item: #1 of 23 id: 12577 author: Cable, George Washington title: Strange True Stories of Louisiana date: None words: 92199 flesch: 82 summary: of the old Black Code: Slaves who shall not be properly fed, clad, and provided for by their masters, may give information thereof to the attorney-general or the Superior Council, or to all the other officers of justice of an inferior jurisdiction, and may put the written exposition of their wrongs into their hands; upon which information, and even ex officio, should the information come from another quarter, the attorney-general shall prosecute said masters, etc. Let nothing remind me of other days. keywords: alix; annie; attalie; black; boat; camille; carpentier; case; children; city; court; daughter; day; days; door; dress; evening; eyes; family; father; flatboat; françoise; french; friend; girl; good; hair; hand; head; home; house; husband; joseph; lady; lalaurie; leave; left; little; madame; man; mario; max; men; miller; moment; morning; mother; new; night; orleans; papa; people; place; poor; room; rose; salome; saw; sister; story; street; suzanne; tell; things; thought; time; war; water; way; white; wife; woman; years; young cache: 12577.txt plain text: 12577.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 12697 author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title: The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California date: None words: 86923 flesch: 88 summary: The thin sensitive lips of Mr. Larkin curled with their accustomed humour, but he replied sincerely, Yes, Castro is a hero, a great man on a small canvas-- And they are little men on a big canvas! Brown old men and women stared gloomily at the floor. keywords: american; arms; benicia; black; california; castro; dark; day; dios; don; door; doña; elena; eulogia; eustaquia; eyes; face; father; feet; general; girl; god; gold; good; hair; hand; head; heart; house; indians; left; life; look; love; man; men; mission; moment; monterey; mother; night; pearls; priest; red; room; russell; sala; san; señor; señorita; silver; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; town; white; window; women; young; ysabel cache: 12697.txt plain text: 12697.txt item: #3 of 23 id: 13707 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Twice Told Tales date: None words: 150335 flesch: 71 summary: The eyes, indeed, had the wild gleam of a sepulchral lamp; all else was fixed in the stern calmness which old men wear in the coffin. I am not insensible, my good sir, to the natural desire to stand well in the annals of my country, replied Hutchinson, controlling his impatience into courtesy, nor know I any better method of attaining that end than by withstanding the merely temporary spirit of mischief which, with your pardon, seems to have infected older men than myself. keywords: age; air; aspect; black; boy; chamber; children; church; dark; day; dead; death; deep; door; earth; england; eyes; face; fancy; father; features; figure; fire; form; friend; gentleman; girl; glance; good; governor; grave; gray; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hooper; hour; house; ilbrahim; king; lady; left; life; little; look; looking; love; man; men; merry; mind; moment; mother; nature; new; night; people; peter; picture; place; poor; province; room; round; scene; sea; set; shadow; sir; smile; soul; spirit; spot; street; sunshine; thought; time; town; veil; village; voice; water; way; white; wife; woman; world; years; young; youth cache: 13707.txt plain text: 13707.txt item: #4 of 23 id: 14948 author: Hough, Emerson title: The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains date: None words: 86287 flesch: 85 summary: Well, it don't make no difference where you come from; we want good men in here, and you'll find this a good country, I'll gamble on that. It is the especial rendezvous of many men concerned with the handling of Cattle. keywords: air; aunt; away; battersleigh; boy; buford; cattle; come; country; curly; day; door; earth; ellen; ellisville; face; fer; franklin; friend; girl; git; goin'; good; great; half; hand; head; home; horses; house; juan; judge; land; law; lay; left; life; line; long; look; lucy; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; ned; new; place; plains; right; sam; set; shall; sir; thing; thought; time; town; voice; war; way; west; white; wild; woman; world cache: 14948.txt plain text: 14948.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 18721 author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr. title: The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis date: None words: 137870 flesch: 79 summary: This house could tell the story of gay and beautiful scenes--of balls--receptions and garden parties in bowers of roses--of coaches drawn by six snow-white horses standing at our door for the start to the White Sulphur Springs-- She stopped suddenly, mastered her emotions and went on dreamily: Of great men and distinguished families our guests from the North and the South--Bishop Mann, Chief Justice John Marshall, the Lees, the Robinsons, Wickhams, Adams, Cabells,--the Carringtons--Fredrika Bremer, the Swedish novelist, visited us and wrote of us in her 'Homes in the New World.' You have murdered Southern men who have dared demand their rights on Northern soil. keywords: answer; arms; army; barton; battle; beauregard; big; black; boy; chief; city; command; commander; confederate; country; davis; day; death; dick; enemy; eyes; face; father; federal; field; fire; fleet; fort; general; girl; god; good; government; grant; guns; hand; head; heart; home; house; jackson; jefferson; jennie; johnston; lee; left; life; like; lincoln; lines; little; love; man; mcclellan; men; miles; mind; moment; mother; new; night; north; northern; old; people; position; power; president; quick; richmond; river; room; rose; saw; senator; set; sir; socola; soldiers; soul; south; southern; states; time; union; virginia; war; washington; way; white; work; world; young cache: 18721.txt plain text: 18721.