item: #1 of 21
          id: 14249
      author: Isham, Frederic Stewart
       title: Half A Chance
        date: None
       words: 64508
      flesch: 83
     summary: A compliment from Mr. John Steele! Why not say--the truth? he observed. I wonder why Lord Ronsdale does not approve of, or shall we say, dislikes Mr. John Steele?
    keywords: answer; away; captain; charles; dark; day; door; eyes; face; fellow; forsythe; gillett; girl; glance; good; half; hand; head; house; instant; jocelyn; john steele; left; light; like; lips; london; look; lord; lord ronsdale; lordship; man; moment; near; nobleman; paper; people; place; police; ronsdale; room; sir; think; thought; time; voice; way; words; wray
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        item: #2 of 21
          id: 15752
      author: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson)
       title: Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State
        date: None
       words: 117177
      flesch: 63
     summary: To J.H. O'Brien, a well-known citizen, Judge Terry said that after he got out of jail he would horsewhip Judge Field. The letter to me from Justice Field above referred to is the only letter from Justice Field to me in which Judge Terry's name was ever mentioned, and, with the exception of the above-mentioned street conversation, Judge Field was never the subject of conversation between Judge Terry and myself, from the time I left the bench, on the 1st of January, 1857, up to the time of Terry's death.
    keywords: act; attorney; authority; bench; california; case; character; circuit court; city; conduct; county; county judge; course; court; day; days; decision; district court; district judge; duty; following; francisco; general; good; government; having; house; judge; judge field; judge terry; judge turner; judgment; justice field; land; law; left; letter; life; man; marshal; marysville; matter; neagle; new; office; opinion; order; people; place; present; proceedings; public; purpose; right; room; san; sharon; sheriff; state; state court; supreme court; time; united states; way; wife; years
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        item: #3 of 21
          id: 23826
      author: Cooper, William
       title: A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father
        date: None
       words: 39507
      flesch: 59
     summary: So various are our opinions upon these subjects, that we not only differ from one another upon them, but at different times we find we differ from ourselves; and, as another learned churchman, in more recent times, has said, what could be more unjust than to quarrel with other men for differing in opinion from him, when no two men ever differed more from one another than he at different times differed on the very same subject from himself. Mr. COOPER.--My Lord, I only use it to show that other men have been of the opinion which I have expressed to your Lordship and the jury.
    keywords: association; bar; brother; case; constitution; cooper; counsel; country; death; defendant; duty; erskine; father; gentlemen; good; government; henry; jury; justice; law; libel; life; lord; man; mind; opinion; paper; people; present; prosecution; state; thought; time; words; writer; years
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        item: #4 of 21
          id: 27212
      author: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
       title: The Life of the Party
        date: None
       words: 15870
      flesch: 78
     summary: But the reader and I, better informed than any lamp post could be as to the prior sequence of events, would know at a glance it was no parsnip we beheld, but Mr. Algernon Leary, now suddenly enveloped, through no fault of his own, in one of the most overpowering predicaments conceivable to involve a rising lawyer and a member of at least two good clubs; and had we but been there to watch him, knowing, as we would know, the developments leading up to this present situation, we might have guessed what was the truth: That Mr. Leary was hot bent upon retreating to the only imaginable refuge left to him at this juncture--to wit, the interior of the stranded taxicab which he had abandoned but a short time previously. It's a gentleman calling on Mr. Slack, wheezed Mr. Leary with his head over the balusters.
