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- 21627
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Gambler's World
- date: None
- words: 7922
- flesch: 96
- summary: Your derisive attitude is uncalled for, Retief, Magnan said sharply. Ambassador Crodfoller pursed his lips, waiting until Retief and Magnan took places in the ring of Terrestrial diplomats around him.
- keywords: = =; agreement; ambassador; arm; better; big; chips; cook; corps; credits; crodfoller; crowd; diplomats; door; dope; eyes; gear; glass; globe; good; grip; hand; handed; head; hole; illy; kippy; kitchen; knife; knives; lead; lever; like; little; long; lot; magnan; man; mouth; nenni; people; petreac; potentate; retief; right; room; rotune; sound; stick; stood; sure; time; tower; trade; voice; vug; way; white; word; work; zorn
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- 21782
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: The Yillian Way
- date: None
- words: 5233
- flesch: 84
- summary: Did I understand your Excellency to say that we're ready to concede half of it to the Yill without a struggle? Ambassador Spradley looked up at Retief, blinking. As Retief came up, Ambassador Spradley glanced at his finger watch and spoke to the man beside him.
- keywords: admirable; ambassador; ambassador spradley; bare; black; blow; cai; chief; corps; course; dancer; dishes; door; eyed; eyes; f'kau; fist; floor; gray; half; hands; head; interpreter; kau; kindly; king; like; magnan; man; members; mission; mouth; music; orchestra; p'toi; party; protocol; reception; retief; room; sabre; servant; silence; slender; soup; spradley; t'cai; table; tall; terran; terrestrial; vehicle; voice; way; yill; young; | |
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- 34925
- author: Wells, David Dwight
- title: Parlous Times: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy
- date: None
- words: 98780
- flesch: 80
- summary: Miss Campbell, this is Secretary Stanley, a member of the Diplomatic Corps, who has just confessed to me that he habitually eludes the trustful hostess and the proffered tea. Say Sunday.
- keywords: able; accepted; account; action; advice; affairs; afraid; afternoon; american; answer; appearance; arthur; assured; attempt; attention; awkward; bad; bank; beautiful; best; bit; black; blue; bob; book; bowed; breakfast; breath; bride; burst; business; butler; care; careful; cart; case; certain; chamber; chance; chapter; charge; charming; chests; chief; church; circumstances; clear; clever; closed; club; cold; colonel; colonel darcy; coming; common; companion; company; consent; consideration; continued; conversation; corner; costa; country; course; cut; danger; dangerous; darcy; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; desire; determined; different; dinner; diplomacy; diplomatic; direction; divorce; door; doubt; dowager; drawing; drive; duty; early; easy; effect; engaged; engagement; england; english; entrance; escape; evening; event; evidence; excellency; excuse; express; eyes; face; fact; far; fate; father; favour; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; figure; firm; fitzgerald; floor; flushed; fool; foot; force; foreign; free; friend; future; game; gentleman; girl; glad; glance; glass; good; government; great; greatest; guests; hair; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; heavens; heavy; help; high; hold; home; honour; hope; hostess; hour; house; human; husband; hyde; ill; important; inez; information; innocent; inside; instant; instructions; interest; interesting; interview; irish; isabelle; jack; jimsy; john; kent; kind; kingsland; knowledge; ladies; lady; lady isabelle; ladyship; lambert; large; later; laughing; lauriston; lead; leave; left; legation; letter; library; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; living; london; long; look; lost; love; lunch; madame; mamma; man; manner; marchioness; marriage; married; match; matter; means; messenger; mind; minister; minutes; miss; miss fitzgerald; mistake; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nails; nature; near; necessary; need; new; news; night; nodded; nonsense; note; offer; officer; official; old; open; opportunity; order; outside; paper; pardon; park; parlous; party; past; paused; people; person; place; play; pleasure; plot; pocket; point; poor; position; possession; possible; pounds; presence; present; price; private; promise; proper; putting; question; randell; real; reason; receipt; register; relief; request; reserve; respect; rest; result; return; riddle; roberts; roof; room; round; run; safe; sake; saw; saying; seat; second; secretary; secrets; self; sense; service; set; short; shoulders; sigh; silence; silent; silver; sir; situation; small; smile; smoking; social; society; sorry; south; special; speech; staircase; stairs; standing; stanley; state; statement; step; story; street; strong; subject; success; sufficient; suggested; suit; sure; surprise; suspicion; sussex; talk; tea; telegram; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; tones; touch; tower; town; treaty; trifle; trouble; true; trust; truth; unfortunate; visit; voice; waiting; walk; way; white; wife; willing; window; wish; woman; wonder; word; work; worst; worth; wrong; years; young
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- 60901
- author: Hamilton, Frederic, Lord
- title: The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday Being Some Random Reminiscences of a British Diplomat
- date: None
- words: 88931
- flesch: 65
- summary: In view of the straitened circumstances of most Portuguese families, the evening meal would probably consist of one single dish of _bacalhao_ or salt cod, and you would have put your hosts to the greatest inconvenience. I attribute the dry-rot which ate into the whole structure of the mighty Empire, and brought it crashing to the ground, in a very large degree to the intemperate habits prevailing amongst all classes of Russian men, which in justice one must add, may be due to climatic reasons.
