item: #1 of 14 id: 17964 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: Olympian Nights date: None words: 32496 flesch: 84 summary: Said he'd like to try Apollo and a Muse or two, for a little while, and preferred Cupids on toast for Sunday-night tea. Said Prometheus was a very interesting man, but as a diet he was monotonous and demanded a more diversified _menu_. keywords: able; adonis; affairs; apollo; audience; bad; ball; beautiful; bell; best; better; bit; books; boy; boys; business; button; caddies; callisto; card; care; cavern; cephalus; certain; chair; chance; chap; chest; clad; club; coffee; company; country; course; cupid; dark; dat; day; dear; dining; doctor; dollars; domo; door; doubt; dragon; drive; earth; easy; elevator; end; excellency; experience; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; far; fashion; feet; fellow; fine; fire; fool; game; garments; gentleman; glad; glasses; gods; gold; golden; golf; good; great; green; guide; hades; half; hand; handed; hard; head; heart; help; hercules; high; hippopopolis; hole; home; hope; hotel; hours; house; huge; idea; illustration; immortal; jason; jove; juno; jupiter; known; large; left; life; line; links; little; long; lost; lot; love; magnificent; majesty; major; man; mars; marvellous; matter; means; memnon; mercury; mere; midas; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mortal; mother; need; new; nose; number; office; old; olympian; olympus; omelet; open; pain; pair; past; people; person; phaeton; place; planet; play; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; position; power; pretty; psyche; public; ready; real; result; right; room; round; royal; sambo; season; second; self; service; set; sick; simple; sir; situation; small; soft; sorry; sort; soul; space; splendid; state; straight; sun; taste; teeth; thank; things; thought; throat; time; trifle; trouble; true; trust; truth; universe; valet; venus; vision; voice; water; way; window; wings; wish; wonderful; world; wrong; years; young; zoo; | |; æsculapius cache: 17964.txt plain text: 17964.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 22381 author: Berens, E. M. title: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome date: None words: 108047 flesch: 63 summary: As we have already seen in the Legend of Heracles, that great hero conquered Troy, and after killing king Laomedon, carried away captive his beautiful daughter Hesione, whom he bestowed in marriage on his friend Telamon. Many great heroes were descended from Perseus and Andromeda, foremost among whom was Heracles, whose mother, Alcmene, was their granddaughter. keywords: able; abode; account; achilles; admetus; admiration; advice; affection; agamemnon; ages; agriculture; alcmene; alcmæon; alive; altar; ancient; anger; angry; animals; answer; anxious; aphrodite; apollo; appearance; approach; ares; argonauts; argos; armed; armour; arms; army; arrows; artemis; arts; aspect; assembly; assistance; atalanta; athene; athenians; attached; attack; attributes; augeas; awe; awful; aëtes; aïdes; babe; banquet; battle; bearing; beautiful; beauty; beings; belief; bellerophon; beloved; beneath; birds; birth; black; blood; boar; body; bow; brave; bride; bright; brother; building; bull; cadmus; camp; care; career; castor; cause; cave; celebrated; celestial; centre; certain; character; charge; chariot; charms; chase; chief; children; circe; cities; city; clouds; coast; combat; combined; command; companions; conception; condition; conduct; consequence; contest; corinth; countenance; country; courage; course; court; crete; crew; cries; crime; cronus; cruel; crëusa; custom; cyclops; dangers; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; death; decided; dedicated; deep; deez; defeated; deities; deity; delight; delphi; demeter; departure; deprived; desire; despair; destruction; determined; devoted; diana; different; dionysus; distinguished; divine; divinities; divinity; dominions; dragon; dreadful; duty; dwelt; eagle; early; earth; effect; efforts; encounter; enemy; enraged; entrance; eos; erebus; eros; escape; eternal; eurystheus; evening; events; evil; existence; expedition; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; faithful; family; famous; far; fatal; fate; father; favourite; fearful; feeling; feet; female; festival; field; fierce; fire; flames; fleece; flocks; flowers; followers; following; food; foot; force; forehead; foretold; form; fortune; friend; friendship; fruit; funereal; furies; future; gates; general; genius; gentle; giant; gift; gifted; gloomy; glorious; goddess; goddesses; gods; golden; good; graceful; graces; gratitude; great; greater; greatest; greece; greek; grief; grove; guardian; gæa; hair; hand; happiness; head; heart; heaven; hecate; hector; helen; helios; helmet; hephæstus; heracles; herds; hermes; hero; heroic; hesperides; high; history; home; honour; hope; horse; hospitality; hour; huge; human; husband; idea; illustration; image; immortal; important; impossible; incensed; individual; infant; influence; inhabitants; injunction; instance; iphigenia; island; italy; janus; jason; jealous; journey; joy; juno; jupiter; justice; kindly; king; kingdom; knowledge; labour; large; later; laurel; law; leave; left; length; libation; life; light; lightning; like; limbs; lion; lips; little; lived; long; loss; lost; love; lovely; lyre; magic; magnificent; maiden; man; mankind; manner; marriage; married; mars; master; means; medea; medusa; meleager; men; menelaus; messenger; mighty; mind; minos; moment; monster; morning; mortals; mother; mount; mountains; murder; muses; music; mycenæ; mysteries; mythology; names; nation; native; nature; near; necessary; necklace; neighbouring; nereides; nereus; new; noble; number; numerous; nymphs; nyx; object; occasion; oceanus; odysseus; oedipus; offerings; office; offspring; old; olympus; open; opportunity; oracle; order; orestes; origin; oxen; pallas; parents; paris; pass; past; patroclus; peculiar; pegasus; pelops; people; perilous; persephone; perseus; person; personification; phoebus; pieces; pirithöus; place; poets; point; pollux; polynices; polyphemus; portion; poseidon; position; possession; power; powerful; prayer; prediction; prepared; presence; present; priam; priests; principal; prometheus; prophecy; prophetic; protection; psyche; public; punishment; purpose; queen; ready; realm; reason; refuge; regard; religious; remains; renowned; representations; respect; rest; return; revenge; rhea; rich; rise; rites; rival; river; robe; rock; romans; rome; rose; round; royal; ruler; sacred; sacrifices; sad; safety; sail; satyrs; saw; sea; search; seasons; seat; second; secret; secure; seer; selene; serpent; service; set; shades; shepherd; shield; ships; shore; shoulders; silver; similar; single; sirens; sister; skin; sleep; slew; small; snakes; solemn; son; song; sons; spear; special; sphinx; spirits; spot; spread; spring; state; statues; stone; story; strains; strangers; stream; strength; struggle; success; successful; suffering; suitors; summit; sun; supreme; sweet; sword; tartarus; task; temple; terrible; terror; thebes; theseus; thetis; thought; throne; time; titans; torch; town; tree; trojans; troy; true; unable; undertaking; unfortunate; unhappy; union; united; uranus; useful; usual; vain; valuable; veil; vessel; vesta; victim; victory; view; vigour; violent; voice; voyage; walls; war; warriors; waters; waves; way; weary; welfare; west; white; wife; wild; winds; wine; winged; wisdom; woman; wonderful; wooden; words; work; world; worship; years; young; youth; youthful; zeus cache: 22381.txt plain text: 22381.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 23749 author: Herford, Oliver title: The Mythological Zoo date: None words: 2053 flesch: 84 summary: The horse was sure to cast his vote Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_. Though having neither gills nor scales, His title _should be_ Prince of Whales. keywords: beast; cerberus; cockatrice; day; dolphin; gargoyle; goat; gryphon; hair; half; heads; horse; hydra; hyppogriff; illustration; jinn; king; lady; like; lion; man; medusa; net; pegasus; salamander; satyr; sea; siren; sphinx; thing; zoo cache: 23749.txt plain text: 23749.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 30332 author: Morris, William title: The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) date: None words: 71570 flesch: 73 summary: Purblind are most of folk, The happy are the masters of the earth Which ever give small heed to hapless worth; So goes the world, and this we needs must bear Like eld and death: yet there were some men there Who drank in silence to the memory Of those who failed on earth great men to be, Though better than the men who won the crown. So in few days what man shall know The needy Scholar, seeing me Great in the place where great men be, The richest man in all the land? Beside the best then shall I stand, And some unheard-of