item: #1 of 13 id: 11696 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth date: None words: 76244 flesch: 82 summary: And presently little Redwood, pioneer of the new race, first child of all who ate the food, was crawling about his nursery, smashing furniture, biting like a horse, pinching like a vice, and bawling gigantic baby talk at his Nanny and Mammy and the rather scared and awe-stricken Daddy, who had set this mischief going. Said he didn't see. keywords: bensington; big; boy; caddles; caterham; children; coming; cossar; course; day; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; farm; feet; food; giant; good; growing; growth; half; hand; head; herakleophorbia; house; lady; life; look; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; near; new; people; place; presently; rats; redwood; right; road; round; saw; sir; skinner; son; sort; space; things; think; thir; thought; time; vicar; voice; want; wasps; way; window; winkles; work; world cache: 11696.txt plain text: 11696.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 15621 author: None title: The Story of Jack and the Giants date: None words: 5502 flesch: 83 summary: will nothing else serve you but poor Jack? Thus did little Jack torment the big Giant, as a cat does a mouse when she knows it cannot escape; and when he had tired of that amusement, he gave the monster a heavy blow with a pickaxe on the very crown of his head, which tumbled him down, and killed him on the spot. This warning was so shocking to poor Jack, that he was ready to go mad. keywords: castle; giant; illustration; initial; jack; king; knight; lady cache: 15621.txt plain text: 15621.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 37145 author: Campbell, John Scott title: The Image and the Likeness date: None words: 26691 flesch: 85 summary: Now at last Kazu moved, but not toward safety. During the first few days of life, little Kazu was apparently normal, except for his prematureness and a rather great weight for a seven-month infant. keywords: baker; box; buddha; chamberlin; china; course; crater; door; feet; foot; hand; head; island; kazu; look; man; martin; miles; moment; new; plane; priests; radio; rau; room; steel; time; voice; way; world; yat cache: 37145.txt plain text: 37145.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 45288 author: Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron title: Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters date: None words: 2638 flesch: 78 summary: `Quickly the monster awoke, and wielding a cudgel,-- ```an oak tree,-- `Chased little Jack with a shout of mighty, maniacal ```anger; `Jack to the beanpod sprang with a leap, and desperate ```hurl'd his `Limbs in a downward, furious, headlong pre-cipitation, `But for a wink up-glanced; his foeman's ponderous ```hob-nails `Shone from aloft: down crash'd big pods, and bean ```avalanches. `Where an' O where, * he shrill'd; she beheld his boots ```disappearing; * Where an' O where is my Highland laddie gone? `Pod by pod Jack arose, till he came to a pod that alarm'd ```him. keywords: bean; illustration; jack cache: 45288.txt plain text: 45288.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 4608 author: Appleton, Victor title: Tom Swift in Captivity, Or, A Daring Escape By Airship date: None words: 45575 flesch: 90 summary: For several days after the visit of Mr. Preston Tom was busy making plans for his trip to South America. Tom Swift, you and I and Ned--if he wants to go--are going after a giant! Mr. Damon gleefully clapped Tom on the back, with such vigor that our hero coughed, and then the odd gentleman stepped back and gazed at the two lads, a look of triumph shining in his eyes. keywords: big; bless; circus; damon; eradicate; friends; giant; good; guess; hut; inventor; king; land; little; look; man; men; natives; ned; pedro; preston; right; san; south; swift; time; tom; tom swift; way cache: 4608.txt plain text: 4608.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 59235 author: Rabelais, François title: Three Good Giants Whose Ancient Deeds are recorded in the Ancient Chronicles date: None words: 55448 flesch: 83 summary: Not voices, but more like sobs, good old man. With that, he pulled out his purse, and showed it bursting with new gold-pieces, with the face of good King Gargantua stamped on each piece. keywords: chapter; city; course; day; eyes; father; fine; friar; friends; gargantua; giant; good; grandgousier; great; half; hand; illustration; initial; island; john; king; like; man; master; men; pantagruel; panurge; paris; people; picrochole; ponocrates; prince; royal; sea; sheep; ship; son; thou; thought; thy; time; water; way cache: 59235.txt plain text: 59235.