item: #1 of 12 id: 10729 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Jack's Ward; Or, The Boy Guardian date: None words: 48817 flesch: 90 summary: My name is Harding--Jack Harding. This was Rachel Harding, a spinster of melancholy temperament, who belonged to that unhappy class who are always prophesying evil, and expecting the worst. keywords: aunt; aunt rachel; child; clifton; cooper; day; door; good; harding; hardwick; home; house; ida; jack; man; money; mother; mrs; peg; rachel; thought; time; timothy; want; way; woman cache: 10729.txt plain text: 10729.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 15402 author: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) title: What Answer? date: None words: 67288 flesch: 81 summary: Said Napoleon at Austerlitz to a young Russian officer, overwhelmed with shame at yielding his sword, Young man, be consoled: those who are conquered by my soldiers may still have titles to glory. Sunday followed,--a day filled not with a Sabbath calm, but with the stillness felt in nature before some awful convulsion; the silence preceding earthquake, volcano, or blasting storm; a quiet broken from Maine to the Pacific slope when the next day shone, and men roused themselves from the sleep of a night to the duty of a day, from the sleep of generations, fast merging into death, at the trumpet-call to arms,--a cry which sounded through every State and every household in the land, which, more powerful than the old songs of Percy and Douglas, brought children from their play, and old men from their chimney-corners, to emulate humanity in its strength and prime, and contest with it the opportunity to fight and die in a deathless cause. keywords: air; come; course; day; dead; dear; death; ercildoune; eyes; face; father; fellow; fine; francesca; friend; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; jim; letter; life; little; look; love; man; men; miss; moment; mother; mrs; people; place; read; right; room; sallie; sir; soul; street; surrey; thought; time; voice; way; willie; words; work; world; young cache: 15402.txt plain text: 15402.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 18508 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 date: None words: 150242 flesch: 75 summary: Instead of equipages and a throng of passengers, the voice of levity and glee, which I had formerly observed, and which the mildness of the season would, at other times, have produced, I found nothing but a dreary solitude. He had stronger motives than other men for abstaining from guilt, the difficulty of concealment or disguise being tenfold greater in him than in others, by reason of the indelible and eye-attracting marks which nature had set upon him. keywords: attention; brother; cause; chamber; city; come; condition; conduct; day; death; door; eyes; family; fate; father; friend; girl; good; hadwin; hand; heart; hour; house; knowledge; lady; leave; left; length; life; light; love; man; means; mervyn; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; person; place; power; present; purpose; reason; return; room; situation; state; thetford; thought; thy; time; truth; wallace; watson; way; welbeck; wife; woman; youth cache: 18508.txt plain text: 18508.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 28648 author: Douglas, Amanda M. title: A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia date: None words: 105451 flesch: 89 summary: We must be friends, little Primrose, for now we shall see a good deal of each other, I hope. Heaven bless thee, little Primrose. keywords: andrew; aunt; brother; child; children; city; country; cousin; day; dear; england; eyes; face; faith; farm; father; friends; general; girl; going; good; half; hand; hath; heart; henry; home; house; james; life; lois; love; madam; madam wetherill; man; men; mother; nevitt; new; patty; penn; people; philemon; place; polly; primrose; primrose henry; quaker; rachel; son; summer; talk; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; town; uncle; washington; way; wetherill; wilt; winter; women; world; years; young cache: 28648.txt plain text: 28648.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 30940 author: Madison, Lucy Foster title: Peggy Owen and Liberty date: None words: 81310 flesch: 89 summary: Peggy Owen, Patriot tells of Peggy's winter at Middlebrook, in northern New Jersey, where Washington's army is camped, her capture by the British and enforced journey to the Carolinas, and final return home. Peggy Owen at Yorktown details how Peggy goes to Virginia to nurse a cousin, who is wounded and a prisoner. keywords: ashley; betty; brother; captain; clifford; come; cousin; david; day; door; drayton; eyes; face; fairfax; father; friend; general; girls; harriet; hath; home; house; johnson; little; man; matter; men; mother; mrs; new; nurse; owen; peggy; peggy owen; place; right; robert; room; sally; sir; thee; thought; thy; time; tis; twas; way; youth cache: 30940.txt plain text: 30940.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 32942 author: Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir) title: The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington date: None words: 103828 flesch: 90 summary: Said Schmidt: Our friend Wynne lay there in the war for months. De Courval, failing to answer a question, he said: What troubles thee, young man? Is thee afeared? A man should be--and at first I was; but now I am thinking of the Papist and Lutheran--working together. keywords: away; captain; carteaux; city; courval; day; de courval; english; face; france; french; friend; gainor; german; girl; good; hamilton; home; house; left; life; little; long; love; madame; man; margaret; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; pearl; people; president; quaker; randolph; rené; room; schmidt; secretary; set; sir; son; story; street; swanwick; talk; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; vicomte; vicomtesse; woman; word; wynne; young cache: 32942.txt plain text: 32942.