item: #1 of 27 id: 10624 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Three John Silence Stories date: None words: 67227 flesch: 76 summary: I And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case? asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. For the honour of accompanying Dr. John Silence on one of his big cases was what many would have considered an empty honour--and risky. keywords: air; case; cat; colonel; course; dark; doctor; dog; door; eyes; face; feet; fire; half; head; house; john; life; little; man; mind; moment; night; place; room; silence; smoke; sound; things; think; thought; time; town; vezin; voice; wall; way; words; wragge cache: 10624.txt plain text: 10624.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 10659 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Three More John Silence Stories date: None words: 48710 flesch: 76 summary: She knew every inch of the island and kept turning up in places where she was least expected--for ever wandering about, reading her books in sheltered corners, making little fires on sunless days to worship by to the gods, as she put it, ever finding new pools to dive and bathe in, and swimming day and night in the warm and waveless lagoon like a fish in a huge tank. For the moment, however, Dr. Silence was not of the party. keywords: animal; body; course; doctor; eyes; face; fire; half; harris; island; joan; john; life; little; maloney; man; mind; moment; night; room; round; sangree; sea; silence; space; tent; think; time; trees; voice; way; wind; words; world cache: 10659.txt plain text: 10659.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 14044 author: Machen, Arthur title: The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War date: None words: 10982 flesch: 79 summary: Many men have been back on leave from the front, we have many wounded in hospital, many soldiers have written letters home. But it was on the most awful day of that awful time, on the day when ruin and disaster came so near that their shadow fell over London far away; and, without any certain news, the hearts of men failed within them and grew faint; as if the agony of the army in the battlefield had entered into their souls. keywords: angels; armour; bowmen; church; day; english; george; german; head; man; men; mons; soldier; story; tale; time; war cache: 14044.txt plain text: 14044.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 16726 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Four Weird Tales date: None words: 55071 flesch: 79 summary: Lady Statham was talking--he had not noticed the means by which she effected the abrupt transition--of familiar beliefs of old Egypt; of the Ka, or Double, by whose existence the survival of the soul was possible, even its return into manifested, physical life; of the astrology, or influence of the heavenly bodies upon all sublunar activities; of terrific forms of other life, known to the ancient worship of Atlantis, great Potencies that might be invoked by ritual and ceremonial, and of their lesser influence as recognised in certain lower forms, hence treated with veneration as the Sacred Animal branch of this dim religion. He fancied that he heard her little windy voice come sifting to him through the snowy branches of the trees, calling his name ... that haunting little voice that dived straight to the centre of his life as once, long years ago, two other voices used to do.... keywords: air; body; close; day; desert; egypt; eyes; face; feet; form; half; hand; heart; henriot; jones; lay; life; man; manager; memory; mind; moment; night; past; power; room; sand; snow; soul; sound; things; thought; time; vance; voice; way; white; wind; woman; world; years cache: 16726.txt plain text: 16726.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 174 author: Wilde, Oscar title: The Picture of Dorian Gray date: None words: 80396 flesch: 90 summary: Mr. Dorian Gray does not belong to Blue Books, Uncle George, said Lord Henry languidly. But tell me, what did she say about Mr. Dorian Gray? Oh, something like, 'Charming boy--poor dear mother and I absolutely inseparable. keywords: art; basil; beauty; course; day; dear; door; dorian; eyes; face; gold; good; gray; hallward; hand; harry; head; henry; house; lady; left; life; lips; look; lord; lord henry; love; man; men; moment; night; people; picture; portrait; room; round; sibyl; sir; soul; table; things; thought; time; vane; voice; want; way; white; women; world cache: 174.txt plain text: 174.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 17626 author: Sadler, M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) title: The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself date: None words: 54968 flesch: 66 summary: anôthen erchomenos], as coming from heaven, as leaving the world and going to the Father (John iii. 31; xvi. 28), and Justin reproduces this in the words:-- It is declared [by David in Prophecy,] that He would come forth from the highest heavens, and again return to the same places, in order that you may recognize Him as God coming forth from above and man living among men. The last place noticed is Justin's reproduction of John iii. 3-5, in connection with the institution of baptism. keywords: account; author; christ; church; doctrine; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; greek; iii; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; men; miracles; nature; place; power; reader; religion; section; son; spirit; things; time; truth; word cache: 17626.txt plain text: 17626.