item: #1 of 23 id: 10337 author: Garnett, David title: Lady into Fox date: None words: 24696 flesch: 78 summary: Whether it was from a chance meeting on the roads, or less romantic but more probable, by Mr. Tebrick becoming acquainted with her uncle, a minor canon at Oxford, and thence being invited by him to visit Tangley Hall, it is impossible to say. Mr. Tebrick had persuaded her to hunt on Boxing Day, but with great difficulty, and she had not enjoyed it (though of hacking she was fond enough). keywords: cubs; day; eyes; fox; good; house; morning; mrs; night; silvia; tebrick; thing; time; vixen; way; wife; woman cache: 10337.txt plain text: 10337.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 10806 author: Dunsany, Lord title: The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories date: None words: 33958 flesch: 81 summary: Then Leothric advanced towards a door, and it was mightier than the marble quarry, Sacremona, from which of old men cut enormous slabs to build the Abbey of the Holy Tears. The North Wind is to them like a nice problem among wise old men; they nod their heads over it, and mutter about it all together. keywords: babbulkund; city; day; desert; dreams; gaznak; god; great; leothric; man; marshes; men; merimna; night; people; rold; round; sacnoth; saw; song; soul; sword; things; welleran; wind; world cache: 10806.txt plain text: 10806.txt item: #3 of 23 id: 11521 author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) title: A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen date: None words: 47738 flesch: 86 summary: Now a man may sign himself at the church door--one does so out of respect; but to use that ceremony for one's own advantage, before other men, is rare--except in the case of members of a very decided party. I am no more than other men, that you should accept it without support; but I have lived among them, and this is what I think.) keywords: city; curé; darkness; eyes; face; god; good; heart; lecamus; look; m. le; madame; maire; man; martin; moment; mother; night; round; semur; thought; time; way; women cache: 11521.txt plain text: 11521.txt item: #4 of 23 id: 13821 author: Dunsany, Lord title: Tales of Wonder date: None words: 41610 flesch: 77 summary: Life, said that grim old man with a furtive chuckle. Great men can only be overthrown while their fortunes are at their lowest. keywords: ali; arabs; bill; captain; city; day; edge; end; evening; good; left; little; london; long; man; men; night; oxen; place; room; round; sailors; sea; shard; ship; story; tale; tell; things; thought; time; way; wind; world cache: 13821.txt plain text: 13821.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 14045 author: Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph title: At a Winter's Fire date: None words: 57578 flesch: 83 summary: Yet Nature had worked a second miracle to mock in anticipation the self-sufficient plagiarism of little man. Surely, he thought, that vulgar, ruddy little face is transfigured. keywords: air; camille; cell; dark; day; death; door; doubt; eyes; face; fall; fear; feet; fire; friend; george; glass; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; little; look; man; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; nature; night; open; place; plancine; point; poor; reason; rest; room; sea; self; sir; soul; sound; thought; till; time; voice; wall; water; way; white; wind; window; years cache: 14045.txt plain text: 14045.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 14098 author: Walpole, Horace title: Hieroglyphic Tales date: None words: 11528 flesch: 63 summary: In the next place, being very asthmatic, and requiring a free communication of air, I lodge in the uppermost story of a house in an alley not far from St. Mary Axe; and as a great deal of good company lodges in the same mansion, it was by a considerable favour that I could obtain a single chamber to myself; which chamber is by no means large enough to contain the whole impression, for I design to vend the copies myself, and, according to the practice of other great men, shall sign the first sheet my self with my own hand. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born. keywords: elephant; emperor; father; footnote; great; king; majesty; man; men; orondates; pissimissi; prince; princess; queen; tale; time; work; world cache: 14098.txt plain text: 14098.