item: #1 of 18 id: 1023 author: Dickens, Charles title: Bleak House date: None words: 361963 flesch: 81 summary: Said to-day was his birthday Mr. Jarndyce, he pursued, being aware of the--I would say, desolate--position of our young friend, offers to place her at a first-rate establishment where her education shall be completed, where her comfort shall be secured, where her reasonable wants shall be anticipated, where she shall be eminently qualified to discharge her duty in that station of life unto which it has pleased--shall I say Providence?--to call her. keywords: ada; arm; arms; bagnet; bed; boy; bucket; business; caddy; case; chair; charley; child; coming; course; court; dark; day; dear; dedlock; door; doubt; esther; eyes; face; family; father; fire; friend; friend mr; gentleman; george; girl; good; great; guardian; guppy; half; hand; having; head; heart; high; home; hope; hour; house; jarndyce; jellyby; kenge; kind; lady; ladyship; leave; left; leicester; letter; life; look; looking; lord; love; making; man; manner; matter; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; open; people; person; place; point; poor; present; pretty; returns; richard; room; rouncewell; round; saw; set; short; sir; sir leicester; skimpole; smallweed; snagsby; state; subject; summerson; table; tell; things; think; thought; time; time mr; trooper; tulkinghorn; vholes; voice; walk; want; way; window; wish; woman; woodcourt; words; world; years; young cache: 1023.txt plain text: 1023.txt item: #2 of 18 id: 10440 author: Train, Arthur Cheney title: Tutt and Mr. Tutt date: None words: 65597 flesch: 80 summary: He says he killed him, and that's all there is about it! said Tutt to Mr. Tutt. Oh, remarked Mr. Tutt with entire good nature. keywords: angelo; appleboy; badger; business; case; client; course; court; crime; day; defendant; doc; dog; dollars; effingham; eyes; face; fact; feet; good; great; greenbaum; half; hand; head; hen; hepplewhite; honor; horse; judge; jury; law; lawyer; life; look; man; matter; miss; mock; money; mrs; neck; new; o'brien; office; right; room; rose; stock; thing; thought; time; tunnygate; tutt; want; way; wiggin; witness; years cache: 10440.txt plain text: 10440.txt item: #3 of 18 id: 11987 author: Train, Arthur Cheney title: By Advice of Counsel date: None words: 70723 flesch: 79 summary: And having made this opening statement with all the earnestness and solemnity of which he was capable Mr. Tutt called to prove the defendant's good reputation, first, Father Plunkett, the priest to whom Danny made his monthly confession and who told the jury that he knew no better man in all his parish; second, Mulqueen, who described Danny's love of horses, his knowledge of them, his mysterious intuition concerning their hidden ailments, which, being as they could not speak, it was given to few to know, and how night after night he would sit up with a sick or dying animal to relieve its pain without thought of himself or of any earthly reward; then, man after man and woman after woman from the neighborhood of West Twenty-third Street who gave Danny the best of characters, including policemen, firemen, delicatessens, hotel keepers, and Salvatore, the proprietor of the night lunch frequented by Mr. Tutt. Mr. Tutt emerged from behind the jury box and took his stand at Tony's side.] keywords: attorney; beekman; brown; camel; caput; case; city; client; course; court; crime; criminal; danny; day; defendant; delany; district; dollars; fact; father; good; got; hassoun; having; higgleby; hogan; honor; judge; jury; kasheed; know; law; lawyer; life; look; man; matter; miss; money; mrs; new; o'brien; office; paper; payson; peckham; people; pumpelly; right; room; sort; state; street; tell; thing; time; tony; tutt; want; way; wiggin; window; witness; years; york cache: 11987.txt plain text: 11987.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 12535 author: Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) title: Witness for the Defence date: None words: 75016 flesch: 91 summary: But lots of people live in India, Mr. Thresk. No, she has never once mentioned your name, Mr. Thresk. keywords: away; ballantyne; bombay; day; dick; dick hazlewood; door; doubt; eyes; face; father; good; hand; hazlewood; head; house; left; life; look; man; margaret; moment; morning; mrs; night; pettifer; repton; richard; robert; room; stella; table; tent; thresk; time; voice; woman; words cache: 12535.txt plain text: 12535.