item: #1 of 28 id: 10743 author: Falkner, John Meade title: Moonfleet date: None words: 84357 flesch: 77 summary: And in the Manor woods my wife and I have seen a little Grace and a little John and little Elzevir, our firstborn, play; and now our daughter is grown up, fair to us as the polished corners of the Temple, and our sons are gone out to serve King George on sea and land. At last Elzevir looked up and spoke to me, not unkindly, 'Lad, it is time for you to go home; men say that Blackbeard walks on the first nights of winter, and some have met him face to face betwixt this house and yours.' keywords: beach; blackbeard; block; boy; candle; church; cliff; day; diamond; elzevir; eyes; face; feet; glennie; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; john; left; life; look; man; maskew; master; men; moonfleet; morning; night; place; ratsey; room; round; sea; set; stone; thee; thought; time; tis; treasure; twas; wall; water; way; wind cache: 10743.txt plain text: 10743.txt item: #2 of 28 id: 13148 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 date: None words: 226264 flesch: 78 summary: You will go in the boat with Mr O'Brien, and take care that none of the men slip away from it, and get drunk at the tap. 'Mr O'Brien, since you have perched yourself on that gun to please yourself, you will now continue there for two hours to please me. keywords: admiral; bed; board; boat; brig; cabin; captain; captain o'brien; celeste; chapter; close; company; continued; course; day; days; dear; deck; dinner; door; duty; eyes; family; father; fire; french; frigate; general; gentleman; good; great; gun; half; hand; hawkins; head; home; hour; house; ladies; lady; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; life; look; lord; lordship; man; master; men; midshipman; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mr o'brien; mr simple; mrs; night; o'brien; observed; officer; orders; people; peter; pickersgill; place; poor; quarter; ready; room; round; sail; sea; service; ship; shore; sir; swinburne; thought; time; trotter; uncle; vessel; water; way; wind; wish; woman; yes; young cache: 13148.txt plain text: 13148.txt item: #3 of 28 id: 15124 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Lighthouse date: None words: 90434 flesch: 78 summary: Speak for yourself, friend, said Ruby, somewhat quickly; how know you that other men don't think about their Creator when they look at His works? Because, returned Selkirk, I find that I so seldom do so myself, even although I wish to and often try to; and I hold that every man, no matter what he is or feels, is one of a class who think and feel as he does; also, because many people, especially Christians, have told me that they have had the same experience to a large extent; also, and chiefly, because, as far as unbelieving man is concerned, the Bible tells me that 'God is not in all his thoughts'. This was a rather bold statement for a man to make who improved upon almost every line he ever quoted; but the reader is no doubt acquainted with parallel instances of inconsistency in good men even in the present day. keywords: arbroath; beacon; bell; bell rock; boat; brand; bremner; building; captain; close; course; davy; day; deep; dove; eyes; feet; fire; forsyth; good; half; hand; head; know; lad; left; lieutenant; lighthouse; look; man; men; mind; minnie; moment; mother; night; ogilvy; place; poor; rock; round; ruby; ruby brand; sea; ship; smith; spink; storm; swankie; things; tide; time; town; uncle; vessel; water; way; weather; work cache: 15124.txt plain text: 15124.txt item: #4 of 28 id: 21295 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Cormorant Crag: A Tale of the Smuggling Days date: None words: 125787 flesch: 90 summary: At last Vince reached home and had his supper, which had been put out for him, and when he had finished, found that the sea air and exercise had made him ravenous. They had neither of them spoken for some time; but at last Vince said: We shall have to pay old Joe for the mending of the boat. keywords: boat; boys; captain; cave; close; companion; course; dark; daygo; end; eyes; face; father; feel; feet; find; fish; good; half; hand; head; hold; hole; home; joe; know; ladle; lanthorn; left; little; look; man; men; mike; mind; old; place; right; rocks; rope; round; sail; sand; saw; sea; tell; thought; time; try; vince; want; water; way cache: 21295.txt plain text: 21295.txt item: #5 of 28 id: 21297 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Cutlass and Cudgel date: None words: 93223 flesch: 89 summary: Said as his dooty, sir, and would you send the boat for him if you did not think he'd done right. All right, Dick, my man, said the young officer; and he hurried to where a plump, rosy