item: #1 of 17 id: 139 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Lost World date: None words: 77245 flesch: 82 summary: CHAPTER II Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. You are very good, sir. So why should you not try your luck with Professor Challenger, of Enmore Park? I dare say I looked a little startled. keywords: air; ape; black; camp; challenger; country; creatures; dark; day; doubt; edge; end; eyes; face; feet; good; half; hand; head; indians; john; lake; land; lay; left; life; look; lord; lord john; malone; man; men; moment; morning; new; night; open; place; plateau; point; professor; professor challenger; professor summerlee; red; river; round; roxton; sir; summerlee; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; world cache: 139.txt plain text: 139.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 15590 author: Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric) title: Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders date: None words: 38742 flesch: 73 summary: | | | | The author gauges what ideas were already | | part of the religious thought in the first | | century, and what were the terms and ideas | | in Christianity which were new to mankind. | | | | We have now the material for forming a very | | fair conception of the fruitful contribution | | made by Crete to Grecian and European | | civilisation. keywords: blocks; building; centre; chamber; circle; corridor; cover; dolmens; east; end; examples; feet; fig; form; france; line; malta; megalithic; monuments; mound; near; north; place; plan; rectangular; rock; sardinia; slabs; south; stone; stonehenge; tombs; type; upright; walls; west; | prof; | | cache: 15590.txt plain text: 15590.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 26989 author: Meek, S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) title: B. C. 30,000 date: None words: 8558 flesch: 94 summary: Anak returned the stare coolly and Uglik raised his throwing-spear threateningly. Uglik was too wise a leader to waste men on a trivial quarrel, able though he felt himself to kill Anak, should the latter cry the rannag, the duel to the death by which the Father must at any time prove to any challenger, his right to rule. keywords: anak; esle; father; hunter; invar; tribe; uglik; una cache: 26989.txt plain text: 26989.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 27645 author: Hasse, Henry title: The Beginning date: None words: 6656 flesch: 91 summary: On the fifth day it was _Otah_ who noticed, and more out of contempt than pity tossed him the remnants of a wild-dog he had brought: the portion was little more than stripped bones and sinew, but Gral accepted without question, crawled to his place on the ledge and partially assuaged his hunger.... _ He pursued, armed only with blunt shaft and a few of the throw-stones such as Otah used; but he was less swift than the tiny horses, and his throw-stones fell wide, and it was rumored that here roamed the long-tusked shaggy ones that were larger than the very caves ... trembling, Gral had retraced his way, to arrive at the ledge and meekly await Gor-wah's word that he could partake of the sinews that night. keywords: gral; kurho; obe; otah; thing; time; tribe cache: 27645.txt plain text: 27645.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 28936 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: In the Morning of Time date: None words: 82002 flesch: 80 summary: But in a few minutes every one, from Grôm downwards, came to a halt irresistibly, in order to watch the monstrous drama unfolding behind them. At the extreme left, where the walls of the pass, lower and less abrupt than on the right, invited an attack as fierce as that upon the center, the defense was led by a warrior named Grôm, who seemed no less redoubtable than the Chief himself. keywords: bawr; beasts; black; body; bow; branches; cave; chief; children; club; eyes; face; feet; fire; flames; giant; girl; green; grôm; hair; half; hand; head; hills; left; legs; man; mawg; moment; monster; mouth; new; red; right; saw; set; spear; thought; time; trail; tree; tribe; water; way; women cache: 28936.txt plain text: 28936.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 32396 author: Livingston, Berkeley title: Oogie Finds Love date: None words: 5356 flesch: 91 summary: * * Even as his face contorted in pain Allerdyce whipped around to one side and delivered a blow with the side of his palm to the side of Sobar's neck. For Grogan had advertised for wrestlers and Allerdyce had been the first of those to answer. keywords: allerdyce; finster; men; oogie; sam; sobar; time cache: 32396.txt plain text: 32396.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 32462 author: Browne, Howard title: Warrior of the Dawn date: None words: 67116 flesch: 88 summary: Soon she caught the sound of a blow, heavier than the others, followed by deep silence, broken only by labored breathing of many men. Few men are his equal with a knife. keywords: alurna; cave; day; door; dylara; eyes; face; feet; figure; forest; girl; god; guards; half; hand; head; high; jotan; jungle; katon; knife; left; life; little; man; men; palace; princess; pryak; room; sadu; sephar; stone; tamar; tharn; time; trail; urim; vulcar; way cache: 32462.txt plain text: 32462.