn nothing.
keywords: aaron; air; angus; argyle; bed; bit; black; blue; children; come; course; dark; day; door; end; eyes; face; flute; francis; franks; good; great; half; hand; head; house; italian; jim; josephine; julia; lady; left; life; lilly; long; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; money; morning; music; people; place; red; right; robert; room; rose; round; self; sir; sisson; sort; soul; tanny; things; think; thought; time; voice; war; way; white; wife; william; woman; world; young
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item: #16 of 20
id: 46298
author: Monkhouse, Allan
title: Mary Broome: A Comedy, in Four Acts
date: None
words: 20816
flesch: 99
summary: TIMBRELL EDGAR TIMBRELL LEONARD TIMBRELL ADA TIMBRELL SHEILA RAY (_afterwards Mrs. Edgar Timbrell_) MARY BROOME (_afterwards Mrs. Leonard Timbrell_) JOHN BROOME MRS. BROOME MR. [_Enter ADA and LEONARD.
keywords: ada; broome; edgar; good; greaves; leonard; mary; mother; mrs; pendleton; sheila; things; timbrell
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item: #17 of 20
id: 47331
author: Jones, Henry Arthur
title: Michael and His Lost Angel: A Play in Five Acts
date: None
words: 29400
flesch: 94
summary: The villagers draw back a little._ MICH. MICHAEL turns towards ROSE with great tenderness._) MICH.
keywords: andr; andrew; audr; audrie; church; door; father; good; life; love; lyolf; mark; mich; michael; morning; night; play; rose; saint; sir; woman
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item: #18 of 20
id: 61925
author: Sackville-West, V. (Victoria)
title: Challenge
date: None
words: 86252
flesch: 78
summary: His fellow-passengers had watched him when he joined the ship at Brindisi, and a murmur had run amongst them, 'Julian Davenant--son of those rich Davenants of Herakleion, you know--great wine-growers--they own a whole archipelago'; some one had disseminated the information even as Julian came up the gangway, in faded old gray flannels, hatless, in a rage with his porter, who appeared to be terrified out of all proportion. He looked at her smooth, beautiful arms, and little white hands that he had always loved.
keywords: alexander; aphros; black; boat; child; christopoulos; crowd; davenant; day; door; eve; eyes; face; father; fingers; fru; good; grbits; hair; half; hand; head; herakleion; house; islands; julian; kato; lafarge; life; light; lips; look; love; madame; malteios; man; men; mind; moment; paul; people; place; platia; red; room; round; sea; smile; things; thought; thyregod; time; tsigaridis; village; voice; water; way; white; woman; words; world; young
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item: #19 of 20
id: 7508
author: Moore, George
title: A Mummer's Wife
date: None
words: 146582
flesch: 82
summary: V On leaving Mr. Lennox Kate walked slowly along the streets, recalling every word he had said, feeling his breath upon her cheek and his blue eyes looking into hers more distinctly in recollection than when he had held her in his arms. At last Kate said: 'I don't know what I shall do; I promised the dress by to-morrow morning.'
keywords: answer; beaumont; company; conversation; course; day; dear; dick; door; drink; ede; eyes; face; felt; girls; good; half; hand; head; heart; hender; home; hour; house; husband; kate; leave; left; lennox; leslie; life; long; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; montgomery; morning; mortimer; mother; mrs; night; people; piece; place; ralph; read; room; round; saw; speak; stage; street; tell; theatre; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; wife; woman; words; work
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item: #20 of 20
id: 9498
author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
title: The Trespasser
date: None
words: 72141
flesch: 92
summary: At last Siegmund inquired of the coastguard the nearest way down the cliff. At last Siegmund looked doubtfully at two miles more of glistening, gilded boulders.
keywords: arms; beatrice; blue; body; children; dark; day; dear; door; eyes; face; feel; glanced; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; helena; left; life; look; louisa; love; man; moment; moon; morning; mother; night; room; rose; round; sea; siegmund; sun; things; thought; time; train; vera; voice; want; water; way; white
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