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 19231 author: Griffith, George Chetwynd title: The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension date: None words: 80165 flesch: 78 summary: As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had received that morning from Memphis. Wherefore, then and there, Miss Nitocris Marmion, Bachelor of Science, Licentiate of Literature and Art, and Gold-Medallist in Higher Mathematics at the University of London, decided upon her first experiment in match-making. keywords: brenda; course; dad; daughter; day; days; dear; door; earth; eyes; face; father; franklin; gods; good; half; hand; head; hendry; highness; huysman; knowledge; left; leighton; life; lips; look; lord; love; man; marmion; mean; men; merrill; miss; moment; morning; mummy; night; niti; nitocris; oscarovitch; phadrig; power; prince; professor; queen; room; round; soul; things; thought; time; van; voice; way; woman; world cache: 19231.txt plain text: 19231.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 22246 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: The Upper Berth; By the Waters of Paradise date: None words: 18657 flesch: 85 summary: But in old times I would have sighed, and gone to bed more sad than ever, at such a melancholy conclusion. For all those things happened ten years ago last summer, and this is the tenth Christmas Eve we have spent together by the roaring logs in the old hall, talking of old times; and every year there are more old times to talk of. keywords: berth; captain; day; door; eyes; face; good; man; night; place; room; sir; state; thought; time; water; woman cache: 22246.txt plain text: 22246.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 26740 author: Wilde, Oscar title: The Picture of Dorian Gray date: None words: 81527 flesch: 90 summary: But tell me, what did she say about Mr. Dorian Gray? Oh, something like, 'Charming boy--poor dear mother and I absolutely inseparable. Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray. keywords: art; basil; beauty; course; day; dear; door; dorian; eyes; face; gold; good; gray; hallward; hand; harry; head; henry; house; lady; left; life; lips; look; lord; lord henry; love; man; men; moment; night; passion; people; picture; pleasure; portrait; room; round; sibyl; sir; soul; table; things; thought; time; vane; voice; want; way; white; women; work; world cache: 26740.txt plain text: 26740.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 32891 author: Yerxa, Leroy title: Phantom of the Forest date: None words: 5680 flesch: 99 summary: While she poured coffee into the cups on the kitchen table, Robinson cornered Norm Boody and led him into the living room. Earl Robinson twisted the wheel savagely, got the feel of the ice hidden under the snow, and deftly straightened the car. keywords: bill; boody; earl; robinson; roy; snow; starr cache: 32891.txt plain text: 32891.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 36518 author: Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) title: All Men are Ghosts date: None words: 65084 flesch: 81 summary: Said I not unto thee that I discern no more between the darkness and the light, between the shadow and the substance? Again and again, as the Professor raced across the open, did he repeat those lines to himself; and whenever a dangerous fence or ditch came in sight he would break off in the middle of the Greek and cry aloud in English, Now, John Scattergood, prepare for death and sit well back--resuming the Greek the moment he was safely landed on the other side, and thus proving once more that the blood of the Ironsides still ran in his veins. Said a farmer to me one day: keywords: abdulla; billy; day; death; ethelberta; eyes; face; farmer; father; ghosts; god; good; half; hand; head; house; jeremy; know; life; like; look; man; mare; matter; mind; moment; new; night; panhandle; piecraft; place; point; professor; question; room; round; scattergood; sir; skin; story; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; voice; water; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 36518.txt plain text: 36518.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 37231 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 1 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 141147 flesch: 55 summary: If we proceed to examine Paley's simple case a little more closely, however, we find that not only is it utterly inadmissible as a hypothesis, but that as an illustration of the case of Gospel miracles it is completely devoid of relevancy and argumentative force. It is clear that, this large class of Gospel miracles being due to the superstition of an ignorant and credulous age, the insufficiency of the evidence for any of the other supposed miraculous occurrences narrated in the same documents becomes at once apparent. keywords: "(1; "(2; account; angels; apostles; argument; belief; canonical; case; character; christianity; church; course; critics; demons; divine; doubt; epistles; eusebius; evidence; existence; fact; form; god; gospel; gospel miracles; greek; hand; ignatius; instance; jesus; justin; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; lightfoot; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; memoirs; miracles; miraculous; mozley; nature; order; papias; passage; peter; place; point; power; present; question; quotation; quotes; reality; reason; revelation; second; source; spirit; statement; states; testament; testimony; text; time; tradition; truth; version; words; work; writers cache: 37231.txt plain text: 37231.