item: #1 of 22 id: 10025 author: Hurst, Fannie title: Gaslight Sonatas date: None words: 71501 flesch: 92 summary: You're going to watch your step, little girl, and I don't know as I blame you. I ain't the one to complain, Mrs. Katz, and I always say, when you come right down to it maybe Mrs. Kaufman's house is as good as the next one, but-- I wish, though, Mrs. Finshriber, you would hear what Mrs. Spritz says at her boarding-house they get for breakfast: fried-- You can imagine, Mrs. Katz, since my poor husband's death, how much appetite I got left; but I say, Mrs. Katz, just for the principle of the thing, it would not hurt once if Mrs. Kaufman could give somebody else besides her own daughter and Vetsburg the white meat from everything, wouldn't it? It's a shame before the boarders! keywords: arm; away; baby; black; blutch; boy; business; chair; charley; city; coblenz; come; crowd; darling; day; door; eyes; face; fellow; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; hanna; harry; head; home; honey; house; jimmie; kaufman; kind; life; long; look; mama; man; miss; mommy; mother; mrs; new; pink; poor; right; room; ruby; selene; street; table; things; think; time; town; vetsburg; voice; want; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 10025.txt plain text: 10025.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 14825 author: Orth, Samuel Peter title: Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making date: None words: 52035 flesch: 59 summary: We may, then, properly begin our survey of the racial elements in the United States by a brief scrutiny of this American stock, the parent stem of the American people, the great trunk, whose roots have penetrated deep into the human experience of the past and whose branches have pushed upward and outward until they spread over a whole continent. The white population of the United States in 1820 was 7,862,166. keywords: american; census; century; chinese; cities; city; civil; colonies; colony; community; congress; country; dutch; england; english; europe; footnote; foreign; french; german; government; history; home; immigrants; immigration; irish; italians; laborers; land; law; laws; life; members; names; native; negro; negroes; new; new england; new york; north; number; pennsylvania; people; persons; place; population; public; race; racial; scotch; slavs; society; south; states; stock; time; towns; treaty; united states; war; way; west; work; world; years; york; | | cache: 14825.txt plain text: 14825.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 17841 author: Dazey, Charles Turner title: The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day date: None words: 39842 flesch: 85 summary: It would not do for Anna Kreutzer, daughter of the beer-garden flute-player, to marry an American. On Monday afternoons there was no music at the beer-garden and Mrs. Vanderlyn gave Anna, also, that time to herself so they had these hours together, reunited. keywords: anna; daughter; day; deck; eyes; face; father; flute; german; girl; hand; heart; herr; kreutzer; life; little; love; m'riar; madame; man; mother; mrs; new; player; ship; steerage; things; thought; time; vanderlyn; young cache: 17841.txt plain text: 17841.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 20638 author: Antin, Mary title: From Plotzk to Boston date: None words: 18095 flesch: 79 summary: And, I remember, I noticed many other things of equal importance to our affairs, till we came to the little house in the garden. I shall only speak of such things as made a distinct impression upon my mind, which, it must be remembered, was not mature enough to be impressed by what older minds were, while on the contrary it was in just the state to take in many things which others heeded not. keywords: america; children; day; friends; good; journey; like; man; night; passengers; people; room; sea; things; thought; time; train cache: 20638.txt plain text: 20638.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 23264 author: Martineau, Harriet title: The Settlers at Home date: None words: 56910 flesch: 88 summary: Leave Roger to me, said Oliver, feeling secretly some of his sister's fear of the consequences of what had just passed. When once this rope was well fastened, Oliver was content to rest himself on the grass beside Geordie, and let the strong Ailwin and little Mildred work as they wished. keywords: ailwin; boy; children; cow; day; dear; father; flood; george; good; help; hill; home; house; little; look; mildred; mother; oliver; roger; round; things; thought; time; water; way cache: 23264.txt plain text: 23264.