item: #1 of 4 id: 21729 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure date: None words: 96822 flesch: 81 summary: Am I not entitled, said Molly, ignoring her husband's question, to express regret that your work should include coming home now and then with scratched cheeks, and swelled noses, and black eyes? Come now, returned Giles, you must admit that I have fewer of these discomforts than most men of the force, owing, no doubt, to little men being unable to reach so high--and, d'you know, it's the little men who do most damage in life; they're such a pugnacious and perverse generation! Here, tuck into the bread and butter, little man, it'll make you grow. keywords: able; accident; action; advice; afternoon; age; air; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; attention; audience; ave; aware; baby; bad; balls; bank; bear; beautiful; bed; beehive; beer; beginning; best; better; bible; big; bin; bit; black; blue; bobby; bobby frog; body; book; boy; boys; brandon; bread; breakfast; breast; bright; brisbane; broken; brother; brown; bundle; burst; business; butler; bye; cab; canada; care; case; centre; certain; chair; chance; changed; chapter; character; children; christian; circumstances; city; classes; clean; close; clothing; coat; cold; comfort; common; company; condition; considerable; constable; continued; conversation; cook; corner; country; course; court; crackaby; creature; crowd; cut; daddy; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; degree; desire; destitute; diana; difficult; dinner; dirty; distance; doctor; door; doubt; drink; duty; early; earnest; easy; effect; efforts; england; escape; evening; expression; extent; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; family; far; farm; farmer; father; fear; feed; feelings; feet; fellow; female; fields; find; fine; fire; fish; floor; fond; food; foot; force; form; frame; free; friend; frog; garments; gaze; general; gentleman; george; giles; girl; git; glad; glance; glass; god; going; good; grand; great; grow; guardian; habit; half; hall; hand; happy; head; hearing; heart; heavy; helmet; help; hetty; high; hold; hole; home; hope; hospital; hour; house; huge; hungry; hurt; husband; idea; industry; influence; interesting; jesus; john; joy; kind; kindly; knock; knowledge; ladies; lady; large; larrabel; late; laugh; law; lay; leave; left; legs; life; like; lilly; line; little; little di; live; lodging; london; long; look; looking; loper; lord; lost; love; low; lowest; lumpy; ma'am; making; man; manner; mansion; mariar; martha; matter; matty; means; meeting; men; mention; mere; merryboy; mild; mill; mind; minutes; miserable; missionary; molly; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; mrs frog; mrs twitter; nature; near; ned; need; neighbourhood; new; news; nice; night; north; note; nothin'; notice; number; nurse; nursery; object; occasion; offer; office; old; on'y; ones; open; opinion; order; papa; pardon; particular; passing; past; pay; peculiar; penny; people; pity; place; play; pocket; point; policeman; pony; poor; poor little; poor mrs; possible; post; poverty; powerful; pray; prayer; present; pretty; public; purpose; question; quiet; ragged; rags; railway; rate; reader; ready; real; refuge; regard; remark; reply; required; rest; result; return; ribbon; richard; road; robert; room; rough; round; run; sad; sam; sammy; samuel; save; saw; scene; school; scotland; scott; seaward; second; seeing; self; set; settlement; shake; sharp; shop; short; silence; sir; sir richard; sister; sitting; situation; sixpence; sleep; slight; small; smile; smoke; society; solemn; son; sorry; soul; spare; spirit; spot; stand; state; station; stay; stephen; stickler; stop; straight; strange; street; strong; subject; sudden; suffering; superintendent; sure; surprise; sweet; sympathetic; tall; tea; thank; thing; thought; thrust; time; tone; train; tremendous; trouble; true; truth; turning; twitter; usual; value; vell; view; visit; visitor; voice; w'en; waifs; walk; want; warm; watch; water; way; wealth; week; welcome; welland; wery; west; whitechapel; wife; wild; window; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; word; work; worse; wot; wrong; yard; years; yes; young; youth cache: 21729.txt plain text: 21729.