item: #1 of 19 id: 10234 author: Cable, George Washington title: Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life date: None words: 69677 flesch: 84 summary: You better take me in de notion, old man, I tell you,--yes! Don't you try to make no fool of me, old man, cried the planter. keywords: account; adieu; afraid; african; afternoon; américains; ancient; anger; angry; answer; apartment; arm; arms; attorney; away; bad; balcony; ball; bank; banker; banquette; baptiste; beautiful; beauty; bed; believe; belles; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; blame; blessed; blood; blue; board; book; box; boy; boys; breast; brick; bright; broad; broken; brother; brow; bull; business; café; canal; cane; care; carraze; cathedral; cause; century; certain; chair; chapter; charleu; charlie; cheek; child; children; church; city; clasped; close; coffee; colonel; colossus; companion; company; conscience; conversation; cool; corner; course; creole; crowd; cry; cuban; cut; d'hemecourt; dad; dare; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; deep; defiance; delphine; demoiselles; des; different; dis; distant; doctor; don; door; doubt; doze; dress; dry; dutchman; délicieuse; early; edge; english; entrance; evariste; evening; exilés; eyes; face; fair; faith; fall; family; far; father; fear; feet; fence; fields; figure; fine; fingers; fire; floor; fool; foot; form; french; friends; galahad; garden; gate; general; gentle; gentleman; george; girl; glance; god; goin'; good; government; governor; grace; grass; great; guess; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; heer; help; hidden; high; hold; holy; home; hope; hour; house; human; husband; injin; inside; instant; interest; interpreter; irishman; jacques; jean; jerome; john; jones; jools; jules; kind; kiss; knees; known; kookoo; koppig; kristian; ladies; lady; lamp; landlord; large; late; laugh; law; leave; left; lemaitre; length; let; levee; life; lifting; like; lill; lips; little; little man; little white; long; look; looking; lord; love; low; madame; madame delphine; madame john; mademoiselle; mague; maiden; mais; major; maman; man; manager; manner; mansion; manuel; marie; marsh; mass; master; mazaro; meeting; mention; miché; mind; moment; money; monsieur; months; moon; morning; mossy; mother; mute; narrow; nature; near; nearer; neck; need; neighbors; new; night; noble; nod; non; note; notice; nurse; old; old charlie; old house; old man; olive; open; opposite; orleans; oui; outside; pair; pale; papa; paper; parlor; parson; pass; path; patty; pauline; paused; pay; people; physician; place; plain; plantation; planter; play; poor; poquelin; possible; posson; poulette; presence; present; president; pretty; pride; priest; private; property; public; père; père jerome; question; quick; quiet; rap; reason; red; rest; return; rich; river; room; rose; round; royale; rue; saw; schooner; seat; second; secretary; senor; sermon; servant; shaughnessy; shell; ship; short; shoulders; shutters; sick; sidewalk; sign; silence; silently; single; sir; sitting; sky; small; smile; society; soft; solemn; son; soul; spanish; speaker; speaking; spread; st.-ange; stairs; standing; start; stay; step; stopped; story; straight; strange; street; strong; summer; sunday; sure; surprise; sweet; table; talk; tall; tell; tender; terrible; thank; thing; thinking; thompson; thought; throat; time; tite; tone; town; trade; trouble; true; trunk; truth; undertone; ursin; vain; varrillat; veranda; view; vignevielle; villivicencio; voice; w'at; wad; walk; want; water; way; weeks; whisper; white; wicket; wid; wife; wild; window; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; wrong; yass; years; yellow; yesterday; young; zalli cache: 10234.txt plain text: 10234.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 11514 author: King, Grace Elizabeth title: Balcony Stories date: None words: 36084 flesch: 79 summary: Its pointed shingle roof covered it like the top of a chafing-dish, reaching down to the windows, which peeped out from under it like little eyes. Pupasse had not only the genius, but that which sometimes fails genius, the means for grimacing: little eyes, long nose, foolish mouth, and pointed tongue. keywords: accident; account; adorine; affairs; age; anne; answer; appearance; arms; attention; baby; bad; balcony; bank; bayou; beautiful; beauty; bed; bell; best; better; bills; birds; black; blue; boat; books; bride; brun; cabin; calling; captain; cards; certain; champigny; chapel; children; circumstances; city; class; clementine; communion; convent; corner; cotton; country; course; cross; cry; day; days; death; des; different; dollars; door; doubt; dreams; dress; dresses; education; effort; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feet; figure; fine; floor; flowers; foy; fresh; friend; game; gas; gate; general; gentleman; girl; god; gold; good; grandmother; great; green; hair; half; hands; handsome; hard; head; heart; high; home; honorine; horace; house; husband; idiot; illustration; irregular; islets; jeanne; joubert; journel; jules; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; left; life; like; lilies; lips; list; little; little convent; little mammy; long; look; louise; love; madame; madame joubert; maid; mail; making; mammy; marie; market; marriage; matter; mean; memory; mind; miracle; moment; money; month; moon; morning; mother; mushrooms; music; nature; near; neck; need; negro; negroes; new; news; night; numbers; old; ones; open; opera; order; orleans; outside; papa; paper; paris; past; patience; people; period; place; plantation; pointed; poor; possible; prayer; pretty; punishment; pupasse; question; quick; quiet; real; red; reflections; rest; rich; river; room; sainte; school; sea; seed; set; short; singing; sins; sisters; sleep; small; smile; society; spring; stage; stiff; stories; story; straight; street; sun; sure; talk; tall; thing; thought; time; tired; trader; true; truth; usual; veil; verbs; virgin; voice; walking; water; way; wedding; week; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; worse; years; young; youth; zepherin cache: 11514.txt plain text: 11514.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 12280 author: Cable, George Washington title: The Grandissimes date: None words: 115160 flesch: 80 summary: I am _not_ an old man, sir! I said _young_ man. Said Raoul, with an unsteady utterance, as he slammed the drawer: H-h-dat makes me dat I can't 'elp to laugh w'en keywords: accident; account; achille; acquaintance; admiration; advice; african; afternoon; agamemnon; aged; agony; agricola; alphonsina; american; amiable; américain; answer; apartment; apothecary; arm; arms; attempt; attention; attitude; aurora; aware; away; backward; bad; ball; baptiste; basil; bayou; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; believe; bent; best; better; bienville; big; bird; black; blood; blow; blue; board; body; book; bosom; bow; box; boy; brahmin; bras; breast; breath; broad; broken; brother; brulées; bud; burden; burst; business; calas; candle; cane; cannes; care; carriage; casa; case; cassette; cast; catch; cathedral; caught; certain; cession; chair; chance; changed; chapter; charge; charlie; chartres; cheek; child; children; choice; citizen; city; clear; clemence; close; clotilde; cold; color; colored; comfortable; coming; comment; common; community; companion; company; condition; congo; consent; continued; conversation; cook; cool; corner; corridor; countenance; counter; counting; country; coupé; course; cousin; creole; crossed; crowd; cry; cut; d'armes; dad; dance; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; de'-seh; dead; dear; death; decided; deep; degree; demand; desk; dey; different; dignity; dim; dinner; direction; discussion; distant; doctor; doctor