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- 16186
- author: Duchess
- title: A Little Rebel
- date: None
- words: 30216
- flesch: 91
- summary: He pauses again, and now again gives way to the fear that is destroying him--A _grown_ girl! Miss Wynter is in your care, you are in a measure responsible for her future happiness--the happiness of her whole _life,_ Curzon--and if anything goes wrong with her---- The professor puts up his hand as if to check him.
- keywords: afraid; age; and----; angry; answer; anxious; aunt; awful; bad; baring; best; better; big; bit; black; breath; broken; brother; care; cause; chair; chapter; charming; child; coming; concert; course; cries; curzon; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; door; doubt; earth; events; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fortune; friend; girl; glad; glance; glasses; good; great; guardian; half; hand; handsome; happy; hardinge; hastings; hate; head; heart; heiress; help; home; hope; hour; house; i'm; impossible; jane; kind; kindly; knowledge; lady; late; laugh; life; like; lips; little; live; living; long; looks; lovely; mad; majendie; man; mean; meaning; mind; mirth; miss; moment; mother; mrs; mulcahy; need; night; old; open; papa; pauses; people; perpetua; place; poor; pretty; professor; question; quick; read; regret; returns; room; sense; sir; sister; small; smile; soft; sort; stay; step; strange; sudden; sure; sweet; table; talk; tell; terrible; thaddeus; thing; thought; time; tired; tone; trouble; true; truth; turns; voice; ward; way; week; white; wish; woman; words; world; wrong; wynter; years; young
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- 19175
- author: Duchess
- title: A Little Rebel: A Novel
- date: None
- words: 30261
- flesch: 91
- summary: Not that--never that, Says Hardinge. But then if an old man of fifty _wasn't_ an old man of fifty----The professor checks his thoughts, they are growing too mixed.
- keywords: afraid; age; and----; anger; angry; answer; anxious; aunt; awful; bad; baring; best; better; big; bit; black; breath; broken; brother; brow; care; cause; chair; chapter; charming; child; coming; concert; course; cries; curzon; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; door; doubt; duty; earth; events; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fingers; fortune; friend; girl; glad; glance; glasses; good; great; guardian; half; hand; handsome; happy; hardinge; hastings; hate; having; head; heart; heavens; heiress; help; home; hope; hour; house; i'm; impossible; jane; kind; kindly; knowledge; lady; late; laugh; life; like; lips; little; live; living; long; looks; lovely; mad; majendie; man; mean; meaning; mind; mirth; miss; moment; mother; mrs; mulcahy; need; new; night; old; open; papa; pauses; people; perpetua; person; place; poor; pretty; professor; question; quick; read; regret; returns; room; sense; sir; sister; small; smile; soft; sort; soul; stay; step; strange; sudden; sure; sweet; table; talk; tell; terrible; thaddeus; thing; thought; time; tired; tone; trouble; true; truth; turns; voice; ward; way; week; white; wish; woman; wonder; words; world; wrong; wynter; years; young; younger
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- 20979
- author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
- title: Brother Copas
- date: None
- words: 64713
- flesch: 82
- summary: Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week!' Quoted Brother Copas from one of his favourite poems. In _Brother Copas_
- keywords: afraid; afternoon; aged; air; alfred; american; ancient; anglo; answer; authority; aye; bad; bamberger; battershall; beauchamp; beautiful; bed; bent; best; better; bird; biscoe; bishop; bit; black; blanchminster; body; book; bowed; box; boy; boys; branny; branscome; bread; breast; brethren; brother biscoe; brother bonaday; brother clerihew; brother copas; brother manby; brother warboise; building; business; canaries; care; cast; cathedral; certain; chair; chamber; chance; chapel; chaplain; chapter; charge; charity; child; children; christian; church; city; class; clear; clerihew; close; college; colt; comfort; committee; common; confess; confession; conscience; copy; corona; council; country; course; court; cross; crowd; cut; daddy; daily; days; dead; dear; deep; dickinson; different; dinner; distance; door; doorway; doubt; dozen; duty; early; earth; edge; education; end; england; english; episode; evening; example; eyebrows; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; far; father; fear; feel; feeling; fellow; figure; fine; finger; fire; fish; fly; fool; force; free; friend; garden; gateway; gaze; general; gentleman; girls; glad; glance; god; gold; good; gown; grand; great; green; greycoats; ground; groups; guess; half; hand; happy; hard; hate; head; heart; heaven; help; herd; high; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honour; hope; hospital; hour; house; human; husband; ibbetson; ignorant; inclined; instance; isidore; john; julius; key; kind; kitchen; ladies; lady; late; latin; laugh; laundry; lay; leave; left; length; library; lie; life; like; line; little; living; lodge; long; look; looking; lord; love; ma'am; major; man; manby; master; master