item: #1 of 24 id: 12249 author: Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) title: Bart Ridgeley: A Story of Northern Ohio date: None words: 98454 flesch: 81 summary: Young ladies, for aught I know, occasionally talk up young men among themselves, and if they do it is nobody's business. And yet Brutus has been quoted and held up by poets and orators as a sublime example of virtue and patriotism, young man! keywords: absence; accomplished; account; acquaintance; act; advocate; afternoon; air; american; answer; anxious; apparent; april; argument; arms; arthur; atmosphere; attention; awful; bad; ball; bart; bart ridgeley; barton; basil; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; better; bingham; bit; blackstone; blessed; blood; blue; body; books; bosom; boys; brace; bright; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; business; cabin; calm; camp; capacity; care; carriage; case; certain; change; chapter; character; chardon; child; children; clear; close; cloud; coe; cold; cole; color; coming; common; confession; connection; constitution; continued; cool; country; courage; course; court; creek; cross; crowd; cry; dance; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; decided; deep; defendant; dislike; distance; doctor; door; doubt; dream; dry; early; earth; east; easy; edward; effect; effort; elegant; elements; english; escape; estimate; evening; events; evidence; examination; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; fallen; family; fancy; far; father; fault; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fields; filled; final; fine; fire; flowers; following; force; ford; forest; form; forth; forward; frank; fresh; friends; future; gate; gay; general; generous; genius; gentleman; george; giddings; girl; glad; god; going; good; grand; grateful; gratitude; grave; great; greer; ground; group; hair; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; head; healthy; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; hidden; high; hill; hitchcock; hold; home; hope; horses; hour; house; human; husband; ida; idea; inclined; injustice; inspiration; instance; intellect; intense; interest; jefferson; john; jonah; josh; joy; joyous; judge; judgment; julia; jury; justice; kate; kennedy; kind; kindness; known; ladies; lady; land; large; late; latin; laughing; law; lawyer; leave; left; letters; life; like; line; lips; little; long; look; lost; love; maiden; major; mamma; man; manly; manner; marked; markham; matter; mean; melancholy; memory; men; mental; mere; miles; mind; miss; moment; months; morning; morris; mother; mrs; music; myers; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neighborhood; nell; new; newbury; night; note; notions; object; observed; occasion; office; ohio; old; older; open; opening; opportunity; ordinary; outside; overcome; painesville; pale; papa; paper; parker; parties; party; past; path; people; permit; place; plaintiff; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poetry; point; pond; poor; popular; position; possession; possible; post; power; presence; present; prince; proud; pure; purpose; qualities; question; quick; quiet; ranney; ransom; rapid; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; regard; region; relief; remains; remembered; reply; reserve; rest; result; return; rich; ridgeley; river; road; roberts; rocks; room; rose; rough; rude; rule; run; sad; said; sarcasm; sartliff; save; saw; school; scorn; second; self; sense; set; shadow; sharp; shelter; silence; silent; simple; single; sky; sleep; small; snow; soft; sort; soul; sound; speech; spirit; splendid; spring; stand; start; state; step; story; strange; stream; strength; strong; study; style; subject; subsided; sudden; sugar; suit; summer; sun; supposed; sure; surprise; sweet; table; taking; talk; tender; tenderness; terms; thanks; theodore; thick; things; thorndyke; thought; thoughtful; time; title; trees; trial; true; uncle; understood; unknown; useful; usual; voice; wade; walk; walters; waltz; want; warm; water; way; weak; weary; week; west; wife; wilder; wind; winter; wish; witnesses; woman; wonder; wonderful; woods; word; work; write; wrong; years; young; young man; younger; youth cache: 12249.txt plain text: 12249.txt item: #2 of 24 id: 13217 author: United States. Work Projects Administration title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives date: None words: 37738 flesch: 93 summary: De highest bidder bought de slaves. Der wuz trouble if de slaves were out late at night or if dey run off to another man. keywords: 'bout; 'em; abraham; acres; aftah; age; allus; angeline; baby; bad; baptist; bed; beds; berries; best; better; bible; big; bishop; black; blue; boat; booker; boy; boys; bread; brothers; brown; cabin; campbell; canton; care; charles; children; chillun; christmas; church; civil; clean; close; clothes; colored; comin; common; cook; cookin; corn; cotton; county; course; cows; cum; cut; daddy; dark; dat; dat wuz; daughter; davis; day; days; de house; de master; de mrs; de plantation; de time; de war; de white; dead; deh; dem; den; der; dere; dey; didn; district; doan; doctor; dollars; don; dun; education; eyes; family; farm; father; federal; fields; fine; fire; fish; foh; folklore; folks; food; fore; frances; free; freedom; garden; general; george; girl; git; gits; god; goin'; good; grandmother; great; hab; hand; hard; head; heah; help; henry; high; hog; home; horses; hot; house; hunt; hurt; husband; i'se; interview; jamison; jefferson; jes; john; julia; july; jus; kentucky; kids; kind; king; know; lak; land; late; lebanon; life; like; lincoln; little; live; living; log; long; lots; louieville; mah; mammy; man; mann; married; marse; mary; massa; mastah; master; matheus; mean; meat; melissa; member; men; methodist; mill; mind; miss; mistress; money; month; morning; mother; mrs; nancy; natchez; near; neber; negro; nevah; new; nice; no'em; north; nothin'; ohio; ol'; old; oldest; ones; ouah; ovah; overseer; owners; pappy; pay; pension; people; perry; phoebe; picture; piece; place; plantashun; plantation; play; plenty; poor; preacher; pretty; project; ready; religion; religious; reporter; right; river; room; round; run; samuel; sarah; saturday; school; sell; shirt; sho; shoes; shure; sick; sing; sister; slavery; slaves; slaves wuz; sleep; small; smith; soldiers; son; south; steubenville; stories; story; straw; street; sum; sunday; surrender; susie; tall; tell; terrible; things; thought; til; time; today; tole; tom; topic; town; tree; tuk; uncle; virginia; virginny; vote; wah; want; war; washington; water; way; west; whip; white; white folks; wid; wife; williams; winter; woman; wood; work; wpa; writers; wuk; wurk; wuz; wuz de; yankee; years; yes'em; young cache: 13217.txt plain text: 13217.txt item: #3 of 24 id: 13482 author: Bobbitt, John Franklin title: What the Schools Teach and Might Teach date: None words: 20497 flesch: 63 summary: 4.