    keywords: bob; carroway; cassidy; door; floor; head; home; house; leary; life; man; moment; mrs; overcoat; party; person; right; slack; street; switzer; time; voice; way; wot
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        item: #5 of 21
          id: 27785
      author: Jeaffreson, John Cordy
       title: A Book About Lawyers
        date: None
       words: 136253
      flesch: 57
     summary: No sooner was the call made than Chief Baron Hale resolved to place his reputation for judicial honesty above suspicion, and the following scene occurred:-- _Lord Chief Baron._--'Is this plaintiff the gentleman of the same name who hath sent me the venison?' _Lord Chief
    keywords: age; annum; attorney; bacon; bar; barrister; bench; brother; business; case; century; chambers; chancery; chapter; charles; chief; church; circuit; close; come; common; counsel; country; course; court; day; days; death; dinner; edward; eldon; england; english; erskine; father; fees; francis; french; friend; general; gentlemen; george; good; great; hall; hand; henry; high; house; iii; inn; inns; james; john; judge; judicial; justice; king; lady; law; lawyers; legal; life; lincoln; little; london; lord; lord chancellor; lord chief; lord eldon; lord keeper; lordship; man; marriage; master; members; men; middle; money; new; north; number; occasion; office; old; opinion; order; period; personal; persons; place; poor; practice; present; profession; public; queen; reign; right; scott; sergeant; sir; sir john; society; son; special; square; story; street; students; table; temple; thomas; thurlow; time; town; way; westminster; wife; william; wine; words; writer; years
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        item: #6 of 21
          id: 2811
      author: Pliny, the Younger
       title: Letters of Pliny
        date: None
       words: 92361
      flesch: 62
     summary: Sometimes they move in a cluster, and seem to form one entire little continent; sometimes they are dispersed into different quarters by the wind; at other times, when it is calm, they float up and down separately. I should think myself highly ungrateful therefore, were I not to acknowledge that, among other great obligations which I owe to your indulgence, I have this in particular, that, in confidence of your favour, I have ventured to do, without consulting you, what would have been too late had I waited for your consent.
    keywords: -to; account; affection; age; case; character; city; country; day; death; emperor; emperor trajan; farewell; father; find; friends; general; good; having; honour; house; judgment; kind; law; letter; life; man; means; men; mind; mother; nature; occasion; office; opinion; order; people; person; place; pleasure; pliny; point; present; province; public; purpose; reason; regulus; request; rest; return; roman; rome; room; sea; senate; sir; sort; speech; thought; time; trajan; way; wife; word; years
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        item: #7 of 21
          id: 34020
      author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
       title: The Window at the White Cat
        date: None
       words: 70131
      flesch: 88
     summary: Miss Margery was not long in emerging from her handkerchief. One-thirty, Miss Margery says, when she heard the noise.
    keywords: bag; burton; butler; day; door; edith; face; father; fleming; floor; fred; half; hall; hand; head; home; house; hunter; jane; knox; left; letitia; little; look; man; margery; miss; morning; night; open; room; saw; schwartz; stairs; things; think; thought; time; wardrop; way; white; window; woman
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        item: #8 of 21
          id: 39082
      author: Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)
       title: A Desperate Voyage
        date: None
       words: 53973
      flesch: 82
     summary: He felt as if he were the spectator of a tragedy which was being played by other men, and in which he was not himself an actor--a common state of mind with men in utmost peril. It is painful to him to associate with good men.
    keywords: allen; baptiste; barque; board; cabin; captain; carew; crime; day; deck; english; eyes; face; frenchman; good; hand; head; island; know; land; left; life; little; look; man; mate; men; mind; moment; night; place; port; sail; sea; shore; sir; time; vessel; water; way; wind; yacht
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        item: #9 of 21
          id: 40777
      author: Nourse, Charles Clinton
       title: Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
        date: None
       words: 84859
      flesch: 55
     summary: The truth is, and all who have watched the progress of this contest know that it was never intended to make this amendment aim to do more than it was possible to do, namely, to exercise police power in its own state, and not aim to attempt to stop inter-state commerce, nor try and prohibit the use of liquor in other states. Above all things, have we, as prohibitionists, anything to gain by entering into an alliance with the distillers of other states who are making war upon a productive industry in our own state, for the sole purpose of promoting their own pecuniary interests in destroying competition in their business?
    keywords: act; amendment; assembly; attorney; bill; brown; business; case; city; committee; company; county; court; day; des; des moines; district; district court; dollars; general; good; governor; great; home; house; iowa; iowa state; judge; jury; kasson; know; lands; law; life; liquors; man; moines; money; new; office; opinion; party; people; place; public; purpose; question; railroad; republican state; said; sale; state; state convention; suit; supreme court; time; united; wife; years; young
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        item: #10 of 21
          id: 41034
      author: Leaming, Thomas
       title: A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts
        date: None
       words: 40251
      flesch: 55
     summary: Common law barristers have their chambers chiefly in the Middle Temple and Inner Temple; chancery men, largely in Lincoln's Inn, and the two kinds of barristers know little of, and seem even to have a kind of contempt for, each other. It is, however, curious that in England no apparent distinction exists between civil and criminal practice and common law barristers accept both kinds of briefs indiscriminately.
