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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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