item: #1 of 10 id: 32394 author: Marquis, Reina Melcher title: The Torch Bearer date: None words: 50299 flesch: 84 summary: The master's star pupil? Yes, she insisted, little Sheila. It requires a sort of earthy, benign patience thus to hold back one's hand and passively wait--especially when one has, in spite of oneself, the dominating parent instinct!--but Sheila forced herself to it. keywords: accident; affection; afraid; afternoon; air; alice; answer; arms; bad; beautiful; beauty; beginning; bent; best; better; blue; body; book; boy; breath; bright; burnett; caldwell; care; certain; chance; chapter; charlotte; child; children; clear; closed; cold; coming; compact; conscience; course; crazy; creature; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desire; different; door; dream; early; earth; effort; end; eric; evening; experience; exquisite; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; father; fear; feeling; feet; fever; figure; final; fine; finger; flowers; free; friend; friendship; frock; future; garden; gaze; gift; girl; glad; god; gold; good; grandmother; gray; great; hair; hand; happiness; happy; having; head; heart; help; helpless; high; hold; home; honor; hope; hour; house; hurt; husband; impossible; instant; joy; kent; kind; lady; later; life; like; lila; lips; lisbeth; little; live; living; long; look; love; lovely; making; manner; marriage; married; matter; mean; mere; mind; miracle; moment; months; morning; mother; motherhood; mrs; natural; nature; need; new; night; north; note; old; pale; paper; party; passion; past; paused; peace; people; perfect; peter; poet; poor; presence; pretty; promise; proud; queer; question; quiet; ready; real; reality; resentment; rest; room; rose; sacrifice; satisfied; scarlet; school; second; secret; self; seminary; sense; set; sex; shadyville; sheila; shoulder; silence; silent; simple; sitting; slender; small; son; sorry; sort; soul; spirit; spite; spring; star; step; story; street; strength; strong; sudden; summer; sure; sweet; sympathy; table; talent; ted; tenderness; thing; thought; time; tone; touch; town; true; truth; understanding; veranda; vision; voice; vow; walk; way; wife; wind; wise; woman; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worst; write; writing; wrong; years; young; youth cache: 32394.txt plain text: 32394.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 34438 author: Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) title: The Troubles of Biddy: A Pretty Little Story date: None words: 1085 flesch: 90 summary: Oh dear, cried poor Biddy, What now shall I do? CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. MADE IN USA The Troubles of Biddy Oh dear, sighed old Biddy, just under her breath, I really am troubled and worried to death! keywords: biddy; children; dear; ducklings; eggs; girl; illustration; little; nest; poor; thought; troubles cache: 34438.txt plain text: 34438.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 35725 author: Whitman, Walt title: The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion date: None words: 53295 flesch: 82 summary: And now that I have lived for eight or nine days amid such scenes as the camps furnish, and had a practical part in it all, and realize the way that hundreds of thousands of good men are now living, and have had to live for a year or more, not only without any of the comforts, but with death and sickness and hard marching and hard fighting (and no success at that) for their continual experience--really nothing we call trouble seems worth talking about. At the time he wrote the 51st was doing provost duty at Lancaster, but would not probably remain so very long--seem to be moving towards southeast Kentucky--had a good camp, and good times generally. keywords: 51st; 9th; abby; able; account; afternoon; air; american; andrew; april; armory; arms; army; attention; awful; bad; battle; bed; best; big; black; bloody; boat; body; boston; boy; boys; breakfast; brooklyn; brother; brown; burnside; bye; camp; campbell; capt; cases; cavalry; cent; change; city; close; co.; cold; common; company; condition; corps; country; couple; course; curious; cut; day; days; dead; deal; dear mother; dearest