item: #1 of 14 id: 11352 author: Bernhardi, Friedrich von title: Germany and the Next War date: None words: 100773 flesch: 55 summary: So long as the Dutch steeled their strength by unremitting conflict with the sea, so long as they fought for religious liberty against the Spanish supremacy, they were a nation of historical importance; now, when they live mainly for money-making and enjoyment, and lead a politically neutral existence, without great ambitions or great wars, their importance has sunk low, and will not rise again until they take a part in the struggle of the civilized nations. 2| -- | 1 ---------+--+-------+--+------+--+-----+--+-------+--+-------+----+----+--- Let us assume that in event of war England as well as France must leave a certain naval force in the Mediterranean, which need not be stronger than the combined Italian and Austrian fleets, but might be smaller, in event of a change in the grouping of the States; let us further assume that numerous cruisers will be detained at the extra-European stations--the fact, however, remains that England and France together can collect against Germany in the North Sea a fleet of battleships alone three times as strong as that of Germany, and will be supported by a vastly superior force of torpedo-vessels and submarines. keywords: army; artillery; attack; cavalry; conditions; country; day; development; duties; duty; empire; enemy; england; english; field; fleet; forces; france; future; general; german; great; hand; history; importance; individual; interests; life; means; military; nation; national; officers; order; peace; people; point; policy; position; power; present; question; right; russia; service; state; strength; struggle; time; training; troops; view; war; world; | | cache: 11352.txt plain text: 11352.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 13526 author: Hastings, Milo title: In the Clutch of the War-God date: None words: 15353 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the women were driving.] As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the women were driving. keywords: aeroplane; air; american; day; ethel; girl; hand; japanese; komoru; land; light; madame; man; men; oshima; people; plane; professor; states; time; united; war; winslow cache: 13526.txt plain text: 13526.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 13738 author: Palmer, Frederick title: The Last Shot date: None words: 164438 flesch: 84 summary: He had passed over the heads of older men, whom many thought his betters, rather ruthlessly. But I know that other men love theirs.... keywords: army; attack; bouchard; browns; charge; chief; colonel; company; day; dead; death; dellarme; enemy; eyes; face; feller; fire; fracasse; frontier; galland; garden; good; grays; guns; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; hugo; human; lanny; lanstron; left; life; like; line; lips; little; look; man; marta; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; officers; partow; people; peterkin; pilzer; place; premier; range; right; road; room; saw; set; sir; smile; soldier; son; staff; stransky; think; thinking; thought; time; victory; voice; want; war; way; westerling; white; woman; work; world; wounded cache: 13738.txt plain text: 13738.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 19498 author: Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich title: Banzai! by Parabellum date: None words: 95426 flesch: 71 summary: As Japanese ships were cruising in the Straits of Magellan, the route via Suez was chosen, and in due course the steamers arrived safely at Hampton Roads. We are sorry to have been obliged to upset some of England's calculations by turning Japanese ships out of an English harbor. keywords: admiral; air; american; army; attack; battle; bridge; captain; coast; colonel; country; course; day; deck; door; enemy; eyes; fire; flag; fleet; francisco; guns; hand; harryman; japanese; left; lieutenant; line; man; manila; men; moment; morning; new; news; officer; old; order; pacific; parrington; people; perry; port; right; room; san; shells; ships; shot; smoke; soldiers; squadron; states; station; steamer; street; time; tom; train; troops; war; water; way; white; work; world; yellow cache: 19498.txt plain text: 19498.