item: #1 of 6
          id: 19802
      author: Stretton, Hesba
       title: Cobwebs and Cables
        date: None
       words: 116427
      flesch: 82
     summary: 'Never you mind, mother,' I says, 'there's neither man nor beast'ud hurt little Phebe.' Why, it's little Phebe Marlowe! cried Mr. Clifford gladly, looking round at the light sound of a footstep, very different from Mrs. Nixey's heavy tread; my dear child, you can't tell what a pleasure this is to me.
    keywords: abbey; absence; acton; affairs; afraid; alice; altar; anguish; answer; anxiety; arms; author; bank; bear; bearing; beautiful; bed; beloved; bent; best; better; bewildered; bitterness; black; blue; boat; book; bowed; boy; brain; break; bright; broken; brown; burden; business; busy; canon; care; chair; change; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; claim; clear; clifford; close; clouds; cold; color; comfort; coming; common; companionship; complete; conscience; convict; corner; cottage; country; course; creature; crime; cross; crowded; cry; daily; dark; darkness; daughter; day; daylight; days; dead; dear; dear phebe; death; deep; deeper; delicate; delight; depths; desolate; die; different; difficult; dim; disgrace; distance; door; doubt; dream; dreary; dress; dull; dumb; dwelling; eager; early; earth; effort; engelberg; england; english; escape; evening; evil; existence; expression; eyes; face; faint; fair; faithful; falling; familiar; family; far; farewell; farm; fastened; father; fault; fear; feeling; feet; felicita; felix; fellow; fields; figure; fine; fingers; fire; firm; footsteps; foreign; forgotten; form; free; fresh; friend; funeral; future; garden; gaze; gentle; gesture; girl; glad; gleam; god; good; grave; gray; great; greater; green; grief; guide; guilty; half; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hidden; high; hilda; hills; home; homely; honor; hope; hotel; hours; house; household; human; humble; husband; hut; idea; ignorant; instant; interest; jean; jean merle; journey; justice; keen; keeping; kind; known; large; late; law; letters; lie; life; like; line; lips; listening; little; little phebe; living; london; lonely; long; longer; looking; lord; loss; lost; love; lucerne; madame; man; manner; marlowe; marriage; married; mean; memories; memory; men; merle; miles; mind; minutes; miserable; misery; moment; money; months; moor; morning; mother; mountains; mournful; mrs; narrow; native; natural; nature; near; nearest; necessary; need; new; news; night; nixey; notice; oak; old; old home; old man; old marlowe; open; pain; painful; painting; pale; papers; parish; partner; pascal; pass; passing; passionate; past; path; pay; penalty; people; perfect; phebe; phebe marlowe; pity; place; pleasant; pleasure; point; police; pony; poor; portrait; possession; possible; pounds; poverty; present; prison; promise; publisher; question; quiet; rapid; reach; ready; reason; repentance; rest; rested; resting; return; rich; riversborough; riversdale; road; roland; roland sefton; roof; room; round; run; sacred; sad; safe; sake; satisfied; save; school; sea; seat; second; secret; securities; seeing; sefton; self; sense; servant; service; set; shadow; shame; sharp; shining; short; silence; silent; simon; simple; sin; sins; sitting; sky; sleep; slight; small; smile; snow; sobs; soft; solemn; solitary; son; sorrow; sorrowful; soul; spirit; spot; standing; start; stay; steps; story; stranger; streets; strength; strong; studio; study; sudden; suffering; summer; sun; sure; surprise; suspicion; sweet; swiss; switzerland; sympathy; taking; talk; tall; tender; tenderness; terrible; terror; thing; thinking; thought; time; toil; tone; touch; town; tranquil; trees; troubled; true; trust; truth; unconscious; unknown; uplands; usual; utter; vague; valley; village; visit; voice; walls; want; warm; way; weary; week; welcome; white; wide; wife; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wood; words; work; working; world; worn; worth; wrong; years; young
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 21043
      author: Reed, Talbot Baines
       title: Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life
        date: None
       words: 94034
      flesch: 83
     summary: You've printed it Cruden Reginald, it should be Reginald Cruden. I shall have to play the piano now, Mr Reginald, said Miss Jemima, making a last effort to get a word out of her silent companion.
