item: #1 of 6 id: 12587 author: Hugo, Victor title: The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History date: None words: 208142 flesch: 84 summary: There was for Gwynplaine, who could see, a heartrending possibility that existed not for Dea, who was blind; he could compare himself with other men. Ursus, though differing from other men, was, as any other might have been, nailed to his post by that species of conscious reverie into which we are plunged by events all important to us, and in which we are impotent. keywords: abyss; air; anne; arms; barkilphedro; baron; black; blind; book; box; boy; chancellor; chapter; charles; child; clancharlie; clerk; close; cold; come; comprachicos; court; crowd; darkness; david; day; dea; dead; death; deep; depths; doctor; door; duchess; duke; earl; end; england; english; evening; evil; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; felt; fine; fire; form; france; god; good; great; green; gwynplaine; half; hand; happiness; having; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; homo; hooker; hour; house; human; inn; iron; james; josiana; justice; kind; king; know; lady; laugh; law; left; life; little; london; look; lord; love; low; majesty; man; master; means; men; mind; moment; mouth; nature; nicless; night; ocean; order; peer; peerage; people; place; point; power; present; public; queen; read; rock; rose; round; royal; saw; sea; second; set; shadow; sheriff; silence; snow; sort; soul; state; steps; stone; storm; terrible; things; think; thought; time; unknown; ursus; vessel; voice; wall; water; waves; way; white; wind; wolf; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 12587.txt plain text: 12587.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 31371 author: Cobb, Thomas title: The Little Clown date: None words: 19170 flesch: 94 summary: And men and women gradually came out of the other vans, which stood about anyhow, and they all looked very sleepy and rather dirty, especially the children who soon began to collect round Jimmy as if he were the most extraordinary thing in the caravan. Her hand was on his arm, and her eyes wore a very curious expression, almost as if she were going to cry also, just to keep Jimmy company. keywords: aunt; clown; door; jimmy; miss; morton; mother; roberts; selina; time; train cache: 31371.txt plain text: 31371.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 37961 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: He Who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts date: None words: 26389 flesch: 94 summary: [CONSUELO _and_ BEZANO _stand side by side, the jockey scowling_, CONSUELO _laughing and flushing_. Then she stands motionless, looking straight at the dark opening of the door through which_ BEZANO _comes_. keywords: baron; bezano; briquet; consuelo; count; day; eyes; father; gentleman; good; hand; jackson; laughs; look; love; mancini; polly; right; silence; tilly; zinida cache: 37961.txt plain text: 37961.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 46709 author: Grimaldi, Joseph title: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi date: None words: 124468 flesch: 62 summary: The characters were: The King of the Gold Mines, afterwards Harlequin, Mr. Ellar; Guinea Pig, afterwards Harlequin's lacquey, Mr. J. S. Grimaldi; Yellow Dwarf, afterwards Clown, Mr. Grimaldi; the Princess Allfair, afterwards Columbine, Miss E. Dennett; and the Queen of Golconda, a lady with a ruby nose, afterwards Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes. In those days of minuets and cotillions, private dancing was a much more laborious and serious affair than it is at present; and the younger branches of the nobility and gentry kept Mr. Grimaldi in pretty constant occupation. keywords: appearance; benefit; bologna; box; business; chapter; circumstance; clown; company; course; covent; day; days; door; drury; evening; father; following; friend; garden; gentleman; good; great; grimaldi; half; hand; harlequin; home; house; hughes; joe; kemble; lane; left; life; london; mackintosh; man; manager; manner; master; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; pantomime; person; piece; place; play; pounds; public; room; sadler; scene; season; sir; stage; street; success; theatre; thought; time; town; way; wells; wife; years; young cache: 46709.txt plain text: 46709.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 59982 author: Kelley, Leo P. title: The Human Element date: None words: 2865 flesch: 87 summary: Kevin nodded but didn't look at his questioner. thought Kevin as the speeding, robot driven monorail transport rocketed past the brilliant pastel buildings shining slimly in the sunlight filtering through the plastic dome covering New New York. keywords: arena; circus; kevin; man; people cache: 59982.txt plain text: 59982.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 8430 author: Locke, William John title: The Mountebank date: None words: 96333 flesch: 83 summary: Said Bakkus coolly sipping his absinthe, I have no desire to make my fortune. In the month of June, 1919, I received a long letter from Brigadier-General Andrew Lackaday together with a bulky manuscript. keywords: air; andrew; andrew lackaday; arm; audience; auriol; bakkus; ben; business; circus; come; course; days; dear; devil; dog; elodie; end; english; eyes; face; fellow; flint; france; french; friend; general; god; good; half; hand; hat; head; heart; hotel; human; kind; lackaday; lady; lady auriol; letter; life; like; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; monsieur; morning; music; new; night; paris; patou; people; petit; place; prépimpin; room; rose; round; second; set; soul; stage; table; talk; things; think; thought; time; want; war; way; white; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 8430.txt plain text: 8430.txt