item: #1 of 12 id: 10624 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Three John Silence Stories date: None words: 67227 flesch: 76 summary: I And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case? asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. For the honour of accompanying Dr. John Silence on one of his big cases was what many would have considered an empty honour--and risky. keywords: account; action; adventure; afraid; air; alarm; alive; ancient; animals; atmosphere; attack; attention; author; aware; beginning; best; big; black; blood; body; book; bowl; breath; broken; brother; building; busy; carpet; case; cat; cats; caught; certain; chair; change; character; clear; close; collie; colonel; colonel wragge; companion; confidence; control; corner; course; creature; cry; curious; dance; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deep; delight; deserted; desire; difficult; dim; direction; distance; distress; doctor; dog; dogs; door; dreadful; dream; drug; effect; elemental; emotion; escape; evil; excitement; experiment; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; far; fashion; fear; features; feeling; feet; fell; field; figure; fire; flame; flash; floor; fog; forces; form; friend; frightened; fro; gesture; girl; glad; going; good; grave; great; ground; half; hall; hand; hard; haunted; head; heart; heels; help; high; hill; horror; host; hour; house; human; humour; idea; ilsã; imagination; impressions; inn; inner; instant; interest; invisible; john; john silence; kind; knowledge; large; laughter; laundry; leave; leaving; left; legs; length; life; like; line; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; lost; low; magic; main; makes; man; manner; map; master; mat; mean; meaning; memory; mere; methods; middle; mind; minutes; miss; moment; moon; moonlight; morning; mother; mouth; movement; moving; muffled; mummy; mysterious; mystery; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; new; night; noise; normal; o'clock; odd; old; open; opening; opposite; ordinary; overhead; particular; passage; passing; past; paused; paws; pender; people; personality; picture; pine; place; plain; plantation; point; possible; power; powerful; prepared; presence; psychical; purpose; puzzled; queer; question; quick; quiet; rate; ready; real; red; region; remote; reply; roof; room; running; rush; sand; scene; sea; second; secret; self; sensation; sense; sensitive; sentence; set; shadows; shapes; sharp; significant; silence; silent; single; singular; sister; sitting; sky; sleep; small; smile; smoke; soft; soldier; sort; soul; sound; space; speech; spell; spirit; spiritual; standing; start; state; stone; stories; story; straight; strange; streets; strong; study; sudden; sure; surface; table; tail; talk; terrible; terror; things; think; thought; throat; time; touch; town; train; trees; true; turn; unable; understand; usual; utter; vezin; vision; vivid; voice; wall; warmth; watch; way; white; wild; wind; window; wish; woman; wood; words; work; world; wragge; yard; years; yellow cache: 10624.txt plain text: 10624.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 10659 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Three More John Silence Stories date: None words: 48710 flesch: 76 summary: She knew every inch of the island and kept turning up in places where she was least expected--for ever wandering about, reading her books in sheltered corners, making little fires on sunless days to worship by to the gods, as she put it, ever finding new pools to dive and bathe in, and swimming day and night in the warm and waveless lagoon like a fish in a huge tank. For the moment, however, Dr. Silence was not of the party. keywords: able; action; air; alarm; animal; arm; arms; atmosphere; aware; band; barker; best; better; big; black; bo'sun; body; branches; breath; brief; broken; brothers; bruder; building; business; camp; canadian; canoe; canvas; case; certain; chair; change; character; clean; clergyman; close; cold; companion; condition; consciousness; control; conversation; corner; course; creature; cry; curious; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; depths; desire; different; difficult; doctor; dog; door; double; doubt; dozen; dreadful; dream; effect; emotions; end; english; englishman; evening; excitement; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; faint; familiar; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; figure; fire; fish; fog; force; forest; forgotten; form; forward; german; girl; god; gone; good; got; great; grey; half; hand; hard; harris; head; heart; heavy; help; higher; hold; hole; home; hour; human; impossible; inside; instance; instant; intense; island; joan; john; kalkmann; kind; knowledge; lagoon; leave; left; life; like; line; little; living; long; longer; look; lost; low; making; maloney; man; mate; matter; memory; mere; mind; minutes; moment; morning; moss; mother; movement; mrs; mudge; music; natural; nature; nearer; new; night; normal; note; o'clock; odd; old; open; pain; party; passion; past; patient; pause; peculiar; people; physical; place; pleasure; point; power; presence; priest; primitive; psychic; question; quick; reach; ready; real; reason; reply; result; ridge; road; room; round; run; safety; sangree; savage; scene; schliemann; school; sea; second; sense; shadow; shore; sides; silence; silk; simple; singular; sky; sleep; small; smile; smoke; soul; space; speaking; spiritual; standing; stars; state; strange; strong; subtle; sudden; supper; surprise; talk; tent; terrible; terror; things; think; thinking; thought; time; train; trees; true; turn; unknown; view; village; visible; vivid; voice; walls; watch; water; waves; way; white; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; wind; windows; women; wonderful; wood; words; world; worship; years cache: 10659.txt plain text: 10659.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 14168 author: Onions, Oliver title: Widdershins date: None words: 81011 flesch: 86 summary: How _should_ men know her, this Fair One of Oleron's, until Oleron himself knew her? Will it be long, Benlian? No, he replied, not if I can keep from eating and sleeping and thinking of other things than the statue--and if you don't disturb me by having girls about the place, Pudgie. keywords: abel; afternoon; agent; ahoy; alley; andriaovsky; annabel; answer; anxious; arm; arms; artists; attempt; attitude; aunt; babe; bad; bag; barrett; beard; beautiful; bed; bedroom; beginning; bell; bengough; benlian; bessie; better; big; bit; black; bligh; blind; blood; boards; body; book; box; brain; brandy; breath; bright; broad; broken; brow; business; cab; candle; carroll; case; cast; ceiling; certain; chair; chamber; change; chapter; children; cigarette; clear; closed; cold; colour; coming; conscious; corner; couple; course; crane; cry; curious; cut; danger; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deck; deep; devil; different; dinner; doctor; door; double; doubt; dozen; drawing; dream; drop; early; earth; edge; elsie; end; english; evening; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; falling; fancy; farther; fat; feet; fellow; fetched; figure; finger; finished; fire; flat; floor; flora; flowers; following; fool; foot; force; form; frame; free; fresh; friend; galleon; gate; gesture; getting; gipsies; gipsy; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; good; great; greater; green; grey; ground; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; harrison; hat; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hold; home; hope; hopkins; horrible; hour; house; hung; idea; ill; inch; inside; inspector; instant; interrupted; iron; keeling; key; kind; kitchen; knees; knife; knock; lady; lamp; landing; large; late; laugh; law; lay; leave; left; letters; library; lie; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; living; loder; long; look; looking; lost; lot; loud; love; low; madley; making; man; mantelpiece; manuscript; marsden; martin; mary; maschka; matter; mean; memory; mere; michael; middle; mind; minutes; mirror; miss; mistake; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mouth; moved; mrs; murmured; muttered; narrow; near; need; new; night; noise; nosed; note; notice; novel; number; odd; oho; old; oleron; ones; open; order; outside; page; pain; pair; paper; passing; past; paul; people; photograph; pipkin; place; play; point; poor; portion; portrait; position; present; pretty; public; pudgie; quarter; queer; question; quick; quiet; rachel; rangon; ready; real; reason; remembered; renard; rest; restaurant; return; rock; romarin; room; rose; run; running; save; saying; schofield; sea; seat; second; sense; series; set; shadow; shape; ship; shoulder; silence; silver; singing; single; sitting; sleep; small; smile; soft; sorry; sort; soul; sound; space; spirit; sprang; square; staircase; stairs; standing; statue; steps; stop; straight; street; struggle; studio; stuff; success; sudden; sun; sure; sweet; table; talk; talking; tap; tea; telling; thank; thick; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; tongue; touch; tower; true; truth; turn; turning; upper; vicar; vision; voice; walk; wall; want; warm; watch; water; way; weeks; white; wide; window; wish; woman; wondering; wooden; words; work; working; world; writing; wrong; yard; years; young cache: 14168.txt plain text: 14168.