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- 12734
- author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
- title: The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest
- date: None
- words: 49781
- flesch: 90
- summary: Once more Tom Reade had brought his work within sight of Lineville. Tom, what on earth----- Tom Reade was already a hundred yards away, running in amid the brush.
- keywords: acting; afraid; answer; assistant; bad; bad pete; believe; best; better; big; black; blaisdell; bob; box; boys; brewster; brush; building; business; camp; care; cartridges; chainmen; charge; charter; chief; chum; click; close; colorado; coming; company; construction; continued; cook; corps; course; crowd; cub; cut; dark; dave; day; days; distance; doorway; drawing; driver; drop; engineer; engineering; eyes; face; feet; fellow; field; fine; fire; force; forward; friend; fulsbee; gene; gentlemen; gitney; glad; good; grease; great; ground; gun; half; hand; hard; harry; hazelton; head; help; high; hold; home; hope; horse; hour; howe; idea; instrument; jack; jake; job; left; leveling; life; like; line; lineville; little; long; look; lot; making; man; matter; men; mess; message; miles; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; mountain; muttered; near; need; newnham; news; nodded; notes; old; open; operator; orders; outfit; outside; pair; pardner; party; pay; people; pete; pistol; place; pocket; point; pony; present; president; railroad; reade; real; report; rest; revolver; rice; ride; right; road; rock; rodman; running; rutter; s.b; saddle; school; second; set; sheriff; shot; sick; signature; sir; sleep; small; sort; sound; squaw; stake; stand; start; station; straight; stranger; sure; table; talk; talking; telegraph; tent; thing; thought; thurston; time; today; tom; tom reade; tomorrow; tonight; track; train; transit; trouble; try; turn; use; voice; w.c; wagon; want; way; west; white; wire; wonder; word; work; wrong; years; york; young
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- 12777
- author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
- title: The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick
- date: None
- words: 49631
- flesch: 94
- summary: Conclusion CHAPTER I ALF AND HIS MAKINGS OF MANHOOD Say, got the makings? Eh? inquired Tom Reade, glancing up in mild astonishment. Drew, do you think you look as healthy as I do? As he stood there, erect as a soldier, with his fine athletic figure revealed, and the bronze on his face seemingly inches deep, Tom Reade looked what he was---every inch a man though still a boy in years.
- keywords: able; afraid; air; alf; answer; armed; assay; bad; best; better; big; bit; blast; boss; boy; boys; breakfast; bunk; business; camp; case; chance; chapter; chest; chum; cigarettes; city; claim; click; close; come; cook; course; crowd; crust; danger; day; days; dollars; dolph; door; drew; dugout; dunlop; dynamite; earth; engineer; eyes; face; fair; fast; feet; fellow; ferrers; fighting; file; fine; fire; folks; forward; friends; furnace; gage; gentlemen; glad; gold; good; great; ground; growled; guess; guide; half; hand; hard; harry; hazelton; head; help; hold; hope; hour; ick; instant; jim; jim ferrers; job; josh; kind; know; law; leader; leave; left; leon; let; life; like; line; little; long; longer; look; lot; magneto; making; man; matter; mean; men; miners; mining; minutes; moment; money; morning; muttered; near; need; nerves; nevada; new; nodded; notice; officers; open; ore; outfit; partner; party; pay; pick; pipe; place; point; poor; range; reade; real; rest; ridge; rifle; right; rock; run; safe; shack; shaft; shooting; shot; shoulder; sir; sleep; small; smoke; smoking; snow; sound; stake; start; stick; stone; strong; stuff; supper; sure; talk; thing; thought; time; timmins; today; tom; tom reade; trail; trouble; tunnel; turn; turning; use; vein; voice; walsh; want; watch; way; women; work; worth; young; youngster
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- 12778
- author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
- title: The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers
- date: None
- words: 48508
- flesch: 88
- summary: Tom Reade, I cannot undertake to send this message until it is endorsed with the written approval of Don Luis Montez, your employer. I'm telling these countrymen of mine the truth, fellow, retorted Tom Reade, casting a look of withering scorn at Don Luis Montez.
