item: #1 of 38 id: 11120 author: Tuthill, Cornelia L. (Cornelia Louisa) title: Hurrah for New England! Or, The Virginia Boy's Vacation date: None words: 19269 flesch: 76 summary: When I got to the place, I found every thing in confusion, and Dr. Medway talking very earnestly with brother Clarendon, who was looking quite thin, and not at all pleased. I had heard so much of the state-rooms, that I expected more than was reasonable; and when I saw them, the idea of passing night after night in such little closets was not agreeable. keywords: afraid; beautiful; bennie; better; board; boston; boy; boys; brother; captain; care; children; church; city; clarendon; clothes; cobb; colman; course; cousin; cruise; david; day; deal; dear; deck; dick; england; evening; excellent; eyes; face; father; fellow; fine; fishing; friends; girl; good; great; half; happy; hard; heart; home; house; idea; interest; jack; july; kind; ladies; land; leave; life; like; little; long; looking; louisa; love; man; manner; marblehead; men; mind; miserable; miss; moment; moody; morning; mother; near; need; new; nice; night; old; paul; peck; people; pidgie; place; pleasant; poor; port; pretty; proud; ready; return; room; round; sailor; school; schooner; sea; sense; shore; sister; son; state; steamer; story; sure; sweet; thing; thought; time; tom; use; vessel; virginia; visit; voyage; want; water; way; wish; words; world; writing; yankee; years; yesterday; york; young cache: 11120.txt plain text: 11120.txt item: #2 of 38 id: 13997 author: Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) title: Real Folks date: None words: 90318 flesch: 85 summary: Dorris kept her little room, and was neighborly as heretofore; but she was busy with her music, and had little time but her evenings; and now there was nobody to walk home with Desire to Shubarton Place, if she stayed in Aspen Street to tea. Do you remember the story Luclarion used to tell us of when she and her brother Mark were little children and used to play that the looking-glass-things were real, and that two children lived in them, in the other room, and how we used to make believe too in the slanting chimney glass? keywords: afraid; afternoon; agatha; answer; arabel; archie; arms; asenath; asking; aspen; aunt; awful; baby; beautiful; beauty; bed; beehive; beginning; best; better; bible; big; birds; bit; bits; black; blessed; blue; bonnet; book; boots; boston; boxes; bread; breath; brown; business; busy; cake; care; carpet; carriage; cents; certain; chair; chamber; change; children; chimney; china; christ; church; city; clean; close; clothes; color; colored; come; comfortable; coming; common; company; corner; country; course; crambo; craydocke; creation; crimson; cross; crowd; crumbs; cut; daisy; dakie; dancing; dark; daughters; day; days; deal; dear; deep; delicate; desire; desire ledwith; diana; die; different; dinner; dollars; door; doorway; dorris; dozen; drawing; dress; dressed; dressing; duty; early; earnest; earth; east; easy; edge; elder; elegant; end; europe; evening; eyes; face; fair; fall; families; family; fancy; far; farm; fashion; fashioned; fast; father; feeling; feet; ferns; fingers; finished; fire; floor; florence; flowers; folks; foot; forth; forward; frank; french; fresh; friend; froke; fun; furniture; garden; gay; general; geoffrey; girl; glad; glass; glossy; god; going; gold; golden; gone; good; got; grace; gracious; grant; grapp; grashy; gray; great; green; half; hand; happy; hard; hat; hate; hazel; head; heart; heaven; helena; help; high; hill; holabird; hold; home; homesworth; honest; hope; horseshoe; hot; hour; house; human; husband; idea; inside; join; kenneth; kincaid; kind; kingdom; kitchen; lady; lake; large; laughing; laura; leaves; ledwith; left; letters; life; like; likely; lilies; lips; little; little children; little hazel; little round; live; living; long; look; looking; lord; lovely; luclarion; luke; ma'am; madam; making; mamma; man; manner; marchbanks; marcus; mark; marmaduke; married; matter; mean; megilp; middle; midst; mig; mind; minutes; mischief; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mountains; mrs; mucklegrand; muffin; music; names; narrow; natural; nature; need; neighborhood; neighbors; new; news; nice; notice; o'clock; odd; oferr; old; oldways; ones; ontario; open; opposite; order; outside; pair; pale; paper; park; parlor; particular; parties; party; past; pay; people; perfect; persons; pictures; piece; pink; pity; place; plain; plans; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; present; pretty; pure; purple; putting; queer; questions; quick; quiet; rachel; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; red; remembered; rest; return; ribbons; rich; right; ripwinkley; river; road; roof; room; rosamond; rose; round; run; sake; saturday; saying; scarup; scherman; school; sea; seat; second; sense; separate; set; shady; sharp; shawl; shiere; shoes; shop; shubarton; silk; simple; sister; sitting; sleep; small; smile; social; society; sofa; soft; sort; souls; spirit; splendid; spring; square; stairs; stand; standing; steps; stick; stiff; stories; story; straight; strange; straw; street; strong; study; stump; style; sudden; sulie; summer; sunday; sure; surprise; sweet; swing; table; talk; tall; tea; tender; thayne; thee; things; think; thinking; thought; time; tired; titus; tone; touch; town; train; trees; true; truth; turn; turning; uncle; vash; voice; waiting; walk; walking; wall; want; water; way; wear; week; west; westover; wharne; white; wide; wife; willing; window; winter; wish; witch; woman; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; years; york; young; z---- cache: 13997.txt plain text: 13997.txt item: #3 of 38 id: 14762 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks date: None words: 45934 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: able; account; afraid; afternoon; air; annie; astonished; bad; bayard; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; black; blow; boat; bobby; bobby bright; bold; books; bookseller; boston; boy; boys; bridge; bright; bully; business; captain; case; cents; chaise; chapter; circumstances; city; clerk; colonel; coming; companion; confidence; continued; copy; country; course; day; days; deal; desire; determined; dinner; dollars; door; doubt; dream; duty; ellen; energy; escape; evening; face; fact; family; father; fellow; fish; fishing; folks; forward; friend; future; gentleman; glad; gold; good; great; half; handed; happy; hardhand; head; heart; hearted; help; hero; home; hope; hour; house; idea; interest; journey; kate; kind; lady; large; leave; lee; left; lie; life; little; long; look; ma'am; man; marm; matter; mean; men; merchant; mind; misfortune; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; note; old; pay; people; person; place; pleasant; pocket; point; poor; position; pretty; purpose; rate; ray; readers; ready; reason; reform; return; rich; riverdale; road; robert; rock; room; round; run; sam; satisfaction; school; short; sir; sleep; smart; smile; son; sorry; spicer; squire; stand; state; station; stock; store; street; success; sum; sure; talk; thing; thinking; thought; time; timmins; tom; trade; true; trunk; turn; valise; village; walk; want; water; way; wayfarer; week; whiting; widow; willing; woods; work; world; years; young cache: 14762.txt plain text: 14762.txt item: #4 of 38 id: 154 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Rise of Silas Lapham date: None words: 133995 flesch: 88 summary: Mrs. Lapham was even better satisfied with their bargain than the Colonel himself, and they had lived in Nankeen Square for twelve years. They had seen the saplings planted in the pretty oval round which the houses were built flourish up into sturdy young trees, and their two little girls in the same period had grown into young ladies; the Colonel's tough frame had expanded into the bulk which Bartley's interview indicated; and Mrs. Lapham, while keeping a more youthful outline, showed the sharp print of the crow's-foot at the corners of her motherly eyes, and certain slight creases in her wholesome cheeks. keywords: account; acquaintance; advantage; affair; afraid; afternoon; america; anna; answer; architect; arm; ashamed; bad; bartley; bay; beacon; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; behaved; bellingham; best; better; big; bit; black; blame; blue; boat; book; boston; boy; breakfast; breath; broken; bromfield; bromfield corey; brother; buggy; building; business; card; care; case; cast; cent; certain; chair; chance; character; charles; child; children; church; cigar; city; clear; clerks; close; coat; cold; colonel; colonel lapham; come; comfort; common; company; concerned; connection; content; continued; corey; corner; country; courage; course; cry; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deep; desk; dewey; different; dinner; direction; door; doubt; drawing; dress; dressed; drive; early; easy; effect; elder; end; english; equal; evening; excuse; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; family; fancy; father; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fire; fit; floor; fool; foot; form; friends; gentlemen; girl; glad; glanced; glass; going; good; great; guess; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; help; helpless; high; hold; home; hope; hour; house; human; hurry; hurt; husband; idea; interest; interview; irene; irene lapham; iron; james; jim; joke; justice; keeper; keeping; kind; kindness; kingsbury; ladies; lady; land; lapham; large; late; laugh; laughing; law; leave; left; letters; library; life; like; line; lips; little; live; living; long; look; looking; loss; lot; love; making; mamma; man; marcia; mare; market; married; matter; mean; meet; mills; mind; mineral; minister; minute; miss; mixed; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; mrs; mrs lapham; nankeen; nanny; nantasket; natural; nature; near; neck; need; new; newspaper; nice; nose; note; notice; notion; o'clock; offer; office; old; open; outer; outside; paint; papa; paper; parties; partner; pass; passion; past; patience; pay; penelope; penelope lapham; people; perfect; persis; person; personal; place; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poor; porter; position; practical; presence; present; pretty; pride; promise; property; proud; question; quick; quiet; rate; read; reading; real; reason; red; regard; relief; reply; rest; return; rich; right; road; rocks; rogers; room; rose; round; run; sacrifice; satisfaction; satisfied; saw; saying; school; seat; second; self; sense; sensible; set; sewell; share; shaving; shut; sick; sigh; silas; silas lapham; silence; silent; simple; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; small; smile; society; son; sorry; sort; soul; spirit; square; stairs; stand; start; state; stay; stocks; stop; story; straight; street; struggle; subject; success; suggested; summer; supper; sure; surprise; sympathy; table; talk; talking; taste; tea; terrible; texas; things; think; thinking; thought; throat; time; tom; tone; touch; town; trouble; true; turn; voice; wait; walker; want; water; way; ways; west; white; wife; willing; window; wine; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; writer; wrong; years; york; young; young corey; young man; younger; zerrilla cache: 154.txt plain text: 154.txt item: #5 of 38 id: 18153 author: Aimwell, Walter title: Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way date: None words: 61393 flesch: 79 summary: Cousin Oscar Preston, from Boston,--that was what you meant to say, was n't it? Yes, replied Mary. After supper, Mrs. Preston and her oldest daughter cleared off the table and washed the dishes; James and Jerry went out to the barn; Mr. Preston sat down to a table to examine some papers he had in his pocket-book; while Harriet and Mary remained, to keep Oscar company. keywords: account; advice; affair; afraid; afternoon; air; alfred; alice; answer; appearance; arrival; articles; attention; aunt; awhile; bad; bag; bargain; barn; bear; bed; birds; blackboard; book; boston; boys; breakfast; bridget; brookdale; brother; business; bye; cake; cap; care; careful; cars; case; chair; chamber; chapter; character; children; city; class; clinton; close; coach; cold; collar; common; company; complaint; conduct; corn; country; course; cousin; cross; danger; dark; davenport; day; days; deal; depôt; dinner; doctor; dog; door; dry; edward; effect; ella; emily; end; escape; evening; excuse; eye; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fine; fire; floor; foot; forenoon; fun; george; gold; good; grandmother; great; ground; gun; habit; half; hand; hard; head; help; high; hill; hole; home; hotel; hour; house; ice; idea; illustration; interest; jacket; jerry; joseph; journey; kind; kitchen; lady; large; late; laugh; leave; lee; left; length; lesson; letter; life; like; little; live; long; longer; look; lost; man; manner; mary; matter; mean; miles; mind; minutes; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; necessary; ned; need; new; night; notice; office; old; ones; open; order; oscar; owner; parents; people; piece; place; play; pleasant; pleased; pocket; point; pond; poor; possible; preston; pretty; previous; punishment; queer; question; ralph; rate; ready; real; reply; retired; return; ride; ring; river; roads; room; run; saw; scene; school; search; seat; set; shop; short; sick; sir; sitting; sled; small; snow; sorry; stage; stairs; stand; step; store; stories; strange; streets; strong; study; subject; summer; supper; sure; table; teacher; tell; terms; thanksgiving; thing; thought; tiger; time; tobacco; tone; town; train; trees; trouble; uncle; usual; visit; walk; want; warm; watch; water; way; week; wet; whistler; willie; window; winter; wish; wonder; woods; word; work; years; young