    keywords: able; account; advertisement; afraid; afternoon; agency; answer; arm; attempt; bad; barber; bed; beginning; bell; best; better; big; bill; bit; blandford; book; booms; box; boy; boys; break; brother; business; cab; capital; care; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; character; charge; christmas; circulars; city; clear; clerk; close; club; coat; coffee; cold; collar; come; comfortable; common; companions; company; contents; conversation; corner; corporation; country; couple; course; court; crisp; crowd; crowded; cruden; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; debt; determined; dinner; directors; doctor; door; dozen; dull; durfy; dust; ears; easy; editor; effort; evening; excuse; expected; eyes; face; fact; familiar; family; fancy; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fire; floor; following; fool; fortune; fraud; friend; friendly; future; game; garden; gedge; gentleman; getting; girl; glad; glance; good; gov'nor; granville; great; guilty; half; hand; happy; hard; harker; head; heart; help; hold; home; honest; hope; horace; hot; hotel; hour; house; hullo; hurried; idea; income; interest; jemima; job; jolly; journey; keeping; ladies; lady; late; laughing; lawyer; lay; leave; left; letters; life; like; likely; lips; little; liverpool; living; london; long; longer; look; looking; lot; love; magistrate; major; man; manager; manner; matter; means; medlock; middle; mind; minutes; miss; mistake; moment; monday; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mr cruden; mr durfy; mr medlock; mr reginald; mr richmond; mr shanklin; mrs; music; near; need; new; news; newspaper; nice; night; note; notice; number; o'clock; observation; office; old; open; opportunity; order; overseer; pair; pale; paper; party; past; pavement; pay; people; person; piano; pillans; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleased; plenty; pocket; point; police; policeman; poor; position; possible; post; pounds; precious; presence; present; quarters; question; quick; quiet; railway; read; reader; reading; real; reason; reginald; reginald cruden; relief; reply; respectable; return; richmond; room; round; run; sad; said; sake; sam; samuel; saying; school; seat; secretary; select; self; sense; set; shades; shanklin; sharp; shillings; shop; shuckleford; shy; silence; sir; sitting; sleep; small; smile; sniff; son; sons; sorry; sort; spirit; stairs; stand; start; state; station; stay; step; stick; story; straight; street; sub; sudden; suit; supper; sure; taking; talk; task; tell; thank; thing; thought; till; time; tone; town; train; trouble; try; turn; use; usual; vale; visitor; voice; waiter; walk; want; warm; watch; waterford; way; week; wilderham; window; winter; woman; wonder; word; work; worst; worth; wrong; year; yer; yesterday; young; youth; â£50
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 29582
      author: Thomson, John, active 1732
       title: The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money
        date: None
       words: 17814
      flesch: 64
     summary: I have been inform'd, that if a _Coachman_ or _Carter_ can decently dash a _Gentleman_ or a _Lady_ that are richly dress'd, when they are walking the Streets, over their Head and Ears, and make due Proof of the Fact, there is not a _Draper_ or _Mercer_ within half a Mile of the Place where the Exploit was perform'd, but who will readily tip the Man a Shilling for his Trouble. Citizen's Business_, and was now doing _Business_ for his Wife.
    keywords: account; acquaintance; author; bar; bargain; bed; better; body; business; care; cause; certain; chamber; children; city; coach; common; company; conversation; court; creature; crown; day; deal; death; dinner; dispute; dog; door; dozen; evening; fall; families; family; farther; fellow; fortune; friends; general; gentleman; glass; good; great; guineas; hackney; half; hall; hand; happen'd; hath; high; home; honest; horses; hour; house; husband; known; ladies; lady; large; leave; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lottery; maid; man; mankind; manner; master; means; mercer; money; morning; near; news; night; number; occasion; officer; oftentimes; old; open; opportunity; order; paper; pass'd; passengers; pay; pence; people; person; piece; place; pocket; poor; pounds; present; pretty; price; private; publick; purchase; quality; real; room; run; satisfaction; saying; servants; set; shilling; shop; sir; stairs; stand; state; street; sure; surgeon; table; tavern; thing; thought; ticket; time; town; trade; tradesman; tricks; trouble; value; way; wife; wine; women; world; years; young
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 34942
      author: Newman, John
       title: Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works
        date: None
       words: 63923
      flesch: 83
     summary: I have known screw piles to penetrate hard and dense sand, gravel, soft sandy ground, limy gravel, loose silt, limy clay ground something like marl, stiff mud, chalk, clay, marl, and all kinds of water-deposited soil, and in almost every earth except firm rock, but it is not advisable to use them for anything much harder than fine sandy gravel, for the blades must then be strained very much and the pile and screw may be injured. Pile-driving is different to masonry, and I always read the specification for pile work, and then judge whether and how a bit 'extra' is to be obtained, and guess as to the knowledge of those I have to deal with, and act accordingly.