--TIME GIVEN TO SPELLING ======================================================== | Hours per year | Per cent of grade time |-----------------------|------------------------ Grade | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities -------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 47 | 54 | 6.5 | 6.3 2 | 63 | 66 | 7.2 | 7.3 3 | 79 | 73 | 9.0 | 8.0 4 | 63 | 67 | 7.1 | 6.9 5 | 51 | 61 | 5.7 | 6.3 6 | 47 | 58 | 5.4 | 5.9 7 | 47 | 52 | 5.4 | 5.3 8 | 47 | 51 | 5.4 | 5.1 ======================================================== Total | 444 | 482 | 6.5 | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities -------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 47 | 50 | 6.5 | 6.7 2 | 63 | 60 | 7.2 | 6.7 3 | 63 | 52 | 7.2 | 5.7 4 | 63 | 53 | 7.2 | 5.5 5 | 67 | 50 | 6.4 | 5.1 6 | 47 | 47 | 5.4 | 4.8 7 | 47 | 39 | 5.4 | 3.9 8 | 32 | 37 | 3.6 | 3.7 ======================================================== Total | 419 | 388 | 6.1 | 5.1 -------------------------------------------------------- The curriculum of handwriting resolves itself mainly into questions of method, and of standards to be achieved in each of the grades. keywords: + =; -----------+-----------+-----------+----------- |; = +; = =; activities; actual; adult; applied; arithmetic =; art; average; best; books; cent; certain; character; children; cities; city; civic; classes; commerce; community; complete; complicated; composition; conditions; connection; constructive; content; course; developed; development; different; difficult; drawing; drill; education; eighth; elementary; elementary schools; experience; expression; form; fundamental; general; geography =; german; good; grades; grammar =; great; handwriting =; high; high schools; history =; household; human; hygiene =; ideas; important; industrial; knowledge; labor; language; large; life; like; literature =; little; manual; materials; mathematics; matters; modern; music =; nature; necessary; need; new; normal; number; oral; people; physical; physiology; place; plan; play; point; possible; practical; practice; preliminary; present; problems; program; public; pupils; purpose; rapid; reading; report; schools; science; seventh; social; spelling =; students; studies; study; subject; supplementary; survey; systematic; table; teachers; teaching; technical; things; thought; time; topics; total |; training =; understanding; use; value; view; vocational; way; ways; week; words; work; world; year; | =; | cleveland; | hours; |---------------------------------------------- | cache: 13482.txt plain text: 13482.txt item: #4 of 24 id: 16869 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Oonomoo the Huron date: None words: 40285 flesch: 80 summary: Never, to his dying day, did Lieutenant Canfield forget the rebuke of that Huron Indian. From these rather disconnected expressions, Hans Vanderbum understood that a war-party of Shawnees had brought in a prisoner who was a friend of the Huron's. keywords: air; appearance; arm; attention; bad; bank; bark; better; big; black; boat; body; boy; boys; bushes; canfield; canoe; captain; captive; care; case; cato; chapter; child; clear; clearing; close; considerable; conversation; countenance; danger; dar; dark; dat; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deep; dem; den; dere; dey; direction; distance; dutchman; edge; enemies; escape; expression; eyes; face; family; father; fear; feet; fire; fish; fishing; fluellina; forest; form; friend; gal; girl; git; glad; glimpse; god; golly; good; great; ground; hair; half; hand; hans; hans vanderbum; head; heart; hebens; heigon; home; hope; hour; house; human; huron; hurt; husband; illustration; indian; injines; keewaygooshturkumkankangewock; kind; know; land; large; lay; leave; left; lieutenant; lieutenant canfield; life; like; line; little; live; lodge; long; look; love; low; madokawandock; man; manner; mary; massa; matter; meaning; means; miami; miles; minutes; miss; missionary; moment; moon; morning; mose; mother; movements; nature; near; negro; night; niniotan; noise; number; object; oonomoo; paddle; party; peculiar; person; pipe; place; point; poor; portion; position; possible; prescott; prisoner; purpose; quanonshet; ready; red; return; rifle; river; rock; run; safety; savage; scalp; second; see'd; settlement; shape; shawnees; shore; shot; sky; sleep; small; soldier; son; sound; spirit; spot; squaw; stream; sun; sure; surface; swamp; t'ink; tell; think; thought; time; tongue; trail; tree; true; usual; uttered; vanderbum; village; visit; voice; vot; wake; walk; walking; war; warrior; water; way; white; wife; wigwam; woods; word; work; yah; yards; yaw; years; yeh; young cache: 16869.txt plain text: 16869.txt item: #5 of 24 id: 16964 author: Lutz, R. R. (Rufus Rolla) title: Wage Earning and Education date: None words: 44566 flesch: 56 summary: | | Women | keywords: ----------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+ |; ability; academic; administrative; administrative work; advancement; ages; american; apprentices; apprenticeship; attendance; average; basis; best; better; bookkeeping; boys; building; building trades; bureau; business; carpenters; case; census; cent; certain; chapter; children; city; classes; clerical work; clerks; cleveland; cleveland school; clothing; commercial; commercial work; compulsory; conditions; considerable; continuation; country; course; daily; data; day; day school; department; diagram; different; distribution; drawing; dressmaking; earners; earning; education; eighth; elementary; elementary school; employees; employment; enrollment; equipment; establishments; evening; experience; extension; extension training; fact; factories; factory; field; fifth; force; foreign; foremen; form; fourth; future; garment; general; general industrial; girls; good; grades; greater; group; half; hand; helpers; high school; higher; hours; important; industrial; industrial course; industrial education; industrial occupations; industrial trades; industrial training; industrial workers; industry; instruction; job; junior; junior high; kind; knowledge; labor; large; large number; largest; leave; length; life; likely; limited; little; long; machine; machine work; machinists; main; majority; makers; making; male; manual; manual training; manufacturing; materials; mathematics; men; metal; methods; millinery; months; native; necessary; need; new; night; night schools; number; occupations; office; old; operating; operation; operators |; opportunities; opportunity; organization; pattern; people; period; personal; persons; place; plan; population; positions; possible; practical; practice; preparation; preparatory; present; previous; principal; printing; problem; proportion; public schools; pupils; purpose; railroad; reason; regular; report; result; retail; school course; school education; school period; school pupils; school system; school training; school work; school year; schools; science; second; section; service; seventh; sewing; sewing trades; shop; shop work; shows; similar; skilled; skilled trades; small; special; specialized; staff; states; stores; students; study; subjects; success; survey; table; teachers; teaching; technical; technical high; term; time; tool; total number; total |; trade; trade course; trade school; trade training; trade work; training; transportation; type; union; use; value; vocational; vocational school; vocational training; wage; way; week; women; women workers; work; workers; working; workmen; year trade; years; young; | ----------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+; | examiners; | screw; | west; | | cache: 16964.txt plain text: 16964.txt item: #6 of 24 id: 17449 author: None title: Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 date: None words: 35859 flesch: 50 summary: The owner, lessee or agent of a mine worked by a shaft or slope, shall put in charge of an engine used for lowering into or hoisting out of such mine persons employed therein, only experienced, competent and sober engineers. The persons entitled to examine maps, plans, records and papers of a mine, shall be the owner, lessee or agent of such mine; the persons financially interested in such mine; the owner, or owners, of land adjoining such mine; the owner, or owners, of land adjacent to such mine; the owner, lessee or agent of a mine adjacent to such mine; and the authorized representatives of the employes of such mine. keywords: accident; act; action; addition; agent; air; application; approval; authorized; board; boss; cable; cage; cars; case; certificate; chapter; charge; chief; chief inspector; child; coal; code; commission; competent; condition; connected; corporation; county; court; current; damp; danger; days; department; deputy; director; discretion; district; district inspector; division; dollars; duties; duty; effect; egress; electric; employes; employment; entry; evidence; examination; exercise; explosives; face; feet; fire; firm; following; foreman; gas; general; governor; haulage; hoisting; illuminating; inches; industrial; inspector; lamp; land; law; laws; lessee; limited; locomotive; machinery; making; manner; map; material; means; mines; mining; necessary; new; notice; number; o.l; offense; office; ohio; oil; opening; operating; order; owner; paper; penalty; period; permit; persons; place; point; positive; power; proper; property; protection; provisions; public; purposes; record; relations; report; rescue; return; right; roof; room; safety; said; school; schooling; sec; second; section; service; shaft; signal; stable; state; subject; subsequent; sufficient; superintendent; surface; survey; test; time; township; track; trip; trolley; use; ventilation; way; ways; wells; wires; working; writing; years