keene; dog; don; door; doubt; doze; drawing; dress; dressed; drug; dust; early; earth; easy; edge; effect; effort; elbow; enemies; english; evening; example; excitement; experience; explanation; expression; extended; eyed; eyes; f.m.c; face; fact; fail; faint; fair; fall; family; far; fast; father; favor; fear; feeble; feeling; feet; fell; fellow; fever; fields; figure; fine; fingers; fire; fist; fixed; flesh; floor; flowers; following; foot; force; forehead; forest; form; fortune; forward; france; free; freedom; french; friend; frightened; frowenfeld; frown; fusilier; garden; gaze; gen'lemen; general; gentleman; gesture; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; godd; goin'; gold; gone; good; government; governor; grandissime; grandpère; grapion; grave; gravity; gray; great; green; ground; group; guess; gun; habit; half; hall; hand; handed; handkerchief; happy; hard; haste; hat; head; heart; hearted; heaven; heavy; help; hidden; high; higher; history; hold; holding; home; honest; honoré; honoré grandissime; hope; horses; hour; house; human; humma; hung; hurried; husband; idea; immigrant; indian; indignation; innerarity; innocent; instant; intention; interest; interrupted; invalid; invitation; iron; jean; jis; joseph; joseph frowenfeld; josé; joy; justice; keene; keeping; kind; kinsmen; knees; knock; know; knowing; knowledge; ladies; lady; lamp; landlord; lands; language; lap; large; late; laugh; law; leave; left; length; levee; liberty; life; lighted; like; likely; lill; line; lion; lips; listening; little; little doctor; live; living; lofty; long; longer; look; looking; lost; louisiana; love; low; lufki; lying; m'sieu; madame; mademoiselle; maid; main; mais; making; maman; man; mandarin; manner; mansion; marchande; mark; marquis; married; master; matters; mawse; mean; meaning; meet; mek; mental; mention; merchant; mere; merry; miché; middle; midst; mind; minutes; mississippi; mistake; mistress; moment; momselle; money; monk; monsieur; months; moon; moral; morning; morrow; mother; motion; mouth; movement; murmur; music; nancanou; narrow; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neck; need; negress; negro; neighbors; new; news; nigga; nights; noble; nod; note; notice; numa; number; object; occasional; odd; offer; office; old; old man; open; opportunity; opposite; order; orleans; ouaïe; outside; overseer; pair; pale; palmyre; paper; pardon; partner; pass; path; patient; paused; pay; people; perfect; person; philosophe; picture; pigshoe; pistol; pity; place; plain; plantation; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; polyte; poor; positive; possible; pou; power; prepared; presence; present; pretty; pride; priest; prince; private; professor; professor frowenfeld; proud; province; public; purse; quadroon; queen; question; quick; quiet; race; rain; raoul; reach; read; rear; reason; red; rent; reply; rescue; response; rest; restitution; return; rich; right; rise; river; rivière; room; rose; royale; rue; run; running; sad; saddle; sake; sank; saw; saying; scene; scholar; scorn; search; seat; second; secret; self; sell; sentiment; set; señor; shadow; shop; shot; shoulder; sick; sieur; sigh; sign; silence; silent; single; sir; sister; sitting; skin; sky; slave; sleep; slight; slip; slow; small; smile; society; soft; solemn; song; sort; soul; spaniard; spanish; speaker; speech; spirit; spot; spring; staff; standing; start; state; statement; stature; stay; step; stock; stood; stop; story; strange; street; strength; strife; strong; study; subject; sudden; summer; sun; sunset; sure; surprise; swamp; sweet; sylvestre; table; talk; talking; tall; tchoupitoulas; tenant; thank; thing; thinking; thought; till; time; titles; tone; tongue; touch; town; trade; trees; trembling; trouble; true; trust; truth; trying; turn; turning; uncle; union; unknown; upward; uttered; valentine; veil; veranda; view; visitor; voice; voudou; vous; w'at; w'en; wad; walk; wall; want; warm; watching; water; ways; weak; weather; weeks; whisper; white; wid; wide; wife; wild; window; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; word; work; worse; worth; wound; writing; wrong; yankee; years; yeh; young; young man; younger cache: 12280.txt plain text: 12280.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 15881 author: Cable, George Washington title: The Flower of the Chapdelaines date: None words: 56873 flesch: 89 summary: Said the bee, We'll try it there together some day, h'm? and Cupid mutely sparkled: Oh, by all means! There was rapture in crossing that _h'm_ line of intimacy. keywords: afternoon; age; alexandre; aline; american; angel; answer; antique; any'ow; arms; ask; aunts; avter; away; bad; bank; beautiful; bed; bell; beloiseau; best; better; biccause; biffo; bit; black; board; book; bourbon; bower; boy; boys; brother; brush; business; businezz; cann; care; carré; cars; castanado; change; chapdelaine; charmer; chester; child; children; church; chère; city; clock; close; co'se; coach; coming; company; conti; corinne; corner; coterie; coul'n; course; creole; cross; cry; cupid; dandy; danish; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; de l'isle; dead; dear; deep; dey; di'n; dignity; doctor; dogs; dome; don; door; dress; dubroca; ducatel; early; easy; english; euonymus; evening; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; family; fancy; far; father; feet; fence; fine; fire; firz; floor; flower; following; fort; fortune; forward; france; free; freedom; french; friends; garden; gate; general; geoffry; girl; glad; god; goin'; gone; good; governor; grandmamma; grandpère; great; h'm; hair; half; handed; hands; happy; hardy; head; heart; heaven; hector; help; high; hold; home; honor; hope; horn; hostess; hotel; hour; house; husband; impossible; inside; iron; ironworker; island; joy; judgment; juz; kind; knee; l'isle; ladies; lady; landry; large; lawd; lay; laz; leave; left; li'l; life; like; little; live; living; lone; long; look; lost; louis; louisiana; love; lovely; low; luke; madame; madeleine; mademoiselle; magazine; mamma; man; manner; manuscript; marcia; marie; master; maud; mean; memorandum; men; miles; mind; mingo; miss; mist'ess; mlle; mme; moment; money; monsieur; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; muz; mélanie; near; need; negroes; new; news; niece; nigger; night; north; note; office; old; open; opposite; outside; ovide; pair; papa; paper; parlor; pass; pay; people; place; plantation; point; poor; prayer; pretty; public; publisher; quarter; question; quiet; race; reading; rear; reason; rebecca; red; rest; return; river; road; robelia; room; rose; round; royal; run; runaway; running; scipion; seat; second; set; ships; shop; short; sidney; silas; silence; single; sinze; sir; sister; sky; slave; slavery; small; smaller; smile; smith; society; son; sorry; southern; speak; sprang; square; stars; state; steps; stop; stories; story; strange; stream; street; strong; sugar; sun; sunday; sure; sweet; table; taking; talk; tears; tell; telling; tha'z; thing; thought; throat; time; tis; town; trade; train; true; turn; twas; uncle; upper; view; voice; want; war; water; way; week; west; whiles; white; wide; wife; window; wish; women; wonderful; woods; word; work; yass'm; year; yonder; york; young; younger; yvonne cache: 15881.txt plain text: 15881.