item: #1 of 9 id: 17028 author: Doctorow, Cory title: Eastern Standard Tribe date: None words: 55755 flesch: 88 summary: Riding him and then being ridden in turns, slurping and wet and energetic until they both lay sprawled on the hotel room's very nice Persian rugs, dehydrated and panting and Art commed Fede, and Fede told him it could take a couple weeks to sort things out, and why didn't he and Linda rent a car and do some sight-seeing on the East Coast? Art's earliest memory: a dream. keywords: art; ass; audie; bed; book; boston; car; colonelonic; comm; couple; course; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; fede; friends; fucking; gink; good; gran; hand; head; hell; jersey; job; junta; license; linda; london; look; mom; moment; need; new; office; people; right; roof; room; shit; shut; sir; sorry; story; stuff; talk; thanks; thing; thought; time; trepan; tribe; use; way; week; work; world; years cache: 17028.txt plain text: 17028.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 21259 author: Briggs, Olive M. (Olive Mary) title: The Black Cross date: None words: 63456 flesch: 95 summary: On whomsoever the choice of Fate shall fall, I vow the sentence of Death shall be fulfilled, by mine own hands if needs be, without weakness, or hesitation, or mercy. _I swear--I pledge myself--by mine own hands if needs be._ keywords: arms; away; brünnhilde; cloak; dark; door; eyes; face; feet; fingers; girl; hair; half; hands; head; heart; house; kapellmeister; kaya; know; lips; look; love; man; moment; night; room; rose; shoulder; sound; throat; velasco; violin; voice; white; woman cache: 21259.txt plain text: 21259.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 22314 author: Delafield, John title: Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy date: None words: 28047 flesch: 67 summary: [42] Lib. i., El. ii., 45. Regarding, then, the off-shoot from patriarchal tradition to be the origin of pagan worship; referring also to the first formation of cities, and of one immense kingdom, by the descendants of Ham (accursed by his prophetic ancestor), by whom an empire was first established; to Nimrod's deification; to the preservation in the priesthood of future political power; to the fact that after his death they would and might thereby perpetuate the same; that wherever thereafter dispersed, they did so by their revelations by mysteries, in which they controlled not only the masses of the people, but those who governed them, in whatsoever nation then known--we arrive at the conclusion that the mysteries were the elements of religious and consequently of political power. keywords: century; christ; christian; church; control; country; day; days; earth; egypt; general; god; good; government; greek; hebrew; history; influence; instruction; jesus; king; knowledge; life; magi; man; means; men; moses; mysteries; nature; new; order; origin; original; people; power; present; public; religion; secrecy; secret; society; things; time; use; world; worship; writing cache: 22314.txt plain text: 22314.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 28091 author: Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) title: The Double Four date: None words: 63171 flesch: 86 summary: Nothing can alter that--not even the will of Mr. Peter Ruff. When you leave this house to-night, he proclaimed, we bid good-bye for ever to Mr. Peter Ruff. keywords: baron; bernadine; count; country; day; dear; door; duchesse; eyes; face; friend; grost; guillot; hand; head; hern; house; husband; left; life; madame; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; new; night; people; peter; place; room; sogrange; things; time; violet; von; way; woman cache: 28091.txt plain text: 28091.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 38785 author: Keightley, Thomas title: Secret Societies of the Middle Ages date: None words: 123900 flesch: 60 summary: It is proper to observe, however, that _fem_ appears to be an old German word, signifying condemnation; and it is far from being unlikely, after all, that the Fehm-gerichte may mean merely the tribunals of condemnation--in other words, courts for the punishment of crime, or what we should call criminal courts. This circumstance is left unexplained by the Ornament of the Realm, who however acknowledges, with great _naïveté_, that, if Hassan had not been obliged to fly, he should have left the court himself. keywords: account; alamoot; assassins; brethren; brother; case; castle; chapter; character; chief; christian; church; council; country; court; day; days; death; deen; east; emperor; empire; fehm; following; footnote; france; free; general; god; good; great; hassan; having; head; history; holy; house; imam; ismaïlites; jerusalem; justice; khalif; king; knights; knowledge; land; law; life; like; long; lord; man; master; members; men; mohammed; number; obedience; order; people; persia; persons; philip; place; pope; power; present; prince; prior; prophet; religion; right; secret; society; son; state; sultan; templars; temple; time; town; tribunal; truth; vizir; way; world; year cache: 38785.txt plain text: 38785.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 49686 author: May, Sophie title: Little Prudy's Cousin Grace date: None words: 24402 flesch: 90 summary: Miss Grace Clifford does well--exceedingly well. The gypsy fairly buried them under heaps of gold and precious stones, till it came to poor Grace Clifford. keywords: barbara; cassy; clifford; dear; eyes; girls; good; grace; grace clifford; gypsy; hallock; horace; isa; lucy; mahla; miss; mrs; prize; prudy; think; thought; time; way cache: 49686.txt plain text: 49686.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 51336 author: Smith, Phyllis Sterling title: What is POSAT? date: None words: 5719 flesch: 79 summary: * * At first Don Alford had some trouble locating the POSAT headquarters. She opened the inner door again and Don followed her into what he supposed to be the office of the Grand Chairman of POSAT. keywords: crandon; don; door; information; posat; room; time; years cache: 51336.txt plain text: 51336.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 57737 author: Speight, T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) title: A Dead Reckoning date: None words: 52157 flesch: 84 summary: He horrified both my dad and me by telling us that the Baron von Rosenberg had been found murdered--shot through the heart in the little _châlet_ which stands in the grounds about a hundred yards from the house; and he shocked us still more by telling us that he had come to apply to my father, as the nearest J.P., for a warrant authorising the arrest of Mr. Gerald Brooke as being the supposed murderer. She refers to my husband, Mr. Gerald Brooke, remarked Clara. keywords: away; baron; box; brooke; clara; crofton; day; dear; eyes; face; gerald; gerald brooke; half; hand; heart; hour; husband; karovsky; lady; life; little; man; margery; miss; moment; mrs; night; picot; place; primby; room; rosenberg; time; von; way; wife cache: 57737.txt plain text: 57737.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 7890 author: Collins, Wilkie title: Blind Love date: None words: 132438 flesch: 85 summary: By herself? No; with Mr. Hugh Mountjoy. Lord Harry seized the doctor by the shoulders, and shook him: You don't mean to tell me Mountjoy is going to marry her? Mr. Vimpany feared nothing but the loss of money. I have reason to fear that Lord Harry left this country, with a purpose of revenge-- Mr. Vimpany wanted no further explanation. keywords: day; dear; death; doctor; door; eyes; face; fanny; friend; good; hand; harry; henley; hope; house; hugh; husband; iris; know; lady; letter; life; london; look; lord; lord harry; maid; man; mind; miss; mistress; moment; money; mountjoy; mrs; nurse; person; place; room; sir; tell; think; time; vimpany; way; wife; woman; words cache: 7890.txt plain text: 7890.txt