item: #1 of 14 id: 10549 author: Child, Lydia Maria title: A Romance of the Republic date: None words: 128368 flesch: 80 summary: One day she spoke to Mr. King of the entire absence of gayety in her sister, and he said he feared young Mr. Fitzgerald painfully reminded her of her lost son. Mr. King then went on to say: Your father was Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald, a planter in Georgia. keywords: alfred; black; blumenthal; boston; bright; children; daughter; day; days; dear; delano; evening; eyes; face; father; fitzgerald; flora; floracita; flowers; friend; gentleman; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; king; lady; like; look; love; madame; mamita; man; morning; mother; mrs; music; new; night; poor; room; rosa; rosabella; rose; round; royal; saw; signor; sister; slave; son; things; thought; time; tom; tulee; voice; way; white; wife; wish; world; young cache: 10549.txt plain text: 10549.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 11057 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays date: None words: 82455 flesch: 74 summary: Other white men gave their colored sons freedom and money, and sent them to the free States. Miss Clayton and her friends, by reason of their assumed superiority to black people, or perhaps as much by reason of a somewhat morbid shrinking from the curiosity manifested toward married people of strongly contrasting colors, would not marry black men, and except in rare instances white men would not marry them. keywords: black; blood; case; child; children; cicely; clara; clayton; colonel; color; course; court; dat; day; dick; door; eyes; face; fact; father; fer; free; good; grandison; hand; home; house; know; law; laws; life; long; look; man; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; myrover; negro; north; people; place; prisoner; public; race; right; room; sheriff; sophy; south; states; tell; ter; time; uncle; want; war; way; wellington; white; wife; woman; wuz; years; young cache: 11057.txt plain text: 11057.txt item: #3 of 14 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: #4 of 14 id: 15454 author: Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) title: Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel date: None words: 54592 flesch: 80 summary: Bernard's eyes swam with tears as he said to Belton in a hoarse whisper: Belton Piedmont, your last hour has come. So on Monday Belton went back to his brutal teacher, and thither we follow him. keywords: anglo; belton; bernard; day; death; door; eyes; face; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; home; house; imperium; left; life; long; love; man; men; miss; mother; negro; nermal; night; people; piedmont; president; race; room; saxon; school; south; teacher; thought; time; viola; way; white; work; world cache: 15454.txt plain text: 15454.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 19746 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Colonel's Dream date: None words: 86445 flesch: 79 summary: Old Peter was at Archie's shop one day, and they were talking about old times--good old times--for to old men old times are always good times, though history may tell another tale. There's a fine mind, colonel, that's never had a proper opportunity for development. keywords: ben; boy; business; caxton; child; clarendon; colonel; colonel french; day; dey; dudley; eyes; father; fetters; fine; good; graciella; hand; henry; home; hotel; house; know; lady; laura; life; little; long; look; man; matter; men; mill; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; negro; negroes; new; night; office; people; peter; phil; place; run; state; suh; things; thought; time; town; treadwell; uncle; want; way; white; woman; work; years; york; young cache: 19746.txt plain text: 19746.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 26240 author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr. title: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan date: None words: 91834 flesch: 84 summary: Most of them were old men, who sat in grim silence with nothing to do or say as they watched the rising black tide, their dignity, reserve, and decorum at once the wonder and the shame of the modern world. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. keywords: aleck; arms; ben; black; blood; boy; cameron; come; commoner; congress; day; death; doctor; door; elsie; eyes; face; father; feet; figure; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; left; life; lincoln; lips; little; long; look; love; man; margaret; marion; men; moment; mother; mrs; nation; negro; negroes; new; night; north; order; people; phil; place; power; president; room; rose; soul; south; state; stoneman; ter; time; town; voice; war; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 26240.txt plain text: 26240.