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 18958 author: Townsend, Mary Ashley title: The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans date: None words: 91203 flesch: 82 summary: Gulian seemed sent to his father's arms just in time to prevent the utter ruin, by over-indulgence, of young Arthur. dear reader, they pass quickly with young hearts, and they were soon flown. keywords: act; adieu; affection; alley; answer; anxious; apartment; appearance; arm; arms; arthur; attention; aware; backward; bad; bank; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedside; bent; bernard; best; better; big; black; blanche; blood; blow; blue; body; book; bosom; bottle; bow; box; boy; breast; bright; broad; broken; brother; brow; burst; business; busy; calm; care; carriage; case; cast; certain; chair; change; chapter; charley; cheek; child; children; church; circumstances; city; clear; clerk; clinton; closed; coat; cold; companion; conversation; corner; counter; course; court; crowd; crutches; cry; curls; customers; dark; darkness; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; delancey; delicate; della; delville; desk; die; different; dis; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dress; drop; dwarf; early; earnest; effect; effort; emotion; employer; evening; evil; excited; excitement; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; fate; father; fearful; features; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fingers; finished; fire; fit; floor; foot; forgotten; form; fortune; free; friend; future; gaze; general; gentleman; girl; glad; glance; glass; glow; god; golden; good; grace; grandfather; grandpapa; grasp; great; gulian; guly; half; hand; happier; happiness; happy; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hih; hold; home; hope; hour; house; hurried; husband; i'se; influence; innocent; instant; jeff; key; kind; kindly; lady; lamp; large; late; leave; leaving; left; letters; lie; life; lifting; like; lips; little; live; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; loud; love; mamma; man; manner; married; massa; matter; mean; meet; memory; merchant; mere; mind; minny; minutes; miss; mistress; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; natural; nature; near; negro; new; night; noble; north; note; old; older; open; pale; papa; paper; parted; pass; past; pay; piece; pillow; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; pocket; poor; position; possible; power; pratt; prayer; presence; pretty; pride; promise; proud; pure; quirk; ready; regard; rest; return; richard; room; rose; round; run; sad; sah; sake; save; saw; scene; seat; secret; seeing; servant; shadow; shame; short; shoulder; sick; silence; silent; sir; sleep; slight; small; smile; society; soft; son; sorrow; sorry; soul; speaking; spirit; spot; sprang; staircase; stairs; standing; station; stay; steps; store; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; struggle; subject; sudden; sunday; sure; surprised; sweet; table; talk; tall; tears; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; tis; tone; tread; trouble; true; trust; truth; turning; usual; visit; voice; waiting; walk; walking; want; watch; way; wealth; white; wife; wild; wilkins; window; wine; wish; woman; words; work; world; wrong; year; yesterday; young; younger cache: 18958.txt plain text: 18958.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 19703 author: Cable, George Washington title: Madame Delphine date: None words: 19760 flesch: 84 summary: Its scenes lingered before Père Jerome's vision now--the kneeling pair: the bridegroom, rich in all the excellences of man, strength and kindness slumbering interlocked in every part and feature; the bride, a saintly weariness on her pale face, her awesome eyes lifted in adoration upon the image of the Saviour; the small knots of friends behind: Madame Thompson, large, fair, self-contained; Jean Thompson, with the affidavit of Madame Delphine showing through his tightly buttoned coat; the physician and his wife, sharing one expression of amiable consent; and last--yet first--one small, shrinking female figure, here at one side, in faded robes and dingy bonnet. Madame Delphine slightly started aside, while Père Jerome reached silently, but eagerly, forward, grasped a larger hand than his own, and motioned its owner to a seat. keywords: account; afternoon; air; answer; arms; attorney; banker; beautiful; beauty; best; better; bird; blessed; book; boy; brother; business; capitaine; carraze; cathedral; certain; chair; chapter; charge; child; city; close; corner; creole; cry; dad; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; deep; defiance; delphine; doctor; door; doze; dress; english; evariste; evening; eyes; face; fall; fan; father; fence; figure; french; friends; garden; gate; gentle; girl; god; goin'; good; government; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; holy; home; house; human; jean; jerome; lafitte; large; laugh; law; lemaitre; life; lill; lips; little; long; look; lord; low; madame; madame carraze; madame delphine; madame thompson; mague; man; miché; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; nature; new; night; note; old; olive; open; orleans; pair; pale; parlor; path; people; physician; pirate; place; poor; present; priest; père; père jerome; quadroone; question; quiet; room; rose; rue; sermon; ship; sidewalk; sitting; small; smile; soft; standing; step; street; sure; sweet; tears; terrible; thing; thompson; thought; time; tis; tone; trouble; true; ursin; varrillat; vignevielle; voice; wad; walk; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; world cache: 19703.txt plain text: 19703.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 21274 author: McLaughlin, James Fairfax title: The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons date: None words: 2068 flesch: 79 summary: Victory comes at last-- Our doughty chief in New Orleans is cast; [Illustration: I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites! I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites! keywords: american; art; baltimore; bottled; chief; conquest; cyclops; drunk; face; fallstaff; field; fisher; flames; fort; glorious; god; hawk; hero; illustration; iron; leave; man; modern; new; old; orleans; page; polyphemus; public; race; soldier; strong; thou; tis; town; ulysses; warlike cache: 21274.txt plain text: 21274.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 21977 author: Wilkinson, J. (John) title: The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner date: None words: 50450 flesch: 61 summary: To render the affair still more clear I enclose herewith a memorandum of W. C. Whittle Jr., Confederate States Navy, who was the bearer of my message to Commodore Porter respecting my fears that the magazine of the Louisiana had not been effectually drowned. We were under the guns of Fort Fisher in fact, and close to the fleet of United States vessels, which had crossed the bar after the fall of the fort, when I directed my signal officer to communicate with the shore station. keywords: accomplished; account; action; addition; affairs; afternoon; agent; american; anchor; appearance; april; arms; army; arrival; attack; attempt; authorities; baltimore; bank; bar; battery; bermuda; best; black; blockade; board; boat; boston; bow; bridge; brief; british; broadside; butler; captain; capture; cargo; carolina; carrying; cause; chameleon; chapter; charge; charleston; chickamauga; chief; circumstances; citizens; city; class; clear; close; clothing; co.; coal; coast; colonel; command; commander; commanding; commission; commodore; communication; company; condition; confederate; confederate government; confederate