item: #1 of 17 id: 1135 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Tempest date: None words: 40 flesch: 79 summary: THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1540) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1540 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: ebook cache: 1135.txt plain text: 1135.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 14460 author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von title: Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe date: None words: 39468 flesch: 96 summary: In a narrow high-arched Gothic room_, FAUST _sitting uneasy at his desk_. [_Seeing_ FAUST _and_ MEPHISTOPHELES.] keywords: day; devil; earth; fair; faust; feel; footnote; friend; god; good; hand; hast; heart; heaven; hour; joy; let; life; like; look; love; man; margaret; margery; martha; men; mephistopheles; mother; new; o'er; pleasure; power; right; round; soul; spirit; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; way; witch; woe; world cache: 14460.txt plain text: 14460.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 14591 author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von title: Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres date: None words: 38002 flesch: 88 summary: MEPHISTOPHELES _from the side_.) SIEBEL (_as_ MEPHISTOPHELES _approaches his seat_) keywords: bosom; breast; day; death; devil; earth; english; faust; find; fire; form; frosch; god; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; illustration; life; like; love; man; margaret; martha; mephistopheles; mephistopheles faust; mother; nature; night; place; power; siebel; song; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; tis; way; witch; woe; words; work; world cache: 14591.txt plain text: 14591.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 1801 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Tempest date: None words: 40 flesch: 79 summary: THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1540) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1540 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: ebook cache: 1801.txt plain text: 1801.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 32094 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz date: None words: 60351 flesch: 89 summary: Said Scraps: Ev'ry time I see a river, I have chills that make me shiver, For I never can forget All the water's very wet. Said the owl in a grumbling voice: Patchwork Girl has come to life; No one's sweetheart, no one's wife; keywords: boy; cat; city; country; dorothy; eyes; girl; glass; good; head; house; illustration; land; life; magician; man; nunkie; ojo; ozma; patchwork; people; scarecrow; scraps; shaggy; time; tin; unc; way; woozy cache: 32094.txt plain text: 32094.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 41071 author: Hume, Fergus title: A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance date: None words: 107563 flesch: 84 summary: You have not seen Douglas Montrose, nor have I seen Alice Enistor, was the reply. You now know what Alice Enistor has to do with you, said Eberstein in a quiet impressive tone. keywords: alice; barrast; body; dear; doctor; don; douglas; eberstein; enistor; evil; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; god; good; hand; hardwick; heart; house; job; julian; life; love; man; mind; miss; moment; money; montrose; mrs; narvaez; pablo; people; place; power; right; room; sparrow; squire; things; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman cache: 41071.txt plain text: 41071.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 42723 author: Houdini, Harry title: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin date: None words: 55256 flesch: 64 summary: In the first place, Robert Houdin insinuates that when they played in opposition John Henry Anderson's répertoire was stale and uninteresting. [Illustration: Card trick as featured by Anderson in 1836-37. keywords: anderson; automata; automaton; book; bosco; bottle; chapter; claims; clock; collection; conjurer; conjuring; day; drawing; droz; edition; english; fact; fawkes; figure; hand; handkerchiefs; harry houdini; henry; history; houdin; houdini collection; illustration; jacquet; life; london; magic; magician; man; memoirs; new; original; page; paris; performance; performer; phillippe; pinchbeck; pinetti; place; programme; public; robert; sight; stage; suspension; theatre; time; tree; trick; work; world; writing; years cache: 42723.txt plain text: 42723.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 4282 author: Dunsany, Lord title: Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley date: None words: 74117 flesch: 80 summary: Rodriguez awoke Morano, who lit his fire: and soon they had struck their camp and were riding on. And, as he went, there came to Rodriguez thoughts between wonder and hope, for he had had no thought at all when he beat on the door except to get shelter and help for the hurt man. keywords: alderon; bowmen; castle rodriguez; day; days; door; earth; evening; eyes; fire; forest; garda; good; horses; host; house; king; left; man; mandolin; master; men; morano; night; professor; rodriguez; round; saw; serafina; seã±or; shadow; spain; sword; things; thought; time; valley; wars; way cache: 4282.txt plain text: 4282.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 435 author: Houdini, Harry title: Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. date: None words: 39904 flesch: 65 summary: The following, from Dr. Desaguliers' Experimental Philosophy, London, 1763, Vol. 1, page 289, contrasts feats of actual strength with the tricks of the old-time performers: Thomas Topham, born in London, and now about thirty-one years of age, five feet ten inches high, with muscles very hard and prominent, was brought up a carpenter, which trade he practiced till within these six or seven years that he has shewed feats of strength; but he is entirely ignorant of any art to make his strength appear more surprising; Nay, sometimes he does things which become more difficult by his disadvantageous situation; attempting and often doing, what he hears other strong men have done, without making use of the same advantages. Good fire to keep the gentry warm. keywords: act; art; body; burning; chabert; chapter; day; degrees; eating; end; fact; feats; feet; fire; following; good; hand; heat; iron; king; lead; life; london; man; manner; men; minutes; mouth; new; oil; oven; performance; performer; piece; place; public; red; snake; sothern; stone; strength; swallowing; sword; teeth; time; water; white; years cache: 435.txt plain text: 435.