item: #1 of 32 id: 10401 author: Drayton, Daniel title: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl date: None words: 34376 flesch: 67 summary: It was desired to make us out guilty of a penitentiary offence at the least; and for that purpose recourse was had to an old, forgotten act of Maryland, passed in the year 1737, the fourth section of which provided That any person or persons who, after the said tenth day of September [1737], shall steal any ship, sloop, or other vessel whatsoever, out of any place within the body of any county within this province, of seventeen feet or upwards by the keel, and shall carry the same ten miles or upwards from the place whence it shall be stolen, _or who shall steal any negro or other slave_, or who shall counsel, hire, aid, abet, or command any person or persons to commit the said offences, or who shall be accessories to the said offences, and shall be thereof legally convicted as aforesaid, or outlawed, or who shall obstinately or of malice stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above twenty, shall suffer death as a felon, or felons, and be excluded the benefit of the clergy. It provided That any person or persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave, or person held to service, or shall be found to assist, by advice, donation or loan, or otherwise, the transporting of any slave or any person held to service, from this state, or by any other unlawful means depriving a master or owner of the service of his slave or person held to service, for every such offence the party aggrieved shall recover damages in an action on the case, against such offender or offenders, and such offender or offenders shall also be liable, upon indictment, and conviction upon verdict, confession or otherwise, in this state, in any county court where such offence shall happen, to be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, one-half to the use of the master or owner of such slave, the other half to the county school, if there be any; if there be no such school, to the use of the county. keywords: attorney; board; business; case; counsel; court; day; district; evidence; good; half; jail; judge; jury; law; man; men; pearl; people; prisoner; property; sayres; slaves; state; time; trial; vessel; washington cache: 10401.txt plain text: 10401.txt item: #2 of 32 id: 11552 author: United States. Work Projects Administration title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives date: None words: 22347 flesch: 82 summary: Describing the general conditions of Maryland slaves, he said: We would work from sunrise to sunset every day except Sundays and on New Year's Day. , she would wear the cast-off clothes of the mistress, or, at other times the clothes made by other slaves. keywords: baltimore; children; church; clothes; colored; county; day; days; family; farm; father; home; house; man; maryland; master; men; mother; people; plantation; river; slaves; time; virginia; white; williams; work; years cache: 11552.txt plain text: 11552.txt item: #3 of 32 id: 12138 author: Steiner, Bernard C. (Bernard Christian) title: The History of University Education in Maryland The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891). With supplementary notes on university extension and the university of the future date: None words: 27040 flesch: 58 summary: Primarily, instruction is the duty of the professor in a university as it is in a college; but university students should be so mature and so well trained as to exact from their teachers the most advanced instruction, and even to quicken and inspire by their appreciative responses the new investigations which their professors undertake. But the system which turns out a few good scholars every year passes over the heads of the great mass of university students without having awakened them to any intellectual life; the universities are scholarship-factories producing good articles but with a terrible waste of raw material. keywords: act; baltimore; building; college; course; education; extension; faculty; footnote; history; hopkins; hopkins university; institution; instruction; john; life; maryland; men; new; president; professor; rev; school; state; students; studies; teachers; time; trustees; universities; university; university extension; william; work; years cache: 12138.txt plain text: 12138.txt item: #4 of 32 id: 12402 author: None title: The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland date: None words: 68885 flesch: 81 summary: And straight, unclasping from my brow The thorny crown of lost delight, The solemn grandeur of the night Flashed on me from old years, as now. I live again in brighter days, New-born from dreams of the dead past, When she and I stood there to gaze At sparkling hull, and spar, and mast Of some staunch sea-craft bound amain At will of wayward wind and fate, Deep