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 27434 author: Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.) title: Doctor Jones' Picnic date: None words: 62883 flesch: 79 summary: No one can deny that things are desperately bad, and that something must be done soon to relieve the strain or the very worst may be apprehended; yet the author prefers to see things through optimistic eyes, and believes that God will raise up a Moses, (or Doctor Jones, if you please,) who will lead us to a higher and better state than this world has yet ever known. Doctor Jones commits treason. keywords: air; aluminum; barton; case; city; cloud; company; count; day; denison; doctor; doctor jones; earth; eyes; feet; fred; friends; globe; god; good; gray; hand; hour; jones; life; like; man; matter; mattie; men; morning; mrs; night; north; party; people; pole; professor; room; ship; silver; symptoms; system; time; way; wind; world cache: 27434.txt plain text: 27434.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 27860 author: Dawson, A. J. (Alec John) title: The Message date: None words: 99472 flesch: 72 summary: And he was the man of whom Talbot said: 'Give me two Greys, and'--and a couple of other men he mentioned--'and a free hand, and Whitehall could go to sleep with its head on South Africa, and never be disturbed again.'--When But then, again, at odd times, I watched him with other men among our now considerable train, and the conclusion was borne in upon me that the change had nothing to do with me, but was general in its character. keywords: army; beatrice; britain; british; business; canadian; citizens; constance; country; course; crondall; day; days; duty; empire; end; england; english; evening; eyes; fact; father; general; german; god; good; government; great; grey; half; hall; hand; heart; home; house; invasion; john; john crondall; kind; left; life; like; london; man; matter; men; money; morning; national; new; news; night; party; peace; people; preachers; public; reynolds; room; sense; sort; south; stairs; state; street; sylvia; thing; thought; time; war; way; week; words; work; world; years cache: 27860.txt plain text: 27860.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 36155 author: Le Queux, William title: The Invasion date: None words: 100371 flesch: 67 summary: Other German troops with guns put in an appearance on the high ground to the north-east of Saffron Walden, near Chesterton Park. Thus the huge population of greater London was practically huddled together in the comparatively small area from Kensington to Fleet Street, and from Oxford Street to the Thames Embankment. keywords: advance; army; artillery; attack; barricades; big; bridge; british; byfield; cavalry; city; close; command; corps; country; day; defence; defenders; direction; east; enemy; england; field; fighting; fire; firing; force; general; german; great; ground; guns; half; hall; hand; high; hill; hour; house; hundreds; infantry; kronhelm; left; line; london; long; lord; men; miles; military; moment; morning; news; night; north; number; o'clock; office; officers; order; park; people; place; position; railway; river; road; shells; soldiers; south; station; street; thousands; time; town; troops; von; war; way; west cache: 36155.txt plain text: 36155.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 37470 author: Le Queux, William title: The Great War in England in 1897 date: None words: 101883 flesch: 65 summary: Our two new cruisers _Terrible_ and _Powerful_ had been sunk by French torpedoes; the _Hood_ had been rammed by the _Amiral Baudin_, and gone to the bottom with nearly every soul on board; while the German despatch boat _ As our guns thundered, those of the _Jupiter_, _Repulse_, _Sans Pareil_, _Undaunted_, _Orlando_, _Diana_, _Scout_, and _ keywords: 1st; advance; army; artillery; attack; batteries; battery; battle; boats; body; britain; british; buildings; cavalry; city; col; corps; country; cruisers; cut; dark; day; days; death; defence; defenders; direction; effect; enemy; england; fighting; fire; firing; flames; force; french; great; guns; half; hand; hill; hour; houses; hundreds; infantry; invaders; left; life; line; london; loss; man; manchester; men; moment; new; news; night; north; number; officers; old; order; people; place; position; railway; river; road; russian; sea; shells; ships; shot; smoke; south; spread; street; strong; struggle; time; torpedo; town; troops; tsar; v.d; vessels; volunteers; war; way; work cache: 37470.txt plain text: 37470.