- keywords: able; afraid; american; bad; best; better; big; bit; blank; bonista; breakfast; business; caballeros; care; carlos; case; certain; chapter; chief; chum; clear; coming; country; course; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; death; dollars; don luis; door; earth; end; engineers; english; estate; excellency; eyes; face; father; fear; feet; fellow; fine; food; foreman; fortune; francesca; friends; game; gato; gentlemen; girl; gold; good; government; governor; great; gringos; ground; half; hand; hard; harry; haynes; hazelton; head; help; high; hills; hold; home; honda; honest; honor; hope; hour; house; kind; knife; later; leave; left; lieutenant; life; likely; little; long; longer; look; luis montez; man; manager; matter; meal; mean; men; mexican; mexico; miles; mind; mining; minutes; moment; money; montez; morning; mountains; muttered; near; need; new; nicolas; note; number; office; old; open; orders; ore; outside; owner; pardon; pay; pedro; peon; place; pleasure; point; poor; porch; present; president; property; protested; rabasco; railway; rascal; reade; real; report; rest; rich; rifle; right; road; rock; room; run; scoundrel; secretary; senor; senor reade; servant; set; shoulders; sign; sir; sleep; smile; sombrero; spanish; stand; start; states; stranger; stuff; sure; talk; tent; thing; thought; time; tisco; tom; tom reade; tomaso; train; true; trust; tunnel; turn; united; voice; wait; want; way; white; wish; word; work; worth; years; young
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- 14369
- author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
- title: The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater
- date: None
- words: 49838
- flesch: 91
- summary: Reluctantly Tom Reade thrust his hands up skyward. He had seen no one but Tom Reade, but Tom was the one person in the world whom the ex-foreman wanted most to 'see' at a disadvantage.
- keywords: afraid; air; answer; army; bad; bail; bascomb; beach; bed; best; better; big; bit; black; blixton; blow; boat; bombs; bootleggers; boss; breakwater; breath; business; camp; catch; chance; chapter; charge; chief; chum; close; company; conlon; continued; contract; corbett; course; court; craft; crowd; dark; dat; daylight; days; dick; directors; discharged; doan; dollars; door; dozen; duty; earth; easy; ebony; engineer; evarts; explosion; eyes; face; farther; feet; fellow; fighting; figure; fine; flash; foot; force; foreman; friend; gamblers; gambling; gang; glad; good; got; great; ground; guess; gulf; gwine; half; hand; hard; harry; having; hawkins; hazelton; head; help; high; hold; honest; hours; house; huge; human; idea; inside; instant; italian; jail; jeered; job; large; leader; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; likely; liquor; little; long; look; lot; magneto; man; matter; melliston; men; mexican; mind; minutes; moment; money; morton; motor; muttered; mystery; near; need; negro; negroes; new; nicolas; night; nodded; officer; old; open; orders; outside; pair; past; pay; pistol; place; pocket; point; policeman; porch; prenter; prescott; present; president; reade; real; renshaw; rest; revolver; rock; room; run; sambo; scene; school; search; second; senor; series; set; shore; sign; sir; sleep; sort; sound; spot; stand; start; stop; straight; stranger; sudden; superintendent; talk; tell; thing; thought; throw; time; tom; tom reade; town; treasurer; trouble; try; turn; turning; use; voice; wall; want; water; way; west; wheel; wire; wish; work; working; workmen; years; young
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- 30394
- author: Stratemeyer, Edward
- title: Dave Porter and His Double; Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune
- date: None
- words: 63729
- flesch: 88
- summary: That boy deserves a good education, had been Oliver Wadsworth's comment, after several interviews with Dave, and as a consequence the youth had been sent off to a first-class boarding-school, as related in the first volume of this series, entitled Dave Porter at Oak Hall. Although Dave Porter did not know it at the time, the moving-picture company to which Ward Porton belonged had also numbered among its members Dave's former school enemy, Link Merwell.
- keywords: able; actor; andrews; antonio; asa; away; bad; basswood; belle; ben; best; better; big; blizzard; boys; bridge; brown; business; camp; cap; care; chance; chapter; chums; city; civil; coburntown; coming; comment; company; construction; course; crapsey; crumville; dave; dave porter; day; days; deal; dealer; deep; dickley; direction; distance; doctor; dollars; door; dunston; easy; end; engineering; enos; estate; evening; examination; eyes; face; fact; far; father; feet; fellow; fine; folks; following; fortune; frank; friends; girls; glad; good; great; guess; half; hall; hand; hard; head; heavy; help; hero; hold; home; hope; horses; hotel; house; idea; jarvey; jessie; kind; large; later; laura; left; let; like; likely; little; long; look; lost; luke; man; mansion; matter; mean; men; mentor; merwell; mexican; miles; miniatures; moment; money; morning; morr; mother; moving; mrs; new; news; number; oak; obray; old; outside; overcoat; pair; party; past; people; phil; picture; place; porter; porton; possible; present; pretty; railroad; ramsdell; ranch; rascal; ready; real; renwick; return; ride; right; river; road; roger; room; run; running; safe; san; school; senator; shadow; shoes; short; sister; sleigh; sleighing; snow; son; stable; station; stay; story; street; sure; talk; team; telephone; texas; things; thought; time; time dave; town; train; trouble; true; turn; uncle; wadsworth; want; ward; ward porton; washington; watson; way; wecks; week; william; wind; wish; woods; word; work; worry; years; york; young; youths
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- 33306
- author: Lynde, Francis
- title: The King of Arcadia
- date: None
- words: 76098
- flesch: 80
- summary: This is Mr. Ballard, I believe? I'm telling you, Mr. Ballard, there isn't anything them devils won't be up to, he complained, not without bitterness.
