item: #1 of 10 id: 12669 author: Ferrier, Susan title: Marriage date: None words: 163674 flesch: 72 summary: SOME days before the expected _fete_ Lady Juliana, at the instigation of her adviser, Lady Gerard, resolved upon taking the field against the Duchess of L---. Lady _ keywords: adelaide; air; alicia; aunt; beauty; brother; chapter; character; child; children; colonel; come; company; country; course; cousin; daughter; day; days; dear; death; dinner; doctor; doubt; douglas; downe; duke; etc; eyes; face; family; father; feelings; ferrier; following; friend; general; glenfern; going; good; great; grizzy; half; hand; happiness; having; head; heart; henry; hope; house; husband; ill; jacky; know; ladies; lady; lady audley; lady emily; lady juliana; lady maclaughlan; ladyship; leave; length; lennox; letter; life; lindore; little; look; lord; love; man; manner; marriage; mary; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nature; nicky; niece; night; people; person; place; pleasure; poor; present; room; sampson; sense; set; short; sir; sister; thing; thought; time; way; wife; wish; woman; world; wright; years; young cache: 12669.txt plain text: 12669.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 18010 author: Ogilvy, Maud title: Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence date: None words: 24232 flesch: 85 summary: While this conversation had been going on, Noël McAllister did ample justice to the good fare his mother set before him. Noël McAllister, it is true, was often here, but neither his mother nor M. Bois-le-Duc seemed to like to see him in Marie Gourdon's society. keywords: bois; curé; dear; duc; father; french; good; gourdon; lacroix; lady; laurentia; life; mademoiselle; man; marie; mcallister; mother; night; noël; point; son; time; way; world; years cache: 18010.txt plain text: 18010.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 21227 author: Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) title: Shenac's Work at Home date: None words: 68724 flesch: 86 summary: While Shenac listened to the account of a sad accident that had happened to a young man from another part of the country, Shenac Dhu let down the long, fair hair of her cousin, and, by the help of an old card that lay near, smoothed it till it lay in waves and ripples of gold far below her waist. Shenac felt herself quite equal to these, but, as Shenac Dhu insisted, Katie had been at M--- within the year, and knew the fashions; so Katie came for a day or two. keywords: allister; angus; bhan; brother; cousin; dan; day; dhu; face; father; good; hamish; heart; help; home; house; like; man; mother; rest; shenac; shenac dhu; things; thought; time; way; words; work cache: 21227.txt plain text: 21227.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 25879 author: MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson) title: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America date: None words: 169421 flesch: 63 summary: The following is a return of the killed and wounded of Fraser's Highlanders during the war from 1756 to 1763:-- ====================================================================== | KILLED || WOUNDED |-------------------------------------------------- | F | C | S | S | D | R || F | C | S | S | D | R | d | a | u | e | r | a || d | a | u | e | r | a | . +-------------------------------+-------------+-------+----------+ | | CHILDREN | | Acres to | | NAMES OF FAMILIES +------+------+ TOTAL | Each | | | Male |Female| | Family | +-------------------------------+------+------+-------+----------+ |Alexander McDougald and wife | | 1 | 3 | 300 | |Malcolm McDougald | | 1 | 3 | 300 | |Neill McLean | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Duncan McLean | | | 2 | 200 | |Duncan Buea | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Angus McDougald | | | 2 | 200 | |Dougald McDougald | 3 | 1 | 6 | 640 | |Dougald McDougald | 2 | | 4 | 400 | |John Campbell | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Archibald Buea | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Neill Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Neill Clark | | | 1 | 100 | |John McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Angus McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |John McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Donald McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Donald McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Alexander McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |John McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Peter McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Malcolm Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Duncan Buea | | | 1 | 100 | keywords: = =; account; acres; alexander; america; americans; april; archibald; arms; army; battalion; battle; board; body; british; cameron; campbell; canada; captain; carolina; cause; charles; chief; children; city; colonel; colony; command; company; congress; country; creek; darien; day; duncan; e |; edinburgh; emigrants; enemy; england; english; expedition; families; family; field; fire; following; footnote; force; fort; fraser; french; general; general john; george; good; government; governor; grant; great; halifax; highlanders; history; home; house; hugh; ibid; indians; irish; island; james; jerseys |; john campbell; john |; july; june; king; lands; left; letter; lieutenant; life; long; lord; loss; macdonell |; majesty; major; man; march; mcdonald; mcdougald |; mclean |; men; miles; murray; near; new; new york; night; north; number; october; officers; oglethorpe; order; party; people; place; point; prisoners; province; r |; rank; regiment; revolution; river; robert; royal; s |; scotch; scotland; second; september; sergeant; service; settlement; sir; sir john; small; soldiers; state; stewart; thomas; time; town; troops; vol; war; washington; way; william; years; york; | =; | johnson; | l; | n; | t; | |; | ||; || | cache: 25879.txt plain text: 25879.