mother; death; december; diarrhoea; dinner; doctor; doubt; east; evening; eyes; face; family; feeling; fellow; fever; field; fighting; fine; folks; force; forenoon; fredericksburg; friday; friends; furlough; general; george; gifts; girl; glad; good; government; grant; great; greatest; ground; guard; half; han; hand; hapgood; hard; head; health; heart; help; high; home; hope; hospitals; hot; hours; house; hundreds; idea; interesting; jeff; john; june; kentucky; kind; lane; large; late; leave; lee; left; leg; letter; life; like; lines; little; living; long; look; lot; love; major; man; mannahatta; march; mat; matty; means; men; mention; middle; midst; miles; military; mind; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; need; new; news; night; noble; north; note; number; nurses; o mother; o'clock; office; officers; ohio; ones; papers; particular; past; pay; pennsylvania; people; place; pleasant; plenty; poor; possible; potomac; present; pretty; price; rain; rate; real; regiment; richmond; river; room; sad; safe; saturday; scenes; second; sick; sickness; sister; small; soldiers; son; sorry; spirits; square; states; stop; story; street; strong; suffering; summer; sunday; sure; surgeons; talk; tea; tents; terrible; things; thought; thousands; throat; time; trouble; true; tuesday; turn; union; usual; virginia; visits; walt; ward; warm; washington; water; way; weather; wednesday; week; welcome; west; whitman; winter; wish; women; wonder; word; work; worse; wounded; wounds; writing; years; yesterday; york; young; young men cache: 35725.txt plain text: 35725.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 3635 author: Norris, Kathleen Thompson title: Mother: A Story date: None words: 31157 flesch: 82 summary: She tried to realize that it was in her honor that a farewell tea was planned at the club, it was for her that her fellow-teachers were planning a good-bye luncheon; it was really she--Margaret Paget--whose voice said at the telephone a dozen times a day, On the fourteenth.--Oh, do I? Wants Margaret! keywords: afternoon; arms; aunt; baby; bad; bare; beauty; beck; bed; best; better; betty; big; blanche; blue; boldt; book; boys; bread; bridge; bright; bruce; busy; bye; carr; chairs; chapter; charming; cheeks; children; christmas; close; club; coat; cold; confusion; conscious; country; course; crazy; cream; cup; dad; daddy; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dear; deep; desk; different; dining; dinner; doctor; door; dorothy; dress; drive; duncan; eager; early; emily; evening; eyes; face; family; far; father; figure; find; finished; fire; flushed; forehead; fresh; friends; garden; gas; german; girl; glad; god; good; gown; gray; great; hair; half; hall; hands; happy; hard; harriet; harry; hat; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hold; home; hope; hot; hotel; hours; house; husband; john; julie; kitchen; lady; late; laugh; left; life; like; little; lives; long; look; looking; love; lovely; lunch; luncheon; maid; margaret; margaret paget; mark; married; matter; maudie; mere; miss; moment; money; months; morning; mother; motor; mrs; near; new; nice; night; o'clock; old; older; paget; paper; pause; people; place; play; poor; porch; porter; position; pretty; professor; quiet; rain; real; rebecca; rich; robert; room; rose; rosy; school; schoolroom; second; secretary; set; shabby; sick; silk; sister; sitting; small; smile; sort; street; sudden; summer; supper; sure; sweet; table; talk; tea; ted; tenison; thank; theodore; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; trees; turn; upstairs; victoria; visit; voice; wait; walk; warm; water; way; week; weston; wet; white; wide; wife; window; wish; woman; wonderful; work; world; wrong; years; york; young; younger cache: 3635.txt plain text: 3635.