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 36089 author: Speed, Nell title: Back at School with the Tucker Twins date: None words: 56333 flesch: 87 summary: Which is Miss Dee? As I had a secret desire to turn Stephen White's supposed affection for me into the proper channel, namely, in the direction of Dee, who was much more suited to him than I was, I could not resist the temptation of telling him, although in doing so I certainly placed myself in a position precarious, to say the least. If I was Miss Dee I shouldn't thank you to be a calling me a buzzard. keywords: annie; ball; boys; chapter; christmas; course; day; dear; dee; dum; eyes; father; fire; girls; good; gresham; hair; kind; life; little; look; making; mammy; man; mary; mind; miss; miss plympton; morning; new; night; page; plympton; poor; richmond; room; sally; school; susan; tell; thing; thought; time; train; tucker; tweedles; twins; way; white; wink; year; zebedee cache: 36089.txt plain text: 36089.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 36914 author: Gerard, Louise title: A Son of the Sahara date: None words: 84542 flesch: 89 summary: It was love Pansy had wanted in the moonlit garden with Le Breton's arms about her. I'll be there in ten minutes or so, They parted company, Le Breton going along the shore, Pansy up the shadowed steps. keywords: ammeh; arab; arms; barclay; black; boy; breton; casim; chapter; day; desert; english; eyes; face; father; french; george; girl; half; hand; heart; horse; le breton; life; look; looking; love; man; manner; men; night; pansy; raoul; rayma; room; sultan; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; wild; woman; world; years cache: 36914.txt plain text: 36914.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 40178 author: Speed, Nell title: The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors date: None words: 54939 flesch: 88 summary: She had been up in Douglas's and Helen's room attempting to make up the bed to suit Miss Helen. The boss is done gone ter Preston ter fetch some nails ter try ter bolster up this here ole shack, an' Miss Douglas is done gone ter her teachin' job an' Miss Helen is done stepped up to see Miss Ellanlouise 'bout 'zervin' some ole hard pears---- And how about Mrs. Carter? in an amused voice. keywords: ball; billy; bobby; boys; carter; chloe; come; count; country; course; day; douglas; ella; eyes; father; girls; going; good; grantly; helen; herz; home; house; lestis; lewis; long; louise; lucy; man; miss; mother; mrs; new; place; poor; room; school; sister; sutton; thing; thought; time; way; work; wright cache: 40178.txt plain text: 40178.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 40964 author: Dick, Philip K. title: Tony and the Beetles date: None words: 4973 flesch: 95 summary: Tony felt embarrassed; female Pas had a certain telepathic ability, part of their sexual make-up. Tony Rossi yawned, stirred a little, then opened his black eyes and sat up quickly. keywords: b'prith; eep; orion; pas; time; tony; udeti cache: 40964.txt plain text: 40964.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 472 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The House Behind the Cedars date: None words: 70807 flesch: 79 summary: Peter's son Frank had grown up with little Rena. Judge Straight knew the whole story, and old men are sometimes garrulous. keywords: black; blood; boy; brother; dat; day; doctor; eyes; face; frank; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; john; judge; know; lady; left; letter; life; little; love; man; mis; miss; molly; moment; mother; negro; office; patesville; people; place; plato; rena; right; road; school; sister; street; teacher; ter; thought; time; town; tryon; wain; warwick; way; white; woman; years; young cache: 472.txt plain text: 472.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 584 author: Wilson, Harriet E. title: Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There date: None words: 25801 flesch: 82 summary: As if to remove the last vestige of earthly joy, Mrs. Bellmont sold the companion and pet of Frado, the dog Fido. CHAPTER VI. VARIETIES. Frado was called in, and Susan and Mrs. B. all attempted; Mrs. B. was too weak; she did not feel able to lift so much. keywords: abby; aunt; bellmont; child; day; family; frado; good; heart; home; house; jack; james; jane; mag; mary; mistress; mother; mrs; nig; room; time; work; years cache: 584.txt plain text: 584.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 58893 author: Williams, Ralph title: Race Riot date: None words: 5911 flesch: 90 summary: You're bucking the law now, John McCullough, Watts warned. His neighbors, Henry Watts from across the street, and Pete Tallant from next door, had been helping him with the windows, and now they were helping him with the bottle. keywords: man; mccullough; men; native; right; tallant; watts cache: 58893.txt plain text: 58893.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 59036 author: Kastle, Herbert D. title: The York Problem date: None words: 5439 flesch: 89 summary: * * It was a hot, bright day and Upper City was clean, fragrant and beautiful, but John Stevens wasn't enjoying himself. But John didn't remember much of Upper City, except that the people had looked at them with amusement and some contempt. keywords: blast; city; earth; eyes; john; outsiders; snake; york cache: 59036.txt plain text: 59036.txt