little man stood in full post-captain's uniform. keywords: archy; boat; boy; cliff; cow; cutter; dick; door; eyes; father; feet; good; gurr; half; hand; head; jemmy; lad; lieutenant; look; man; master; men; midshipman; place; ram; raystoke; right; round; run; sea; shackle; sir; smugglers; stone; thought; time; way; yes cache: 21297.txt plain text: 21297.txt item: #6 of 28 id: 21303 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Devon Boys: A Tale of the North Shore date: None words: 112349 flesch: 90 summary: Go and fall out with old Bob Chowne. I didn't make the stones stick and old Bigley come down squelch on us, did I? Oh, if you want to quarrel, Bob, we may as well go home, I said. keywords: bigley; boat; bob; bob chowne; boys; chowne; cliff; coming; day; doctor; father; fellow; gap; good; half; hand; head; help; home; jonas; know; lad; like; look; lugger; man; men; mind; place; right; rock; round; saw; sea; sep; sir; stone; thought; time; uggleston; want; water; way; work cache: 21303.txt plain text: 21303.txt item: #7 of 28 id: 21318 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Lost Middy: Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap date: None words: 94486 flesch: 90 summary: And directly after a big broad fellow detached himself from the rail to sidle up with: Say, Master Aleck, would you mind asking the cap'n to let me have another little bottle o' them iles he gives me for my showther? Here, that'll do, you dogs! cried the first voice, and-- Stand fast, Master Aleck, I'm a-coming, cried the other. keywords: aleck; away; big; bit; boat; bodger; boy; course; eben; eyes; face; fellow; good; half; head; help; lad; little; look; man; master aleck; men; middy; mind; officer; place; right; rock; round; sailor; sea; sir; smuggler; think; thought; time; tom; try; uncle; want; water; way; yer cache: 21318.txt plain text: 21318.txt item: #8 of 28 id: 21404 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure date: None words: 122328 flesch: 83 summary: Bill Rayner had certainly not been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Among those who observed him was Bill Rayner. keywords: bill; board; boat; captain; crew; deck; enemy; english; fire; french; frenchmen; frigate; good; guns; hope; jack; lieutenant; look; man; men; officers; oliver; raft; rayner; round; sail; saltwell; saw; sea; ship; shore; shot; sir; tell; thisbe; thought; time; tom; vessel; water; way; wind cache: 21404.txt plain text: 21404.txt item: #9 of 28 id: 21455 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures date: None words: 109557 flesch: 82 summary: At other times, I guessed by the dashing of the sea against the sides, that there was a strong breeze. Said Joe to Toney, `What are you doing in these 'ere parts, old Ship?' Toney told him how he had been paid off and had pretty well emptied his pockets of shiners, and was thinking that before long he must join another craft. keywords: aunt; away; board; boat; captain; crew; day; deb; deck; dick; end; escape; father; feet; find; food; hands; head; hold; home; life; man; mark; mate; men; night; officers; place; reginald; rest; riddle; rock; round; run; saw; sea; set; ship; shore; sir; smugglers; tell; thought; time; tom; water; way cache: 21455.txt plain text: 21455.txt item: #10 of 28 id: 21559 author: Marryat, Frederick title: The Three Cutters date: None words: 22230 flesch: 82 summary: Miss Cecilia Ossulton. Tell Mr Simpson to bring me a light for my cigar, said Mr Ossulton to one of the men. keywords: board; boat; cecilia; corbett; deck; ladies; lascelles; lord; men; miss; mrs; ossulton; pickersgill; sir; smuggler; time; vessel; yacht cache: 21559.txt plain text: 21559.txt item: #11 of 28 id: 21746 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Lighthouse date: None words: 90257 flesch: 78 summary: Speak for yourself, friend, said Ruby, somewhat quickly; how know you that other men don't think about their Creator when they look at His works? Because, returned Selkirk, I find that I so seldom do so myself, even although I wish to and often try to; and I hold that every man, no matter what he is or feels, is one of a class who think and feel as he does; also, because many people, especially Christians, have told me that they have had the same experience to a large extent; also, and chiefly, because, as far as unbelieving man is concerned, the Bible tells me that `God is not in all his thoughts.' This was a rather bold statement for a man to make who improved upon almost every line he ever quoted; but the reader is no doubt acquainted with parallel instances of inconsistency in good men even in the present day. keywords: arbroath; beacon; bell; bell