blanchminster; mean; men; merchester; mere; mind; minutes; miracle; miss; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; mutton; nature; nay; need; new; noble; nodded; norman; number; nunnery; nurse; occasion; old; open; order; organ; outer; pageant; paper; pardon; parsley; passage; past; path; paused; people; person; petition; place; play; playing; point; poor; porter; portion; possible; pounds; poverty; practice; pretty; private; procession; protestant; public; quadrangle; queen; question; rate; ready; real; reason; reformation; religion; religious; rest; right; river; rod; rome; room; rose; royle; rule; run; sake; save; saxon; saying; says; scandal; school; search; seat; second; secret; sense; sermon; service; set; shadow; shaftesbury; shoulder; sick; silly; simeon; sir; sleep; small; smile; snuff; society; sorry; sort; soul; sound; spare; speech; spirit; staff; stand; standing; start; stone; straight; street; strong; success; sudden; suggestion; sun; sure; table; talk; tall; tarbolt; temper; thing; thought; time; timothy; touch; trouble; true; trust; trustees; truth; turner; uncle; uncle copas; upper; visitor; voice; walls; want; watch; water; way; weather; week; weekes; wife; window; wine; woman; wonder; woolcombe; word; work; writing; wrong; years; yesterday; young; zat
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- 39598
- author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
- title: Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads
- date: None
- words: 32106
- flesch: 80
- summary: You don't see many old men like that. There were chairs out under the great oak-trees in the yard, and the two sat talking all afternoon of old times, until the evening shadows began to grow long across the grass.
- keywords: .50; 12mo; account; adventures; afternoon; akers; american; anastasia; april; asa; author; autumn; bag; beginning; best; better; bicking; big; black; blood; blue; book; bore; bowser; box; boy; boys; bud; business; calendar; cause; century; chair; change; chapter; charles; child; children; christmas; city; claus; closed; cloth; cold; college; colonel; colored; comfort; company; composition; conversation; corner; counter; country; cross; crowd; cut; day; days; dead; dear; death; decorative; deep; door; drive; drummer; dry; dull; dunk; dust; early; earth; end; evening; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; familiar; family; feeling; feet; fellow; fiction; fields; fire; fool; fourth; frontispiece; gate; generation; gifts; girl; good; grandfather; gray; great; green; group; grown; half; hand; hard; harvest; hat; head; heart; heavy; help; henry; hero; high; hines; holiday; holmes; home; hot; hour; house; household; human; idea; illustrated; instance; interest; interesting; jim; kind; lad; land; laugh; leave; library; life; lifetime; like; little; little colonel; live; long; looking; lost; love; mahone; man; marion; matter; maxwell; memory; men; mighty; miller; mind; minister; miss; mittens; moment; month; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nature; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; occasion; office; old; old man; old miller; oldest; ones; open; opinion; order; page; paper; past; people; perfect; perkins; picnic; pink; place; play; polly; poor; porch; powers; presence; pretty; public; queen; question; red; right; roads; roberts; romance; room; roots; rose; round; rows; santa; saw; school; schoolmistress; sentiment; september; series; sermon; set; seventh; shoulders; silence; simple; small; smile; smith; son; sort; spring; standing; star; starch; step; stock; store; storekeeper; stories; strong; subject; summer; sun; sunday; sunshine; sure; sweet; table; taking; talk; tell; text; thanksgiving; things; thinking; thought; thrill; time; tobacco; tommy; train; trees; turn; twilight; usual; view; village; violets; voice; wagon; war; warm; water; way; weather; week; wheat; white; wife; wild; wise; woman; word; work; worth; years; young
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- 39802
- author: Bashford, H. H. (Henry Howarth), Sir
- title: Tommy Wideawake
- date: None
- words: 26355
- flesch: 90
- summary: I remember taking Tommy home, and helping my man to undress and wash him and put him to bed, and I shall never forget the evening that I spent downstairs in my study, staring dumbly over the misty valley to the far downs, and seeing only two grave grey eyes looking rebukingly into mine. Seen Tommy? he asked.
