item: #1 of 32
id: 11561
author: Wright, Mabel Osgood
title: People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife
date: None
words: 81260
flesch: 70
summary: Presently Sylvia slipped into the morning room, and crouching by Miss Lavinia, buried her face in her friend's lap, the tension at last giving way, and it was some time before she grew quiet enough to talk coherently, and tell her plan, which is this: she wishes Miss Lavinia to take the Alton cottage (which is furnished) at the foot of the Bluffs, for the rest of the season, and live there with her. I wonder if the Sylvia Latham who has been travelling with Miss Lavinia is any kin of the Lathams who are building the great colonial home above the Jenks-Smiths.
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item: #2 of 32
id: 12983
author: Smythe, James P.
title: Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated
date: None
words: 60746
flesch: 81
summary: So I feel, old man, exactly so, he laughed,--aren't all of them the rottenest types one ever saw? This little oversight may cost me a well-earned reputation for efficient management I have hitherto enjoyed among many great men of our times, if the omission be detected by some enterprising commission, some journalist or SERVICE man who will certainly check up my report if I leave this place alive.... 25.
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item: #3 of 32
id: 1551
author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
title: A Cathedral Courtship
date: None
words: 8946
flesch: 81
summary: We are doing the English cathedral towns, aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much improved, and aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.
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item: #4 of 32
id: 1892
author: Twain, Mark
title: Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms.
date: None
words: 4446
flesch: 88
summary: I remember now --the new creature uses it. About an hour after sunup, as I was riding through a flowery plain where thousands of animals were grazing, slumbering, or playing with each other, according to their wont, all of a sudden they broke into a tempest of frightful noises, and in one moment the plain was in a frantic commotion and every beast was destroying its neighbor.
keywords: animals; creature; falls; fish; good
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item: #5 of 32
id: 20022
author: Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
title: "Sequil"; Or, Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First
date: None
words: 35974
flesch: 97
summary: so father and old man Thirsten went down to see the barn and it was all spatered with yellow. tomorrow nite we are going to lay for old man Churchil with his troter.
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item: #6 of 32
id: 21129
author: Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
title: The Heart of Una Sackville
date: None
words: 64301
flesch: 88
summary: Has Vere been-- No, no, she hasn't! We had good times together when you were a youngster and used to trot round with me every morning to see the dogs and the horses, but I suppose you won't care for that sort of thing now.
keywords: course; day; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; head; heart; help; home; life; look; lorna; love; man; moment; mother; people; poor; rachel; room; things; thought; time; una; vere; wallace; want; way
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item: #7 of 32
id: 2426
author: James, Henry
title: The Diary of a Man of Fifty
date: None
words: 12116
flesch: 89
summary: Is it reserved for poor little Stanmer to put a bullet into him? Poor young Stanmer (he is of the Devonshire Stanmers--a great property) reported this speech verbatim, and of course it can't in the least signify to him that a poor grizzled, battered soldier, old enough to be his father, should come to call upon his _inammorata_.
keywords: countess; florence; man; moment; mother; salvi; scarabelli; stanmer; time; years
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item: #8 of 32
id: 26335
author: Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
title: Brite and Fair
date: None
words: 69746
flesch: 93
summary: mother sed i was prety lait and sed that father sed i hadent augt to be out so lait but she told him i asted if i cood go and she sed yes. i told mother what old mister minister sed and mother she sed that if old mister minister had to fite flise for every mossel of food
keywords: albert sed; beany; beanys father; becaus; bet; boat; boy; cat; cele; chirch; cood; dident; dog; enny; ennything; fair; father cood; father dident; father sed; father wood; feller; ferst; gess; gnew; going; good; hadent; hard; head; home; house; jest; keene; life; mad; man; minister; moar; mother; mutch; old; peeple; pewt; pewts father; prety; rite; round; sarah sed; school; sed george; set; sum; tell; things; thougt; time; today; tonite; verry; wasent; water; way; whitch; whitch sed; wood; woodent
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item: #9 of 32
id: 29632
author: Causey, James
title: Competition
date: None
words: 3034
flesch: 88
summary: After supper, Armitage played chess with Bishop while I followed Max into the control room. Today Max
keywords: armitage; bishop; farragut; march; max; senator
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item: #10 of 32
id: 30475
author: Woodley, J. B.
