item: #1 of 11 id: 19108 author: Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) title: The Golden Silence date: None words: 177871 flesch: 85 summary: Stephen made Nevill ask. Stephen gave Nevill his own rifle, just reloaded. keywords: algiers; arab; away; beautiful; ben; black; blue; caird; cassim; child; course; dark; day; days; desert; door; eyes; face; french; friend; girl; gold; good; great; half; halim; hand; head; heart; help; hope; hotel; house; lady; left; life; look; looking; love; m'barka; man; marabout; maïeddine; men; mind; miss; moment; nevill; new; night; open; people; place; ray; red; roof; room; round; saidee; sand; saw; sister; stephen; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; victoria; wall; way; white; wife; wish; woman; world; years; young; zaouïa cache: 19108.txt plain text: 19108.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 21751 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story date: None words: 60804 flesch: 83 summary: It am Peter de Great. `Massa,' says I, `here I's bin wid you night an' day for six year, an' you's nebber say to me yet, Peter de Great, go out for de day an' enjoy you'self. keywords: ahmed; ben; black; course; das; dat; day; dey; dis; eyes; face; father; foster; friend; geo'ge; girl; good; great; hab; hand; head; hester; know; little; look; man; massa; middy; mind; moment; moor; negro; peter; place; right; sally; slave; sommers; time; way; wid; work; yes; young cache: 21751.txt plain text: 21751.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 30581 author: Windham, W. G. title: Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia date: None words: 23687 flesch: 70 summary: A Maltese, who slept in the other berth near me, sneezed nine times in as many minutes; and, after each sternutation, he went through a short formula of prayer, beginning 'Santo Something,' to keep the devil to leeward, I suppose; and, egad, I think he must have been on board _in propriâ personâ_, under some disguise, to have caused us so bad a passage. In medias res._ keywords: algeria; algiers; angelo; arabs; bey; board; bona; breakfast; caravanserai; chapter; country; day; days; dinner; english; french; great; horse; hôtel; lake; lion; man; miles; morning; night; place; return; river; ruins; sea; shooting; time; tunis; way cache: 30581.txt plain text: 30581.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 3296 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo title: The Confessions of St. Augustine date: None words: 112287 flesch: 71 summary: Send Thou Thy word into it by Thy messengers: for we speak of their working, yet it is Thou that workest in them that they may work out a living soul in it. But such was I. Nor do I blush, O my God, to confess to Thee Thy mercies towards me, and to call upon Thee, who blushed not then to profess to men my blasphemies, and to bark against Thee. keywords: body; day; didst; earth; eyes; flesh; form; god; good; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; know; life; light; long; lord; love; man; memory; men; mind; o lord; past; place; present; soul; speak; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; true; truth; way; words; world cache: 3296.txt plain text: 3296.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 36348 author: Carleton, George Washington title: Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 date: None words: 4986 flesch: 73 summary: OUR ARTIST, [Illustration: colophon] [Illustration: Our Artist having prepared himself for a jolly plunge, inadvertently observes an insect peculiar to the water, and rather thinks he won't go in just now.] keywords: algiers; artist; calle; city; cuban; havana; illustration; lima; night; peru; peruvian; sketch; spain; streets cache: 36348.txt plain text: 36348.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 40479 author: Rosen, Erwin title: In the Foreign Legion date: None words: 72494 flesch: 80 summary: Thus he was quite well off according to Foreign Legion ideas, and certainly need not have risked a heavy penalty by selling his ceinture for a few sous. I have been told that for the Foreign Legion physical fitness is the only thing required, and that the recruiting officers cared less than nothing about the past lives of their recruits. keywords: abbès; algeria; arab; away; barracks; bed; bel; clothes; company; corporal; day; days; french; german; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; herr; legion; life; little; look; légionnaire; man; march; marching; men; minutes; money; new; night; officers; place; prison; quarters; rader; recruits; regiment; room; sergeant; service; sidi; smith; soldiers; things; time; town; uniform; von; way; white; wine; work; years cache: 40479.txt plain text: 40479.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 4271 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: A Modern Telemachus date: None words: 58833 flesch: 73 summary: The good lady, of course, thought that the Marshal Duke and her own Count must secure victory; but Lady Nithsdale was intent on her own branch of the subject, and did not pursue 'what might have been.' 