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 40659 author: Cambridge, Ada title: Materfamilias date: None words: 64022 flesch: 84 summary: It was not quite just perhaps--poor little things, they _were_ trying their best--but the first thing I did was to box the ears of both of them and send them back to bed. I know all about it, little woman. keywords: account; accustomed; afraid; afternoon; age; air; answer; anxious; arms; aunt; awake; baby; bad; beautiful; bed; beginning; beloved; bendigo; best; better; big; bit; blood; blount; board; boat; bobby; boy; boys; braye; breakfast; breath; bridge; bright; broken; brother; business; cabin; calm; captain; care; case; chair; change; chapter; children; choice; circumstances; clothes; cold; comfort; comfortable; coming; command; common; company; control; convinced; country; course; creature; cruel; cry; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dearest; death; deck; determined; dining; dinner; doctor; dog; door; doubt; duty; early; edmund; emily; end; equal; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; far; farm; fashion; father; fault; fear; feel; feeling; fellow; figure; fire; fit; floor; free; fresh; friends; fuss; gale; garden; girl; glad; good; governess; great; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; harris; harry; head; health; heart; help; holiday; home; hope; hot; hour; house; hurt; husband; ill; inclined; jane; joy; juke; kate; kind; kitchen; lady; late; law; leave; left; lie; life; like; lily; little; living; long; look; lost; love; lovely; making; man; marriage; married; mary; matter; meaning; means; melbourne; mere; mind; minded; minutes; miserable; miss; moment; money; month; moon; morning; mother; mrs; necessary; need; new; news; nice; night; notice; nurse; o'clock; office; old; open; outside; passengers; past; people; perfect; person; phyllis; picture; pigs; place; point; polly; poor; position; possible; pounds; precious; present; pretty; proper; proud; purpose; question; quiet; racer; rain; rate; ready; rest; return; room; rose; round; run; safe; sake; school; sea; second; seeing; self; sense; set; ship; shoulder; shut; sick; silly; silver; sister; sitting; sleep; small; son; sort; soul; spencer; stand; standing; state; steward; stop; street; strong; sunday; sure; sweet; sydney; table; talk; talking; tea; ted; thing; thinking; thought; time; tired; tom; tone; town; trouble; true; utter; view; voice; waif; walk; want; watch; water; way; weather; wedding; wife; window; wish; wives; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; years; young cache: 40659.txt plain text: 40659.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 41831 author: Jewett, Sarah Orne title: Betty Leicester's Christmas date: None words: 11920 flesch: 83 summary: Whether it came from her lamenting that she had no sister, and being kindly adopted by certain friends, or whether there was something in her friendly, affectionate way of treating people, one cannot tell. II Betty Leicester, in a new winter gown which had just been sent home from Liberty's, with all desirable qualities of color, and a fine expanse of smocking at the yoke, and some sprigs of embroidery for ornament in proper places, was yet an unhappy Betty. I'm Betty Leicester, said Betty, in an undertone. keywords: american; aunt; banfield; best; better; betty; bit; boy; charming; christmas; company; country; danesly; day; deal; dear; delightful; dimdale; dinner; door; edith; england; father; fellow; fine; friend; gallery; gay; girls; glad; good; great; grown; guests; hall; heart; help; home; house; lady; lady mary; left; leicester; life; little; london; long; look; looking; lovely; luncheon; mary; miss; moment; morning; musicians; new; nice; night; old; older; pagot; papa; party; people; pleasure; pretty; ready; rest; room; sure; table; talk; tall; things; think; thought; tideshead; time; town; visit; walking; warford; way; world; young cache: 41831.txt plain text: 41831.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 45168 author: Arthington, Maria title: Rhymes for Harry and His Nurse-Maid date: None words: 5105 flesch: 90 summary: _ Little Truths better than great Fables, 2 parts. If it be _not_ attended to, children are great observers, and will soon find that but little regard is paid to truth; and thus incalculable evils may be the result. keywords: 12mo; andrew; asleep; babe; baby; bed; boy; care; children; clean; cold; cry; dark; darling; dear; early; fear; feet; foundation; future; good; great; grow; hand; harry; illustration; learning; little; long; maid; mamma; mothers; nurse; o'er; pain; play; pleas'd; rhymes; simple; sweet; tale; taste; thee; things; tho; time; tis; truth; walk; warm; wish; writer; young cache: 45168.txt plain text: 45168.