palace have; And if my soul I may not save In heaven, yet here in all men's eyes Will I make some sweet paradise, With marble cloisters, and with trees And bubbling wells, and fantasies, keywords: abode; admetus; adown; adrastus; afraid; ancient; anigh; arms; atys; aught; bade; band; bare; bear; beasts; beauty; bed; behold; bent; best; birds; bitter; black; bliss; blood; blossoms; body; bore; brave; breast; breath; bride; bright; brow; burning; calm; care; cast; castle; chamber; change; child; city; clad; clear; close; cold; coming; country; crown; cry; dainty; damsels; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; deep; delight; desire; dim; distress; door; dost; doth; doubt; doubtful; draw; dreadful; dream; drew; dwell; e'en; earth; earthly; end; ending; ere; evil; eyes; face; faint; fair; fall; fallen; far; farewell; fate; father; fear; fearful; feast; feet; felicity; fell; fill; fingers; fire; flame; flew; floor; flowers; folk; foolish; forget; forgotten; forth; free; fresh; gain; gan; garden; gat; gate; gathering; gentle; gifts; glad; glittering; glorious; glory; god; goddess; godlike; gods; gold; golden; good; gown; grass; great; green; grey; grief; grow; hair; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hast; head; heart; heaven; heavy; heed; help; helpless; herdsman; hidden; high; hill; home; honour; hope; hot; hour; house; hung; ill; image; isle; ivory; jove; joy; joyous; june; kind; king; kiss; lady; land; lay; leave; left; lie; life; like; limbs; lips; little; live; living; long; longing; look; lord; love; lovely; maid; maiden; man; marble; mayst; meet; memories; memory; men; midst; mighty; mind; mirth; misery; moment; moon; morn; morning; morrow; mother; murmuring; music; nay; near; need; new; night; noble; nought; o'er; ogier; old; open; pain; pale; pass; passing; past; pelias; people; perchance; place; play; pleasure; poor; psyche; queen; raiment; ready; red; remember; rest; rich; ring; rise; road; rock; rose; round; royal; sad; sat; scarce; sea; seat; set; setting; shame; shed; shore; shut; sigh; silent; sister; sky; slain; sleep; sleeping; small; smile; soft; son; song; soul; spring; stand; steps; stone; story; straight; strange; stream; strife; strong; strove; summer; sun; surprise; sweet; sword; tale; thee; therewithal; thick; thine; things; thinking; thou; thou art; thought; threshold; throne; thy; tide; time; toil; town; trees; trembling; troubled; true; turn; twixt; unknown; unseen; vain; vale; veil; venus; voice; wall; wandering; war; watch; water; waves; way; weak; wealth; weary; weeping; west; white; wide; wild; wilt; wilt thou; wind; wise; wish; woe; woman; won; wonder; wondrous; wood; words; work; world; wretched; wrought; yea; years; yellow cache: 30332.txt plain text: 30332.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 30800 author: Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette) title: Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children date: None words: 16524 flesch: 95 summary: For many days and nights he bravely took care of his father and kept the fire burning. When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone. keywords: apollo; arachne; arms; athena; balder; beautiful; birds; boy; cap; cave; chariot; chief; children; cloud; dark; day; days; demeter; donkey; earth; eyes; fairy; far; father; fire; flowers; food; forest; fox; giants; golden; gone; good; grass; great; hades; hand; happy; head; helios; help; hermes; high; hill; home; horses; illustration; indian; ito; king; land; large; leaves; listen; little; long; love; morning; mother; mountain; near; night; ocean; old; palace; path; people; persephone; phaethon; prometheus; pudding; queen; red; sea; secret; silver; sky; small; son; story; strong; sun; things; thought; time; trees; valley; water; way; white; wind; wise; wish; woman; wonderful; work; world; zeus cache: 30800.txt plain text: 30800.