    keywords: 4to; 8vo; afraid; air; applied; arrangement; assoc; author; bad; ballast; bars; bearing; bed; best; better; big; bit; blade; blows; bolts; book; bound; box; break; breaking; bricks; brickwork; bridge; broken; building; business; c.e; capstan; care; careful; carriage; case; cast; cement; centre; certain; chance; chaps; chapter; clay; clear; close; cloth; coal; company; concrete; considerable; construction; contents; contract; contractors; cost; couple; course; crown; cubic; cutting; cylinder; dasher; day; days; deal; depth; description; details; diameter; different; difficult; direction; director; disc; dock; dog; domestic; double; doubt; drawing; dredging; driving; earth; easy; edition; electric; end; ends; engineer; engineering; engines; engravings; examples; excuse; experience; extra; face; fact; fall; fancy; far; feet; figs; finish; finished; fire; firm; fix; flat; foot; force; foreman; foundations; fourth; fun; game; ganger; gas; general; gentlemen; glass; gold; good; gravel; great; ground; guard; guide; guv'nor; half; hand; hard; harder; head; heavy; help; high; hold; hole; home; hot; hour; illustrations; inch; inches; inside; inspector; iron; jack; joints; kind; large; left; length; level; like; likely; line; little; load; london; long; look; loose; lovely; low; lucky; machinery; making; man; management; masonry; material; matter; mean; measurement; mechanical; mem; men; metal; methods; mind; minutes; mistake; mixing; money; mortar; mud; near; necessary; new; newman; nice; notes; notice; numerous; office; old; open; opinion; order; ordinary; outside; paper; partner; parts; penetrate; people; permanent; pier; piles; pipe; pitch; place; plates; platform; play; plenty; pocket; point; portland; position; possible; power; practical; practice; pressure; pretty; price; principles; profit; proper; public; pull; pupil; quarter; question; quick; quiet; rails; railway; ready; real; resident; rest; right; rings; river; road; rock; ropes; rounds; royal; sand; saw; saying; scamping; screw; screw piles; screwing; sea; second; section; set; shaft; shake; sharp; short; sides; sinking; sir; size; sleepers; small; soft; soil; solid; special; specification; spot; square; stage; staging; start; station; steam; steel; stone; straight; strength; strong; stuff; subject; sufficient; sure; surface; surveying; swells; system; tables; talk; talking; test; thickness; thing; thinking; thomas; thought; tide; timber; time; trade; train; treatise; trouble; true; tunnel; turn; turning; use; useful; usual; vertical; wall; want; waste; watch; water; way; weight; wish; wood; word; work; working; wrong; wrought; yards; years; young
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 42125
      author: Besant, Walter
       title: Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day
        date: None
       words: 160495
      flesch: 89
     summary: When he grew old, he dreamed of the will he would make and of the envy with which other old men, when he was gone, should regard the memory of one who had cut up so well. Besides, he who is an artist thinks more than other young men about such things.