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 33529 author: Browne, Howard title: The Return of Tharn date: None words: 70792 flesch: 86 summary: He was on the point of descending to the game trail below when Siha, the wind, brought to his sensitive nostrils the scent of man commingled with the acrid smell of Sadu, the lion. Since the day Tharn, the son of Tharn, set out in search of the girl he loved, he had encountered men on several occasions and always those meetings were unpleasant. keywords: ammad; branches; cave; door; dylara; ekbar; eyes; face; feet; garlud; girl; ground; guards; hand; head; heglar; high; jaltor; jotan; jungle; life; man; men; moment; night; noble; open; page; palace; room; sadu; tharn; time; trakor; voice; vokal; wall; warriors; way cache: 33529.txt plain text: 33529.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 42380 author: Figuier, Louis title: Primitive Man date: None words: 112500 flesch: 67 summary: Garrigou and Filhol, and other _savants_, there were found, under a very hard osseous _ If we consider the heaps of oyster-shells and other _débris_ which accumulate in the neighbourhood of eating-houses in certain districts, we may readily understand, comparing great things with small, how these Danish kitchen-middens were produced. keywords: age; animals; bear; bones; bronze epoch; cave; character; earth; end; epoch; europe; existence; fact; feet; fig; fire; flint; form; habitations; handle; hatchets; head; horn; human; illustration; implements; inches; instruments; iron; iron epoch; kind; lacustrine; lake; mammoth; man; means; men; museum; near; number; objects; order; period; place; point; pottery; present; reindeer epoch; remains; round; saint; settlements; shape; skull; species; stag; state; stone age; stone epoch; stones; switzerland; time; tombs; use; way; weapons; work cache: 42380.txt plain text: 42380.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 43750 author: Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) title: Ancient Man in Britain date: None words: 80711 flesch: 68 summary: It is believed by Budge that the Egyptian custom of burying green basalt scarabs inside or on the breasts of the dead is as old as the first Dynasty (_c._ These make reference to the Empire of Sargon of Akkad (_c._ 2600 B.C.), which, according to tradition, extended from the Persian Gulf to the Syrian coast. keywords: -as; age; amber; ancient; animals; areas; aurignacian; beliefs; black; boats; britain; british; bronze; cave; celtic; celts; century; civilization; connection; crô; culture; customs; dead; deities; deity; dog; early; east; egypt; egyptian; england; europe; evidence; fair; fire; flint; form; gaelic; goddess; gold; great; history; human; implements; industry; influence; ireland; irish; life; magdalenian; magnon; man; megalithic; men; metals; milk; mother; near; neolithic; new; north; northern; origin; pearls; people; period; place; pre; races; red; roman; sacred; scotland; scottish; sea; shells; soul; south; spain; stone; times; tin; trade; tree; type; water; western cache: 43750.txt plain text: 43750.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 44331 author: Duckworth, W. L. H. (Wynfrid Laurence Henry) title: Prehistoric Man date: None words: 35575 flesch: 67 summary: Penck's scheme[1] +-------------+-------------+--------------+ | | Boule[2] | Penck | Hoernes | +------------------------+---- -------+-------------+--------------+ | Postglacial =4= = with | Magdalenian | Magdalenian | -- | | Achen and other | Solutréan(4)| | | | oscillations (Penck) | | | | | |=============++ | | | =Glacial IV= 2nd | Mousterian || Solutréan | -- | | Pleistocene(2) | || | | | | | Valleys do not | | | | | correspond to | | | | | modern river | | | | | | | =Glacial II= | -- | ? keywords: bones; brain; case; cave; characters; chellean |; evidence; fauna; fig; form; galley; glacial; hill; human; implements; interval |; jaw; krapina; magdalenian |; mauer; neanderthal; penck |; period; position; professor; remains; skeleton; skull; strata; teeth; type; | +; | =; | mousterian; | neolithic; | |; | ||; || | cache: 44331.txt plain text: 44331.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 46379 author: Laing, S. (Samuel) title: Human Origins date: None words: 120495 flesch: 49 summary: That is to say, he makes excerpts from the sources at his disposal; sometimes inserts them consecutively and without alteration; at other times makes additions and changes of his own; and, in Canon Driver's words, does not scruple to omit what is not required for his purpose, and in fact treats his authorities with considerable freedom. In Syria and Palestine, the Phoenicians, Canaanites, and Hebrews were all immigrants from the Persian Gulf or Arabian frontier, either directly or through the medium of Egypt and Assyria, who did not even pretend to be the earliest inhabitants, but found other races, as the Amorites and Hittites, in possession, whose traditions again went back to barbarous aborigines of Zammumim, who seemed to them to stammer their unintelligible language. keywords: accadian; account; age; ancient; animals; antiquity; asia; b.c; case; chaldæa; civilization; date; day; days; deluge; discovery; doubt; dynasty; earth; egypt; egyptian; empire; europe; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; feet; find; form; glacial; god; gods; great; history; human; ice; implements; kings; land; language; life; long; man; miocene; monuments; nations; neolithic; new; north; number; origin; palæolithic; people; period; pliocene; present; quaternary; question; races; records; religion; remains; science; sea; south; state; stone; sun; temple; tertiary; theory; time; traditions; type; world; years cache: 46379.txt plain text: 46379.