item: #1 of 13 id: 16259 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People date: None words: 33026 flesch: 83 summary: When the wicked monster saw the Prince, it decided that here was a splendid opportunity to make mischief; so it said, politely: Good morning, King Zingle. In the first place, the Monarch of Mo is a very pleasant personage holding the rank of King. keywords: able; afraid; air; angry; apple; arm; beautiful; best; big; bird; boat; body; box; bredenbutta; castle; cave; children; chopper; country; course; creature; day; days; dinner; dog; donkey; door; dragon; duchess; ears; end; escape; eyes; father; feet; fiddlecumdoo; fight; fish; foot; fox; frightened; giant; gigaboo; good; great; ground; gulf; hands; hard; head; heart; hole; home; house; iron; jollikin; journey; kind; king; kite; lady; lake; land; large; left; legs; like; line; little; long; look; lost; love; maetta; majesty; man; matter; men; moment; monarch; monkeys; monster; mother; mountain; mouth; near; neck; new; old; palace; pattycake; people; pleased; plum; pocket; poor; pretty; prince; princess; pudding; purple; queen; rest; return; river; room; royal; sharp; short; small; soldiers; song; sorceress; spider; strange; strong; sure; surprise; tail; teeth; temper; thing; thought; time; timtom; toe; tree; truella; valley; voice; walk; way; wicked; wife; wind; wise; wish; wizard; wood; wooden; young; zingle cache: 16259.txt plain text: 16259.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 16328 author: None title: Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem date: None words: 41056 flesch: 80 summary: This collar enjoy thou, Beowulf worthy, Young man, in safety, and use thou this armor, Gems of the people, and prosper thou fully, Show thyself sturdy and be to these liegemen Mild with instruction! One saluted the other, Hrothgar Beowulf, in rhythmical measures, 95 keywords: able; account; aid; ancient; anglo; armor; arms; assistance; atheling; bade; bairn; band; banquet; bare; barrow; battle; beer; belovèd; bench; beowulf; best; better; blood; body; bold; bosom; brave; bright; brother; building; burnie; burning; champion; change; chieftain; companions; comrades; conflict; creature; currents; danemen; danes; danish; daughter; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; doughty; dragon; dwelling; earlmen; early; earth; earthmen; ecgtheow; edges; edition; emendation; english; erst; excellent; fall; famed; famous; far; fate; father; fell; feud; fierce; finn; fire; foeman; folk; friend; frisians; gainst; geatmen; geats; gems; giant; gifts; giver; giving; gleaming; glory; god; gold; good; gore; grapple; gray; great; grendel; grim; guard; h.-so; half; hall; hand; hath; hatred; head; healfdene; heaven; helmet; help; heorot; hero; heroes; higelac; high; hither; hnæf; hoard; hold; home; honor; horrible; hrethel; hrothgar; i.e.; ill; iron; jewels; journey; joy; joyance; joys; keeping; king; king hrothgar; kingdom; kinsman; land; lay; leader; liegelord; liegemen; life; line; little; long; longer; look; lord; lying; mail; malice; man; mead; meaning; means; measures; men; mere; mid; mighty; minded; modern; mong; monster; mood; morning; mother; need; night; noble; nowise; o'er; occasion; ocean; offspring; oft; old; ones; ongentheow; ornaments; palace; parallel; passage; people; poem; prince; prowess; queen; race; read; reading; rendering; renders; requital; retainers; ring; ruler; sad; saw; saxon; scyldings; sea; second; seek; shield; slain; sleeping; slumber; son; song; sons; sorrow; spear; spirit; strength; strife; struggle; sturdy; swimming; sword; t.b; terror; thane; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; treasure; troop; troopers; twas; unferth; uttered; valiant; verse; vessel; visit; wall; war; ward; warden; warriors; waters; waves; way; weapon; weders; wide; wielder; wiglaf; wise; woe; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worthy; wretched; years; yore; young; youthful cache: 16328.txt plain text: 16328.