rock; boat; brand; bremner; building; captain; close; course; davy; day; deep; dove; eyes; feet; fire; forsyth; good; half; hand; head; know; lad; left; lieutenant; lighthouse; look; man; men; mind; minnie; moment; mother; night; ogilvy; place; poor; rock; round; ruby; ruby brand; sea; ship; smith; spink; storm; swankie; things; tide; time; town; uncle; vessel; water; way; work cache: 21746.txt plain text: 21746.txt item: #12 of 28 id: 23386 author: Fenn, George Manville title: In the King's Name: The Cruise of the "Kestrel" date: None words: 91387 flesch: 84 summary: Now, Mr Hilary Leigh, he said, as his orders were obeyed, I am glad to find so dashing and brave a young fellow as you finds himself ready to join the good cause. On the deck of the little cutter all was in that well-known apple-pie order customary on board a man-of-war, for so Lieutenant Lipscombe in command always took care to call it, and in this he was diligently echoed by the young gentleman who acted as his first officer, and, truth to say, second and third officer as well, for he was the only one--to wit, Hilary Leigh, midshipman, lately drafted to this duty, to his great disgust, from on board the dashing frigate _ keywords: allstone; billy; board; boat; cutter; deck; door; escape; fellow; find; good; gunner; half; hand; head; henry; hilary; kestrel; lads; leigh; lieutenant; look; looking; man; men; mind; moment; officer; place; right; round; saw; sir; sir henry; thought; time; tom; tully; want; waters; way; window cache: 23386.txt plain text: 23386.txt item: #13 of 28 id: 28849 author: Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland) title: Smugglers' Reef: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story date: None words: 55959 flesch: 95 summary: Hello? Rick Brant? Rick stiffened. A whisper from Jerry informed Rick that they were officers of the United States Maritime Commission. keywords: albatross; boat; boys; brad; brant; camera; cap'n; cap'n mike; captain; carrots; creek; door; duke; feet; good; hand; head; hotel; house; jerry; kelso; lights; look; man; marbek; mike; new; red; reef; rick; right; scotty; seaford; ship; smugglers; thought; time; tom; tyler; way cache: 28849.txt plain text: 28849.txt item: #14 of 28 id: 29291 author: Marryat, Frederick title: The Pirate, and The Three Cutters date: None words: 84459 flesch: 79 summary: He hauled it up, and, looking at it for some moments aghast, exclaimed, '_Seven feet_ water in the hold, by G--d!' Get stretchers, my lads, and handspikes; they row six oars, and are three in the stern-sheets: they must be good men if they take us. keywords: admiral; avenger; blood; board; boat; cain; captain; cecilia; chapter; clara; crew; day; deck; edward; enterprise; eyes; francisco; good; half; hand; hawkhurst; head; house; jonathan; ladies; lascelles; left; life; look; lord; man; men; miss; mrs; night; ossulton; pickersgill; pirate; round; sail; schooner; sea; ship; shore; sir; smuggler; tell; templemore; thought; time; vessel; water; wind; witherington; yacht cache: 29291.txt plain text: 29291.txt item: #15 of 28 id: 33680 author: Avery, Harold title: Highway Pirates; or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne date: None words: 62975 flesch: 82 summary: Better wait, and you shall hear all in good time. We had little time for speculation, for hardly had my companion finished speaking when the cheerful note of the horn gave warning that the coach was approaching; and the quiet little inn woke up at once with an unwonted show of life and bustle. keywords: boat; boys; coach; cold; coverthorne; darkness; day; denny; end; face; father; find; george; good; half; hand; head; home; house; length; lewis; look; man; master; men; miles; mind; moment; mother; night; place; rock; rodwood; room; round; school; sea; sir; thought; time; water; way; woodley cache: 33680.txt plain text: 33680.txt item: #16 of 28 id: 35652 author: Munroe, Kirk title: Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast date: None words: 82220 flesch: 80 summary: A few days of bewilderment and heart-breaking sorrow followed for poor Alaric. Captain Duff also sighted the far-away cutter, and, nervous as an owl at being caught outside his hiding-place by daylight, laid all the blame of their late arrival on poor Alaric. keywords: alaric; away; ball; boat; bonny; boys; business; camp; captain; course; cutter; dale; day; duff; end; face; father; feet; friend; good; great; half; hand; john; lad; lads; left; length; life; little; look; man; mate; mind; moment; mountain; place; rick; right; run; sloop; snow; sound; tacoma; things; thought; time; todd; want; water; way; work cache: 35652.txt plain text: 35652.txt item: #17 of 28 id: 36202 author: Carr, Annie Roe title: Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border