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 26862 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 87423 flesch: 75 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; black; blackbeard; boat; buccaneers; captain; captain morgan; chist; crew; day; dead; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; house; illustration; jonathan; left; levi; lieutenant; life; like; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; sir; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white; world cache: 26862.txt plain text: 26862.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 508 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Twice-Told Tales date: None words: 86028 flesch: 71 summary: No garb but that of the grave could have befitted such a deathlike aspect; the eyes, indeed, had the wild gleam of a sepulchral lamp; all else was fixed in the stern calmness which old men wear in the coffin. It seems as if I could recollect the whole circumstance, and how I, or old Peter, or whoever it was, thrust in my hand, or his hand, and drew it out all of a blaze with gold. keywords: age; black; boy; carbuncle; chamber; child; children; day; death; door; eleanore; england; eyes; face; father; figure; fire; goldthwaite; good; governor; gray; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; higginbotham; hooper; hour; house; ilbrahim; king; lady; left; life; look; man; men; mind; moment; mother; new; night; people; peter; place; poor; province; round; sir; spirit; street; thou; thought; time; town; veil; voice; wakefield; wife; william; woman; world; years; young; youth cache: 508.txt plain text: 508.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 513 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: The Snow Image date: None words: 34856 flesch: 73 summary: College professors, and even the active men of cities, came from far to see and converse with Ernest; for the report had gone abroad that this simple husbandman had ideas unlike those of other men, not gained from books, but of a higher tone,--a tranquil and familiar majesty, as if he had been talking with the angels as his daily friends. Little snow people, like her, eat nothing but icicles. keywords: brand; children; cold; door; ernest; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; good; great; hand; heart; image; life; lime; look; major; man; mother; night; peony; people; poet; robin; snow; stone; thought; violet; white; world; years cache: 513.txt plain text: 513.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 9201 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2558 flesch: 77 summary: There is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose first care is always to flourish a white handkerchief, and brush the seat of a tight pair of black silk pantaloons, which shine as if varnished. No; here, with faces as glossy as black satin, come two sable ladies and a sable gentleman, and close in their rear the minister, who softens his severe visage, and bestows a kind word on each. keywords: church; day; heaven; man; sabbath; steeple cache: 9201.txt plain text: 9201.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 9202 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 3104 flesch: 80 summary: The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the loud voice is talking about. Perhaps little Annie would like to go. keywords: annie; children; crier; ding; dong; hand; town cache: 9202.txt plain text: 9202.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 9205 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2510 flesch: 73 summary: The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. O that I could soar up into the very zenith, where man never breathed, nor eagle ever flew, and where the ethereal azure melts away from the eye, and appears only a deepened shade of nothingness! keywords: air; man; sea; street; yonder cache: 9205.txt plain text: 9205.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 9206 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2351 flesch: 74 summary: On this side, heralded by a blast of clarions and bugles, appears a train of wagons, conveying all the wild beasts of a caravan; and on that, a company of summer soldiers, marching from village to village on a festival campaign, attended by the brass band. Over the door is a weather-beaten board, inscribed with the rates of toll, in letters so nearly effaced that the gilding of the sunshine can hardly make them legible. keywords: bridge; day; gatherer; man; summer; toll cache: 9206.txt plain text: 9206.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 9207 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 1915 flesch: 79 summary: Then would she set about her labors, like a careful housewife, to clear the fountain of withered leaves, and bits of slimy wood, and old acorns from the oaks above, and grains of corn left by cattle in drinking, till the bright sand, in the bright water, were like a treasury of diamonds. The track, which I chanced to follow, led me to a crystal spring, with a border of grass, as freshly green as on May morning, and overshadowed by the limb of a great oak. keywords: fountain; spring; vision; water cache: 9207.txt plain text: 9207.