    keywords: = =; american; barrister; business; case; chancery; council; counsel; county; court; criminal; defendant; division; england; english; fees; general; inn; inns; judge; junior; jury; justice; law; leader; london; lord; man; master; men; number; practice; prisoner; profession; solicitors; time; trial
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        item: #11 of 21
          id: 42973
      author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold)
       title: The House of the White Shadows
        date: None
       words: 134035
      flesch: 84
     summary: Said one: I have not set eyes upon this man-monster, but I shall know him if I meet him in the light. Christian Almer is different from other men; that is your own opinion of him.
    keywords: adelaide; advocate; almer; child; christian; day; death; dionetta; eyes; face; father; fool; friend; fritz; gabriel; gautran; girl; good; hand; heart; house; lady; lamont; left; life; look; love; madeline; man; master; men; mind; moment; mother; night; pierre; room; study; thought; time; vanbrugh; way; white; wife; woman; words; world
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        item: #12 of 21
          id: 43083
      author: Hope, Anthony
       title: A Young Man's Year
        date: None
       words: 121406
      flesch: 85
     summary: Henry the clerk (of whom Mr. Arthur Lisle owned an undivided fourth share) came into the room, carrying a bundle of papers tied with red tape. A friend of the prisoner, Mr. Arthur Lisle, Barrister, of Garden Court, Middle Temple--visions most terrible!
    keywords: arthur; arthur lisle; away; bernadette; beverley; business; case; course; cousin; day; days; end; esther; eyes; face; fact; family; friend; godfrey; going; good; half; hand; head; hilsey; home; house; joe; judith; knew; left; life; look; love; man; margaret; marie; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; norton; oliver; people; raymond; right; room; sarradet; sidney; sir; smile; sort; thing; thought; time; want; ward; way; woman; work; world; wyse
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        item: #13 of 21
          id: 46358
      author: Johnson, Owen
       title: Max Fargus
        date: None
       words: 47473
      flesch: 83
     summary: I am Mr. Bofinger, the lawyer said. Mr. Bofinger has left the room.
    keywords: alonzo; bofinger; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fargus; glance; groll; half; hand; head; home; house; lawyer; life; look; love; man; max; miss; moment; money; new; night; room; sammamon; sheila; smile; street; thought; time; way; woman; years
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        item: #14 of 21
          id: 48642
      author: Hope, Anthony
       title: A Servant of the Public
        date: None
       words: 105889
      flesch: 84
     summary: Somewhat in this vein, but with a more malicious and humorous turn of speech, Ashley Mead ran through the history of the firm of Muddock and Mead for Lady Kilnorton's pleasure and information. Even with Jack Fenning Ashley felt the difficulties of the position.
    keywords: alice; ashley; ashley mead; babba; bertie; bob; bowdon; business; course; day; eyes; face; fenning; going; good; hand; hazlewood; husband; irene; jack; jewett; kilnorton; lady; laugh; life; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; muddock; ora; ora pinsent; people; pinsent; right; smile; talk; thing; thought; time; want; way; world
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        item: #15 of 21
          id: 56838
      author: Long, Lily A. (Lily Augusta)
       title: The Saintsbury Affair
        date: None
       words: 63251
      flesch: 87
     summary: Well, somebody saved us the trouble of paying further attention to Mr. Barker, he said lightly. She listened unresponsively while I preferred my request for some information about Mr. Barker, and left me standing in the hall while she returned to some dark back room.
    keywords: barker; benbow; clyde; course; day; diavolo; door; ellison; eyes; face; fellows; garney; gene; good; hands; head; home; house; jean; look; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; mrs; office; right; room; story; things; think; thought; thurston; time; way; whyte
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        item: #16 of 21
          id: 5759
      author: McCutcheon, George Barr
       title: The Day of the Dog
        date: None
       words: 14766
      flesch: 90
     summary: Mr. Crosby did not open the gate. She really can't see you, Mr. Crosby.
    keywords: austin; beam; crosby; delancy; dog; good; higgins; ladder; man; mrs; night; swallow; time; train
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        item: #17 of 21
          id: 58802
      author: Coppel, Alfred
       title: Community Property
        date: None
       words: 6443
      flesch: 88
     summary: So far I had managed to keep her pay low enough so she couldn't think of leaving my employ--though she was earning a few prots on the side by acting as correspondent in divorce cases that couldn't be settled by Collusion Court and actually had to be tried before a judge and jury. Different_ cases?
