item: #1 of 8 id: 21471 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Mountain Moggy: The Stoning of the Witch date: None words: 24223 flesch: 83 summary: One boy, more daring than the rest, and superior in appearance to most of them, lingered behind, and finding a stone remaining in his pocket of those with which he had, like his companions, provided himself to attack the old woman, he turned round once more, and flung it in the direction of the hut, saying, as he did so, That's my parting gift, old Moggy. The Doctor's wife, ever ready with help and sympathy, in spite of the numerous maternal cares to which she had to attend, immediately exclaimed, Poor old creature! keywords: account; anna; bad; bed; best; better; board; boat; book; boy; boys; brother; captain; care; chapter; charles; children; cold; companions; country; course; creature; davis; day; days; dear; doctor; door; england; evening; eyes; family; father; fellow; fire; food; frank; friend; gentleman; god; good; great; hands; happy; hard; head; heart; help; hill; history; holman; home; hope; house; hovel; husband; hut; island; jenny; kind; leave; length; life; like; little; long; lord; lost; love; mate; men; midshipman; mind; miss; moggy; money; morgan; mother; mountain; mrs; ocean; old; old moggy; parents; party; people; person; place; pleasant; poor; rags; rest; return; right; room; round; run; sad; saw; saying; sea; ship; shore; sir; sisters; son; stones; sun; sure; things; thought; time; tom; truth; village; voice; water; way; wicked; wife; wild; william; willie; window; wish; witch; woman; words; work; world; wrong; years; young cache: 21471.txt plain text: 21471.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 30387 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Mark Mason's Victory date: None words: 46202 flesch: 92 summary: Leaving Mark on his way we will precede him, and carry the reader at once to Gulchville, in California, where he was to find the young boy of whom Mr. Gilbert had requested him to take charge. Perhaps, as you are taking the place of my uncle, it would be proper to call you Uncle Mark, she laughed. keywords: account; acquaintance; afraid; age; aunt; avenue; banker; bed; best; better; bill; boy; boys; buffington; business; cab; car; care; cents; chapter; check; city; cleveland; come; course; cousin; crank; day; decided; diamond; dollars; door; doubt; dressed; edgar; edith; errand; estate; evening; eyes; face; father; fifth; floor; florence; friend; gentleman; gilbert; glad; good; grandfather; great; guess; half; hand; help; high; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; important; interest; jack; jeweler; journey; kid; kind; lady; law; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; loring; luther; mack; man; mark; mark mason; mason; matter; maud; mean; messenger; mind; minton; minutes; miss; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nahum; need; nephew; new; offer; office; old; oscar; paper; party; pay; philip; place; pocket; pocketbook; poor; position; present; purse; ready; return; rich; right; rings; rockwell; room; saloon; schuyler; seat; share; sir; sister; small; smile; smiling; solon; sorry; sprague; stage; stairs; stanley; stock; store; strange; street; suit; sum; supper; sure; surprise; swan; talbot; telegraph; thought; time; tom; tone; town; train; trotter; true; uncle; visitor; want; way; week; whisky; wish; woman; worth; years; york; young cache: 30387.txt plain text: 30387.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 35966 author: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title: Loveliness: A Story date: None words: 9087 flesch: 84 summary: Only the angels who are admitted to the souls of children and the hearts of little dogs could have understood that interview. But after that terrible hour little Adah was as she was: frail, uncertain of step, scarred on the pearl of her neck and the rose of her cheek; not with full command of her voice; more nervously deficient than organically defective,--but a perfect being marred. keywords: 16mo; adah; arms; black; brain; cab; cabman; carrier; child; cover; creature; cushion; dark; day; demonstrator; doctor; dog; door; driver; eyes; face; faculty; family; father; fire; gentlemen; girl; gray; hand; head; heart; home; house; human; identity; illustrated; janitor; jersey; kathleen; kind; laboratory; lecture; left; life; little; little dog; long; look; lost; loveliness; maid; man; matter; mind; mother; newsboy; night; old; open; page; pamphlet; papa; pearl; president; professor; puppies; room; satin; seat; set; silver; story; street; students; study; subject; tell; tenderness; thing; time; town; university; white; window; world; yellow; yorkshire cache: 35966.txt plain text: 35966.