'After all,' she said, 'poor Arthur, at fourteen, could have no true political convictions. From Lanty Arthur further heard that the poor Abbe had languished and died soon after reaching home. keywords: abbe; algiers; arthur; bourke; boy; brother; captain; child; children; christian; consul; day; dey; english; estelle; eyes; faith; french; good; hand; head; heart; hebert; home; hope; lady; lanty; little; lord; madame; mademoiselle; man; marabout; men; moors; mother; night; poor; round; sea; sheyk; sir; sister; son; tam; thought; time; ulysse; vessel; victorine; water; way; white; yusuf cache: 4271.txt plain text: 4271.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 45380 author: Blackburn, Henry title: Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine date: None words: 31848 flesch: 60 summary: We take our places quickly in the _intérieur_, and are wedged in between little soft white figures with black eyes and stained finger-nails, who stare at us with a fixed and stony stare, all the way back to Algiers. The mountain-ranges to the south were like an undulating sea, divided from us by lesser hills and little plains, with here and there valleys, green and cultivated; but the prevailing character of the scenery was rocky and barren. keywords: air; algeria; algiers; arab; beauty; city; colour; costume; dark; day; days; feet; french; ground; half; houses; illustration; leaves; life; light; men; moorish; moors; morning; mountains; picture; place; sea; shadows; street; sun; time; town; trees; variety; way; white; wind; winter; work cache: 45380.txt plain text: 45380.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 46705 author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title: In the Land of Mosques & Minarets date: None words: 87354 flesch: 69 summary: The Arab, by tradition, is a temperate person in food and drink, but the European has taught him to drink white wine and he himself has copied the French and taken (in small numbers fortunately) to absinthe, and now he has got a ready-made distillery of _lagmi_ in every palm-tree. To-day Kenchela has nothing for the tourist but its Hôtel de France, and its Monday market, which like other _indigène_ keywords: africa; algeria; algiers; ancient; arab; away; berber; bey; biskra; blida; café; cairo; camel; caravan; carthage; century; chapter; chief; cities; city; civilization; class; coast; constantine; country; day; days; desert; donkey; european; fact; france; french; god; gold; good; government; ground; habib; half; hand; head; holy; home; horse; hotel; illustration; italian; jews; kabyle; kilometres; land; left; life; marabout; market; means; mediterranean; military; minaret; mohammed; moorish; mosque; mountains; mussulman; native; new; north; oran; people; place; population; port; prophet; railway; real; red; road; roman; route; ruins; sheep; sidi; sort; south; things; time; tlemcen; tomb; town; tozeur; tunis; tunisia; view; walls; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 46705.txt plain text: 46705.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 59084 author: Le Poer, John Patrick title: A Modern Legionary date: None words: 106891 flesch: 76 summary: They were good men, and when the bayonets crossed they fought quietly and earnestly, and died without a murmur, almost without a groan. They were good men; one engineer and seven legionaries, all simple soldiers, were killed; almost all the others were wounded, but even wounded men who could stand remained at their posts, and those others who had to stay out of the fight loaded their rifles and the rifles of the dead, and passed them to the fighting men, so that two shots often went through a loophole when, in the Black Flags' minds, only one should be expected. keywords: adjutant; attack; battalion; bayonet; body; camp; canteen; captain; charge; commandant; company; comrades; corporal; course; day; duty; enemy; evening; fight; fighting; french; giulia; good; ground; guard; half; left; legionaries; life; mac; man; men; money; morning; nicholas; officers; place; rest; second; sergeant; soldiers; squad; things; thought; time; way; woman; work cache: 59084.txt plain text: 59084.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 9069 author: Bertrand, Louis title: Saint Augustin date: None words: 103531 flesch: 75 summary: He used them as an excuse for making Augustin mark time, so to speak. Again was baptism postponed, and from the same reason: to lessen the gravity of the sins which young Augustin was bound to commit. keywords: african; alypius; ambrose; augustin; barbarians; basilica; bishop; bishop augustin; carthage; catholic; charity; child; children; christian; church; city; country; day; days; death; donatists; doubt; empire; end; eyes; fact; faith; faithful; father; friends; future; god; good; great; heart; hippo; house; human; kind; land; life; light; love; man; master; men; milan; mind; moment; monnica; mother; order; pagan; patricius; people; place; pleasure; priest; public; religion; rhetorician; roman; romanianus; rome; sea; set; son; soul; thagaste; things; thought; time; time augustin; town; truth; way; words; work; world; years cache: 9069.txt plain text: 9069.txt