item: #1 of 5 id: 2042 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: Something New date: None words: 76794 flesch: 85 summary: He also brooded on Mr. Peters and Ashe Marson. * * * Ashe Marson had not fallen far short of the truth in his estimate of the probable effect on Mr. Peters of the information that his precious scarab had once more been removed by alien hands and was now farther from his grasp than ever. keywords: aline; ashe; baxter; beach; bed; blandings; castle; day; dear; door; emerson; emsworth; eyes; face; fact; father; freddie; george; girl; good; hall; hand; having; house; joan; jones; life; look; lord; lordship; man; marson; mind; miss; moment; morning; museum; night; peters; place; read; room; scarab; shoe; sort; thing; thought; time; want; way; young cache: 2042.txt plain text: 2042.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 2233 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: A Damsel in Distress date: None words: 78993 flesch: 88 summary: George seemed somehow to be part of her life. George felt in his pocket for the necessary money, found emptiness, and remembered that he had left all his ready funds at his hotel. keywords: albert; belpher; bevan; billie; boy; byng; cab; caroline; castle; course; day; door; eyes; face; family; fellow; geoffrey; george; girl; good; great; head; heart; keggs; lady; life; little; london; look; lord; lord marshmoreton; love; man; marshmoreton; matter; maud; mean; mind; miss; moment; morning; percy; place; plummer; reggie; right; room; sir; sort; thing; thought; time; voice; way; world; young cache: 2233.txt plain text: 2233.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 40355 author: Timmins, H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) title: Nooks and Corners of Shropshire date: None words: 70003 flesch: 68 summary: Old ways and antiquated customs linger yet in this 'back'ardly' neighbourhood, where education has much ado to make headway against ignorance and ancient prejudice. Presently the old grey-green walls and mossy roofs of castle and church come into view beyond a clump of trees upon our right, arousing great expectations of matters antiquarian; for, as Dr. Jessop truly remarks, 'when a man is bitten with a taste for old castles and earthworks, it is all over with him. keywords: abbey; arch; away; bishop; bridge; bridgnorth; building; castle; century; chancel; chapel; church; churchyard; close; clun; country; course; cross; date; days; early; edifice; end; family; far; feet; forest; gables; good; great; green; grey; half; hall; henry; hill; house; illustration; interior; john; king; lane; leland; lies; little; long; look; ludlow; manor; mansion; mile; near; norman; north; oak; past; period; picturesque; place; quaint; remains; rises; river; road; roof; set; severn; shrewsbury; shropshire; sir; sketch; south; stone; street; stretton; structure; timbered; time; tower; town; trees; vale; view; village; walls; way; welsh; wenlock; west; windows; work; year cache: 40355.txt plain text: 40355.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 46676 author: Gaskell, Catherine Henrietta Milnes, Lady title: Spring in a Shropshire Abbey date: None words: 109335 flesch: 84 summary: Do, wrote my cousin, Venetia Stanley, let little Bess be at Harry's eighth birthday. Then softly and as delicately as I could, I untwined the little network of fingers that had twined themselves so cunningly around mine, and gave little Bess a parting kiss as I glided out of the room. keywords: 8vo; abbey; auguste; beautiful; bed; bess; birds; bit; black; blossom; blue; book; boys; burbidge; children; church; constance; country; crown; day; days; dear; death; dog; door; eyes; face; fair; fine; flowers; folks; friend; garden; girl; glory; god; golden; good; grass; great; green; hals; hand; head; home; illustrations; impression; joy; kind; king; lady; life; little; look; lord; love; maid; man; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mouse; mrs; nana; nest; new; night; old; page; people; place; prince; red; roses; round; shropshire; sidenote; sir; spring; story; summer; tell; thady; things; thought; time; timothy; tis; tom; voice; war; water; way; wenlock; white; words; work; world; years; yer cache: 46676.txt plain text: 46676.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 5720 author: Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward) title: A Shropshire Lad date: None words: 9213 flesch: 88 summary: Now, when the flame they watch not towers About the soil they trod, Lads, we'll remember friends of ours Who shared the work with God. God Save the Queen we living sing, From height to height 'tis heard; And with the rest your voices ring, Lads of the Fifty-third. keywords: day; dead; friends; heart; home; lad; lads; lie; love; man; night; soul; time; tis; world cache: 5720.txt plain text: 5720.txt