- keywords: a.m.; absolute; account; actual; admirable; advantage; affairs; air; alexander; alexandra; ambassador; america; ampthill; amusement; ancient; animal; anxious; appearance; approach; argentine; arrival; artificial; asuncion; atmosphere; attempt; attention; attractive; austrian; ayres; baggage; ball; bare; baron; bay; bear; bearded; beauties; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beer; berlin; best; big; birds; bismarck; black; blessing; blood; blue; boat; body; bomb; book; boots; bore; bow; box; boy; boys; brazil; break; brilliant; britain; british; broad; broken; brother; buckingham; buenos; building; bull; business; butter; camp; canada; canadian; capital; carnival; carved; case; cathedral; catherine; centre; centuries; century; ceremonial; certain; chancery; change; chapter; character; charming; chief; children; church; churches; château; circle; circumstances; circus; city; clear; climate; close; clothes; club; coat; cold; colleague; collection; colonel; colony; colour; coloured; columns; comical; commercial; common; company; complete; conclusion; conditions; congress; conscious; consequences; considerable; constant; continent; contrast; conversation; convinced; countess; countries; country; course; court; courtesy; cross; crown; curious; curiously; custom; cut; cué; daily; dancing; dark; date; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; deaf; deal; death; decorated; deep; delicious; delightful; dentist; description; details; determined; diamond; dick; different; difficult; difficulties; dignified; dignity; dining; dinner; diplomatic; distance; doctor; dom; domes; door; dress; drive; driving; drunk; duck; dufferin; dull; dutch; dynasty; early; eastern; easy; eating; edward; effect; effective; eighties; elaborate; electric; embassy; embroidered; emperor; empire; empress; endless; engine; england; english; entertainments; entire; environs; europe; european; evening; events; excellent; exception; exercise; experience; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fall; familiar; families; family; famous; fancy; far; fashion; favourite; features; feeling; feet; feminine; fernando; fever; figure; fine; finest; finished; finland; finnish; fire; fish; fishing; flat; floor; flowers; fond; food; foot; foreign; foreigner; forest; form; fortnight; fortress; fortunate; fountains; france; frederick; free; french; fresh; friends; frontier; frozen; fruit; funeral; furniture; game; gardens; garments; gatchina; general; genial; george; german; giers; gigantic; gilding; gilt; gipsies; girls; glass; glorious; gold; golden; good; gorgeous; government; graceful; grand; great; greater; green; grey; guests; gulf; gun; habit; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; head; headed; heat; heavy; help; hideous; high; highest; hills; history; holy; home; horses; hot; hours; house; howard; huge; human; hundreds; hungarian; ice; idea; iii; ikon; ikonostas; immense; imperial; important; imposing; impossible; impression; incidents; india; individual; information; inhabitants; instance; intense; interesting; interior; invitation; iron; isaac; italian; january; japanese; jardine; journey; joy; kaiser; kiderlin; kindly; kings; knowledge; known; koltesha; kremlin; ladies; lady; lakes; land; language; large; leave; left; legation; legs; length; life; lighted; like; lines; lisbon; little; live; living; london; long; longer; looking; lopez; lord; louis; love; lovely; luncheon; madame; male; man; manner; marble; married; mass; master; means; members; memory; men; messenger; methods; middle; midnight; mighty; miles; military; milk; mind; minister; minute; modern; modest; months; morning; moscow; mother; music; musical; mysterious; names; napoleon; narrow; national; native; natural; nature; necessary; neva; new; nicholas; night; north; northern; note; novel; number; nuncio; occasions; office; official; oil; old; open; opera; opportunity; orange; orchestra; order; oriental; origin; original; orloff; ornate; orthodox; outside; p.m.; pages; palace; palms; paper; paraguay; paris; park; particular; party; past; patiño; peasants; peculiar; pedro; people; perfect; performance; period; perpetual; personal; peter; peterhof; petrograd; petropolis; picturesque; piece; pink; places; plain; plate; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; police; politeness; poor; popular; population; portugal; portuguese; position; potsdam; power; practical; present; pretty; pride; priest; prince; princess