item: #1 of 7 id: 13332 author: Benson, Luther title: Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography date: None words: 51041 flesch: 75 summary: Sometimes she goes to the portrait of your boyish face and looks at it; at other times she takes down some worn and faded garment, that you were wont to wear in those beautiful days of the past, and recalls how you looked when you wore it; then she goes to the room where you used to sleep and looks at the cradle in which she so often rocked you to sleep, and, after all is seen, she returns to her chair--the old easy chair--and waits to hear tidings of you. At such times I could distinctly remember the names and features of all the persons who dwelt in the vicinity of my father's house, although many of them died long ago or passed away from the neighborhood. keywords: alcohol; appetite; body; chapter; condition; day; days; dead; death; drink; drinking; face; father; friends; god; heart; hell; home; house; law; lecture; life; liquor; man; men; mother; night; place; power; room; school; sober; soul; thought; time; way; whisky; years cache: 13332.txt plain text: 13332.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 318 author: London, Jack title: John Barleycorn date: None words: 66088 flesch: 83 summary: As I pondered this, I recollected that several times other men, in couples, had entered the Last Chance, and first one, then the other, had treated to drinks. Or else I must go back to my free library books and read of the deeds of other men and do no deeds of my own save slave for ten cents an hour at a machine in a cannery. keywords: adventure; alcohol; barleycorn; beer; boat; body; books; brain; chapter; coal; course; day; days; death; desire; dollars; drink; drinking; end; eyes; french; girls; good; half; hand; home; hours; house; john; john barleycorn; life; logic; louis; love; man; matter; men; mind; money; morning; nelson; night; order; place; saloon; sea; things; thought; time; truth; water; way; whisky; wine; work; world; writing; years cache: 318.txt plain text: 318.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 35866 author: Titus, Harold title: "I Conquered" date: None words: 69071 flesch: 90 summary: It was man to beast, and somewhere down yonder through the generations a dead racial memory came back and Young VB, girded for the conflict, ached to have his forest foe in reach, to have the fight run high, to have his chance to dare and do in fleshly struggle! Though his meetings with other men were few and scattered, VB was coming to be liked. keywords: away; big; boy; captain; close; country; danny; day; door; eyes; face; feet; gail; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jed; left; life; lips; look; low; man; men; mind; moment; neck; new; place; ranch; rhues; right; set; stallion; thing; thorpe; thought; throat; time; voice; words cache: 35866.txt plain text: 35866.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 41139 author: Thorne, Guy title: The Drunkard date: None words: 124351 flesch: 86 summary: He had known men, friends of his own, go down, down, down, through drink. Our local celebrity, Medley continued, Mr. Gilbert Lothian, the poet. keywords: alcohol; amberley; bed; book; brain; come; course; dark; day; days; dear; dinner; doctor; door; drink; ethel; eyes; face; felt; friend; gilbert; gilbert lothian; girl; glass; god; good; half; hall; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; ingworth; know; left; letter; library; life; little; london; look; lothian; love; man; mary; mind; moment; morning; morton; mrs; new; night; people; place; pleasure; podley; poet; red; rita; room; rose; round; saw; sims; sir; sort; soul; table; thing; thought; time; toftrees; tumpany; village; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 41139.txt plain text: 41139.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 45525 author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) title: The Betrayal of John Fordham date: None words: 99573 flesch: 86 summary: Other men were before me; every inch of ground north and south was marked off for miles, and a thousand miners were at work. Hundreds of other men on the goldfields have missed fortune in the same manner by a hair's breadth. keywords: annette; barbara; cameron; course; day; dead; dear; door; ellen; end; eyes; face; fordham; good; hand; heart; home; house; jack; john; life; london; look; louis; love; madame; man; matter; maxwell; mind; moment; money; monsieur; morgan; mother; mrs; murder; night; place; room; sed; set; story; street; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word; work; wos; yer cache: 45525.txt plain text: 45525.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 59724 author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker) title: The Baritone's Parish; or, "All Things to All Men" date: None words: 8734 flesch: 88 summary: I want you to let me rest for a while on your confidence, your good wishes, Mr. Vox; and to let me drop in once in a while, just to tell you that I am all right yet. I want to know that Mr. Vox. Bring him around to dine with us Wednesday night. keywords: believe; caleb; doctor; downs; good; life; man; men; night; phil; sang; singer; voice; vox cache: 59724.txt plain text: 59724.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 60671 author: Smith, George H. (George Henry) title: The Last Days of L.A. date: None words: 7708 flesch: 94 summary: A girl in a spangled evening dress, a puffing little man in Bermuda shorts, a woman carrying two children, a man with a golf bag over his shoulder and two men in gray flannel suits followed by a woman in a sack dress that keeps blowing up over her face as she runs. Do you prefer to read about sixteen-year old girls found in love nests with older men? keywords: god; good; head; look; man; people; time; way; woman; world cache: 60671.txt plain text: 60671.txt