date: None words: 46356 flesch: 89 summary: There he sat, chewing reflectively, as he glanced down the table at young Nan. A friend since primary school days of Nan Sherwood, she was like one of the family and always ran into the Sherwood home on Amity Street without the formality of ringing the doorbell or pausing to knock. keywords: adair; adair mackenzie; alice; amelia; bess; cousin; friends; girls; good; grace; head; jamieson; laura; linda; mackenzie; man; mexico; people; place; rhoda; right; room; sherwood; things; thought; time; walker; way; world cache: 36202.txt plain text: 36202.txt item: #18 of 28 id: 37180 author: Lee, Vernon title: Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century date: None words: 21993 flesch: 77 summary: Let me also explain that before this event, which took place in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy-two, Sir Eustace Brandling was merely a young Englishman of handsome person, gentlemanly bearing, an uncommon knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, and a most blameless and amiable temper, but with no expectations of fortune in the future, and only a modest competence in the present. Having reached an age when the morrow is more than uncertain, and knowing how soon all verbal tradition becomes blurred and distorted, I, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Jacques de Morat, a cadet of the Counts of that name, sometime a captain in the service of King Louis XV., and of Sophia Hamilton, his wife; and furthermore, widow of the late Sir Eustace Brandling, ninth baronet, of St. Salvat's Castle, in the county of Glamorgan, have yielded to the wishes of my dear surviving sons, and am preparing to consign to paper, for the benefit of their children and grandchildren, some account of those circumstances in my life which decided that the lot of this family should so long have been cast in foreign parts and remote colonies, instead of in its ancestral and legitimate home. keywords: brandling; child; davies; day; dear; eustace; eyes; house; hubert; husband; lady; life; little; man; manner; mother; penelope; place; salvat; sea; thought; time; uncle cache: 37180.txt plain text: 37180.txt item: #19 of 28 id: 39047 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Nurse Heatherdale's Story date: None words: 41820 flesch: 91 summary: Miss Bess and Master Francis could not help laughing at the funny way the child said it, nor could I myself, for that matter. Miss Bess and Master Francis were talking eagerly with old Prideaux; they turned to us as we came near. keywords: baby; bess; boy; children; day; dear; francis; good; lady; lally; master; master francis; miss; miss bess; nurse; room; sir; things; time; way cache: 39047.txt plain text: 39047.txt item: #20 of 28 id: 39531 author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) title: The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III date: None words: 183980 flesch: 72 summary: I have known men do such things, for a pitiful gain, as would hang them, if there were any just punishment for treachery. About ten miles from town the coach passed some led horses, with the grooms that were conducting them; and, as is natural for young men, both the old gentleman's fellow-travellers put their heads to the window, and examined the animals with a scrutinizing eye. keywords: barbara; brother; case; clare; country; croyland; day; dear; digby; door; dragoons; edith; edward digby; eyes; face; father; friend; gentleman; going; good; half; hand; harding; head; heart; horses; hour; house; left; let; leyton; life; little; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; mowle; mrs; night; officer; party; people; place; poor; radford; road; robert croyland; room; round; saying; sir; sir edward; sir robert; smugglers; tell; things; think; thought; time; tone; way; wood; words; young; zara cache: 39531.txt plain text: 39531.txt item: #21 of 28 id: 40631 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: In the Roar of the Sea date: None words: 145918 flesch: 86 summary: Miss Judith Trevisa. Then Mr. Vokins coughed into his thin white hand, and said, We are come, naturally--and I am sure you wish what Miss Trevisa wishes--to just look at your brother, and give our opinion on his health. And yet, pleaded Menaida, senior, I don't know--I don't like--you see---- You are moved by a little sentiment for Miss Judith Trevisa, or--I beg her pardon--Mrs. Cruel Coppinger. keywords: arm; arms; aunt; boy; brother; captain; captain