states; consul; continued; cotton; country; course; crew; cruisers; danger; dark; day; daylight; days; dead; death; deck; deep; defence; department; departure; desperate; determined; dick; distance; distant; doubt; duncan; duty; dyer; early; effect; efforts; enemy; engagement; engineer; england; equal; escape; exception; exchange; expedition; fact; fair; faithful; fall; farragut; favorable; fear; federal; fellow; fire; firm; fisher; flag; fleet; florida; following; forces; fort; friends; gale; gallant; general; george; giraffe; good; government; governor; great; gulf; gunboats; guns; half; halifax; hands; harbor; hard; havana; head; heavy; high; history; hold; home; honor; hotel; hours; house; impossible; inch; individual; information; inlet; inside; instructions; intelligence; iron; island; jackson; johnston; keith; known; large; leave; left; letter; life; like; line; little; london; long; lost; louisiana; low; major; march; market; means; medicines; member; miles; military; mind; minutes; mississippi; mitchell; moment; money; months; morning; narrative; narrow; nassau; naval; navy; near; necessary; new; night; north; northern; number; o'clock; object; occasion; officers; official; old; open; order; orleans; outside; party; passage; passengers; people; period; permission; personal; pilot; place; pleasure; point; port; portion; position; possession; potomac; power; prepared; presence; previous; prisoners; private; prize; proper; provisions; public; purpose; quarter; question; range; reader; ready; regular; reply; report; rest; return; richmond; river; room; runners; running; sail; sailing; scotch; sea; secretary; servant; service; set; sherman; ship; shoals; shore; shot; sick; sides; signal; small; smoke; soldiers; south; southern; special; speed; spirits; states; states government; states navy; station; steamer; stranger; stream; streets; subject; successful; sun; supplies; supply; surrender; table; terms; time; town; troops; truth; united; united states; usual; vessel; virginia; visible; visit; voyage; want; war; warren; watch; water; way; weather; western; wheel; whisper; white; wilmington; wind; work; world; years; york; young cache: 21977.txt plain text: 21977.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 27779 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales date: None words: 38923 flesch: 88 summary: I been a mighty poor mammy ter yer, but I blesses Gord to-night fur savin' dat little black baby ter me--_all in de win' an' de storm an' de dark dat night_. But now you won't hate 'er no mo', boy; an' ef you die fus'--some time, you know, baby, little boys _does die_--an' ef you go fus', I'll teck good keer o' yo' sheer in 'er; an' ef I go, you mus' look out fur my sheer. keywords: 'bout; 'em; 12mo; an'--an; angel; answer; arms; away; baby; bad; banjo; bank; basket; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; black; blink; blue; book; bosom; boy; bread; buddy; bundle; business; cabin; canary; candy; cannon; captain; cary; caze; cents; certain; chair; chickens; children; christmas; city; cloth; conrad; continued; cook; course; crab; crow; daily; dark; dat; day; days; dear; death; decoy; dee; dem; des; dey; deze; die; dinner; dis; doc; dolly; door; dorothea; ducks; duke; early; easter; eggs; end; english; ethel; evelyn; evening; eyes; f'om; face; family; farmer; father; feeling; feet; felix; fellow; figs; fine; fire; floor; folks; french; frey; funny; fur; gate; gif; gimme; git; glad; god; going; golden; good; gord; gran'dad; grandfather; great; grinder; guinea; guns; guyosa; gwine; half; hand; happy; hard; harper; head; heah; heap; heart; help; high; home; honey; hours; house; hush; idea; idyl; illustrated; illustration; joy; juke; kitchen; know; knowed; ladies; lady; las; late; laughter; lay; left; levee; life; like; lips; little; little boy; little tim; long; look; lookin; lost; love; lower; madame; magwire; mammy; man; market; marster; matter; meck; meg; mighty; mind; minute; miss; moment; momsy; moon; morning; mose; mother; mought; mouth; mrs; near; need; nest; new; night; note; nothin'; old; old man; ole; ones; open; organ; orleans; pan; paper; party; people; place; plantation; play; pleasure; pockets; pond; poor; possible; pretty; professor; quackalina; question; rabbit; red; regular; rest; riffraffs; ripe; river; road; room; run; saint; save; saw; second; seed; self; set; sho; simple; single; sir; sitting; sky; small; solomon; some'h'n; sooty; sort; sound; stan; step; story; strange; street; sun; sure; sweet; table; talk; talkin; teck; tell; telling; ter; thing; thought; time; tired; true; truth; turkey; turn; twins; uncle; voice; walk; want; water; way; ways; wha; white; wid; wings; woman; word; work; wrong; yard; yas; years; yer; yit; young cache: 27779.txt plain text: 27779.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 29439 author: Cable, George Washington title: Dr. Sevier date: None words: 127446 flesch: 87 summary: Doctor--it's--O Doctor, I-- The door flew open; there was a low outcry from the threshold, a moan of joy from the sick man, a throwing wide of arms, and a rush to the bedside, and John and Mary Richling--and the little Alice, too-- Come, Doctor Sevier; come out and close the door. And my husband tells me--The owner of said husband stood beside him, one foot a little in advance of the other, her folded parasol hanging down the front of her skirt from her gloved hands, her eyes just returning to the landlady's from an excursion around the ceiling, and her whole appearance as fresh as the pink flowers that nestled between her brow and the rim of its precious covering. keywords: account; advice; affairs; afraid; afternoon; ag'in; alert; alice; alley; american; amused; amusement; answer; apples; arm; arms; arrangement; aside; astonishment; attention; attitude; backward; bad; baker; bank; bare; baw; bayou; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedside; beginning; bell; bent; best; better; big; bird; bison; bit; black; blame; blood; blow; blue; board; boat; bonnet; book; bosom; bowed; boys; breast; breath; brick; bringing; broad; broken; brother; brown; buggy; building; business; busy; bwead; calling; camp; canal; captain; card; care; carondelet; carriage; case; ceiling; cell; cent; certain; chair; chamber; chance; chapter; charge; charity; charles; cheek; child; children; chin; cigarette; city; clear; clergyman; clerk; close; coat; coffee; cold; colonel; come; comfort; comin; commercial; committed; common; companion; company; condition; conductor; confusion; continued; convalescent; conversation; cool; corner; cotton; country; courage; course; court; cover; creole; crime; crowd; cruel; cry; cut; daily; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; delight; desk; detective; different; direction; dismay; distance; distant; distress; doctah; doctor; doctor sevier; dollar; door; double; doubt; downward; drawing; dreadful; dress; drew; drive; dropping; dunno; dust; duty; earlier; early; earnest; earth; easy; edge; effort; elbow; employment; end; energy; english; evening; evil; evoi; exchange; excuse; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; family; far; farther; fast; fault; faw; fear; feeble; feeling; feet; felleh; fellow; fence; fever; field; figure; fine; fingers; fire; fist; fit; flat; floor; flowers; food; fool; foolish; foot; forehead; form; fortune; fot; free; french; fresh; friend; fruit; fum; fun; fur; furniture; future; garden; gate; gay; gaze; general; gentle; gentleman; german; gesture; getting; girl; git; glad; gladness; glance; glass; god; goin'; golden; gone; good; grave; gravity; gray; great; green; group; half; hand; handed; handkerchief; handsome; happy; hard; haste; hat; having; head; health; hearing; heart; heavy; help; high; higher; hold; home; honor; hope; hospital; host; hostess; hot; hour; house; huge; human; humor; hundreds; hung; hurried; hurry; husband; idea; ill; impatience; inch; inner; inquiry; instance; instant; interest; interrupted; invalid; inward; irishman; iron; italian; itchlin; jacket; jane; jess; john; john richling; joy; judge; justice; juz; kate; keeper; keeping; kind; knee; knowledge; known; kot; ladies; lady; lake; land; landing; lap; large; later; laugh; laughter; laura; law; lawyer; lay; leave; left; legs; length; letters; life; lifting; lighted; like; lines; lips; listener; little; little man; live; living; long; longer; look; lookin; lost; love; lower; ma'am; madame; making; man; manner; market; married; mary; mary