; private; progress; prussia; public; purple; quaint; quarter; queen; race; railway; real; reason; red; republic; reputation; respect; restaurants; result; reszke; return; ring; river; roman; rome; roof; room; rose; rough; round; royal; rubinstein; run; running; russian; salmon; satin; scarlet; sea; second; secret; self; sense; servants; service; set; seventeenth; seventies; shooting; short; silk; silver; similar; simple; singing; single; sir; situation; size; ski; skill; skin; sky; sledge; sleep; small; smooth; snow; society; solid; somewhat; son; sons; soup; south; southern; space; spanish; special; spite; splendid; sporting; spot; spring; staircase; standing; state; stately; station; steamer; stock; stockings; stone; straight; stranger; stream; streets; strong; style; subject; sufficient; sugar; suit; summer; sun; sunday; supper; sure; swift; table; talk; tall; taste; tea; telegram; temperature; temple; term; terrible; theatres; thick; things; thousands; throne; time; title; tokyo; town; traditional; train; treaty; trees; tremendous; tropical; trouble; trousers; true; trust; tsarskoe; turks; turn; type; typical; ugly; unexpected; uniforms; unknown; unusual; vanished; varied; vast; vauxhall; velvet; victoria; vienna; viennese; view; village; visit; visitor; vivid; voice; von; wagner; waiters; waiting; walls; warm; water; way; west; western; white; wife; wild; william; window; wine; winter; wish; wolves; women; wonderful; wood; wooden; words; work; world; yacht; years; yellow; yesterday; young
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- 61097
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: The Frozen Planet
- date: None
- words: 9874
- flesch: 98
- summary: Spare me your sarcasm, Mr. Retief, he said. Retief sat relaxed and said nothing.
- keywords: alien; anne; attack; bergman; better; big; cabin; cap'n; captain; chef; chip; cigar; clear; clerk; coffee; cold; course; day; desk; door; eyes; face; far; feet; floor; good; half; hand; handle; head; heavy; hours; information; inside; jorgensen; kind; left; like; long; look; magnan; man; marie; men; mike; mind; minutes; mister; necked; needler; old; open; people; plan; point; retief; right; room; secret; ship; silence; skaw; soetti; space; speaker; sure; sweaties; table; tank; thick; thug; time; tony; tove; tower; voice; way; white; worlds; yer
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- 61139
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: The Madman From Earth
- date: None
- words: 9329
- flesch: 94
- summary: Please escort Mr. Retief to his quarters in this building-- I don't advise you to violate my diplomatic immunity, Fith, Retief said. As chief of mission, Miss Meuhl said quickly, I hereby waive immunity in the case of Mr. Retief.
- keywords: alive; captain; car; chief; city; close; come; communicator; consul; consulate; cop; cruiser; death; diplomatic; door; driver; drunk; end; eye; eyes; face; fith; force; foreign; good; government; groacian; guard; gun; hand; head; headquarters; heavy; hit; like; little; local; long; look; mandibles; meuhl; mind; ministry; miss; miss meuhl; office; official; open; past; people; police; ready; report; retief; right; room; rose; satellite; scatter; screen; seat; ship; shluh; stalks; sure; task; terran; terrestrial; thing; throat; time; true; voice; waiting; way; whaffle; wish; years
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- 61146
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain
- date: None
- words: 5635
- flesch: 93
- summary: Still, Retief said, it gives an opportunity to travel-- Travel! Here in this backwater system particularly-- He paused, blinked at Retief and cleared his throat.
- keywords: alien; bert; boys; consul; course; cousin; desert; eye; face; feet; flap; fringe; goin'; good; guess; hand; head; heavy; hoshick; ivory; jack; know; leather; lemuel; life; like; low; mail; man; miles; missile; oases; old; open; passwyn; pilot; pistol; potter; red; retief; right; sand; screen; set; settlers; situation; skiff; skirmishforms; sorry; spawn; sure; swazey; terrestrial; thumb; time; travel; voice; war; way; weapons; weight; wine; yards
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- 61198
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Aide Memoire
- date: None
- words: 6537
- flesch: 91
- summary: Retief and Magnan followed in Whonk's wake. Across the table from Retief, Ambassador Magnan rustled a stiff sheet of parchment and looked grave.