plunging in the waves to gain Some northern isle, or rich estate Of palm and pine in southward clime, Where all day long the playful air Pranks with the grizzled beard of time And paints his hoary visage fair. keywords: age; beautiful; beauty; book; bright; care; cecil; cold; county; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; earth; elkton; ewing; eyes; face; fair; family; father; find; flowers; friend; god; golden; good; grave; hand; heart; heaven; hills; home; hope; john; joy; land; late; lay; life; light; like; love; man; mother; mrs; nature; new; o'er; pale; peace; poems; poetry; rest; round; school; scott; sea; song; soul; spirit; spring; summer; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; till; time; tis; toil; waves; way; white; wild; work; world; years; youth cache: 12402.txt plain text: 12402.txt item: #5 of 32 id: 15130 author: Pennington, James W. C. title: The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States date: None words: 28757 flesch: 74 summary: There are frequently large slave families with whom God seems to deal in a remarkable manner. Can the pride of leaving your children possessed of long slave states, or the policy of sustaining in the state the institution of slavery, justify you in overlooking a point of moment to your future happiness? keywords: brother; children; day; family; father; free; friend; god; home; house; left; man; master; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; road; slavery; slaves; state; time; way; work; years cache: 15130.txt plain text: 15130.txt item: #6 of 32 id: 17826 author: Old Elizabeth title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman date: None words: 4341 flesch: 76 summary: Even the elders of our meeting joined with the wicked people, and said such meetings must be stopped, and that woman quieted. I felt very unworthy and small, notwithstanding the Lord had shown himself with great power, insomuch that conjecturers and critics were constrained to join in praise to his great name; for truly, we had times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. keywords: light; lord; meeting; spirit; time cache: 17826.txt plain text: 17826.txt item: #7 of 32 id: 20005 author: Davis, Noah title: A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four date: None words: 16403 flesch: 76 summary: Several other colored brethren, about this time, gave evidence of having been called of God, to the work of preaching the gospel. The failing health of my dear brother, J. C. Crane,[A] and the want of his invaluable co-operation with me, as well as the lack of hearty, zealous assistance on the part of many other brethren and friends, has been painful to me. keywords: baltimore; baptist; book; children; church; dollars; faith; friends; god; good; house; meeting; money; people; place; school; time; years cache: 20005.txt plain text: 20005.txt item: #8 of 32 id: 2008 author: Sands, George W. title: Mazelli, and Other Poems date: None words: 25456 flesch: 83 summary: Had earth yet one whose smile could stir, My spirit with deep love for her? And he would lay aside his shepherd's pipe, And in low words, far sweeter than its music, Talk of the sun and stars and gentle moon, The earth and all its loveliness, the trees And shrubs and flowers; how these were all pervaded And quickened by the spirit of deep love; keywords: breast; breath; brow; day; death; deep; earth; eye; fair; fame; form; hand; heart; hope; life; light; love; man; mind; mountain; o'er; rest; soul; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thought; time; werner; wild; years cache: 2008.txt plain text: 2008.txt item: #9 of 32 id: 21346 author: Cooke, Ebenezer title: The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse. date: None words: 6482 flesch: 78 summary: In Burlesque Verse, Calculated for the Meridian of Maryland, by E. C. Gent: _Annapolis_; _William Parks_, for the Author. 1730. [Footnote 1: Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for _tobacco_, used at that time. keywords: cook; country; factor; footnote; indian; land; mary; maryland; night; planters; shoar; sot; tho; tree; way; weed cache: 21346.txt plain text: 21346.txt item: #10 of 32 id: 22113 author: Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) title: Peggy Stewart at School date: None words: 61519 flesch: 81 summary: See 22113-h.htm or 22113-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/1/22113/22113-h/22113-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/1/22113/22113-h.zip) PEGGY STEWART AT SCHOOL by GABRIELLE E. JACKSON Author of Peggy Stewart at Home, Silver Heels, Three Graces Series, Capt. Polly Series, etc. But yonder comin' our yo'ng mistiss, he concluded as a clear, sweet voice was heard singing just beyond the windows, and quick decisive footsteps came across the broad piazza, and Peggy Stewart, only daughter and heiress of