item: #1 of 13 id: 11263 author: Verne, Jules title: The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" date: None words: 72929 flesch: 80 summary: I fall into that sort of slumber provoked by the regular trepidations of a train on the road, mingled with ear-splitting whistles and the grind of the brakes as the speed is slowed, and tumultuous roars as passing trains are met with, besides the names of the stations shouted out during the short stoppages, and the banging of the doors which are opened or shut with metallic sonority. And when this vast basin has dried up through evaporation, why should not a railroad be run across its sandy bed, so that trains can run through without transhipment at Baku and Uzun Ada? While we are waiting for the realization of this desideratum, it is necessary to take the steamboat, and that I am preparing to do in company with many others. keywords: baron; bluett; bombarnac; box; car; case; caterna; century; chao; china; chinese; company; day; engine; ephrinell; eyes; faruskiar; french; good; grand; half; hand; hour; journey; kilometres; kinko; left; line; look; major; man; miss; monsieur; morning; new; night; noltitz; o'clock; pan; passengers; pekin; place; platform; popof; railway; roumanian; run; russian; sea; second; sir; station; stop; table; think; time; town; train; transasiatic; treasure; turkestan; van; young; zinca cache: 11263.txt plain text: 11263.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 13271 author: Sidney, Samuel title: Rides on Railways date: None words: 98723 flesch: 59 summary: This corporation offers an example which might be with advantage followed by greater men holding the same office; they have but a small income, and they apply it to keeping in order cisterns and conduits which supply the town with water. In conclusion we may say of Liverpool, that it is a town which has a great and increasing population, a wealthy Corporation, a thriving trade, yet less of the materials of a metropolis than many other towns of less commercial importance. keywords: advantage; birmingham; black; boys; building; castle; character; children; church; city; class; cloth; coal; college; cotton; country; course; day; district; duke; earl; education; effect; engine; england; english; find; fine; gentlemen; good; half; hall; hand; henry; hour; house; iron; kind; kingdom; lancashire; leeds; life; line; liverpool; london; lord; machinery; making; manchester; manufactures; manufacturing; market; master; mechanics; men; messrs; metal; miles; money; new; north; number; open; order; oxford; park; parts; people; period; place; population; pounds; power; present; principal; public; queen; railway; rate; river; road; room; round; school; seat; set; sheffield; shrewsbury; silk; sir; south; stands; state; station; steam; steel; street; system; time; town; trade; university; visit; water; william; wolverton; wool; work; world; years; young cache: 13271.txt plain text: 13271.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 14658 author: London, Jack title: The Road date: None words: 52174 flesch: 90 summary: I have known men who have been robbed and who have talked all the rest of their lives about it. Here were more men in convict stripes. keywords: away; blind; boat; car; day; days; door; engine; eyes; feet; freight; good; half; hall; hand; head; hoboes; kid; lay; left; life; little; man; men; miles; moment; morning; new; night; railroad; river; road; run; shack; stop; street; time; town; train; tramp; water; way; work cache: 14658.txt plain text: 14658.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 15728 author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell title: The Indiscreet Letter date: None words: 11688 flesch: 83 summary: Even the serious Traveling Salesman succumbed at last. There's no special object in reading, she said, when you can hear a bright man talk! As unappreciatingly as a duck might shake champagne from its back, the Traveling Salesman shrugged the compliment from his shoulders. keywords: electrician; eyes; face; girl; letter; salesman; think; time; traveling; voice; way; wife; young cache: 15728.txt plain text: 15728.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 16383 author: May, Sophie title: Dotty Dimple Out West date: None words: 24622 flesch: 92 summary: Don't I wish I was a Yankee--I mean a 'Publican? But you can't be, Horace, returned little Dotty, looking up at him with deep pity in her bright eyes; you weren't born there. Why, indeed, and indeed, it _is_ Dotty; and if here isn't Uncle Edward too! keywords: baby; child; clifford; dear; dimple; dotty; face; father; girl; good; grace; horace; katie; know; little; miss; mrs; papa; parlin; prudy; thought; time; west cache: 16383.txt plain text: 16383.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 2506 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Sleeping-Car: A Farce date: None words: 8857 flesch: 96 summary: [Voices from various berths. ROBERTS continues talking, various notes of protest, profane and otherwise, make themselves heard from different berths.] keywords: aunt; berth; californian; mary; mrs; porter; roberts cache: 2506.txt plain text: 2506.