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id: 30064
author: Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot)
title: Peeps at Many Lands: Burma
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flesch: 66
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  By thousands of little rills, or rushing torrents which score furrows in its sides, the mountain gives up its store of water to feed the thirsty plains, and with it yields also valuable ores and minerals, which are often carried many many miles away to enrich a people too far removed from the mountain to know the origin of their wealth. There are many other kinds of boats in use, all equally distinctive in character; and even the dug-out canoe is pretty, its fore-foot rising clear of the water in a slight curve, which lends an element of beauty to what would otherwise have been simply a straight log.


id: 32375
author: Griggs, William Charles
title: Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
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words: 28810
sentence: 1039
flesch: 80
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  She was a very pious woman and always gave the best rice and _puc_ to the priests as they walked, rice _chattie_ in hand, through the city in the early morning. The eggs were soon brought back from the _hpea_ country where the lord Sa Kyah had taken them for safety, and in due time were hatched.


id: 40001
author: Ellis, Beth
title: An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
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sentence: 1568
flesch: 66
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  I am not naturally a coward, except when I am afraid; at other times I am as brave as a lion. As we neared Mandalay we passed many groups of half-ruined shrines, images and pagodas, covered with moss and creeper, deserted by the human beings who erected them, and visited now only by the birds and other jungle folk, who build their nests and make their homes in the shade of the once gorgeous buildings.


id: 38306
author: Levett Yeats, S. (Sidney)
title: A Galahad of the Creeks; The Widow Lamport
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words: 56191
sentence: 3233
flesch: 86
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  All his heavy baggage had come on before, and Ah-Geelong, the Chinese servant, whom he had engaged as head man, was evidently a treasure. he groaned, I don't think it was worth it, even for this. Jackson, old man, can't you speak?


id: 51080
author: Cochrane, Henry Park
title: Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage
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sentence: 3276
flesch: 73
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summary:
  But sweeping charges that officials of whatever nation, in outlying colonies, are profligate and tyrannical do gross injustice to many noble men who are doing their utmost for the advancement of morality and justice. Many people I have seen in European and American cities must have been Chins.


id: 14049
author: Douie, Marjorie
title: The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery
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sentence: 3122
flesch: 80
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summary:
  That painful necessity which dogs the career of greater men than Absalom. I've done my share of work, Coryndon, and I've taken my own risks, but any cases I've had against white men haven't been against men like the Padré.


id: 45774
author: Norway, G. (George)
title: Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle
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words: 71329
sentence: 3450
flesch: 81
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summary:
  CHAPTER VIII KIRKE ESCAPES Kirke's jealousy of Ralph Denham had dated from the earliest commencement of their ill-fated voyage; and Ralph had not been as way-wise as an older person might have wished him to be in avoiding occasions for arousing it. So Ralph Denham, Esq., marching orders are yours.


id: 16863
author: Willson, Arabella M.
title: Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
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words: 80750
sentence: 3172
flesch: 68
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  Mr. Judson, considering himself sufficiently master of the language to preach publicly, decided to build a small zayat, on a much frequented road, where he could preach the gospel, and converse with any native who might desire it, and where Mrs. Judson could meet female inquirers, and hold a school for religious and other instruction. Mrs. Judson gave Moung Ing money that he might follow and procure a mitigation of this torture, instead of which, Mr. Judson was again thrown down, and the cords so tightened as almost to prevent respiration.


id: 36504
author: Annandale, Nelson
title: Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa
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sentence: 7329
flesch: 71
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summary:
  it consists largely of diatoms, while the species of _Hislopia_ and _Arachnoidea_ possess an alimentary canal modified for the purpose of retaining flagellate organisms until they become encysted. Only two genera can be recognized in this family, _Arachnoidea_, Moore, from Central Africa, and _Hislopia_, Carter, which is widely distributed in Eastern Asia.


id: 21242
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
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sentence: 4749
flesch: 80
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summary:
  He pointed out that some change might possibly have been made, and that other men might have been placed on sentry. Many men constantly run risks as great to save others.


id: 34578
author: Bigandet, Paul Ambroise
title: The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I)
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  At last Buddha, assuming a lofty and commanding tone, said to them, I declare unto you that I am a Buddha, knowing the four great truths and showing the way to Neibban. Anaumadathi replied to them that the object of their wishes should be granted unto them when the Buddha Gaudama would appear in the world.


id: 22749
author: Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)
title: From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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sentence: 4212
flesch: 72
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  To-night the little station band of little native men played outside the club under the trees, with two or three hurricane lamps lighting their music and serious dark faces, and the flying foxes hawked above them. VIII Is -- without apologies -- of first impressions of India; and about the landing and entertainments of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales -- Great people and little people, and their affairs; Royal Receptions to snake-charmers -- Illuminations, Gun-firing, and the Bands playing God save the King -- Edward the --?


id: 45915
author: Crosthwaite, C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd)
title: The Pacification of Burma
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flesch: 68
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  A sign of the coming end--slowly coming, it may be, but still the coming end--of a very weary struggle with a system of resistance which was costing us many good men and a lavish expenditure of money. The present Sawbwa, who was at the Delhi Durbar in 1903, is reported to have said to one of the officers from Burma, We thought we were great men, but now we see that we are only monkeys from the jungle.


id: 15171
author: Griffith, William
title: Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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sentence: 10451
flesch: 69
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  The banks of the Naree are clothed with small _Furas_, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt. _6th_.--Not much cultivation was observed on the road to-day, which extended over a naked marshy saline plain, or through a _Kureel_, and small _Jundy_ and _Phulahi_ district.