richling; matter; mean; meeting; merchant; mercy; mere; middle; mighty; mike; miles; milwaukee; mind; minutes; misses; mississippi; mistake; mistoo; moment; money; month; moon; morning; morrow; mother; motion; movement; mrs; muz; myseff; narcisse; narrow; natural; nature; near; nearer; neat; necessary; necessity; neck; need; negro; new; news; nigh; nivver; nod; note; notice; notiz; number; nurse; o doctor; offer; office; old; older; omnibus; open; opinion; opposite; orleans; outside; ovver; pair; pale; palm; paper; parish; parting; party; pass; passing; past; patient; paused; pay; people; perfect; person; physician; picture; piece; place; plain; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; possible; post; poverty; prate; preacher; prescription; present; pressed; pretty; pride; prieur; prison; prisoner; private; promise; proper; proud; public; quadroon; quarter; question; quick; quiet; raiment; raphael; read; real; reason; recorder; rector; red; refuse; reisen; relief; reply; response; rest; return; richling; richlun; right; riley; rise; ristofalo; river; roof; room; rose; rough; round; run; saddle; sake; sam; saying; sayss; school; search; seat; second; secret; self; sense; sentiment; service; set; seveeah; sevier; shade; shadow; sharp; ship; shirt; shoe; shot; shoulder; shut; sick; sides; sidewalk; sigh; sign; silence; silent; simple; singing; single; sir; sister; sitting; sky; sleep; slender; slight; slowly; small; smile; smoke; smooth; soft; soldier; sort; south; southern; speaker; speaking; speech; speed; spirit; spread; spy; square; stairs; standing; start; state; station; stay; steam; step; stop; story; straight; stranger; street; strength; strong; subject; sudden; suit; summer; sun; sunset; sur; sure; surprise; sweet; table; talk; tall; task; tat; tear; teh; telling; tender; terrible; thanks; thass; thim; things; think; thinking; thornton; thought; thousands; throat; time; timid; tired; tis; toandt; tone; touch; town; train; trees; tried; trouble; true; trust; truth; trying; turning; udt; undt; union; upper; upward; usual; uttered; vagrant; ve'y; vell; veranda; view; visitor; voice; vot; waist; waiting; walking; wall; want; war; watch; waters; wave; way; ways; weak; week; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; window; wish; witness; woman; wooden; woods; word; work; worse; worth; wounded; wrong; yard; ye're; years; yeh; yer; yesseh; yesterday; yonder; yoost; young; young man; zénobie cache: 29439.txt plain text: 29439.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 31383 author: Dabney, Thomas Ewing title: The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce date: None words: 19864 flesch: 67 summary: This is the Canal that was finally built--nearly 70 per cent larger than the one that was begun and about 100 per cent larger than the one originally planned, when the newspapers and forward-looking told the people that the lack of such a canal had cost New Orleans millions of dollars in development. [Illustration: WILLIAM O. HUDSON President, Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans] FOREWORD. keywords: act; association; average; bank; barrels; basin; bay; belt; board; bond; bridge; building; business; canal; capacity; cars; cent; channel; city; coal; commerce; commercial; committee; company; concrete; conditions; construction; cost; cotton; country; cubic; cut; dam; day; days; deal; deep; department; depth; development; dock; dock board; doullut; drainage; dredges; dredging; end; engineer; engineering; enterprise; estimate; excavation; facilities; feasible; february; feet; floor; florida; following; foot; foundation; frontage; gates; general; george; government; great; ground; gulf; half; harbor; hecht; high; hour; hudson; illustration; industrial canal; interest; issue; june; labor; lake; land; large; largest; levee; levee board; lines; lock; long; louisiana; lumber; machinery; maintenance; man; march; material; mayor; meeting; miles; mississippi; navigation; necessary; new orleans; new york; open; operation; original; panama; panama canal; people; piling; place; plan; plants; pontchartrain; port; possible; pounds; power; president; pressure; private; project; public; railroad; rate; river; route; said; sand; second; section; shipbuilding; ships; siphon; site; small; south; southern; square; states; steel; storage; stratum; supply; surface; system; thomas; thompson; thought; time; tons; total; trade; united; valley; walk; warehouses; water; waterway; way; wells; wharf; wharves; wide; williams; work; world; yards; year; york cache: 31383.txt plain text: 31383.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 32514 author: Quinn, Seabury title: Pledged to the Dead date: None words: 11473 flesch: 87 summary: Little Julie whom I'd held in my arms, whose mouth had lain on mine in eager kisses, was a corpse! This gay young lieutenant, he came, he wooed, he won, he rode away, and little Julie wept and sighed and finally died of heartbreak. keywords: aged; arm; arms; bite; blood; breath; canal; cemetery; city; close; course; crazy; cut; d'ayen; dark; dead; denis; dinner; doctor; door; experience; eyes; face; fair; fear; feet; flower; foot; forward; frenchman; friend; girl; gone; good; grandin; grass; graveyard; hair; half; hands; hard; head; heart; help; high; hotel; house; iron; julie; kiss; knees; left; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lord; love; lovely; mademoiselle; man; minton; moccasin; mon; monsieur; moonlight; morning; mouth; neck; ned; nella; new; non; old; ordered; orleans; place; poor; pour; promise; right; room; saint; second; set; shoulders; silver; small; smile; snake; soft; street; study; thing; thought; throat; time; tiny; tomb; tomorrow; voice; water; way; white; woman; words; young; édouard cache: 32514.txt plain text: 32514.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 32539 author: Pickett, Albert James title: Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847 date: None words: 10183 flesch: 66 summary: Never had the remark so often made to me before, been so entirely convincing, that New Orleans contained more handsome ladies and fine looking men than any city in the Union. And three hundred and thirty years ago these adventurers silently floated by the spot where New Orleans now stands! keywords: account; age; alabama; american; amusement; author; banks; beautiful; black; building; cabs; carrollton; century; chapter; character; charity; charles; children; city; commerce; country; crescent; current; day; days; deep; disease; dollars; door; dressed; elegant; expedition; extent; eye; far; father; feet; fine; france; french; gay; girls; good; government; governor; great; gulf; high; history; home; hour; house; immense; influence; interesting; jackson; kind; large; levee; little; long; looking; louisiana; man; market; men; middle; miles; mississippi; municipality; names; nation; native; nature; new; new orleans; night; noble; number; ocean; old; opposite; orleans; people; place; plain; population; present; produce; public; river; room; second; settlement; sisters; small; spain; spanish; splendid; states; stranger; streets; sweet; theatre; things; time; town; troops; united; vast; visitor; water; way; wealth; western; wide; wood; work; world; years cache: 32539.txt plain text: 32539.