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 33620 author: Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris) title: A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 date: None words: 41899 flesch: 74 summary: Flowers and roses were on every hand, and great trees with grateful shade, and the songs of many birds, and the pealing laughter of young folk, and the quiet happiness of those who loved to see others happy all about them. Even in our short stay we were charmed by the visits of many friends, among them some old acquaintances of other places and other times. keywords: air; alamo; arr; beauty; car; church; city; day; days; effect; face; flowers; friend; garden; good; hand; home; hour; house; ladies; left; life; look; man; men; merrimac; morning; mountains; new; night; orleans; pacific; party; people; place; rest; river; salt; san; santa; stay; streets; sunday; thing; time; town; trees; view; water; way; work; york; young cache: 33620.txt plain text: 33620.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 37509 author: Waterloo, Stanley title: The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains date: None words: 81630 flesch: 80 summary: He bore no resemblance to the typical farmer as represented in the comic publications but was, on the contrary, a well-dressed, imposing looking man of middle age, a college graduate, as Stafford knew, and one who had selected his occupation because it appealed to him as, to their own and general good, it might appeal to hosts of others of the educated men of the country. I am without a country because my country will not give me what it gives to other men. keywords: angeline; black; business; car; case; chickum; city; colonel; country; course; cut; day; days; end; eyes; face; fact; fair; feet; felton; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jason; john; lady; left; life; little; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; night; people; place; purple; sir; snow; sort; stafford; story; things; thought; time; train; voice; want; water; way; white; woman; work; world; years cache: 37509.txt plain text: 37509.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 40607 author: Hughes, Rupert title: Excuse Me! date: None words: 62537 flesch: 84 summary: We'll claim it's our section till Mallory and Mrs. Mallory come. Good morning, Mrs. Mallory, snapped Mrs. Whitcomb. keywords: anne; ashton; berth; car; chapter; come; conductor; couple; dear; dog; door; eyes; fosdick; going; good; hand; head; husband; ira; jimmie; kathleen; lathrop; left; little; look; love; mallory; man; marjorie; men; minister; mrs; new; passengers; porter; right; room; round; seat; smoking; snoozleums; temple; time; train; voice; way; wedgewood; wellington; whitcomb; wife; woman; young cache: 40607.txt plain text: 40607.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 41604 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman date: None words: 27871 flesch: 86 summary: He wanted a lot of little stars to paste all over their shoes. But the punch served its purpose, for the Holland shade was not taken down on account of the holes, and whenever the row of little stars met Molly Branfield's eyes, they reminded her of the day when Libby threw herself into her arms, calling her Mother for the first time, and sobbing out the story of Ina and the swans. keywords: benjy; boy; children; christmas; claus; day; door; face; father; good; home; junction; know; libby; miss; mother; neal; santa; star; things; time; train; way; will'm cache: 41604.txt plain text: 41604.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 5004 author: Young, Clarence title: The Motor Boys on the Pacific; Or, the Young Derelict Hunters date: None words: 47908 flesch: 92 summary: CHAPTER XXIV HUNTING THE DERELICT WELL, now that we're under way, said Jerry, who had assumed charge of the engine, in which direction do you propose going, Mr. De Vere? Jerry assisted Mr. De Vere out on the small deck in front of the cabin. keywords: blowitz; boat; bob; boys; brig; car; day; derelict; engine; girls; good; jerry; know; little; look; man; motor; ned; nellie; ponto; professor; right; ripper; rose; seabury; time; vere; way cache: 5004.txt plain text: 5004.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 54896 author: Phillpotts, Eden title: My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares date: None words: 9055 flesch: 74 summary: It was a Spartan entry upon life for young Joshua Beakbane and myself; but whereas I thrived under the puritanic and colourless regime, Mr. Beakbane's own son, a youth by nature prone to vicious habits and evil communications, chafed beneath the iron rule, which only became more unbending in consequence. When he was twenty-one years of age, Joshua Beakbane, in a fit of mad folly, that to me is scarcely conceivable, ran away from the Farm, taking with him about five hundred pounds of his father's money. keywords: beakbane; half; joshua; life; london; man; moment; night; plenderleath; room; sorrell; time cache: 54896.txt plain text: 54896.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 61006 author: Jacobs, Sylvia title: Young Man from Elsewhen date: None words: 5270 flesch: 93 summary: Shall we have something sent in or go to the diner? Let's go to the diner, old George decided. Medical men would examine these people and find certain evolutionary developments--the secret would be out. keywords: body; edna; george; man; sandane; time; train cache: 61006.txt plain text: 61006.txt