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 62246 author: Bond, Nelson S. title: Colossus of Chaos date: None words: 16796 flesch: 87 summary: For instance--well, let me see--you are familiar with the Earthly legend of the phoenix, aren't you? The bird which was supposed to have had a life-span of a thousand years, at the end of which time it threw itself into a blazing pyre, from the ashes of which it was reborn? That, nodded Dr. Rocky, is the legend. In the good old Rocky Russell tradition, eh? Who? Rocky Russell, I said. keywords: boston; bud; captain; city; colossus; doctor; earth; factor; graham; grossman; lynn; master; new; patrol; rocky; roller; roswell; russell; thing; time; titan; way cache: 62246.txt plain text: 62246.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 6914 author: Cranch, Christopher Pearse title: The Last of the Huggermuggers date: None words: 12311 flesch: 83 summary: VIII.--How Little Jacket and his Friends left the Giant's Island. CHAP. Mrs. Huggermugger showed them her beautiful shell, and made Little Jacket tell how he had crept out of it, and let himself down by the fishing-line. keywords: giant; good; huggermugger; island; jacket; nabbum; sailors; ship; thought; wife; zebedee cache: 6914.txt plain text: 6914.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 8166 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 date: None words: 68335 flesch: 72 summary: Thus shall it then be lost by ways not few, And changed suddenly, when those that have it To other men that after come shall leave it. This by Alexander being considered, one day in the hippodrome (which was a place appointed for the breaking and managing of great horses), he perceived that the fury of the horse proceeded merely from the fear he had of his own shadow, whereupon getting on his back, he run him against the sun, so that the shadow fell behind, and by that means tamed the horse and brought him to his hand. keywords: abbey; art; body; book; cakes; cause; century; chapter; come; coming; country; course; cut; day; devil; doth; drink; drinking; eat; edition; end; fair; fashion; father; find; foot; form; french; friar; friend; gargantua; god; gold; good; grangousier; ground; gymnast; hand; hath; head; heart; horse; john; kind; king; left; lib; life; lord; making; man; manner; master; means; men; money; monk; nature; order; paris; pass; picrochole; place; ponocrates; rabelais; reason; rest; right; seeing; set; tail; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; use; virtue; water; way; whilst; white; wine; women; words; work; world; year cache: 8166.txt plain text: 8166.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 8167 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 date: None words: 50537 flesch: 69 summary: But see how that might be remedied: they must be wiped and made rid of the flies with fair foxtails, or great good viedazes, which are ass-pizzles, of Provence. Said Carpalim, Pantagruel's footman, It is Greek, I have understood him. keywords: believe; body; book; cause; chapter; city; company; country; court; day; devil; dogs; doth; drink; end; epistemon; fair; father; fingers; fire; foot; friend; giants; god; good; great; ground; half; hand; hath; head; heart; king; knowledge; lady; law; left; little; lord; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; money; mouth; number; pantagruel; panurge; paris; people; place; rest; right; salt; saying; seeing; sir; stone; teeth; thaumast; thee; think; thou; time; truth; water; way; wine; women; world; year cache: 8167.txt plain text: 8167.