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 16726 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Four Weird Tales date: None words: 55071 flesch: 79 summary: Lady Statham was talking--he had not noticed the means by which she effected the abrupt transition--of familiar beliefs of old Egypt; of the Ka, or Double, by whose existence the survival of the soul was possible, even its return into manifested, physical life; of the astrology, or influence of the heavenly bodies upon all sublunar activities; of terrific forms of other life, known to the ancient worship of Atlantis, great Potencies that might be invoked by ritual and ceremonial, and of their lesser influence as recognised in certain lower forms, hence treated with veneration as the Sacred Animal branch of this dim religion. He fancied that he heard her little windy voice come sifting to him through the snowy branches of the trees, calling his name ... that haunting little voice that dived straight to the centre of his life as once, long years ago, two other voices used to do.... keywords: air; body; close; day; desert; egypt; eyes; face; feet; form; half; hand; heart; henriot; jones; lay; life; man; manager; memory; mind; moment; night; past; power; room; sand; snow; soul; sound; things; thought; time; vance; voice; way; white; wind; woman; world; years cache: 16726.txt plain text: 16726.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 2565 author: Morris, William title: The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying date: None words: 47680 flesch: 80 summary: So he stayed his walk and stood still, and said: Will any man speak to Hallblithe, a newcomer, and a stranger in this Stead? Then that small voice made a word and said: Why paceth the fool up and down our hall, doing nothing, even as the Ravens flap croaking about the crags, abiding the war-mote and the clash of the fallow blades? Said Hallblithe, and his voice sounded big in the hall: Who calleth Hallblithe a fool and mocketh at the sons of the Raven? Spake the voice: Why cometh not the fool to the man that may not go to him? Said Hallblithe raising the cup: Herewith I wish thee youth! keywords: day; eagle; fair; folk; fox; hallblithe; hand; hath; heart; house; king; land; man; men; night; plain; raven; sea; ship; spake; thee; thou; thy; way; wilt cache: 2565.txt plain text: 2565.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 35641 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Uncanny Tales date: None words: 46130 flesch: 85 summary: I suspect there is a reason for it which we shall know in good time. He was a quick, obliging little man, and took in the situation at a glance. keywords: clock; cold; day; door; dormy; edith; face; father; good; half; helen; home; house; leila; man; miles; miss; morning; mrs; night; philip; place; poor; room; tell; thought; time; way; young cache: 35641.txt plain text: 35641.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 40510 author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan title: The Watcher, and other weird stories date: None words: 63033 flesch: 65 summary: Said you not, Godfrey, exclaimed Douw, after a long and fruitless gaze from his post of observation, and turning to Schalken--said you not the hour of appointment was at about seven by the clock of the Stadhouse? It had just told seven when I first saw him, sir, answered the student. After much time had been wasted in a fruitless attempt to prevail upon her to reconsider her words, the court proceeded, according to the usual form, to pass sentence. keywords: barton; bed; captain; chamber; day; death; door; douw; eyes; face; father; figure; gerard; glenfallen; god; good; hand; head; hour; house; lady; leave; left; length; life; lord; man; manner; mind; moment; montague; night; person; place; room; schalken; sir; sound; thought; time; uncle; way; window; woman; words cache: 40510.txt plain text: 40510.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 4282 author: Dunsany, Lord title: Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley date: None words: 74117 flesch: 80 summary: Rodriguez awoke Morano, who lit his fire: and soon they had struck their camp and were riding on. And, as he went, there came to Rodriguez thoughts between wonder and hope, for he had had no thought at all when he beat on the door except to get shelter and help for the hurt man. keywords: alderon; bowmen; castle rodriguez; day; days; door; earth; evening; eyes; fire; forest; garda; good; horses; host; house; king; left; man; mandolin; master; men; morano; night; professor; rodriguez; round; saw; serafina; seã±or; shadow; spain; sword; things; thought; time; valley; wars; way cache: 4282.txt plain text: 4282.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 43107 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: The Wood-Pigeons and Mary date: None words: 40580 flesch: 90 summary: Was there any one in the room with you, Miss Mary, my dear, when I went upstairs to fetch you? No, said Mary, but her own tone was perhaps not quite as usual, for she was thinking to herself if the no was quite truthful. Don't make too sure of them, my dears, said nurse, rather shortly; Miss Mary will most likely be enjoying herself too much to care to be troubled with gathering fir-cones. keywords: coo; cooies; day; dear; feather; forest; godmother; good; little; mary; michael; miss; think; thought; time; verity; way cache: 43107.txt plain text: 43107.