item: #1 of 10 id: 18357 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden date: None words: 115503 flesch: 82 summary: We had more than one hot fight, and lost many good men. In the first place, because I know he will do it well, and even those who consider that I am rash and headstrong, admit that I have the knack of picking out good men. keywords: army; captain; charles; charlie; company; country; course; day; days; doubt; father; fellow; fire; gentlemen; good; half; harry; head; horses; hour; house; jervoise; king; left; life; man; marmaduke; matter; men; money; morning; news; night; officers; place; present; round; russians; service; sir; sweden; swedish; thought; time; town; troops; way; work cache: 18357.txt plain text: 18357.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 21316 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens date: None words: 119227 flesch: 92 summary: That's a true word, Mas' Don, cried Jem. It was a busy day at the yard, for a part of the lading of a sugar ship was being stored away in Uncle Josiah's warehouses; but from the very commencement matters seemed to go wrong, and the state of affairs about ten o'clock was pretty ably expressed by Jem Wimble, who came up to Don as he was busy with pencil and book, keeping account of the deliveries, and said in a loud voice,-- What did your uncle have for breakfast, Mas' Don? Coffee--ham--I hardly know, Jem. keywords: arn't; boat; boy; captain; close; come; coming; don; door; eyes; face; feel; good; half; hand; head; help; home; jem; jem wimble; josiah; lad; left; little; look; looking; man; mas; master don; men; mike; mind; ngati; place; poor; right; round; ship; sir; slowly; tell; thought; time; try; uncle; want; water; way; yes cache: 21316.txt plain text: 21316.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 25877 author: Putnam, George Haven title: The Little Gingerbread Man date: None words: 2000 flesch: 79 summary: Then she took the square tins and cut out some square cakes for the little boys, and with some round tins she cut out some round cakes for the little girls, and then she said, I'm going to make a little gingerbread man for little Bobby. I want him for little Bobby. keywords: gingerbread; illustration cache: 25877.txt plain text: 25877.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 26090 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia date: None words: 130889 flesch: 86 summary: At last Godfrey felt it was time to fire again, and waiting till the canoes were within about seventy yards' distance he fired both barrels, slightly shifting his aim between each shot. Your name is Godfrey Bullen? Yes, sir. Born in St. Petersburg, but of English parentage? Godfrey bowed his head. keywords: alexis; boat; buriat; canoe; country; course; cut; day; days; distance; end; escape; feet; fire; fish; godfrey; good; gun; half; hand; head; home; hours; illustrations; journey; land; lay; left; life; little; look; luka; man; men; mikail; miles; morning; night; north; ostjaks; page; people; place; prison; prisoners; river; room; round; russian; saw; sea; set; shore; shot; skins; snow; story; tent; thing; thought; time; want; water; way; wind; winter; work; years cache: 26090.txt plain text: 26090.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 37647 author: Otis, James title: The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair date: None words: 64645 flesch: 80 summary: On the way to his place of business Teddy chanced to think of the errand on which they had started out, and he bought a generous supply of sandwiches for Dan, Tim, and himself. On retuning to his place of business Teddy did not have the heart to wait upon the customers, and after telling Tim what had been said to him, he added: I can't work; it's no use to try. keywords: boy; boys; business; dan; day; dollars; fair; goin'; good; grounds; hazelton; jim; long; man; matter; men; money; nathan; night; sam; sweet; teddy; tent; think; thought; time; uncle; way; work cache: 37647.txt plain text: 37647.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 58883 author: Nelson, Jack A. title: The Men of Boru date: None words: 7129 flesch: 95 summary: Forget all that, Franz, Sten snapped. They are conditioned to it, Franz spoke to Sten. keywords: franz; karl; kathryn; leader; men; sten; woman cache: 58883.txt plain text: 58883.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 61430 author: Leinster, Murray title: Manners and Customs of the Thrid date: None words: 7081 flesch: 87 summary: They saw Jorgenson and Ganti--naked man and naked Thrid--glaring up at them. Jorgenson had stood it longer than most because in spite of their convictions he liked the Thrid. keywords: business; copter; ganti; jorgenson; official; thrid; trading cache: 61430.txt plain text: 61430.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 61843 author: James, D. L. (Daniel Lewis) title: Exit From Asteroid 60 date: None words: 5770 flesch: 82 summary: Destiny had indeed provided them both with a strange exit from Echo, for in that split second Bormon realized that he was being hurled squarely into the gaping orifice of the cyclotron. But when Calbur failed to show up in time for a return voyage to Earth, Bormon had taken up the search. keywords: basket; bormon; calbur; echo; mars; martian; ore; space cache: 61843.txt plain text: 61843.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 62633 author: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter) title: The Catalpa Expedition date: None words: 53264 flesch: 75 summary: I have seen a man named Barrett of the 5th Dragoon Guards, at Hoey's, and other men, whose names I don't know. Other men have given greater intellectual gifts to the service of Ireland; others have told her wrongs with a sublimer magic of eloquence, and waked the sympathies of men in the sweep of their mighty oratory; and still others, perhaps, have braved a larger measure of personal danger; but none has devoted his whole energies, his entire worldly fortune, with a loftier patriotism, a more generous spirit of sacrifice, than James Reynolds has for the little isle that gave him birth. keywords: american; australia; bark; bedford; boat; breslin; captain anthony; catalpa; country; court; crew; day; days; devoy; england; english; escape; fenian; freemantle; geary; georgette; good; government; home; house; ireland; irish; james; john; life; little; man; men; morning; new; night; o'reilly; people; place; police; prisoners; rescue; sail; sea; ship; smith; society; time; vessel; whaling; witness; years; | | cache: 62633.txt plain text: 62633.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 958 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Rinkitink in Oz Wherein Is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles That Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz date: None words: 50009 flesch: 81 summary: Together, let us find some way to save poor King Rinkitink. Shielding his eyes, which were somewhat dazzled, Inga sprang through the opening and found himself in one of the Nome King's inhabited caverns, where before him stood King Kaliko, with a broad grin upon his features, and Klik, the King's chamberlain, who looked surprised, and King Rinkitink seated astride Bilbil the goat, both of whom seemed pleased that Inga had rejoined them. keywords: bilbil; boat; boy; cor; goat; good; inga; island; king; king gos; king kitticut; king rinkitink; magic; man; palace; pearl; people; pingaree; prince; prince inga; queen; regos; rinkitink; time; warriors; way; zella cache: 958.txt plain text: 958.txt