beautiful Severndale, entered the room. keywords: annapolis; asked; aunt; away; captain; columbia; come; dawson; dear; eyes; face; father; girls; good; harold; harrison; head; heights; helen; home; horses; house; jess; juno; lady; life; lily; little; look; miss; moment; mother; mrs; neil; nelly; new; peggy; peggy stewart; polly; right; room; rosalie; school; severndale; shashai; shelby; stella; stewart; things; time; tzaritza; vincent; way; years cache: 22113.txt plain text: 22113.txt item: #11 of 32 id: 26958 author: Ingle, Edward title: Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 date: None words: 12120 flesch: 62 summary: On March 16th, Lewger showed that whereas Richard Ingle was obnoxious to divers suits & complaints of his Lo^p for divers and sundry crimes all w^ch upon composition for the publique good & safety were suspended ag^st the said Richard Ingle assuming to leave in the country to the publique need at this time, powder and shot, but he had not paid the composition and had left without paying custom dues, which were required for the proper discharge of his ship by the law & custom of all Ports, he prayed that all of Ingle's goods, debts, &c., might be sequestered until he should clear himself.[22] Under the circumstances, the grave charges pending against him, as there is no proof that he had known the terms of composition, a crew and vessel being at his command, it is not surprising that he sailed away from danger, without attending to the formality of clearing, and leaving unpaid debts, for Lewger claimed 600 pounds of tobacco from him, as payment for some plate and a scimitar, for which Cornwallis went security.[23] There is a touch of seeming sarcasm in the suggestion that the deposit by Ingle of ammunition would have relieved the public need, for he would have been that much less dangerous, and the government would have been so much the more prepared to resist him. Fenwick said that the pinnace was plundered by Richard Ingle or his associates;[45] another witness said that Ingle seized or plundered the pinnace, and Monroe was employed by him in his acts against the province, and while in command of another pinnace assisted in the pillaging of Copley's house at Portoback.[46] keywords: baltimore; calvert; commission; cornwallis; council; governor; hill; ibid; ingle; lord; maryland; parliament; province; records; richard; richard ingle; time; vol cache: 26958.txt plain text: 26958.txt item: #12 of 32 id: 27293 author: Tiffany, Osmond title: A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851 date: None words: 11178 flesch: 60 summary: General Gates took command in July, 1780, superseding Baron de Kalb; and Col. Williams with his regiment appears at the seat of war, in the Southern States, about that time. Col. Williams gives an account of it in his sketch of the campaign, but I have not been able to find any of his private letters on the subject. keywords: american; army; battle; british; col; country; enemy; gen; general; greene; men; time; troops; war; williams cache: 27293.txt plain text: 27293.txt item: #13 of 32 id: 2898 author: Johnston, Mary title: Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings date: None words: 49766 flesch: 73 summary: Here in Church of England Virginia was a popish recusant! Wider knowledge, political and economic considerations, practical reasons of all kinds, drew a different physical form for old Virginia. keywords: america; assembly; bacon; baltimore; berkeley; carolina; charles; church; colonists; colony; company; council; country; dale; day; england; english; forest; george; gold; good; government; governor; home; indians; jamestown; john; king; left; life; little; london; lord; man; maryland; men; new; newport; north; number; people; place; proprietary; river; sea; set; ships; sir; smith; south; time; tobacco; virginia; virginia company; way; west; white; william; world; years; young cache: 2898.txt plain text: 2898.txt item: #14 of 32 id: 32454 author: Mayer, Brantz title: Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania date: None words: 18934 flesch: 58 summary: Can it be necessary for me to say a word, in Philadelphia, of the history of WILLIAM PENN;--of him, who, as a lawgiver and executive magistrate,--a practical, pious, Quaker,--_first_ developed in state affairs, and reduced to practice, the liberty and equality enjoined by his religion and founded on liberal christianity;--of him who _first_ taught mankind the sublime truth, that-- Beneath the rule of men entirely great The PEN _is mightier than the sword? Then, community of sentiment or of risk, bands them together in fervent support, and when the thing contended for is based on conscience and _eternal_ interest, instead of personal or _temporary_ welfare, we behold its pursuit inflame gradually from a principle into a passion,--from passion into persecution, until