item: #1 of 8 id: 11413 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents date: None words: 124720 flesch: 88 summary: And yet as evil a fate had come upon other women as tender as Adele--upon other men as loving as he. De Catinat was sprung from a noble Huguenot family, but having lost his parents early he had joined the army, and had worked his way without influence and against all odds to his present position. keywords: adele; amos; arms; blue; boat; captain; catinat; country; court; dark; day; de catinat; door; ephraim; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; france; french; friend; god; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; house; instant; iroquois; king; lady; lay; leave; left; lhut; life; little; look; louis; louvois; love; madame; man; men; mind; monsieur; morning; new; night; open; paris; river; room; round; savage; saw; set; sire; thought; time; water; way; white; window; woman; woods; word; years; young cache: 11413.txt plain text: 11413.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 13918 author: Fea, Allan title: Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. date: None words: 35046 flesch: 63 summary: Many old houses in Clerkenwell were, sixty or seventy years ago, notorious thieves' dens, and were noted for their hiding-places, trap-doors, etc., for evading the vigilance of the law. Occasionally, in old houses, unmeaning gaps and spaces are met with in the upper rooms midway between floor and ceiling, which possibly at one time were used as bed-head hiding-places. keywords: building; castle; chamber; chapel; chapter; charles; chimney; close; court; days; door; entrance; escape; family; feet; fireplace; floor; footnote; fugitive; hall; hiding; hole; house; illustration; james; king; lady; little; manor house; mansion; night; old; panel; passage; place; priest; prince; room; search; seat; secret; sir; staircase; time; tradition; trap; wall; way; years cache: 13918.txt plain text: 13918.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 15992 author: Benson, Robert Hugh title: Come Rack! Come Rope! date: None words: 138877 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Robin rode loosely and heavily. Mr. Robin asked where was Mr. Simpson gone to, and Dick told him he did not know, but that he would be back again by Easter, it was thought, or, if not, another priest would be in the district. keywords: air; anthony; babington; coming; court; day; derby; door; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; god; good; grace; half; hall; hand; hath; head; heart; hour; house; john; lay; letter; life; little; london; lord; man; manners; marjorie; mass; men; mind; mistress; news; night; padley; place; priest; queen; robin; room; round; saw; servants; sir; son; things; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; word; years; young cache: 15992.txt plain text: 15992.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 22400 author: Foxe, John title: Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs date: None words: 265538 flesch: 63 summary: He kept a public school, taught many who afterward became great men, and wrote a treatise to confute heresies of all kinds. At other times he was tied up by the arms, till almost all his joints were dislocated. keywords: account; afterward; answer; archbishop; arms; army; asaad; bishop; blood; body; bonner; brother; catholic; cause; children; christ; christian; church; city; conduct; council; country; court; cruelty; day; days; death; doctrines; duke; emperor; enemies; england; english; execution; faith; family; father; fire; following; force; france; friends; general; god; good; gospel; government; governor; hands; head; heart; heretics; holy; house; inquisition; jesus; john; king; law; leave; left; length; letter; liberty; life; little; london; lord; man; manner; martyrdom; martyrs; mary; mass; means; men; mind; money; morning; mother; new; night; number; officers; opinions; order; page; papists; parts; patriarch; people; persecution; persons; pieces; place; poor; pope; power; present; priest; prison; prisoners; protestants; public; queen; read; reign; religion; rest; return; roman; rome; sentence; service; set; sir; soldiers; spirit; state; subject; sufferings; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; troops; truth; way; wife; women; word; work; years; young cache: 22400.txt plain text: 22400.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 23120 author: Holt, Emily Sarah title: The King's Daughters date: None words: 64004 flesch: 92 summary: Good little maid! Go you on, and when you've made an end I'll ask good Master Clere to show me some, without Mistress Clere's at liberty sooner. keywords: alice; amy; bit; children; cissy; clere; come; day; dear; door; dorothy; elizabeth; ewring; father; god; good; head; heart; johnson; know; look; lord; maid; man; margaret; master; mistress; mother; mrs; right; rose; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; want; way cache: 23120.txt plain text: 23120.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 23191 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Count Ulrich of Lindburg: A Tale of the Reformation in Germany date: None words: 23955 flesch: 75 summary: Some who had the gift of preaching went forth to preach the Gospel; others have begun to learn trades that they may support themselves; and, as I have a good broad pair of shoulders, I offered to carry throughout our fatherland the Gospel book, and other works of Dr Luther, which had proved so great a blessing to our souls; and though I cannot preach, I can go about and tell people that, through God's love, Christ died for all men; that there is but one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ; and that men will be saved, not by dead works, but by a living faith in Him, which will produce fruits unto righteousness, an earnest desire to imitate Him, to serve Him, to spread these glad tidings among all mankind. The Bible was being disseminated; the convents thrown open--or, at all events, their inmates were leaving them--superstitions were being abolished; a pure form of worship was being established in numerous places; and, what was of the greatest importance, young men of high talent and courage were being educated in the principles of the Reformation to spread the pure light of the Gospel throughout all parts of Germany. keywords: ava; christ; day; eric; father; god; good; hans; knight; little; luther; man; margaret; martin; men; mother; nicholas; son; time; wittemburg cache: 23191.txt plain text: 23191.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 33607 author: Balfour, Grant title: The Mother of St. Nicholas: A Story of Duty and Peril date: None words: 13044 flesch: 79 summary: Guiding Pathema to a comfortable seat, she spoke for the first time, saying, Welcome to our home! I thank thee for the honour, answered Pathema, and I am glad to come, yet greatly pained. But Pathema was wiry and enduring, easily fit for the fragile burden, and having by a word persuaded the sufferer she wrapped her in a long white _chiton_, and carried her with great tenderness out into the cooler welcome air, beside the refreshing spring. keywords: arena; boy; carnion; christian; coryna; demonicus; eyes; face; father; life; lion; man; pathema; tharsos; thee; thou; thy; time cache: 33607.txt plain text: 33607.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 52734 author: Bloundelle-Burton, John title: The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution date: None words: 89062 flesch: 84 summary: To do all for him that she would have done had he been her own; to surround him with luxuries far too good and dainty for one so young as he; to provide him with tutors and keepers, with horses and carriages and rich silks and satins, and gold pieces in his pockets to fling to beggars as other men flung sols and deniers, because she loved him, and in her love had but one regret--that he was not a de Rochebazon to succeed to all they owned. Other men have resolved on that, and kept their resolution. keywords: ashurst; baville; buscarlet; camisards; cavalier; church; come; day; dead; death; dragoons; ducaire; end; english; ere; eyes; face; faith; father; fear; france; girl; god; hands; heart; house; intendant; king; know; land; languedoc; left; life; louis; love; madame; man; martin; men; moment; monsieur; montrevel; mountains; nay; night; nîmes; place; protestant; road; rochebazon; room; soldiers; thought; time; urbaine; voice; way; white; woman; words; years cache: 52734.txt plain text: 52734.txt