cache: 17449.txt plain text: 17449.txt item: #7 of 24 id: 17969 author: Smyth, William J. title: Mound-Builders date: None words: 5950 flesch: 66 summary: In the Scioto valley, where there are many very interesting remains of the Mound-builders, there are many burial mounds which have lately been opened. So it was in the days of the Mound-builders; for we find in some places groups of burial mounds, and in other places only a few may be found scattered over the plain. keywords: acres; altar; ancient; antiquity; area; base; builders; burial; city; civilized; county; creek; days; dead; decayed; distance; early; earth; east; elevation; enclosures; evidences; existence; feet; fire; forests; fortification; great; height; high; implements; indian; large; length; long; miles; modern; mound; near; north; numerous; ohio; old; openings; ornaments; people; place; race; remains; river; sacred; serpent; signal; skeletons; south; square; state; stone; strange; time; trees; tribes; vault; walls; wonderful; works; years cache: 17969.txt plain text: 17969.txt item: #8 of 24 id: 19701 author: Ayres, May title: Health Work in the Public Schools date: None words: 10345 flesch: 59 summary: Its object is to better health conditions among school children, safeguard them from disease, and render them healthier, happier, and more vigorous. Here, as elsewhere, this sudden recognition of the imperative necessity for safeguarding the physical welfare of school children grew out of the discovery that compulsory education under modern city conditions meant compulsory disease. keywords: activities; association; ayres; better; board; building; business; capacity; care; cases; charge; children; cities; city; classes; cleveland; cleveland school; clinics; committee; conditions; contagious; day; defective; defects; dental; department; development; different; director; disease; dispensaries; division; doctors; education; effective; efficiency; effort; equipment; examinations; eye; foundation; future; good; health; health work; home; hygiene; illustration; important; inspection; instruction; large; marion; matter; medical; medical inspection; nature; number; nurses; order; organization; parents; people; physical; physical defects; physician; plan; present; private; provision; public; public schools; pupils; regular; report; responsible; result; right; school; school children; school dispensaries; school nurse; school system; school work; school year; service; smallpox; special; staff; state; superintendent; survey; system; talks; teachers; teeth; time; tonsils; vaccination; visits; work; year cache: 19701.txt plain text: 19701.txt item: #9 of 24 id: 20460 author: Beatty, John title: The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer date: None words: 96714 flesch: 77 summary: In fact, the presence of large numbers of these desperados, in this locality, at all seasons of the year, has prevented its settlement by good men, and, in consequence, there are thousands of acres on which there has scarcely been a field cleared, or even a tree cut. Many men, half asleep, rushed from their tents and fired off their guns in their company grounds. keywords: action; adjutant; advance; affair; afternoon; air; alabama; ammen; appearance; armies; arms; army; artillery; attack; attention; bad; ball; band; battery; battle; beatty; beautiful; best; better; big; black; blue; board; body; boys; bragg; brave; bread; bridge; bridgeport; brigade; brigadier; broken; brother; buckner; buell; burnside; business; calling; camp; captain; capture; case; cavalry; certain; charge; chattanooga; cheat; chickamauga; children; citizens; city; clear; close; cold; colonel; colored; column; command; commander; commanding; common; companies; company; condition; confederate; confidence; conversation; coon; corn; corporal; corps; cotton; country; courage; course; court; creek; crest; crittenden; cross; cumberland; cut; danger; dark; darkness; davis; day; days; dead; death; defeat; department; desire; detachment; determined; dey; dinner; direction; distance; division; dog; dollars; door; double; doubtless; dozen; drill; duty; early; earth; east; effect; effort; eighth; enemy; engaged; engagement; escape; evening; excellent; excitement; exhausted; expedition; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; family; farm; fast; father; fear; fearful; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; field; fifteenth; fighting; finding; fine; fire; firing; flag; following; food; foot; force; forest; fortifications; fourth; friends; garfield; general; general mitchell; general negley; general rosecrans; general rousseau; gentlemen; getting; glad; glass; god; good; grand; great; greater; green; ground; guard; guns; half; halt; hands; handsome; hard; harker; head; health; heart; heavy; held; help; high; higher; hill; hobart; hold; home; honor; hope; horses; hospital; hour; house; hungry; huntsville; idea; illinois; immense; important; impossible; incidents; indiana; infantry; information; informed; instant; interest; interesting; john; judge; keifer; kentucky; kind; know; lady; language; large; late; law; lead; leave; left; legs; letters; lieutenant; life; like; likely; line; little; lives; logs; long; longer; look; lookout; loomis; lord; loss; lost; louisville; love; main; major; man; manner; march; martial; matter; mcclellan; mccook; mein; melody; members; men; middle; midnight; miles; military; minutes; mission; mitchell; moment; money; months; moon; morgan; morning; morrow; mother; mountain; movement; mrs; murfreesboro; music; musketry; nashville; near; necessary; need; negley; negroes; new; nigger; night; nightfall; noise; north; northern; notice; number; o'clock; officers; ohio; old; open; opinion; opposite; order; outside; page; papers; parson; party; pass; past; path; pay; people; picket; pieces; place; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; point; policy; poor; portion; position; possession; power; presence; present; pretty; prisoners; private; probable; promotion; property; provisions; purpose; pursuit; quarters; quiet; race; railroad; rank; reach; ready; rear; reason; rebels; regard; regiment; report; retired; return; reynolds; rich; richmond; ride; riding; river; road; rods; roll; room; rosecrans; rough; rousseau; run; running; sah; said; saw; scene; school; secessionists; second; sense; sentinel; sergeant; service; set; sharp; shot; sick; singing; sir; skirmish; sky; sleep; small; smith; soldiers; song; sort; sound; south; southern; spirits; springs; staff; stand; standing; stanley; state; stone; stories; story; stream; street; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; summit; sun; sunday; supper; supplies; support; sure; surprised; table; talk; taylor; tea; tennessee; tent; terrible; thick; thing; thomas; thought; thunder; time; town; train; trees; troops; trouble; true; trust; tunnel; turchin; undt; union; usual; valley; vicinity; victory; virginia; voice; wagner; wagon; want; war; washington; water; way; weary; weather; week; west; whisky; white; wife; wilder; wilson; wind; wine; wisconsin; women; woods; word; work; wounded; years; yer; yesterday; young cache: 20460.txt plain text: 20460.txt item: #10 of 24 id: 23768 author: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield title: The Squirrel-Cage date: None words: 127145 flesch: 82 summary: He had run on volubly, to give Lydia time to recover herself, his keen blue eyes fixing her, and now, as she wavered into something like a smile at his chatter, he shot a question at her with a complete change of manner: But what's the matter with _you_? After a moment she sighed out, Poor little Lydia! What's the matter with Lydia? asked someone behind her. keywords: accent; admiration; affection; afraid; afternoon; american; amused; amusement; angry; answer; anxious; appeal; appearance; arbor; ariadne; arms; assured; attempt; attention; attitude; aunt; aware; awful; baby; bad; beard; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; bellevue; best; better; big; bit; bitterness; black; blame; blue; book; box; boy; break; breakfast; breath; bringing; broke; brother; burgess; burst; business; busy; capacity; car; card; care; case; certainty; chance; chapter; cheeks; child; children; circle; clear; clock; close; clothes; club; cold; color; colored; come; coming; comment; common; company; competent; complete; conductor; confident; confusion; conscious; conversation; cook; corner; cost; country; courage; course; crazy; cry; curtains; cut; dark; darling; daughter; dawn; day; days; deal; dear; dear lydia; dearest; death; decided; deep; desire; details; devoted; different; dining; dinner; disconcerting; discussion; dishes; doctor; domestic; door; doubt; dramatic; drawing; dream; dress; dry; dust; eager; earlier; early; easier; easy; effect; effort; ellen; emery; emotion; emphasis; endbury; energy; engaged; english; europe; evening; events; excited; excitement; exclamation; experience; expression; extreme; eyed; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; familiar; families; family; far; father; fatigue; fear; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fingers; finish; fire; firm; fixed; floor; flora; flowers; flushed; folks; fond; food; fool; foolish; force; form; free; fresh; friend; frightened; funny; furniture; future; gaze; general; gentle; gesture; girl; glad; glanced; glass; godfather; gold; good; goodness; gracious; grasp; grave; gray; great; ground; grown; guess; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; high; holding; hollister; home; honest; hope; horrible; horrid; horrified; hot; hour; house; human; humorous; hurried; hurry; hurt; husband; idea; immense; impatience; important; impulse; incident; inside; instant; intensity; interest; interesting; intimate; job; joke; joy; judge; judge emery; julia; keeping; kind; kindly; kiss; kitchen; knees; knowledge; ladies; lady; large; later; laugh; laughing; law; lawyer; lay; leave; lecturer; left; life; like; line; lips; little; little girl; little lydia; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lot; lots; loud; love; lovely; low; lowder; lydia; madame; madeleine; maid; main; making; man; manner; marietta; marius; marriage; married; mary; matron; matter; mean; meaning; melton; mental; middle; midst; mind; minute; miss; miss lydia; mistress; modern; moment; money; months; mood; morgan; morning; mortimer; mother; motorman; mouth; moving; mrs; music; muvver; natural; nature; near; neck; need; nerves; nervous; new; news; nice; note; notions; nurse; occasion; odd; office; old; older; open; ordinary; outside; pale; paper; parents; parlor; parties; party; passion; past; path; patient; patsy; paul; pause; pay; people; perfect; period; person; personal; phrase; physical; picture; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; position; possible; post; practice; presence; present; pretty; pride; problems; profession; protested; proud; public; putting; quality; queer; question; quick; quiet; rain; rankin; rapid; ready; real; reason; regular; relief; relieved; remark; resentment; rest; return; rich; right; road; room; rose; rosy; rough; running; rush; sake; sandworth; satisfaction; satisfied; saying; scene; school; second; self; sense; servants; set; share; shocked; short; shoulder; shut; sick; significance; silence; silent; simple; single; sister; sitting; situation; sleep; slim; slow; small; smile; smiling; smooth; social; society; soft; sorry; soul; sound; speech; spirit; spite; spoke; sprang; stairs; stand; standing; stared; startled; stashie; state; statement; stay; steady; step; stirred; stop; story; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; sudden; suffering; summer; sun; sure; surprise; sweet; table; talk; talking; tall; telephone; tenderness; thank; things; thinking; thought; throat; time; tired; to--; tone; touch; town; tragedy; tragic; trembling; trolley; trouble; true; trust; trying; turn; turning; uncle; unconsciousness; understanding; uneasy; unexpected; unusual; usual; vague; veranda; vision; visit; voice; waiting; walk; wall; walter; want; warm; way; ways; weather; wedding; week; white; wide; wife; wild; willing; window; winter; wish; women; wonder; wood; words; work; working; world; worse; wrong; years; york; young; younger cache: 23768.txt plain text: 23768.txt item: #11 of 24 id: 27231 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: The Riflemen of the Miami date: None words: 42192 flesch: 81 summary: Where the deuce has Lew gone to? demanded O'Hara, after several times looking around him. Two were brothers, George and Lewis Dernor, while the third answered to the _sobriquet_ of Dick--his real name being Richard Allmat. keywords: afore; agin; air; appearance; attack; attempt; attention; aware; bank; bent; best; better; body; boys; bullet; canoe; care; cause; certain; chapter; clearing; come; companion; considerable; continued; conversation; course; creek; cross; danger; dark; day; death; deep; dernor; dick; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; dozen; edge; edith; enemies; expression; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; fire; following; fool; forest; fort; friends; gal; gaze; girl; good; great; ground; gun; half; hand; harry; head; heart; home; hope; hour; hunter; huron; indians; injin; jim; journey; know; large; laughlin; leader; left; lewis; life; lightning; like; little; logs; long; longer; look; love; man; manner; matter; meaning; means; miami; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; near; necessary; need; night; notice; number; o'hara; object; ohio; old; oonamoo; opposite; oxen; party; perfect; person; place; point; position; present; pursuers; question; quick; raft; ravine; reach; ready; reason; red; report; riflemen; rifles; river; run; safety; savages; scouts; second; sego; settlement; settlers; shawnees; shore; shot; skill; small; smith; sort; speed; spot; steps; storm; stream; sudbury; sure; tell; thing; thought; thunder; time; tom; track; trail; tree; trouble; vicinity; view; voice; wagon; wait; walk; want; water; way; white; wish; woods; yards; young; zeke cache: 27231.txt plain text: 27231.txt item: #12 of 24 id: 27701 author: New York Central Railroad Company title: The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. date: None words: 52126 flesch: 67 summary: Some of the most salient facts about the Great Lakes are given in the following table: The Great Lakes Superior Michigan Huron Erie Ontario Greatest Length (M.) 360 307 206 241 193 Greatest Breadth (M.) 160 118 101 57 53 Deepest Soundings (Ft.) 1,012 870 750 210 738 Area (Sq. M.) 32,060 22,336 22,978 9,968 7,243 Above sea level (Ft.) 602 581 581 572 246 U.S. shore line (M.) 735 1,200 470 350 230 The population of the states and provinces bordering on the Great Lakes is estimated to be 50,000,000 or more. Across the river is visible the mouth of Poplopen creek, on the north side, Ft. Clinton. keywords: academy; acres; administration; affairs; agricultural; albany; american; amsterdam; andré; annual; anthony; anti; area; arms; army; arnold; astor; aug; ave; bank; battle; bay; beautiful; beauty; beginning; best; boat; book; boston; brant; brick; bridge; britannica; british; buffalo; building; buren; business; canada; canadian; canajoharie; canal; candidate; capacity; capt; career; cars; castle; catskill; cause; center; central; centre; century; certain; champlain; chicago; chief; children; church; cities; city; civil; clear; cleveland; clinton; close; clothing; co.; coal; college; colonial; colonies; commercial; commission; common; community; company; congress; conn; considerable; constitution; continental; convention; copper; corlear; corporation; cost; council; country; course; court; creek; cross; day; days; death; deep; democratic; development; distance; distinguished; district; dutch; early; eastbound; education; election; electric; employees; encyclopædia; england; english; entrance; erie; excellent; expedition; extensive; factories; falls; family; famous; far; farm; father; federal; field; fine; fire; flag; flour; following; force; form; formation; fort; founder; foundry; france; free; french; fulton; furniture; garden; gary; gate; gen; general; genesee; george; goods; government; governor; grand; great; greater; greatest; ground; group; growth; half; hall; hamilton; hand; harbour; harlem; harrison; head; headquarters; height; henry; herkimer; high; highway; hill; historical; history; holland; home; house; hudson; hudson