at length, what once glimmered in holy zeal, blazes in bigoted fanaticism. keywords: america; calvert; catholic; charter; christian; christianity; church; england; english; faith; george; god; history; holy; james; king; law; life; lord; man; maryland; men; new; people; power; protestant; religion; rights; sir; time; virginia; world cache: 32454.txt plain text: 32454.txt item: #15 of 32 id: 35195 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Fatal Cord, and The Falcon Rover date: None words: 70921 flesch: 83 summary: Among her admirers, secret and open, were many young men of the place and of the adjacent plantations. The presence of Pierre Robideau, whose name he had heard distinctly pronounced, with the sight of a tall form, dimly shaded under the tree, which he knew must be that of the _murdered_ man, was sufficient to astonish him to his heart's content. keywords: afton; air; alf; away; board; bowsprit; brandon; brig; buck; captain; chapter; coe; daughter; day; dead; deck; dick; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; house; hunter; jerry; john; left; lena; life; light; little; man; marston; men; moment; pierre; place; robideau; rook; saw; ship; son; story; tarleton; tell; thar; thought; time; tree; way; years; young cache: 35195.txt plain text: 35195.txt item: #16 of 32 id: 37369 author: Kennedy, John Pendleton title: Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 70382 flesch: 78 summary: If we should not get back, Lord Charles has as good men to fill our places. I pray you tell it to me, good Captain--give me all of it, exclaimed the dame, eagerly. keywords: 12mo; albert; arnold; author; blanche; captain; chapel; cocklescraft; collector; company; council; cripple; dame; dauntrees; day; devil; doctor; door; edition; eye; father; fort; friends; garret; good; great; half; hand; hath; head; heart; house; hut; john; lady; life; look; lordship; maiden; man; mary; master; men; mistress; nature; new; night; pamesack; people; port; proprietary; province; publican; rob; room; rose; secretary; service; set; shall; skipper; story; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; town; vols; volumes; warden; way; weasel; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 37369.txt plain text: 37369.txt item: #17 of 32 id: 38477 author: Sutphen, Van Tassel title: In Jeopardy date: None words: 60021 flesch: 77 summary: Neither have I any cause of quarrel with you, Cousin Betty Graeme. Betty Graeme--rather an attractive name I think--was some half dozen years my junior, and any normal-minded young man would find the acquisition of a brand-new feminine cousin an interesting possibility. keywords: betty; betty graeme; black; box; chair; chalmers; course; cousin; day; death; doctor; door; effingham; eldon; eunice; eyes; father; fielding; francis; glass; good; graeme; half; hand; hildebrand; house; hugh; john; john thaneford; june; key; left; letter; library; man; marcy; master; message; mind; miss; morning; new; place; right; room; secret; thaneford; time; trevor; warriner; way; word cache: 38477.txt plain text: 38477.txt item: #18 of 32 id: 39346 author: Brown, George William title: Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War date: None words: 54808 flesch: 65 summary: For the future troops _must_ be brought here, but I make no point of bringing them _through_ Baltimore. Judd, N. B., with Lincoln in Philadelphia, 16; hears of conspiracy in Baltimore, 128-133. K Kane, Marshal George P., investigates supposed plot, 15; head of Baltimore police, 35; letter to Crawford, 40; keeps order at Camden Station, 48; attempts to quell Baltimore mob, 51, 53; Col. Jones's gratitude to, 54; hasty dispatch to Johnson, 69, 70; after the war elected Sheriff and subsequently Mayor, 70; arrest of, 97; release from arrest, 109. Keim, Gen., arrests John Merryman, 87, 140. keywords: april; baltimore; brown; case; city; colonel; constitution; corpus; court; day; fort; general; government; governor; habeas; history; john; law; letter; lincoln; man; marshal; maryland; massachusetts; mayor; military; new; north; order; people; philadelphia; police; power; president; regiment; right; south; states; street; time; troops; union; united; war; washington; writ cache: 39346.txt plain text: 39346.txt item: #19 of 32 id: 39780 author: Brigham, William Tufts title: Baltimore Hats, Past and Present date: None words: 27997 flesch: 57 summary: American manufacturers had a long and tedious struggle in their efforts to overcome the prejudices of the people existing in favor of foreign productions, but steady endeavors to win the approval of Americans for American made hats have scored a genuine success, and the American gentleman of to-day may take a just pride in wearing a straw hat of Baltimore make--one not to be excelled. While Baltimore hat makers clung tenaciously to the old ways, whereby labor and expense