item: #1 of 6 id: 32109 author: Hauff, Wilhelm title: Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace date: None words: 127967 flesch: 79 summary: Thus saying, he placed a ring on Said's finger, and attempted to lead off the grand vizier, but the latter, begging him to wait a moment, turned and held out to the astonished Said a heavy purse: Young man, said he, my master, the caliph, can do anything for you that he feels inclined to do, even to making you my successor; but I myself can do but little, and that little had better be done to-day, rather than to-morrow. What were you saying, old man? asked the young men in surprise. keywords: almansor; black; boy; brother; caliph; countess; day; days; door; dwarf; eyes; father; felix; fellow; forest; gentleman; glass; gold; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; king; lady; left; life; little; look; man; master; men; merchant; michel; money; mother; muck; mustapha; night; people; peter; place; poor; prince; room; said; sheik; slave; son; story; stranger; thing; thought; time; way; woman; years; young cache: 32109.txt plain text: 32109.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 33789 author: Heyse, Paul title: Barbarossa, and Other Tales date: None words: 93412 flesch: 77 summary: There was nothing I was more glad to do, not indeed that I laid much stress upon the letter, but rather believed that it was my own eloquence that had induced him to leave us, and to break off that luckless love-affair in good time. Lisabethli, who until the present time had very seldom, and only for short periods, been in the company of young men, had already spent eleven days under the same roof with this stranger; and if, since she had fathomed his candid and upright nature, the mother had learnt to love him, was it not expecting too much to suppose the daughter blind to all his gifts and virtues? keywords: believe; child; come; count; daughter; day; days; door; evening; eyes; face; fair; father; frau; friend; girl; god; good; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; lady; leave; left; letter; life; look; love; man; moment; morning; mother; night; people; picture; place; poor; rest; room; son; thought; time; voice; way; wife; window; wine; woman; word; years; youth cache: 33789.txt plain text: 33789.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 34358 author: Sudermann, Hermann title: Iolanthe's Wedding date: None words: 25514 flesch: 90 summary: Well, if that's the way you are, old fellow, he said, had I known it right away---- I would let old Krakow go on with his vapourings, and I'd drink the coffee his wife made for me, and listen devoutly while Iolanthe sang her loveliest songs, even though music--in general--well, the oftener I visited Krakowitz the uncannier the business became, but something always tugged me back again. keywords: boy; day; dear; eyes; father; fellow; friend; gentlemen; good; hands; heart; home; iolanthe; lothar; love; man; new; right; room; thing; thought; time; way; woman; year; young cache: 34358.txt plain text: 34358.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 5431 author: None title: Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 date: None words: 50903 flesch: 82 summary: At last he seized poor Philip by the arm, and was dragging him into the hall. I had hoped and wished that it might come to give us a setting up in the world; but gardener Redman said to me as I went a second time towards the office: 'Poor Philip--a blank.' keywords: antonia; councillor; day; ellen; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; girl; good; hand; head; heart; hermann; highness; house; king; krespel; left; letter; life; look; love; man; mask; moment; mother; new; night; people; philip; prince; room; rose; tell; thought; time; voice; warren; watchman; way; word cache: 5431.txt plain text: 5431.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 6022 author: None title: Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2 date: None words: 47924 flesch: 79 summary: He was, in the full sense of the word, philanthropic, in the sight of good men; and in thoughts for their welfare, there was for him a real happiness and a joyous animation. And I tell you they are by Gellert, of Leipzig, of whom your brother has told us; in fact, he was his tutor, and haven't you heard how pious and good he is? I wouldn't have believed that such men still lived, and so near us, too, as Leipzig. keywords: ascher; bendel; brother; children; cloak; day; door; ephraim; eyes; father; friend; gellert; god; gold; good; gudule; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; man; mother; night; place; room; shadow; soul; thought; time; viola; wood; words; world cache: 6022.txt plain text: 6022.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 9994 author: Sudermann, Hermann title: The Indian Lily and Other Stories date: None words: 61676 flesch: 87 summary: And the fir-trees upon the highest peaks are sharply defined against the gold, like little men with many outstretched arms. She stuck her firm little hands under her apron, which fell straight down over her flat little chest, and tripped up and down on her heels. keywords: blue; child; dark; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; friend; fritz; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lay; left; life; look; love; man; mary; moment; morning; niebeldingk; night; order; place; room; saw; smile; soul; table; things; thought; time; toni; voice; want; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 9994.txt plain text: 9994.txt