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 37232 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 117798 flesch: 59 summary: They assign to the Homilies an origin at different dates within a period commencing about the middle of the second century, and extending to a century later.2 In the Homilies there are very numerous quotations {6} of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed in the mouth of Peter, or introduced with such formulae as: The teacher said, Jesus said, He said, The prophet said, but in no case does the author name the source from which these sayings and quotations are derived. We need not do more than remark that there is not a single quotation in the fragment, and that there is not a single one of the references to Gospel history or to ecclesiastical dogmas which might not have been derived from the Epistles of Paul, from any of the forms of the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Protevangelium of James, or from many another apocryphal Gospel, or the oral teaching of the Church. keywords: apocalypse; apostle; author; canon; canonical; case; century; character; christ; church; date; disciples; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; irenæus; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; marcion; passage; paul; peter; place; point; quotation; reason; reference; says; second; son; spirit; statement; synoptics; tatian; testament; testimony; text; things; time; tischendorf; use; valentinus; way; westcott; word; work; writer; writings cache: 37232.txt plain text: 37232.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 37233 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 147972 flesch: 59 summary: It is maintained that the desire to equalise the sufferings of the two Apostles in the cause of the Gospel, as he has equalised their miraculous displays, probably led the Author to omit all mention of those {72} perils and persecutions to which the Apostle Paul refers in support of his protest, that he had laboured and suffered more than all the rest.(1) If Paul was called by a vision to the ministry of the Gentiles,(2) The statements of the Apostle Paul leave no doubt that persecution against the Christians of Jerusalem must have broken out previous to his conversion, but no details are given, and it can scarcely be considered otherwise than extraordinary, that Paul should not in any of his own writings have referred to the proto-martyr of the Christian Church, if the account which is given of him be historical. keywords: account; acts; apostle paul; apostles; author; belief; case; character; christian; church; circumcision; course; critics; death; disciples; epistle; evidence; fact; form; gentiles; god; gospel; hand; holy; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; lord; luke; man; miracles; miraculous; narrative; nature; passage; paul; peter; place; point; present; question; resurrection; second; speech; spirit; statement; time; tongues; unto; use; vision; visit; words; work; writer cache: 37233.txt plain text: 37233.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 39494 author: None title: Poetry of the Supernatural date: None words: 5733 flesch: 91 summary: In the hour that I meet ye ghost to ghost, Stripped of the flesh that ye skulk within, Stripped to the coward soul 'ware of its sin, Ye shall learn, ye shall learn, whether dead men hate! =Kingsley=, Charles. keywords: ---the; anthology; ballad; book; dead; death; ghost; john; man; night; poems; poetry; sea; stedman; verse; william cache: 39494.txt plain text: 39494.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 40027 author: Wormser, G. Ranger (Gwendolyn Ranger) title: The Scarecrow, and Other Stories date: None words: 48904 flesch: 96 summary: Of course there was old man Efferts. Old man Efferts did not live so very far away. keywords: benny; dark; dog; door; eyes; face; flowers; girl; good; hand; house; jasper; kurz; maman; man; night; room; sea; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; window; woman cache: 40027.txt plain text: 40027.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 4078 author: Wilde, Oscar title: The Picture of Dorian Gray date: None words: 55625 flesch: 90 summary: Mr. Dorian Gray is in the studio, sir, said the butler, coming into the garden. Dorian Gray? is that his name? said Lord Henry, walking across the studio towards Basil Hallward. keywords: art; basil; beauty; day; dear; door; dorian; eyes; face; good; gray; hallward; hand; harry; henry; house; life; look; lord; lord henry; love; man; men; moment; night; people; picture; portrait; room; round; sibyl; soul; table; thing; thought; time; want; work; world cache: 4078.txt plain text: 4078.