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 35133 author: Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) title: The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 date: None words: 72430 flesch: 60 summary: The French have commonly five boilers, distinguished by the fanciful names of _grande_--_propre_--_flambeau_--_sirop_, and _battérie_. Regarded as originators of benevolence, carried out into efficient operation, the Orleanese possess a moral beauty in their character as citizens and men, infinitely transcending that of many other cities ostensibly living under a higher code of morals. keywords: account; adjoining; african; afternoon; agreeable; air; altar; american; amusement; ancient; animal; appearance; approach; arms; arrival; assembly; astern; atlantic; atmosphere; attack; attention; author; avenue; bachelor; ball; bank; barracks; battle; bay; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bell; beneath; best; billows; bishop; black; blood; blue; board; boat; body; bosom; boston; bows; boxes; boys; breadth; breast; breeze; brick; brig; bright; brilliant; british; broken; building; burning; business; cabin; café; calm; canal; cane; cannon; cape; captain; cargo; carriages; cars; case; cathedral; catholic; celebrated; cemetery; centre; chain; chapel; character; chartres; children; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; clear; climate; close; clouds; college; coloured; columns; comfort; coming; command; common; company; confusion; construction; convent; cotton; country; course; court; cover; craft; creole; crowd; crowded; cry; cuba; curiosity; current; d'armes; dark; day; days; dead; dealer; death; deck; deep; delightful; dense; description; deserted; different; directions; display; disposed; distance; distant; distinguished; district; dollars; door; double; dozen; dry; dwellings; early; earth; edifice; education; effect; elegant; elevated; end; enemy; england; english; entrance; equal; evening; exception; exchange; excitement; expression; extended; extensive; extremity; eyes; faces; fair; familiar; family; fancy; far; farther; fashionable; features; feelings; feet; fellow; fermentation; field; fine; fire; fish; fixed; flat; floor; florida; flowers; foliage; foot; footnotes; force; foreign; forest; form; fortune; forward; france; free; french; friend; furnished; gallant; game; gay; general; gens; gentlemen; glare; glass; gloomy; good; government; governor; graceful; grave; gray; great; greater; green; ground; guard; gulf; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; head; heart; heavy; height; helmsman; high; higher; hills; hold; hole; home; horizon; horses; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; idea; immense; indigo; individual; inhabitants; innumerable; instant; intended; interesting; interior; island; january; kind; known; labour; ladies; lady; lake; land; language; large; late; latitude; law; league; leave; left; legislature; length; letter; level; levée; life; light; like; line; lips; little; lively; living; lofty; lonely; long; longer; looking; loud; louisiana; lower; luxury; magnificent; main; majority; making; man; manner; marble; market; mass; massive; means; meet; melancholy; members; men; merry; miles; military; mind; minutes; mississippi; mode; moment; money; monsieur; months; moon; morning; motion; mourners; moving; multitude; music; narrow; nations; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; negroes; new; noble; noise; noon; north; northern; novel; novelty; number; numerous; object; observation; ocean; officer; old; ones; open; opposite; orange; order; original; orleans; packenham; page; papers; parish; party; passage; passengers; passing; past; peculiar; people; persons; pieces; pilot; place; plain; plantation; planter; play; playing; pleasant; pleasure; point; pontchartrain; portion; portuguese; position; post; present; pretty; principal; private; procession; public; purpose; quarter; quiet; rail; rapid; reach; reading; ready; rear; red; regular; religious; representatives; residence; respectable; return; rich; ride; river; road; roman; romantic; room; rose; run; sabbath; sail; sailing; sailors; scene; scenery; school; sea; seamen; season; second; secured; seeing; servants; set; shade; sheet; ship; shore; shot; sides; signal; silence; silent; silver; similar; single; singular; sir; situated; situation; size; skipper; sky; slave; small; smoke; snow; society; soldiers; solemn; solitary; sounds; south; southern; spacious; spanish; spectators; spirit; splendid; spot; square; standing; stars; state; station; steamboats; steamers; steps; stone; stores; story; stranger; stream; street; striking; strong; stuccoed; style; subject; sufficient; sugar; summer; summit; sun; superior; supper; surface; table; tall; taste; term; termination; theatre; thing; thought; tier; time; tombs; total; tow; town; trees; troops; true; union; united; upward; ursuline; valuable; variety; vast; venerable; vessels; vicinity; view; village; visit; voice; voyage; walk; wall; war; warm; watch; water; waves; way; weather; west; western; whale; wheel; white; wild; wind; windows; winter; women; wooden; work; world; worthy; wounded; yankee; yards; years; york; young; | | cache: 35133.txt plain text: 35133.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 35156 author: Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) title: The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 date: None words: 79466 flesch: 60 summary: | | In 1830. keywords: ----+------+------+-------+------+-------+-------+-----+------+-----+----+----; able; absence; academy; acre; advanced; african; air; american; animal; appearance; area; arms; atlantic; attention; author; avenues; average; bales; banks; bar; bayous; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; bell; best; black; blanket; bluff; board; boats; body; bones; bottoms; box; boys; branch; branches; brick; bright; broken; brown; building; business; buy; capital; care; carriages; case; catharine; celebrated; cemetery; centre; certain; chain; change; character; characteristic; children; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; class; classes; clergyman; cliffs; climate; clinton; close; cluster; coat; college; colour; coloured; columns; combined; common; community; condition; correct; cotton; country; course; court; covered; crop; crowd; cultivated; cultivation; custom; daily; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; deer; degree; delightful; denomination; description; destitute; different; difficult; dignity; distance; distant; distinguished; district; dogs; dollars; domestic; door; dry; dwellings; early; earth; east; easy; edifice; education; effect; elegant; elevated; emancipation; eminence; end; england; english; equal; estates; evening; exception; existence; experience; extending; extensive; extent; extremity; eye; eyes; fact; fair; fall; families; family; far; farmer; farther; fashionable; features; feelings; feet; fellow; female; fences; field; fine; finest; flat; flourishing; flowers; foliage; following; footnotes; forests; form; fort; foundation; free; freedom; french; friends; funeral; galleries; gallery; garden; general; gentlemen; george; gibson; good; government; grass; grave; great; greater; green; ground; gulf; half; hall; hand; handsome; hat; head; heart; heavy; height; high; higher; hills; history; home; honour; horsemen; horses; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; humanity; hunting; idea; immense; important; impressions; inches; inclination; increase; indian; individual; influence; information; inhabitants; institution; intellect; intellectual; intelligent; interest; interesting; interior; jackson; judge; june; justice; kentucky; kind; knowledge; known; labour; ladies; lady; land; landing; language; large; late; law; lbs; leagues; leaves; left; length; letter; level; life; light; like; line; little; lives; living; location; lofty; long; looking; loud; louisiana; lower; luxuriant; magnificent; majestic; majority; man; manner; mansion; market; mart; master; means; members; men; mental; merchants; mere; methodist; middle; miles; military; mind; minutes; mississippi; mississippians; mode; moment; money; months; moral; morning; mound; naked; narrow; natchez; national; native; natural; nature; near