- keywords: accidents; adobe; advance; afraid; afternoon; air; alta; answer; anxiety; arcadia; arm; ask; asleep; assistant; attitude; bad; ballard; band; bare; bed; best; better; bigelow; billy; bit; blacklock; blow; boiling; boston; bourke; box; boy; boys; braithwaite; breakfast; breath; breckenridge; breckenridge ballard; bridge; broken; bromley; brown; bryck; building; bungalow; bunk; business; busy; cabin; camp; canal; cantrell; canyon; car; care; carson; case; castle; cauffrey; certain; chair; chance; chasm; chief; clear; cliff; close; cloud; coat; cold; collegian; colonel; colonel craigmiles; coming; comment; commissary; common; companion; company; construction; contractor; cool; country; course; cousin; cow; craigmiles; crowd; curious; curve; cut; cutting; dam; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; denver; derrick; details; determined; dick; dinner; direction; distance; ditch; dog; door; dosia; double; doubt; dramatic; drive; driving; dry; duty; earth; edge; effect; elbow; electric; elsa; end; enemy; engineer; enthusiastic; entire; entrance; evening; excuse; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; far; father; feet; fellow; fighting; figure; final; fine; fire; fitzpatrick; flat; flood; following; foot; force; foreman; forestry; foundations; free; friend; game; gang; gardiner; gate; gathering; gentlemen; glad; glance; glass; god; good; gray; great; ground; group; guest; gulch; gun; half; hammock; hand; hard; hat; head; headquarters; heart; help; high; hill; hogback; hold; hole; home; hoodoo; hope; horses; hoskins; host; hot; hour; house; huge; human; hurt; idea; instant; interested; iron; irrigation; janet; jerry; job; joke; kentuckian; killing; kind; knoll; know; laboratory; lake; land; lassley; late; laugh; law; leave; left; level; lie; life; lighted; lights; like; line; literary; little; live; long; look; lost; loudon; love; lower; macpherson; main; major; making; man; manuel; masonry; material; matter; maxim; meaning; means; members; men; mere; mesa; mess; mexican; middle; mind; minutes; miss; mistaken; mistuh ballard; moment; money; morning; motor; mountain; mouth; mrs; mysteries; mystery; narrow; natural; near; nearest; need; new; night; nodded; note; notion; number; object; office; old; open; opposite; order; otto; park; party; pass; past; path; pay; pelham; people; perfect; personal; pick; piece; pipe; place; plain; plans; playwright; point; poor; porch; portico; possible; present; president; pretty; professor; proved; quarry; query; question; quick; railroad; ranch; range; reach; ready; real; reason; rejoinder; reply; reservoir; return; ride; riders; riding; rifle; river; road; rock; room; rope; rose; rough; run; saddle; sake; sanderson; save; scene; scheme; seat; second; self; sense; service; set; señor; shadow; sheriff; short; shoulder; sick; silence; silent; single; situation; sleeping; small; smile; smoke; smoking; sorry; sound; special; speech; spite; stage; stand; stay; step; stock; stone; stop; story; stream; sudden; suh; summer; sun; sure; table; talk; telegram; tell; telling; thing; thinking; thought; time; time ballard; tobacco; torrent; touch; track; trail; trains; tree; trouble; true; tunnel; turn; upper; valley; van; view; vista; voice; waggon; waiting; wall; watch; water; way; weeks; welcome; west; wheel; white; wind; wingfield; wire; woman; word; work; working; workmen; wreck; wrong; yard; years; yonder; youh; young
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- 3612
- author: Shaw, Bernard
- title: John Bull's Other Island
- date: None
- words: 38059
- flesch: 90
- summary: Mr Broadbent spends his life inefficiently admiring the thoughts of great men, and efficiently serving the cupidity of base money hunters. But I tell you plump and plain, Mat, that if anybody thinks things will be any better now that the land is handed over to a lot of little men like you, without calling you to account either, they're mistaken.