title: With a Vengeance
date: None
words: 2575
flesch: 87
summary: Please, Mr. Booth, he said, his voice cracking. How are you, Mr. Booth? he said.
keywords: booth; kyle; man; new
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item: #11 of 32
id: 32635
author: Compton, Paul
title: The Diary of Philip Westerly
date: None
words: 1525
flesch: 94
summary: Another was his love for mirrors. I have always been skeptical about such things as soul, but when I look into the mirror--God help me! _
keywords: mirror; thing
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item: #12 of 32
id: 36660
author: Tańska-Hoffmanowa, Klementyna
title: The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel
date: None
words: 31880
flesch: 79
summary: Now, when I think of it I feel uneasy; perhaps in that costume I was prettier than on other days.... The courtiers tell me often I am the handsomest, but I am sure I do not see it; we all have the bearing becoming young ladies of high station, daughters of a Staroste; we are straight as poplars, with complexions white as snow and cheeks pink as roses; our waists, especially when Madame ties us fast in our stays, can be, as they say, clasped with one hand.
keywords: basia; count; day; days; duke; eyes; father; good; heart; house; king; ladies; life; madame; morning; mother; order; parents; people; princess; room; staroste; time; warsaw; wedding; woivode; year; yesterday
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item: #13 of 32
id: 40202
author: Sharber, Kate Trimble
title: The Annals of Ann
date: None
words: 51202
flesch: 83
summary: Some days he sells as much as five hundred dollars worth of cake to _one_ man, though I don't see what keeps him from _dying_ that bought them of stomach ache, for I've had it myself since he's been here considerable. I say little thing, but it seemed a monstrous big thing to me at the time.
keywords: ann; baby; bertha; cousin; cousin eunice; day; diary; doctor; eunice; face; father; girl; good; head; house; jean; julius; lady; looking; lou; love; mammy; man; marcella; miss; morning; mother; night; people; rufe; tell; thing; thought; time; waterloo; way; young
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item: #14 of 32
id: 40316
author: Sharber, Kate Trimble
title: At the Age of Eve
date: None
words: 74070
flesch: 80
summary: Why, I thought the _Times_ had virtually _made_ Richard Chalmers. Make Alfred take you on to Ann Lisbeth's, and Rufe and I will come by for you after the lecture, she suggested, which was an easy solution and would not cause Alfred to feel that he must hurry on my account.
keywords: alfred; ann; book; case; chalmers; city; close; coming; course; cousin; day; doctor; door; eunice; evelyn; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hair; half; hand; head; home; house; kind; left; life; like; little; look; love; man; matter; moment; morning; mother; mrs; neva; new; night; place; richard; room; rufe; sophie; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman
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item: #15 of 32
id: 41801
author: Bates, Arlo
title: The Diary of a Saint
date: None
words: 93290
flesch: 87
summary: He is too big-souled and manly to niggle over little things; and he laughed at the pains I took, turning every corner with absurd care. She wants to be walked with, poor little thing, Rosa said incautiously.
keywords: aunt; baby; child; come; course; day; deacon; dear; eyes; face; father; george; girl; good; help; house; kathie; know; life; look; love; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; naomi; night; rosa; ruth; sort; talk; thing; thought; time; tom; way; webbe; wife; woman
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item: #16 of 32
id: 42665
author: Andreyev, Leonid
title: Satan's Diary
date: None
words: 60788
flesch: 85
summary: But Magnus _knows_. It was a month ago that Thomas Magnus _blew_ me up.
keywords: andreyev; blood; cardinal; course; day; death; devil; earth; eyes; face; fear; friend; gaze; hand; head; human; king; laughter; life; look; love; madonna; magnus; man; maria; moment; money; new; night; people; play; rome; satan; signor; think; thought; time; toppi; white; wine; wondergood; words
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item: #17 of 32
id: 42702
author: Baring, Maurice
title: Passing By
date: None
words: 47969
flesch: 88
summary: Last night after dinner Mrs Housman suggested reading aloud. Poor Mrs Housman is utterly worn out.