    keywords: case; clare; divorce; gleda; jean; joe; pancho; people; thais; thought; venerians
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        item: #18 of 21
          id: 60467
      author: Riley, Frank
       title: A Question of Identity
        date: None
       words: 9636
      flesch: 78
     summary: By means of projection on a large screen, Jake demonstrated to the jurors and Judge Hayward that Tony Corfino, defendant, had an entirely different electrocardiagram from the Tony Corfino whose crushed body had been pulled, more dead than alive, from the wreckage of a burning automobile. Any mule can kick a barn down; it takes a good carpenter to build one, he had once told Jake. Selection of the jury proceeded at a creeping pace, which court reporters had come to expect with both the D.A. and Jake Emspak in the same courtroom.
    keywords: body; case; corfino; courtroom; d.a; emspak; eyes; jake; jake emspak; judge; man; new; time; tony; witness
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        item: #19 of 21
          id: 60981
      author: Stamers, James
       title: The Useless Bugbreeders
        date: None
       words: 3665
      flesch: 85
     summary: While Mr. Lood gets this started, Your Honors, I said, hoping the viruses or whatever were not fatal to humans, may I submit the usefulness of fungus foods for space-travel and for pioneers on inhospitable planets? Are we having difficulties with General Food-Concentrates, the Travelers Capsule Combine and the other ten thousand concerns in this line, Mr. Jones? At this point I propose a few simple demonstrations of what Mr. Lood and his people can do.
    keywords: commissioner; honors; jones; lood; yus
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        item: #20 of 21
          id: 6575
      author: McCutcheon, George Barr
       title: The Purple Parasol
        date: None
       words: 11207
      flesch: 90
     summary: Mr. Rossiter was face to face with the woman he was to dog for a month, and he was flabbergasted. Did Mr. Rossiter know whether Miss Dering was in her room?
    keywords: dudley; eyes; fossingford; good; havens; man; miss; night; rossiter; wharton
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        item: #21 of 21
          id: 7975
      author: Ornsby, Robert
       title: Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 95726
      flesch: 67
     summary: Mr. Hope's Engagement to Charlotte Lockhart--Memorial of Charlotte Lockhart--Their Marriage--Mr. Lockhart's Letter to Mr. J. R. Hope on his Conversion--Filial Piety of Mr. Hope--Conversion of Lord and Lady Henry Kerr--Domestic Life at Abbotsford--Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in 1852--Birth of Mary Monica Hope-Scott--Bishop Grant on Early Education--Mr. Lockhart's Home Correspondence--Death of Walter Lockhart Scott--Mr. Hope takes the Name of Hope-Scott--Last Illness and Death of Mr. Lockhart-- Death of Lady Hope--Letter of Lord Dalhousie--Mr. Hope-Scott purchases a Highland Estate--Death of Mrs. Hope-Scott and her Two Infants--Letters of Mr. Hope-Scott, in his Affliction, to Dr. Newman and Mr. Gladstone--Verses in 1858--Letter of Dr. Newman on receiving them CHAPTER XXIV. 1859-1870. Mr. Hope's Engagement to Charlotte Lockhart--Memorial of Charlotte Lockhart--Their Marriage--Mr. Lockhart's Letter to Mr. J. R. Hope on his Conversion--Filial Piety of Mr. Hope--Conversion of Lord and Lady Henry Kerr--Domestic Life at Abbotsford--Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in 1852--Birth of Mary Monica Hope-Scott--Bishop Grant on Early Education--Mr. Lockhart's Home Correspondence--Death of Walter Lockhart Scott--Mr. Hope takes the Name of Hope-Scott--Last Illness and Death of Mr. Lockhart--Death of Lady Hope--Letter of Lord Dalhousie--Mr. Hope-Scott purchases a Highland Estate--Death of Mrs. Hope-Scott and her Two Infants--Letters of Mr. Hope- Scott, in his Affliction, to Dr. Newman and Mr. Gladstone--Verses in 1858-- Letter of Dr. Newman on receiving them.
    keywords: abbotsford; badeley; bishop; case; catholic; character; church; committee; correspondence; country; course; day; days; dear; death; england; esq; faith; father; following; footnote; friend; general; gladstone; god; good; having; hope; house; interest; j. r.; james; kind; lady; lady hope; law; letter; life; lockhart; lord; love; matter; men; mind; newman; occasion; opinion; people; place; point; power; present; public; q.c; question; r. hope; rev; right; rome; scott; sir; state; subject; things; thought; time; view; visit; way; words; work; world; years
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