- keywords: afraid; answer; arra; ashamed; aunt; aunt judy; barney; bear; bed; bedad; bedroom; best; better; big; bit; black; boy; breakfast; broadbent; brogue; business; calling; car; care; caterpillar; chair; chap; character; charm; church; class; coat; common; cornelius; corner; corny; country; course; cry; d'ye; day; deal; dear; delighted; dempsey; dhat; die; difference; divil; doolan; door; doran; doubt; doyle; dreaming; drunk; duty; earnest; efficient; england; english; englishman; evening; excuse; eyes; face; fact; faith; farm; farrell; father; father dempsey; feeling; fine; fireplace; fool; foolish; free; friend; future; garden; gate; gentleman; george; girl; god; goin; good; grasshopper; great; haffigan; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; hill; hodson; holy; home; honor; hotel; house; humor; hwat; imagination; interest; ireland; irish; irishman; island; joke; judy; keegan; large; larry; larry doyle; laugh; laughing; left; liberal; life; like; little; live; london; long; look; lord; love; mad; making; man; matter; matthew; mean; member; men; middle; mind; miss; misther; moment; money; morning; motor; mr broadbent; mr doyle; mr haffigan; mr keegan; national; need; new; nonsense; nora; office; old; opposite; oul; parliament; party; patsy; people; pig; place; point; political; poor; pounds; present; priest; public; question; real; reilly; right; rises; room; rosscullen; round; rule; seat; self; sense; shame; shrubbery; sir; sitting; small; sofa; sorry; sort; south; stand; state; stick; stone; strong; sure; syndicate; table; talk; tea; things; think; thinking; thought; tim; time; tom; tom broadbent; touch; tower; trouble; true; truth; voice; vote; wall; want; way; whisht; whisky; wid; wife; woman; work; world; worse; worth; writing; wrong; years; young
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- 37249
- author: Lynde, Francis
- title: The City of Numbered Days
- date: None
- words: 72893
- flesch: 82
- summary: I'll tell you, Mr. Brouillard--in confidence. Do you know what I'm thinking about, Mr. Brouillard?
- keywords: able; account; afraid; afternoon; amy; anson; answer; arm; arrow; attack; attempt; attitude; avenue; away; bad; bank; bar; bed; beginning; best; better; big; bit; blood; blue; bongras; book; boy; break; breath; broke; brother; brouillard; bruce; bubble; buckskin; building; business; busy; butte; buying; cabin; camp; canyon; capital; car; care; cars; case; castner; cement; certain; chair; chance; charge; chicago; chief; chigringo; cigar; city; clear; climb; closed; coat; cold; coming; comment; committee; common; company; concrete; congress; conscience; construction; corner; coronida; cortwright; cost; country; course; crazy; crowd; curious; cut; dam; dark; daughter; david; day; days; dead; deal; debt; deep; department; desert; desk; devil; different; distance; distant; dollars; door; doubt; dozen; drop; dropping; dust; dynamite; early; earth; easy; edge; electric; end; engineer; entire; evening; example; excitement; extension; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fair; falkland; fall; far; father; feet; field; figure; final; fine; fire; floor; foot; force; ford; forms; fourth; free; fresh; friend; future; game; garner; genevieve; girl; glass; god; going; gold; good; gorge; government; gray; great; griffith; grislow; grizzy; ground; guess; half; hands; hard; harlan; hat; head; headquarters; heart; help; high; higher; hills; hold; home; honor; hope; hosford; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; hurry; hydrographer; idea; ideals; information; instant; jack; job; keen; kind; known; later; laugh; laughing; law; leave; left; level; life; light; like; line; little; little susan; live; load; log; long; longer; look; loose; lord; lost; lot; love; mad; making; man; mapping; market; massingale; material; matter; mean; men; mere; message; metropole; middle; mighty; miles; millionaire; mind; mining; minute; mirapolis; mirapolitan; miss; mixers; mob; modern; moment; money; morning; morrow; motive; mountain; mouth; murray; near; need; new; news; niquoia; notes; notion; nuggets; number; o'clock; office; old; old man; open; opposite; order; ore; panic; paper; party; pass; past; pay; people; personal; piece; pipe; place; plain; plant; play; plaza; plenty; pocket; point; poodles; porch; possible; power; present; president; pretty; price; private; project; promise; promoter; proposition; pull; quadjenã; quesado; question; quick; railroad; range; ready; real; reason; reclamation; red; rejoinder; reply; reservation; reservoir; rest; return; rich; river; room; rose; rumor; run; rush; sake; sandy; save; schermerhorn; search; second; self; selling; sense; service; set; shadow; shot; sidewalk; silence; single; small; smile; smith; son; sort; soul; speech; spot; square; staff; stand; standing; start; step; stephen; stevie; stock; stop; straight; stream; street; strike; string; sudden; sun; sure; susan; talk; thick; thing; thought; tig; time; touch; touring; town; trail; trouble; true; turn; turning; twice; upper; use; valley; van; victor; view; voice; wall; war; washington; watch; way; week; wesley; western; white; window; wire; wish; woman; wonder; word; work; working; workmen; worth; years; yellow; young
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- 41052
- author: Brown, Katharine Holland
- title: The Hallowell Partnership
- date: None
- words: 44954
- flesch: 92
- summary: Sally Lou Burford! Marian Hallowell pushed Empress from her knee and turned on her pillows to look at Roderick, her brother, who sat absorbed and silent at his desk.
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