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 8168 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 date: None words: 84947 flesch: 63 summary: Household C. Fine C. Nobbing C. Pretty C. Fierce C. Touzing C. Astrolabian C. Brawny C. Tumbling C. Algebraical C. Compt C. Fambling C. Venust C. Repaired C. Overturning C. Aromatizing C. Soft C. Shooting C. Tricksy C. Wild C. Culeting C. Paillard C. Renewed C. Jagged C. Gaillard C. Quaint C. Pinked C. Broaching C. Starting C. Arsiversing C. Addle C. Fleshy C. Polished C. Syndicated C. Auxiliary C. Slashed C. Hamed C. Stuffed C. Clashing C. Leisurely C. Well-fed C. Wagging C. Cut C. Flourished C. Scriplike C. Smooth C. Fallow C. Encremastered C. Depending C. Sudden C. Bouncing C. Independent C. Graspful C. Levelling C. Lingering C. Swillpow C. Fly-flap C. Rapping C. Crushing C. Perinae-tegminal C. Reverend C. Creaking C. Squat-couching C. Nodding C. Dilting C. Short-hung C. Disseminating C. Ready C. Massive C. Bearlike C. hound-like C. Manual C. Partitional C. Mounted C. Absolute C. Patronymic C. Sleeked C. Well-set C. Cockney C. Diapered C. Gemel C. Auromercuriated C. Spotted C. Turkish C. Robust C. Master C. Burning C. Appetizing C. Seeded C. Thwacking C. Succourable C. Lusty C. Urgent C. Redoubtable C. Jupped C. Handsome C. Affable C. Milked C. Prompt C. Memorable C. Calfeted C. Fortunate C. Palpable C. Raised C. Boxwood C. Barbable C. Odd C. Latten C. Tragical C. Steeled C. Unbridled C. Transpontine C. Stale C. Hooked C. Digestive C. Orange-tawny C. Researched C. Active C. Embroidered C. Encompassed C. Vital C. Glazed C. Strouting out C. Magistral C. Interlarded C. Jolly C. Monachal C. Burgher-like C. Lively C. Subtle C. Empowdered C. Gerundive C. Hammering C. Ebonized C. Franked C. Clashing C. Brasiliated C. Polished C. Tingling C. Organized C. Powdered Beef C. Usual C. Passable C. Positive C. keywords: able; answer; bear; blood; body; book; bridlegoose; c. c.; c. de; care; cause; chance; chapter; children; coming; contrary; counsel; country; court; cuckold; day; days; death; devils; dice; discourse; doth; earth; end; epistemon; eyes; fair; fashion; father; fellow; fire; fool; fortune; friar; friend; future; god; good; great; hand; hath; having; head; heart; herb; hold; holy; house; husband; john; judgment; jupiter; kind; king; know; labour; law; leave; left; life; like; like c.; love; manner; marriage; matter; means; members; men; mind; nature; near; new; number; opinion; pantagruel; pantagruelion; panurge; people; person; philosopher; place; point; present; pretty; purpose; quoth; quoth panurge; reason; rest; return; right; second; set; sir; sort; soul; spirits; thee; thereto; things; thou; thy; time; trouil; truth; use; virtue; water; way; whereof; wife; wine; women; words; world; worships; yea; year cache: 8168.txt plain text: 8168.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 8169 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 date: None words: 68365 flesch: 78 summary: Well, 'tis a happy thing to meet with good men! Our pilot (good man!) was pulling maggots out of the seamen's noses. keywords: 'em; air; arms; art; belly; book; bou; catchpole; chapter; chitterlings; country; cut; day; dead; death; decretals; devil; drink; epistemon; father; fear; fellow; fine; fish; friar; friar john; friend; god; gold; good; half; hand; hatchet; hath; head; heart; heaven; help; hold; holy; homenas; island; john; kind; king; know; lard; leave; left; life; lord; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; nay; pantagruel; panurge; people; place; pope; quoth; right; saying; sea; set; ship; sir; son; storm; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tis; use; want; water; way; wind; wine; words; work; world; xenomanes cache: 8169.txt plain text: 8169.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 8170 author: Rabelais, François title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 date: None words: 48940 flesch: 79 summary: Some say in your world that sack is a word used in all tongues, and justly admitted in the same sense among all nations; for, as Aesop's fable hath it, all men are born with a sack at the neck, naturally needy and begging of each other; neither can the most powerful king be without the help of other men, or can anyone that's poor subsist without the rich, though he be never so proud and insolent; as, for example, Hippias the philosopher, who boasted he could do everything. By gold, it is gold, quoth Panurge, good old gold, I'll assure you. keywords: aedituus; ass; birds; bottle; chapter; country; day; devil; drink; end; fine; fri; friar; god; gold; golden; good; great; gripe; half; hand; hawks; island; john; kind; king; lantern; law; left; man; manner; men; motteux; new; number; pan; pantagruel; panurge; people; place; pray; queen; quoth; rest; right; set; silvered; sort; speak; temple; thee; things; thou; time; tis; want; water; way; white; wine; world cache: 8170.txt plain text: 8170.txt