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 14471 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories date: None words: 67895 flesch: 80 summary: Evidently, he was not of the harmless, foolish, visionary order, but a man of character and of great personal force, for the people became divided in their opinions, and the vicar, good man, regarded and treated him as a special case. It was not so much that I actually heard other sounds, but that I _expected_ to hear them; this was what stole the other half of my listening. keywords: adventure; afraid; air; answer; appearance; arm; atmosphere; attention; audible; aunt; aware; away; awful; bag; barn; bed; bedroom; beginning; best; better; big; bit; black; blackwood; blake; blood; boards; body; books; brain; breathing; brief; broad; camp; candle; canoe; carpet; case; certain; chair; change; circle; clear; close; clothes; cold; coming; common; companion; condition; conscious; consciousness; control; conversation; corner; country; courage; course; cry; cupboard; curiosity; curious; cut; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; desire; determined; difficult; dinner; direction; distance; door; doubt; dreadful; dream; drop; early; effect; effort; end; evening; excitement; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; faint; falling; far; father; fear; features; feel; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; field; figure; fingers; fire; floor; footsteps; force; friend; frightened; furniture; garvey; genuine; girl; glad; glass; going; good; great; greene; half; hall; hand; hard; haunted; hay; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hold; home; horrible; horror; hour; human; idea; imagination; indians; inn; inside; instant; intense; interest; island; jew; jim; kind; kitchen; knife; knowledge; lamp; landing; landlady; large; late; left; length; life; like; lips; listening; little; living; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; lost; loud; man; manner; marriott; marx; matter; mean; middle; miles; mind; minute; moment; money; morning; mouth; movement; narrow; nature; near; need; nerves; new; night; noise; o'clock; odd; old; open; opposite; order; ordinary; outline; outside; overhead; papers; particular; passage; past; pause; peculiar; people; person; physical; place; pleasant; point; position; possible; power; presence; private; purpose; questions; rate; reading; ready; real; reason; red; relief; rest; return; roof; room; rose; rushing; search; second; secretary; self; sensation; sense; set; shadows; shock; shorthouse; shoulders; sidebotham; sign; silence; silent; single; sitting; skin; sky; sleep; small; smith; sofa; soft; sort; sound; space; spite; stairs; standing; steady; steps; stick; stop; stories; story; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; student; sudden; summer; sun; sure; surprised; table; talk; talking; terror; thing; thought; time; tired; trees; trembling; true; turning; unusual; upstairs; utter; village; visitor; vivid; voice; wall; warm; watch; water; way; week; weight; whispering; white; wild; wind; window; woman; wood; words; work; world; years; york; young cache: 14471.txt plain text: 14471.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 20387 author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title: A Thin Ghost and Others date: None words: 32066 flesch: 81 summary: 'To be sure it was Saul, Doctor, and thank you; and now isn't it King Saul that we read of raising up the dead ghost that was slumbering in its tomb till he disturbed it, and isn't that a strange thing, this young lord to have such a name, and Mr. Simpkins's grandfather to see him out of his window of a dark night going about from one grave to another in the yard with a candle, and them that was with him following through the grass at his heels: and one night him to come right up to old Mr. Simpkins's window that gives on the yard and press his face up against it to find out if there was any one in the room that could see him: and only just time there was for old Mr. Simpkins to drop down like, quiet, just under the window and hold his breath, and not stir till he heard him stepping away again, and this rustling-like in the grass after him as he went, and then when he looked out of his window in the morning there was treadings in the grass and a dead man's bone. Old Mr. Poynter, of Acrington? keywords: abell; able; afternoon; arm; ashton; attention; aunt; bed; best; better; bit; black; body; book; bowman; box; boys; breakfast; business; cathedral; certain; chamber; choir; christmas; church; clear; close; course; curtains; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dean; dear; death; denton; diary; doctor; dog; door; doubt; dream; end; evans; evening; eyes; face; fact; fancy; father; feel; find; fire; floor; frank; friend; fright; garden; ghost; good; grass; grave; great; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; head; henslow; hour; house; interest; james; key; keys; kildonan; kind; lady; lake; late; left; like; likely; little; london; long; look; lord; man; maple; mary; master; men; mind; minster; minutes; miss; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; near; need; new; night; north; old; oldys; open; palmer; paper; particular; pattern; people; person; piece; place; point; poor; poynter; press; punch; question; quinn; reason; red; residence; room; round; saul; second; service; set; simpkins; sir; size; sleep; small; spearman; story; study; stuff; sure; taking; talk; thing; thought; time; tomb; town; trouble; truth; uncle; usual; view; voice; wall; way; whitminster; wife; window; wish; worby; words; work; wrong; yard; years; young cache: 20387.txt plain text: 20387.