river; illinois; illustration; important; independence; indians; industry; influence; inhabitants; interest; interesting; iron; iroquois; irving; island; jackson; james; jay; john; johnson; joseph; journey; july; june; kind; lake; lake erie; land; large; largest; later; law; leader; league; left; library; life; like; lincoln; lines; little; livingston; london; long; machine; main; maj; making; manhattan; manor; mansion; manufactures; manufacturing; masonic; mass; means; meeting; members; michigan; miles; military; mill; mississippi; modern; mohawk; montgomery; monument; moon; morgan; mormon; morning; mountains; movement; mrs; mts; museum; n.j; n.y; n.y.c; national; nations; native; natural; near; necessary; neighborhood; netherlands; new; new york; newburgh; niagara; north; northern; northwest; notable; number; numerous; office; officers; ohio; oil; old; oneida; onondaga; ontario; open; order; original; oriskany; output; palisades; park; party; passengers; passes; peekskill; pennsylvania; people; period; perry; persons; peter; philipse; place; plants; point; political; politics; pop; population; position; post; poughkeepsie; power; present; president; principal; private; production; products; property; province; public; purpose; quebec; railroad; railway; rapids; red; region; rensselaer; republican; reserve; residence; respect; result; revolutionary; rich; right; rise; rising; river; robert; rochester; rock; rockefeller; rome; route; sailing; salle; salt; samuel; schenectady; school; schuyler; second; secretary; section; senate; sept; service; settlement; settlers; ship; shop; shore; sir; site; slave; slavery; small; smith; society; soldiers; south; square; state; station; steam; steamboat; steel; stephen; stone; strategic; street; students; summer; superior; supply; syracuse; system; tarrytown; term; territory; time; today; toledo; tons; total; town; tract; trade; trading; tradition; train; treaty; trees; tribes; trip; troops; u.s; union; united; university; upper; utica; valley; value; van; victory; view; village; visible; visit; war; washington; way; wayne; west; western; white; wide; wife; william; women; wood; words; work; world; years; yonkers; york; york central; young cache: 27701.txt plain text: 27701.txt item: #13 of 24 id: 28663 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: The Ranger; Or, The Fugitives of the Border date: None words: 33808 flesch: 83 summary: Again left to his thoughts, they shortly wandered to Rosalind Leland. I suppose so, rejoined young Leland, with mock seriousness. keywords: appearance; attention; bank; best; better; boat; body; boys; brother; canoe; captive; careful; case; chance; chapter; close; companion; considerable; conversation; course; danger; dar; dark; dat; day; days; death; den; determined; dey; difficulty; direction; distance; doubt; dozen; enemies; enemy; escape; experienced; eyes; face; fact; fear; feet; fire; food; forest; form; free; friend; fur; george; good; gorra; great; ground; guess; gun; half; hand; head; heart; help; hold; home; hope; hour; house; hunter; illustration; indians; instant; journey; kent; left; leland; leslie; life; little; lodge; long; look; man; manner; matter; means; mighty; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; near; nearest; negro; night; oars; object; ohio; old; opposite; order; pain; pequanon; person; place; plan; point; position; possible; power; present; quick; reach; reason; red; report; rest; return; rifle; river; roland; rosalind; run; safe; safety; savages; set; shore; shot; silence; sister; situation; sleep; slightest; sound; strange; stream; sure; suspicion; thing; thought; time; trail; tree; trouble; unable; view; voice; watch; water; way; whisper; white; wish; wool; words; work; years; young; zeb cache: 28663.txt plain text: 28663.txt item: #14 of 24 id: 29534 author: Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price) title: The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio date: None words: 35917 flesch: 68 summary: _chrysopus_ Lev, which I am unable to keep separate; the variation in size of the spores is not in correspondence with the variations in color of the sporangia. The specimens of _Physarum scyphoides_ C. & B. which I have seen appear to be a small form of this species. keywords: anastomosing; angles; angular; apex; badhamia; bark; base; bent; blackish; branched; branching; branchlets; brown; brownish; calyculus; capillitium; close; color; colored; colorless; columella; common; confluent; crowded; cylindric; dark; dehiscent; dense; depressed; diameter; diderma; didymium; distinguished; elaters; ellipsoidal; elongated; erect; expansions; extent; extremities; fig; firm; flattened; flexuous; form; free; genus; globose; golden; granules; granulose; gregarious; height; hypothallus; iii; inner; interior; iridescent; irregular; lamproderma; large; layer; leaves; length; lime; long; longer; loose; mass; massee; maturity; membrane; meshes; mic; minutely; morgan; mosses; naked; natural; network; nodules; numerous; oblong; obovoid; obtuse; ochraceous; old; orange; outer; pale; patches; peck; pellucid; pers; persistent; physarum; plasmodiocarp; plasmodium; plate; points; portion; purple; radiating; red; reticulate; rex; ridges; rings; rostafinski; roundish; rugulose; scales; scattered; schw; sessile; shape; short; shorter; simple; size; slender; small; smooth; species; specimens; spinulose; spiral; sporangium; sporangium globose; spores; spores globose; stemonitis; stipe; stipe short; stipitate; subglobose; superficial; surface; tapering; thickened; thickness; thin; threads; times; trichia; tubules; umber; umbilicate; upper; upward; variable; violaceous; violet; wall; wall thin; white; wood; yellow; yellowish; æthalium cache: 29534.txt plain text: 29534.txt item: #15 of 24 id: 31049 author: Crane, William E. (William Edmund) title: Bugle Blasts Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States date: None words: 5092 flesch: 77 summary: The Fourth Ohio Cavalry, his advance regiment, was before Nashville on the evening of the 23d, and received from the Mayor the surrender of the city. Of the 2d Cavalry Division one Brigade was absent. keywords: 4th; advance; army; artillery; battery; blasts; body; brigade; bugle; camp; cavalry; column; command; company; detachment; division; enemy; field; force; fourth; gen; great; hand; horses; huntsville; kilpatrick; large; left; long; march; miles; mitchell; morgan; morning; movement; ohio; pike; place; prisoners; railroad; rear; rebel; regiment; rifles; right; river; road; speed; time; town; track; train; woods; wounded cache: 31049.txt plain text: 31049.txt item: #16 of 24 id: 33587 author: Gill, Charles Otis title: Six Thousand Country Churches date: None words: 38806 flesch: 65 summary: Since, on an average, there are five churches in a township and only 1,448 persons, the formation of community churches is evidently both advisable and important. In spite of this, however, plans for progressive work both for rural business and rural church are well developed, and have been tested; and moreover, the feasibility of progress in both these lines of endeavor has been thoroughly proved. keywords: action; agricultural; america; area; association; attendance; available; average; baptist; beginning; best; better; bodies; brethren; business; cases; catholic; cent; chapter; character; charges; children; christian; church; church conditions; church life; church maps; church people; church work; churches; circuit; cities; city; commission; committee; common; communities; community; community