cache: 18153.txt plain text: 18153.txt item: #6 of 38 id: 18555 author: Howells, William Dean title: A Chance Acquaintance date: None words: 62018 flesch: 74 summary: On the forward promenade of the Saguenay boat which had been advertised to leave Quebec at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Miss Kitty Ellison sat tranquilly expectant of the joys which its departure should bring, and tolerantly patient of its delay; for if all the Saguenay had not been in promise, she would have thought it the greatest happiness just to have that prospect of the St. Lawrence and Quebec. Good-looking young John Bull, he thought concerning Mr. Arbuton, and then thought no more about him, being no more self-judged before the supposed Englishman than he would have been before so much Frenchman or Spaniard. keywords: able; account; acquaintance; affair; afraid; afternoon; air; altar; american; ancient; ankle; answer; arbuton; arm; arms; ashamed; asking; bad; bay; bear; beautiful; beginning; best; better; bit; black; blue; board; boat; books; boston; bostonian; boys; breakfast; breast; bright; broken; business; canada; canadian; captain; care; carriage; case; cast; cathedral; century; certain; chance; chapel; character; charming; chief; children; church; château; city; clear; cliff; clothes; cold; colonel; colonel ellison; color; colored; comfortable; coming; common; companion; company; convent; cooper; corner; cottages; country; course; cousin; dark; day; days; deal; dear; deck; deep; delay; desire; dick; different; disagreeable; distance; doctor; dog; door; doubt; dreadful; dream; dress; early; easy; effect; ellison; end; english; englishman; eriecreek; europe; eyes; face; fact; fall; family; fanny; far; father; feeling; feet; fell; fellow; figure; fine; foot; forward; french; fresh; friendly; friends; garden; gate; general; gentleman; girl; glad; glance; good; grass; grave; gray; great; greater; green; hair; half; hand; handsome; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hills; historical; history; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; human; husband; idea; indian; interest; jack; jesuit; journey; kind; kitty; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; landscape; large; laugh; laughing; laughter; lawrence; leave; left; letters; life; light; like; link; lips; little; long; look; looking; lorette; loss; love; lovely; lower; making; man; manners; march; market; matter; mean; mere; midst; mill; mind; miss; mistake; moment; montgomery; montreal; morning; morrow; mountain; mrs; narrow; natural; near; need; new; nice; novel; nuns; oil; old; open; outside; overcoat; particular; party; passengers; passing; past; pensive; people; perfect; person; picture; pines; place; plain; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; presence; present; pretty; promenade; putting; quebec; queer; question; quick; rate; reading; ready; reason; red; regions; respect; return; richard; ridiculous; river; road; rock; romance; roofs; room; rose; round; sad; saguenay; sake; save; saw; scene; scenery; self; sense; set; shadow; shore; silence; silent; simple; small; smile; society; sofa; soft; sorry; sort; space; speech; spirit; square; stand; start; state; stay; steamer; steep; stone; strange; street; sudden; summer; sun; sure; tadoussac; talk; taste; tender; things; thinking; thought; time; touch; town; travel; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; upper; village; voice; vulgar; walk; walls; water; way; week; white; wide; wife; wild; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; wooden; words; work; world; worst; years; yesterday; young cache: 18555.txt plain text: 18555.txt item: #7 of 38 id: 19473 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright date: None words: 48415 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: able; account; adventures; afraid; afternoon; annie; astonished; bad; bayard; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; black; blow; boat; bobby; bobby bright; bold; books; bookseller; boston; boy; boys; bridge; bright; bully; business; captain; case; cents; certain; chaise; chapter; children; circumstances; city; clerk; clouds; colonel; coming; companion; company; confidence; continued; copy; country; course; day; days; deal; desire; determined; dinner; dollars; door; doubt; dream; duty; ellen; energy; escape; evening; face; fact; fairy; family; father; fellow; field; fish; fishing; folks; following; forward; friend; future; gentleman; glad; gold; good; great; half; handed; hands; happy; hardhand; head; heart; hearted; help; hero; high; home; hope; hour; house; idea; interest; journey; kate; kind; lady; large; leave; lee; left; library; lie; life; little; live; long; look; lost; ma'am; man; marm; matter; mean; men; merchant; mind; misfortune; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; note; old; paper; past; pay; people; person; place; pleasant; pocket; poems; point; poor; position; pretty; price; profit; purpose; railroad; rate; ray; readers; ready; real; reason; reform; return; rich; riverdale; road; robert; rock; room; round; run; sam; satisfaction; scene; school; sea; short; sir; sleep; small; smart; smile; son; sorry; soul; spicer; squire; stand; state; station; stock; story; strange; street; success; sum; sure; tale; talk; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; timmins; tom; trade; true; trunk; turn; valise; vicinity; village; volume; walk; want; water; way; wayfarer; week; whiting; widow; wife; willing; woods; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 19473.txt plain text: 19473.txt item: #8 of 38 id: 19717 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) date: None words: 80899 flesch: 70 summary: VIII Verena Tarrant got up and went to her father in the middle of the room; Olive Chancellor crossed and resumed her place beside Mrs. Farrinder on the sofa the girl had quitted; and Miss Birdseye's visitors, for the rest, settled themselves attentively in chairs or leaned against the bare sides of the parlour. The daughter of Doctor Tarrant, the mesmeric healer--Miss Verena. keywords: able; account; acquaintance; address; adeline; advantage; affairs; afraid; agreeable; air; american; angry; answer; appearance; attention; attractive; aware; basil; basil ransom; beautiful; belief; best; better; big; birdseye; blood; boston; brilliant; burrage; business; cambridge; care; career; carriage; cause; certain; change; character; charles; charming; child; circle; class; clear; close; cold; comfort; coming; common; companion; company; complete; confidence; conscience; conscious; considerable; conversation; conviction; country; course; cousin; creature; curious; danger; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; deep; degree; delicate; desire; different; dinner; disappointed; doctor; door; doubt; drawing; duty; earnest; easy; effect; effort; eloquence; europe; evening; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; familiar; farrinder; fate; father; fear; feeling; female; feminine; figure; fine; fire; form; fortune; forward; free; fresh; friend; future; general; genius; gentleman; gift; girl; glad; good; gracie; great; greatest; greenstreet; habit; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; healer; heart; help; high; highest; history; hold; home; honour; hope; hostess; hour; house; human; husband; idea; imagination; immense; important; impression; influence; inquiry; instant; intercourse; interest; interesting; interior; intimated; invitation; justice; keeping; kind; knowledge; ladies; lady; lamp; large; later; laugh; law; lead; learned; leave; lecture; left; life; like; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; love; lovely; low; luna; making; man; manner; matter; matthias; mean; mention; mesmeric; mind; minutes; miss; miss birdseye; miss chancellor; miss olive; miss tarrant; miss verena; mississippi; moment; money; months; moral; mother; movement; mrs; music; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; new; newspapers; newton; noble; object; occasion; old; olive; olive chancellor; open; opinion; opportunity; order; pair; pale; pardon; parents; parlour; particular; party; pass; past; peculiar; people; perfect; person; personal; phase; pity; place; pleasure; plenty; point; poor; position; possession; possible; power; prance; present; pretty; private; process; promise; proof; public; pure; purpose; quality; queer; question; quick; quiet; ransom; rate; reader; real; reason; red; reflexion; reform; regard; relations; remarkable; remarks; remembered; response; rich; right; room; round; save; secret; selah; sense; set; sex; sigh; sign; silence; silent; simple; sister; sitting; small; smile; social; society; soft; sort; southern; speaking; speech; spirit; spite; state; straight; strange; street; strong; subject; success; sudden; suffering; sure; sympathy; talk; tarrant; taste; tea; tenderness; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; touch; true; truth; try; turn; vague; verena; verena tarrant; view; vision; visit; visitor; voice; vulgar; waiting; want; way; white; wife; willing; window; winter; wish; women; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worldly; wrong; years; york; young; young lady; young man; youth cache: 19717.txt plain text: 19717.txt item: #9 of 38 id: 19718 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) date: None words: 84914 flesch: 75 summary: We want the last news about Miss Verena, and it has got to come out of this house. The public are almost as much interested in your sister as they are in Miss Verena; they know to what extent she has backed her: and I should be so delighted (I see the heading, from here, so attractive!) keywords: able; absence; account; address; adeline; advance; afraid; afternoon; agreeable; air; answer; appeal; appearance; asking; attempt; attention; attitude; audience; aware; away; bad; basil ransom; bay; beautiful; best; better; big; birdseye; boston; bright; brilliant; burrage; business; cambridge; card; care; carriage; cause; certain; chair; chancellor; charming; circle; city; clear; close; cold; coming; companion; complete; conscious; considerable; conviction; corner; country; course; cousin; creature; crowd; curious; danger; day; days; deal; dear; definite; delightful; desire; determined; different; distance; doctor; door; doubt; duty; easy; effect; effort; europe; evening; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; familiar; father; fear; feeling; feet; figure; filer; fine; free; friend; future; general; gentleman; girl; glad; glance; glass; good; great; greater; half; hall; hand; happy; head; heart; heaven; help; henry; hesitated; high; hold; home; hope; hour; house; idea; immense; importance; impression; influence; information; inquiry; instant; intention; interest; invitation; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; laugh; leave; lecture; left; letters; life; like; lips; little; long; look; love; low; luna; man; manner; marmion; matter; mean; mention; mind; minutes; miss; miss birdseye; miss chancellor; miss olive; miss tarrant; mississippi; moment; monadnoc; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; movement; mrs; music; natural; nature; near; need; nervous; new; night; note; notice; o'clock; occasion; odious; offer; old; olive; olive chancellor; open; opportunity; pardon; park; parlour; particular; party; passing; passion; past; paused; people; person; personal; pity; place; plan; platform; pleasure; plenty; point; policeman; poor; position; possession; possible; power; prance; presence; present; pressed; pretty; private; protest; public; purpose; question; quick; quiet; ransom; rate; read; real; reason; reflexion; regard; remarkable; request; return; road; room; round; sacrifice; saw; scene; second; secret; selah; self; sense; set; sex; sick; sign; silence; simple; single; sister; sitting; situation; small; smile; social; society; sofa; sort; southern; speaking; speech; spirit; spite; splendid; spoke; stand; standing; state; stay; step; straight; strange; street; subject; success; successful; suffering; summer; sure; surprise; sweetness; sympathy; taking; talk; tarrant; tenth; terrible; thing; thinking; thought; time; tone; town; train; tremendous; triumph; true; trust; truth; vague; verena; verena tarrant; view; vision; visit; visitor; voice; waiting; walk; want; water; way; weak; week; white; window; wish; women; wonder; words; work; world; worst; wrong; years; york; young cache: 19718.txt plain text: 19718.txt item: #10 of 38 id: 19736 author: Hope, Laura Lee title: Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's date: None words: 47045 flesch: 98 summary: Where was she? asked Mrs. Bunker, as she saw her lost little girl. Hello, little girls! called Henry, for he was older than any of them. keywords: afraid; airship; alexis; answer; aunt; aunt jo; balloons; basket; bell; better; big; bit; boat; bobbsey; boston; boy; boys; brother; brown; bunker; chapter; children; cook; course; daddy; day; dear; dog; doll; dollars; end; fast; father; find; foot; fountain; fun; funny; girl; glad; good; grandma; guess; hand; hard; head; help; high; hold; hole; home; house; hurt; junkman; kind; kite; laddie; lake; left; like; lily; little; little bunkers; long; look; looking; lost; lots; man; margy; money; mother; mrs; mun; new; nice; north; old; outdoor; paper; parker; peanuts; place; play; playing; pocketbook; policeman; poor; porch; pull; riddle; ride; right; rope; rose; run; russ; sidewalk; sister; skate; stop; street; string; sue; sure; tail; things; time; tom; turn; twins; violet; voice; wagon; water; way; wet; william; woods; yard