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 38764 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti date: None words: 133300 flesch: 84 summary: But there is no doubt that the _Orpheus'_ men have had all the luck, and the big ships' turn won't come till we have war with France. Me had a little pickanniny and could 'teal away widout being noticed, and me went dere seberal times; den oberseer killed by anoder slabe, and de master, who was good man, he come out to enquire about it. keywords: 8vo; able; account; accustomed; acting; action; admiral; advantage; adventures; affair; afraid; agile; anxious; arm; armed; arms; arrival; arrow; attack; attempt; bad; batteries; battery; bay; bear; began; bemish; bery; best; better; biassou; big; bit; blacks; blood; board; boats; body; boy; boys; brigantine; british; broadside; broke; bushes; business; cabin; cape; captain; capture; care; case; cave; cerf; certain; chance; chapter; charge; cheer; children; clear; close; coast; come; coming; command; commander; country; couple; course; craft; crew; crown; cruise; curtis; cut; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; death; deck; dem; den; dere; dey; difficulty; dinah; direction; distance; doctor; dog; door; doubt; doyle; dozen; drink; duchesne; duty; easy; edge; end; enemy; engaged; england; english; entrance; escape; evening; evident; eyes; face; fact; fall; fallen; family; fancy; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellows; fever; fight; fighting; fire; firing; fit; flag; food; foot; force; forest; forward; france; françois; free; french; fresh; friends; frigate; general; gentlemen; getting; gig; girl; glad; glass; glover; good; grape; great; guns; hab; half; hands; hard; hayti; head; heart; heavy; help; henty; hero; hiding; high; hill; hold; home; hope; hour; house; huts; i'se; idea; illustrations; inlet; island; jamaica; journey; keeping; kind; know; ladies; lady; landing; large; late; leave; leaving; left; lieutenant; life; like; likely; line; lippincott; little; lives; long; longer; look; looking; lower; luck; madame; mam'selle; man; marines; marse; masters; matter; mean; men; merchantmen; message; midshipmen; mile; mind; minutes; moment; money; monsieur; months; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; mulattoes; muskets; myra; nat; native; near; necessary; need; negroes; news; number; nurse; o'clock; officer; old; olivine; open; opposite; order; orpheus; outside; page; pain; party; past; people; pickard; pirates; pistols; place; plantation; playford; plenty; point; poor; port; position; possible; post; present; pretty; prince; prisoners; prize; quarter; question; quiet; rank; ready; regular; report; rest; return; risk; road; rock; room; round; royal; run; running; safe; safety; sah; sailors; sails; saw; saying; schooner; scoundrels; sea; seamen; search; second; service; set; sharp; shelter; ship; shore; shot; shoulder; sir; sister; slaves; sleep; sling; small; sorry; sort; spare; spartane; stand; start; state; stay; stern; storehouses; story; straight; stream; street; strength; strong; suah; success; sure; surprise; taking; tale; talk; tell; terrible; thing; thought; time; tink; toussaint; town; trees; troops; trouble; true; turnbull; vessels; voice; volunteers; walk; want; war; watch; water; way; weeks; weight; west; white; wide; wife; wind; window; wine; women; wood; word; work; worst; wounds; yards; years; yesterday; young cache: 38764.txt plain text: 38764.