keywords: afternoon; august; carrington; catholic; church; cunninghame; dinner; george; godfrey; house; housmans; jarvis; lady; lady jarvis; london; luncheon; march; miss; monday; morning; mrs campion; mrs caryl; mrs housman; night; people; saturday; smith; sunday; thursday; time; tuesday; wednesday; week
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item: #18 of 32
id: 42797
author: Sherwood, Margaret Pollock
title: The Worn Doorstep
date: None
words: 31997
flesch: 78
summary: Little things long forgotten come drifting back, concerning your boyhood in the old rectory, the hard awakening of an English public school. The little things do not matter if the great convictions at the heart of nations are akin; have not people of late cared too much about little things?
keywords: bit; british; country; day; days; don; england; english; eyes; face; garden; gate; head; home; house; human; kitchen; life; little; look; madge; man; mind; people; peter; place; red; right; sense; things; thought; time; village; war; way; world
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item: #19 of 32
id: 4612
author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
title: The Altar Fire
date: None
words: 90185
flesch: 72
summary: I am glad you told me that story, old man. Indeed I think it is a perfectly natural and wholesome desire to know something of the life and habits of great men; I would go further, and say that it is an improving and inspiring sort of knowledge to be acquainted with the pleasant details of the well-ordered, contented, and happy life of a high-minded and effective man.
keywords: beauty; book; child; children; course; dark; day; days; desire; end; experience; face; friend; god; good; hand; heart; help; home; hope; house; joy; kind; letters; life; light; love; man; maud; men; mind; moment; people; place; power; quiet; sense; sorrow; sort; soul; spirit; suffering; sweet; talk; things; thought; time; want; way; work; world; writing
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item: #20 of 32
id: 50800
author: Van Scyoc, Sydney J.
title: Bimmie Says
date: None
words: 3029
flesch: 101
summary: Bimmie Says By SYDNEY VAN SCYOC Bimmie says people are stupid.
keywords: baby; bimmie; susta
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item: #21 of 32
id: 50935
author: Clifton, Mark
title: Star, Bright
date: None
words: 8956
flesch: 95
summary: And not only from historical places, but Star men, Pete. _ Quite a mess-- There were some people in that time who figured out the same kind of traveling Star and I do.
keywords: coin; daddy; jim; men; right; robert; star; strip; time
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item: #22 of 32
id: 5111
author: Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
title: The Real Diary of a Real Boy
date: None
words: 24161
flesch: 96
summary: i had told Pewt and Beany i wood treat on what father wood give me for getting the prise. Exeter, N. H. With a keen memory for old days.
keywords: aug; beany; becaus; brite; charlie; church; cood; dident; exeter; fair; father; fellers; fite; gess; good; head; home; jan; jest; july; june; man; mother; new; nite; pewt; round; school; time; today; water; wood
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item: #23 of 32
id: 51534
author: Wolfe, Bernard
title: Self Portrait
date: None
words: 9762
flesch: 85
summary: Kujack was waiting in the fitting room to give them their first tryout, but when I got there I found Len sitting with him. Strange thing about Kujack, he hardly ever says a word to me, but he never closes his mouth when Len's around.
keywords: boss; brain; chess; kujack; len; lot; pro; robot; thing; war; way; work
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item: #24 of 32
id: 52113
author: Putnam, Mary Lowell
title: Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal
date: None
words: 69076
flesch: 81
summary: Good men are good masters. I look round and see how other men live.
keywords: barton; believe; borrow; boy; country; day; doctor; dudley; england; eyes; face; family; father; friend; good; hand; harry; harvey; heart; home; house; leave; life; look; love; man; master; men; morning; mother; near; new; people; place; right; road; shaler; slave; son; tell; things; thought; time; way; westlake; work; world; years
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item: #25 of 32
id: 52946
author: Seaman, Augusta Huiell
title: Three Sides of Paradise Green
date: None
words: 50081
flesch: 88
summary: Who he was, or why his Aunt Yvonne and his Uncle Jean (as he calls them) should allude to him as Monsieur Louis, was something Louis couldn't understand. It may have been that Louis _was_ nervous, or that his foot slipped on a patch of ice, or that it was a combination of both.