cache: 19736.txt plain text: 19736.txt item: #11 of 38 id: 20025 author: Stimson, Frederic Jesup title: Pirate Gold date: None words: 42200 flesch: 90 summary: The next morning, old Mr. James Bowdoin got up even earlier than usual, with an undefined sense of pleasure. Then came that day, never to be forgotten by her, of the visit to old Mr. Bowdoin at Nahant. keywords: 12mo; 16mo; 18mo; 8vo; abby; account; acquaintance; afraid; american; answer; bag; bank; bay; bills; black; blue; boat; books; boston; bowdoin; box; boy; breakfast; business; calf; captain; care; cash; cashier; cents; chance; chest; child; children; church; city; clair; class; clerk; close; cold; college; colony; common; company; concern; counting; country; course; court; cousin; crowd; daughter; david; day; days; dear; desk; devil; dinner; directors; dollars; dolly; door; doubt; dowse; early; edition; england; evening; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; felt; fine; firm; flag; foreign; free; friends; gentleman; gilt; girl; gloves; gold; good; grandfather; great; hair; half; hand; hanged; happy; hard; harleston; harleston bowdoin; harley; harley bowdoin; hat; head; heart; high; home; honest; hope; hot; hours; house; hughson; husband; illustrated; illustrations; interest; island; james; james bowdoin; jamie; jamie mcmurtagh; john; judge; june; knowledge; known; lady; late; law; leave; ledger; left; letter; life; like; lips; little; long; look; love; mail; manner; married; massachusetts; master; mcmurtagh; meeting; men; mercedes; mercy; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nature; need; new; night; note; notice; office; old; old clerk; old gentleman; old jamie; old lady; old man; old mr; older; open; orleans; page; paper; people; pieces; pipe; pirate; place; pleasure; pocket; poor; poor jamie; poor old; present; pretty; queer; quick; red; room; sadie; safe; salary; salem; sea; second; sense; set; ship; short; silva; sir; slave; small; soldiers; sons; soto; spanish; spouse; square; stairs; stanchion; state; stop; stories; story; street; summer; sure; taking; tales; teller; theft; thing; thinking; thought; time; tis; town; train; trouble; union; usual; vault; voice; vols; ward; water; way; ways; week; wharf; white; wife; window; women; worcester; work; world; years; york; young; younger cache: 20025.txt plain text: 20025.txt item: #12 of 38 id: 20765 author: Winslow, Anna Green title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 date: None words: 29662 flesch: 79 summary: I guess I shall have but little time for journalising till after thanksgiving. Last evening aunt had a letter from Unkle Pierce, he informs her, that last Lords day morning Mrs Martin was deliver'd of a daughter. keywords: abiah; account; advertisements; afternoon; age; anna; anna green; answer; april; artillery; ask'd; assembly; august; aunt; aunt deming; aunt storer; bacon; bad; beautiful; bed; best; bible; black; book; boston; brother; cap; cap^t; captain; caty; century; chaise; charles; children; church; cold; common; company; compliments; copley; copy; country; cousin; cumberland; curious; date; daughter; day; days; deacon; dear; death; december; deming; diary; din'd; dress; duty; ebenezer; election; elegant; elizabeth; england; english; evening; eyes; fall; family; father; feb; fine; finished; fire; flowers; following; friends; gannett; gazette; general; girl; glad; glover; god; good; governor; great; green; green winslow; gridley; ground; hair; half; hand; handsome; hannah; harry; harvard; hatt; head; health; help; henry; high; hill; holbrook; home; hon^d; honor; hope; house; hunt; inches; inform'd; james; january; john; john winslow; joseph; joshua; josiah; journal; july; june; kind; king; ladies; lady; large; leave; lecture; left; letter; liberty; life; like; little; live; london; long; love; lucinda; m^rs; madam; mamma; man; march; married; marshfield; mary; mason; massachusetts; master; mean; meeting; men; mind; minister; miss; monday; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; n.b; nancy; near; nephew; new; newspapers; night; note; notice; november; o'clock; october; old; old south; ones; p.m.; pages; papa; paper; past; pastor; people; person; piece; place; pleasure; polly; poor; post; pray; present; pretty; rain; red; return; rev; rogers; room; sais; sally; samuel; sarah; school; second; september; sermon; set; sewing; sir; sister; smith; snow; soley; son; south; storer; storm; strange; street; sudbury; suky; sun; tea; text; tho; thomas; thursday; time; today; town; trouble; turner; unkle; usual; vans; visit; viz; walking; warm; water; way; weather; wednesday; week; white; whitwell; wife; william; wind; winslow; winter; word; work; writer; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 20765.txt plain text: 20765.txt item: #13 of 38 id: 22626 author: Sprague, Charles title: An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City date: None words: 3572 flesch: 80 summary: To other days, to other men belong The penman's plaudit and the poet's song; Enough for glory has been wrought, in liberty's unclouded blaze, We lift our heads, a race of other days. keywords: boston; children; city; day; death; earth; eye; fair; faith; fathers; free; god; green; hath; heart; heaven; hour; kindred; land; liberty; life; light; line; man; men; o'er; patriot; pilgrim; place; power; praise; prayer; pride; race; rest; round; savage; september; shore; song; soul; spot; time; tis; tongue; tread; triumph; waves; world cache: 22626.txt plain text: 22626.txt item: #14 of 38 id: 23786 author: Douglas, Amanda M. title: A Little Girl in Old Boston date: None words: 117233 flesch: 90 summary: Then little Doris, six years of age, had spent two years in a convent. And now little Doris was nearing ten. keywords: adams; affair; afraid; afternoon; age; ago; alice; america; answer; arabella; arms; asleep; aspect; attire; aunt; aunt betty; aunt elizabeth; aunt priscilla; autumn; awful; baby; bad; ball; beat; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; bessy; best; better; betty; betty leverett; bible; big; bit; black; bloom; blue; body; book; boston; bow; box; boy; boys; breakfast; breath; bride; bright; british; broken; brother; brown; building; business; busy; cake; camp; captain; care; cary; cat; cato; cats; century; certain; chairs; change; chapman; chapter; charles; charming; cheeks; cheerful; children; chimney; christmas; church; city; class; clear; close; clothes; coat; cold; college; colored; colors; comfort; comfortable; coming; common; companion; company; conscience; corner; country; course; cousin; cry; cup; curious; curls; dainty; dance; dancing; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; decided; deep; delicate; delightful; desire; different; dinner; dollars; door; doris; doris adams; doubt; dozen; dress; duty; eager; early; easy; elderly; electa; elegant; elizabeth; end; enemy; england; english; eudora; evening; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; family; famous; fancy; farm; fashion; fashioned; father; favorite; feeling; feet; fellow; field; figures; fine; fire; floor; flowers; flushed; folks; fond; forehead; foster; france; free; freedom; french; fresh; friends; frock; fruit; fun; garden; gay; general; generous; gentle; gift; girl; glad; glanced; god; going; good; good deal; good time; governor; gown; grand; grandchildren; grandmamma; grandmother; grass; grave; gray; great; greater; green; guests; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; harbor; hard; hartford; hat; hawthorne; head; health; heart; heaven; helen; help; high; hill; history; hollis; home; hope; hour; house; housekeeping; human; husband; idea; interest; interesting; isabel; james; jane; journey; joy; kind; king; kitchen; knit; knitting; know; ladies; lady; large; later; latin; laugh; law; learning; leave; lecty; lessons; letters; leverett; life; like; line; little; little doris; little girl; little thing; live; living; lonesome; long; longer; look; looking; lord; love; lovely; madam; magnificent; making; man; manner; manning; march; marriage; married; martha; mary; master; matters; maur; mean; men; mercy; middle; mind; miss; moment; money; month; morning; morris; morrow; morse; mother; mrs; music; muslin; napoleon; naval; navy; near; neck; need; neighbors; new; news; nice; night; ocean; odd; old; old boston; old house; older; ones; open; outside; pale; paper; parents; parlor; parties; party; past; pay; people; period; perkins; person; picture; piece; pink; place; plain; plans; play; playing; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; point; polly; poor; porch; possible; president; pretty; priscilla; promise; proper; proud; providence; puritan; quality; queer; question; quiet; read; reading; real; recompense; red; regard; relatives; return; revolution; ribbon; rich; room; rose; round; royall; run; ruth; sabbath; salem; sam; saturday; save; saw; school; sea; second; sense; sensible; set; sewing; share; ship; shoulder; sides; sigh; sign; silk; simple; sister; sixteen; sleepy; sleeves; sleigh; slim; small; smile; snow; social; society; soft; solomon; son; songs; sorry; sort; soul; splendid; spoiled; spring; square; stand; standing; state; stay; step; stockings; stool; stories; story; stout; straight; strange; street; strong; struggle; study; stuff; sudbury; suit; summer; sums; sunday; supper; sure; surprise; sweet; sweetness; table; talk; talking; tall; tea; tender; thick; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; tone; touch; town; train; training; trees; trouble; true; uncle; uncle leverett; uncle win; uncle winthrop; united; useful; verses; vessel; visit; visitor; voice; wait; walk; want; warm; warmth; warren; washington; watch; way; ways; wear; weather; webb; wedding; week; welcome; white; wide; wife; wild; window; winslow; winter; winthrop; winthrop adams; wise; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; woolen; words; work; world; worth; writing; wrong; years; yesterday; york; young; young people; younger; youth cache: 23786.txt plain text: 23786.txt item: #15 of 38 id: 27732 author: Thompson, George title: City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston date: None words: 114194 flesch: 70 summary: True, I have no animosity against you, young man; but our Captain has, and were I to let you go, life would not be worth a minute's purchase. 'But what assurance have I that you will keep the appointment?' demanded Sydney; 'how do I know that this is not a mere subterfuge to escape me?' 'Young man, you do not know me,' rejoined Radcliff, and his breast swelled proudly. keywords: abode; accomplished; account; admiration; advanced; advantage; affair; african; afternoon; agony; alarm; amorous; answer; apartment; appalling; appearance; archer; arms; assistance; assumed; astonishment; attempt; attention; awful; bade; ball; bar; beautiful; beauty; bed; belief; bell; belmont; best; black; blind; blood; blow; body; bold; book; bosom; boston; bottle; box; boy; brain; breast; bride; brief; brilliant; broadway; brother; building; burglar; business; captain; care; career; carpet; case; cellar; certain; chamber; chapter; character; charge; charming; charms; cheeks; child; children; christian; church; circumstances; city; clinton; cloak; close; clothes; cold; common; companion; company; condition; conduct; confess; considerable; contents; continued; conversation; convinced; corner; corpse; costume; countenance; course; creature; crib; crime; criminal; cry; curses; cut; d----d; d----n; 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spirit; splendid; spot; spring; stairs; standing; state; steps; stevens; story; stranger; street; strength; style; subject; success; sudden; sufficient; superb; surprise; susan; suspected; sydney; table; tall; taste; terrible; terror; thee; thief; think; thought; thro; throat; thy; time; tomb; tone; torture; triumph; true; truth; turning; ugly; unfortunate; unnatural; usual; uttered; vain; vast; vaults; vengeance; victim; vile; villain; virtue; visit; voice; voluptuous; walk; walls; want; warm; watch; watchman; water; way; weak; wealth; white; wife; wild; window; wine; wish; wishes; witness; woman; words; work; world; worthy; wretch; wretched; years; york; young; young lady; young man; youth cache: 27732.txt plain text: 27732.txt item: #16 of 38 id: 28267 author: Thompson, George title: Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life date: None words: 58614 flesch: 65 summary: And who was this queer little old man, so shabby and threadbare--so full of strange oaths,--so odd in his manner, so kind in his heart--calling himself Corporal Grimsby--who had come forward at that opportune moment to supply a starving family with food? It is needless for us to repeat all the singular oaths with which the eccentric, good old man expressed his honest indignation, when he received the alarming intelligence; suffice it to say, he swore by the nose of Napoleon, and by his own whiskers, (an oath which he used only on very solemn occasions,) never to rest until he had discovered Fanny, his darling _protege_, and severely punished her rascally kidnapper. keywords: accomplished; admiration; advanced; advantage; affair; afternoon; age; alice; amorous; answer; apartment; appearance; ardent; arms; astonishment; attire; aubrey; awful; basket; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; better; birth; black; blind; blood; body; bosom; boston; breast; brilliant; brother; business; cab; captain; care; carpet; case; cask; cast; cellar; ceremony; certain; chamber; chapter; character; charming; charms; cheek; cheque; chevalier; child; circumstances; city; clair; close; clothes; cold; company; comrades; conduct; consequence; continued; conversation; corporal; corpse; couch; countenance; course; cousin; creature; crime; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; decent; deep; degree; delicate; delight; delightful; departure; desire; desperate; devil; difficulty; disposed; dollars; door; doubt; dress; dressed; duchess; duvall; earth; elegant; escape; evening; excellent; existence; expression; exquisite; eyes; face; fact; fair; familiar; family; fanny; fashionable; fate; father; favors; fear; features; feelings; feet; fellow; female; fierce; fine; fire; fit; floor; following; food; force; form; fortune; friend; fruit; furnished; garments; gaze; gentleman; girl; god; goldworthy; good; grace; grandfather; grasp; gratification; great; grimsby; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hawley; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; hideous; holy; home; honor; honorable; hope; hour; house; human; humble; husband; infernal; innocence; intense; interest; jew; jew mike; jolly; joys; key; kind; kiss; ladies; lady; ladyship; lagrange; language; large; late; laugh; law; leave; left; length; libertine; life; like; lips; little; little old; long; longer; look; looking; lordship; loss; lost; love; lovely; luxurious; madam; magnificent; making; man; manner; mansion; marriage; master; matilda; means; midnight; mike; mind; minutes; miss; mistress; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; murder; music; mystery; nance; narrative; nature; nay; neck; need; negro; night; noble; noise; object; old; old gentleman; old man; old tickels; open; opinion; opportunity; package; pair; pale; pardon; passions; peculiar; pen; person; personal; pig; pistol; place; plan; play; pleasure; pocket; poor; position; possible; poverty; power; powerful; presence; present; pretty; promise; proud; public; pure; purpose; rage; rank; reader; reason; red; reply; respectable; return; reward; rich; room; ruffian; ruin; safety; satisfaction; scene; scorn; scoundrel; scream; search; secret; servant; set; short; shoulders; silence; simpson; single; singular; sir; sister; small; smile; society; sofa; soft; soul; south; sow; splendid; stairs; state; story; strange; street; style; sum; superb; sure; sweet; table; taste; tears; thee; thieves; thought; tickels; time; timothy; tis; tone; trap; triumph; true; truth; vain; valet; vengeance; venus; victim; view; villain; visit; voice; voluptuous; way; week; white; wine; wishes; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wretch; yer; young; young lady cache: 28267.txt plain text: 28267.txt item: #17 of 38 id: 29199 author: French, Allen title: The Siege of Boston date: None words: 75726 flesch: 71 summary: And finally it was suspected that many men who had given in their names had no intention of serving. The division to which I was assigned, commanded by Col. Whitcomb, was ordered onto the northerly hill, where in one hour's time we had a fort enclosed, with fascines placed in shandelears; and we immediately employed as many men at intrenching as could be advantageously used for that purpose. keywords: 19th; able; account; act; action; acts; adams; affairs; agreement; alarm; americans; andrews; answer; april; arms; army; artillery; assault; assembly; assistance; attack; attempt; bancroft; barker; barracks; batteries; battle; bay; beginning; bernard; best; better; bill; boats; body; boston; britain; british; bunker; burgoyne; business; cambridge; camp; cannon; captain; castle; cause; certain; chance; chapter; character; charlestown; chief; church; clark; class; close; colonel; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; coming; command; commander; committee; common; companies; company; complete; concord; conditions; conduct; congress; connecticut; consignees; continent; convention; correspondence; council; country; courage; course; crown; customs; danger; day; days; death; december; decided; defence; delay; delegates; desire; detachment; determined; different; difficulties; dorchester; doubtless; duty; early; east; effect; end; enemy; england; english; evacuation; events; expedition; eyes; face; fact; fall; family; fate; feeling; fence; field; fire; fleet; following; food; footnotes; force; form; fort; fortifications; franklin; free; freedom; french; fresh; friends; frothingham; fuel; future; gage; general; george; god; good; government; governor; great; greater; ground; guard; guns; half; hancock; hand; harbor; hard; hay; head; heavy; heights; high; hill; history; home; hope; hour; house; howe; hutchinson; idea; iii; illustration; important; independence; indignation; information; inhabitants; interesting; island; james; january; john; june; kind; king; lack; large; later; law; laws; leach; leaders; learned; leave; left; legal; letters; lexington; liberty; lieutenant; life; lines; little; long; longer; lord; lower; loyalists; main; major; man; manner; march; massachusetts; massacre; matter; means; measures; meeting; members; memorial; men; miles; military; militia; mind; ministry; minute; moment; money; months; morning; narrative; natural; near; necessary; neck; need; neighboring; new; new england; newell; news; night; north; number; o'clock; occasion; october; officers; officials; old; oliver; open; opinion; opportunity; order; organization; parliament; party; passage; pay; people; percy; period; person; personal; philadelphia; place; plan; plenty; point; political; poor; position; possible; post; pounds; powder; preparations; prepared; prescott; presence; present; prisoners; private; prominent; property; protection; province; provincials; provisions; public; purpose; putnam; quarters; question; rail; ready; real; reason; rebels; records; redoubt; regiments; regulars; reinforcements; relief; result; retreat; return; revenue; revere; revolution; rights; river; road; roxbury; safety; said; salem; samuel; satisfaction; satisfied; second; secure; selectmen; self; september; series; service; ships; shot; sides; siege; situation; small; smith; soldiers; south; speech; spirit; spite; stamp; stand; state; step; stock; stores; street; strength; striking; strong; struggle; success; sufficient; supplies; supply; support; sure; system; taking; task; tax; taxation; tea; terms; thomas; thought; time; tories; town; trade; troops; trouble; true; unable; united; vain; vessels; violence; volunteer; wait; want; war; ward; warren; washington; watch; way; weeks; whigs; wife; william; winter; word; work; wounded; writings; yankee; years; york cache: 29199.txt plain text: 29199.txt item: #18 of 38 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: accustomed; active; activity; actual; affairs; affection; age; aged; agony; air; altogether; ancient; angel; anguish; appearance; arms; arthur; asleep; aspect; authority; awe; awful; babe; baby; beautiful; beauty; bed; beheld; bellingham; best; betwixt; bird; bitter; black; blood; bodily; body; books; bosom; boston; breast; breath; brief; bright; broken; brook; brow; burden; business; calm; capable; care; case; cast; certain; chair; chamber; change; chapter; character; cheek; child; childish; children; chillingworth; choice; church; circle; claim; clergyman; close; cold; comfort; common; companion; conscience; conscious; cottage; country; course; crime; crowd; custom; daily; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; didst; dignity; dimmesdale; disease; distance; divine; doom; door; dost; doubt; dream; dreary; dress; duty; early; earnest; earth; earthly; edifice; effect; effort; election; embroidered; enemy; energy; england; english; epoch; events; evil; existence; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fallen; false; familiar; fancied; fancy; fate; father; fear; features; feeling; feet; fellow; field; figure; finger; fire; fit; floor; flowers; footsteps; force; forest; form; forth; forward; frame; free; friend; garb; garments; gaze; general; gentlemen; gesture; glance; gleam; gloom; glow; god; godly; gold; golden; good; governor; gown; grasp; grave; gray; great; grey; ground; guilty; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hast; hath; having; hawthorne; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; hester; hester prynne; hibbins; hidden; high; history; hither; hitherto; hold; holy; home; hope; horror; hour; house; human; idea; ignominy; image; imagination; impulse; indian; individual; inevitable; infamy; infant; influence; instant; intellectual; intelligence; intense; interest; interview; iron; joy; judge; judgment; kind; knowledge; known; lady; lamp; large; late; law; lay; learned; leave; left; length; letter; life; light; like; lips; little; little pearl; live; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; lost; love; magistrates; main; man; mankind; manner; market; materials; matter; means; measure; medium; meeting; melancholy; men; mercy; mind; minister; mirror; miserable; misery; mistress; mode; moment; mood; moral; morning; mother; multitude; murmur; music; mystery; native; natural; nature; nay; near; needs; new; object; observation; occasion; office; official; old; old man; old roger; ones; open; order; outward; pain; pale; passing; passion; past; pastor; pathway; patient; pearl; peculiar; people; perchance; perfect; period; person; personage; physical; physician; picture; pious; place; platform; play; pleasure; point; poor; portion; position; power; presence; present; principle; prison; procession; professional; providence; public; pure; puritan; purport; purpose; quality; question; quiet; race; rank; reader; real; reason; red; regard; relation; remarkable; remembered; respect; result; reverence; reverend; rich; rigid; roger; room; rose; ruin; sacred; sad; salem; satan; saw; scaffold; scarlet; scarlet letter; scene; scholar; sea; secret; self; sense; sensibility; sensitive; sentence; sentiment; sermon; set; settlement; shadow; shame; ship; short; sick; silence; sin; sinful; singular; sir; skill; sky; small; smile; social; society; soil; solemn; sombre; sorrow; soul; space; speech; sphere; spirit; spiritual; spot; standing; startled; state; step; stern; story; strange; street; strength; strong; study; substance; sunshine; surveyor; sword; symbol; sympathy; system; tales; talk; task; taste; tenderness; terrible; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; time; toil; token; torture; touch; town; track; trees; tremulous; trouble; true; truth; upward; vain; variety; venerable; verge; victim; view; voice; volume; walk; warm; way; wearer; white; wide; wild; wilderness; wilson; wilt; window; wise; witch; woman; won; wooden; words; work; world; worn; worthy; wretched; wrong; wrought; years; yonder; young; youth cache: 33.txt plain text: 33.txt item: #19 of 38 id: 34944 author: Reed, Helen Leah title: Brenda, Her School and Her Club date: None words: 81331 flesch: 82 summary: VI MISUNDERSTANDINGS Little by little Julia accustomed herself to the routine of school. THE SHILOH PICNIC LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE CHILD HIMSELF, SURROUNDED BY A GROUP OF CURIOUS GIRLS, CLUNG TO NORA'S HAND 'OH, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, GIRLS,--LET US WORK FOR--MANUEL!' SHE WAS ABLE TO RUSH ON AND PICK THEM UP AS THEY WERE DASHED AGAINST A LAMP-POST NOW AS JULIA SAT THERE DRINKING TEA FROM THE QUAINTEST OF OLD-FASHIONED CHINA CUPS 'WHY, BRENDA BARLOW, WHY ARE YOU LYING IN THIS DOWNCAST POSITION?' BRENDA, HER SCHOOL AND HER CLUB I FOUR FRIENDS What do suppose she'll be like? How can I tell? Well, Brenda Barlow, I should think you'd have _some_ idea--your own cousin. keywords: account; acquaintance; affairs; afraid; afternoon; age; agnes; angelina; answer; anxious; arm; attention; aunt; bad; ball; barlow; bazaar; beautiful; beginning; belle; best; better; black; blair; books; boston; boys; brenda; brenda barlow; brother; brown; busy; bye; cambridge; care; carriage; case; certain; change; children; christmas; church; city; class; classes; clear; clothes; club; college; comfortable; coming; conversation; corner; country; course; cousin; crawdon; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; decided; desk; different; dining; dinner; direction; dog; dollars; door; dozen; dress; duty; early; edith; efforts; english; evening; excitement; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; fancy; father; feeling; fellows; fidessa; field; fine; finished; fire; floor; flowers; fond; foolish; form; frances; friends; fun; game; general; girls; glad; glance; good; gostar; grandmother; great; greek; group; habit; hair; half; hand; hardly; hardon; harvard; hat; having; head; help; history; holmes; home; hour; house; hurt; idea; ill; inclined; inside; interest; interesting; jane; julia; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; late; launy; left; lessons; life; like; likely; little; lives; living; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; madame; maid; mamma; manuel; matter; mean; meeting; mind; minutes; miss; miss crawdon; mme; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; narrow; near; need; new; nice; nonsense; nora; number; o'clock; object; old; older; open; papa; paper; particular; party; past; people; person; philip; picture; piece; place; plan; play; pleasant; pleased; poet; point; polite; poor; possible; pounder; practical; present; pretty; princeton; proper; queer; question; ready; reason; recess; reply; return; right; roberts; room; rosa; run; ruth; sale; school; second; set; shall; sharp; short; sister; smile; sorry; south; special; spite; spring; square; standing; stay; steps; story; strange; street; strong; studies; study; studying; subject; sunday; sure; surprise; table; talk; teacher; things; thinking; thought; time; time