item: #1 of 11
id: 15948
author: Morris, William
title: The Hollow Land
date: None
words: 14892
flesch: 80
summary: Then, Sir Florian, men say that at your christening some fiend took on him the likeness of a priest and strove to baptize you in the Devil's name, but God had mercy on you so that the fiend could not choose but baptize you in the name of the most holy Trinity: and yet men say that you hardly believe any doctrine such as other men do, and will at the end only go to Heaven round about as it were, not at all by the intercession of our Lady; they say too that you can see no ghosts or other wonders, whatever happens to other Christian men. And I have never seen him since, scarcely even in dreams; surely God has had mercy on him, for he was very leal and true and brave; he loved many men, and was kind and gentle to his friends, neither did he hate any but Swanhilda.
keywords: arnald; face; god; half; hand; harald; head; house; land; man; men; red; sword
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item: #2 of 11
id: 18357
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
date: None
words: 115503
flesch: 82
summary: We had more than one hot fight, and lost many good men. In the first place, because I know he will do it well, and even those who consider that I am rash and headstrong, admit that I have the knack of picking out good men.
keywords: army; captain; charles; charlie; company; country; course; day; days; doubt; father; fellow; fire; gentlemen; good; half; harry; head; horses; hour; house; jervoise; king; left; life; man; marmaduke; matter; men; money; morning; news; night; officers; place; present; round; russians; service; sir; sweden; swedish; thought; time; town; troops; way; work
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item: #3 of 11
id: 19255
author: Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)
title: Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
date: None
words: 88401
flesch: 73
summary: No fewer, indeed, than five French line-of-battle ships during the fight, finding themselves grinding sides with British ships, adopted the same course--an expressive testimony to the enterprising quality of British sailors. Of the fifteen ships that escaped Trafalgar, four were met in the open sea on November 4 by an equal number of British ships, under Sir Richard Strahan, and were captured.
keywords: army; attack; batteries; battle; boats; british; broke; captain; cavalry; charge; column; crew; daring; day; deck; division; enemy; england; english; fact; fight; fighting; fire; flag; fleet; force; french; general; great; guard; guns; half; head; hill; leading; left; line; man; men; moment; napoleon; nelson; officers; past; point; position; quarter; round; sea; ships; shot; smoke; soult; spanish; squadron; stern; time; troops; victory; war; way; wellington
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item: #4 of 11
id: 21320
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
date: None
words: 140676
flesch: 86
summary: Seen Pomp anywhere? Eh? Mass' George tink Pomp got wunful eye? Yes; you can see twice as well in the dark as I can.
keywords: big; bit; black; boat; boy; close; colonel; come; dat; eyes; father; fire; forest; george; good; gun; hand; hannibal; head; home; house; indians; know; lad; look; looking; man; mass; master; men; moment; morgan; place; pomp; poor; right; river; round; sarah; saw; sir; tell; thought; till; time; tree; want; water; way; yes
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item: #5 of 11
id: 21730
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Erling the Bold
date: None
words: 100553
flesch: 78
summary: Thy news, old man, is no news, said Ulf; the token for a Thing has been sent out, and it is natural that the bonders should obey the summons. Besides this, to say the truth, we had already lost a number of good men on the cruise and could ill afford to lose more.
keywords: ada; alric; art; away; axe; battle; berserk; boy; day; erling; face; father; fell; fight; friend; glumm; good; hake; haldor; hand; harald; head; hermit; hilda; horlingdal; house; kettle; king; king harald; know; land; left; man; men; moment; point; round; sea; ships; small; sword; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; ulf; war; way
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item: #6 of 11
id: 39340
author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
title: The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Good Boys, Bad Boys, Big Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys, and Tom-Boys
date: None
words: 68163
flesch: 84
summary: So the many-headed swarmed over the wall from behind; they struck down the last brave defender of privilege, and Hugh John Picton Smith was borne away to captivity. They shan't say Hugh John Picton Smith is afraid! were the words in his proud and angry heart, which kept him from feeling insult and pain, kicks and buffetings.