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 43067 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers date: None words: 31905 flesch: 84 summary: I feel sure that mother has been killed, for the valley was full of Indians, and I know that there were but few men at home. I thought you must be a stranger even before I observed your dress, for street frays are not uncommon in this town, whereas in other ports there are scores of men ready for any villany, and few of my people would care to interfere in a fray in which they have no interest. keywords: able; antonio; apaches; arm; attack; better; cattle; cave; chance; chief; christina; clara; cliff; close; colorado; country; course; cross; cut; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; diego; distance; don; donna; doubt; dozen; face; fact; far; father; feet; fire; foot; friend; girl; good; great; guzman; hacienda; half; hand; harland; head; herds; hills; hold; home; horses; hour; house; indians; journey; juan; large; leader; leave; ledge; left; life; likely; little; long; look; man; matter; meat; men; mexican; miles; minutes; moment; moquis; morning; morrow; mother; mountains; news; night; number; old; party; pass; path; peons; people; pistols; place; point; poles; present; pretty; rafts; ranch; red; rest; ride; riding; rifle; river; rock; room; round; sailor; sancho; sarasta; señor; señorita; ship; shot; shoulder; skins; son; spot; straight; stream; sure; thing; thought; time; track; trees; valley; vaqueros; village; watch; water; way; welcome; white; work; yards; years; young cache: 43067.txt plain text: 43067.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 45381 author: Anonymous title: The Popular Story of Blue Beard Embellished with neat Engravings date: None words: 3652 flesch: 70 summary: |When Blue Beard was gone, Fatima sent a kind invitation to her friends to come immediately to the castle, and ordered a grand entertainment to be prepared for their reception. [Illustration: 0015] |Blue Beard, who lost no time in paying the family a visit, was in a few days privately married to the young lady, and soon after the ceremony, Fatima, accompanied by her sister, returned to the castle the wife of Blue Beard. keywords: anne; apartment; beard; blood; blue; blue beard; brothers; castle; closet; curiosity; day; door; dreadful; entertainment; fatal; fatima; great; husband; illustration; key; ladies; leave; left; mother; open; riches; room; sister; time; voice; young cache: 45381.txt plain text: 45381.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 55021 author: Munroe, Kirk title: Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War date: None words: 81371 flesch: 76 summary: Other white men have lied to me and cheated me. With one accord, and without hesitation, they answered: Let the Iste-hatke (white man) keep his money. keywords: 'em; act; affairs; agent; ago; air; allala; anstice; anstice boyd; answer; anxiety; anxious; appearance; arms; army; attack; attention; augustine; away; band; bank; battle; bay; beautiful; best; better; birds; black; blood; blow; boat; body; bore; boyd; brave; breath; broken; brooke; brother; business; camp; captives; capture; care; case; certain; chance; chapter; chief; chieftain; children; circumstances; city; clad; clear; clinch; close; coacoochee; colonel; coming; command; companion; company; council; country; course; cowardly; cruel; cry; cut; dade; danger; dark; daughter; day; daylight; days; dead; deadly; dear; death; decided; deep; departure; determined; direction; distance; distant; dog; door; douglass; duty; ears; edge; effort; emathla; encampment; ended; enemies; enemy; english; englishman; entire; ere; escape; evening; expedition; eyes; face; far; fate; father; fear; feet; fellow; field; fierce; fighting; figure; fire; florida; following; foot; force; forest; form; fort; forward; free; freedom; friend; general; girl; glad; good; great; greater; ground; guard; guide; hadjo; half; hammock; hand; happy; hard; hatke; having; head; heart; heavy; hidden; hiding; hold; home; honest; hope; horses; hour; house; human; hunting; idea; indian; information; injun; instant; irwin; jeffers; journey; king; knife; known; lad; land; large; leader; leading; leave; length; letty; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; live; living; lodge; long; look; loss; lost; louis; lover; maiden; major; man; march; matter; mean; meantime; meet; men; micanopy; mighty; miles; mind; minutes; miss; moment; months; morning; morrow; mother; motionless; movements; mysterious; narrow; near; negroes; new; news; night; nita; number; occasion; occupied; officer; open; opportunity; opposite; order; osceola; outside; pacheco; palmetto; paper; party; people; philip; place; plantation; point; poor; position; possible; post; powerful; prepared; presence; present; primus; prisoners; promise; property; proved; purpose; quick; ralph; ralph