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 46375 author: Grove, Harriet Pyne title: The Phantom Treasure date: None words: 53739 flesch: 90 summary: Under a date not long before her marriage, Jannet Van Meter had written very fully and regretfully of a loss. Don't tell me that you are baking a cake! Come in, come in, Miss Jannet. keywords: afraid; albany; allie; andrew; andy; april; attic; beautiful; bed; better; big; black; blue; book; box; boys; business; cake; care; chair; chapter; chick; child; chimney; close; clyde; comforter; company; conversation; cookies; costume; country; course; cousin; cover; crazy; daphne; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; den; desk; diana; different; dinner; direction; door; drawer; dress; dust; dutch; early; eldon; evening; eyes; face; family; far; farm; father; fine; fire; flashlight; floor; fortune; friends; fun; funny; ghost; girls; glad; good; grandmother; great; guardian; guess; half; hall; hand; happy; haunted; head; heart; help; hepsy; high; hilliard; holt; home; hope; house; idea; inside; interest; interesting; jannet; jannetje; john; key; keys; kind; kitchen; lady; large; late; leaving; left; lessons; letters; library; life; light; like; little; locked; long; look; looking; lost; love; lovely; low; lunch; marcy; matter; mean; meter; mind; miss; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; need; nell; new; nice; note; odd; old; older; open; opening; outside; p'lina; package; paper; party; past; paulina; pearls; people; permission; picture; piece; pieter; place; pleasant; poor; possible; pretty; queer; rain; read; real; rest; ride; riding; room; school; second; secret; sister; sleep; small; smile; sort; sound; spring; stairs; storm; strange; summer; supper; sure; surprise; sweet; table; talk; tap; telegram; telling; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; treasure; trunk; turn; uncle; uncle pieter; usual; van; visit; vittoria; voice; wall; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; wonder; word; work; worn; years; york; young cache: 46375.txt plain text: 46375.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 55571 author: Hume, Fergus title: Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage date: None words: 130821 flesch: 78 summary: Silence on the part of Mr. Eustace Gartney. At this moment a servant entered the nursery to inform Lady Errington that Sir Guy and Mr. Eustace Gartney were waiting for her in the Dutch room, at which Alizon was in despair, for it was now the time when Sammy took his airing, and therefore one of the most interesting events of the day. keywords: account; advice; affair; affection; afraid; africa; afternoon; alizon; alizon errington; america; anger; angry; angus; annoyed; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; armstrong; attempt; attention; aunt; aunt jelly; baby; bad; ball; beautiful; beauty; bed; bent; best; better; big; billy; birth; black; blood; blue; book; box; boy; break; breast; breath; bride; brilliant; bringing; broken; brown; business; calm; card; care; case; castle; centre; certain; chair; chance; chapter; character; charming; child; church; cigarette; circumstances; clear; cleopatra; clever; closed; clouds; cold; coldness; coloured; colours; comfortable; coming; como; companion; company; considerable; continent; conversation; coolly; corbin; corner; country; couple; course; cousin; creatures; creole; critics; cruel; cry; curious; cynical; dainty; dangerous; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dearest; death; decent; deep; delicate; delight; delighted; delightful; denfield; departure; desire; despair; determined; different; difficult; dills; dinner; disagreeable; dishonourable; distance; distant; divorce; doctor; dog; dolly; dolser; door; doubt; doubtful; drawing; dreary; dress; dressed; drily; dull; dunkeld; dusky; early; earth; effort; egotism; emotion; england; english; errington; estates; eustace; eustace