item: #1 of 12 id: 12946 author: Shaler, Robert title: The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty date: None words: 22648 flesch: 84 summary: Petrel_ had steamed full speed to Palmetto Key; and Captain Vinton, sighting the cutter from the deck of the concealed _Arrow_, had signaled to her captain, telling him just where to land his men. Apparently he was too disturbed in mind to reply verbally; besides, like most of his kind, he was a poor sailor, and he did not enjoy the speed at which the _Arrow_ was now sailing. keywords: alec; arrow; away; billy; boat; boys; camp; captain; chester; dave; day; durgan; good; hugh; key; little; man; mark; men; night; norton; petrel; smugglers; time; vinton cache: 12946.txt plain text: 12946.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 17099 author: Aldridge, Janet title: The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome Bar date: None words: 52072 flesch: 89 summary: [Illustration: Harriet Took the Wheel.] Courage was required for a girl to remain in Harriet's position under the circumstances, but Harriet Burrell had plenty of this and to spare. keywords: boat; brook; burrell; cabin; camp; captain; elting; eyes; girls; good; grace; guardian; harriet; ith; jane; livingston; margery; mccarthy; meadow; miss; mrs; night; sea; shore; sue; time; tommy; water; wau; way cache: 17099.txt plain text: 17099.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 17563 author: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble) title: King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 date: None words: 103338 flesch: 71 summary: THE VIGILANT, JOHN SMITH, COMMANDER, FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 18-- -------+------+--------+------+--------------------+---------+-------------- | | | | Observation made. | | Day of | | | keywords: ----------------------------+---------------+-----+-----------------+ |; board; boat; captain; cargo; case; casks; coast; commander; course; craft; crew; cruisers; customs; cutter; day; deal; end; england; english; feet; following; goods; half; house; inches; inman |; land; little; lugger; mate; men; miles; night; number; officers; poole |; port; preventive; revenue; revenue cruisers; revenue cutter; revenue men; revenue officers; run; sea; service; ship; shore; smugglers; smuggling; spirits; tea; time; tons; tubs; vessel; water; white |; year; | -------------------+------------------------------+---------+------+------+; | ----------------------------+----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+; | ----------------------------+---------------+-----+-----------------+; | contract; | establishment; | john; | july; | thomas; | william; | |; |cowes |; |hastings |; |lymington | cache: 17563.txt plain text: 17563.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 23387 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Washed Ashore; Or, The Tower of Stormount Bay date: None words: 49113 flesch: 78 summary: The fisherman might have run on much longer had not Jack, who overheard him, exclaimed, Nor do I owe you a grudge, Dick Herring; but tell me, old friend, how are my father and mother, and sister Margery, and old Tom, good old Tom? Why, bless my heart! Charley Blount felt his beat a great deal quicker than usual when he and old Tom were about to rush on the two smugglers in the cavern, and, as they hoped, overpower them. keywords: askew; boat; captain; charley; come; good; island; jack; little; ludlow; man; margery; men; people; peter; room; round; sea; ship; smugglers; stephen; thought; time; tom; tower; water; way; young cache: 23387.txt plain text: 23387.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 26045 author: Castle, Egerton title: The Light of Scarthey: A Romance date: None words: 167147 flesch: 79 summary: And, at the time when Sir Adrian Landale, of Pulwick, eighth baronet, adopted it as his residence, it was far from being such. Sir Adrian Landale, in his sea-girt fastness, still absorbed in dreams of bygone days, loosed his grasp of faithful René's shoulder and fell to pacing the chamber with sombre mien; while René, to whom these fits of abstraction in his master were not unfamiliar, but yet to his superstitious peasant soul, eerie and awe-inspiring visitations, slipped unnoticed from his presence. keywords: adrian; adrian landale; air; arm; black; blood; brother; captain; child; cold; course; cousin; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; honour; house; island; jack; know; lady; landale; leave; left; life; light; like; lips; little; look; love; madeleine; man; master; mind; miss; molly; moment; morning; mother; new; o'donoghue; past; place; poor; pulwick; renny; rené; rest; return; room; round; rupert; savenaye; scarthey; sea; ship; silence; sir adrian; sister; smile; smith; sophia; soul; tanty; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 26045.txt plain text: 26045.