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 3327 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable date: None words: 146923 flesch: 77 summary: They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity, their destinies and worthy deeds to be achieved in coming times. While the majority of the Brahmans still profess to recognize the equal divinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the mass of the people worship Krishna, Rama, the Singam, and many other gods and idols. keywords: abode; account; achilles; action; admiration; advanced; adventures; aeneas; aesculapius; agamemnon; age; ages; air; ajax; allusion; altar; amazons; ancient; animal; answer; aphrodite; apollo; appearance; appears; apples; approach; arachne; argus; ariadne; arion; armed; armor; arms; arrow; artists; arts; ashes; assistance; atalanta; athens; atlas; attempt; attention; attitude; aurora; b.c; bacchus; baldur; bank; bark; battle; bear; bearing; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; behold; beings; beloved; best; better; birds; birth; black; blind; blood; blow; boar; bodies; body; book; bore; bosom; bow; box; boy; brahma; brahmans; branches; brave; breast; breath; bride; bright; british; brother; brow; bull; burning; burst; byron; cadmus; camp; care; cast; castor; cause; cave; celebrated; centaurs; century; cephalus; ceres; certain; ceyx; change; chapter; chariot; charm; chase; chest; chief; child; children; circe; cities; city; clear; close; clouds; cold; come; coming; command; common; companions; condition; conquered; conquest; consent; consequence; contest; continued; copy; countenance; country; course; court; creation; crew; cries; crime; cruel; cry; cupid; cut; cyclops; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; deep; deities; deity; delay; delight; departure; description; destruction; diana; different; direction; disguise; distance; distant; distinguished; distress; divine; divinity; dog; dogs; door; doubt; dragon; dream; drink; driven; druids; dry; dwelt; earlier; early; earth; eastern; echo; effect; efforts; egyptian; enemies; enemy; english; equal; escape; eurydice; event; evil; existence; expedition; exploits; eyes; face; fact; fair; faithful; fall; fallen; false; fame; family; famous; far; fast; fatal; fate; father; favorite; fear; feel; feeling; feet; female; field; fierce; figures; fire; flames; fleece; flesh; flight; flocks; flowers; fly; foe; followers; following; fond; food; foot; force; forehead; forest; form; fountains; free; friends; frost; fruit; funeral; furies; furnished; future; gain; garden; garments; gates; general; giant; gift; glory; goddess; goddesses; gods; golden; good; graceful; grass; great; greater; greatest; grecian; greece; greek; grief; group; grove; grown; guard; guests; guide; hair; halcyone; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; harmony; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavy; hector; helen; help; hercules; hero; heroes; hide; high; highest; hills; history; home; honor; hope; horn; horror; horse; hour; huge; human; hung; hunting; husband; idea; image; immortal; india; infant; influence; inhabitants; iona; iron; isis; island; isle; italy; ivory; jason; javelin; jaws; jove; joy; juno; jupiter; kind; king; kingdom; know; knowledge; labor; lance; land; language; laocoon; large; late; latin; latona; law; laws; lay; leaves; left; length; letters; lie; life; lightning; like; limbs; lines; lion; lips; literature; little; live; living; lofty; loki; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; love; lovely; lovers; lyre; maiden; man; manner; marble; mark; marriage; married; master; means; medea; medusa; meet; meleager; memory; men; menelaus; mercury; midas; middle; midst; mighty; milton; mind; minerva; minos; modern; moment; monster; moon; moore; morning; mortal; mother; mountain; museum; music; mythology; names; narcissus; nations; native; natural; nature; near; neck; neighboring; neptune; nestor; new; night; nile; niobe; nisus; north; northern; number; numerous; nymphs; o'er; oak; oars; object; occasion; ocean; odin; oedipus; offer; old; olympus; open; opposite; oracle; order; orestes; origin; original; orpheus; osiris; ovid; oxen; pale; pallas; paradise; parents; paris; parthenon; pass; passage; passion; past; patroclus; penelope; people; perfection; period; perseus; person; phaeton; pheidias; phoebus; phoenix; pieces; pile; pity; place; plain; pleased; pleasure; plough; pluto; poem; poetry; poets; point; pollux; poor; portion; possession; power; praxiteles; prayer; precious; prepared; present; preserved; priam; priests; prince; prize; prometheus; promise; proserpine; proud; psyche; punishment; purple; purpose; pyramus; pythagoras; queen; race; rage; reach; readers; ready; real; regions; reign; reins; religion; religious; remains; repose; request; rest; return; reward; rich; rise; rites; river; road; robe; rock; romans; rome; roof; rose; round; royal; rude; sacred; sacrifice; sad; safe; safety; sail; saturn; saw; saying; scattered; scene; school