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id: 32726
author: Livingston, Berkeley
title: Death of a B.E.M.
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sentence: 362
flesch: 92
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  Eyes, two and three were busy seeing if her coiffure was right and eyes one, six and seven were having their lids tweezed. Y'know, Hiah, she said as she uncrossed her eyes, I have an idea.... The chief of all the Gomans rolled all eight pairs of his eyes ceiling-ward.


id: 17168
author: Harte, Bret
title: The Queen of the Pirate Isle
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words: 6642
sentence: 387
flesch: 77
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  It was just after the exciting capture of a merchantman with the indiscriminate slaughter of all on board--a spectacle on which the round blue eyes of the plump Polly had gazed with royal and maternal tolerance, and they were burying the booty--two table spoons and a thimble in the corner of the closet, when Wan Lee stolidly rose. An earlier flight had been impossible on account of Wan Lee being obliged to perform his regular duty of blacking the shoes of Polly and Hickory before breakfast,--a menial act which in the pure Republic of childhood was never thought inconsistent with the loftiest piratical ambition.


id: 29593
author: Barrow, Sarah L.
title: Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book
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words: 13146
sentence: 596
flesch: 81
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summary:
  on the top of the page is written 'Colonel Freddy; or, the March and Encampment of the Dashahed Zouaves.' The sky was as blue as possible; the sun shone so brightly that it seemed as though it must have been polished up for the occasion, and Colonel Freddy, as soon as he awoke, could not help giving a little shout of joy.


id: 29594
author: Barrow, Sarah L.
title: Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series
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words: 14842
sentence: 655
flesch: 80
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summary:
  You know old Jerry that I told you about? Then they got into the carriages, and old Jerry grasped Freddy's hand with an affectionate Good-by, my little Colonel, God bless ye!


id: 42961
author: Child, Frank Samuel
title: The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children
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words: 31858
sentence: 2172
flesch: 92
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summary:
  But it occurred to Mr. Judge at this point that his wife was not prepared for winter. She was simply thoughtless like many other children.


id: 26322
author: Molesworth, Mrs.
title: Peterkin
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words: 43390
sentence: 2826
flesch: 94
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summary:
  You must help me to explain to little Margaret, that Miss Bogle is a good old lady, who has meant nothing but kindness, though she made a great mistake in undertaking the charge of the child, for she is old and infirm and suffers sadly. And I don't expect that he will feel quite happy in his mind about you, little Margaret, till he has seen you again.


id: 16731
author: Baker, Karle Wilson
title: The Garden of the Plynck
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words: 41007
sentence: 2098
flesch: 84
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summary:
  It is certainly an underhand way of suggesting that you stop doing something pleasant, or begin doing something unpleasant; and you would not have thought that Sara's dear mother would have had so unworthy a habit. You see, Sara's dear mother was, indeed, most dear; but very self-willed and contrary.


id: 30974
author: Blackwood, Algernon
title: Jimbo: A Fantasy
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words: 50067
sentence: 2574
flesch: 84
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summary:
  He glanced up, and fancied for one moment that he saw in the darkness a crowd of little faces peering down at him over the banisters, and that as they disappeared he heard the sound of many little feet moving, and then a door hurriedly closing. At another window, a little beyond her, he thought a number of white little faces pressed against the glass, but he had no time to look more closely, for something in Miss Lake's voice made him turn and run into the house and up the stairs as though Fright himself were close at his heels.


id: 26430
author: Ribot, Th. (Théodule)
title: Essay on the Creative Imagination
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words: 85820
sentence: 4018
flesch: 55
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summary:
  (a) The _sketched_ form is primordial, original, the simplest of all; it is a nascent moment or first attempt. The scientific imagination has for its prime motive the need of _partial_ knowledge or explanation; the metaphysical imagination has for its prime motive the need of a _total_ or complete explanation.


