item: #1 of 5 id: 17976 author: Carnegie, Andrew title: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie date: None words: 118591 flesch: 74 summary: For a few weeks each summer we retired to our little bungalow on the moors at Aultnagar to enjoy the simple life, and it was there that Mr. Carnegie did most of his writing. The Oxford Book of Ballads_ give town instead of tower; but Mr. Carnegie insisted that it should be tower. keywords: abbey; able; absence; account; acquaintance; action; address; advance; advantage; affairs; afterward; age; agent; agreement; aid; allegheny; altoona; american; anderson; andrew; andrew carnegie; andy; answer; anxious; arnold; article; attempt; attention; aunt; bad; balfour; baltimore; bank; beautiful; beecher; beginning; bell; best; better; big; billings; blaine; blast; board; body; bonds; book; boy; boys; bridge; britain; british; brooks; brother; bruce; building; burns; business; cabinet; cameron; canal; capital; captain; care; career; carnegie; cars; case; cast; castle; cent; century; certain; chairman; chapter; character; charge; chicago; chief; child; childhood; children; church; churches; circle; city; civil; clear; cleveland; close; co.; coaching; coal; coke; coleman; college; colonel; committee; communication; companion; company; concern; concerned; condition; conference; 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shaw; shops; short; sign; sir; sister; situation; skibo; sleeping; small; society; somewhat; source; speaking; speech; spencer; spirit; stage; stand; stanton; start; statement; states; station; steel; step; stock; story; strange; street; strike; subject; success; sufficient; suggested; sum; sunday; superintendent; supply; sure; surplus; surprised; sweet; system; talk; tariff; taylor; teacher; telegraph; texas; theology; things; thomas; thomson; thought; time; tom; total; town; trade; train; treaty; trip; trouble; true; trust; trustees; truth; unable; uncle; union; united; universities; university; valuable; value; venture; view; visit; voice; wages; wallace; walter; want; war; washington; way; wealth; week; west; western; white; wife; william; willing; wilson; wise; wish; woman; working; workmen; works; world; worth; writing; years; york; young; youth cache: 17976.txt plain text: 17976.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 20068 author: Baldwin, May title: Sarah's School Friend date: None words: 78875 flesch: 90 summary: Sarah Clay was, unfortunately, more in the habit of uttering unpleasant truths than making pretty speeches to her father; and, if the truth be told, she was not altogether pleased at the honour shown, for the rooms were not very suitable for a young girl, and Sarah had an idea that the grandeur would be wasted on Horatia, who, she suspected, would rather have a room near hers. Sarah always cherished the hope that she might some day find that she and her brother were not really George and Sarah Clay, but adopted children of Mark Clay, and that by-and-by the news would be broken to them. keywords: afraid; afternoon; angry; answer; arm; ashamed; bad; balmoral; beautiful; bell; best; better; big; bill; bit; blankets; brother; burn; business; care; case; chair; chance; chapter; child; children; clay; coming; course; cunningham; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; different; dinner; door; doubt; drawing; dress; excuse; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feeling; fine; fire; folk; fond; fox; friend; gate; george; george clay; girl; glad; goin'; gold; good; goodness; grace; grand; great; half; hands; hat; head; help; high; hill; home; hope; horatia; horrid; hot; hour; house; howroyd; husband; idea; jane; kind; lady; lass; laugh; law; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lot; lovely; luke; lunch; maid; man; mark; mark clay; mary; master; mean; men; mickleroyd; millionaire; mills; mind; minute; miss; miss horatia; miss sarah; mistress; moment; money; morning; mother; motor; mr clay; mr howroyd; mrs; nancy; naomi; nay; near; need; new; nice; nonsense; notice; nurse; observed; old; ousebank; owner; park; party; pay; people; place; plain; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poor; present; pretty; property; protested; proud; question; quick; ready; reason; remark; rest; rich; right; rink; room; round; run; safe; sarah; sarah clay; saying; school; seat; servants; sha'n't; sir; sister; sitting; smile; smoke; son; sorry; speaking; stand; standing; stay; stood; sure; surprise; sykes; table; taking; talk; telephone; thank; thing; thought; till; time; tired; tom; tone; town; trouble; true; truth; turn; turning; uncle; uncle howroyd; upset; usual; visit; voice; w'at; walk; want; way; white; wife; william; window; wish; woman; wonder; wool; word; work; wrong; yard; yorkshire; young cache: 20068.txt plain text: 20068.