brenda; tired; tone; town; trouble; true; turn; uncle; view; visit; voice; walk; want; water; way; week; white; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; word; work; worth; wrong; years; york; young; younger cache: 34944.txt plain text: 34944.txt item: #20 of 38 id: 35337 author: Reed, Helen Leah title: Miss Theodora: A West End Story date: None words: 36649 flesch: 78 summary: Little by little Miss Theodora withdrew from the world. To Ernest Kate spoke even more frankly than to his aunt. keywords: account; affair; afternoon; age; american; answer; arm; aunt; bay; beacon; ben; best; better; black; books; boston; boy; boys; brown; bruce; business; cambridge; care; career; case; certain; change; chatterwits; children; city; clothes; college; colored; conversation; corner; course; cousin; curious; cut; dark; daughter; day; days; death; diantha; different; digby; disturbed; door; dress; duty; early; easton; end; engagement; ernest; eugenie; europe; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feeling; fetchum; find; fire; fortune; friends; future; garden; general; girl; glad; good; gown; grandfather; gray; great; green; guess; half; hand; handsome; happy; harvard; head; heart; help; high; hill; home; house; ice; illustration; interest; john; kate; kind; knowledge; kurtz; ladies; lady; large; later; law; lawyer; left; length; life; like; likely; line; little; living; locket; long; longer; look; looking; love; man; manner; married; matter; mean; men; mention; mind; miss chatterwits; miss theodora; modern; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; narrow; need; neighborhood; neighbors; new; offer; old; older; open; outside; paper; past; people; person; picture; place; plans; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poor; position; possible; present; pretty; pride; principal; profession; public; queer; ralph; read; real; relatives; reply; richard; right; river; room; run; school; self; sewing; share; shop; short; silver; sister; sitting; skates; small; social; society; somerset; story; street; stuart; studies; study; summer; sure; table; talk; teddy; tell; things; thinking; thought; time; true; unlike; view; walk; way; ways; west; white; wife; william; window; winter; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young; younger; youth cache: 35337.txt plain text: 35337.txt item: #21 of 38 id: 36133 author: Reed, Helen Leah title: Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' date: None words: 83455 flesch: 84 summary: But perhaps she has only gone for a walk-- Oh, no, Miss Martine. For doing this she would have justified herself (had she thought she needed justification) by saying that no one had ever forbidden her to have company--and anyway, Miss Martine would never object. keywords: account; affair; afraid; afternoon; age; air; amy; angelina; anxious; apartment; arm; arthur; aunt; bad; balfour; best; better; big; black; blair; blue; boat; book; boston; box; boys; brenda; brother; brownville; building; burglar; business; busy; bye; cambridge; carlotta; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; cheerful; chicago; child; children; christmas; church; city; clare; class; club; college; conductor; continued; conversation; cook; corner; cottage; country; course; cousin; crawdon; crowd; danforth; dare; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; delighted; delightful; different; dining; dinner; direction; door; early; efforts; elinor; england; english; envelope; essay; ethridge; eunice; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feeling; fine; finished; fire; flowers; fond; foolish; fourth; friends; fritz; fun; furniture; gamut; garden; george; girls; glad; good; gown; great; guest; half; hall; hand; happy; harbor; hard; harvard; hat; head; heart; help; herbert; high; hill; history; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; hurry; idea; information; ink; interest; interesting; invitation; john; journey; kate; kind; kitchen; knoll; known; lady; large; later; laugh; left; lessons; letters; life; like; likely; little; living; long; longer; look; love; lucian; lucy; luncheon; maggie; mamma; man; manner; mansion; marcus; martine; martine stratford; mary; matter; mean; memorial; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nabby; naylor; near; need; new; news; number; occupied; old; older; open; opinion; outside; papa; paper; particular; party; pass; past; peggy; people; person; photographs; pictures; place; plan; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plymouth; point; poor; portsmouth; present; pretty; pringle; priscilla; prissie; prize; protested; proud; queer; question; quiet; reach; ready; real; recital; red; redmond; regular; reply; return; right; river; road; robert; rock; room; rose; saturday; scarf; school; season; seats; second; set; shoals; short; sister; small; smile; sorry; south; special; spite; spot; spread; spring; stay; stop; stories; story; strange; stratford; street; study; subject; summer; sure; surprised; table; taking; talk; tea; tears; thank; things; thinking; thought; tickets; tilworth; time; tired; tone; town; trees; trip; trouble; true; trunk; turn; view; visit; voice; wait; waiting; walk; want; ward; watch; way; week; weston; white; winter; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; wrong; year; york; young; younger; yvonne cache: 36133.txt plain text: 36133.txt item: #22 of 38 id: 36196 author: Poor, Agnes Blake title: Boston Neighbours In Town and Out date: None words: 76899 flesch: 80 summary: A hundred tales were told of them: as, how when Mrs. Wilson first came home from abroad, where she had lived long after her husband's death there, she brought her boys to Sunday-school, with the audible request to the superintendent that as they were such good little children, they might, if possible, be placed among those of similar, if not equal, qualities; thereby provoking the whole school for the next month to a riotous behaviour which poor Mr. Milliken found it difficult to subdue. Oh, that is old Mrs. Morton, who comes to our church, don't you know? keywords: able; account; accustomed; acquaintance; ada; admired; affairs; afraid; afternoon; air; allston; american; answer; anxious; apt; arend; arm; attention; aunt; bad; beautiful; beauty; bed; beecher; bessie; best; better; big; black; blake; blanche; bob; book; boston; bow; box; boys; brother; business; caldwell; carey; caroline; carter; case; chance; character; charming; cheeks; children; church; class; clever; close; clothes; club; cold; college; colonel; colour; common; condition; country; courage; course; cousin; crowd; cut; dana; dance; dancing; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; delicate; delightful; devoted; different; dinner; doctor; door; doubt; drawing; dreadful; dress; dressed; eager; early; easy; effect; effort; eleanor; emmeline; engaged; engagement; eugene; evening; excitement; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; family; father; fear; feeling; fellow; figure; fine; fire; floor; flowers; fond; fool; foolish; foster; freeman; fresh; friends; frightened; future; garden; general; gentleman; german; girl; giving; glad; good; gown; grace; gratitude; great; green; greenway; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hayward; head; hearing; heart; help; henry; high; home; hope; hot; hour; house; hurried; hurry; husband; idea; illustration; interest; interesting; intimate; jack; johnson; julia; katie; kind; knowing; ladies; lady; large; late; latham; law; leave; left; life; like; likely; lily; little; long; look; looking; loulie; loulou; love; lovely; lucy; lunch; mabel; maid; making; mamma; man; manner; margaret; marian; marriage; married; marrying; match; matter; mean; men; mere; mind; minnie; miss; moment; money; morgan; morning; morton; mother; mrs; muriel; music; near; need; new; nice; note; novel; number; occasion; old; older; ones; open; original; pale; paper; pardon; parke; particular; parties; partner; party; past; paused; people; person; pickens; pink; pity; place; plain; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; point; ponsonby; poor; position; possible; post; power; present; prettiest; pretty; pride; proper; public; quick; quiet; ralph; ready; real; reason; red; reed; relief; rich; right; roger; room; rose; round; satisfied; school; second; self; sense; set; shame; short; silent; silk; single; sister; sitting; small; smile; smith; snow; social; society; sorry; south; stay; step; stop; story; street; strong; study; style; subject; sudden; suit; summer; sure; surprise; susan; sweet; talbot; talk; tall; taste; tea; thank; thick; things; thinking; thorne; thought; time; tired; tolstoi; tone; town; train; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; underwood; usual; van; voice; voorst; walk; wall; walter; want; warm; way; ways; wedding; white; wife; williams; willie; willing; wilson; winter; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; writing; years; york; young; younger cache: 36196.txt plain text: 36196.txt item: #23 of 38 id: 37335 author: Reed, Helen Leah title: Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls date: None words: 65476 flesch: 80 summary: Miss Brenda asked Miss South to send me up to her house to get that parcel of embroidery patterns; she could have sent it down by her man just as well, concluded Concetta, with an important air; or she could have asked you to come. From your loving Tim. What would her aunt say, what would Miss Brenda say, if they knew that at intervals she received these misspelled letters from a jail-bird. keywords: 12mo; absence; account; advice; afraid; afternoon; agnes; amy; angelina; anstiss; answer; anxious; arthur; aunt; barlow; beautiful; belle; best; bit; blair; blue; book; boston; box; boys; brenda; bright; broken; brother; business; busy; care; case; certain; chair; chance; cheerful; child; children; city; clarissa; clasp; closet; club; college; color; company; concetta; continued; conversation; corner; costume; country; course; cousin; cuba; day; days; dear; decided; devoted; different; dinner; dollars; dolls; door; doubt; dreen; dress; duties; duty; earlier; early; edith; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; fashion; father; festival; fighting; fine; fingers; floor; fond; friends; garden; girls; glad; glass; going; gone; good; great; greatest; gretchen; group; guests; gymnasium; haleema; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; help; home; hope; hospital; hour; house; idea; illustrated; important; inclined; inez; interest; interesting; italian; john; julia; kind; kitchen; lady; lamps; large; later; laugh; launy; law; league; left; letter; lettice; library; life; like; likely; list; little; little girl; lois; long; look; looking; lost; love; luisa; maggie; making; mansion; matter; mcsorley; mean; members; mind; miss; miss south; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; near; need; nellie; new; nora; notice; number; offer; officers; old; older; open; outside; pamela; paper; particular; party; past; pay; people; perfect; person; personal; philip; phoebe; pictures; pieces; place; plain; plans; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; polly; poor; possible; praise; presence; present; pretty; prize; prospect; pupils; purse; question; radcliffe; ralph; reading; ready; real; reason; red; regular; relatives; reply; report; return; rockley; room; ruth; school; scrap; second; sense; set; short; showing; sick; sight; silver; sister; small; smile; south; spanish; special; spite; spring; staff; state; stay; steps; story; strange; street; studio; study; subject; summer; sure; surprise; table; talk; tea; tears; tell; telling; things; thinking; thought; time; tom; tone; town; train; trouble; true; trunk; trying; uncle; upstairs; useful; vase; visit; voice; waiting; wall; war; washington; watch; way; wedding; week; weston; white; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; year; young; younger cache: 37335.txt plain text: 37335.txt item: #24 of 38 id: 37981 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: May Flowers date: None words: 12894 flesch: 81 summary: It was all new and charming to us young ones, but poor old Joe had a hard time, and was very ill. I shall probably have a class of dirty little girls, and teach them how to sew, as I can't do anything else. keywords: able; almiry; anna; best; better; bit; black; blue; books; boys; care; charity; children; chore; club; cook; cotton; day; deal; dear; discouraged; ella; eyes; face; fancy; flowers; folks; friends; fun; girls; glad; good; great; grover; hands; happy; hard; hat; head; help; home; hope; house; ida; interesting; joe; kind; lady; laugh; left; life; little; lives; lizzie; long; look; lotty; love; lovely; maggie; mamma; maria; marion; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; music; new; nice; old; papa; papers; people; place; pleased; poor; pretty; proud; right; room; round; sad; shop; small; story; street; sure; sweet; things; thought; time; true; voice; want; way; winter; woman; work; year; young cache: 37981.txt plain text: 37981.txt item: #25 of 38 id: 38417 author: Wheildon, William W. (William Willder) title: Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 date: None words: 34730 flesch: 68 summary: There was added, All servile labor is forbidden on said day, and the bar against recreations is omitted; but all persons are called upon to preserve order. The three first that were baptized in Boston church were Joy, Recompence and Pity. keywords: 