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 27423 author: Glass, Montague title: Elkan Lubliner, American date: None words: 71917 flesch: 84 summary: * * * Although Philip Scheikowitz arrived at his place of business at half-past seven the following morning he found that Marcus and Elkan Lubliner had preceded him, for when he entered the showroom Marcus approached with a broad grin on his face and pointed to the cutting room, where stood Elkan Lubliner. Tell him he should come in here, Polatkin said; and Markulies withdrew after gazing in open-mouthed wonder at the spectacle of Elkan Lubliner seated at Polatkin's desk, with one of Polatkin's mildest cigars in his mouth, while the two partners sat in adjacent chairs and smiled on Elkan admiringly. keywords: aber; account; boy; business; come; day; dishkes; dollars; door; elkan; elkan lubliner; feller; fischko; flaxberg; glaubmann; good; half; hand; house; kapfer; kovner; lesengeld; lubliner; marcus; maslik; max; miss; money; morning; mrs; office; partner; philip; place; polatkin; rashkind; right; room; sammet; scharley; scheikowitz; street; think; time; way; yetta cache: 27423.txt plain text: 27423.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 28693 author: London, Jack title: Tales of the Fish Patrol date: None words: 32330 flesch: 84 summary: By the time we arrived in Oakland I was as limber and strong as ever,--though Charley and Neil Partington were afraid I was going to have pneumonia, and Mrs. Partington, for my first six months of school, kept an anxious eye upon me to discover the first symptoms of consumption. Charley Le Grant keywords: alec; big; boat; charley; demetrios; feet; fish; fishermen; good; half; hand; handkerchief; head; line; man; men; net; reindeer; sail; skiff; time; water; way; wharf; wind; yellow cache: 28693.txt plain text: 28693.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 29257 author: Rihani, Ameen Fares title: The Book of Khalid date: None words: 92201 flesch: 79 summary: A broken icon, a broken door, a broken pate,--a big price this, the crabbed uncle and the cruel father had to pay for thwarting the will of little Khalid. It's a dog's tail, Sheikh Khalid. keywords: allah; america; arabic; baalbek; book; box; brother; cellar; chapter; child; church; city; country; day; days; desert; door; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; find; fire; following; friend; god; gold; good; gotfry; great; hand; health; heart; home; joy; khalid; land; life; like; live; love; man; matter; mind; morning; mother; mrs; najma; nature; new; night; open; pass; people; power; reach; reader; religion; return; room; scribe; sea; second; set; shakib; sleep; soul; spirit; spiritual; temple; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; way; woman; words; work; world; years; york cache: 29257.txt plain text: 29257.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 37774 author: More, Hannah title: Considerations on Religion and Public Education With remarks on the speech of M. Dupont delivered in the National Convention of France, together with an address to the ladies, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland date: None words: 6339 flesch: 56 summary: If the same astonishing degeneracy in taste, principle, and practice, should ever come to flourish among us, Britons may still live to exult in the desolation of her cities, and in the destruction of her finest monuments of art; she may triumph in the peopling of the fortresses of her rocks and her forests; may exult in being once more restored to that glorious state of _liberty and equality_, when all subsisted by rapine and the chace; when all, O enviable privilege! The following is an exact Translation from a_ SPEECH _made in the National Convention at Paris, on Friday the 14th of December, 1792, in a Debate on the Subject of establishing Public Schools for the Education of Youth, by Citizen_ DUPONT, _a Member of considerable Weight; and as the Doctrines contained in it were received with unanimous Applause, except from two or three of the Clergy, it may be fairly considered as an Exposition of the Creed of that Enlightened Assembly. keywords: country; france; french; god; men; people; present; principles; public; religion; speech cache: 37774.txt plain text: 37774.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 41291 author: Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston title: New Homes for Old date: None words: 80985 flesch: 58 summary: The whole family worked and played together with other family groups. Among the Russians, on the other hand, there were 25 doing co-operative housekeeping, and 85 living with family groups, of whom only a few paid a fixed sum for room and board, while the others paid a fixed rate for lodging and the food bill depended on the food that was consumed. keywords: = =; agencies; agency; american; association; care; case; chicago; children; city; classes; community; conditions; country; difficulties; education; english; example; fact; families; family; family life; food; foreign; general; girls; groups; help; home; house; housing; illinois; immigrant; italian; language; life; lithuanian; living; members; money; mother; national; needs; new; new york; organization; parents; people; polish; problems; public; school; secretary; service; societies; society; states; street; study; time; training; united; use; way; women; work; work agencies; york cache: 41291.txt plain text: 41291.