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 20431 author: None title: The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats date: None words: 35786 flesch: 82 summary: Never heard I how friendlier four of the treasures, All gear'd with the gold about, many men erewhile On the ale-bench have given to others of men. Round the roof of the helm, the burg of the head, So word uttered Beowulf, spake out the boast word For the last while as now: Many wars dared I 2510 keywords: atheling; bade; bairn; bale; bare; battle; bench; beowulf; best; blood; body; bore; breast; bright; brother; burg; byrny; craft; danes; daughter; days; deal; dear; death; deeds; doom; doughty; e'en; earls; earth; ecgtheow; edge; erewhile; erst; evil; fair; far; fare; faring; fast; father; fell; fellows; feud; fierce; finn; fire; flame; floor; foe; folk; forsooth; forth; friend; gat; gear; geats; gift; glory; god; gold; good; great; grendel; grim; grip; ground; hall; hand; hard; hate; hath; head; healfdene; heart; hearted; helm; help; heroes; high; hold; holm; home; host; house; hrethel; hrothgar; hygelac; iron; joy; kindred; king; kinsman; land; lay; lief; life; loathly; long; lord; main; maker; man; mankind; mead; men; mere; mickle; mighty; mind; minded; monster; mood; mother; naught; need; night; nowise; o'er; oft; old; ongentheow; people; queen; quoth; ring; said; saw; scather; scyldings; sea; seek; set; shield; ship; sithence; slain; slaughter; son; sorrow; soul; sound; spake; stead; strife; sword; thane; thee; therewith; things; thou; thy; tide; time; treasure; twain; unto; victory; wall; war; ward; warden; warrior; water; waves; ways; weders; wend; whenas; whiles; whit; wide; wielder; wife; wiglaf; wise; woe; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worm; wrought; yea; young cache: 20431.txt plain text: 20431.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 22566 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz date: None words: 43125 flesch: 87 summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. So I will do as you say, friend Wizard. keywords: afraid; air; animal; arms; balloon; bears; beautiful; belt; best; better; big; black; blue; bodies; body; boy; breath; broad; buggy; bush; cab; case; cat; cave; cavern; chapter; children; city; climb; colored; country; course; crack; creature; cut; day; days; dear; distance; dorothy; dreadful; earth; eating; edge; emerald; escape; eureka; eyes; face; fact; fast; fat; feet; fine; floor; folks; friends; fruit; gardens; gargoyles; girl; glad; glass; good; great; green; ground; hair; half; hall; hand; hat; head; help; high; hole; home; horse; houses; hugson; humbug; hungry; illustration; inside; invisible; jim; jury; kansas; kitten; land; lanterns; large; left; legs; life; like; lion; little; little man; little wizard; long; look; love; magic; man; mangaboos; means; mind; moment; mother; mountain; near; need; new; oil; old; opening; ozma; people; person; pet; piglets; place; pocket; pretty; princess; queer; race; ready; real; reply; rest; right; rock; roof; room; royal; ruler; run; save; sawhorse; scarecrow; seat; sharp; short; sir; small; soft; sorcerer; stairs; star; stones; stop; strange; strangers; suns; sure; surface; sword; talk; things; thought; throne; tiger; time; tiny; tone; true; uncle; use; valley; vegetable; voe; voice; walk; water; way; white; wings; wish; wizard; woggle; wonderful; wooden; woodman; world; wrong; yellow; zeb cache: 22566.txt plain text: 22566.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 23661 author: Nesbit, E. (Edith) title: The Book of Dragons date: None words: 43367 flesch: 89 summary: Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs. The children saw other dragons in the air as they went, but the dragon who was as big as the dining room never stopped to speak to any of them, but just flew on quite steadily. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; arms; asleep; baby; beasts; beautiful; bed; beginning; best; better; big; birthday; blacksmith; blue; book; bottle; boy; bread; care; cave; chancellor; children; clever; cockatrice; cold; come; country; course; crown; cry; crying; dark; day; days; dead; dear; door; dragon; dragonproof; drakling; dungeon; dwarfs; earth; edmund; effie; elephant; elfin; end; eyes; far; fast; father; feet; field; fire; friends; garden; george; gold; good; great; green; griffin; grouse; half; hands; happy; hard; harry; head; heart; help; hippogriff; hole; home; horse; hot; illustration; inside; iron; island; james; jane; john; johnnie; kind; king; kingdom; large; left; life; like; lionel; little; live; long; look; looking; man; manticora; master; mayor; middle; milk; mind; minister; minutes; moment; morning; mother; nearer; new; nice; nigel; north; nurse; old; ones; open; outside; page; palace; people; person; pigs; pillar; play; pleased; pole; poor; present; pretty; prime; princess; purple; queen; rabbits; real; red; right; room; rotundia; round; run; sabrinetta; safe; school; sealskin; set; shining; silly; sir; size; slide; small; snow; soft; sorry; steps; stone; sure; tail; tea; tell; things; thought; time; tina; tom; tower; town; tree; turn; uncle; warm; water; way; week; wet; whirlpools; white; wicked; wings; witch; wonder; wood; work; world; wrong; years; yellow cache: 23661.txt plain text: 23661.