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 27096 author: Baker, Willard F. title: The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River; Or, Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers date: None words: 48462 flesch: 98 summary: His hands moved feebly, and even in the smoke and gloom Bud, could see blood streaming from a cut on his head. CHAPTER XIV TO-MORROW NIGHT Back of Delton Bud saw another man--and after a moment he recognized him as the cowboy with the saw-off shot-gun who had warned them away from the Shooting Star. keywords: away; billee; boys; bud; delton; deputy; dick; dobb; door; good; hawkins; head; house; kid; look; man; men; mexican; nort; place; ranch; right; saw; sheep; thought; time; way; yellin cache: 27096.txt plain text: 27096.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 28735 author: Breckenridge, Gerald title: The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards date: None words: 49347 flesch: 85 summary: Mister Jack, Mister Jack, come here. Jack inquired, when all were ready to depart and everything had been made tight about the station. keywords: airplane; barnum; big; boat; bob; boys; brownell; captain; captain folsom; della; door; fellows; folsom; frank; good; hampton; head; higginbotham; house; jack; lieutenant; liquor; look; man; men; new; plane; radio; right; room; smugglers; station; summers; temple; time; tom; way; york cache: 28735.txt plain text: 28735.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 35397 author: Berens, Edward title: Christmas Stories Containing John Wildgoose the Poacher, the Smuggler, and Good-nature, or Parish Matters date: None words: 42770 flesch: 73 summary: Both parties wished to have the indictment tried at once, and came prepared--the prosecutor with witnesses to prove that the road was very bad and unsafe--and Barton with several _good-natured_ men, who were ready to swear, that it was as good a road as they wished to travel. I might feel it right to hint to them, as I have done to you, that they are encouraging poor men to break the laws by poaching, and that they are in one point of view more to blame than the poachers themselves. keywords: barton; children; day; farmer; fowler; god; good; home; hooker; house; john; laws; life; man; mary; men; money; mother; nature; night; parish; pay; poor; public; thing; thought; time; way; wildgoose; work cache: 35397.txt plain text: 35397.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 35483 author: Kay, Ross title: The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island date: None words: 50364 flesch: 89 summary: The one who had perhaps the most to say was Fred Button. Familiarly he was known as String and frequently, when he and Fred Button, who were warm friends, were together they were referred to as the long and short of it. keywords: boat; boys; button; captain; fred; gadabout; george; good; grant; house; island; john; mackinac; man; motor; right; shore; skiff; time cache: 35483.txt plain text: 35483.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 40008 author: Carter, Harry title: The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 date: None words: 33708 flesch: 80 summary: So went on again in freighting of large vessels, and had very good speed for sume time. After making one voyage at home to the King's Cove I got a freight for Costan,[29] and as I depended on them people to look out if there were any danger, according to their promise, came into the Bay, and after sume time spoke with a boate from the above place, saying it was a clear coast, there was no danger to bring the vessel up to anchor, and we should have boats enough out to discharge all the cargo immediately. keywords: aboute; allmoste; carter; course; day; days; god; good; home; house; life; lord; man; men; mind; morning; night; people; person; place; prayer; sume; thought; time; town; way; work; years cache: 40008.txt plain text: 40008.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 5248 author: Old Sleuth title: The "Dock Rats" of New York; Or, The Smuggler Band's Last Stand date: None words: 52133 flesch: 87 summary: Listen old man, I am her friend and your friend; this is no place for Renie; when she was a mere child it was all right, but now it is not safe. You're going to die; tell us, old man, who did the deed? The old man-of-war's-man, who had been attending the wounded smuggler, exclaimed: Die, is it? keywords: boat; business; cabin; denman; detective; father; friend; garcia; girl; good; government; hero; know; man; men; moment; nancy; night; pearce; renie; smuggler; stranger; time; tom; vance; yacht cache: 5248.txt plain text: 5248.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 61863 author: Jameson, Malcolm title: 4-1/2B, Eros date: None words: 7777 flesch: 89 summary: Captain Hank Karns, the Lone Trader, sank back in his seat and watched idly with mild blue eyes as first one grass hut and then another appeared momentarily through rifts of rain. Captain Karns had berthed his own old trading tub not an hour earlier and as he registered the arrival of his _Swapper_ he noted that under the date of three days before there was the entry: _Wanderer_, Captain Wilkerson, en route Mercury to Luna. keywords: atkins; captain; day; door; hank; hank karns; karns; man; mercury; place; ship; time; venus cache: 61863.txt plain text: 61863.txt