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 456 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories date: None words: 43923 flesch: 85 summary: You see--in this dream, anyhow--I had been a big man, the sort of man men come to trust in, to group themselves about. I remember little things. keywords: away; azuma; black; blind; country; day; days; door; dream; eyes; face; garden; half; hand; holroyd; horrocks; life; man; men; moment; night; nunez; people; place; raut; red; round; sky; star; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; wall; way; white; world cache: 456.txt plain text: 456.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 509 author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan title: The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 date: None words: 37057 flesch: 65 summary: The words were as follow: 'Mr. Fitzgerald regrets that anything which has fallen from him should have appeared to Mr. O'Connor to be intended to convey a reflection upon his honour (none such having been meant), and begs leave to disavow any wish to quarrel unnecessarily with Mr. O'Connor. 'T---- Inn, Thursday morning. O'Connor expressed his willingness to comply with the suggestion, and in a few minutes had folded and directed the following rejoinder: 'Mr. O'Connor having received a satisfactory explanation from Mr. Fitzgerald, of the language used by that gentleman, feels that there no longer exists any grounds for misunderstanding, and wishes further to state, that the note of which Mr. Fitzgerald speaks was not intended as a challenge.' keywords: ardagh; bed; captain; castle; death; door; eyes; family; fanu; father; fitzgerald; friend; god; hand; honour; lady; lay; life; m'donough; man; manner; mind; night; o'connor; purcell; robert; room; servant; sir; tell; thought; time; way; young cache: 509.txt plain text: 509.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 510 author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan title: The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 date: None words: 36730 flesch: 64 summary: 'Said you not, Godfrey,' exclaimed Douw, after a long and fruitless gaze from his post of observation, and turning to Schalken--'said you not the hour of appointment was at about seven by the clock of the Stadhouse?' Colonel O'Mara, the possessor of the estates, was then in a declining state of health, and absent with his lady from the country, leaving at the castle, his son young O'Mara, and a kind of humble companion, named Edward Dwyer, who, if report belied him not, had done in his early days some PECULIAR SERVICES for the Colonel, who had been a gay man--perhaps worse--but enough of recapitulation. keywords: bed; cousin; day; door; douw; dwyer; ellen; emily; face; father; figure; gerard; girl; hand; heart; heathcote; lady; letter; man; moment; night; o'mara; order; room; rose; schalken; sir; thought; time; uncle; vanderhausen; way; window cache: 510.txt plain text: 510.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 511 author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan title: The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 date: None words: 40057 flesch: 70 summary: Lord Glenfallen is in love with you. 'Well, well, my dear,' said my mother, impatiently; 'do you know who Lord Glenfallen is?' keywords: away; bed; billy; captain; day; divil; door; face; father; gandher; glenfallen; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; jim; little; lord; love; malowney; man; mind; moment; mother; night; ould; place; poor; room; terence; time; way; wid; woman; words cache: 511.txt plain text: 511.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 5894 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: The Extra Day date: None words: 96990 flesch: 86 summary: Only, when at last Uncle Felix looked down, their eyes met and a flash of knowledge too enormous ever to be forgotten passed noiselessly between the two of them. They loved her frightfully, and told her all sorts of little things that before they had kept concealed. keywords: air; aunt; bird; children; come; course; day; earth; emily; end; eyes; face; felix; figure; half; hand; head; judy; know; life; looking; man; maria; moment; morning; night; open; place; room; rose; round; saw; singing; stumper; sun; thing; thought; tim; time; tramp; uncle; uncle felix; voice; way; wind; wonder; wonderful; words; world cache: 5894.txt plain text: 5894.