; neat; necessary; necessity; negroes; neighbourhood; new; nigger; noble; north; northern; novel; number; numerous; oak; object; office; old; open; opening; opinion; opposite; order; original; orleans; overseer; paper; parallel; parents; pass; past; pearl; peculiar; people; perfect; period; person; physical; pine; place; plain; plantation; planters; planting; plants; pleasant; plough; point; poor; popular; population; portion; position; presbyterian; presence; present; president; press; pretty; principal; private; privileges; procession; produce; property; proportion; public; purchase; pure; purpose; quantity; quarters; quiet; race; rail; rain; rank; rapid; ready; receive; refinement; region; regular; relations; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; remarks; residence; result; rich; ride; ridges; riding; river; road; rolling; romantic; roof; room; rose; rude; runaway; sabbath; saddle; scale; scene; scenery; sea; season; seat; second; seed; servants; set; shade; short; sick; sides; silver; single; singular; size; skin; slavery; slaves; slender; small; snow; social; society; soft; soil; sons; sounds; south; southern; southerners; spanish; species; spirit; spot; spread; spring; square; stand; standing; state; step; stone; stores; stranger; stream; street; striking; strong; structure; style; subject; sufficient; summer; summit; sun; superior; surface; system; taking; taste; tendency; term; theory; thick; thickly; things; time; total; town; trader; traveller; tree; true; trunk; turn; undulating; union; united; unknown; usual; valley; value; variety; vast; verge; vicinity; vicksburg; view; village; virginia; walk; want; washington; water; way; wealth; weather; weeks; west; western; whip; white; wide; wife; wild; windows; winter; women; woods; woodville; work; world; worship; yankee; yard; years; york; young; | page; | | cache: 35156.txt plain text: 35156.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 38837 author: Norman, Benjamin Moore title: Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time date: None words: 44939 flesch: 64 summary: New Orleans to Carrolton, 6 | Red Church, 20 | 26 Bonne Carre Church, 16 | 42 Jefferson College, 22 | 64 Donaldsonsville, 19 | 83 Louisiana Institute, 12 | 95 St. Gabriel Church, 12 | 107 Plaquemine, 10 | 117 Baton Rouge, 23 | 140 Port Hudson, 25 | 165 Bayou Sara, 11 | 176 Tunica Bend, 27 | 203 Red River, cut off, 33 | 236 Fort Adams, Miss., 11 | 247 Homo Chitta River, Miss., 10 | 257 Ellise Cliffs, Miss., 26 | 283 Natchez, Miss., 18 | 301 Rodney, Miss., 31 | 332 Bruinsburg, Miss., 12 | 344 Grand Gulf, (big black) Miss., 10 | 354 Carthage, Miss., 25 | 379 Warrenton, Miss., 19 | 398 Vicksburg, Miss., 10 | 408 Old River, (Yazoo,) Miss., 12 | 420 Tompkins' Bend, 46 | 466 Providence, La., 15 | 481 Bunch Bend, 19 | 500 Princeton, Miss., 10 | 510 Columbia, Ark., 45 | 555 Bolivar, Miss., 53 | 608 Napoleon, (Arkansas,) 12 | 620 Victoria, 20 | 640 Delta, 66 | 706 Helena, 10 | 716 Sterling, 10 | 726 Peyton, Miss., 12 | 738 Commerce, 33 | 771 Buck Island, 6 | 777 Memphis, Tenn., 21 | 798 Devil's Race Ground, 34 | 832 Randolph, Tenn., 33 | 865 Fulton, Tenn., 11 | 876 Plumb Point, 10 | 886 Ashport, 12 | 898 Needham's Cut-off, 8 | 906 Walker's Bend, 31 | 937 Riddel's Point, 18 | 955 New Madrid, Mo., 10 | 965 Mills' Point, 42 | 1007 Columbus, K., 15 | 1022 Cairo, (Mo'th Ohio R'r.) Perryville, 42 | 1234 Carrollville, 27 | 1261 Coffee, 26 | 1287 Savannah, 9 | 1296 Waterloo, 25 | 1321 Bear Creek, 12 | 1333 Colbert's Ferry, Tenn., 14 | 1347 Florence, Al., 24 | 1371 GENERAL INDEX Academies for Females, 44 Algiers, a description of, 194 Alligators, killed for their skins, 42 American Theatre, erected in 1823, 67 description of, 180 Amusements, 176 Ancient Settlements supposed to have existed, 11 Anecdote of an old Frenchman, 68 early cotton growing, 47 Annunciation Square, 183 Church, 100 Armories, 149 Association, Young Men's Howard, 115 Associations for charitable and other purposes, 110 Asylums of New Orleans, their excellence, ib. Asylum, Catholic Male Orphan, 114 Female do, 110 Male do, 113 Milne do, 116 Poydras Female do, 113 Les dames de la Providence, 114 Attakapas Prairie, 38 Parish, 39 produces abundance of live oak, 33 Atchafalaya lands, 34 Bank of Louisiana, 155 Louisiana State, 153 Canal, 155 City, 154 Mechanics' and Traders', 153 Gas, 154 Banks' Arcade, 156 Bard, Captain, Return of, 16 Bar of New Orleans, 79 Barracks, the United States, 86 Baton Rouge taken, 24 Battle Ground, 196 Bayou St. John Road, 194 Beautiful land bordering the Teche, 33 Bellevue Prairie, 40 Benevolent Society, Hebrew, 116 Best lands, 31 Bienville, made governor, 17 is superseded in 1710, ib. keywords: accommodation; account; advantages; aid; american; ample; ancient; appearance; architecture; arkansas; arranged; article; association; asylum; attakapas; attention; average; bales; bank; basement; bayou; beautiful; beauty; benevolent; best; better; bienville; board; books; branch; brick; brief; british; building; business; caldwell; camp; canal; cane; capital; care; carondelet; cases; cathedral; ceiling; cemetery; centre; century; certain; chapel; character; charitable; charity; charles; children; church; circular; citizens; city; class; college; colony; columns; command; commerce; commercial; common; company; considerable; consumption; convent; corner; cost; cotton; country; course; court; cultivation; custom; dakin; day; days; death; deep; demand; description; devoted; direction; discovery; distance; dollars; dome; don; doric; edifice; education; effect; england; english; enterprise; entrance; episcopal; equal; esq; establishment; excellent; exchange; expense; extensive; extent; far; feet; fever; fine; finished; fire; florida; following; force; foreign; form; fort; foundation; france; french; fronts; furnished; gallery; gas; general; gentlemen; good; government; governor; grand; granite; gravier; great; ground; gulf; half; hall; health; heart; height; high; higher; history; home; hospital; hotel; house; illustration; immense; improvement; inches; incorporated; inhabitants; institution; interest; ionic; iron; island; james; john; july; kind; known; ladies; lafayette; lake; land; large; law; left; legislature; length; levee; life; like; limits; line; little; live; long; louisiana; lower; madder; magazine; magnificent; main; man; marble; market; mary; matter; means; measures; medical; members; merchants; mexico; miles; mississippi; mountains; mouth; municipality; natchez; nature; near; neat; necessary; new; new orleans; north; northern; nov; number; nuns; object; ocean; office; old; opelousas; open; operation; opposite; order; ordinary; original; orleans; orphan; parish; particular; parts; passage; people; period; persons; place; plain; planters; pleasant; point; pontchartrain; population; portico; portion; position; possession; poydras; prairies; present; press; price; principal; private; progress; property; public; quantity; rail; reader; rear; red; region; reservoir; rev; rich; right; river; road; room; route; royal; sabine; school; season; second; section; settlement; similar; site; size; small; society; soil; soto; spain; spanish; spot; square; states; steamboat; stories; story; stranger; stream; street; structure; style; subject; substantial; sufficient; sugar; suitable; superior; supply; surface; system; taste; territory; theatre; time; tobacco; trade; trees; tuscan; union; united; upper; ursuline; vast; vessels; vicinity; view; walls; war; washington; water; way; west; western; white; wide; work; world; years; yellow; york; young; | | cache: 38837.txt plain text: 38837.