keywords: book; boy; carol; course; dauphin; day; france; french; girls; good; green; house; imp; know; louis; miss; monsieur; new; right; room; sue; thing; thought; time; way; yvonne
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item: #26 of 32
id: 57473
author: Teskey, Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret)
title: The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West
date: None
words: 27967
flesch: 80
summary: Why, grandmother, I thought when I overheard Aunt Gwendolin talk, that _I_ was the Yellow Pearl; she called me such the first day I came, I said. Let her alone, said Aunt Gwendolin scornfully, and let the whole city know we have introduced the Yellow Per---- Gwendolin, dear, interrupted grandmother, do not speak so.
keywords: america; aunt; aunt gwendolin; baby; china; chinese; country; day; dear; grandmother; gwendolin; home; house; know; look; man; mrs; pearl; people; poor; professor; room; spanish; theodore; time; uncle; women; world; yellow; yick
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item: #27 of 32
id: 60434
author: McConnell, James V.
title: Learning Theory
date: None
words: 5604
flesch: 80
summary: It didn't take me long to discover that pressing the lever would give me food some of the time, while at other times all I got was the click and no protein ball. Sometimes I have to press the lever a dozen times or so before it will give me anything, while at other times it gives me one ball for each press.
keywords: behavior; floor; food; learning; room; theories; time
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item: #28 of 32
id: 61457
author: Leslie, Emma
title: Charley's Log: A Story of Schoolboy Life
date: None
words: 27608
flesch: 88
summary: Somehow they'd got so mixed up in this row that Tom seemed to be Chandos, and Chandos Tom, and whether I should wake and find they were all right, or Tom running about with Chandos's head on his shoulders, I couldn't tell for a little while. October 20th.--This is the last chance I shall get of writing in Charley's log, I expect, for I am to be turned out of his cabin, and Miss Chandos is to take my place.
keywords: chandos; fellows; god; good; governor; help; mean; mother; sea; stewart; thought; tom; wish
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item: #29 of 32
id: 8526
author: Twain, Mark
title: Eve's Diary, Part 1
date: None
words: 2313
flesch: 87
summary: During the last day or two I have taken all the work of naming things off his hands, and this has been a great relief to him, for he has no gift in that line, and is evidently very grateful. The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme--a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it.
keywords: day; experiment
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item: #30 of 32
id: 8527
author: Twain, Mark
title: Eve's Diary, Part 2
date: None
words: 1891
flesch: 89
summary: It was good casual art, still it showed that he possesses a certain quality of perception. I went there, and there was a pinch of delicate pink dust in the hole.
keywords: fire; heart
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item: #31 of 32
id: 8528
author: Twain, Mark
title: Eve's Diary, Part 3
date: None
words: 2739
flesch: 84
summary: It is best to prove things by actual experiment; then you KNOW; whereas if you depend on guessing and supposing and conjecturing, you never get educated. All these days we have had such good times, and it hasn't been lonesome for me, ever.
keywords: love; sex; things
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item: #32 of 32
id: 9615
author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
title: The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
date: None
words: 67645
flesch: 85
summary: But with what delight I kissed those warm, damp little hands! Live, live long and happily, and remember one thing: whether you remain in the wilds of the steppes--where you have sometimes been so sorrowful, but where I should so like to spend my last days--or whether you enter upon a different career, remember life deceives all but him who does not reflect upon her, and, demanding nothing of her, accepts serenely her few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
keywords: bizmyonkov; course; day; days; evening; eyes; face; forest; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; ivan; kolosov; letter; life; liza; look; love; man; marya; pasinkov; people; person; place; prince; right; room; round; sophia; sort; thought; time; town; varia; voice; way; woman; word
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