- keywords: air; april; awful; bank; becklington; bees; berrill; best; better; bit; black; blood; blue; borcombe; boy; breath; brown; camslove; chair; chantrey; chap; cheeks; child; cholmondeley; chundle; colonel; conversation; country; course; crest; day; days; dear; deep; doctor; doubt; downs; early; earth; eyes; face; fancy; far; farmer; father; feet; fellow; fields; flushed; friend; garden; gate; gerald; girl; glad; god; good; grange; grass; great; green; grey; half; hand; happy; hard; harvest; hat; head; heart; hills; holidays; home; house; hullo; jake; lady; lane; lawn; lay; life; little; live; long; look; low; madge; man; master; mind; minute; miss; mollie; moment; money; morning; morris; morrow; mrs; murmured; nature; new; nose; old; ones; open; pale; path; play; poet; pool; poor; pretty; quiet; rate; rats; real; red; right; road; round; saw; school; shade; shepherd; shot; silence; silent; sir; small; son; song; sorry; sort; spirit; spring; squire; stick; straight; stranger; stream; strong; study; summer; sun; sunny; sure; sweet; tea; things; thomas; thought; time; tommy; true; upland; valley; vicar; village; voice; want; water; way; whistle; white; wide; wideawake; wind; window; wish; wood; words; work; world; years; young
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- 40408
- author: Cholmondeley, Mary
- title: A Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly
- date: None
- words: 29538
- flesch: 85
- summary: Mr. Gresley had several times called upon Mr. Loftus with a view to giving the conversation a deeper turn, but when he was actually in his presence, and Mr. Loftus's steel-gray attentive eye was upon him, the younger man found it difficult, not to say impossible, to force conversation on subjects which Mr. Loftus had no intention to discuss. Mr. Gresley said on his return from a futile attempt to approach Mr. Loftus on the subject of public worship; 'but when I had thoroughly explained my own views on the importance of regular attendance at both services on Sunday, he only said that those being my opinions, he considered that I was fully justified in having daily services as well.
- keywords: 8vo; afternoon; appeal; aunt; author; ball; ballroom; beautiful; beauty; best; black; book; butterfly; captain; care; cause; certain; change; chapter; character; child; church; cloak; cloth; colour; comforted; continued; conversation; country; couple; course; crack; crown; daily; dance; day; days; dear; death; deep; delicate; depths; despair; devotion; die; difficult; doll; domino; door; early; edge; emotion; entire; eyes; face; fact; faint; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; floor; form; gallery; gazette; george; girl; god; good; gown; grave; gray; great; green; gresley; guardian; hair; half; hand; hard; head; headache; health; heart; high; hold; home; hope; house; human; husband; ill; illness; interesting; james; kind; lady; lady pierpoint; left; life; like; lips; little; loftus; london; long; looking; lord; love; low; man; manner; marriage; married; mask; means; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; mummy; music; natural; nature; new; night; novel; observer; old; open; page; pale; park; peggy; people; persons; pierpoint; pink; pity; place; poor; power; presence; pretty; primroses; real; reality; reason; river; room; rose; round; second; secret; short; sibyl; silence; silent; silver; sitting; slender; slight; small; society; soul; spring; stories; story; strong; subject; suffering; sun; sunshine; table; tears; tenderness; things; thought; time; tired; trouble; true; truth; turning; uncle; view; voice; volume; walk; want; water; way; white; wide; wife; wilderleigh; winter; wish; woman; words; work; world; worn; year; young; youth
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- 51342
- author: Shaara, Michael
- title: Citizen Jell
- date: None
- words: 3353
- flesch: 85
- summary: None of his neighbors, in truth, knew Mr. Jell at all. Mr. Jell was, in fact, a retired spaceman.
- keywords: box; bread; bugs; catalogue; charlie; children; earth; florida; great; jell; life; linda; little; long; man; matter; old; oscar; people; problem; rain; riverbank; second; small; stories; temptation; thing; time; year
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- 55039
- author: Stacpoole, Margaret Robson
- title: The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon)
- date: None
- words: 44861
- flesch: 87
- summary: Yesterday morning I met old Mr. Simon Pettigrew, the lawyer; mind, you are to say nothing about this to anyone--but stay a moment, go into the sitting-room and fetch me _ However, he was used to shocks, and if old Simon Pettigrew was running after girls it was no affair of his.