church; community service; competition; conditions; conference; congregational; counties; country church; country life; country minister; county; coöperation; data; day; decline; denominational church; denominations; desire; development; different; disciples; districts; economic; effective; efficiency; episcopal; episcopal church; evangelical; excessive; experience; facts; families; farmers; favorable; federated; federation; field; figures; foreign; form; free; gallia; general; german; gill; good; government; great; greene; half; high; hocking; holy; illustration; improvement; increase; influence; inhabitants; interchurch; interest; jackson; key; land; large; lawrence; leadership; life; little; local; long; making; man; map; maps; means; meetings; membership; methodist; minister; ministry; missionary; modern; money; moral; movement; necessary; needs; new; north; number; officials; ohio; ohio rural; old; open; organization; page; parishes; pastor; people; personal; persons; pike; place; plan; population; possible; presbyterian; present; professor; program; progressive; property; proportion; protestant; public; question; reformed; region; religion; religious; resident; resident minister; results; rule; rural; rural church; rural communities; rural life; rural townships; salary; school; sections; secure; service; situation; small; social; soil; southeastern; state; strong; suburban; successful; sunday; support; survey; system; table; time; total; townships; true; union; united; united church; use; value; villages; war; washington; way; welfare; work; years; young cache: 33587.txt plain text: 33587.txt item: #17 of 24 id: 36126 author: Dwight, Margaret Van Horn title: A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight date: None words: 18820 flesch: 77 summary: There are a number of good houses in it- We have once more got among people of our own nation & language- & they appear very clever-- Harrisburg- P- we expected to get good beds & were never so disappointed- We were put in an old garret that had holes in the roof big enough to crawl through- keywords: afraid; afternoon; appear; appear'd; bad; bed; beds; better; body; brother; call'd; children; clever; cold; comfortable; company; connecticut; country; cousin; creek; cross'd; d^r; day; days; deacon; deal; death; dirty; distance; dutch; dutchmen; dwight; elizabeth; end; family; fast; father; fear; fellow; foot; girl; good; great; half; high; hill; hope; horses; hour; house; husband; inn; jackson; journal; journey; kind; landlord; large; leave; length; like; little; log; long; look; m^r; m^r w; m^{rs; man; margaret; married; men; miles; miss; moment; monday; morning; mountain; mud; new; night; number; oblig'd; oclock; ohio; old; page; pass'd; patience; people; place; pleasant; poor; possible; pretty; rain; reach'd; rest; ride; riding; river; road; room; sabbath; set; short; sick; sleep; small; state; stopt; stream; sunday; suppose; sure; susan; talk; tavern; thing; thought; thro; time; tir'd; town; trouble; unable; waggon; waggoners; walk; walk'd; walking; warren; way; weather; wednesday; wife; wish; wolcott; woman; word; worse; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 36126.txt plain text: 36126.txt item: #18 of 24 id: 416 author: Anderson, Sherwood title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life date: None words: 75130 flesch: 87 summary: In New York City, when he first went there to live and before he became confused and disconcerted by the facts of life, Enoch went about a good deal with young men. Young men with shining red faces walked awkwardly about with girls on their arms. keywords: adventure; affairs; afraid; afternoon; alice; alleyway; american; anderson; angry; arms; attention; banker; barn; beautiful; beauty; bed; belle; bentley; better; biddlebaum; big; black; blow; board; body; book; box; boy; boys; brother; brown; building; business; carpenter; chair; change; child; children; church; city; cleveland; closed; clothes; coat; cold; coming; company; confused; corn; corner; country; course; cowley; creek; currie; curtis; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; deep; desire; desk; different; doctor; dollars; door; dream; drunk; dry; eagle; early; edge; elizabeth; elmer; end; enoch; evening; excited; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; farm; farmer; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fields; figure; fingers; fire; fists; floor; foster; friends; frightened; garden; george; george willard; girl; god; good; grandfather; grass; great; grey; grotesques; ground; habit; half; hallway; hands; happy; hard; hartman; head; heart; heavy; helen; high; hill; hold; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; husband; idea; impulse; jesse; joe; john; kate; kind; knees; lamp; land; large; later; laughing; lay; left; life; lighted; like; lips; listening; little; live; living; lonely; long; look; looking; louise; love; low; main; main street; making; man; marriage; married; matter; men; merchant; mind; minister; moment; money; mood; morning; mother; muttered; nature; new; new willard; newspaper; night; notion; o'clock; odd; office; ohio; old; old man; older; open; paper; parcival; past; path; pay; people; place; pockets; point; possession; power; presence; queer; quiet; railroad; ray; reefy; reporter; richmond; road; robinson; room; run; running; sadness; saloon; school; seth; sharp; shop; shoulders; sick; sidewalk; silence; silent; sky; small; snow; soft; son; soul; spirit; spring; stairs; stairway; stand; standing; station; store; stories; straight; strange; street; strong; summer; sunday; sure; swift; table; talk; talking; tall; teacher; terrible; things; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tom; tom willard; touch; town; train; trees; trembling; truth; turn; turning; unable; valley; village; voice; wagon; waiting; walk; wall; warm; wash; way; welling; west; white; wife; willard; willard house; williams; window; winesburg; wing; winters; woman; wood; words; work; world; writer; years; young; young man; younger; youth cache: 416.txt plain text: 416.txt item: #19 of 24 id: 42111 author: Wilson, Richard title: And Then the Town Took Off date: None words: 37347 flesch: 89 summary: Sir, Don Cort (Gen., temp.) said to Frank Fogarty, Secretary of Defense, has the mission been accomplished? Don and Alis were in the back seat of an army staff car that was leading the bus convoy. * * * General Don Cort squared his shoulders. keywords: action; afraid; air; airborne; alien; alis; arm; attention; bad; bank; bartender; belt; bendy; better; big; bit; blimp; bobby; books; boy; brief; bubble; building; business; campus; captain; car; case; cavalier; chance; cheeky; chief; city; civek; clark; close; club; coat; coffee; cold; commander; conductor; corner; cort; country; course; creek; crowd; cut; deal; defense; doc; don; don cort; door; dozen; drink; earth; east; edge; eyes; face; factory; far; father; feet; fine; flat; flying; fogarty; food; force; frank; free; friends; garet; general; geneva; girl; gizls; glass; going; golf; good; gorel; grande; gray; great; ground; guard; gum; hair; half; hand; handcuff; head; heavy; hector; high; hold; home; hope; house; human; idea; inhabitants; institute; jen; jervis; job; joe; judge; kaliz; kangaroo; kind; king; kiss; kitchen; land; later; left; like; line; little; lives; long; look; looking; lynch; magnology; majesty; man; master; maynard; mayor; mcferson; mean; men; miles; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; national; need; negus; new; north; ohio; okay; open; osbert; past; pentagon; people; piece; pilot; place; planet; police; power; president; private; professor; question; radio; railroad; ready; red; redhead; reilly; report; rest; rezar; right; room; royal; rubach; run; running; science; second; secretary; self; senator; sergeant; set; short; sir; sky; small; sorry; sound; south; space; speaker; square; stacy; start; state; stop; street; submarine; superior; sure; table; talk; talking; thanks; thebold; theory; things; thought; time; today; town; train; truck; united; use; usual; vince; voice; washington; way; week; west; white; window; wing; woman; wonder; words; work; world; york; young; zed