boyd; reach; ready; reason; recent; red; removal; report; retreat; return; rifle; river; road; room; ruffin; safety; said; salano; savage; saw; scene; scout; search; second; seminole; set; setting; shadows; short; sign; silence; silent; single; sir; sister; slave; slavery; slender; small; soldiers; sound; spanish; speak; speaker; spirit; spring; startled; states; step; store; strange; strength; strong; stronghold; struggle; sun; swamp; table; taking; talk; talmus; tampa; tell; terrible; territory; terror; thee; thing; thompson; thought; thy; time; tone; town; trader; trail; treaty; tree; tribe; troops; troup; true; trust; turning; unconscious; united; view; village; visit; voice; waiting; want; war; warriors; water; weary; west; white; white man; wife; wild; wildcat; willing; withlacoochee; women; words; work; worth; wounded; young; young chief; young indian; young man; young war; youth cache: 55021.txt plain text: 55021.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 7060 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: At Agincourt date: None words: 122138 flesch: 77 summary: But there must be no mistake; if trials they must have, it must be by good men and true, who will know what is necessary and do it; and who will not stand upon legal tricks, but will take as evidence the fact that is known to all, that those people are dangerous to Paris and are the enemies of the king and the Duke of Burgundy. Who is your lady, young man? Dame Margaret de Villeroy, may it please you, sir. keywords: able; advantage; advice; afternoon; agnes; aid; answer; apartments; aquitaine; archers; armed; armour; arms; army; arrows; artois; assailants; assault; assistance; attack; attacking; aylmer; barricade; battle; berri; best; better; blood; blow; bodies; body; bouvard; bow; boy; brave; burgundian; burgundy; business; butchers; calais; care; case; castle; certain; chance; chapter; charge; charles; charlie; children; citizens; city; close; clugnet; coming; command; conduct; count; country; course; cross; crowd; cut; d'estournel; dame; dame margaret; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; defence; determined; difficulty; disguise; distance; door; doubt; doubtless; drawbridge; dress; duke; early; enemy; england; english; escape; esquire; estate; eustace; evening; face; fact; fair; family; father; fear; feet; fellows; field; fighting; fire; following; force; france; fray; free; french; friends; gain; garments; garrison; gates; gentlemen; girl; glad; good; great; greater; guard; guy; guy aylmer; hair; half; hall; hands; hard; head; heavy; henry; herald; high; hither; hold; home; honour; hoods; hope; horses; hour; house; husband; information; inner; italian; jean; john; katarina; king; knaves; knights; known; ladies; lady; large; late; lay; leaders; leave; left; leroux; life; like; likely; line; little; lives; lodging; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lost; loud; love; madame; majesty; man; march; margaret; market; marriage; master; master guy; matters; maã; means; men; message; messenger; methinks; miles; mind; minutes; mistress; moat; mob; moment; money; montepone; months; morning; morrow; mother; near; necessary; need; news; nobles; number; occasion; open; order; orleanists; orleans; outside; paris; parisians; parties; party; pass; past; pay; people; picard; place; pleased; point; portion; position; possible; power; powerful; prepared; present; prisoners; provost; quarter; queen; question; quiet; rank; rate; readiness; ready; rear; reason; rest; retainers; return; ride; right; river; robert; room; rose; rough; round; royal; run; running; safe; safety; save; saying; scarce; service; set; ship; shop; short; shouts; siege; silversmith; simon; sir; sir eustace; sir guy; skill; sleep; slight; small; smile; staff; standing; stars; stay; steps; stout; strange; street; strength; strong; sufficient; suit; summerley; sure; surprise; sword; taking; talk; tall; tell; tenants; terrible; things; thought; time; tis; tom; torches; town; trouble; true; trust; truth; upstairs; vassal; villeroy; wall; want; war; watch; water; way; white; wife; wine; wish; woman; work; wounded; yard; years; young cache: 7060.txt plain text: 7060.txt