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 7477 author: Dunsany, Lord title: The Book of Wonder date: None words: 23204 flesch: 73 summary: He came to the cities of men, and all men trembled, for they remembered the ancient mythical wars, and now they dreaded new battles and feared for the race of man. Therefore the captain with his Queen went down to the shore at once and hastily re-embarked and sailed away with what loot they had hurriedly got, and with fewer men, for they had to fight a good deal to get back to the boat. keywords: business; chu; city; day; door; evening; gods; golden; hlo; house; man; men; night; nuth; pombo; sea; sheemish; things; time; way; window; world cache: 7477.txt plain text: 7477.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 7838 author: Dunsany, Lord title: Fifty-One Tales date: None words: 16382 flesch: 89 summary: I hope that when London is clean passed away and the defeated fields come back again, like an exiled people returning after a war, they may find some beautiful thing to remind them of it all; because we have loved a little that swart old city. And when whether in valleys or on high crags of the hills he still heard the Muses he went at last to them and heard their message, though he would fain have left it to other men and chased the fleet hares still in happy valleys. keywords: black; city; day; dead; death; gods; man; men; muses; night; pan; sea; song; things; time; wind; world; years cache: 7838.txt plain text: 7838.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 8183 author: Dunsany, Lord title: Time and the Gods date: None words: 40989 flesch: 80 summary: Then Shaun said farewell to his followers, saying: You have followed me well since ever we forsook the gods of Old to worship greater gods. Stand thou back from Ambrady and let me pass through thy ranks that mine armies may now pass up the valley which opens on the world, that the green earth that dreams around the feet of older gods shall know the new god Slid. keywords: ball; city; day; earth; eyes; gods; golden; hath; king; man; men; night; people; prophet; sea; slid; soul; thee; things; thou; time; valley; world; years; zai cache: 8183.txt plain text: 8183.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 8395 author: Dunsany, Lord title: The Gods of Pegana date: None words: 15990 flesch: 85 summary: All these are gods so small that they be lesser than men, but pleasant gods to have beside the hearth; and often men have prayed to Kilooloogung, saying: Thou whose smoke ascendeth to Pegana send up with it our prayers, that the gods may hear. In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine. keywords: gods; hath; mana; men; mung; pegana; people; prophet; sushai; thou; worlds; yood cache: 8395.txt plain text: 8395.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 9817 author: Du Maurier, George title: Peter Ibbetson date: None words: 92022 flesch: 78 summary: M. le Major go through their old paces once more; and to recall _new_ old paces for them, which we were sometimes able to do, out of stray forgotten bits of the past; to hunt for which was the most exciting sport in the world. And I had met and known _such_ men and women with my father! keywords: avenue; boy; child; common; daughter; day; days; dear; death; dream; duchess; earth; end; english; eyes; face; father; feel; feet; french; gogo; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hours; house; ibbetson; illustration; kind; lady; left; life; like; lintot; little; london; look; love; madame; major; man; mary; mimsey; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; music; night; paris; passy; past; people; place; rest; room; round; school; sed; self; seraskier; sleep; street; sweet; things; thought; time; towers; voice; waking; water; way; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 9817.txt plain text: 9817.txt item: #23 of 23 id: 9956 author: Lee, Vernon title: Hauntings Fantastic Stories date: None words: 57154 flesch: 74 summary: MY DEAR BOUTOURLINE, Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst? But if, as I suspect, you will now put down any charm that story may have possessed to the way in which we had been working ourselves up, that firelight evening, with all manner of fantastic stuff--if, as I fear, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst will strike you as stale and unprofitable--the sight of this little book will serve at least to remind you, in the middle of your Russian summer, that there is such a season as winter, such a place as Florence, and such a person as your friend, VERNON LEE Kensington, _July_ 1886. keywords: alice; black; blue; church; creature; day; days; dead; dear; death; dionea; door; duke; excellency; eyes; face; good; got; half; head; house; husband; lady; life; light; look; love; lovelock; medea; moment; mrs; oke; okehurst; people; place; portrait; red; room; rose; round; saw; sea; smile; story; thing; thought; time; urbania; voice; way; white; wife; window; woman; years; yellow cache: 9956.txt plain text: 9956.txt