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 38028 author: Griffith, George Chetwynd title: The World Masters date: None words: 87670 flesch: 77 summary: My dear prince, the liberty that I am going to ask your permission to take is a very great one, because it is a liberty of anticipation; and few men, even the most chivalrous, care to be anticipated, especially when they have an interesting story to tell. CHAPTER XXII While the captain and the chief engineer were mustering such men as were in any way fit to work the ship, or to help in getting the port engine into running order, Chrysie and her father paid a visit to the staterooms. keywords: adelaide; american; author; board; captain; chrysie; count; course; daughter; day; days; dear; doctor; english; europe; eyes; fact; fargeau; father; france; french; general; german; good; great; guns; half; hand; hardress; lady; lamson; land; left; life; long; lord; love; man; marquise; matter; miss; moment; mrs; nadine; night; olive; orrel; president; prince; room; russian; scheme; sophie; time; vandel; victor; viscount; vlodoya; want; war; way; woman; works; world cache: 38028.txt plain text: 38028.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 39588 author: Lamszus, Wilhelm title: The Human Slaughter-House: Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come date: None words: 18823 flesch: 88 summary: But we have heard about it from others, and we have read in books of other men what a battlefield looked like in 1870-71, and, as though with our own eyes, we have watched the shells shattering human bodies. Unfortunately for these gentlemen, whose good taste is so impeccable that they shrink from the whole truth, man is also a fighting god. keywords: air; arms; blood; day; death; earth; eyes; face; field; fire; hands; head; human; left; man; men; rifle; right; round; time; war; wood cache: 39588.txt plain text: 39588.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 49525 author: Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) title: First Lensman date: None words: 101678 flesch: 83 summary: Eminently possible, Lensman Samms, since my time is of completely negligible value. Lensman Virgil Samms of Sol Three calling Tallick and Kragzex of Palain Seven. keywords: air; arisia; bergenholm; big; black; boss; boys; chicago; clear; close; come; costigan; couple; course; day; earth; end; eyes; fact; fleet; force; galactic; girl; going; good; half; hand; herkimer; jack; jill; job; jones; kinnison; know; left; lensman; let; life; like; line; look; lot; men; mind; minutes; morgan; new; northrop; olmstead; operation; patrol; planet; point; power; right; rod; room; samms; second; ship; sir; small; space; tellurian; thing; thought; time; use; virgil; virgil samms; way; work; years; young cache: 49525.txt plain text: 49525.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 50138 author: Williams, Robert Moore title: Doomsday Eve date: None words: 42161 flesch: 92 summary: This is Colonel Kurt Zen, John, West said, when the two had finished kissing. Finding Zen's arm, she squeezed it. keywords: asian; body; cal; colonel; craggy; cuso; eyes; face; head; know; kurt; kurt zen; lieutenant; man; men; mind; nedra; new; nurse; people; right; room; thought; time; voice; way; west; words; zen cache: 50138.txt plain text: 50138.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 60222 author: Ford, Douglas Morey title: The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940 date: None words: 55843 flesch: 77 summary: The protective character which in former times man had felt bound in honour to assume for the benefit of the weaker vessel had been largely discarded. But such men were in a notable minority. keywords: air; amazons; bladud; boat; british; city; day; days; death; dover; earth; end; england; eyes; face; father; feet; fort; general; good; half; hand; head; heart; herrick; hill; hour; jardine; life; linton; london; look; man; men; moment; new; night; numbers; people; place; power; president; renshaw; sea; ship; sir; strength; things; time; vice; wardlaw; water; way; wilton; women; work; world; years; zenobia cache: 60222.txt plain text: 60222.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 7050 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion date: None words: 17894 flesch: 84 summary: August the First, 19--_ Clarence Chugwater looked around him with a frown, and gritted his teeth. So that in the end England's defenders were narrowed down to the Boy Scouts, of whom Clarence Chugwater was the pride, and a large civilian population, prepared, at any moment, to turn out for their country's sake and wave flags. keywords: army; boy; chapter; chugwater; clarence; country; duke; england; general; german; grand; hall; invaders; london; man; music; night; otto; paper; prince; russian; scout; sir; stage; time; way; young cache: 7050.txt plain text: 7050.txt