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 26448 author: Wister, Owen title: The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale date: None words: 31159 flesch: 88 summary: TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE How Sir Godfrey came to lose his Temper 19 CHAPTER II. How _Sir Godfrey_ came to lose his Temper [Illustration: THE BVTLER HIS BOY GODFREY DISSEISIN] There was something wrong in the cellar at Wantley Manor. keywords: abbot; anselm; armour; baron; bars; bath; bear; bed; bell; better; black; boy; brother; burgundy; buttery; buttons; cage; candle; care; cellar; chaplain; chapter; child; christmas; church; closet; cold; corner; country; course; court; crocodile; crusade; cups; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dinner; disseisin; distant; door; dragon; dry; elaine; eve; eyes; face; family; father; father anselm; fellow; fire; floor; fool; foot; francis; french; geoffrey; girl; godfrey; going; gone; good; governess; gown; grand; gray; great; guild; half; hall; hand; head; heart; hide; high; holy; home; hot; hour; house; household; hubert; hucbald; huge; illustration; iron; keys; lady; late; left; legend; like; lips; little; lock; long; look; loud; love; main; malvoisie; man; manner; manor; marshal; matter; men; mind; miss; mistletoe; moment; monastery; monks; monster; morning; morrow; near; new; night; noise; old; open; oyster; papa; passage; people; person; piece; pious; pit; place; pooh; popham; present; pretty; promise; rage; ready; red; remark; rev; roar; roland; room; rose; round; safe; second; shut; silence; silent; single; sir; sir francis; sir godfrey; skin; snow; son; sort; stairs; standing; steps; study; sure; sword; table; tail; talk; thee; thing; thinking; thou; thought; time; tis; title; true; voice; walls; wantley; water; way; wedding; whelpdale; white; wide; window; wine; words; world; wrong; young; youth cache: 26448.txt plain text: 26448.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 30017 author: Gannett, Ruth Stiles title: My Father's Dragon date: None words: 7906 flesch: 89 summary: The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn't you like to come home with me? This surprised the cat--she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats--but she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. keywords: animals; bag; bank; big; bit; boar; cat; chapter; crocodile; day; dragon; father; gorilla; gum; illustration; island; jungle; left; like; lion; little; lollipops; long; look; ocean; rhinoceros; right; river; rocks; rope; rubber; tangerines; tigers; time; tusk; voice; water; way; wild cache: 30017.txt plain text: 30017.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 420 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz date: None words: 42881 flesch: 87 summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. Said he: This child, who is from the crust of the earth, like yourself, called you a Wizard. keywords: afraid; air; animal; arms; away; balloon; bears; beautiful; belt; best; better; big; black; blue; bodies; body; boy; breath; broad; buggy; bush; cab; case; cat; cave; cavern; children; city; climb; colored; country; course; crack; creature; cut; day; days; dear; distance; dorothy; dreadful; earth; eating; edge; emerald; escape; eureka; eyes; face; fact; fast; fat; feet; fine; floor; folks; friends; fruit; gardens; gargoyles; girl; glad; glass; good; great; green; ground; hair; half; hall; hand; hat; head; help; high; hole; home; horse; houses; hugson; humbug; hungry; inside; invisible; jim; jury; kansas; kitten; land; lanterns; large; left; legs; life; like; lion; little; little man; little wizard; long; look; love; magic; man; mangaboos; means; mind; moment; mother; mountain; near; need; new; oil; old; opening; ozma; people; person; pet; piglets; place; pocket; pretty; princess; queer; race; ready; real; reply; rest; right; rock; roof; room; royal; ruler; run; save; sawhorse; scarecrow; seat; sharp; short; sir; small; soft; sorcerer; stairs; star; stones; stop; strange; strangers; suns; sure; surface; sword; talk; things; thought; throne; tiger; time; tiny; tone; true; uncle; use; valley; vegetable; voe; voice; walk; water; way; white; wings; wish; wizard; woggle; wonderful; wooden; woodman; world; wrong; yellow; zeb cache: 420.txt plain text: 420.