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 20451 author: Train, Arthur Cheney title: The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers" date: None words: 50521 flesch: 74 summary: Mr. Gottlieb spat into a sawdust box under the table and winked with great deliberation. What have you to say, Mr. Gottlieb? asked the judge. keywords: = =; attorney; business; case; city; clerk; client; course; court; criminal; day; dillingham; dollars; fact; fellow; friend; good; gottlieb; half; hand; hawkins; head; judge; jury; know; law; lawyer; life; man; matter; money; new; office; partner; pay; place; police; quibble; room; street; time; turn; way; years; york cache: 20451.txt plain text: 20451.txt item: #6 of 18 id: 23534 author: Garrett, Randall title: ...Or Your Money Back date: None words: 8001 flesch: 91 summary: Mr. Howley, my profession is Law--with a capital L. Just how do you operate this good luck charm, Mr. Howley? keywords: gadget; howley; judge; right; table; thursby; time; wheel cache: 23534.txt plain text: 23534.txt item: #7 of 18 id: 25985 author: Dickens, Charles title: Bardell v. Pickwick date: None words: 32901 flesch: 74 summary: Witness Jackson, when he came to serve Mr. Pickwick and friends with the _subpoenas_. The law has since been changed, and by later Acts both Mrs. Bardell and Mr. Pickwick would have been allowed to tell their stories and to have been cross-examined. keywords: bardell; boz; buzfuz; case; counsel; course; court; defendant; dodson; fogg; friends; gentlemen; good; great; judge; jury; lady; man; mrs; perker; pickwick; plaintiff; sam; serjeant; sir; snubbin; time; winkle; witness cache: 25985.txt plain text: 25985.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 30910 author: Upward, Allen title: The Queen Against Owen date: None words: 45079 flesch: 83 summary: 'On the night of the first of June last Mr. Lewis, deceased's nephew, left the house about 10 o'clock and did not return that night. 'Mr. Tressamer is inside, sir. keywords: case; counsel; court; crime; door; eleanor; evidence; friend; gentlemen; judge; jury; lewis; like; man; miss; murder; night; owen; pollard; prescott; prisoner; question; sir; thought; time; tressamer; way; witness cache: 30910.txt plain text: 30910.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 32221 author: Hill, Frederick Trevor title: The Case and Exceptions: Stories of Counsel and Clients date: None words: 45028 flesch: 82 summary: They have the same pride and ambition and morals that other men have. But his judgment of men, though slow, was sure. keywords: attorney; bateman; case; clancy; client; constable; counsel; course; court; day; district; door; eyes; face; fenton; forbes; good; gordon; hand; judge; know; law; man; martin; matter; men; moment; office; papers; people; right; room; sargent; sir; thought; time; want; way; williams; work; years cache: 32221.txt plain text: 32221.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 34171 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile date: None words: 58671 flesch: 76 summary: Better than this, however, better even than personal beauty, with which he was plentifully endowed, Mr. Hopkins Toppleton was blessed with a great name, which he had received ready-made from his illustrious father, late head of the legal firm of Toppleton, Morley, Harkins, Perkins, Mawson, Bronson, Smithers and Hicks. To the agent's credit be it said that when Hopkins Toppleton came along and desired to rent the apartment for office use his first impulse was to make a clean breast of the matter, and to say to him that in his own opinion and that of others the room was haunted and had been so for many years; but when he reflected that his conscience, such as it was, along with the rest of his being, was in the employ of the proprietors of the building, he felt that it was his duty to hold his peace. keywords: arabella; barncastle; body; case; chair; chapter; client; course; day; dear; door; exile; eyes; face; fact; father; fiend; good; hand; head; hopkins; hopkins toppleton; lady; law; life; look; man; mind; moment; new; office; point; right; room; soul; spirit; thing; time; toppleton; way; words; years cache: 34171.txt plain text: 34171.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 51420 author: Newman, Louis title: License to Steal date: None words: 3415 flesch: 63 summary: Of special interest to the legally inclined student is the famous Skrrgck Affair, which began before the Galactic Tribunal with the case of _Citizens vs. Skrrgck_. The Skrrgck case was by no means concluded by the decision of the Galactic Tribunal, but continued to reverberate down the years, a field day for lawyers, and a lesson to all in the complexities of modern intergalactic law and society, said Winston, Harold C, Herman Prof, of Legal History, Harvard. keywords: boötes; case; court; law; skrrgck; terran; theft cache: 51420.txt plain text: 51420.