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id: 60664
author: Leiber, Fritz
title: Pipe Dream
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sentence: 302
flesch: 77
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  At first Simon tried to guide himself by the faint flopping noises along the hidden base of the wall, but these soon ceased. The old house next door together with its spacious tarpapered roof, which held a sort of pent-shack, a cylindrical old water tank, and several chicken-wire enclosures, had always been a focus of curiosity in this region of Greenwich Village, especially to whoever happened to be renting Simon's studio, the north window-cum-skylight of which looked down upon it--if you were exceptionally tall or if, like Simon, you stood halfway up a stepladder and peered.


id: 5310
author: Glyn, Elinor
title: The Point of View
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words: 29166
sentence: 1291
flesch: 77
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  She had not closed an eye, but thought Miss Stella was enjoying them statues better without her, which was indeed true, if she had guessed! I understand that for a short while you have been engaged to be married to Miss Stella Rawson, the niece of the respected English clergyman, the Reverend Ebley-- Pardon me, interrupted Mr. Medlicott acidly, but I do not see how my private affairs can interest you, sir, I cannot-- But the host in turn interrupted him.


id: 7320
author: Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis)
title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute
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flesch: 64
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  [Native Contingents, Independent States of India, [2] about 349,831.] ================================================================== Army (E'r'p'n) (Native) ================================================================== Engineers Officers 436 Men [3] 232 3,109 Cavalry Officers 198 304 Men 4,086 18,071 Royal Horse Artillery Officers Men Royal Artillery Officers 453 19 Men 10,809 1,842 Infantry Officers 1,400 1,068 Men 44,106 102,648 ------- ------- Aggregate All Ranks 61,488 127,263 ================================================================= Grand Aggregate 188,751 ================================================================= [Footnote 2: Cashmere 27,000, Nepaul 100,000, Hyderabad 44,000.] All Ranks 122,345 44,503 108,462 11,441 209,365 ================================================================== Grand Aggregate 469,116 ================================================================== INDIA.


id: 41091
author: Le Queux, William
title: The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia
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sentence: 4991
flesch: 80
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  You tell me that you find all the Court etiquette irksome, and that you are antagonistic to this host of young men about you. For that very reason I have been so much against your friendship with young men.


id: 55244
author: Bland, Hubert
title: The Prophet's Mantle
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sentence: 5766
flesch: 86
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  'There's some words as Alice were fond o' saying time agone, and I'll say 'em to thee, my lass, for I'll not see thee agen, m'appen, and they say my meanin' clearer nor talk o' mine. It was certainly a pleasant vision this of the Russian noble, whether it was prophetic or no, a dream of a time when men would no longer sow for other men to reap, when the fruits of the earth would be the inheritance of all the earth's children, and not only of her priests and her rulers; when, in fact, rulers would be no more, for all would rule and each would obey; when every man would do as he liked, and every man would like to do well.


id: 29617
author: Gibbs, George
title: The Vagrant Duke
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words: 111424
sentence: 8153
flesch: 91
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  It was the Grand Duke Peter who wanted to take this peasant woman in his arms and teach her what other peasant girls had been taught by Grand Dukes since the beginning of the autocratic system of which he had been a part--but it was Peter Nichols who restrained him. And it was Peter Nichols who knew that any words spoken of marriage to Beth Cameron would be irrevocable, the Grand Duke Peter (an opportunist) who urged him to utter them, careless of consequences.