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 518 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People date: None words: 37720 flesch: 85 summary: So Prince Marvel followed one of the Ki up the steps and Nerle the other Ki, while the two Ki-Ki came behind them so they could not escape. A perfect silence greeted them, during which the double Ki and the double Ki-Ki bent their four bodies low and advanced into the throne-room, followed by Prince Marvel and Nerle. keywords: act; adventure; amazement; answer; appearance; armor; baron; beautiful; berna; better; big; black; book; boy; bugs; captains; castle; cave; change; children; color; command; country; creature; dawna; day; days; death; doors; double; dragon; dwarfs; enchanted; esquire; eyes; face; fairies; fairy; far; father; fear; feet; fierce; fight; fool; forest; friends; giants; girls; glad; gold; good; grasshoppers; gray; great; green; ground; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; head; hedge; helda; high ki; home; honest; horse; houses; island; june; killer; king; king terribus; kingdom; knight; kwytoffle; lady; land; large; laugh; laughing; laughter; left; life; like; little; long; look; magic; man; master; men; mighty; mirror; moment; morning; mortal; near; nerle; new; nose; old; old ki; open; pairs; palace; party; path; people; pleasant; pleasure; poor; powers; pretty; prince; prince marvel; prisoners; red; reply; return; rocks; rogue; room; rope; rose; royal; rule; rulers; servants; seseley; sharp; silver; single; small; smile; soldiers; sorcerer; speech; spor; standing; steps; stone; strangers; sure; surprise; sweet; sword; takim; terrible; terribus; thieves; thing; thought; throne; time; trees; true; twin; twin ki; ugly; voice; wall; way; white; wish; women; words; work; world; wul; year; yellow; young cache: 518.txt plain text: 518.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 52176 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Tik-Tok of Oz date: None words: 49766 flesch: 86 summary: I was so ashamed of my looks, continued the voice of Shaggy's brother, that I tried to hide; but the cruel King Ruggedo forced me to appear before all the legion of nomes, to whom he said: 'Behold the Ugly One!' This startled little Betsy, but the Shaggy Man merely waved the Magnet toward the Gardener, who, seeing it, rushed forward and threw himself at Shaggy's feet, murmuring in honeyed words: keywords: able; afraid; ann; apple; arms; army; away; beautiful; best; betsy; better; big; bobbin; body; book; breath; brother; cavern; chamberlain; chapter; charm; citizen; clockwork; colonels; coming; command; copper; country; course; daughter; day; dear; door; dorothy; dragon; earth; eggs; enemy; entrance; erma; escape; eyes; face; fact; fairy; fall; far; fast; fear; feet; files; fire; floor; forest; friends; gardener; general; girl; glad; gold; golden; good; great; green; ground; gun; guph; hand; handkerchief; hank; happy; hard; haw; head; hearer; hee; heels; help; high; hollow; home; hoochoo; hurt; idea; illustration; invaders; jewels; jinjin; journey; kaliko; kind; king; kingdom; kiss; knees; land; law; left; like; little; live; long; longer; look; looking; lost; love; lovely; magic; magnet; majesty; man; manner; march; master; means; men; metal; mind; moment; monarch; mortal; mountain; mouth; mule; new; nome; nome king; officers; old; oogaboo; open; order; ozga; ozma; party; passage; path; people; person; pit; place; plunder; pockets; polychrome; poor; pretty; princess; prisoner; private; queen; queen ann; question; quox; rainbow; rak; ready; reason; reply; right; rock; room; rose; royal; rubber; ruggedo; ruler; run; said; sawhorse; shaggy; shaggy man; sharp; shot; silver; sky; small; soldier; sound; story; strangers; sure; tail; talk; terrible; thing; thought; throne; tik; time; tired; tititi; tok; tone; toto; trees; true; tube; tubekins; turn; ugly; underground; voice; water; way; wish; wizard; wonderful; words; world; years cache: 52176.txt plain text: 52176.