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 42672 author: Gerstäcker, Friedrich title: The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants date: None words: 106205 flesch: 66 summary: But, even if we could reach the town on a smooth, even road, I would not advise you to leave the women over there by themselves, for such little towns are for the most part inhabited by a rough, vicious people, the scum of the backwoods, and everything is so frightfully dear, that the money which is here so hardly earned is squandered on the people there. In the West, where there is wood in abundance, this arrangement is universal; but in the East, and particularly in the vicinity of towns, they are beginning to raise quickset hedges, or at least to apply the wood in the most economical way, so as to make as little wood as possible surround a great space.--_Note by the Author._ keywords: american; becher; bertha; boat; brewer; committee; country; course; day; dear; deck; doctor; german; good; hand; head; hehrmann; helldorf; house; land; left; look; men; mississippi; moment; money; morning; new; normann; order; pastor; people; place; rest; right; river; round; schmidt; schwanthal; ship; shoemaker; siebert; tailor; think; time; town; turner; von; water; way; werner; wolfgang; woods; work; young cache: 42672.txt plain text: 42672.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 4376 author: McClung, Nellie L. title: Sowing Seeds in Danny date: None words: 57843 flesch: 87 summary: What a treat it will be for poor little Pearl! Mrs. Motherwell would tell you of an English girl she had had to work for her that summer who had brought the seed with her from England, and of how one day when she sent the girl to weed the onions, she had found her blubbering and crying over what looked to Mrs. Motherwell nothing more than weeds. keywords: arthur; barner; bed; big; camilla; danny; day; doctor; door; ducker; eyes; face; father; francis; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; jim; john; left; look; looking; man; mary; mcguire; mind; money; morning; motherwell; mrs; night; old; pearl; pearlie; people; polly; poor; room; sam; think; thought; time; tom; watson; way; work cache: 4376.txt plain text: 4376.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 45530 author: Grove, Harriet Pyne title: The Secret of Steeple Rocks date: None words: 53164 flesch: 90 summary: Little Peggy will try diplomacy. You forget how we watched those gulls and things that were roosting up there, Peggy reminded Sarita in her usual indefinite way at which Sarita always laughed. keywords: bay; beth; bill; boat; camp; dalton; eyrie; father; girls; good; ives; jack; leslie; look; man; mother; peggy; place; right; rocks; sarita; sea; thought; time; tom; tudor; want; way; woods cache: 45530.txt plain text: 45530.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 50470 author: Singmaster, Elsie title: The Long Journey date: None words: 34133 flesch: 87 summary: Then poor John Conrad burst once more into tears. Before John Conrad could answer, young Conrad stepped from the doorway, disregarding his father's frown. keywords: away; captain; children; conrad; day; eyes; father; fire; food; friends; germans; governor; hand; house; indians; john conrad; journey; land; little; margareta; men; new; quagnant; queen; river; sea; ship; time; weisers; young cache: 50470.txt plain text: 50470.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 57471 author: Hulme, E. (Edward) title: A Settler's 35 Years' Experience in Victoria, Australia And how £6 8s. became £8,000 date: None words: 16016 flesch: 76 summary: It contained about 400 acres of good tillage land--good for this district, where land is not first-class, like many parts of Victoria. We selected 115 acres more land the next year, and 95 the year after. keywords: acres; australia; day; family; good; home; labor; land; life; little; man; melbourne; new; ship; time; water; way; work; years cache: 57471.txt plain text: 57471.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 60099 author: Haviland-Taylor, Katharine title: Cecilia of the Pink Roses date: None words: 48787 flesch: 95 summary: She knew, but little Cecilia at fourteen was a woman. As yet nothing had taken the place of blue glass butter dishes for small Cecilia. keywords: annette; boy; cecilia; celie; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; father mcgowan; girl; good; hand; heart; jeremiah; john; johnny; look; love; man; marjory; mcgowan; mrs; new; norah; pink; room; saw; sez; stuyvesant; thought; time; voice; want; way; yuh cache: 60099.txt plain text: 60099.