; sculptor; sculpture; scylla; sea; search; seat; second; secret; serpent; servants; service; set; shade; shepherd; shield; ships; shore; shot; shoulders; sibyl; silence; silver; sisters; size; skies; skill; skin; sky; slaughter; sleep; slew; small; soft; solemn; son; song; sons; soul; sounds; spear; spirit; spite; splendor; spot; spread; spring; stand; stars; statue; stay; steeds; stone; stories; story; stranger; stream; strength; strong; subject; success; sudden; suitors; summer; sun; supposed; surface; sweet; sword; symbol; table; tail; task; teeth; telemachus; temple; terrible; terror; thebes; thee; theseus; thetis; thine; things; thirst; thisbe; thither; thor; thou; thought; throne; throw; thunder; thy; time; tomb; touch; tradition; tree; triumph; trojans; troy; true; trunk; truth; turnus; ulysses; united; universe; upper; usual; utgard; uttered; vain; vast; vengeance; venus; vessel; victim; victory; view; violence; virgin; vishnu; voice; vulcan; wall; wandering; war; warriors; water; waves; way; weapon; weary; weight; western; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; winged; wings; winter; wisdom; wish; wolf; woman; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worship; worthy; wounded; writers; years; young; youth; zeus cache: 3327.txt plain text: 3327.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 35704 author: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin title: Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls date: None words: 63574 flesch: 84 summary: We would like to be the guardians of your temple, great Jupiter. Mars was a very ruthless kind of god. keywords: able; achilles; adventure; antaeus; apollo; apples; arachne; arcadia; aristaeus; armor; arms; arrows; atalanta; athens; atlas; bank; battle; baucis; bear; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bee; bees; beginning; bellerophon; best; better; birds; black; blood; body; box; boy; branches; brave; breath; bright; cadmus; callisto; care; cave; ceres; chance; chariot; children; circe; city; clouds; club; colors; cottage; country; courage; course; court; creature; cupid; cyclops; daedalous; daphne; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; death; deep; desire; destruction; diana; door; dragon; earth; edge; end; epimetheus; erisichthon; eurydice; eyes; face; fair; family; far; farm; fast; father; fear; feet; fields; fire; fleece; flowers; food; foot; forest; form; friends; fruit; games; garments; giant; gift; girl; glaucus; goddess; gods; golden; good; grain; great; greece; greeks; green; ground; grown; hair; half; hands; harvest; head; heart; heavy; helen; help; herbs; hercules; hero; heroes; high; hills; home; honey; hope; horse; huge; hurt; hyacinthus; icarus; inside; iris; island; jason; joy; juno; jupiter; kind; king; kingdom; labyrinth; land; large; latona; laurel; leaves; left; lid; life; light; like; lion; little; long; longer; look; loved; lovely; lyre; making; man; mars; means; medea; medusa; melampos; men; mercury; midas; mighty; minerva; moment; monster; morning; mortals; mother; mount; mountain; music; myths; near; need; neptune; new; nymphs; oak; old; olive; olympus; open; orchard; order; orion; orpheus; outside; pandora; paris; pegasus; people; perseus; phaeton; philemon; place; plain; plenty; pluto; pomona; poor; possible; power; precious; princess; prometheus; proserpine; psyche; pygmies; queen; ready; return; river; road; rock; scylla; sea; search; seasons; secret; serpent; ship; shore; shoulders; single; skill; skin; sky; sleep; soft; son; sound; spear; spring; stars; stone; story; straight; strange; strangers; strength; strong; summer; sun; sure; sweet; task; temple; terrible; terror; theseus; thessaly; thick; things; thought; throne; time; tree; trojans; trouble; troy; ulysses; use; venus; vertumnus; vine; voice; vulcan; war; warriors; water; way; went; white; wide; wild; wind; winged; wings; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wood; wooden; words; work; world; years; yellow; young; youth cache: 35704.txt plain text: 35704.