item: #1 of 9 id: 11997 author: Stables, Gordon title: Crusoes of the Frozen North date: None words: 15027 flesch: 94 summary: The boat pulled away and soon touched the ice; Tom sprang nimbly on shore, and before long he could be seen only as a little black dot on that dazzling plain of snow. poor Tom! keywords: aralia; briton; children; day; flossy; frank; night; pansy; professor; round; ship; time; tom; veevee cache: 11997.txt plain text: 11997.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 18534 author: Birt, William Radcliff title: The Hurricane Guide Being an Attempt to Connect the Rotary Gale or Revolving Storm with Atmospheric Waves. date: None words: 18049 flesch: 53 summary: for capacity - ·017 |Capacity 1/42 | | for altitude above | | | water-line + ·004 | +---------------------------------------| | | 29·424 | | |Corr. keywords: + |; ---------------------------------------| |; 061 |; barometer; e |; p |; s. |; | +; | -|; | inch; | m; | t; | |; | |corr; | ° cache: 18534.txt plain text: 18534.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 35213 author: Reid, Mayne title: Afloat in the Forest; Or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops date: None words: 92736 flesch: 77 summary: Its timber is very hard and fine grained, and will stand the weather better than most other South American trees; but it cannot be procured in any great quantity, because, like many other trees of the Amazon, it is of a solitary habit, only two or three, or at most half a dozen, growing within the circuit of a mile. All ob you lay hold on de creepin' vine, an' pull um out from de tree. keywords: adventurers; birds; body; branches; canoe; chapter; close; course; cow; craft; crew; danger; dead; direction; distance; end; eyes; feet; fire; fish; forest; galatea; gapo; good; half; head; hour; indian; jacare; land; length; little; log; man; moment; munday; mundurucu; night; patron; place; richard; river; sapucaya; saw; species; sun; surface; swimmers; tapuyo; thought; time; tipperary; tom; tops; tree; trevannion; use; water; way; wood; young cache: 35213.txt plain text: 35213.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 36694 author: Defoe, Daniel title: The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle date: None words: 6361 flesch: 65 summary: England_ is hardly ever to pass over the _Jourdan_ before her, till these Immoderate Men of Strife and Storms are laid by. Navy_ of _England_ had been at Stake; had rather have lost it than the _Bill against Occasional Conformity_; that had rather the _French_ should have taken _Landau_ and Beat the Prince of _ keywords: church; god; heaven; man; men; moderation; nation; tis; way cache: 36694.txt plain text: 36694.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 41063 author: Defoe, Daniel title: The Storm. An Essay. date: None words: 2541 flesch: 89 summary: Those Sons of Plunder are below my Pen, Because they are below the Names of Men; Who from the Shores presenting to their Eyes The Fatal _Goodwin_, where the Wreck of _Navies_ I'm told, _for we have News among the Dead_, Heaven lately spoke, but few knew what it said; The Voice, in loudest Tempests spoke, And Storms, which Nature's strong Foundation shook. keywords: church; god; men; storms; tis cache: 41063.txt plain text: 41063.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 4398 author: Smith, Francis Hopkinson title: The Tides of Barnegat date: None words: 100303 flesch: 87 summary: To Jane Martha said: Oh, bless the darlin'! I was that restless I couldn't keep still, and so I says to Miss Jane, 'I'm goin' to the beach with Meg and watch the ships go by; that's the only thing that'll quiet my nerves. keywords: archie; away; bart; beach; boy; captain; chair; child; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; fogarty; good; half; hand; head; heart; holt; home; house; jane; john; left; letter; life; little; look; love; lucy; man; martha; max; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; place; room; sand; saw; sea; sister; tell; thought; time; tod; tone; voice; want; way; woman; years cache: 4398.txt plain text: 4398.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 46010 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters date: None words: 58911 flesch: 77 summary: Young men and veterans vied with each other in enthusiasm, exchanging urgent calls to rally to the defence of their country, for Old King's Mountain would certainly lead them to victory. Remember it is not every boy--or young man--who attains to the blessing of a college education, without having to earn it by hard work. keywords: british; captain; children; country; day; dear; deck; detroit; elsie; enemy; father; fort; general; god; good; grace; grandma; hope; hull; indians; island; left; look; lucilla; man; men; morning; mother; mrs; night; order; papa; place; river; story; time; troops; violet; walter; war; way; young cache: 46010.txt plain text: 46010.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 51263 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Scarecrow of Oz date: None words: 47683 flesch: 88 summary: [Illustration: Cap'n Bill] CHAPTER 1 The Great Whirlpool Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know. The Ork laughed softly and Cap'n Bill whistled to himself and Trot made up her mind that the Mountain Ear must be a little crazy. keywords: boy; bright; button; cap'n bill; country; girl; gloria; good; head; illustration; jinxland; king; land; man; ork; people; pon; sailor; scarecrow; time; trot; water; way; | | cache: 51263.txt plain text: 51263.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 957 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Scarecrow of Oz date: None words: 47130 flesch: 88 summary: The Great Whirlpool Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know. The Ork laughed softly and Cap'n Bill whistled to himself and Trot made up her mind that the Mountain Ear must be a little crazy. keywords: boy; bright; button; cap'n bill; castle; country; girl; gloria; good; head; jinxland; king; land; man; ork; people; place; pon; sailor; scarecrow; time; trot; water; way cache: 957.txt plain text: 957.txt