item: #1 of 5 id: 40519 author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker) title: The Captain of the Janizaries A story of the times of Scanderberg and the fall of Constantinople date: None words: 108307 flesch: 79 summary: I need such men as you with me. Good man, is this your house? keywords: aga; albanian; amesa; arms; ballaban; blood; camp; captain; castriot; chapter; chief; child; christian; constantine; country; cut; day; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; form; general; girl; god; good; great; greek; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; horse; hunyades; janizaries; kabilovitsch; know; life; look; love; mahomet; man; men; michael; milosch; moment; morsinia; moses; moslem; new; night; officer; padishah; people; place; prince; scanderbeg; service; sire; soldiers; soul; story; sultan; sword; tell; thought; time; turkish; turks; voice; walls; water; way; white; woman; words; years; young cache: 40519.txt plain text: 40519.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 46353 author: Baker, B. Granville (Bernard Granville) title: The Walls of Constantinople date: None words: 55615 flesch: 67 summary: But of his walls nothing is left--the city grew and prospered, the Oracle said it would, so the matter was in a sense already settled, and new walls were thrown out further until Imperial Byzantium, like Imperial Rome, stood on seven hills. He will pass many fair historic cities, Vienna, Budapesth, Belgrade, the White Fortress, and so on through the Iron Gates, whence the great stream swells with increasing volume through the plains of Eastern Europe to throw out many arms to the Black Sea. keywords: artist; asia; byzas; century; christian; church; city; city walls; constantine; constantinople; day; days; death; doubt; eastern; emperor; empire; europe; gate; golden; greek; hand; high; history; horn; imperial; john; justinian; land; left; life; mahomed; marmora; men; palace; people; point; race; reign; roman; rome; sea; seraglio; son; sultan; theodosius; throne; time; tower; troops; turks; walls; war; way; western; years cache: 46353.txt plain text: 46353.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 6032 author: Villehardouin, Geoffroi de title: Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople date: None words: 53920 flesch: 74 summary: Shortly after died Gerard of Mancicourt, who was a knight much 77 prized, and Giles of Annoy, and many other good people. And at that place took the cross Odo the Champenois of Champlitte, and William his brother, Richard of Dampierre, Odo his brother, Guy of Pesmes, Edmund his brother, Guy of Conflans, and many other good men of Burgundy, whose names are not recorded. keywords: adrianople; barons; brother; city; constantinople; count; day; doge; emperor; emperor baldwin; emperor henry; geoffry; god; good; greeks; henry; host; johannizza; knights; land; lord; marquis; men; people; ships; venice cache: 6032.txt plain text: 6032.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 6848 author: Wallace, Lew title: The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 date: None words: 137046 flesch: 76 summary: He was used to seeing Time waste itself upon the changeless man; he had even caught from him a kind of contempt for what other men shrank from as dangers and difficulties. I am old--very old--older than thy father, and there have been so many things to distress me which other men know nothing of, and never can. keywords: air; allah; answer; art; black; boat; body; castle; christian; church; city; coming; constantine; constantinople; daughter; day; door; emir; emperor; eyes; face; faith; father; fear; feet; friend; gate; god; going; gold; good; governor; greek; hand; head; holy; house; india; irene; lael; left; life; look; looking; lord; love; mahommed; majesty; making; man; manner; master; men; mind; moment; night; o prince; open; person; place; point; prince; princess; prophet; red; saying; sea; sergius; set; sheik; shore; son; soul; speech; spirit; stars; stranger; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; water; way; white; woman; words; world; years cache: 6848.txt plain text: 6848.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 6849 author: Wallace, Lew title: The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02 date: None words: 161159 flesch: 79 summary: Taking the hand she extended, he kissed it reverently, and said: I am happy above other men. So it came about that the escort of the murdered peasants momentarily increased until at the bridge over the Sweet Waters of Europe it became a column composed for the most part of women, children, and old men. keywords: arms; blacherne; black; castle; chair; christian; church; city; come; coming; constantine; constantinople; corti; count; day; days; dead; demedes; door; emir; emperor; eyes; face; faith; father; feet; fire; forward; friend; galley; gate; god; going; good; greek; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; holy; hour; house; india; irene; lael; left; life; little; look; lord; love; mahommed; majesty; making; man; master; men; mind; mirza; moment; morning; mother; night; nilo; open; people; place; present; prince; princess; return; sea; sergius; set; son; soul; spirit; sultan; sword; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; turks; uel; wall; water; way; white; women; words; world cache: 6849.txt plain text: 6849.txt