coppinger; chapter; church; coast; coppinger; cottage; cruel; dark; day; dear; dionysia; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; girl; good; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; house; jamie; judith; leave; left; life; light; like; look; love; man; menaida; mind; miss; moment; oliver; open; pentyre; place; red; room; round; run; saw; scantlebray; sea; set; sir; thought; time; trevisa; uncle; voice; wall; want; way; white; window; word; work; zachie cache: 40631.txt plain text: 40631.txt item: #22 of 28 id: 44454 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Smuggler Chief: A Novel date: None words: 101999 flesch: 74 summary: Suddenly loud shouts were heard, and three heavy bodies of men, commanded by Don Juan, General Pedro Sallazar, and Leon Delbès, debouched from three different streets. It is my fault, Leon continued, with an oath. keywords: brother; captain; case; chief; city; convent; country; crevel; day; diego; don; eyes; face; father; fell; general; good; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; indians; inez; juan; know; ladies; leave; left; leon; life; love; man; maria; mayor; men; moment; night; order; pedro; place; road; room; round; sayotkatta; silence; sister; smugglers; soto; spaniards; tahi; thanks; time; voice; way; wilhelm; words; young cache: 44454.txt plain text: 44454.txt item: #23 of 28 id: 45530 author: Grove, Harriet Pyne title: The Secret of Steeple Rocks date: None words: 53164 flesch: 90 summary: Little Peggy will try diplomacy. You forget how we watched those gulls and things that were roosting up there, Peggy reminded Sarita in her usual indefinite way at which Sarita always laughed. keywords: bay; beth; bill; boat; camp; dalton; eyrie; father; girls; good; ives; jack; leslie; look; man; mother; peggy; place; right; rocks; sarita; sea; thought; time; tom; tudor; want; way; woods cache: 45530.txt plain text: 45530.txt item: #24 of 28 id: 45549 author: Craine, E. J. (Edith Janice) title: The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte date: None words: 44139 flesch: 91 summary: They rested comfortably, and at last Jim broke the silence again. On they went, and at last Jim caught his step-brother's shoulder. keywords: air; aunt; away; bob; boy; boys; eyes; feet; fenton; good; great; help; hezzy; highness; house; jim; lake; land; look; man; men; moment; mrs; plane; right; step; time; uncle; water; way cache: 45549.txt plain text: 45549.txt item: #25 of 28 id: 46458 author: Abbott, Jane title: Laughing Last date: None words: 66098 flesch: 90 summary: They groped their way forward, Sidney guiding Pola in the dark, for Lavender dared not light any of his matches. And to Trude Sidney wrote, hastily, for Lavender was waiting and there would be time for a swim on the _Arabella_ before they started off in the Ford. keywords: achsa; allan; arabella; aunt; aunt achsa; boat; cap'n; cape; course; cousin; davies; day; dear; dugald; eyes; face; father; girls; green; heart; home; house; isolde; lavender; league; letter; letty; little; look; man; mart; men; miss; mother; mrs; new; pola; right; romley; room; sidney; things; thought; time; trude; vick; voice; way cache: 46458.txt plain text: 46458.txt item: #26 of 28 id: 51478 author: Stamers, James title: Dumbwaiter date: None words: 4351 flesch: 86 summary: It says, she read, not much is known about Antimony IX divers because none have ever been known to leave their planet. We always make an exception for Antimony IX divers. keywords: diver; florence; honey; jones; mind; sol; thought cache: 51478.txt plain text: 51478.txt item: #27 of 28 id: 58798 author: Williams, Ralph title: The Gun Runners date: None words: 11234 flesch: 90 summary: Dolan was not an easily flustered person, but things were coming a little fast--mysterious aliens, time machines, and now--murder, or hint of it. No doubt you wish your payment now, eh, Mr. Dolan? This was the critical point. keywords: brown; dolan; gun; hand; machine; man; moirta; smith; time; way cache: 58798.txt plain text: 58798.txt item: #28 of 28 id: 59144 author: Wood, Henry, Mrs. title: The Master of Greylands: A Novel date: None words: 194105 flesch: 85 summary: Well, it's sad news any way, and I'm sorry for him, said John Bent. Is young Mr. Castlemaine here? What was the gentleman's name, Mollee? He was young Mr. Castlemaine: a foreign gentleman, so to say: nephew to the one at Greylands' Rest. keywords: anthony castlemaine; basil; bent; castlemaine; child; day; dear; door; ethel; eyes; face; father; flora; friar; george; good; greylands; guise; hallet; hand; harry castlemaine; head; heart; home; house; james; jane; john; lady; left; life; little; look; madame; man; mary; master; mildred; mind; miss; miss castlemaine; moment; morning; mrs; night; north; nunnery; open; people; place; poor; rest; room; sea; sir; sister; son; stilborough; tell; thought; time; uncle; ursula; way; wife; world; young cache: 59144.txt plain text: 59144.txt