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 39229 author: Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry) title: The Mardi Gras Mystery date: None words: 58090 flesch: 87 summary: Do you know, Mr. Gramont, that oddly enough there were no pin holes in that paper? Gramont smiled faintly, as though he were inwardly amused over the remark. Mr. Gramont's, sir, answered the chauffeur. keywords: affair; afternoon; airplane; american; ansley; arm; arrest; attention; automatic; aviator; aware; bad; ball; bandit; bank; banker; barn; bayou; ben; better; big; bit; bob; boss; boxes; boys; broke; building; business; buy; cap'n; car; care; carnival; cars; case; certain; chacherre; chair; chance; chapter; chauffeur; chief; cigar; city; clear; clever; closed; cold; columbine; company; compartment; comus; costume; country; course; creole; criminal; crowd; danger; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deep; desk; dick; doctor; dollars; door; early; entire; evening; evidence; evident; excitement; eyes; face; fact; faint; far; father; features; feet; fell; fellow; figure; fine; finished; fire; floor; forester; forward; franciscan; free; french; friends; game; gang; gas; gaze; gentlemen; gesture; girl; glad; glanced; good; goog; governor; gramont; gras; gray; great; guess; gumberts; guy; half; hammond; hand; hard; head; hearne; heavy; hell; help; henry; henry gramont; high; hold; home; houma; house; important; influence; inside; instant; interest; izzy; jachin; jewels; job; joke; joseph; judge; kind; knife; krewe; land; large; later; law; ledanois; left; let; life; like; lips; little; long; look; loot; lost; lottery; lucie; maillard; man; manner; mardi; masquer; matter; means; meeting; memphis; men; midnight; mind; minute; miss; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; murder; mystery; near; need; new; night; nodded; note; number; office; oil; old; open; order; organization; orleans; outside; pale; paper; paradis; party; paused; people; pistol; place; pocket; point; police; poor; power; present; pretty; prince; private; property; quiet; read; real; reason; regarded; response; rich; road; room; safe; save; seepage; sense; sergeant; set; sheriff; shot; shoulders; silence; sir; slight; small; smile; sort; sound; standing; startled; state; stock; story; stranger; street; stuff; sudden; sure; surprise; suspicion; table; talk; terrebonne; thank; thing; thought; time; tone; town; trace; true; trust; truth; turn; uncle; voice; wait; way; week; wide; words; work; world; years; young cache: 39229.txt plain text: 39229.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 46958 author: Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. title: Little Nobody date: None words: 64241 flesch: 87 summary: Turning away with Sylvie, they heard her say, in clear, full tones: Ah, Madame Van Zandt, what an aristocratic-looking young beauty is Mrs. Eliot Van Zandt! I do say, Una Van Zandt, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. keywords: -the; actress; afraid; aid; angry; answer; arms; attention; banker; beautiful; beauty; bed; bell; beneath; berger; best; better; big; black; blood; body; bon; book; boston; box; braeme; breast; breath; bride; bright; brother; bryant; burst; calm; came; care; carmontelle; caroline; carriage; cause; chamber; chapter; chesterton; child; city; clear; close; club; cold; coming; convent; cool; course; cruel; cry; curiosity; daisy; dark; darkness; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; despair; dieu; dim; dismay; door; doubt; drawing; dress; dresses; dressing; drug; eager; edith; eliot; eliot van; esplanade; evening; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; family; fancy; far; fashion; fast; fatal; fate; father; fear; feet; fingers; flashed; floor; flowers; forced; form; french; friend; frightened; garden; gate; gentle; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; golden; good; grave; gray; great; grim; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hayes; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hidden; hold; holy; home; hope; hot; hour; house; husband; ida; ignorant; ill; innocent; jealous; jean; jockey; journalist; joy; kind; kiss; knowledge; lamp; large; lark; late; laugh; laura; law; lawyer; lay; leave; libbey; library; life; like; lips; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lorraine; lost; love; lovely; ma'amselle; madame; madame lorraine; marie; markham; married; match; matter; maud; mima; mind; minutes; miss; mistress; mme; moment; money; monsieur; moonlight; morning; mother; mrs; muttered; mysterious; mystery; narrow; near; need; new; news; night; noble; nuns; nurse; old; open; orleans; outside; page; pale; paper; party; passionate; past; patient; paused; pay; pierre; pity; place; poor; power; presence; pretty; priest; prison; promised; quentin; quick; quiet; ready; remond; rest; return; rich; room; rose; sake; satin; savage; scene; school; scorn; seat; secret; seeing; servant; shame; shut; sick; sigh; silence; silent; silk; simple; sisters; slave; sleep; slight; slip; small; smile; sofa; soft; song; sorry; soul; splendid; stage; story; strange; street; strong; sudden; superior; sure; surprise; sweet; sylvie; table; tall; tender; terrible; terror; thank; theater; thing; thinking; thought; time; tone; trembling; trouble; true; truth; una; unconscious; van; van zandt; veins; visit; voice; warm; water; way; weak; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; wilson; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wounded; yankee; years; young; zandt cache: 46958.txt plain text: 46958.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 688 author: Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore title: The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories date: None words: 26662 flesch: 83 summary: Some of the children grew up and moved away, and other little girls came to buy candy and eat pink lagniappe fishes, and the shop still thrived. Little girls just learning to crochet borrowed their patterns from Tony's wife, and it was considered quite a mark of advancement to have her inspect a bit of lace done by eager, chubby fingers. keywords: air; altar; annette; aunt; bad; baptiste; bayou; beach; beautiful; beauty; bell; better; big; bit; black; blue; boat; bosom; box; boys; bravo; breeze; bright; brown; camille; candy; carnival; cat; chere; chicago; children; christian; christmas; cigar; city; claralie; cold; colomes; convent; cool; corner; cotton; courcey; creole; crowd; dainty; dance; dark; dat; day; days; dear; den; dere; dey; dieu; door; dose; dull; early; evening; eyed; eyes; face; faint; far; father; feet; figure; final; fine; fingers; fire; fisherman; foot; fortier; french; friends; fruit; gal; garcia; gate; girls; glance; gold; good; grandpere; gras; gray; great; gulf; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; heavy; high; home; hour; house; hued; humph; instant; john; josepha; juanita; lak; lake; late; levee; life; like; lil; little; live; long; look; looking; louisette; love; m'sieu; ma'am; madame; mademoiselle; mais; maman; mandeville; manuela; march; mardi; mass; mek; men; mercer; minesse; miss; mon; money; monsieur; moon; morning; mother; mouth; mouton; mrs; murphy; music; natalie; new; night; nina; non; odalie; old; open; opera; organ; orleans; pale; papa; pass; people; petite; philip; pier; pine; pink; place; point; poor; pralines; pretty; quaint; railroad; rain; red; rest; ring; robed; rocque; room; rose; royal; sands; school; shop; shoulders; silent; sister; sky; slender; small; smile; sob; soft; song; sophie; sound; spanish; storm; strange; street; summer; sun; sylves; table; tak; tante; tell; tenderly; theophile; thin; thought; throng; time; tiny; tired; titee; tony; town; track; true; usual; violin; virgin; voice; walk; warm; water; waves; way; week; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wish; wizened; woman; wonderful; work; world; yaas; years; yellow; young cache: 688.txt plain text: 688.txt