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id: 51171
author: Bradbury, Ray
title: A Little Journey
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words: 2646
sentence: 191
flesch: 87
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summary:
  The special helmets were issued to be fitted over every gray or white head to supply extra oxygen in case of a leakage in the ship's hull, and at long last the hour had come and Mrs. Bellowes stood behind Mr. Thirkell and said, We're ready, sir. There goes Mr. Thirkell_, thought Mrs. Bellowes.


id: 63442
author: Jacobi, Carl
title: Double Trouble
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words: 5289
sentence: 441
flesch: 88
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summary:
  The duplicate of Grannie Annie was bowing to the duplicate of Jimmy Baker, and the image of Ezra Karn was playing leap frog with the image of Antlers Park. Directly behind the windscreen, backs turned to me, were Jimmy Baker, Grannie, and Xartal.


id: 63109
author: Jacobi, Carl
title: Doctor Universe
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words: 6467
sentence: 553
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Moments later we made a landing at a rude jetty, and Grannie Annie was introducing me to Ezra Karn. Doctor Universe By CARL JACOBI Grannie Annie, who wrote science fiction under the nom de plume of Annabella C. Flowers, had stumbled onto a murderous plot more hair-raising than any she had ever concocted.


id: 27472
author: La Bédollière, Emile de
title: The Story of a Cat
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words: 14049
sentence: 784
flesch: 77
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summary:
  On seeing Mother Michel bearing in her arms the rescued cat, he said to himself: What, another beast! Having pronounced these words in a firm tone, Madame de la Grenouillère addressed herself to Mother Michel.


id: 25938
author: Mainer, R. Henry (Robert Henry)
title: Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
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words: 29868
sentence: 1585
flesch: 82
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summary:
  So it was that Jennie left the old tavern on the Monk Road, jubilant in her innocent way at the happy prospects which old Nancy painted for her, but when she was gone Nancy turned to her work again with a heavy heart. The roadside hostelry soon had a place on the highway, and deep into its centre was Nancy McVeigh's.


id: 30439
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Mrs. Tree
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words: 40941
sentence: 2861
flesch: 91
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summary:
  'Tiddy hi, toddy ho, Tiddy hi hum, Thus was it when Barbara Popkins was young!' Miss Vesta sighed again; it was always a bad sign when Mrs. Tree began to sing. Said he'd done all he could do, and the critter didn't seem to be gettin' no better, and what did I advise? 'What have ye done?' says I. 'Wal,' says he, 'I've cut his tail, and drawed two of his teeth, and I dono what else _to_ do,' he says.


id: 26728
author: Hall, Eliza Calvert
title: Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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words: 64625
sentence: 3175
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Abram used to say that if I started to the spring-house, I'd go by way o' the front porch and the front yard and the back porch and the back yard and the flower gyarden and the vegetable gyarden to git there. I did say I was done with that sort o' work; but this mornin' I was rummagin' around up in the garret, and I come across this bundle of pieces, and thinks I, 'I reckon it's intended for me to piece one more quilt before I die;' I must 'a' put 'em there thirty years ago and clean forgot 'em, and I've been settin' here all the evenin' cuttin' 'em and thinkin' about old times.


id: 48198
author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
title: Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 2 (of 3)
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words: 67518
sentence: 3623
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Catherine Vernon, who was sixty-five, and knew herself to be an old woman, looked at the other, who was over eighty, as a girl looks at her mother--wondering at her strange experiences, feeling herself a child in presence of a knowledge which is not hers. Catherine Vernon was still in the region of prejudice and dislike.


id: 32203
author: Hall, Eliza Calvert
title: The Land of Long Ago
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words: 63725
sentence: 2445
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Old man Sam lived on the fur side o' the creek, and he was in the habit o' comin' to town every once in a while to lay in his groceries and such things, and every time he'd come to town he'd git his jug filled, of course, and drink all along the way home; but by the time he'd git to Clear Fork he wouldn't know where he was, or who he was, or which way he was goin'. Old man Sam laid down by the kittle and went to sleep.


id: 48197
author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
title: Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 (of 3)
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words: 68215
sentence: 3565
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Mrs. John Vernon was considered very refined and elegant according to the language of the day, a young lady with many accomplishments. Sir! said Mrs. John Vernon, standing in a fine attitude of displeasure by her desk, holding it open with one hand.


id: 48199
author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
title: Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 3 (of 3)
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words: 70448
sentence: 3972
flesch: 85
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summary:
  I should like, not that, but to do as Catherine Vernon did, she cried, lighting up in every line of her animated countenance. I should like to step in when ruin was coming and prop it up on my shoulders as she did, and meet the danger, and overcome it---- I thought you hated Catherine Vernon, Roland cried.


id: 28517
author: Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Nash)
title: Hepsey Burke
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words: 63873
sentence: 3189
flesch: 81
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summary:
  As Maxwell presented his wife to Mrs. Burke, Hepsey took the girl's two hands in hers and kissed her heartily, and then, looking at her keenly as the bride blushed under her searching gaze, she remarked: You're a dreadful disappointment, Mrs. Maxwell. Mrs. Burke will allay parental anxiety as to the bodily welfare of the recruits and the pacific object of the organization, and Mrs. Maxwell will make the colors.