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 57631 author: Buchan, John title: The Power-House date: None words: 33587 flesch: 84 summary: I owe you a good deal, old man, I said. A whistle was blown and more men appeared--one entering from the far end of the mews, one darting from a public-house door, and one sliding down a ladder from a stable-loft. keywords: business; car; case; chapman; charles; day; door; eyes; felix; friend; good; half; heron; house; life; london; lumley; macgillivray; man; men; mind; morning; night; pavia; pitt; place; power; room; routh; street; thing; thought; time; tommy; way; world cache: 57631.txt plain text: 57631.txt item: #13 of 18 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 cache: 58802.txt plain text: 58802.txt item: #14 of 18 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 cache: 60467.txt plain text: 60467.txt item: #15 of 18 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 cache: 60981.txt plain text: 60981.txt item: #16 of 18 id: 61865 author: Caine, Hall, Sir title: The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin date: None words: 186743 flesch: 87 summary: Special editions of the newspapers (single sheets) had been run off in furious haste, and the newsboys were shouting through the streets, _Arrest of Deemster Victor Stowell._ Could the son of Deemster Stowell be a scoundrel? keywords: alick; bed; bessie; boy; case; castle; child; collister; coming; court; crime; dan; dark; day; days; dear; deemster; door; end; eyes; face; father; fenella; fire; gell; girl; god; going; gone; good; governor; guilty; half; hand; head; heart; home; honour; house; island; janet; judge; law; left; life; look; love; man; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; open; people; place; poor; prisoner; room; saying; sea; sir; son; step; story; stowell; think; thinking; thought; time; train; victor; victor stowell; voice; way; white; wife; woman; world; years; young cache: 61865.txt plain text: 61865.txt item: #17 of 18 id: 6942 author: Scott, Walter title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 date: None words: 110255 flesch: 62 summary: The sweetness, the courage, the spirit, the integrity of Jeanie Deans have made her, of all Scott's characters, the dearest to her countrymen, and the name of Jeanie was given to many children, in pious memory of the blameless heroine. Hetty and Dinah are in very much the same situation and condition as Effie and Jeanie Deans. keywords: ain; ane; answer; auld; butler; case; character; child; circumstances; city; come; conscience; counsel; country; court; daughter; david; day; deans; death; door; dumbiedikes; duty; edinburgh; effie; eyes; father; folk; general; god; good; guard; gude; hae; hand; head; heart; hour; house; jeanie; jeanie deans; ken; laird; law; left; life; little; madge; magistrate; man; manner; men; mind; mob; mrs; muckle; nae; nature; night; occasion; ony; person; place; poor; porteous; present; prisoner; purpose; ratcliffe; rioters; robertson; saddletree; sae; saw; scotland; set; sharpitlaw; sir; sister; situation; speak; think; thought; time; tone; voice; wad; way; weel; wilson; woman; word cache: 6942.txt plain text: 6942.txt item: #18 of 18 id: 6943 author: Scott, Walter title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 date: None words: 131429 flesch: 62 summary: Ye musquet and calliver-men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the foremost man in fight, Said brave Lord Willoughbee. When the meal was finished, the Captain proposed to them to take boat, in order that Mrs. Jeanie might see her new place of residence, and that he himself might inquire whether the necessary preparations had been made there, and at the Manse, for receiving the future inmates of these mansions. keywords: account; ane; archibald; argyle; butler; captain; character; come; country; daughter; david; day; death; door; duke; duncan; edinburgh; effie; eyes; family; father; folk; friend; gang; george; glass; god; good; grace; hae; half; hand; having; head; heart; high; honour; hope; house; ill; jeanie; jeanie deans; journey; ken; kind; kirk; know; lady; laird; law; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; long; look; lord; madge; mair; man; manner; matter; maun; means; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; nae; occasion; old; people; person; place; poor; present; queen; reuben; right; road; sae; saw; scotland; sir; sister; staunton; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; wad; way; weel; whilk; wife; wish; woman; words; years; young cache: 6943.txt plain text: 6943.txt