cache: 42111.txt plain text: 42111.txt item: #20 of 24 id: 45674 author: McKnight, Hiram Peck title: Prison Poetry date: None words: 41407 flesch: 88 summary: Just to all men, to all men kind and true; Conspicuous as a giant yet comely to the view; Loved by all who know him, trusted everywhere; Always more than willing to ease his fellow's care; Never harsh or cruel, never false or base; Going in and coming out among those in disgrace, Earning from each prisoner's heart the meed of honest praise; None condemn his actions, none despise his ways; By his children reverenced, by his wife adored; Every friend is welcome at his ample board; Rich in all that makes a _man_, poor alone in hate; God of Mercy bless the man who nightly guards our fate; Ever may he fill the post that wisdom has assigned, Ruling all, as now he does, by strength of heart and mind. Yet hears him boast his freedom, laud his reasoning power; Rule all he can with iron hand, and _finite_ judgment shower; Sees all the devious, hidden paths by sinful mortals trod Where _human_ law and custom dare ostracise a god; Yet knows a germ of goodness, deep in the human breast, Is living in the worst of men however much depressed. keywords: acrostic; angel; awake; awful; band; bars; beauty; bed; beneath; best; birth; bliss; blood; blow; boat; bound; boy; brain; brave; breast; breath; bride; broken; brother; care; cast; cathode; caucanoe; cell; cheer; chief; child; children; christ; city; clear; close; cold; conscience; conscious; control; convict; crime; cruel; dark; darling; dart; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; deem; deep; disgrace; doctor; dog; doomed; door; dream; dungeon; dust; earth; earthly; ease; empire; endless; ere; erring; eternal; evil; eyes; face; fair; fall; fame; fate; father; fear; feel; feet; fellow; fire; flight; flower; form; fraught; free; freedom; friend; future; geo; glittering; god; gold; golden; good; great; grief; guilty; hair; half; hand; hapless; happiness; happy; hard; harrison; hate; head; heart; heaven; hell; high; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; hour; human; illustration; immortal; innocence; iron; jehovah; joy; judge; justice; kind; kindness; kiss; land; late; law; lawrence; laws; lawyer; lay; leave; left; letter; life; like; line; lips; little; live; living; long; look; lost; lot; love; lovely; low; malice; man; mcknight; meet; men; mercy; mid; midnight; mighty; mind; moment; mortal; mother; mountain; muse; music; nature; naught; ne'er; near; need; new; noble; o'er; old; ones; open; page; pain; paleface; passion; past; path; perfect; pity; place; plan; poor; power; prayer; prison; prisoner; proud; pure; queen; rays; reach; ready; real; reason; rest; return; revenge; rich; right; rise; roll; rule; sadie; safe; salome; sarah; savage; save; saw; sea; second; self; set; shame; silent; sin; sing; single; sky; sleep; smile; soft; song; soul; spake; spirit; standard; stars; state; stream; strife; sweet; tear; tender; thee; thing; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; tis; today; tongue; tonight; torture; trembling; tribute; true; trueman; trust; truth; tululah; twas; twill; vain; van; victim; view; vile; virtue; vision; voice; waddington; walls; way; ways; weary; welcome; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; wine; wings; woe; woman; words; work; world; wretched; wrong; years; yonder; young; youth cache: 45674.txt plain text: 45674.txt item: #21 of 24 id: 46250 author: Finley, Martha title: The Thorn in the Nest date: None words: 80818 flesch: 78 summary: and each sped on his way, Kenneth's thoughts divided between grief for the violent death of a friend and neighbor, and anxiety for his patient, and for sweet Nell Lamar, who might be even now in danger from the savages. No one mourned their departure: but Nell Lamar, having heard from Dale of the look the culprit had cast upon Kenneth, rejoiced not a little in secret that they were gone. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; alarm; aloud; angry; anguish; answer; anxiety; anxious; arms; attention; away; bad; barbour; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; bernard; best; better; bill; blood; body; books; boy; boys; brannon; breast; bright; brother; burst; caius; calling; calm; candle; captain; care; case; cast; cat; chair; change; chapter; cheek; cheerful; chief; children; chillicothe; clark; clendenin; close; cold; comfort; coming; companion; company; confidence; content; conversation; countenance; country; courage; course; creature; cry; dale; danger; dark; darling; dat; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; delicate; delight; direction; disappointment; distance; doctah; doctor; door; doubt; duty; dwelling; eager; early; earnest; effort; emotion; england; englishman; errand; escape; evening; excitement; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; fallen; family; farm; fast; father; fear; features; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fingers; fire; food; foot; forest; form; friend; gate; general; gentlemen; girl; glad; glance; glen; god; godfrey; good; grave; great; grief; ground; gun; half; hand; hans; happy; hard; haste; hat; head; hearing; heart; heavy; help; herrod; high; hills; home; hope; horses; hour; house; human; hurried; husband; indians; instant; interest; interview; journey; joy; judge; kenneth; kind; kindly; knowledge; ladies; lady; lamar; large; late; laugh; leave; left; length; life; like; likely; lips; little; lives; living; log; lonely; long; look; looking; lord; lost; love; low; lyttleton; mad; major; making; man; manner; marian; mark; master; mean; meeting; miles; mind; minutes; miss; moment; months; morning; mother; moved; moving; mrs; muttered; mynheer; nash; near; nearer; neck; need; needed; nell; news; night; noble; office; old; older; ones; open; pain; pale; party; past; path; patient; people; percy; person; physician; place; pleasant; pleasure; pony; poor; possible; power; prairie; presence; present; pretty; previous; promise; purpose; question; quick; quiet; ready; reason; regard; reply; rest; return; reumah; riding; road; romeo; room; rose; run; saddle; safety; savage; save; scene; search; secret; self; servant; set; shaking; share; short; sick; sigh; silence; silent; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; slight; small; smile; snow; society; sorrow; soul; sound; speaking; spirits; spot; spring; squaw; standing; start; stay; step; story; strange; street; strong; sudden; suffering; sun; sure; surprise; sweet; table; talk; tall; tears; tell; tender; terrible; terror; thank; thankfulness; things; thinking; thought; tig; time; tom; tone; tongue; town; trail; trees; trembling; true; trust; valet; valley; view; visit; voice; want; warm; water; wawillaway; weary; weeks; weeping; welcome; white; wife; wild; window; wish; wolf; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worth; year; young; zeb cache: 46250.txt plain text: 46250.txt item: #22 of 24 id: 48344 author: Otis, James title: Benjamin of Ohio: A Story of the Settlement of Marietta date: None words: 27143 flesch: 62 summary: [Illustration] Mistress Devoll would have insisted that we turn back and remain at the log shanty until the rain ceased; but both Captain Haskell and Master Rouse put an end to any such proposition by saying that now had come the season when we might rightly expect storms, and if we were to delay our journey save at such times as the weather was fair, winter would overtake us among the mountains where we might find it impossible either to go ahead or to retreat. The most important matter was the preparing of the wagon, where the women would sleep during such nights as we failed to find lodgings in taverns or farmhouses, and it was with infinite care that Master Rouse and Captain Haskell almost rebuilt this cart, which was what I believe is generally called a Conestoga wagon, although why it should be given such a name I do not understand, unless it may have