17th; account; addition; advice; age; alley; america; ann; april; arms; arrival; assistants; authority; bay; beacon; bear; bee; boats; body; book; boston; bridge; british; building; cambridge; cape; capt; case; certain; character; charlestown; chief; children; christian; church; churches; city; colony; command; common; company; corn; corner; cornfields; council; country; course; court; cove; creek; curious; cut; date; day; days; death; determined; dinner; dock; dorchester; doubt; draper; early; earthquake; east; ebenezer; edward; end; endicott; england; english; expedition; fact; fast; feet; ferry; field; fine; fire; fish; following; foot; fort; french; friends; gage; gate; general; god; good; government; governor; granary; grant; great; green; half; harbor; hath; head; heaven; help; hill; history; house; hung; hutchinson; indians; island; issue; john; july; june; king; known; lane; large; laws; lay; letter; leverett; liberty; life; like; likely; line; list; little; local; london; long; lord; majesty; man; manner; march; market; marriage; massachusetts; matter; means; meeting; miantonomo; mill; money; month; names; narragansetts; narrow; nature; neck; new; news; newspaper; noddle; north; nov; november; number; occurrences; october; officers; old; open; order; original; paper; party; passage; pay; peag; peculiar; pence; peninsula; penny; people; period; persons; piece; place; plymouth; point; pond; post; pounds; power; present; printing; prison; proclamation; proper; property; province; provisions; public; punishment; puritans; purpose; quakers; records; religion; remarkable; revolutionary; richard; right; river; roxbury; sachem; said; salem; samuel; sea; season; second; sept; september; settlement; settlers; sheet; shillings; shirley; single; small; sort; south; sovereign; spirit; square; state; stone; strange; street; strong; subjects; sure; taverns; thanksgiving; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; troops; true; union; war; water; way; west; wheildon; william; winnisimmet; winter; winthrop; women; work; world; years cache: 38417.txt plain text: 38417.txt item: #26 of 38 id: 38490 author: Kingsley, Florence Morse title: And So They Were Married date: None words: 25954 flesch: 82 summary: On the following day Elizabeth North encountered Miss Tripp on the street. As to the motives which upheld her in her altruistic efforts in behalf of Elizabeth North Miss Tripp was not entirely clear. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; and----; annita; apartment; arms; bed; bessie; best; better; betty; bills; bit; black; blue; boston; brewster; bride; brown; care; carroll; chair; chapter; child; clear; cold; colour; conversation; country; course; daddy; dark; darling; daughter; day; dear; dear mrs; dinner; doctor; dollars; door; dozen; dress; dresses; duser; elizabeth; elliot; engineer; evelyn; evening; eyes; face; fact; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; father; figure; find; firm; friends; general; girl; glad; good; gown; grandma; guess; half; hand; happiness; happy; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; hum; husband; idea; innisfield; kitchen; lady; large; late; leave; life; lips; little; lizzie; long; look; lovely; lunch; maid; man; marie; married; matter; mcmurtry; mean; mind; minute; miss; miss tripp; moment; money; month; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; need; new; nice; north; office; old; particular; parties; pay; people; perfect; person; pink; place; poor; present; pretty; pryse; question; relation; richard; right; room; roses; round; sam; samuel; set; shoulders; small; smile; smiling; sort; sure; sweet; table; talk; tall; telephone; things; thought; time; tired; tone; tripp; van; van duser; voice; way; wedding; white; wife; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worn; worried; years; young cache: 38490.txt plain text: 38490.txt item: #27 of 38 id: 38889 author: Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) title: Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors date: None words: 41021 flesch: 60 summary: Along the hill-side are the famous Acacia path of Mrs. Hawthorne and other walks planned by the novelist, some of them having been opened by him in the last summer of his life. The interior was cosy and more commodious than the exterior would indicate, and one could readily conceive that the artistic taste and deft fingers of Mrs. Hawthorne might create here the idyllic home her letters portray. keywords: abode; agassiz; alcott; aldrich; american; ample; ancient; antique; apartment; associations; auburn; author; autumn; away; bard; battle; beautiful; beauty; beloved; berkshire; best; birthplace; blue; books; boston; boughs; boy; brand; bridge; bright; brilliant; british; bronson; brook; brother; brown; bryant; cambridge; celebrated; cemetery; chair; chamber; changed; channing; charles; charming; children; chimney; church; circle; city; clarke; close; club; common; community; company; concord; corner; cottage; country; culture; curtis; custom; daily; dana; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; delightful; desk; distant; dolliver; door; dwelling; early; earth; edifice; elizabeth; ellery; elms; elmwood; emerson; entrance; environment; evening; exquisite; eyes; face; fame; familiar; family; famous; fanny; farm; farther; fashioned; favorite; feet; felton; fields; fireplace; floor; flowers; foliage; foot; forest; frequent; friends; fuller; gables; garden; genius; gentle; george; giant; gifted; glimpses; god; golden; good; grass; grave; graylock; great; green; grounds; guests; guiney; hale; half; hall; hand; haunts; hawthorne; head; heart; heavy; henry; hermit; highway; hill; hilliard; historian; historic; hoar; holmes; home; hoosac; hours; house; howells; illustrious; inn; intellectual; interior; james; john; kemble; knoll; known; lake; landlord; large; later; lathrop; lay; left; letters; library; lies; life; like; literary; little; lofty; long; longer; longfellow; look; louisa; lovely; lowell; main; man; manse; mansion; marble; margaret; meadow; melville; men; middle; miles; miss; modern; modest; months; monument; morning; mosses; mother; mountain; mrs; narrow; natural; nature; near; neighborhood; neighbors; new; night; north; norton; novelist; number; oak; objects; old; old home; old house; opposite; orchard; pages; parker; parkman; parlor; parsons; path; peabody; people; period; philosopher; picturesque; pierce; pilgrim; pilgrimage; pines; pittsfield; place; plain; pleasant; pleasing; pleasure; poems; poet; poetry; poor; precious; present; preserved; pretty; professor; quaint; reach; readers; recent; red; region; relics; residence; resort; retreat; ripley; river; road; robert; rock; rods; romance; roofs; room; rose; sage; salem; sanborn; scarlet; scenes; school; sea; seclusion; sedgwick; septimius; set; shaded; shore; shrines; sidenote; simple; sister; site; sitting; slope; small; social; sojourn; sophia; spacious; spirits; spot; square; standing; stands; stone; stories; story; stream; street; structure; study; summer; summit; sunshine; sweet; tales; talk; tall; tanglewood; tappan; tavern; theodore; thoreau; thought; time; title; town; transcendental; treasures; trees; turf; upper; valley; verse; view; village; vision; visitors; volume; walden; walk; walls; ward; washington; way; wayside; webster; week; whipple; white; whitman; whittier; wide; widow; wife; wild; william; windows; women; wonder; wood; wooded; work; world; worn; writer; years; young cache: 38889.txt plain text: 38889.txt item: #28 of 38 id: 41524 author: Comins, Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) title: Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls date: None words: 76128 flesch: 78 summary: Here's a card: 'Miss Marion Berkley, with the compliments of her totally depraved father.' Dr. Drayton smiled, as he said, And you are Miss Marion Berkley, I presume? Yes, replied Marion, offering him a chair, and seating herself at the same time. keywords: account; admiration; afraid; afternoon; answer; appearance; arms; arthur; ashamed; astonishment; attention; aunt; auntie; bad; bag; beautiful; beauty; bed; benson; bent; best; better; bettie; bit; black; blue; book; boston; box; bridge; bright; broken; brown; béranger; calm; care; case; certain; champagne; chapter; cheeks; child; christine; church; city; clear; close; cold; companions; conduct; conversation; country; course; darling; daughter; day; days; dear; delighted; determined; dignity; dobbs; doctor; door; doubt; downstairs; drayton; dress; early; effect; evening; excellent; excited; expression; eyes; face; fact; father; fear; feelings; feet; fellow; finding; floor; florence; fond; foot; fred; french; friend; frightened; fun; future; general; gentleman; georgie; german; girls; glad; glance; glass; god; good; grace; graham; great; habit; hair; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; head; heart; help; high; hold; home; hope; hour; house; hurry; idea; ill; interest; jabe; jemima; jest; julia; keeping; kind; kiss; known; ladies; lady; large; late; laugh; left; letters; library; life; like; likely; lips; little; long; look; looking; lovely; mab; mamma; manner; marion; marion berkley; matter; mattie; mean; mind; minton; miss; miss christine; miss stiefbach; moment; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; music; musicale; nature; near; need; new; news; nice; night; notice; o marion; old; older; open; opportunity; papa; parlor; particular; party; past; perfect; person; piece; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; poor; possible; presence; present; pretty; promise; pupils; question; quick; quiet; rachel; ready; real; reason; regular; remark; reply; rest; road; robert; room; rose; round; sake; sallie; sarah; satisfaction; saying; scholars; school; seat; secret; self; sense; set; severe; sick; silence; sister; smile; snow; society; sorry; sort; standing; stein; stevenson; stiefbach; stood; stop; street; study; subject; summer; supper; sure; surprise; table; teacher; tell; thanksgiving; thayer; thing; thinking; thornton; thought; time; tone; train; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; understand; usual; voice; walk; wall; want; water; way; weeks; white; window; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; years; yer; young cache: 41524.txt plain text: 41524.txt item: #29 of 38 id: 42522 author: Lawrence, Amos title: Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life date: None words: 102095 flesch: 67 summary: It has been thought by many that the record of such a life as is here portrayed would be useful to other readers, and especially to young men,--a class in whom Mr. Lawrence was deeply interested, and with whom circumstances in his own life had given him a peculiar bond of sympathy. The present volume is submitted with a few unimportant omissions, and with the addition of some materials, received after the issue of the first edition, which will throw light upon the character and principles of Mr. Lawrence during his early business career. keywords: 12mo; 16mo; abbott; abbott lawrence; able; absence; academy; account; acquaintance; active; advice; affairs; affection; affectionate; age; agreeable; american; amos; amos lawrence; answer; anxiety; anxious; appearance; appropriate; april; association; attention; auburn; august; author; bank; battle; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; belief; beloved; benefit; best; bible; birth; blessed; blessings; body; book; boston; boys; brief; british; broken; brother; building; bunker; business; buxton; calls; cambridge; captain; care; careful; case; cast; cents; chamber; change; chapter; character; charity; charles; children; christian; church; circumstances; citizens; city; class; clear; clergyman; clerk; close; cloth; college; comfort; coming; common; company; complete; condition; conduct; confidence; connected; connection; constant; continued; conversation; correspondence; cost; country; course; credit; d.d; daily; danger; daniel; date; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; debt; december; deep; degree; departure; desire; different; discipline; distinguished; dollars; domestic; donation; doubt; duties; duty; early; earth; earthly; edition; editor; education; efforts; elegant; engaged; england; enjoyment; entry; esq; estimate; europe; evening; events; evil; example; exercise; experience; expression; extract; eye; face; faithful; fall; family; father; fear; february; feeble; feelings; fellow; field; fine; following; follows; foreign; form; forward; free; friend; friendship; future; general; gentleman; george; gift; gilt; god; good; government; governor; grandchildren; grant; grateful; gratitude; great; greater; groton; ground; guide; habit; half; hamilton; hand; happiness; happy; head; health; heart; heaven; heavenly; help; highest; hill; history; hold; home; hon; honest; honored; hope; hopkins; hours; house; human; husband; illness; illustrations; important; improvement; income; individual; influence; institution; instruction; intercourse; interest; interesting; james; january; jesus; john; journey; judge; july; june; keeping; kind; kindness; knowledge; known; labors; lady; language; large; late; lawrence; leave; left; letter; library; life; like; little; living; long; longer; look; lord; loved; lowell; man; manner; march; marked; marriage; married; mason; massachusetts; matter; means; memorandum; memorial; memory; men; merciful; mercy; mere; miles; mind; minister; moment; monday; money; months; monument; moral; morning; mother; mount; mrs; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; new; note; november; number; numerous; objects; occasion; october; offer; office; old; ones; open; opinion; opportunity; paper; parents; parker; particular; partner; party; pass; past; peculiar; people; period; person; personal; place; plan; pleasant; pleasure; point; political; poor; possession; power; practical; prayer; preceding; preparation; prepared; present; president; principles; professor; progress; property; providence; public; purpose; quiet; reading; ready; reason; record; regard; religion; religious; remains; reply; request; respect; respecting; result; return; rev; rich; ride; right; robert; room; sabbath; safe; said; samuel; sarah; saturday; saviour; scenery; scenes; school; sea; second; secure; self; sense; september; sermon; service; severe; short; sick; sickness; sir; sister; situation; small; society; son; sons; source; south; spirit; spot; stand; state; street; strength; strong; students; study; subject; success; successful; suffering; sufficient; sum; sunday; supply; support; suppose; sympathy; system; talents; tell; text; thankful; things; thought; time; tobacco; town; true; trust; truth; uncle; union; united; use; useful; usual; value; view; visit; volume; wants; washington; way; weather; webster; week; widow; wife; william; winter; wish; words; work; world; worth; writing; years; yesterday; york; young