keywords: billy; black; boy; boys; carter; castle; chapter; chief; cissy; day; donald; donnan; edam; eyes; face; father; feet; field; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; hero; home; house; hugh john; janet; know; lion; look; man; mean; moment; napoleon; new; nipper; picton; priscilla; prissy; right; round; sammy; sheepshanks; sir; sir toady; smith; standard; things; thought; time; toady; toady lion; town; voice; water; way; white; windy
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item: #7 of 11
id: 4061
author: Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir
title: The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
date: None
words: 171161
flesch: 63
summary: But also, without doubt, many of his assailants, like those of other great men, have been mainly instigated by that strongest of all antipathies, the antipathy of a second-rate mind to a first-rate one, [De Stael.] For great men can only act permanently by forming great nations; and no one man, even though it were Hannibal himself, can in one generation effect such a work.
keywords: action; alexander; allies; armies; arminius; arms; army; asia; athenian; athens; attack; attila; battle; brigade; british; burgoyne; camp; cavalry; centre; charles; city; close; coast; command; conquest; corps; country; darius; day; death; defeat; duke; effect; emperor; empire; enemies; enemy; england; english; europe; field; fleet; force; france; french; general; german; good; greek; ground; hand; hannibal; harold; head; high; history; horse; infantry; italy; king; left; life; line; lord; louis; march; marlborough; men; miles; military; miltiades; modern; napoleon; national; nations; new; norman; north; number; officers; order; people; persian; philip; place; position; power; prince; right; river; roman; rome; russia; sea; second; ships; skill; soldiers; south; spain; spanish; spirit; states; strength; strong; thought; time; troops; victory; vol; war; waterloo; way; wellington; william; wing; world; years
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item: #8 of 11
id: 41667
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: The Emerald City of Oz
date: None
words: 55403
flesch: 87
summary: In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders, and in the Land of Oz Dorothy found these same qualities had won for her the love and admiration of the people. So good luck to little Dorothy and her companions.
keywords: aunt; billina; city; country; dorothy; emerald; general; girl; good; guph; henry; illustration; king; land; magic; man; nome; ozma; paper; people; place; right; room; scarecrow; time; tin; tunnel; uncle; way; wizard
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item: #9 of 11
id: 44852
author: Lamplough, Edward
title: Yorkshire Battles
date: None
words: 47087
flesch: 64
summary: Disdaining to meet death in other than his customary guise of warrior and chief, he caused his servitors to invest his gigantic frame in the iron panoply of war, to arm him with the heavy sword and tempered battle-axe which he had so long and ably employed in the national service, and so breathed his last, leaving the wild hordes of Northumbria to be disposed of by King Edward, for his son, the afterwards far-famed Waltheof, was too young to rule over so extensive and warlike a province. No doubt Harold employed his great influence with King Edward to secure the aggrandisement of his own family, for his brother Tosti was invested with command of the province.
keywords: archbishop; archers; arms; army; barons; battle; blood; bridge; castle; conflict; day; death; duke; earl; edward; enemy; england; english; fairfax; field; foot; ground; hand; harold; head; henry; horse; hull; john; king; king edward; lord; march; men; newcastle; norman; northumberland; position; prince; queen; ranks; richard; robert; royal; saxon; scotland; scots; sir; slain; son; sword; thomas; time; town; troops; william; york; yorkshire
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item: #10 of 11
id: 517
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: The Emerald City of Oz
date: None
words: 54952
flesch: 87
summary: In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders, and in the Land of Oz Dorothy found these same qualities had won for her the love and admiration of the people. He was a bad man and a powerful monarch, and he had resolved to destroy the Land of Oz and its magnificent Emerald City, to enslave Princess Ozma and little Dorothy and all the Oz people, and recover his Magic Belt.
keywords: aunt; billina; city; country; dorothy; emerald; eyes; general; girl; good; guph; henry; king; land; magic; man; nome; ozma; paper; people; place; room; scarecrow; time; tin; tunnel; uncle; way; wizard
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item: #11 of 11
id: 7294
author: Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph
title: Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
date: None
words: 81683
flesch: 73
summary: Is this because in war man lasts longer in the cavalry and because our cavalrymen were older and more seasoned soldiers than our infantry? The losses exceed the resources in good men, and discourage the exhausted, who appear to be very numerous, and those who are skilled in removing themselves from danger.
keywords: action; advance; arms; army; attack; battalion; battle; cavalry; charge; close; colonel; combat; command; day; discipline; effect; enemy; face; fight; fighting; fire; firing; formation; french; general; good; infantry; left; line; man; mass; men; methods; military; moment; morale; officers; order; picq; ranks; regiment; roman; skirmishers; soldiers; tactics; time; troops; use; war; way
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