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 31019 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Four Ghost Stories date: None words: 36509 flesch: 84 summary: But I confess I do not in the least understand what you mean by speaking of _other_ ghosts as 'will-o'-the-wisps.' It was a friend of her husband's family who had mentioned the circumstances in the hearing of a friend of mine, and one day something brought round the conversation to old times, and he startled me by suddenly inquiring if I remembered Maud Bertram. keywords: able; afraid; afternoon; ambrose; anne; bad; ballyreina; best; better; blue; bright; brother; bye; care; certain; children; china; country; course; cup; curious; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; distance; door; doubt; drawing; dream; early; england; evening; experience; eyes; face; fact; fancy; farquhar; fear; feeling; figure; fire; foot; forest; frau; friend; frightened; germany; ghost; girl; good; graham; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; helen; help; herr; home; hope; hour; house; husband; idea; impression; inn; katze; kenneth; kind; known; lady; landlord; late; leave; left; library; life; like; likely; little; living; long; look; looking; lutz; ma'am; major; mamma; man; margaret; matter; maud; medway; mind; moment; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; near; new; night; nina; nora; old; open; outside; painful; past; paul; people; person; pity; place; pleasant; poor; possible; post; pretty; ready; real; reason; reggie; return; robert; room; round; seeberg; sense; silberbach; sir; sister; slight; sort; standing; stories; story; strange; sure; things; thought; time; tired; town; true; uncle; view; village; voice; von; walden; want; way; weather; weeks; wife; window; wish; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 31019.txt plain text: 31019.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 36638 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: A Book of Ghosts date: None words: 126448 flesch: 85 summary: During the performances the guests talked to each other in low tones about various topics. Said one lady to Mrs. Amory: How strange it is that among the English lower classes there is no love of music. Presently she heard a feeble whimper and saw a stirring in the cradle; little hands were put forth gropingly. keywords: account; afraid; alarm; alec; american; amory; aneurin; anna; answer; apparition; appearance; arler; arms; assumed; attempt; attention; aunt; auntie; author; aware; bad; baker; ball; bank; beautiful; bed; bedroom; bench; beneath; benjamin; bessie; best; better; betty; bit; black; bless; blood; blue; boat; bodies; body; bold; bones; book; bottle; bouchon; bow; box; boy; breakfast; breast; breath; bridge; bright; british; broken; brother; brow; burst; business; café; captain; care; carriage; cart; case; certain; chalk; chamber; change; character; cheeks; child; children; chin; christmas; church; churchwarden; churchyard; circumstances; clear; close; clothes; coat; coffee; coffin; coins; cold; colonel; colour; company; complete; concern; condition; considerable; conversation; cook; corpse; cost; cottage; country; couple; course; creation; creature; cross; cry; cut; dance; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deceased; deep; delight; desire; different; dinner; doctor; donelly; door; drawing; dream; dress; dressed; drop; drove; dull; duty; dying; early; earth; effect; egypt; elizabeth; end; engaged; england; english; entrance; evening; excuse; existence; explanation; expression; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fallen; family; fancy; far; farmer; fashion; father; fear; feared; feeble; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; fiddle; figure; fine; finger; fire; fit; fixed; flag; flemming; floor; flowers; following; fontanel; foot; force; form; francis; french; fresh; friend; frightened; future; gale; gallery; gander; garments; gate; gentleman; ghost; girl; glad; glass; glámr; god; good; gown; grandfather; grave; great; green; grettir; grey; hair; haired; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hate; hattersley; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hockin; hold; home; honour; hope; horror; horses; hotel; hour; house; human; hung; husband; idea; information; instrument; interest; iron; jabez; jacob; jameson; jane; jean; joanna; joe; jonas; joseph; julia; key; kindly; kitchen; knees; knife; knowing; knowledge; lacy; ladder; ladies; lady; lambole; lamp; land; landing; lap; large; late; lawlor; leads; leave; left; legs; length; letice; letters; leveridge; life; lighted; like; linen; lips; little; live; living; london; long; look; looking; lord; lost; love; lynton; ma'am; mabel; maid; major; mammy; man; manner; marked; married; material; matter; mcalister; mean; meat; meet; memory; merewigs; milk; mill; mind; minutes; miss; mistake; moment; money; monsieur; months; moon; moral; morning; morrow; mother; mountjoy; mouth; mrs; mud; museum; music; mustapha; narrow; nature; near; neck; need; new; night; nonsense; north; nose; notice; novel; november; number; o'clock; o'hooligan; object; occasion; offer; office; old; open; opposite; orders; outside; overhead; pain; pale; parson; particular; party; pass; passage; past; pay; people; period; personality; peter; philippa; pieces; pipe; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; pocket; point; pointed; pomps; poor; poppy; porch; portion; position; possible; power; pray; prayers; presence; present; pretty; priest; pudding; pure; purpose; question; ram; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; rector; red; remains; remarkable; rest; retired; return; ring; river; road; rock; roger; roof; room; rose; round; run; running; sahib; satisfaction; scene; school; seat; second; self; sense; servants; service; set; shadow; sheet; shillings; ship; shop; shot; shoulders; silent; silver; sir; sister; sitting; sixpence; skeleton; sleep; small; smoke; snow; society; soil; somewhat; son; sorry; sort; soul; speak; spirit; spot; spring; square; stage; staircase; stand; startled; station; stay; step; stepmother; stick; stirring; stone; story; strange; stream; street; strong; subject; suit; summer; sun; sure; surprise; swanton; table; taking; talk; terrible; terror; theatre; thing; thinking; thorhall; thought; throat; time; tongue; town; train; trees; trouble; true; trunk; trust; turning; unable; upper; upstairs; usual; valley; vanities; veil; venture; vicar; village; vincent; violin; visit; voice; waiters; walk; wall; want; warm; watch; water; way; wedding; week; west; wheel; whiskers; whisky; white; wife; wild; window; wings; winter; wish; wives; woman; wood; woolfield; word; work; worn; worse; writing; wrong; years; young cache: 36638.txt plain text: 36638.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 40321 author: Nesbit, E. (Edith) title: Grim Tales date: None words: 24462 flesch: 93 summary: My sisters were, I truly believe, more interested in the _trousseau_ than the bride herself, and I was to be best man. She goes through more moods in a day than most other women in a year. keywords: arms; aunt; beautiful; bed; benoliel; big; black; body; bride; carriage; chair; charrington; child; church; churchyard; come; coming; course; cry; dark; darling; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; dorman; dream; early; ebony; end; eyes; face; father; feet; figure; fire; floor; fool; forster; frame; furniture; garden; ghost; god; good; grave; grey; half; hand; happiness; happy; head; heart; heaven; heavy; helmont; home; hope; hour; house; ill; john; kate; lady; lamp; late; laura; letter; life; like; lips; little; long; look; love; low; mad; marble; married; matter; mildred; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; moon; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; new; night; oak; old; open; pale; path; people; picture; place; poor; portrait; question; room; round; semi; sense; sheet; silence; sir; sitting; sky; soul; station; story; straight; strange; street; sure; table; things; thought; time; train; true; uncle; voice; wall; way; wedding; white; wide; wife; window; woman; wood; words; work; world; years; young cache: 40321.txt plain text: 40321.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 44581 author: Swain, E. G. (Edmund Gill) title: The Stoneground Ghost Tales Compiled from the recollections of the Reverend Roland Batchel, Vicar of the parish. date: None words: 39501 flesch: 77 summary: And you saw Mr. Richpin in Frenchman's Meadow? said Mr. Batchel. Did Mr. Richpin speak to you? enquired Mr. Batchel. keywords: account; adventure; ancient; answer; antiquarian; appearance; attempt; attention; batchel; bed; better; boat; bone; book; box; boy; boys; breakfast; brief; butler; caleb; candle; cause; censers; century; certain; chain; change; church; close; coins; considerable; contents; conversation; corner; cottage; course; curious; dark; day; days; deal; desk; determined; dining; discovery; door; doubt; earth; edge; effect; end; evening; evident; examination; excited; excitement; experience; explanation; eyes; face; fact; familiar; feet; figure; find; fine; fire; form; frenchman; friend; garden; gardener; general; good; great; groves; guest; half; hand; help; hold; home; hope; host; hour; house; information; intention; interest; iron; kind; lady; lamp; lane; large; lawn; lay; leave; leaving; left; length; library; life; like; little; lode; long; look; lubrietta; making; man; manner; mare; marks; matter; meadow; means; men; midnight; mind; minutes; mirror; moment; moon; morning; movement; mrs; mutcher; natural; nature; near; nearest; need; new; night; north; o'clock; object; occasion; old; open; order; papers; parish; parts; past; path; people; person; photograph; picture; piece; pipe; place; point; possible; presence; present; purpose; question; reader; reading; ready; reason; reply; return; richpin; ring; roller; room; rumney; second; sideboard; sleep; sluice; small; sort; sound; spade; spook; stake; standing; stoneground; stones; story; straight; stranger; study; sure; surprise; table; talk; task; tea; thing; thought; time; turning; unusual; usual; vicar; vicarage; view; visible; visit; visitor; voice; walk; wall; wardle; water; way; whitehead; wife; window; woman; words; work; yards; years; young cache: 44581.txt plain text: 44581.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 45964 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Day and Night Stories date: None words: 74473 flesch: 84 summary: You are on the way to discovery of great things. Also--he reminded himself with a smile--he had lost other things: the expression of youth _ keywords: advanced; adventure; afraid; air; alarm; alive; amazing; ancient; answer; arms; arthur; atmosphere; audible; aware; awe; awful; baize; ball; band; barker; beauty; bed; belief; best; better; big; binovitch; bird; bit; black; blood; blue; body; boy; brain; branches; breath; brief; broken; brother; brown; burst; business; cane; case; certain; chair; change; children; city; clear; close; clothes; cold; companion; complete; condition; control; conversation; cool; corner; corridor; country; course; cousin; cry; cupboard; curious; dancing; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; deity; delane; desert; desire; details; different; difficult; distance; doctor; door; dove; dream; dusk; early; earth; edge; effect; effort; egyptian; emotion; end; endless; english; englishman; enormous; entire; evening; exchange; excitement; experience; explanation; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; familiar; family; far; fast; father; fear; feel; feeling; feet; figure; fingers; fire; flashed; flat; floor; flowers; flying; following; foot; force; forest; forgotten; forward; free; frightened; game; garden; gate; gentleman; girl; glad; god; gods; gold; good; grandfather; grass; great; green; grey; ground; group; guess; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hawk; head; heart; heavy; help; hidden; high; higher; hold; hole; home; hope; hornet; horror; horus; hotel; hours; house; huge; human; hung; hurried; hurry; hush; idea; imaginative; inside; instant; interest; jack; john; joy; key; kind; knowing; knowledge; known; language; late; laughing; laughter; lawn; leap; left; length; life; lights; like; line; lips; little; living; london; loneliness; long; longer; look; loose; lost; lot; love; making; man; manner; marvellous; matter; meaning; memory; mere; mighty; miles; mind; minutes; moment; money; moonlight; morning; mother; mountain; mouth; movement; mudge; mullins; music; natural; nature; nearer; neck; need; new; night; nightmare; noise; normal; note; object; obvious; odd; old; ones; open; opposite; ordinary; outside; pain; particular; party; passage; passionate; past; patient; paused; people; perfume; person; picture; pierrot; pine; place; play; pleasure; plitzinger; point; pointed; porter; positive; possible; power; presence; present; queer; question; quick; quiet; rate; real; reality; reason; remembered; rivers; room; rose; ruler; run; safe; said; sand; saw; sea; second; secret; self; sensation; sense; set; shadow; shining; shock; short; shoulders; sign; silence; silent; similar; simple; singing; single; sir; skin; sky; sleep; slight; small; smile; smith; snow; soft; soul; sound; space; speaking; speed; spirit; spiritual; stars; state; steady; step; stick; stirred; stone; strange; street; strength; strong; sudden; sun; sunset; sure; surface; surprise; sweet; swift; table; talk; terrible; terrific; terror; thick; thing; thinking; thought; thrill; time; tiny; tired; touch; trees; true; truth; turning; universe; utter; valley; vera; view; village; visible; voice; waiting; wall; watch; water; wave; way; weeks; white; wife; wild; wind; window; wings; woman; wonderful; wood; words; world; years; yellow; young cache: 45964.txt plain text: 45964.