cache: 42522.txt plain text: 42522.txt item: #30 of 38 id: 42831 author: Bates, Arlo title: Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree date: None words: 68231 flesch: 84 summary: She seated herself near Mrs. Croydon, over whose face during her remarks had flitted several expressions, none of them over-amiable, and watched the hostess fill her cup. Come, Mrs. Neligage, protested Bradish with an air of mild solicitation. Mrs. Croydon looked from the Count to Mrs. Neligage with an expression of mingled doubt and bewilderment. keywords: affairs; afraid; afternoon; alice; amusement; angry; answer; appearance; arm; attention; aunt; author; authority; bad; bank; barnstable; beg; best; book; boston; boy; bradish; burst; business; calthorpe; calumus; care; carnation; case; chair; chance; changed; cheeks; christopher; cigarette; circumstances; clear; cloud; club; color; common; companion; company; confusion; conversation; corner; count; couple; course; croydon; dat; day; days; deal; dear; deep; despite; dick; difference; door; doubt; drawing; duel; duty; easy; een; ees; eet; effect; endicott; engaged; engagement; entire; evening; evident; expression; eyes; face; fact; fairfield; family; fashion; father; feeling; feet; fellow; floor; flushed; fond; fool; foolish; foreign; fresh; friend; frostwinch; fun; game; general; gentleman; gesture; girl; glad; glance; good; graham; gravity; great; greeting; grin; half; hand; harbinger; hard; hat; head; heart; heavens; help; home; honor; hope; horrid; hostess; house; human; husband; idea; indignation; instant; intention; interest; jack; jack neligage; kind; kiss; known; ladies; lady; langdon; late; laugh; laughing; laughter; leave; left; lettaire; letter; life; like; likely; lips; literary; little; long; look; love; madame; making; man; manner; marriage; marry; marrying; match; matter; mean; mees; men; mention; mind; minute; mischief; miss; mistake; moment; money; moral; morning; mother; mrs; nature; near; need; neleegaze; neligage; new; niece; nonsense; note; novel; old; open; opportunity; pair; pardon; particular; people; perfect; person; piazza; place; play; playing; pleased; pleasure; pocket; point; polo; poor; possible; pretty; proper; public; question; quick; ready; real; reason; red; regarded; remark; reply; result; right; room; round; run; sake; saying; seat; second; secret; self; set; shimbowski; shoulder; sibley; sign; silence; silent; simple; situation; small; smile; social; society; sorry; sort; spinster; spring; story; strange; stupid; subject; sunny; sure; surprise; talk; tea; tears; temper; thing; thought; time; title; tom; tone; town; trouble; true; truth; turn; usual; voice; walk; want; way; weell; wentstile; widow; wife; willing; wilson; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; writing; yesterday; young; youth cache: 42831.txt plain text: 42831.txt item: #31 of 38 id: 42999 author: Drake, Samuel Adams title: Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs date: None words: 29110 flesch: 75 summary: 1709-10 the heirs of Neale deed to John Borland house by the name of the Star, now occupied by Stephen North and Charles Salter. Hudson sold off parts of his estate and in 1674 he conveyed to John Wing house, buildings, etc., commonly called Castle Tavern. keywords: 1782; account; adams; allen; anchor; andrew; ann; arms; baker; ball; bar; beer; benjamin; best; blue; book; borland; boston; bradford; brick; brick house; british; bromfield; building; bull; bunch; business; capt; captain; castle; century; chamber; charles; children; church; clarke; club; coffee; coffee house; cole; colonel; colony; common; company; congress; conveys; cordis; corner; country; court; cromwell; cross; crown; custom; daniel; date; daughter; day; death; deeds; deering; dock; dragon; duggan; dwelling; early; east; edward; eliot; elisha; elizabeth; end; england; english; entertainment; estate; exchange; faneuil; favorite; fire; fleet; francis; garden; general; george; golden; gooch; good; governor; grapes; great; green; ground; gunnison; half; hall; hancock; hancock tavern; hannah; hanover; hatch; hawkins; head; heirs; henry; high; hill; history; home; house; hudson; hutchinson; illustration; inherit; inn; innholder; innkeeper; inns; israel; jackson; james; john; jonathan; jones; joseph; julien; june; kind; king; lamb; land; landlord; lane; later; law; leave; liberty; licensed; life; like; line; lion; list; little; locality; location; lodge; london; long; loring; lot; man; march; market; married; mary; mcglenen; meeting; members; men; merchants; molyneux; mortgages; mrs; nathaniel; new; nicholas; north; north street; northeast; northwest; noted; occupied; old; opposite; order; ordinary; original; otis; owner; party; pemberton; people; person; petitions; phillips; place; point; popular; possessions; private; property; public; purpose; queen; read; records; red; revolution; revolutionary; richard; robert; room; royal; said; sale; salutation; samuel; sarah; school; second; sheafe; ship; shop; shrimpton; sign; site; small; smith; society; son; sons; south; southwest; square; stages; star; state street; stephen; stories; story; stoughton; street; sun; tavern; tea; thomas; time; title; tobacco; town; tremont; true; turner; tyng; union; value; vernon; warren; washington; washington street; way; west; wharf; white; widow; wife; william; windows; wine; wing; wooden; wooden house; word; years; young cache: 42999.txt plain text: 42999.txt item: #32 of 38 id: 44100 author: Otis, James title: Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony date: None words: 30896 flesch: 61 summary: Nor would Master Pormont give us such information, claiming that we should seek it from our parents, or from other people in the town, to the end that if it was gained by much labor we would the longer remember it. Do not let it be understood that I am in any way complaining of whatsoever Master Pormont did, for although I could not understand the reason for many of the lessons at that time, there can be no question but that so wise a man as he knew what was best suited for us children. keywords: able; america; arabella; bay; best; better; board; body; boston; brown; building; captain; certain; charlestown; chief; children; church; colony; coming; company; corn; cotton; country; course; day; days; dinner; dwellings; earth; end; endicott; england; famine; fashion; father; fear; fire; flax; food; friends; gentlemen; girls; god; good; governor; governor winthrop; great; half; hands; harbor; head; home; hour; house; illustration; indians; kind; labor; lady; large; law; lecture; like; linen; little; live; living; logs; london; long; longer; look; lord; lyon; making; man; manner; master; master winthrop; meal; men; mind; mistress; money; morton; mother; near; neck; need; new; night; number; old; order; outside; people; person; place; pleased; plymouth; pormont; possible; pounds; preacher; punishment; question; said; salem; savages; school; second; set; ship; shore; sickness; sin; small; soap; soldiers; susan; thanksgiving; thomas; thought; time; town; training; trees; true; vessel; village; voyage; water; way; whatsoever; white; wild; wilderness; williams; winter; winthrop; women; wood; words; work; world; year; young cache: 44100.txt plain text: 44100.txt item: #33 of 38 id: 46774 author: Burton, Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) title: The Mission of Poubalov date: None words: 75950 flesch: 82 summary: Summoning her utmost resolution she looked straight at the sombre face of the Russian and added: I have no knowledge of Ivan's enemies, Mr. Poubalov; isn't it possible that you can give some information on that phase of the case? Yes, it is, replied Poubalov, without hesitation. Why should you have feared? asked Clara; you couldn't suppose that I was in any danger in Mrs. White's house, could you? No, answered Louise, but the air is full of excitement; and while Mr. Poubalov was talking, another Russian came in who is friendly to Ivan. keywords: accident; account; action; address; afraid; afternoon; agent; alexander; alexander poubalov; answer; anxiety; anxious; arms; attention; avenue; away; best; better; billings; boston; bowker; breakfast; bulfinch; business; card; care; carriage; case; certain; chair; chapter; character; child; church; circumstances; city; clara; clara hilman; clew; closed; coming; continued; conversation; convinced; corner; country; coupé; course; cousin; czar; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; departure; detective; determined; dexter; dining; disagreeable; disappearance; disappointment; disturbed; door; doubt; drawing; dreadful; driver; early; effect; effort; enemies; error; evening; explanation; expression; eyes; face; fact; far; fear; feeling; flight; floor; following; forward; fresh; friend; general; gentleman; girl; glad; glance; good; great; half; hall; hand; hard; hat; head; heart; help; hilman; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; hurry; information; instant; interest; interrupted; investigation; ivan; ivan strobel; kind; known; ladies; landlady; late; law; leave; left; length; library; life; like; likely; line; lips; litizki; little; lizzie; lodging; long; longer; look; louise; love; man; manner; married; matter; michael; mike; mind; minutes; miss; missing; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; muttered; mystery; near; need; new; news; newspaper; nicholas; night; note; o'clock; occasion; office; old; open; order; page; palovna; paper; park; party; passenger; past; patterson; paul; pembroke; people; persons; place; point; police; policeman; poor; possible; poubalov; power; prepared; purpose; questions; ralph; reason; report; reporters; rest; return; room; russian; satisfied; save; saw; says; search; seat; second; self; servant; set; short; sir; situation; smile; sorry; spy; square; start; station; steps; stop; story; straight; strange; street; strobel; sure; surprise; suspicion; table; tailor; taking; talk; tavern; tea; telling; theory; thing; thinking; thought; throat; ticket; time; train; trouble; true; trust; truth; typographical; uncle; vargovitch; view; voice; waiting; watch; watching; way; wedding; wheel; white; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; yesterday; york; young cache: 46774.txt plain text: 46774.txt item: #34 of 38 id: 46958 author: Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. title: Little Nobody date: None words: 64241 flesch: 87 summary: Turning away with Sylvie, they heard her say, in clear, full tones: Ah, Madame Van Zandt, what an aristocratic-looking young beauty is Mrs. Eliot Van Zandt! I do say, Una Van Zandt, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. keywords: -the; actress; afraid; aid; angry; answer; arms; attention; banker; beautiful; beauty; bed; bell; beneath; berger; best; better; big; black; blood; body; bon; book; boston; box; braeme; breast; breath; bride; bright; brother; bryant; burst; calm; came; care; carmontelle; caroline; carriage; cause; chamber; chapter; chesterton; child; city; clear; close; club; cold; coming; convent; cool; course; cruel; cry; curiosity; daisy; dark; darkness; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; despair; dieu; dim; dismay; door; doubt; drawing; dress; dresses; dressing; drug; eager; edith; eliot; eliot van; esplanade; evening; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; family; fancy; far; fashion; fast; fatal; fate; father; fear; feet; fingers; flashed; floor; flowers; forced; form; french; friend; frightened; garden; gate; gentle; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; golden; good; grave; gray; great; grim; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hayes; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hidden; hold; holy; home; hope; hot; hour; house; husband; ida; ignorant; ill; innocent; jealous; jean; jockey; journalist; joy; kind; kiss; knowledge; lamp; large; lark; late; laugh; laura; law; lawyer; lay; leave; libbey; library; life; like; lips; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lorraine; lost; love; lovely; ma'amselle; madame; madame lorraine; marie; markham; married; match; matter; maud; mima; mind; minutes; miss; mistress; mme; moment; money; monsieur; moonlight; morning; mother; mrs; muttered; mysterious; mystery; narrow; near; need; new; news; night; noble; nuns; nurse; old; open; orleans; outside; page; pale; paper; party; passionate; past; patient; paused; pay; pierre; pity; place; poor; power; presence; pretty; priest; prison; promised; quentin; quick; quiet; ready; remond; rest; return; rich; room; rose; sake; satin; savage; scene; school; scorn; seat; secret; seeing; servant; shame; shut; sick; sigh; silence; silent; silk; simple; sisters; slave; sleep; slight; slip; small; smile; sofa; soft; song; sorry; soul; splendid; stage; story; strange; street; strong; sudden; superior; sure; surprise; sweet; sylvie; table; tall; tender; terrible; terror; thank; theater; thing; thinking; thought; time; tone; trembling; trouble; true; truth; una; unconscious; van; van