item: #1 of 10
id: 13459
author: Ouida
title: The Waters of Edera
date: None
words: 72432
flesch: 83
summary: So the child remained there; but her presence troubled Adone's mother, though Nerina was humble as a homeless dog, was noiseless and seldom seen, was obedient, agile, and became useful in many manners, and learned with equal eagerness the farm work taught her by Gianna, and the doctrine taught her by Don Silverio, for she was intelligent and willing in every way. Let us hope so, said Don Silverio.
keywords: adone; alba; blood; child; church; clelia; country; course; dark; day; don silverio; edera; eyes; face; friend; gianna; girl; good; grass; hands; head; heart; home; house; land; life; man; men; mother; nerina; night; people; place; priest; river; rome; rose; ruscino; set; silverio; sir; son; soul; stone; stream; sun; tell; terra; thing; thought; time; valley; vergine; water; way; women; work; years
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item: #2 of 10
id: 1349
author: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie
title: Russia
date: None
words: 283036
flesch: 53
summary: As it was a difficult matter to gain admittance to the prisoner, and I had little time at my disposal, I adopted the latter alternative. Living in constant fear of their persecutors, and wandering from one place of refuge to another, the sufferers for the Faith had little time or inclination to think of family ties, and readily listened to the monks, who exhorted them to mortify the lusts of the flesh.
keywords: administration; affairs; agricultural; attention; authorities; authority; autocratic; capital; case; change; chapter; character; chief; church; classes; commune; conceptions; condition; contrary; country; course; day; development; effect; efforts; emancipation; emperor; empire; end; europe; european; fact; families; family; foreign; form; french; future; general; german; good; government; great; half; hand; history; home; house; idea; influence; institutions; intellectual; ivan; kind; labour; land; language; law; life; majority; man; means; members; military; moment; money; moral; moscow; movement; national; nature; nicholas; nobles; noblesse; number; official; opinion; order; organisation; orthodox; peasantry; peasants; people; petersburg; place; point; police; population; position; power; present; principles; progress; property; proprietors; provinces; public; purpose; question; regard; revolutionary; right; russian; self; sense; serfage; serfs; service; simple; social; society; spirit; state; subject; system; term; things; thought; time; towns; tsar; view; village; war; way; western; work; world; years; young; zemstvo
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item: #3 of 10
id: 14128
author: Spyri, Johanna
title: Toni, the Little Woodcarver
date: None
words: 11114
flesch: 87
summary: Only on Sunday was he at home with his wife and little Toni. The husband earned enough, so they did not suffer want, and they desired nothing beyond their simple manner of life, for they loved each other and their greatest delight was little Toni.
keywords: boy; elsbeth; home; hut; mother; toni; wood; | |
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item: #4 of 10
id: 17349
author: Castlemon, Harry
title: Frank among the Rancheros
date: None
words: 46951
flesch: 82
summary: Frank Meets a Highwayman, 81 CHAPTER VIII. yelled Frank, astonished to see his dog so easily defeated.
keywords: archie; arthur; boys; dick; dog; escape; frank; good; hand; head; home; horse; johnny; lasso; marmion; mountains; pierre; ranchero; robber; saddle; thing; thought; time; uncle; vane; way; winters
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item: #5 of 10
id: 27518
author: Sturt, George
title: Change in the Village
date: None
words: 75594
flesch: 68
summary: The man added: Hullo, old man! Come along! The boys of eight begin to look, at times, like little men; and the girls of eleven and upwards begin to show signs of acquaintance with struggling domestic economies; but neither boys nor girls discover, in the world into which they are growing up, any truly helpful ideas of what it is comely to be and to think.
keywords: boys; case; change; children; circumstances; class; common; cottage; country; course; day; evening; fact; family; folk; good; half; help; home; house; ideas; labourer; labouring; life; living; look; man; men; middle; money; neighbours; new; night; peasant; people; place; public; school; shillings; sort; talk; things; thought; time; town; valley; village; villagers; way; week; women; work; years
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item: #6 of 10
id: 31765
author: Irvine, Alexander
title: My Lady of the Chimney Corner
date: None
words: 34037
flesch: 92
summary: Och, maan, but that wud be th' proud day fur Anna if ye cud do it. Aye. Well, when Anna an' me are wan won't she haave a thrade an' won't I haave an education?
keywords: anna; antrim; aye; corner; cup; day; dear; door; fur; god; haave; hand; head; home; house; hughie; jamie; jist; life; love; man; mary; mind; mother; night; oul; says; tell; thim; time; town; wan; whin; willie; withero; world; yer
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item: #7 of 10
id: 38136
author: Wilson, A. J. (Alexander Johnstone)
title: The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant
date: None
words: 66541
flesch: 79
summary: He was a man apart; and thus it happened that my first holiday in the village passed away leaving me still a stranger to old Thomas Wanless. So it came to pass that little Thomas Wanless was launched on the world at the early age of eight, at the age when the well-to-do begin to think of sending their children to school.
keywords: captain; child; children; codling; daughter; day; eyes; face; family; father; girl; god; good; heart; help; home; hope; kind; labourer; lay; left; life; london; look; man; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; night; parson; people; place; poor; sally; sarah; think; thomas; thomas wanless; thought; time; vicar; village; wanless; way; week; wife; wiseman; woman; work; world; years
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item: #8 of 10
id: 38255
author: Bazin, René
title: Autumn Glory; Or, The Toilers of the Field
date: None
words: 66830
flesch: 83
summary: Following them came the farmers and their wives; widows, distinguishable by the band of velvet in front of their coifs; older men, men of position; these all issuing from the nave, among them many a grave face still under the influence of devotion, in which like walking saints they seemed wholly absorbed. André replied, too abruptly: She did for you once, old man.
keywords: andré; coming; cripple; day; door; driot; eléonore; eyes; face; farmer; father; françois; fromentière; girl; good; hand; head; home; house; jean; la fromentière; left; little; look; lumineau; man; marais; mathurin; nesmy; night; place; room; rose; round; rousille; sallertaine; son; standing; thought; time; toussaint; voice; way; words; work; young
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item: #9 of 10
id: 8597
author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
title: A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
date: None
words: 70876
flesch: 89
summary: Mardary Apollonitch is a little, fattish, bald old man of a respectable corpulence, with a double chin and little soft hands. 'No, I have no special reason to praise old times.
keywords: air; arkady; away; coachman; come; course; dark; day; dog; eremyitch; eyes; face; father; fedya; fellow; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; home; honour; horses; house; little; look; looking; man; master; nikolai; pavel; pavlitch; peasant; people; place; red; right; room; round; things; time; village; voice; want; water; white; wife; yermolaï
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item: #10 of 10
id: 8744
author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
title: A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume 2
date: None
words: 70323
flesch: 85
summary: Thin little old men in sober surtouts were reading the Russian papers. It is true your room looked out into the garden; wild cherries, apple-trees, and limes strewed their delicate blossoms on your table, your ink-stand, your books; on the wall hung a blue silk watch-pocket, a parting present from a kind-hearted, sentimental German governess with flaxen curls and little blue eyes; and sometimes an old friend from Moscow would come out to you and throw you into ecstasies with new poetry, often even with his own.
keywords: adel; air; borissovna; come; country; day; death; eremyitch; eyes; face; filofey; girl; god; good; half; hand; hanov; head; heart; horse; jew; life; little; long; look; lukerya; malek; man; masha; master; moscow; nose; panteley; peasant; people; place; right; room; round; set; sir; sort; tatyana; tchertop; thought; time; village; voice; way; white; word
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