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 8486 author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary date: None words: 46369 flesch: 80 summary: These finishing touches and farewells, as it turned out, took more time than he had expected. It was not in the personal appearance of the little, dry, wizened old man that the interest lay, for he was precisely like dozens of other church-guardians in France, but in a curious furtive or rather hunted and oppressed air which he had. keywords: abbot; able; abney; account; afternoon; air; alberic; anderson; answer; antiquary; anxious; arms; ash; bed; bedroom; bertrand; best; better; bishop; bit; black; body; book; boy; breakfast; britnell; brown; building; bunch; business; cambridge; candle; canon; castringham; century; certain; chamber; chest; church; clear; close; collection; college; colonel; common; company; considerable; conversation; count; country; course; cousin; crome; cross; cry; curious; dark; date; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dennistoun; details; difficult; dinner; door; doubt; drawing; dreadful; early; edge; end; england; english; evening; excitement; experiences; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; fell; figure; fine; fire; floor; following; form; friend; gentleman; girl; glass; globe; going; good; grandfather; great; gregory; hair; half; hall; hand; head; heart; help; herr; high; hole; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; human; idea; impression; inn; inscription; inside; interest; interesting; italian; jensen; job; key; kind; landlord; lantern; large; late; latin; laugh; lawyer; left; letters; library; life; like; likely; lines; lips; little; locked; long; look; magnus; man; manner; manor; master; matthew; mean; mezzotint; middle; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; moon; morning; mrs; museum; near; need; neighbours; new; night; nisbet; noise; north; notes; number; o'clock; object; old; open; opposite; outside; papers; parkes; parkins; particular; passage; past; people; period; person; picture; piece; place; plan; point; poor; possible; present; pretty; private; professor; question; quiet; red; return; richard; rogers; room; round; run; sacristan; search; second; series; servants; set; short; shut; similar; sir; sitting; sleep; small; somerton; standing; steinfeld; stephen; steps; stone; stories; story; strange; strong; study; subject; sudden; supper; sure; surprise; taking; talk; tea; terror; thank; thing; thomas; thought; time; tonight; town; treasure; tree; true; truth; turn; usual; viborg; vicar; view; village; visit; voice; walk; wall; way; weeks; whistle; white; williams; window; wine; wish; woman; wood; words; work; world; wraxall; writing; yards; years; yellow; young cache: 8486.txt plain text: 8486.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 9629 author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories date: None words: 49036 flesch: 84 summary: He stopped, feeling that the words were not fitting themselves together in the happiest way, and Mr Cooper cut in, 'Oh, you may rest satisfied of that, Mr Humphreys. 'I was just saying to Mr Humphreys, my dear,' said Mr Cooper, 'that I hope and trust that his residence among us here in Wilsthorpe will be marked as a red-letter day. keywords: able; address; afraid; afternoon; ann; anstruther; answer; anxiety; appearance; archdeacon; arms; attorney; bad; barchester; bed; beg; better; bit; black; book; box; boy; brother; building; business; car; case; cathedral; certain; children; clark; class; close; collins; company; cooper; copy; country; course; court; curious; cut; dark; date; day; days; deal; dear; death; desk; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dunning; effect; eldred; end; evening; evidence; eye; face; fact; fall; feel; feeling; figures; floor; form; friend; garden; garrett; gate; gentleman; george; getting; ghost; glad; god; good; great; half; hall; hand; harrington; haynes; head; hebrew; help; high; hold; home; hope; hour; house; humphreys; idea; impression; inside; interest; john; jury; karswell; kind; know; l.c.j; lady; large; late; leave; left; letters; library; life; like; likely; line; little; long; look; lord; lot; man; mark; martin; mary; matter; maze; mcleod; mean; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mr cooper; mr dunning; mr eldred; mr garrett; mr humphreys; mr karswell; mrs; new; night; note; notice; number; occasion; odd; old; open; order; outside; paper; parcel; pardon; parish; particular; passage; past; path; people; person; place; plan; point; poor; possible; post; prisoner; purpose; question; ready; reason; rector; report; return; room; rose; round; said; saying; school; second; secretary; set; shock; shut; simpson; sir; small; sorry; sort; squire; stalls; state; station; step; stories; story; subject; summer; sure; talk; tea; temple; thing; thinking; thought; ticket; time; timms; town; train; tree; trial; trouble; turning; uncle; usual; view; village; voice; want; wardrop; watch; water; way; week; wife; william; wilsthorpe; window; wish; word; work; writing; wrong; years; young cache: 9629.txt plain text: 9629.txt