item: #1 of 12 id: 11323 author: Godwin, William title: Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are date: None words: 146666 flesch: 70 summary: The arrival of Mr. Falkland gave an alarming shock to the authority of Mr. Tyrrel in the village assembly and in all scenes of indiscriminate resort. This was only one out of innumerable instances, that every day seemed to multiply, of petty mortifications which Mr. Tyrrel was destined to endure on the part of Mr. Falkland. keywords: appearance; case; character; circumstances; day; death; degree; door; emily; end; falkland; forester; friend; good; hand; having; hawkins; heart; honour; hope; house; human; idea; justice; left; length; life; like; man; manner; master; means; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nature; occasion; person; place; power; present; purpose; reason; right; room; saw; scene; set; sir; situation; sort; soul; state; story; subject; thing; thought; time; tyrrel; way; williams; world cache: 11323.txt plain text: 11323.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 12191 author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) title: The Red Axe date: None words: 113160 flesch: 88 summary: If you were as other young men it would be easy for you to misjudge me. Oh, and I shall have you well taught by that time, long man. keywords: arms; axe; black; boris; casimir; city; day; death; dessauer; door; duke; duke casimir; end; eyes; face; father; gerard; god; good; gottfried; hand; head; heart; helene; high; house; hugo; jorian; karl; lady; life; look; love; maid; man; master; men; michael; moment; night; open; otho; place; plassenburg; playmate; prince; princess; red; reuss; save; saw; set; son; texel; things; thorn; thought; time; tower; voice; von; way; white; wolfmark; wolfsberg; woman; words; young; ysolinde cache: 12191.txt plain text: 12191.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 32087 author: Riley, Frank title: The Executioner date: None words: 6775 flesch: 86 summary: Prithee, Sir Jacques, have ye any message for their Judicial Highnesses? Yes, damn you! What's this nonsense, Sir Jacques? he demanded imperiously. keywords: ann; bailiff; chief; execution; jacques; justice; man; sir; squire; time cache: 32087.txt plain text: 32087.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 34243 author: Grahame, Kenneth title: The Headswoman date: None words: 7392 flesch: 73 summary: So genteel! She's not a bad sort of girl, little Claire, said Enguerrand reflectively (thereby angering Jeanne afresh): but putting her aside,--of course you could always beat me at argument, Jeanne; you'd have made a much better lawyer than I. It is true that on this occasion the Council might have been called upon to consider and examine the title of the claimant, the late lamented official having only left a daughter,--she who now stands before you; but I am happy to say that Jeanne--the young lady in question--with what I am bound to call great good-feeling on her part, has saved us all trouble in that respect, by formally applying for the family post, with all its--er--duties, privileges, and emoluments; and her application appears to be--er--quite in order. keywords: business; day; enguerrand; girl; good; jeanne; mayor; morning; scaffold; town cache: 34243.txt plain text: 34243.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 37650 author: Mandeville, Bernard title: An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725) date: None words: 17419 flesch: 58 summary: Those that are forced to stay, do very little Service themselves, and spoil the other Slaves, teaching the _Africans_ more Villany and Mischief than ever they could have learn'd without the Examples and Instructions of such _Europeans_. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY BERNARD MANDEVILLE, _AN ENQUIRY_ INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FREQUENT EXECUTIONS AT _TYBURN_. keywords: act; california; death; executions; felons; good; law; man; mandeville; manner; men; mob; people; publick; punishment; purpose; rogues; society; thief; thing; time; tyburn; university; use; way; wild cache: 37650.txt plain text: 37650.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 46579 author: Berry, James title: My Experiences as an Executioner date: None words: 39746 flesch: 71 summary: At other times it was far from my thoughts. To such men as these I am sure that the shortening of the waiting time would be the greatest possible mercy, for the longer time only gives them opportunity to work themselves into an almost demented state. keywords: berry; case; chapter; course; crime; day; death; doors; drop; execution; gaol; good; head; home; life; man; men; murder; people; place; prison; public; punishment; rope; scaffold; sentence; subject; think; thought; time; way; weight; work; | | cache: 46579.txt plain text: 46579.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 5121 author: Green, Anna Katharine title: Dark Hollow date: None words: 92434 flesch: 82 summary: Mistaking his temperament or his story, classing him in with other strong men, the well of whose feeling once roused overflows in sympathetic emotion, she observed very gently but, as she soon saw, unwisely: Such delicacy can withstand a blow, but not a steady heartbreak. Perhaps he thinks because I was thrown aback to-day by those public charges against my son and a string of insults for which no father could be prepared, that I am seriously disturbed over the position into which such unthinking men as himself have pushed Mr. Oliver Ostrander. keywords: bela; black; child; crime; day; deborah; door; eyes; face; father; figure; hand; head; heart; house; judge; judge ostrander; left; let; life; look; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; oliver; ostrander; place; point; reuther; room; scoville; son; stick; thought; till; time; way; weeks; woman; words; years cache: 5121.txt plain text: 5121.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 51257 author: Evans, Dean title: The Furious Rose date: None words: 4748 flesch: 96 summary: Tony Radek leaned back in his chair and frowned. Tony Radek was getting old. keywords: man; master; radek; screen; tony cache: 51257.txt plain text: 51257.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 58980 author: Williams, Herb title: A Witch in Time date: None words: 5022 flesch: 86 summary: Fixing Nat with cold grey eyes, Bor had recited the familiar warning in calculated tones: At no time, and under no circumstance, are people in past ages to know they are being observed. Or one of His Angels? Nat started to laugh, but she looked so pitiful he checked himself. keywords: abby; bor; century; eyes; machine; man; nat; paralysis; time cache: 58980.txt plain text: 58980.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 61204 author: Walton, Bryce title: The Recruit date: None words: 3716 flesch: 95 summary: A tired fat corporal with a naked head blinked up at tall Wayne. Contemptuously amused little eyes glittered at Wayne from a shaggy head. keywords: eyes; head; man; seton; sir; teener; wayne cache: 61204.txt plain text: 61204.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 61332 author: Fetler, Andrew title: This Way to the Egress date: None words: 1209 flesch: 96 summary: Mrs. Tilton asked. And now it was a child? Yes. Mrs. Tilton rose to get the coffee. keywords: mrs; tilton cache: 61332.txt plain text: 61332.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 61335 author: White, Ted title: I, Executioner date: None words: 3160 flesch: 92 summary: Where _was_ the sanity in this Arena? I couldn't lie still while they carried me to that chair. ] I always shook when I came out of the Arena, but this time the tension wrapped my stomach in painful knots and salty perspiration stung my neck where I had shaved only a little over an hour earlier. keywords: arena; eyes; face; hand; light cache: 61335.txt plain text: 61335.txt