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 41765 author: None title: Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and The Men of Old date: None words: 111372 flesch: 82 summary: The maidens looked at his massive club, and at the shaggy lion's skin which he wore, and likewise at his heroic limbs and figure; and they whispered to each other that the stranger appeared to be one who might reasonably expect to perform deeds far beyond the might of other men. Pirates, doubtless, who peril your own lives to rob other men! Nay, answered Ulysses, who of all the trembling band alone found voice to speak. keywords: abode; achilles; adventures; agamemnon; aged; ajax; altar; andromeda; answer; apollo; apples; arethusa; ariadne; armed; armor; arms; athens; awful; bade; banquet; bark; battle; bear; beast; beautiful; beauty; bed; bent; better; bidding; big; bird; black; blood; blue; board; body; bold; bow; box; boy; boys; branches; brave; breath; breeze; bright; broken; brother; brow; build; bull; cadmus; calchas; camp; care; cause; cave; certain; chamber; chariot; chase; child; children; cilix; circe; city; clear; cliff; close; clouds; coming; companions; company; comrades; cottage; country; courage; course; cow; creature; crete; cruel; cry; crying; cup; damsels; danaüs; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deed; deep; delight; determined; diana; dido; distance; doom; doomed; door; doubt; dragon; dream; drink; drove; dwelt; earth; echo; enchantress; end; enemy; epimetheus; escape; europa; euryalus; eurydice; eurylochus; evil; eyes; face; fair; faithful; fall; famous; far; farewell; fast; fatal; fate; father; favor; fear; feet; fields; fierce; figure; fingers; fire; flame; fleece; flight; flowers; fly; flying; fond; food; foot; force; forest; form; free; friends; garden; gate; gentle; giant; gift; girls; glad; goblet; goddess; gods; golden; good; great; greece; greeks; green; grief; grown; guests; guy; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; harm; haste; hath; hawthorne; head; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; hector; help; hercules; hero; heroes; hesperides; hid; high; hills; hither; hold; home; hope; horse; host; hour; huge; human; hung; hungry; husband; image; immortal; innocent; inside; island; jason; journey; joy; juno; jupiter; kind; kindly; king; king minos; king ulysses; kingdom; knot; land; late; lay; leander; leave; left; legs; length; lid; lies; life; like; limbs; lion; lips; little; live; living; lloyd; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; love; magic; maiden; making; man; marble; master; medea; meet; megara; men; menelaus; merry; midas; middle; midst; mighty; mind; minerva; minos; minotaur; mischief; moment; monster; morning; mortal; mother; mountain; mrs; nathaniel; naughty; nausicaa; nay; near; nearer; neck; need; new; night; nisus; noble; numitor; nymph; oedipus; oenone; old; old king; open; oracle; order; orpheus; pain; pair; palace; pale; pandora; parents; paris; pass; past; path; peace; peep; people; perils; perseus; person; phoenix; pity; play; pleasant; pluto; polycrates; poor; power; prayer; precious; pretty; priam; priestess; prince; princess; proserpine; protesilaus; purple; pursued; queen; quest; question; race; reach; ready; red; remus; rest; return; rich; river; robe; rock; romulus; rose; round; royal; running; sacrifice; sad; sail; sandals; save; saw; saying; scylla; sea; search; seas; secret; seeing; set; shape; ships; shore; shoulders; shrine; silent; silver; single; sirens; sister; skin; sky; slain; slay; sleep; small; 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(1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) date: None words: 228318 flesch: 79 summary: Figures in italics preceded by _C._ refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text. 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Louise (Emma Louise) title: A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children date: None words: 8471 flesch: 104 summary: * * * fold sail afraid sorry each ring shining faster gave All the gods felt very sorry for little Brok. The dwarfs were ugly little black men. keywords: apples; big; brok; bulls; children; day; dragon; duck; duckling; dwarfs; eagle; fire; fleece; freyja; frost; giant; girl; gods; golden; good; grandma; hair; hammer; hard; hood; house; idun; illustration; jason; king; leaves; little; loki; medea; men; red; riding; rocks; sif; story; suit; things; thor; time; tree; ugly; wolf cache: 7841.txt plain text: 7841.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 976 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Tanglewood Tales date: None words: 66201 flesch: 78 summary: Little children, not quite understanding what is said to them, often get such absurd notions into their heads, you know. 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