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 60145 author: Grant, Madison title: The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America date: None words: 100779 flesch: 64 summary: Massachusetts in 1930 was more cosmopolitan, with 300,000 residents from other New England States and nearly 100,000 from New York. Scotch Rebellion of 1670, 133. Scotland, 58; Nordic population in, 59; invaded by Danes, 59. keywords: alpines; american; blood; british; california; canada; carolina; census; central; century; co.; coast; colonies; colony; countries; country; dutch; early; east; element; english; europe; fact; foreign; france; french; general; german; government; great; group; half; history; immigrants; immigration; indians; inhabitants; ireland; irish; language; little; london; massachusetts; mississippi; native; negro; negroes; new; new england; new york; nordic; north; northern; number; pennsylvania; people; period; population; present; race; region; revolution; river; roman; scotch; scots; settlement; settlers; south; southern; spanish; states; stock; territory; time; ulster; united states; valley; virginia; war; way; west; western; white; world; years cache: 60145.txt plain text: 60145.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 7090 author: Stern, Eva title: The Little Immigrant date: None words: 8952 flesch: 81 summary: Has Miss Renestine come home? No'm. No real home without books, little girl. keywords: aunt; caroline; days; girl; home; house; jaffray; jefferson; josiah; mother; music; renestine; room; sister; time; years cache: 7090.txt plain text: 7090.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 7791 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 date: None words: 111869 flesch: 90 summary: To come and frighten good little boys! He has to put up with everything, and let himself be hustled about--and say thank you into the bargain--that's how it is with old Lasse. keywords: air; asked; bailiff; boy; boys; children; course; day; erik; eyes; face; farm; farmer; father; father lasse; fris; good; gustav; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; johan; kalle; karl; kongstrup; lasse; lay; look; man; men; morning; mother; pelle; people; right; round; rud; run; sea; set; stable; stone; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; work; world cache: 7791.txt plain text: 7791.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 7792 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 date: None words: 104228 flesch: 88 summary: But at last Pelle jumped out. Lasse stroked his son's sleeve, and the caress gave Pelle pleasure. keywords: andres; away; bed; bjerregrav; child; day; devil; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; god; good; half; hand; harbor; head; home; jeppe; jorgen; lasse; life; look; man; master; moment; money; mother; order; pelle; people; power; right; room; round; run; sea; shoes; sort; stone; street; things; thought; time; town; voice; want; water; woman; work; workshop; world cache: 7792.txt plain text: 7792.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 7793 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 date: None words: 135285 flesch: 87 summary: Then at last Pelle made up his mind to go clattering down the stairs to the third story, and along the gallery. Little old men, who commonly lay in their dark corners waiting for death, came hobbling out on the galleries, lifted their noses toward the blazing speck of sky overhead, and sneezed three times. keywords: ark; children; city; cold; day; door; ellen; eyes; face; father; fine; god; good; hand; hanne; head; heart; home; know; lasse; left; life; like; little; look; madam; man; marie; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morten; mother; movement; need; new; order; pelle; people; place; poor; right; room; round; set; stand; stolpe; street; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; work; workers; working; world cache: 7793.txt plain text: 7793.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 7794 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 date: None words: 86125 flesch: 86 summary: To Pelle books were a new power, grown slowly out of his sojourn in prison. Welcome, Pelle! said the sun, as it peeped into his distended pupils in which the darkness of the prison-cell still lay brooding. keywords: bed; boy; brun; children; course; day; door; ellen; eyes; face; father; frederik; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; lasse; life; little; look; man; men; mind; money; morten; mother; movement; pelle; people; peter; place; prison; right; room; round; street; things; thought; time; town; want; way; work; world cache: 7794.txt plain text: 7794.txt