zandt; veins; visit; voice; warm; water; way; weak; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; wilson; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wounded; yankee; years; young; zandt cache: 46958.txt plain text: 46958.txt item: #35 of 38 id: 50651 author: Drake, Samuel Adams title: The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties date: None words: 45461 flesch: 87 summary: This was the last straw for poor Walter. After a hearty greeting all round, though poor Walter turned all colors at the remembrance of how and where they had last met, Mr. Bright began by explaining that he had found them out through the consignee of the _Southern Cross_. keywords: account; afraid; afternoon; air; appearance; argonaut; arms; arrival; aunt; bad; bank; bargain; bay; bear; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; board; boat; boston; boys; break; breath; bright; broad; broken; building; business; busy; cabin; california; captain; care; cargo; cash; certificate; chance; chap; charley; city; clear; clerk; close; coast; coffee; cold; common; company; conductor; corner; course; cross; crowd; dark; day; days; dead; deck; deep; deposit; direction; dollars; door; dora; dust; early; easy; escape; evening; eyes; face; fact; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fire; firm; fit; folks; fool; foot; francisco; free; friends; frisco; furbish; game; glad; goin'; gold; good; gray; great; guess; half; hand; hard; head; hearty; heavy; help; high; hold; home; hope; hot; hour; house; hurried; idea; ingersoll; inside; iron; jim; job; kind; know; lady; land; large; late; lay; leave; left; life; like; line; little; lock; long; longer; look; looking; loose; lost; lot; low; lumber; making; man; manner; marshal; mate; matter; mean; men; merchant; miles; mind; minute; moment; money; morning; morrow; muttered; near; new; night; nothin'; observed; office; old; open; order; pair; papers; partner; passage; passengers; passing; pay; people; person; piece; pipe; place; plaza; pocket; point; poor; post; pretty; prometheus; promise; question; quick; quiet; ramon; rate; rats; ready; red; remark; reply; rest; river; roll; room; rope; rough; round; run; safe; sailor; san; saw; saying; sea; seabury; search; second; set; ship; short; sign; silence; sir; sleep; small; smile; southern; spite; spot; stand; standing; steamer; step; stop; story; stout; straight; stranger; street; subject; sure; table; talk; tell; thief; thing; thinking; thought; time; tone; town; train; travelers; true; truth; turn; turning; uncle; vessel; vigilantes; voice; walk; walter; want; warehouse; waste; watch; way; week; wharf; white; wife; window; woman; word; work; worth; years; yer; young cache: 50651.txt plain text: 50651.txt item: #36 of 38 id: 57669 author: Futrelle, Jacques title: The Problem of Cell 13 date: None words: 79487 flesch: 86 summary: The world at large had heard vaguely of Professor Van Dusen as The Thinking Machine. The Thinking Machine! keywords: acid; affair; afraid; afternoon; answer; apartments; artist; attention; austin; automobile; awhile; bank; banker; bars; bath; bed; beginning; big; bills; blood; body; boston; boy; broker; building; business; butte; cabell; car; case; cashier; cell; certain; circumstances; city; clarke; closed; condition; constable; copper; course; crime; curtis; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; detective; doane; doctor; dollars; door; dunston; dusen; electric; end; ernest; escape; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; far; fear; feet; field; fielding; figure; fingers; floor; forward; fraser; gas; gentleman; george; ghost; girl; good; grace; great; guard; hair; half; hall; hand; handkerchief; handwriting; harrison; harry; hatch; head; heart; heavy; henley; home; hotel; hour; house; husband; hutchinson; idea; inn; inside; jailer; jean; jewels; john; knife; know; large; late; left; letter; life; lights; like; linen; little; locked; long; look; looking; love; mallory; man; manager; manner; manning; marguerite; martha; mason; matter; melrose; mental; mind; minutes; mirror; miss; moment; monarch; money; morning; motive; mrs; murder; mystery; national; near; necessary; new; newspaper; night; note; o'clock; odor; office; old; open; outside; paper; past; pause; perfume; person; phone; picture; pipe; place; pocket; point; police; position; positive; possibility; possible; president; preston; prisoner; private; problem; professor; puzzled; question; quick; ransome; rats; reason; reception; regnier; reid; reply; reporter; response; revolver; road; robbery; robe; room; run; safe; save; scientist; search; sell; shirt; shot; silence; silent; sir; slender; slight; small; smile; sort; stanford; staring; steel; story; stranger; street; studio; telegram; telephone; tell; things; thinking machine; thought; thread; time; tone; unconscious; valet; van; veil; village; voice; wall; warden; way; weston; white; willis; window; wire; woman; word; work; years; young cache: 57669.txt plain text: 57669.txt item: #37 of 38 id: 61344 author: King, Basil title: The Happy Isles date: None words: 130619 flesch: 90 summary: He was so engrossed by the fact that he was not Tom Coburn but Tom Whitelaw as hardly to listen while it was explained to his mother that she would spend the night in the Female House of Detention, and be brought before the magistrate in the morning. So he was to be Tom Whitelaw now! keywords: account; accustomed; affection; afraid; afternoon; age; air; ansley; answer; arm; arms; asking; attention; attitude; aunt; avenue; aware; away; awful; baby; bad; bank; bear; beat; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; begun; bein; bere; bertie; best; better; big; birthday; bit; black; blue; body; book; boston; box; boy; boys; break; breath; brief; broke; brother; brown; business; calling; care; carriage; case; certain; chair; chance; charge; chauffeur; cheap; children; christmas; cigarette; city; claim; class; clear; close; clothes; club; coat; coburn; cold; college; comfort; coming; common; companion; conditions; confidence; conscious; corner; counter; country; course; crewdson; crook; cry; cut; dad; damn; dance; dancing; danker; dark; darling; day; days; dead; deal; dean; dear; deep; desk; difference; difficult; dim; dining; distance; dog; dollars; door; drawing; dress; dressed; drive; driving; drop; duty; eager; earlier; early; earth; ease; easier; easy; eddication; end; engaged; england; escape; etta; evening; excuse; experience; expression; eyebrows; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; family; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fifth; figure; fine; fire; fit; fixed; floor; flowers; following; fond; food; foolish; force; free; friends; future; game; gee; general; generous; gentleman; geraldine; girl; git; glad; god; goin'; good; gord; gracie; great; green; grounds; grove; guy; habit; half; hall; hampshire; hand; hang; happy; hard; harfrey; harry; harvard; hat; head; heart; heavenly; hell; help; henry; high; hildred; hill; history; hitherto; hold; home; honey; honeybun; honiton; hope; hot; hour; house; human; husband; idea; importance; impulse; incident; inner; interest; jail; job; joy; judge; keeping; key; kid; kiddy; kind; kindness; kiss; kitchen; know; knowledge; lady; lake; later; laugh; laughter; lay; leave; left; letters; life; lighted; like; likely; lily; line; lips; little; little boy; living; lonely; long; longer; look; loose; lord; lost; lot; louisburg; love; lucy; lying; ma'am; main; maisie; makes; man; manner; market; married; matter; mean; measure; meeting; memory; men; meself; messenger; mind; minute; miss; moment; months; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; movement; mrs; mudda; mystery; names; nash; natural; nature; near; neck; need; new; nice; nodded; note; nothink; notice; nurse; object; offer; office; old; older; open; opening; opportunity; outside; pain; paper; pappa; parents; park; particular; passing; past; people; person; personal; philip; pilcher; pity; place; play; point; policeman; poor; position; possible; power; present; pretty; private; queer; question; quick; quidmore; reach; ready; real; reason; relief; religion; rest; return; rich; right; river; road; room; rose; round; run; running; sake; scene; school; seat; second; secret; self; sense; set; shop; shoulder; sick; sign; silence; silent; silver; simple; singing; single; sir; sister; sitting; situation; sixteen; sleep; small; smile; snow; social; socialist; soft; somethink; son; sorry; sort; soul; spirit; spite; spoke; spring; square; stairs; stand; standing; startled; state; station; steps; story; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; subject; suffering; suggestion; suit; summer; sunday; sunshine; supper; sure; surprised; sweet; table; tad; taking; talk; tall; task; tea; teeth; tell; tenderness; theodore; thing; thinking; thought; time; time tom; tired; tollivant; tom; tom coburn; tom quidmore; tom whitelaw; tone; touch; town; trees; trouble; true; turn; turning; uniform; usual; veil; view; visit; voice; waiting; wall; want; war; ward; watching; way; ways; wear; weeks; wheeled; whitelaw; wide; wife; wild; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worn; worse; worth; wrong; yards; years; yer; yer'll; yer've; york; young; younger cache: 61344.txt plain text: 61344.txt item: #38 of 38 id: 624 author: Bellamy, Edward title: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 date: None words: 78396 flesch: 67 summary: Business men, confidential clerks, and errand boys were thronging in and out of the banks, for it wanted but a few minutes of the closing hour. It lacked something of being a complete type, however, for in the Calcutta Black Hole there were no tender women, no little children and old men and women, no cripples. keywords: able; absolute; absurd; account; accustomed; actual; administration; affected; afternoon; age; air; ancient; answer; army; arrangement; aspect; author; bad; bartlett; basis; bed; beginning; best; better; blood; body; book; boston; breakfast; building; bureau; business; capital; capitalists; card; care; case; causes; century; certain; chamber; change; chapter; children; choice; circumstances; citizens; city; civilization; claim; class; classes; clerks; coach; comfort; commodities; common; companion; complete; condition; constant; contemporaries; contrary; control; conversation; corporations; corresponding; cost; country; course; credit; curiosity; curious; danger; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; degree; demand; department; dependent; different; difficulty; dining; discipline; distribution; doctor; door; doubt; dream; duty; early; earth; easy; edith; education; effect; effort; employer; employment; end; endowments; enjoyment; enterprise; entire; equal; equality; essential; evening; evolution; example; existence; expense; experience; extent; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fail; family; fancy; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; field; fine; force; form; free; friends; functions; future; general; generation; girl; glad; god; good; government; grades; great; greater; ground; group; guild; half; hall; hand; hard; head; heart; help; higher; highest; history; hold; home; hope; host; hours; house; human; humanity; idea; important; impression; improvement; income; increase; individual; industrial; industry; innumerable; institutions; intellectual; interest; interesting; international; judges; kind; labor; lack; ladies; land; large; law; leave; leete; length; life; like; likely; literature; little; live; livelihood; living; long; longer; looking; loss; lost; love; luxury; machinery; maintenance; making; man; manner; marked; marriage; material; matter; means; members; men; mental; mere; military; mind; modern; moment; money; moral; morning; motive; mrs; music; mutual; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; night; nineteenth; nineteenth century; number; occupation; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; organization; organized; paper; parents; particular; party; past; pay; people; perfect; period; personal; persons; physical; pity; place; plan; point; poor; popular; position; possible; poverty; power; practice; present; president; pretty; previous; price; principle; private; problem; process; prodigious; product; production; professions; profit; profound; promise; proper; proportion; public; purpose; quarter; question; race; rate; read; reader; real; reason; relations; reply; responsible; result; return; rich; room; rule; sawyer; schools; second; self; selling; sense; service; set; share; shops; simple; sir; situation; sleep; small; smile; social; society; sole; solution; sort; speaking; special; spectacle; standing; state; stores; strange; street; strength; strikes; strong; struggle; subject; supply; support; sure; surprised; surroundings; sympathy; system; talk; task; term; things; think; thinking; thought; time; trade; trance; trouble; true; truth; twentieth; united; universal; value; vast; view; voice; volume; volunteers; wages; walls; want; warehouse; waste; way; ways; wealth; west; wish; women; wonder; words; work; workers; working; workmen; world; worth; years; young cache: 624.txt plain text: 624.txt