    keywords: account; advice; afraid; afternoon; agnes; alec; aloud; ancient; answer; anxious; appearance; archie; archipelago; armorel; armorel rosevean; arms; art; artist; artistic; ashamed; asleep; bad; bag; bags; bank; bare; bay; beach; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; believe; belongs; bent; best; better; big; bit; black; blue; boat; bonnet; book; bowed; bowls; boxes; boy; breakfast; breeze; bright; broken; brother; brown; bryher; business; calm; captain; care; case; castle; century; certain; chair; chance; channel; chapter; character; cheek; cheque; chessun; chest; child; children; church; circle; city; clear; clever; cleverest; close; club; coast; cold; colour; come; coming; command; common; companion; company; condition; confidence; conversation; copy; corner; country; course; cousin; creature; credit; critic; cupboard; curious; current; cut; dance; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; desert; desire; dialogue; dick; different; difficult; dinner; discovery; door; dorcas; doubt; dramatist; drawing; dreadful; dream; dress; dressed; dull; early; easel; east; easy; editor; effie; elstree; emanuel; engaged; evening; experience; eyes; face; fact; failure; fair; fall; family; far; farm; fashion; father; fear; feel; feeling; feet; feilding; fern; fields; figure; fine; fingers; finished; fire; fletcher; floor; flowers; folk; foot; form; fortune; frances; fraud; free; french; fresh; friends; future; gallery; garden; genius; gentleman; ghosts; gift; girl; glass; gold; golden; good; grandfather; grandson; granite; grave; great; great man; greater; green; grey; half; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; heavens; heavy; height; help; high; highest; hill; history; hold; holy; home; honour; hope; hour; house; hugh; husband; ignorance; ignorant; illustration; imagination; important; income; inheritance; instance; interest; interesting; island; isles; jack; jagenal; jewels; justinian; kind; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; language; large; late; laugh; leave; lee; left; letters; level; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; lives; living; locked; london; long; longer; look; lost; love; lovely; low; lyonesse; maiden; making; man; manner; manuscript; march; marriage; married; mary; matter; mean; meantime; meet; memory; men; middle; mind; minutes; miss; mistress; model; modern; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; narrow; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; neck; need; new; night; noble; number; o'clock; ocean; offer; old; old man; open; order; original; outer; outside; painter; painting; pale; paper; pass; past; pencil; penzance; people; perfect; person; personal; peter; philippa; picture; piece; pity; place; plain; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pocket; poems; poet; poetry; point; poor; port; portrait; position; possession; possible; pounds; power; precious; present; pretence; pretty; price; private; promise; property; proud; public; punch; purpose; question; quick; quiet; rage; read; reading; real; reason; red; reply; reputation; respect; rest; return; rich; rings; road; robert; rocks; roland; room; rosevean; rough; round; royal; rubies; run; safe; sail; sailing; sake; samson; satisfied; save; school; scilly; sea; search; second; secret; self; sense; servant; service; serving; set; shame; ship; short; sides; silence; silent; silk; silver; simple; single; sir; sister; sitting; situation; sketch; sketches; sky; small; smile; society; soft; solid; song; sorry; soul; south; speaking; speech; spirit; splendid; spread; spring; stage; standing; stay; stephenson; stones; stories; story; strange; street; strong; studio; study; style; subject; success; summer; sun; sunshine; sure; surprise; sweet; sympathetic; table; talk; tall; tell; terrible; thank; thick; things; thinking; thought; tide; time; touch; town; treasure; trees; tresco; trouble; true; truth; tryeth; tunes; turning; unexpected; unknown; useful; usual; verses; view; violin; visit; visitor; voice; volume; voyage; walk; wall; want; warm; watch; water; waves; way; ways; wealth; weather; week; welcome; west; white; wide; wife; wild; wilmot; wind; window; wine; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worth; worthless; wrecks; writer; writing; wrong; years; yellow; yesterday; young; young man; zoe
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 56602
      author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
       title: Frank Hunter's Peril
        date: None
       words: 52355
      flesch: 90
     summary: Mr. Sharpley was a man not overburdened--in fact, not burdened at all--with principle, but he could make himself personally more agreeable than Mr. Craven, nor did Frank feel for him the instinctive aversion which he entertained for his step-father. I thought you would like to see the last companion of poor Frank, returned Mr. Craven, surprised.
    keywords: abercrombie; able; accident; account; afraid; alive; america; attention; baptiste; beatrice; ben; best; better; body; boy; business; cameron; care; case; chance; chapter; circumstances; city; clerk; cliff; colonel; colonel sharpley; companion; company; considerable; course; craven; danger; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; difficulty; dog; dollars; door; english; europe; eyes; face; fact; fall; fancy; father; fear; fellow; fortune; frank; french; friend; future; gentleman; girl; glacier; glad; goin'; good; great; grosvenor; guardian; guide; half; hand; head; heart; help; henry; herbert; hero; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; hunter; husband; idea; interest; jest; job; jonathan; katy; kind; landlord; laughing; left; life; likely; little; london; long; look; lost; love; man; manner; marriage; married; matter; mean; meat; mind; minutes; mistress; moment; money; monsieur; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; near; need; new; news; o'grady; offer; office; old; order; paris; party; pay; people; person; place; plans; pleasure; plow; pocket; point; pompey; poor; possession; present; property; ready; reason; return; rich; right; robert; room; said; set; sharpley; short; sick; sir; sister; skunk; small; soft; son; sorry; squashboro; state; stay; step; stop; strange; strong; subject; sure; surprise; suspicion; switzerland; talk; tarbox; thank; thing; thought; time; travel; trouble; true; truth; village; villain; voice; walk; want; way; wife; wish; woman; wonder; work; world; worth; yankee; york; young
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