were incurred unnecessarily, those at the North were readily adopting the various new methods by which improvements in the art of hat making were constantly being made; thus, with the use of newly invented machinery, the cost of making hats was greatly lessened, and the Northern manufacturer constantly gained in competition with those of Baltimore. keywords: article; baltimore; baltimore street; brigham; building; business; city; co.; cole; day; factory; firm; fur; goods; hat; hat business; hats; hatter; hopkins; mackinaw; making; manufacture; manufacturing; new; place; present; rogers; south; straw; straw hat; street; style; time; trade; year cache: 39780.txt plain text: 39780.txt item: #20 of 32 id: 40760 author: Ball, Charles title: Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave date: None words: 106310 flesch: 65 summary: I made a low bow, and thanked master overseer for his kindness to me, and left him. At the assurance of a meat dinner, the old people smiled and showed their teeth, and returned thanks to master overseer; but many of the younger ones shouted, clapped their hands, leaped, and ran about with delight. keywords: black; children; corn; cotton; country; day; days; distance; evening; family; feet; field; gentlemen; good; ground; half; hands; home; house; kitchen; left; man; master; men; miles; mistress; morning; new; night; overseer; people; person; place; plantation; purpose; river; road; saw; slaves; south; swamp; time; tree; water; way; wife; woods; work; years cache: 40760.txt plain text: 40760.txt item: #21 of 32 id: 46195 author: Barron, Edward title: An Accidental Honeymoon date: None words: 26523 flesch: 93 summary: Boys and girls, this is Mr. Fessenden--Mrs. Randall and Dick Randall, over there. I was to deliver her at the Cary place, to Mr. Fessenden. keywords: betty; bob; cabin; come; danton; day; eyes; fessenden; girl; good; hand; landis; madge; man; miss; night; sandywood; thought; time; water; way; white; wind; wisp; yarnell cache: 46195.txt plain text: 46195.txt item: #22 of 32 id: 46367 author: Blanchard, Amy Ella title: Talbot's Angles date: None words: 66183 flesch: 89 summary: Here I am with my living assured and with dear Miss Ri to coddle me; with this darling room; and, last of all, with my own old Mammy at hand. Of course, I don't care for myself, as I eat very little, but Miss Linda must be hungry after her walk. keywords: angles; aunt; berkley; bertie; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; going; good; grace; hand; home; house; jeffreys; linda; little; look; love; mammy; man; matthews; miss; miss ri; papers; phebe; place; right; room; talbot; things; thought; time; town; trunk; verlinda; way cache: 46367.txt plain text: 46367.txt item: #23 of 32 id: 48294 author: Goodwin, Maud Wilder title: Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 date: None words: 89982 flesch: 87 summary: and Ralph Ingle-- Softly, little man, softly! spoke Neville's voice. Because he had caught sight at a window of a girl's face,--a faulty, charming face with velvet brown eyes, and hair that shook a dusky glamour over them,--the face of Peggy Neville. keywords: boy; brent; brother; calvert; cecil; christopher; day; death; door; elinor; end; eyes; face; father; giles; god; good; governor; hand; head; heart; help; house; huntoon; ingle; let; life; look; love; man; margaret; mary; master; men; mind; mistress; mother; nay; neville; new; night; peggy; philpotts; priest; ralph; romney; rose; saw; set; sir; smile; soul; thee; thou; thought; time; tis; voice; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 48294.txt plain text: 48294.txt item: #24 of 32 id: 5365 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 01 date: None words: 26210 flesch: 83 summary: Those times, my children, are not ours, and I thought it not strange that Mr. Carvel should delight in a good main between two cocks, or a bull-baiting, or a breaking of heads at the Chestertown fair, where he went to show his cattle and fling a guinea into the ring for the winner. Mr. Carvel, too, had walked in Gray's Inn Gardens and met adventure at Fox Hall, and seen the great Marlborough himself. keywords: allen; aunt; captain; carvel; day; good; governor; grafton; grandfather; hall; hand; harvey; house; king; lad; lady; look; man; master; mother; philip; rector; richard; room; sir; street; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 5365.txt plain text: 5365.txt item: #25 of 32 id: 5366 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 02 date: None words: 19880 flesch: 90 summary: And this is young Mr. Carvel, whom I hear wins every hunt in the colony? said he. Mr. Carvel pulled the cord to stop, and asked her name. keywords: allen; aunt; carvel; come; day; doctor; dolly; dorothy; good; grafton; grandfather; hand; house; lady; manners; miss; patty; richard; sir; street; swain; time