gartney; evening; events; evil; excellent; excited; excitement; excuse; existence; experience; explanation; expression; extent; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; false; family; fancy; fantastic; far; fashion; fate; father; fault; favourite; feeling; feet; fellow; feminine; fever; figure; find; finding; fine; fingers; fire; fit; floor; flowers; flushed; fond; fool; foolish; foot; foreign; form; fortune; free; friend; friendship; frivolous; future; gabriel; gaily; gain; garden; gartney; gay; gentleman; ghost; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; golden; good; goodbye; grace; great; greatest; green; grey; griff; grim; guests; guy; guy errington; half; hall; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; hat; hate; hath; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; heir; help; henry; hide; high; hold; home; honour; hope; horror; hot; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; humph; husband; idea; ill; income; incomplete; indian; influence; interest; iron; italian; italy; javelrack; jelly; jiddy; johnnie; journey; joy; judge; judging; keen; kind; kindly; knees; know; knowing; knowledge; ladies; lady; lady errington; lake; large; late; laugh; laughing; laxton; leave; left; leisurely; length; life; like; likely; lips; little; lives; london; lonely; long; longer; look; lord; lost; lot; love; macjean; mactab; madonna; major; making; manner; maraquita; marble; marriage; married; masses; master; match; meal; meaning; means; measure; meekly; melancholy; memory; men; mind; minnie; minutes; misery; miss; mistake; mistress; mixed; moment; money; months; moonlight; morning; morrow; mostyn; mother; mountains; mrs; music; muttered; narrow; nature; near; need; neglect; nephew; new; news; nice; nonsense; note; nurse; nursery; observed; occasions; old; old lady; open; opinion; order; otterburn; outside; pale; paper; paradise; pardon; pargowker; park; party; passion; past; pause; pay; pelch; people; pepper; perfect; perfection; person; piano; pictures; pity; place; plain; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; poetry; point; poor; port; position; possession; possible; power; prepared; presence; present; pretty; property; proud; pure; purity; purpose; question; quiet; rage; read; real; reason; red; remark; remo; reply; respect; rest; result; return; revenge; rich; right; romance; roof; room; rose; rosy; round; ruin; run; running; sacrifice; sad; said; sake; sammy; satisfied; save; saw; saying; scandal; scene; school; scotch; seat; second; secret; self; selfish; sensible; serpent; servant; set; severe; sex; shadows; sheldon; sherry; shooting; shoulder; sick; sides; sigh; sign; silence; silent; silver; sir; sir guy; sitting; skin; sky; sleep; slender; slight; small; smile; smoke; social; society; soft; sombre; song; sorry; sort; soul; special; speech; spirit; spite; splendour; square; stairs; standing; start; state; station; stay; storge; stories; story; straight; strange; streets; strength; strong; strove; style; subject; success; sudden; sun; sunshine; sure; surprise; sweet; talk; talking; tall; tasker; taste; tears; telling; temper; temptation; tender; tenderness; terrace; terrible; thambits; theatre; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; tone; tongue; town; train; travel; trees; trifle; trouble; trubbles; true; truth; turning; twilight; understanding; unexpected; unhappy; upset; usual; vague; vain; veilsturm; venice; victoria; view; villa; village; vision; visit; voice; waiting; walls; want; warm; water; way; ways; weak; weary; weeks; welcome; west; white; wide; wife; wild; window; wine; wise; wish; withered; woman; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worn; worse; worship; wrong; year; young; young man; youth cache: 55571.txt plain text: 55571.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 60653 author: Brown, Rosel George title: Car Pool date: None words: 5760 flesch: 95 summary: And all that time little Hi-nin.... Regina, didn't you even pat him or hold him or kiss it for him or anything? _Kiss_ it! I stuck it into a crevice of my mirror and gave Gail my bare-shoulder decorations to play with while I concentrated on thinking up reasons why I should not dislike Regina Crowley. keywords: baden; billy; blood; boudoir; car; children; clay; course; crowley; dear; eyes; face; gail; good; half; hand; hiserean; home; little; look; mrs; nin; note; paper; people; playplace; pool; regina; respectable; slip; smile; sorry; tara; things; thought; time; trouble; verne; way; work cache: 60653.txt plain text: 60653.txt