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 39516 author: Sinclair, Upton title: A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man date: None words: 20839 flesch: 84 summary: And Mr. Robert van Rensselaer bent toward her in soft conversation, feeding his hungry eyes; Mr. van Rensselaer had drunk a great deal of his own precious wine. And now will the reader kindly imagine that four or five years more have sped by; and that Mrs. Robert van Rensselaer is a mother of two children, and a proud and majestic social queen,--_a grande dame_,--wearing serenely the crown of her exalted station; and that Mr. van Rensselaer is more than ever a power in the financial circles of the country, a man able to make governors and senators by the signing of his pen. keywords: -157; arms; automobile; battle; bear; beautiful; boy; brokers; captain; care; cent; certain; chair; chauncey; comet; company; corner; country; course; crowd; daisy; day; days; deck; dollars; door; dreadful; drive; end; eyes; face; fact; father; fear; friend; gentleman; girl; god; good; great; green; half; hands; happy; heart; hearted; help; hero; high; hour; hungerville; instant; interest; jim; kind; life; little; long; lynch; mad; man; market; mary; matter; men; mills; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; night; o'clock; office; old; open; paragon; people; place; point; president; pretty; price; ready; robbie; robert; robert van; room; run; sea; set; shares; sir; society; soul; stock; story; street; strike; sure; syndicate; table; terror; things; thought; thousands; ticker; time; town; trouble; union; van rensselaer; voice; wall; want; waves; way; wild; wine; woman; wonderful; work; world; yacht; years; york; young cache: 39516.txt plain text: 39516.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 46343 author: Leroux, Gaston title: The Man with the Black Feather date: None words: 66343 flesch: 82 summary: 100 (See page 157) Theophrastus Longuet, awake! 200 THE MAN WITH THE BLACK FEATHER CHAPTER I M. THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET DESIRES TO IMPROVE HIS MIND AND VISITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS M. Theophrastus Longuet was not alone when he rang the bell of that old-time palace prison, the Conciergerie: he was accompanied by his wife Marceline, a very pretty woman, uncommonly fair for a Frenchwoman, of an admirable figure, and by M. Adolphe Lecamus, his best friend. And under the vaults of the Catacombs, among their avenues and crossways, where stretch the tragic walls covered with the bony wrecks of men, the funeral march of Chopin raised its lamentation before an audience of æsthetes, of artists, of Bulgarians, of Moldo-Wallachians, of frequenters of first-nights, of M. Mifroid, and M. Theophrastus Longuet, who sleeps peacefully on his chair as he always does at the theatre. keywords: account; adolphe; air; alley; ambrose; american; answer; antoinette; archers; arm; arms; astonished; author; awake; bade; bed; beginning; best; better; big; black; body; bones; book; box; brow; bureau; business; butcher; calf; calves; carriage; cartouche; case; catacombs; cellars; century; certain; chance; changed; chapter; character; charnel; chief; child; chopinettes; clear; clothes; cold; coming; commissary; company; conciergerie; corner; courage; course; court; crime; cross; crossed; cry; cut; darkness; day; days; de la; dead; dear; dear m.; death; deep; depths; despair; die; difficulty; dinner; disappearance; document; dominique; door; doubt; drawing; dream; earth; easy; eighteenth; electric; eliphas; elme; end; eternal; evening; expert; explanation; express; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; far; fashioned; fear; feather; feet; fellow; figure; find; fine; finger; fish; flat; foot; force; french; friend; gallows; gentleman; gerando; good; grating; great; greatest; green; guide; guénégaud; hair; half; hall; ham; hand; handwriting; happy; head; heart; hiding; history; hold; hole; home; honest; houdry; hour; house; human; hurry; husband; impossible; inexplicable; interest; interesting; joy; kind; knife; known; lady; lamps; large; later; laugh; law; leave; lecamus; left; legs; life; like; lips; little; live; living; longer; look; louis; love; m. adolphe; m. de; m. eliphas; m. houdry; m. lecamus; m. longuet; m. mifroid; madame; mage; making; man; marceline; marie; mask; matter; mean; memory; men; middle; mifroid; mill; mind; minutes; misfortune; mme; moment; montfaucon; morning; mystery; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; night; nose; novel; nox; o'clock; object; odd; old; open; operation; opinion; order; paper; paris; pass; passage; past; people; petito; phalaris; place; pleasure; pocket; point; police; poor; portrait; position; present; pretty; pride; prison; purring; quarter; question; railway; ray; real; reason; recognised; red; regent; revolver; road; room; round; rubber; saint; sand; sandalwood; saying; scrap; second; short; signal; signor; signor