been made in some town by the name of Conestoga. keywords: able; bank; barker; beasts; ben; benjamin; best; board; boat; boys; building; business; campus; captain; certain; children; colonel; coming; company; country; craft; cushing; cutler; daniel; day; days; devoll; end; fact; family; fast; fear; feet; ferry; fire; fish; flatboat; food; foot; fort; general; german; girls; good; great; half; hand; harmar; haskell; home; horses; hour; ice; illustration; indians; isaac; journey; kind; labor; land; landlord; large; like; little; log; long; looking; making; man; manner; marietta; martius; massachusetts; master; master rouse; mattapoisett; meeting; miles; mind; mistress; money; morning; mountains; mud; muskingum; near; necessary; needed; new; night; ohio; old; order; oxen; parson; party; pennsylvania; people; pittsburgh; place; portion; possible; putnam; rain; ready; reason; river; road; rouse; rufus; savages; save; settlement; shelter; shore; sleep; small; snow; spring; story; sufficient; sumrill; tavern; time; town; traveling; trees; uncle; wagon; water; way; white; willing; winter; women; work; year cache: 48344.txt plain text: 48344.txt item: #23 of 24 id: 59640 author: Watts, Mary S. (Mary Stanbery) title: The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s date: None words: 94044 flesch: 79 summary: Said he was never going there again. You'd better sit down here quietly, Steve, old man, he said kindly. keywords: account; acquaintance; affairs; afraid; afternoon; agent; air; american; amherst; amusement; answer; anxious; appearance; archie; arms; arthur; attention; audience; avenue; away; awful; bad; ballroom; bare; baxter; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; behaviour; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; blame; blue; bob; body; book; boots; botlisch; bottle; boy; boys; breckinridge; brother; building; business; busy; butler; buttons; bye; card; care; caroline; carriage; cars; carson; case; cast; certain; chairs; change; chapter; character; charming; cheeks; children; chin; chorus; cigar; circulating; clara; clean; close; clothes; coat; cold; collar; colonel; colonel pallinder; coloured; comfort; common; company; confusion; control; cook; corner; costume; country; course; cousin; crazy; creature; cut; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; debt; deep; delicate; desdemona; desk; detective; diamonds; different; dining; dinner; distance; doctor; doctor vardaman; dollars; door; double; doubt; dozen; dress; dressed; drink; earth; easy; effect; effort; eleanor; elegant; end; english; entertainment; entire; estate; evening; excited; excitement; experience; expression; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fall; familiar; family; fancy; far; fashion; father; fault; fear; features; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fire; floor; forgot; free; fresh; friends; funeral; funny; furniture; garden; gas; gate; generation; gentleman; gessler; gesture; gilt; girls; git; glad; glance; glass; glasses; gloves; goin'; gold; good; governor; governor gwynne; grandfather; grave; great; green; grey; grimm; grin; guess; gwynne; gwynne family; gwynne house; gwynne peters; habit; hair; half; hall; hand; handed; handsome; happy; hard; harriet; head; heart; hearted; heirs; help; high; history; hold; home; honest; honour; hope; hopple; horace; horace gwynne; hour; house; huddesley; humorous; hung; hup; i'm; i've; idea; interest; iron; j. b.; jack; jennie; jennie gwynne; job; johns; journal; judd; judge; kilt; kind; kitchen; kitty; know; ladies; lady; large; late; laugh; laughing; law; lawrence; lawyer; leave; left; length; lewis; lexington; library; life; like; likely; lines; lips; little; little gwynne; little old; living; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; lovely; mad; maginnis; mahogany; maid; making; mamma; manner; marian; married; mary; matter; mazie; mazie pallinder; mean; medium; memory; men; middle; mighty; mind; minded; minute; mirandy; miss; mollie; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; muriel; nails; natural; nature; near; necklace; need; new; nice; note; notice; number; observed; odd; office; old; old gentleman; old gwynne; old house; old man; old mrs; old steven; old woman; oldham; open; opening; opinion; order; outside; pair; pallinder; paper; park; parlour; party; past; paused; people; perfect; performance; person; peters; phosphate; picture; piece; pity; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleased; pocket; point; policeman; poor; poor old; porch; position; possible; presence; present; pretty; pride; private; property; purple; queer; question; quick; quiet; rate; read; real; rear; reason; red; relief; rent; respectable; rest; rich; richmond; right; roof; room; roses; round; run; safe; sake; sam; samuel; saw; scene; second; self; sense; sentimental; servant; set; shame; sharp; shirt; shoulders; sick; silence; silk; silver; simple; single; sir; sitting; situation; small; smile; smith; social; society; solid; somewhat; sorry; sort; soul; south; southern; speaking; spectacle; speech; spirit; spite; spring; square; stage; stairs; stand; standing; startled; stay; steps; steven; steven gwynne; stock; story; straight; strange; street; strong; stuff; subject; success; suit; sum; supposed; sure; surprise; sweet; swiss; table; talk; talking; tall; tankerville; taste; taylor; teddy; tell; telling; templeton; tenants; thick; thing; thought; tiara; till; time; town; train; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; upright; upstairs; view; visit; voice; waiting; wall; want; water; way; wear; week; whisper; white; wide; wife; william; window; wine; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; wrong; years; yez; york; young; young man cache: 59640.txt plain text: 59640.txt item: #24 of 24 id: 7048 author: Anderson, Sherwood title: Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories date: None words: 67467 flesch: 91 summary: Young men and women had come into a room and he had taught them. Young man, he said, you do not come into this room to write on the back of a book and waste your time. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; apartment; arms; awake; away; barn; beautiful; beckersville; bed; better; bidwell; big; bird; black; body; books; boys; bridge; broken; brother; building; car; certain; chair; chicago; chicken; children; city; clear; close; clothes; cochran; cold; college; coming; corn; counter; country; creek; cry; dancing; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; death; desire; distance; doctor; dog; door; doubt; duke; dust; egg; elsie; end; evening; eyes; face; factory; fall; family; fancy; farm; farmer; father; feeling; feet; fence; fields; figure; fingers; flat; floor; foot; frightened; garden; german; girl; goes; going; good; grass; great; grey; ground; grown; half; hallway; hand; happy; head; heavy; henry; high; hill; hold; home; horses; hot; hours; house; hugh; inside; iowa; jerry; joe; kind; kitchen; lake; land; large; late; law; leaves; left; legs; leroy; lie; life; like; lips; little; little house; live; living; long; looking; love; man; marriage; married; mary; matter; mean; melville; men; miles; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; near; negro; new; niggers; night; notion; odd; office; old; old man; older; open; orchard; past; path; people; place; porch; possession; presence; quiet; race; railroad; reason; remembered; restaurant; river; road; room; rosalind; run; running; sayers; saying; school; sea; shadows; sharp; silence; silent; sky; sleep; small; soft; song; sort; sound; springs; stairway; standing; stars; steps; stoner; story; straight; strange; stream; street; strong; summer; sunday; sunstreak; sure; sweet; table; talk; tall; terrible; thing; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tired; tom; town; tracks; train; trees; true; upstairs; visit; voice; wagon; waiting; walk; walls; walter; want; warm; weeds; wescott; wescott house; west; white; wife; willow; window; winifred; winter; woman; wonder; words; work; world; yard; years; young; young man cache: 7048.txt plain text: 7048.txt