- keywords: aide; ambassador; arm; better; box; carapace; clear; crowd; day; deep; diplomat; door; drawings; elder; embassy; feet; fellow; flat; floor; free; fustian; good; great; green; groaci; group; head; heavy; idea; left; light; liner; little; look; magnan; matter; mind; minister; moss; need; new; note; old; oldster; open; papers; place; pleasure; position; retief; rock; scars; set; shipyard; sleep; slock; soft; sponsorship; spot; sun; terrestrial; thought; way; whonk; world; yith; youth
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- 61263
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Cultural Exchange
- date: None
- words: 6681
- flesch: 93
- summary: Are you Mr. Retief of CDT? one said. I've heard about you, Mr. Retief.
- keywords: arapoulous; bacchus; bad; baggage; better; big; black; bogan; boge; business; corps; course; croanie; crop; d'land; day; desk; equipment; exchange; fellow; funny; furkle; gulver; half; hand; hank; hope; jim; karsh; kind; little; long; lot; lovenbroy; magnan; man; meddle; mind; mining; miss; model; need; office; picking; plenty; retief; season; students; sure; thanks; time; tractors; vines; vintage; way; whaffle; wine; work; world; years
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- 61285
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: The Desert and the Stars
- date: None
- words: 7185
- flesch: 89
- summary: Mr. Retief did play the role of messenger. Many times have I longed to broil a diplomat over a slow fire, the Aga Kaga snarled.
- keywords: action; aga; aga kaga; air; bare; bearded; better; black; boyars; broad; car; chef; cigar; corps; course; d'regime; diplomatic; end; excellency; eyed; eyes; face; far; flamme; georges; glass; goat; good; government; grape; guest; hands; hard; heads; historical; history; house; kaga; kagans; land; leader; little; long; magnan; man; matter; mind; minister; mouth; need; note; old; paper; peace; planetary; plenty; point; potentate; purple; ready; reports; retief; rifle; right; routine; secretary; sector; sound; speak; stanley; support; sure; time; treaty; way; work; world; years
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- 61353
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Saline Solution
- date: None
- words: 6512
- flesch: 88
- summary: Sure thing, Mr. Retief. Mr. Leatherwell is hardly interested in these details, Retief, Magnan cut in.
- keywords: belt; black; boat; bodean; body; briefcase; carrier; ceres; chair; claim; company; consul; consulate; course; deposit; desk; eye; fast; find; foot; funny; general; glass; gold; good; grant; group; gumble; hand; injunction; interest; leatherwell; look; magnan; mancziewicz; matter; mind; minerals; miss; navy; need; offer; open; ore; papers; people; plenty; pocket; property; public; retief; right; rock; room; rose; sam; screen; skiff; stuff; suit; sure; surface; table; time; valuable; voice
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- 61434
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: Mightiest Qorn
- date: None
- words: 6547
- flesch: 88
- summary: Try to restrain Mr. Magnan from any impulsive moves--in any direction. Nice piece of work, Mr. Magnan, Retief said.
- keywords: action; afraid; alien; ambassador; arms; attache; beak; blue; bony; chair; corps; course; cut; diplomats; excellency; eye; eyes; face; feet; fellows; flame; floor; foot; free; gentlemen; good; great; green; hall; hand; head; hours; idea; kind; leader; like; little; long; look; magnan; military; new; nitworth; note; peace; planet; qornt; retief; right; second; secretary; silence; sir; slun; smorbrod; sure; table; tall; tarroon; terrestrial; think; time; ultimatum; verpp; war; way; white; zubb
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- 61459
- author: Laumer, Keith
- title: The Governor of Glave
- date: None
- words: 10258
- flesch: 90
- summary: I don't know why you smoke those things instead of dope sticks, Mr. Retief, he said. Ah, Mr. Retief honors us with his presence.
- keywords: ambassador; arm; better; big; blank; boss; broad; building; car; cdt; center; chief; cigar; city; class; control; corasol; corporal; corps; course; crowd; desk; door; duty; entire; eyes; face; far; feet; fellows; free; general; gentlemen; gfe; glave; glavian; good; gun; half; hand; head; heavy; high; hours; house; jake; left; like; little; long; look; lot; lyn; magnan; man; manager; men; mind; mission; mister; new; old; open; outside; paper; past; place; plant; popular; port; position; power; retief; revolution; right; room; secretary; shot; small; sozier; staff; station; sternwheeler; sure; taine; technical; things; time; trouble; uniformed; voice; wall; water; way; white; work
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