item: #1 of 5 id: 20910 author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend title: South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure date: None words: 93546 flesch: 70 summary: Many other Spaniards perished, and all except Pizarro and a few of the stoutest hearts begged to return to Panama. The resources of Ojeda were small, but when he arrived at Santo Domingo with what he had been able to secure in the way of ships and men, he succeeded in inducing a lawyer named Encisco, commonly called the Bachelor[2] Encisco, to embark his fortune of several thousand gold castellanos, which he had gained in successful pleadings in the court in the litigious West Indies, in the enterprise. keywords: account; almagro; american; atahualpa; aztecs; balboa; battle; boat; body; captain; charles; city; coast; cortes; country; course; cut; day; death; empire; enemy; expedition; fighting; force; god; gold; good; governor; ground; hand; hernando; history; inca; indians; island; john; jones; king; left; life; long; man; men; mexico; montezuma; new; nicuesa; night; number; ojeda; paul; pedrarias; people; peru; pizarro; place; river; sea; second; ship; shore; soldiers; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; time; town; war; water; way; years; young cache: 20910.txt plain text: 20910.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 32594 author: Wells, Basil title: Stalemate date: None words: 4882 flesch: 94 summary: Come on over and I'll show you Jane's picture, Treb, invited Neilson. Treb threw more wood on the little fire and checked over the lashings about Neilson's body. keywords: eyes; harl; knife; man; neilson; treb; trees; war cache: 32594.txt plain text: 32594.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 32878 author: Gilbert, Robert E. title: Thy Rocks and Rills date: None words: 10413 flesch: 87 summary: Stonecypher concealed a smile behind a long corded hand and said, Just the bull. Stonecypher followed with a forefinger pressed to thin lips. keywords: black; bull; calves; catriona; crowd; dan; fergus; government; hand; horns; left; man; moe; oswell; red; right; ringmaster; stonecypher; time cache: 32878.txt plain text: 32878.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 44117 author: Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) title: The Duel date: None words: 95250 flesch: 79 summary: And it so happened that little Romashov, amidst his childish babble and innocent dreams, bewailed in silence the fate of his double. He remembered in connection with this how, in his earliest youth, long before he entered the Cadet School, his mother used to punish him by tying him tightly to the foot of the bed with fine thread, after which she left him by himself; and little Romashov sat for whole hours submissively still. keywords: agamalov; air; answer; arms; biek; captain; cold; colonel; commander; company; course; dark; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fellow; general; gentlemen; good; hainán; half; hand; head; heart; home; honour; left; lieutenant; life; lips; little; look; love; man; mess; mind; moment; nasanski; nikoläiev; officers; open; order; osadchi; place; red; regiment; right; romashov; room; round; shulgovich; shurochka; soldiers; stand; table; thought; time; tone; town; viätkin; voice; way; white; window; woman; words; world cache: 44117.txt plain text: 44117.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 6085 author: Wilson, John Lyde title: The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling date: None words: 6322 flesch: 69 summary: If in cases where the contest is ended by the seconds, as mentioned in the sixth rule of this chapter, the parties refuse to meet and be reconciled, it is the duty of the seconds to withdraw from the field, informing their principals, that the contest must be continued under the superintendence of other friends. There may be other cases, but the character of those enumerated will lead to a correct decision upon those omitted. keywords: cases; friend; ground; insult; note; party; rule; second cache: 6085.txt plain text: 6085.txt