item: #1 of 5 id: 14149 author: Leighton, Robert title: The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands date: None words: 87173 flesch: 83 summary: They say he is out seeking for young Thora Kinlay; but it seems clear to me that he has fled from the consequences of his foul crime. Said Mansie: 'Twas on a night like this--d'ye mind, Colin?--that the Undine went to pieces on the Gaulton Craigs. keywords: bailie; boat; captain; carver; cave; chapter; colin; day; dog; door; drever; duke; ericson; eyes; face; falcon; father; flett; good; gordon; halcro; hand; head; hercus; jack; jessie; kinlay; lad; light; lothian; man; men; morning; mother; orkney; pilot; place; robbie; rock; rope; round; school; sea; ship; sir; skipper; snow; stone; stromness; thora; thought; time; tom; water; way cache: 14149.txt plain text: 14149.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 29752 author: Barr, Amelia E. title: An Orkney Maid date: None words: 64845 flesch: 87 summary: Say good night, now. Tell me, sir. I believe that in a long forgotten age, some priest or good man received a promise or prophecy revealing the Great Sacrifice that would be offered up for man's salvation once and for all time. keywords: adam; bishop; boris; brodie; conall; day; dear; dress; edinburgh; face; father; god; good; grandfather; hand; heart; home; house; ian; letter; life; little; look; love; macrae; man; men; mother; ragnor; rahal; right; room; sunna; talk; tell; thee; thing; thora; thou; thought; thy; time; vedder; want; way; women; words; years; yes cache: 29752.txt plain text: 29752.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 34816 author: Farrer, James title: Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys date: None words: 9412 flesch: 77 summary: The Runes were mostly drawn by my friend Mr. George Petrie of Kirkwall, and the drawings afterwards compared by Mr. Gibb with the originals in the building of Maes-Howe. Nothing could exceed the pains taken by Mr. Petrie and Mr. Gibb; and the drawings made by Mr. Gibb were on two occasions collated by him with the casts in Edinburgh, so that I have every reason to believe that they are as perfect representations of the original writings on the walls of Maes-Howe as can be hoped for, and not the less so that the gentlemen who made the drawings and collations were unacquainted with Runes. keywords: barrow; chamber; feet; howe; inches; inscriptions; letters; maes; munch; plate; professor; raeist; rafn; rune; stephens; stones; walls; word cache: 34816.txt plain text: 34816.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 42389 author: Scott, Walter title: The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition date: None words: 200999 flesch: 65 summary: The group of old men who looked on, bore no inconsiderable resemblance to a party of aged tritons, engaged in beholding the sports of the sea-nymphs; so hard a look had most of them acquired by contending with the elements, and so much did the shaggy hair and beards, which many of them cultivated after the ancient Norwegian fashion, give their heads the character of these supposed natives of the deep. Vaughan, answered Magnus, is a name which I have some reason to remember; and, from what I have lately heard from my cousin Norna, that old man has a right to bear it. keywords: answer; appearance; attention; baby; believe; betwixt; blood; boat; brenda; bryce; bunce; burgh; captain; captain cleveland; character; claud; cleveland; company; country; course; crew; dance; dark; daughters; day; dear; deep; door; eyes; factor; fair; family; father; fear; friend; gentleman; good; halcro; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; house; islands; jarlshof; john; kind; kirkwall; know; lay; leave; left; length; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; magnus; man; manner; master; means; men; mertoun; mind; minna; moment; mordaunt; mordaunt mertoun; morning; mother; norna; old; orkney; party; person; pirate; place; poor; power; present; purpose; rest; rock; round; saint; saw; sea; set; share; ship; sir; sister; situation; son; song; sort; speak; stranger; swertha; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tone; triptolemus; troil; udaller; vessel; voice; water; way; westra; wild; wish; woman; words; world; years; yellowley; young; youth; zetland cache: 42389.txt plain text: 42389.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 45583 author: Burrows, C. W. title: Scapa and a Camera Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the Grand Fleet Base date: None words: 14697 flesch: 65 summary: VICTORIOUS 83 SORTING MAILS FOR THE FLEET ON H.M.S. IMPERIEUSE 84 DISTRIBUTING NEWSPAPERS FOR THE FLEET (H.M.S. IMPERIEUSE) 85 DOCKYARD WORKMEN LEAVING H.M.S. VICTORIOUS FOR WORK IN THE FLEET 86 REPAIRING A STEAM PINNACE ON THE SLIPWAY AT LYNESS 86 SCHOOL CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT ON H.M.S. VICTORIOUS 87 THREE OF THE YOUNG ORCADIAN GUESTS 87 NO COUPONS REQUIRED 88 CREW OF DRIFTER SHALOT 89 LIFTING CHAIN CABLES 89 MOORING VESSEL RECOVERY AT SCAPA FLOW 89 U.S.S. PATUXENT AND 272 ALONGSIDE H.M.S. VICTORIOUS FOR REPAIRS 90 AMERICAN MINESWEEPERS IN THE FLOATING DOCK FOR REPAIRS 90 A DAMAGED BRITISH DESTROYER BEING REPAIRED IN THE DOCK 90 S.S. BORODINO, JUNIOR ARMY AND NAVY STORES' STORE-SHIP WITH THE GRAND FLEET 91 INTERIOR OF SHOP ON S.S. BORODINO 91 A CORNER OF AN OFFICER'S CABIN 92 FISHING FOR SEA-TROUT 93 A SHIP'S PICNIC 93 A BATHING PARTY 93 THE NAVAL CEMETERY AT LYNESS 94 THE HAMPSHIRE MEMORIAL 94 AN INTERESTING STONE TO THE MEMORY OF A CHINAMAN WHO DIED AT SCAPA 94 THE MALAYA MEMORIAL 95 THE VANGUARD MEMORIAL 95 MAKING FOR HOME 96 THE SCUTTLING OF THE GERMAN SHIPS 97 H.M.S. LION ENTERING HOXA BOOM, SCAPA FLOW, AT HEAD OF GERMAN BATTLE CRUISERS, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 100 H.M.S. REPULSE, RENOWN, PRINCESS ROYAL, AND TIGER ESCORTING GERMAN BATTLE CRUISERS THROUGH HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 100 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER SEYDLITZ ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 102 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER VON DER TANN ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 102 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER MOLTKE ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER 1918 103 THE INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA 103 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER SEYDLITZ 104 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER MOLTKE AT SCAPA FLOW 105 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER DERFFLINGER AT SCAPA FLOW 106 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER HINDENBURG AT SCAPA FLOW 106 GERMAN BATTLESHIP FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE 107 GERMAN BATTLESHIP KAISERIN 107 GERMAN LIGHT CRUISER KÖLN 108 GERMAN DESTROYERS AT LYNESS, WITH BATTLESHIPS IN THE DISTANCE 108 PLAN OF THE ANCHORAGE OF GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA FLOW 110 A PARTY OF FRENCH OFFICERS VISITING THE GERMAN SHIPS 111 GERMAN BATTLESHIP BAYERN SINKING BY THE STERN, 2 P.M., 21ST JUNE, 1919 112 THE FINAL PLUNGE OF THE BAYERN 113 GERMAN DESTROYERS SINKING OR BEACHED OFF [Illustration: PLAN OF THE ANCHORAGE OF GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA FLOW.] keywords: admiral; base; battle; battleship; cruiser; fleet; flow; h.m.s; hope; hoy; illustration; kirkwall; lyness; naval; orkney; scapa; scapa flow; sea; ships; south; time; vessels; war; work cache: 45583.txt plain text: 45583.txt