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 29022 author: None title: Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date: None words: 17061 flesch: 88 summary: * * * Illustration: _Winny_ (_one mile an hour_) _to Annie_ (_two miles an hour_). On to the bike beside my porch I'll spring, like falcon on its prey, And Lucy, on _her_ wheel shall scorch, And coast with me the livelong day. keywords: accident; air; automobile; automobilist; ave; awful; bar; beginner; best; better; bicycle; bike; black; book; boy; brake; break; british; broken; car; cars; cart; case; chauffeur; children; clarabella; clothes; coat; cool; country; course; cross; crowded; cycles; cycling; cyclist; daily; dark; day; dear; dinner; doctor; dog; driver; driving; dust; easy; elderly; ere; evening; example; exercise; eye; fact; fair; fall; fast; fat; feel; feet; fellow; fine; foot; friend; fytte; gentleman; girl; good; great; guv'nor; handle; head; highway; hill; hold; home; horse; hour; hubert; humour; idea; illustration; instructor; kind; ladies; lady; lamp; large; let; life; limit; little; long; love; machine; making; man; matter; mean; miles; mind; morning; motor; motor car; motoring; motorist; native; new; noise; number; old; osses; owner; pace; paper; park; past; path; pedestrian; people; perfect; pickwick; pip; point; police; policeman; poor; possible; present; pretty; punch; question; record; red; rest; ride; riding; right; road; robinson; round; sammy; scorcher; second; simple; sir; soft; sort; speed; spill; spring; start; steam; stop; sure; sweet; thing; thought; time; trap; turn; tyre; use; villager; walk; want; way; weller; wheel; white; wife; woman; wonder; words; wrong; years; yer; young cache: 29022.txt plain text: 29022.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 49831 author: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins title: Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome date: None words: 33430 flesch: 85 summary: If, however, in their youthful curiosity they pressed upon us too closely, polite men and women, who had also come to look, drove them back with terrible cries of _Via, ragazzi!_ And Behold they wrought a Work on the Wheels._ _IER.18.3_ keywords: abate; afternoon; albergo; answer; assisi; away; bad; baglioni; bags; bare; beautiful; 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people; perugia; piazza; pictures; pilgrimage; pilgrims; place; pleasure; pointed; poor; porta; priest; purple; push; quirico; red; rest; return; ride; riding; right; river; road; roadside; rome; room; rose; saint; sandrino; second; setting; short; siena; signora; signorelli; silent; singing; sister; sky; small; soft; soldiers; song; sound; station; stay; steep; stone; straight; strange; stream; street; sun; table; tall; terni; things; thought; tiber; time; town; train; trattoria; trees; tricycle; turn; valley; velocipede; village; vineyards; voices; walk; walls; water; way; wheel; white; wide; wife; window; wine; women; wonder; word; work; worse; years; yellow; young cache: 49831.txt plain text: 49831.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 58206 author: Murif, Jerome J. title: From Ocean to Ocean: Across a Continent on a Bicycle An Account of a Solitary Ride From Adelaide to Port Darwin date: None words: 47817 flesch: 81 summary: Soon after leaving the well dreary open country is met with--nothing to be seen for many miles but spinifex. * * Before many miles had been covered, against a head wind and under a sweltering sun, a sharp thirst reminded me that I had eaten a salt-meat breakfast; and that thirst became sharper still before Taylor Creek was reached. keywords: able; adelaide; afternoon; alice; animal; answer; ants; appearance; australia; bad; bag; bank; bay; beautiful; bed; bell; bend; best; better; bicycle; big; biscay; black; blackfellow; blue; book; bore; boss; box; branches; break; buildings; bush; business; bye; camp; camping; case; cattle; central; centre; certain; chain; chance; charge; charlotte; chinaman; clay; clear; close; clothes; cold; come; common; condition; continent; continued; cottages; country; couple; course; creek; crossing; crown; cut; cutting; cycling; cyclist; daly; dark; darwin; day; days; deal; deep; desert; diamond; direction; distance; doubt; dozen; drink; drop; dry; dwelling; east; elsey; end; evening; excellent; eye; eyes; fact; fair; fallen; fancy; far; fast; feeling; feet; fine; fire; flat; flies; following; food; foot; forest; fresh; friends; garden; general; giant; good; goyder; grass; great; greater; ground; gum; gums; half; hand; 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