petito; silence; silent; simple; sir; sleep; small; smile; soil; soul; source; spirit; spite; spot; square; staircase; stamps; state; station; steps; stones; stop; story; strange; straw; street; strength; strong; study; sudden; supper; table; taillebourg; talk; tavern; theophrastus; theophrastus longuet; thing; thought; time; tone; tower; train; treasures; trouble; true; truth; umbrella; unfortunate; usual; violet; visit; voice; waiting; walking; wall; watch; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 46343.txt plain text: 46343.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 7213 author: Crowther, Samuel title: My Life and Work date: None words: 94803 flesch: 76 summary: Business men believed that you could do anything by financing it. Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. keywords: ability; able; acres; ahead; aid; american; application; article; assembling; assembly; attempt; attention; authority; automobile; automobile business; average; bad; bad business; balance; bankers; banking; basis; beginning; benefit; best; better; big; birds; blind; body; borrowing; boy; boys; brains; building; burroughs; business; business man; buy; buying; capacity; capital; car; care; cars; case; cash; cent; certain; chain; change; chapter; charity; chassis; circumstances; city; class; co.; coal; coming; common; community; company; competition; complete; concern; concerned; conditions; construction; consumer; control; corn; cost; country; course; creative; credit; cut; cutting; cylinder; daily; day; days; deal; dearborn; demand; department; design; desire; detroit; development; different; distribution; dollars; drive; early; easy; economic; economy; edison; education; effect; effort; electricity; element; employees; employer; employment; end; energy; engine; england; equal; exact; excess; expense; expensive; experience; experimenting; experiments; factories; factory; facts; failure; family; farm; farmer; farming; fashion; fear; feeling; feet; figures; finance; financial; finished; fixed; following; food; force; ford; ford car; foreign; foreman; foundation; free; freight; function; future; gas; gasoline; general; getting; gives; good; good business; government; grain; great; greater; greatest; habit; half; hand; hard; heat; heavy; help; high; higher; highest; highland; hold; home; honest; hope; horsepower; hospital; hours; house; human; idea; important; inches; income; increase; individual; industrial; industry; inevitable; instance; interest; job; jobs; john; kind; knowledge; known; labour; lack; large; largest; later; laws; learned; left; let; life; like; limits; line; little; living; long; look; loss; lot; low; machine; machinery; makers; making; man; management; manufacturer; manufacturing; market; material; matter; means; men; mental; mere; methods; miles; mind; minimum; minutes; model; modern; moment; money; month; motor; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; number; object; office; old; open; operation; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; organization; organized; output; outside; overhead; park; particular; parts; past; patient; pay; paying; people; period; personal; physical; place; plant; pleasure; plenty; point; policy; poor; position; possible; poverty; power; practical; practice; present; previous; price; principles; private; problem; process; producer; production; products; professional; profit; profitable; progress; proper; prosperity; public; purpose; quality; question; race; railroad; railway; rate; raw; real; real business; reason; record; regard; repair; responsibility; result; return; rich; right; river; road; room; rouge; rule; run; running; russia; sales; saving; saw; school; second; self; selling; sense; service; set; share; shop; simple; single; skill; skilled; small; social; society; sort; source; space; special; speed; stand; standard; start; states; steam; steel; step; stock; stop; street; strength; strike; strong; study; success; successful; sufficient; suit; supply; support; sure; surplus; system; talk; things; thinking; thought; thousands; time; titles; tools; town; track; tractor; trade; transportation; trouble; true; turn; union; united; universal; use; useful; useless; uses; value; vanadium; wages; want; war; waste; watch; way; ways; wealth; week; weight; wheel; wise; work; worker; working; workman; world; worth; wrong; year; young cache: 7213.txt plain text: 7213.txt