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 47845 author: Robinson, C. H. (Charles Henry) title: Longhead: The Story of the First Fire date: None words: 18221 flesch: 65 summary: In the brecchia of these caves, are often found long bones of animals which have been split longitudinally to obtain the marrow, which was regarded as a great delicacy by primitive man; and as some long bones of the human body have been found split in the same manner, some scientists have concluded that cave men were cannibals, or at least occasionally made a feast upon the bodies of prisoners captured in war, or upon such sacrifices when offered to the gods. The curious inhabitants of the settlement watched these operations, and it was not long until many other caves were thus enlarged and more comfort secured. keywords: animal; cave; day; fire; food; forest; group; longhead; man; men; night; people; platform; story; thought; time; tooth; use; weapons; woman cache: 47845.txt plain text: 47845.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 50957 author: Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick) title: Man and the Glacial Period date: None words: 122647 flesch: 64 summary: These exist abundantly in most regions which have been covered with glacial ice, and are referred to in Scotland as _kames_, in Ireland as _eskers_, and in Sweden as _osars_. Owing to the absence of high lands and mountains, however, it is not covered with perpetual snow, much less with glacial ice, but its level portions are carpeted with grasses and flowers, and sustain extensive forests of stunted trees. keywords: action; america; ancient; animals; area; boulders; channel; clay; coast; county; course; deposits; depth; direction; distance; drainage; drift; earth; east; elevation; england; erosion; europe; evidence; extensive; extent; facts; feet; fig; footnote; general; geological; glacial; glacier; gravel; great; height; high; ice; ice age; illustration; implements; lake; level; line; little; man; map; material; miles; moraine; motion; mountains; movement; near; new; north; northern; ohio; period; place; point; portion; present; professor; region; remains; river; rock; sea; seq; size; south; southern; stream; surface; terraces; tertiary; theory; time; upper; valley; vol; water; west; western; years cache: 50957.txt plain text: 50957.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 551 author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice title: The Land That Time Forgot date: None words: 37866 flesch: 82 summary: Fused with the melting inner crust, it has passed forever beyond the ken of man other than in that lost pocket of the earth whither fate has borne me and where my doom is sealed. Now I saw men spring to the rail and leap into the ocean. keywords: benson; boat; bradley; caprona; cliffs; day; deck; eyes; face; girl; hand; head; life; little; lys; man; men; moment; night; nobs; olson; schoenvorts; sea; thing; time; tower; u-33; von; water; way cache: 551.txt plain text: 551.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 58475 author: Fehlinger, Hans title: Sexual Life of Primitive People date: None words: 33379 flesch: 68 summary: Other women become very thin after several confinements, their features become sharp and bony, and among old women one often comes across real hag-like creatures with half-blind, running eyes (Koch-Grünberg, II., p. 149). Besides, even among primitive people men are careful in risking their lives. keywords: africa; australia; birth; boys; brothers; child; children; circumcision; cord; custom; father; girls; group; house; husband; intercourse; man; marriage; mother; new; parents; penis; people; place; present; price; puberty; purpose; races; rule; sex; time; tribes; wife; wives; women; years cache: 58475.txt plain text: 58475.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 8644 author: Waterloo, Stanley title: The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man date: None words: 71752 flesch: 79 summary: There was no delay in the response, for delays were dangerous when cave men lived. And not many years passed--as years are counted in old history--before the smoothed stone weaponhead became the common property of cave men. keywords: beasts; bow; boys; cave; cave man; cave people; day; death; eyes; face; feet; fire; forest; girl; good; ground; hand; head; home; life; lightfoot; little; man; men; mok; moment; mother; night; oak; people; place; river; shell; spear; stone; thing; thought; tiger; time; tree; valley; way; woman; wood; work cache: 8644.txt plain text: 8644.txt