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id: 60897
author: Mittleman, E.
title: The Non-Electronic Bug
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words: 3115
sentence: 291
flesch: 100
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summary:
  However, Henry had more brains than Skippy. Being a genius, my theory is that when Henry worked Skippy over, he jarred his tuning strips, or whatever it is, so now Skippy's receiving on another frequency.


id: 23058
author: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
title: The Queen Of Spades
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words: 3600
sentence: 255
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Generals and statesmen played whist; young men lounged on sofas, eating ices or smoking. How is it, Herman, that you never touch a card? remarked one of the men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.


id: 759
author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir
title: James Pethel
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words: 7902
sentence: 493
flesch: 86
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summary:
  They were QUITE right, said Mrs. Pethel, evidently not for the first time. They were QUITE right, said Mrs. Pethel again.


id: 23534
author: Garrett, Randall
title: ...Or Your Money Back
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sentence: 699
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Mr. Howley, my profession is Law--with a capital L. Just how do you operate this good luck charm, Mr. Howley?


id: 34743
author: Beecher, Henry Ward
title: Gamblers and Gambling
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words: 8681
sentence: 474
flesch: 77
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summary:
  In respect to that department of gambling which includes the _roping-in_ of strangers, young men, collecting-clerks, and unsuspecting green-hands, and robbing them, I have no language strong enough to mark down its turpitude, its infernal rapacity. Gambling _seen_, seems a different thing from gambling _painted_ by a pious father!


id: 47237
author: Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
title: Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life
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sentence: 2289
flesch: 83
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  There was a simultaneous report, a blinding flash, and when the smoke cleared away, Sybil saw Hinchley stretched upon the ground, the two assistants bending over him, and Laurence standing in his old position. It was already twilight when Sybil Chase reached the ponderous iron gates which gave entrance from the road to the grounds.


id: 46266
author: Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène
title: The Sharper Detected and Exposed
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  Others, with good cards, pretend to be in a bad temper, and frown; whilst, with bad cards, they appear gay and anxious to begin to play. So that, in this manner, there are never more cards in a pack than there ought to be.


id: 53407
author: Stratemeyer, Edward
title: Dave Porter's Return to School; Or, Winning the Medal of Honor
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sentence: 4787
flesch: 93
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summary:
  I am afraid you are right, answered Dave, soberly. CHAPTER II SOMETHING OF THE PAST Once again Dave Porter was brought face to face with the troubles which he had hoped had been put behind him forever. To those who have read Dave Porter at Oak Hall Dave needs no special introduction.


id: 5163
author: Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
title: Guy Garrick
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words: 68547
sentence: 4101
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Tell Garrick I shall hold open to-night for him. At last Garrick returned from his hurried trip down to the office.


id: 41169
author: Maskelyne, John Nevil
title: Sharps and Flats A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill
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words: 80404
sentence: 3616
flesch: 74
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summary:
  In card games especially there is always a risk in resorting to manipulation nowadays. This he did very cleverly, and nobody noticed it, because the floor was always littered with used cards.


id: 21706
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Twice Bought
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flesch: 83
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summary:
  As poor Tom Brixton once said in a moment of confidence to his friend Westly, while excusing himself for so frequently going on prospecting expeditions to Bevan's Gully, There's no question about it, Fred; she's the sweetest girl in Oregon--pshaw! My frinds, he said, in a low, mysterious voice, I know that ivery mother's son of ye is ready to fight for poor Tom Brixton to-morrow, if the wust comes to the wust.


id: 531
author: Steinmetz, Andrew
title: The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
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words: 86817
sentence: 3623
flesch: 72
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  The talliere, if the winning card was a king, and the next after it was a ten, said (showing the cards all round), 'King wins, ten loses,' paying the money to such cards as are of the winning sort, and taking the money from those who lost, added it to his bank. 'Sare,' said the Frenchman, in a sort of whisper, to a party who accompanied his antagonist, 'your friend is a very clever man at de cards--deuced clever, sare.'


id: 17917
author: Green, J. H. (Jonathan Harrington)
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sentence: 3480
flesch: 71
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title:
  Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States.

summary:
  The ground on which Mr. Freeman had canvassed this matter was, he contended, in accordance with Blackstone, Paley, and other great men, who thought--namely, that a man had a right to do what he liked with his own things. Mr. Freeman only contended that a gambler was honest in a relative point of view--as honest as other men who in trade or otherwise, or in speculation, did things as bad or worse than gamblers.


id: 466
author: Steinmetz, Andrew
title: The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)
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sentence: 3521
flesch: 69
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summary:
  My steward settled with him this morning for _TEN_ guineas, and he was glad to take them, only saying--I was damned far North, and it was well it was no worse. The earl replied, 'I don't wonder at your _LOSING_ money, Nash, but all the world is surprised where you get it to lose.'


id: 23587
author: Devol, George H.
title: Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
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flesch: 89
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summary:
  I meet good business men very often now that take me by the hand and remind me of when I won some money from them when they were boys, and returned it with a good lecture. I have known men who knew this to travel all over the country after Bill, trying to induce him to play cards with them.


id: 53835
author: Nevill, Ralph
title: Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf
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flesch: 63
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summary:
  The minor forms of gambling, which serve to gratify the speculative instincts of ordinary mortals, have generally possessed little attraction for great men, whose minds would seem to have been occupied by more ambitious, though perhaps in essence not less speculative, designs. In the long run, however, he was a very considerable sum to the good, a comparatively small number of winning days having far more than compensated him for the large number of those on which the hundred francs had been speedily lost.


id: 19569
author: Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
title: The Guests Of Hercules
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flesch: 85
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summary:
  Mary knew, though she did not look at him again, and interested herself instead in other people. If undesirable incidents should happen, she wanted to say, Mary _would_ go by herself, without waiting for me.