- keywords: address; affair; air; arbour; arm; balls; bank; bar; beautiful; bed; beginning; best; better; big; billy; bit; blue; bobby; book; bother; bottle; box; boy; breakfast; brownlow; business; car; care; case; cerise; change; chapter; charing; charles; cigar; close; clothes; colonel; coming; common; country; course; cross; cut; day; deed; different; dinner; disease; doctor; door; dressed; drive; end; engaged; eyes; face; fact; family; feeling; fine; firm; flat; flowers; fly; fool; foolish; forgotten; foulkes; french; friends; garden; gentleman; girl; glass; good; great; green; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; harley; hat; head; heavens; help; higgs; high; hold; home; horn; hotel; house; idea; iii; impossible; jolly; jukes; julia; key; knocker; knowledge; knows; lady; law; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; love; luncheon; madame; making; man; matter; mean; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; monsieur; month; morning; moxon; mrs; mudd; new; nice; notes; novel; o'clock; office; old; open; oppenshaw; outside; oxford; papers; party; past; people; person; pettigrew; place; pleasant; plot; pocket; poor; porter; position; pounds; power; present; pretty; pugeot; question; randall; ravenshaw; real; relative; remembered; renshaw; return; right; robert; room; rose; rossignol; round; safe; self; sense; servant; set; shop; simon; simpson; sir; sitting; solicitor; sort; soul; sovereign; story; strange; straw; street; sudden; sure; table; talk; taxi; tea; thank; things; thinking; thought; tidd; till; time; town; tozer; trouble; truth; turn; turning; uncle; uncle simon; upton; voice; waiting; wallet; want; way; weather; wish; women; words; work; world; write; wrong; year; young; youth
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- 58899
- author: Dryfoos, Dave
- title: Journey Work
- date: None
- words: 5088
- flesch: 91
- summary: For this day's work Ollie expected even less pay than usual; the mumbling, pencil-licking rancher--his name was Rost--seemed to be overacting the role of harried proprietor. Soon Ollie saw his guess confirmed.
- keywords: airman; bail; base; caboose; cars; civilian; control; copter; deputy; face; fit; francisco; good; head; hollveg; home; hour; job; katt; lansing; little; long; look; machine; major; man; men; office; old; ollie; people; personnel; pickers; place; rancher; read; right; rost; san; sure; table; thing; time; tires; train; truck; voice; want; way; work; years; young
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- 58974
- author: Bixby, Jerome
- title: Our Town
- date: None
- words: 8431
- flesch: 97
- summary: Sit down, Ben Bates, old Jim snarled. Tom Pace shook his head, and old Jim looked like he'd like to go, if he only could--and Ben said, Maybe I'll be down a little while later, Windy.
- keywords: anna; bates; ben; bomb; bridge; buildings; cards; chair; creek; day; end; eyes; good; head; hell; jet; jim; kids; left; liddel; little; long; look; low; man; men; old; outside; owen; pace; people; plane; porch; rifle; right; second; shot; smoky; sure; table; time; tom; town; trees; valley; walls; war; way; window; windy; wish
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- 58995
- author: Dryfoos, Dave
- title: Seller of the Sky
- date: None
- words: 3418
- flesch: 94
- summary: No one took Old Arch seriously; he was just an ancient, broken-down wanderer who went about seeking alms and spreading tales of the great Outside. But it is a fact that by 4000, when my grandfather Hockington Hammer was growing up in New Oshkosh, Old Arch was a familiar figure in all the Domed Cities of the Plains.
- keywords: annie; arch; bed; billy; children; city; cold; fire; grandfather; great; guards; lean; little; man; morning; old; outside; people; plains; sister; sky; snow; talk; time; way; winter
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- 59602
- author: Walton, Bryce
- title: The Chasm
- date: None
- words: 2695
- flesch: 95
- summary: Sal walked to where Cartley stood leaning against the partly closed door of the rotting warehouse. After a while, Sal said softly, Well, what could we try to do, Doc? Cartley turned quickly.
- keywords: barge; cartley; children; face; food; granpa; hands; head; kind; left; little; long; man; max; murphy; old; pier; right; river; sal; time; warehouse; water; way
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- 60725
- author: De Ford, Miriam Allen
- title: Not Snow Nor Rain
- date: None
- words: 5143
- flesch: 86
- summary: They were small envelopes, addressed in blue, in printing simulating handwriting, to Orville K. Hesterson, Sec.-Treas., Time-Between-Time, 746 Ochterlonie Building, New York 3, N. Y. Feeling them with experienced fingers, Sam Wilson judged they were orders for something, doubtless enclosing money. He showed me a paper, signed with the name of this outfit, by the secretary or something-- Orville K. Hesterson, Sam said.
- keywords: bad; building; course; day; dear; dollar; elevator; envelope; fiction; flanagan; floor; good; hesterson; howie; letter; long; lot; mail; mallory; man; mollie; money; new; night; ochterlonie; office; old; operator; orville; paper; phone; post; roof; sam; science; sure; thought; time; trouble; way; wilson; wrong; years; york
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- 61006
- author: Jacobs, Sylvia
- title: Young Man from Elsewhen
- date: None
- words: 5270
- flesch: 93
- summary: Shall we have something sent in or go to the diner? Let's go to the diner, old George decided. Medical men would examine these people and find certain evolutionary developments--the secret would be out.
- keywords: act; body; car; compartment; daughter; day; drink; edna; elsewhen; george; good; hell; host; jane; law; long; look; lot; man; mind; money; old; old man; order; papa; people; period; place; pool; redcap; right; sandane; sandy; sure; time; train; transfer; way; wheelchair; young
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