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 36945 author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) title: A Tatter of Scarlet: Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 date: None words: 100124 flesch: 82 summary: Said Rhoda Polly, Father, I never knew that we harboured such wretches among our men. Listen well, young men--the Bible speaks the truth--it cannot stand. keywords: alida; andré; aramon; arms; bey; black; business; chanot; chapter; chief; château; coming; commune; company; course; cremieux; dark; day; days; dennis; dennis deventer; deventer; door; end; english; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; french; félix; garden; garibaldi; good; government; guard; gun; half; hand; head; heart; house; hugh; hugh deventer; jack; jack jaikes; jaikes; jeanne; keller; keller bey; kept; kind; left; like; linn; look; man; matteo; men; moment; mother; new; night; open; place; red; rhoda polly; river; room; said; set; things; thought; time; town; wall; way; white; word; work cache: 36945.txt plain text: 36945.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 41031 author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title: When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life date: None words: 70139 flesch: 87 summary: 'Rob, man, Rob Angus,' he said, 'she was but fower year auld.' 'There's three awa to the printin' trade since Rob was here, an' Susie Byars is to send little Joey to the business as sune as he's auld eneuch.' 'Joey'll do weel in the noospaper line,' said Silva; 'he writes a better han' than Rob Angus already. keywords: abinger; angus; baronet; castle; clement; colonel; day; dick; door; dowton; editor; eyes; face; father; good; greybrooke; half; hand; head; licquorish; london; look; man; mary; mary abinger; men; meredith; mind; miss; moment; nell; night; rob; rob angus; room; rorrison; round; saw; simms; sir; tammas; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; way; young cache: 41031.txt plain text: 41031.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 56675 author: Knowles, Robert E. (Robert Edward) title: The Attic Guest: A Novel date: None words: 89965 flesch: 85 summary: I cared nothing that a stranger was looking on, thought of nothing, remembered nothing but the long years of bitter poverty and secret struggle through which poor Gordon had carried on his work so bravely. I was sitting with Harold--we had named our son Gordon Harold; but the latter half was what we called him, to avoid confusion--one evening in the study; two ministers, visitors to some church gathering and guests of ours, were talking on the piazza. keywords: aunt; bed; charlie; children; church; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; gordon; gordon laird; half; hand; harold; head; heart; helen; home; house; kind; laird; life; little; long; look; love; man; minister; moment; mother; new; night; people; poor; room; sir; son; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; words; years cache: 56675.txt plain text: 56675.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 611 author: Buchan, John title: Prester John date: None words: 77403 flesch: 90 summary: If you want to better your future you must go abroad, where white men are at a premium. To be near the hills, to smell their odours, to see at the head of the glens the lines of the plateau where were white men and civilization--all gave me new life and courage. keywords: arcoll; berg; blaauwildebeestefontein; blood; bush; business; cave; colin; country; day; door; eyes; face; feet; find; god; going; good; half; hand; head; henriques; horse; japp; john; kaffir; kind; kraal; laputa; left; life; look; man; men; mind; native; night; place; river; road; round; second; store; tam; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; wall; wardlaw; water; way; white cache: 611.txt plain text: 611.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 6942 author: Scott, Walter title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 date: None words: 110255 flesch: 62 summary: The sweetness, the courage, the spirit, the integrity of Jeanie Deans have made her, of all Scott's characters, the dearest to her countrymen, and the name of Jeanie was given to many children, in pious memory of the blameless heroine. Hetty and Dinah are in very much the same situation and condition as Effie and Jeanie Deans. keywords: ain; ane; answer; auld; butler; case; character; child; circumstances; city; come; conscience; counsel; country; court; daughter; david; day; deans; death; door; dumbiedikes; duty; edinburgh; effie; eyes; father; folk; general; god; good; guard; gude; hae; hand; head; heart; hour; house; jeanie; jeanie deans; ken; laird; law; left; life; little; madge; magistrate; man; manner; men; mind; mob; mrs; muckle; nae; nature; night; occasion; ony; person; place; poor; porteous; present; prisoner; purpose; ratcliffe; rioters; robertson; saddletree; sae; saw; scotland; set; sharpitlaw; sir; sister; situation; speak; think; thought; time; tone; voice; wad; way; weel; wilson; woman; word cache: 6942.txt plain text: 6942.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 6943 author: Scott, Walter title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 date: None words: 131429 flesch: 62 summary: Ye musquet and calliver-men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the foremost man in fight, Said brave Lord Willoughbee. When the meal was finished, the Captain proposed to them to take boat, in order that Mrs. Jeanie might see her new place of residence, and that he himself might inquire whether the necessary preparations had been made there, and at the Manse, for receiving the future inmates of these mansions. keywords: account; ane; archibald; argyle; butler; captain; character; come; country; daughter; david; day; death; door; duke; duncan; edinburgh; effie; eyes; family; father; folk; friend; gang; george; glass; god; good; grace; hae; half; hand; having; head; heart; high; honour; hope; house; ill; jeanie; jeanie deans; journey; ken; kind; kirk; know; lady; laird; law; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; long; look; lord; madge; mair; man; manner; matter; maun; means; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; nae; occasion; old; people; person; place; poor; present; queen; reuben; right; road; sae; saw; scotland; sir; sister; staunton; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; wad; way; weel; whilk; wife; wish; woman; words; years; young cache: 6943.txt plain text: 6943.txt