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 9208 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2294 flesch: 74 summary: Now, strange to say, as old Mr. Smith peeped through the magnifying-glass, which made the objects start out from the canvas with magical deception, he began to recognize the farm-house, the tree, and both the figures of the picture. Such might have been the case with Mr. Smith, when, through the brilliant medium of his glass of old Madeira, he beheld three figures entering the room. keywords: fancy; man; memory; smith cache: 9208.txt plain text: 9208.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 9209 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 1803 flesch: 70 summary: You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction, and drowsily conscious of nothing but delicious warmth, such as you now feel again. Since your sober bedtime, at eleven, you have had rest enough to take off the pressure of yesterday's fatigue; while before you, till the sun comes from far Cathay to brighten your window, there is almost the space of a summer night; one hour to be spent in thought, with the mind's eye half shut, and two in pleasant dreams, and two in that strangest of enjoyments, the forgetfulness alike of joy and woe. keywords: bed; dream; hour; mind cache: 9209.txt plain text: 9209.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 9210 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 4750 flesch: 71 summary: I delight, also, to follow in the wake of a pleasure-party of young men and girls, strolling along the beach after an early supper at the Point. After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a handcart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of Salem. keywords: beach; children; fish; man; men; mind; sea; susan; uncle; village cache: 9210.txt plain text: 9210.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 9212 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2025 flesch: 76 summary: There is snow in yonder cold gray sky of the morning!-and, through the partially frosted window-panes, I love to watch the gradual beginning of the storm. He has the day, perchance the week, before him, and may take his own time to accomplish Nature's burial in snow. keywords: drift; snow; storm; summer; winter cache: 9212.txt plain text: 9212.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 9216 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2343 flesch: 74 summary: Bluster, fierce blast, and beat, thou wintry rain, against the window-panes! Now come fearful auguries, innumerable as the drops of rain. keywords: corner; drops; fire; lamp; night; rain cache: 9216.txt plain text: 9216.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 9218 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 4123 flesch: 78 summary: Setting forth at my last ramble, on a September morning, I bound myself with a hermit's vow, to interchange no thoughts with man or woman, to share no social pleasure, but to derive all that day's enjoyment from shore, and sea, and sky,--from my soul's communion with these, and from fantasies, and recollections, or anticipated realities. To comfort myself--for truly I would fain have gazed a while longer--I made acquaintance with a flock of beach birds. keywords: beach; day; feet; rocks; sand; sea; surf; water cache: 9218.txt plain text: 9218.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 9219 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales") date: None words: 2828 flesch: 79 summary: Yet there was a time when Rose Grafton--such was the pretty maiden name of Nurse Toothaker--possessed beauty that would have gladdened this dim and dismal chamber as with sunshine. And Nurse Toothaker holds a teaspoon in her right hand, with which to stir up the contents of a tumbler in her left, whence steams a vapory fragrance, abhorred of temperance societies. keywords: death; hand; nurse; rose; toothaker cache: 9219.txt plain text: 9219.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 9239 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") date: None words: 9718 flesch: 63 summary: Military musters were too seriously important in that warlike time to be classed among amusements; but they stirred up and enlivened the public mind, and were occasions of solemn festival to the governor and great men of the province, at the expense of the field-offices. Provident old gentleman! keywords: boston; british; country; day; england; french; general; governor; head; house; king; life; man; new; newspapers; people; public; street; times; town; war; years cache: 9239.txt plain text: 9239.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 9242 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") date: None words: 1938 flesch: 66 summary: Mount Defiance, which one pictures as a steep, lofty, and rugged hill, of most formidable aspect, frowning down with the grim visage of a precipice on old Ticonderoga, is merely a long and wooded ridge; and bore, at some former period, the gentle name of Sugar Hill. At first, my fancy saw only the stern hills, lonely lakes, and venerable woods. keywords: fortress; french; lake; mount; soldier; ticonderoga cache: 9242.txt plain text: 9242.txt item: #23 of 23 id: 973 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 73876 flesch: 76 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; blackbeard; boat; cabin; captain; chist; crew; day; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; left; levi; lieutenant; life; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; ship; sir; spaniards; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white cache: 973.txt plain text: 973.txt