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 36289 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 31488 flesch: 68 summary: Mr. Dudley did not require much time to deliberate. In a short time he was able to relieve his master of most of the toils of his profession, and Mr. Dudley a thousand times congratulated himself on possessing a servant equally qualified by his talents and his probity. keywords: baxter; change; city; condition; constantia; craig; daughter; day; death; disease; door; dudley; family; father; friend; house; knowledge; life; man; means; mind; new; person; place; present; situation; time; whiston cache: 36289.txt plain text: 36289.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 36290 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3) date: None words: 31996 flesch: 71 summary: It was couched in these terms:-- Constantia Dudley requests an interview with Mr. Ormond. Philadelphia Printed, London, Re-Printed for Henry Colburn, English and Foreign Public Library, Conduit-Street, Bond-Street. 1811. ORMOND, OR THE SECRET WITNESS CHAPTER I. On leaving Mr. Ormond's house, Constantia was met by that gentleman. keywords: character; condition; constantia; craig; dudley; father; friend; girl; good; happiness; heart; helena; house; lady; love; man; marriage; means; melbourne; mind; new; ormond; place; present; situation; time; visit cache: 36290.txt plain text: 36290.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 36291 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 3 (of 3) date: None words: 32248 flesch: 70 summary: The friendship of Constantia Dudley was my only consolation. That Constantia Dudley was reduced to beggary was too abhorrent to my feelings to receive credit; yet the sale of her father's property, comprising even his furniture and clothing, seemed to prove that she had fallen even to this depth. keywords: constantia; death; door; dudley; evil; father; friend; house; knowledge; lady; life; man; means; mind; moment; mother; motives; new; ormond; person; place; power; present; purpose; scene; state; thee; thou; time; voyage cache: 36291.txt plain text: 36291.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 38076 author: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins title: Our Philadelphia date: None words: 93610 flesch: 58 summary: Its sky-scrapers compose themselves with marvellous effectiveness as a centre to the town, though they threaten by degrees to become too scattered to preserve the present composition; they provide an astounding and ever-varying arrangement of towers and spires from neighbouring corners and crossings; they give new interest as a background to some simple bit of old Philadelphia, as where Wanamaker's rises sheer and high above the little red brick meeting-house in Twelfth Street; they add to the charm of some ambitious bit of new Philadelphia as where the little Girard Trust Building--itself a happy return to standards that gave us Girard College and the Mint and Fairmount Water-Works--stands low among the clustered towers, just as many a town in the Alps or Apennines lies low in the cup of the hills, and is the lovelier for it; they redeem from ugliness buildings of later periods, as where they give the scale in the most surprising fashion to the Union League; from far up or down the long straight line of Broad Street they complete the perspective as impressively as the Arc de Triomphe completes that other impressive perspective from the Garden of the Tuileries in Paris. He was a handsome old man and a noticeable figure even in Philadelphia streets at the hour when John Welsh from the corner, and Biddles and Cadwalladers and Whartons and Peppers and Lewises and a host of other handsome old Philadelphians with good Philadelphia names from the near neighborhood, were starting downtown in clothes as irreproachable and with a gait no less dignified. keywords: american; art; beauty; book; brick; building; centennial; chestnut; church; city; class; club; colonial; convent; country; day; days; dinner; family; father; friends; germantown; good; grandfather; green; hall; history; home; house; illustration; interest; john; life; little; london; look; man; market; men; miss; mrs; new; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; philadelphia club; philadelphia girl; philadelphia house; philadelphia library; philadelphia streets; philadelphia way; philadelphia women; place; right; room; saw; school; set; society; spruce; square; street; street house; talk; things; thought; time; town; uncle; walnut; way; white; women; work; world; years; york; young cache: 38076.txt plain text: 38076.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 39518 author: Roy, Lillian Elizabeth title: The Little Washingtons' Travels date: None words: 24862 flesch: 81 summary: He wondered if George Washington ever had such a cowardly game played on him. I am George Washington, commander-in-chief of the American forces! proudly replied George. keywords: american; anne; army; battle; boys; british; children; city; davis; day; door; george; jack; john; maggie; martha; men; mrs; new; parke; party; philadelphia; right; river; street; time; washington; york cache: 39518.txt plain text: 39518.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 8223 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker date: None words: 94953 flesch: 74 summary: Waldegrave, like other men early devoted to meditation and books, had adopted, at different periods, different systems of opinion on topics connected with religion and morals. He believed that the influence of former reasonings on my faith would be sufficiently eradicated by the new; but he dreaded lest these manuscripts might fall into other hands, and thus produce mischiefs which it would not be in his power to repair. keywords: attention; bed; brother; chamber; clithero; condition; day; death; distance; door; eyes; fate; feet; friend; ground; hand; heart; hither; hope; house; lady; left; length; life; man; means; mind; moment; motives; new; night; person; place; power; present; purpose; return; road; sarsefield; scene; situation; sleep; spot; state; thoughts; thy; time; way cache: 8223.txt plain text: 8223.txt