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 61283 author: Banta, Frank title: The Dragon Slayers date: None words: 1750 flesch: 89 summary: I just hope the neighborhood dragon doesn't come around while you're in that weakened condition, Bliss, Pole worried as he totaled up the month's production on his reports. A few minutes later, at a distance of a thousand yards, Pole and Bliss, loaded with all their portable possessions, watched their cabin burst into flames as a roaring, forty-foot lizard, with fifty-foot flames gouting from his mouth, ambled through their clearing. keywords: better; bliss; cabin; chief; division; dragon; foot; good; john; jungle; kenton; lizards; new; pole; pretzin; snakes; thick; time; wattles; way cache: 61283.txt plain text: 61283.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 956 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Tik-Tok of Oz date: None words: 49549 flesch: 87 summary: I was so ashamed of my looks, continued the voice of Shaggy's brother, that I tried to hide; but the cruel King Ruggedo forced me to appear before all the legion of nomes, to whom he said: 'Behold the Ugly One!' This startled little Betsy, but the Shaggy Man merely waved the Magnet toward the Gardener, who, seeing it, rushed forward and threw himself at Shaggy's feet, murmuring in honeyed words: keywords: able; afraid; ann; apple; arms; army; away; beautiful; best; betsy; better; big; bobbin; body; book; breath; brother; cavern; chamberlain; chapter; charm; citizen; clockwork; colonels; coming; command; copper; country; course; daughter; day; dear; door; dorothy; dragon; earth; eggs; enemy; entrance; erma; escape; eyes; face; fact; fairy; fall; far; fast; fear; feet; files; fire; floor; forest; friends; gardener; general; girl; glad; gold; golden; good; great; green; ground; gun; guph; hand; handkerchief; hank; happy; hard; haw; head; hearer; hee; heels; help; high; hollow; home; hoochoo; hurt; idea; invaders; jewels; jinjin; journey; kaliko; kind; king; kingdom; kiss; knees; land; law; left; like; little; live; long; longer; look; looking; lost; love; lovely; magic; magnet; majesty; man; manner; march; master; means; men; metal; mind; moment; monarch; mortal; mountain; mouth; mule; new; nome; nome king; officers; old; oogaboo; open; order; ozga; ozma; party; passage; path; people; person; pit; place; plunder; pockets; polychrome; poor; pretty; princess; prisoner; private; queen; queen ann; question; quox; rainbow; rak; ready; reason; reply; right; rock; room; rose; royal; rubber; ruggedo; ruler; run; sawhorse; shaggy; shaggy man; sharp; shot; silver; sky; small; soldier; sound; story; strangers; sure; tail; talk; terrible; thing; thought; throne; tik; time; tired; tititi; tok; toto; trees; true; tube; tubekins; turn; ugly; underground; voice; water; way; wish; wizard; wonderful; words; world; years cache: 956.txt plain text: 956.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 981 author: None title: Beowulf date: None words: 26953 flesch: 85 summary: Old men together, hoary-haired, of the hero spake; the warrior would not, they weened, again, proud of conquest, come to seek their mighty master. Beowulf spake, the bairn of Ecgtheow: -- 'Tis known and unhidden, Hygelac Lord, to many men, that meeting of ours, struggle grim between Grendel and me, which we fought on the field where full too many sorrows he wrought for the Scylding-Victors, evils unending. keywords: -and; -the; afar; arms; atheling; bairn; band; banquet; barrow; battle; bear; beloved; bench; beowulf; best; billows; blade; blood; boast; body; bold; bore; brave; breast; breastplate; bright; broad; burg; chieftain; clansmen; come; cup; danes; danish; days; dear; death; decked; deeds; doom; doughty; dragon; earl; earth; ecgtheow; edge; erst; evil; fain; fair; fall; famed; far; fast; fate; father; fell; feud; fiend; fight; finn; fire; firm; floor; foe; foes; folk; frisian; gave; gear; geats; gifts; glory; god; gold; good; great; grendel; grim; gripe; guard; hall; hand; hardy; harm; harness; haste; head; healfdene; heart; heaven; heirloom; helmet; help; heorot; hero; heroes; high; hoard; hold; home; honor; hot; house; hrothgar; hygelac; iron; jewels; keen; king; kinsman; land; lay; leader; liegemen; life; little; long; lord; man; master; mead; men; mighty; mind; monster; mood; ne'er; near; need; noble; o'er; ocean; oft; peace; people; power; prince; proud; queen; race; realm; rings; safe; save; scyldings; sea; seat; seek; shield; slain; slaughter; son; song; sons; sore; sorrow; soul; sovran; spake; spear; spirit; strength; strife; struggle; sturdy; sword; thane; thee; thou; thy; time; treasure; twas; wall; war; warden; warrior; waters; waves; way; ways; wealth; weapons; weders; wide; wielder; wise; woe; wonder; words; work; world; wrought; wyrd; years; young cache: 981.txt plain text: 981.txt