cache: 5366.txt plain text: 5366.txt item: #26 of 32 id: 5367 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 03 date: None words: 17789 flesch: 87 summary: Colonel Washington, said the captain, this is Mr. Richard Carvel, the son of Captain Carvel. This is Mr. Richard Carvel, said Mr. Claude. keywords: allen; captain; carvel; colonel; comyn; day; grandfather; griggs; house; know; lad; lord; lordship; man; rector; richard; room; sir; thought; washington cache: 5367.txt plain text: 5367.txt item: #27 of 32 id: 5368 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 04 date: None words: 25635 flesch: 84 summary: Paul, said he; John Paul, of the brigantine John, of Kirkcudbright, in the West India trade. John Paul himself taught me to tack and wear ship, and MacMuir to stow a headsail. keywords: bailiff; captain; captain paul; carvel; day; door; eyes; face; friends; gentleman; god; hand; house; john; john paul; london; look; lord; macmuir; man; manners; men; paul; place; richard; sir; street; thought; time; way; world cache: 5368.txt plain text: 5368.txt item: #28 of 32 id: 5369 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 05 date: None words: 28047 flesch: 88 summary: What I wish to know, Mr. Dix, he continued, is whether you are willing to take my word that this is Mr. Richard Carvel, the grandson and heir of Lionel Carvel, Esquire, of Carvel Hall in Maryland? I am your Lordship's most obedient servant, said Mr. Dix. But I had not gone a dozen paces in my disappointment when I heard him running after me, asking if my honour were Mr. Richard Carvel. keywords: captain; carvel; charles; comyn; day; dolly; dorothy; eyes; face; fox; grace; home; house; john; lady; life; london; lord; lordship; manners; miss; mrs; paul; richard; sir; street; thought; time; walpole; way cache: 5369.txt plain text: 5369.txt item: #29 of 32 id: 5370 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 06 date: None words: 23245 flesch: 88 summary: And in the recklessness that so often besets youngsters of my temper, on like occasions, I went off to Newmarket next day with Mr. Fox and Lord Ossory, in his Lordship's travelling-chaise and four. I was the loser by some three hundred pounds, in addition to what I expended and loaned to Mr. Fox. keywords: carlisle; carvel; charles; chartersea; comyn; day; dorothy; duke; face; fox; grace; honour; house; lady; left; life; london; lord; lordship; man; manners; morning; night; richard; sir; street; thought; time; way cache: 5370.txt plain text: 5370.txt item: #30 of 32 id: 5371 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 07 date: None words: 24156 flesch: 89 summary: His client offered to Mr. Richard Carvel the estate lying in Kent County, embracing thirty-three hundred acres more or less of arable land and woodland, with a fine new house, together with the indented servants and negroes and other chattels thereon. Mr. Swain, and other barristers of Annapolis, came to my mind, for God had given me courage. keywords: barrister; captain; carvel; daniel; day; face; father; fox; god; good; grafton; house; life; lord; man; patty; philip; pride; richard; street; swain; thought; time; tom; twas; voice; way cache: 5371.txt plain text: 5371.txt item: #31 of 32 id: 5372 author: Churchill, Winston title: Richard Carvel — Volume 08 date: None words: 29594 flesch: 89 summary: 'Send a fellow to Marlboro' Street for Mr. Richard Carvel, my good host!' A BRIEF SUMMARY, WHICH BRINGS THIS BIOGRAPHY TO THE FAMOUS FIGHT OF THE BON HOMME RICHARD AND THE SERAPIS BY DANIEL CLAPSADDLE CARVEL Mr. Richard Carvel refers here to the narrative of his experiences in the War of the Revolution, which he had written in the year 1805 or 1806. keywords: captain; carvel; commodore; day; dear; dolly; door; dorothy; eyes; face; good; hand; head; house; jack; john; jones; life; little; london; love; man; manners; men; morning; mrs; paul; richard; ship; sir; time; twas cache: 5372.txt plain text: 5372.txt item: #32 of 32 id: 5729 author: Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) title: Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home date: None words: 60841 flesch: 83 summary: Peggy Stewart! Peggy Stewart! Peggy's cheeks glowed and her eyes shone. What the experiences of that month were, and the revelations which came into Peggy's life during it; how the perplexing problem was solved and who helped to solve it, must be told in the story of Peggy Stewart at School. keywords: academy; asked; aunt; away; big; boys; captain; child; course; daddy; day; days; durand; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; happy; harold; head; home; horse; howland; know; life; llewellyn; look; mammy; man; miss; moment; mother; mrs; neil; new; peggy; peggy stewart; people; polly; poor; pretty; right; severndale; shashai; stewart; ter; things; time; world; years cache: 5729.txt plain text: 5729.txt