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 45370 author: Unknown title: The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini date: None words: 17868 flesch: 73 summary: The cell was searched and triple-locked, but Mr. Houdini released himself and redressed in five minutes, having also opened the iron gate of the corridor. Mirror_ determined to put the lock to the severest test possible by challenging Mr. Houdini to be manacled with the cuffs. keywords: arms; audience; boston; cell; escape; handcuff; hands; harry houdini; head; houdini; illustration; irons; jail; king; lock; man; men; minutes; picture; police; prison; public; second; time; water; willard; world cache: 45370.txt plain text: 45370.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 47518 author: Shakespeare, William title: Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest date: None words: 18265 flesch: 95 summary: [_aside to_ PROS.] [_aside to_ PROS.] keywords: ant; ari; ariel; art; cal; fer; gon; hath; king; man; master; mir; monster; page; pros; prospero; sea; seb; sir; steph; thee; thou; thy; trin cache: 47518.txt plain text: 47518.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 518 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People date: None words: 37720 flesch: 85 summary: So Prince Marvel followed one of the Ki up the steps and Nerle the other Ki, while the two Ki-Ki came behind them so they could not escape. A perfect silence greeted them, during which the double Ki and the double Ki-Ki bent their four bodies low and advanced into the throne-room, followed by Prince Marvel and Nerle. keywords: boy; castle; eyes; fairy; high; high ki; king; kingdom; man; men; nerle; people; prince; prince marvel; red; rogue; seseley; spor; terribus; time; twin; way cache: 518.txt plain text: 518.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 7082 author: Godwin, William title: Lives of the Necromancers date: None words: 110317 flesch: 63 summary: At other times however, and especially in the extremely popular tales digested by M. Perrault, they shew themselves in indiscriminate assemblies, brought together for some solemn festivity or otherwise, and join the human frequenters of the scene, without occasioning enquiry or surprise. He therefore did not go, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, [11] but took up his discourse, and began, saying, Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel! keywords: account; age; ages; air; art; beings; body; cause; character; city; consequence; country; day; days; dead; death; dee; degree; devil; doctor; earth; egypt; emperor; end; events; father; faustus; fire; form; god; gods; good; great; hand; having; head; heaven; history; house; human; james; king; length; lib; life; magic; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; new; night; occasion; people; period; persons; place; power; present; prince; purpose; pythagoras; queen; respecting; saw; set; sorcery; sort; spirits; state; stone; subject; things; thought; time; trial; way; wife; witchcraft; witches; woman; world; years cache: 7082.txt plain text: 7082.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 779 author: Marlowe, Christopher title: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 date: None words: 20037 flesch: 86 summary: Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. Again; After Doctor Faustus had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine coming. keywords: 4tos; angel; art; come; devil; doctor faustus; emperor; exeunt; exit; faustus; footnote; god; hath; hell; history; horse; lord; lucifer; man; master; mephist; mephistophilis; robin; scholar; sir; soul; thee; thou; thy; wagner; world cache: 779.txt plain text: 779.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 811 author: Marlowe, Christopher title: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 date: None words: 22701 flesch: 91 summary: Doctor Faustus_ is taken from a volume of _ You know Doctor Faustus? HORSE-COURSER. keywords: 4to; 4tos; angel; art; benvolio; come; doctor faustus; emperor; exeunt; faustus; footnote; good; hath; hell; horse; lucifer; mephistophilis; pope; robin; sir; soul; thee; thou; thy; wagner cache: 811.txt plain text: 811.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 955 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz date: None words: 59060 flesch: 89 summary: Said Scraps: Ev'ry time I see a river, I have chills that make me shiver, For I never can forget All the water's very wet. Said the owl in a grumbling voice: Patchwork Girl has come to life; No one's sweetheart, no one's wife; keywords: boy; cat; city; country; dorothy; eyes; girl; glass; good; head; house; life; magician; man; nunkie; ojo; ozma; patchwork; people; scarecrow; scraps; shaggy; things; time; tin; unc; way; woozy cache: 955.txt plain text: 955.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 959 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Lost Princess of Oz date: None words: 48077 flesch: 86 summary: Said he to Cayke, I am now convinced that no Yip has taken your dishpan, and since it is gone from the Yip Country, I suspect that some stranger came from the world down below us in the darkness of night when all of us were asleep and took away your treasure. After all, it was little Dorothy who came to their rescue, and her ability to save them was almost as much a surprise to the girl as it was to her friends. keywords: bear; bright; button; cayke; city; cook; country; dishpan; dorothy; frogman; girl; good; king; know; lion; magic; ozma; people; scraps; shoemaker; time; ugu; way; wizard cache: 959.txt plain text: 959.txt