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 41619 author: Rohmer, Sax title: The Haunting of Low Fennel date: None words: 45939 flesch: 81 summary: A man of God, Effendi, favoured beyond other men. To each man who bestowed a kiss upon her--and such men were rare--she caused a heart of lapis to be sent, and upon the heart was engraved in gold the number of the kiss! keywords: colonel; dale; desert; dillon; door; east; eileen; eyes; face; fennel; friend; graham; hall; hand; head; house; kassimere; lal; left; life; lorian; major; man; mind; mohammed; moment; moreen; mrs; night; phrynã; place; ramsa; room; sir; thing; time; voice; way; white cache: 41619.txt plain text: 41619.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 42566 author: Parkes, William Theodore title: The Spook Ballads date: None words: 41042 flesch: 84 summary: He killed ze man in duel! The buds of my bouquet! Said she to me ta ta! Go home to your mamma! keywords: author; ballads; barney; blood; blue; car; case; court; day; door; eye; fairy; fate; fun; ghost; good; hair; hand; heart; home; humour; illustration; irish; lady; law; left; life; london; look; love; man; men; neck; night; nose; pat; queen; road; room; round; sea; siz; spirit; spook; thee; think; thought; thro; till; time; town; twas; way; whin; wid; wife; work; yer cache: 42566.txt plain text: 42566.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 43346 author: None title: The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date: None words: 61689 flesch: 64 summary: --Vol. i. pp. A Discerner of spirits, i. 81 Abimelech's dream, i. 210 Aerolites, i. 24 After-vision of a suicide, ii. 75 Alexander Macdonald's dream, i. 285 Amulet of the Grahams, i. 277 ---- of the Macdonald Lockharts, i. 278 Ann Thorne bewitched, i. 194 Apparition at Ballarat, ii. 61 ---- at time of death, ii. 59 ---- in the Jewel House, ii. 105 ---- near Cardiff, ii. 114 ---- of a college friend, ii. 71 ---- of a crow, ii. 131 ---- of a dying father, ii. 58 ---- of a dying lady to her children, ii. 64 ---- of a father to his son, ii. 58 ---- of a friend, ii. 60 ---- of a sister, ii. 59 ---- of a son to his mother and another, ii. 73 ---- of an officer, ii. 10 ---- of Dr. Ferrar's daughter, ii. 25 ---- of Philip Weld, ii. 51 ---- of Rev. W. Naylor, ii. 7 ---- of S. Stanislaus, ii. 51 ---- seven years after death, ii. 71 ---- to a gentleman, ii. 119 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 113 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 117 ---- to a sentry, and his death thereupon, ii. 108 ---- to Lord Brougham, ii. keywords: ---of; account; apparition; appearance; bed; body; child; church; college; day; death; evil; facts; family; figure; following; form; friend; ghost; god; good; hand; house; lady; left; life; lord; lyttelton; man; medium; men; moment; morning; mrs; nature; night; persons; phenomena; place; present; rev; room; saw; sir; spirits; spiritualism; state; story; subject; table; testimony; time; world; years cache: 43346.txt plain text: 43346.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 45964 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: Day and Night Stories date: None words: 74473 flesch: 84 summary: You are on the way to discovery of great things. Also--he reminded himself with a smile--he had lost other things: the expression of youth _ keywords: air; arms; beauty; chair; cold; course; day; death; desert; door; eyes; face; figure; girl; great; half; hand; head; heart; kind; left; life; love; man; mind; moment; new; night; open; place; power; room; rose; saw; second; sense; silence; sound; space; thing; thought; time; touch; voice; water; way; wind; wood; words; world; years cache: 45964.txt plain text: 45964.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 47555 author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) title: The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) date: None words: 77150 flesch: 79 summary: All Sloebury was aware next morning that something of the most extraordinary character had happened to young Walter Methven. He was not half so free an agent as he had been when he was poor Walter Methven, knocking about the streets of Sloebury and doing much what he liked, though he thought himself in bondage. keywords: air; away; day; door; erradeen; eyes; family; forrester; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; kind; know; lady; life; light; loch; look; lord; lord erradeen; man; methven; milnathort; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; oona; people; place; room; sense; shaw; sort; thing; thought; time; underwood; walter; way; world; young cache: 47555.txt plain text: 47555.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 47556 author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) title: The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3) date: None words: 76176 flesch: 80 summary: He went everywhere with us, and met us everywhere---- Then, Katie, cried Oona, with a little burst of natural impatience; you must know him a great deal better than I. Said Kate calmly--I am a quite different person from you, and I saw him only in society. Thus winter ran into summer, and the busy months of the season went over the head of young Lord Erradeen. keywords: day; erradeen; eyes; forrester; good; half; hand; heart; house; julia; katie; kind; know; laugh; life; like; loch; look; lord; lord erradeen; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; oona; people; place; poor; room; sense; sort; things; thought; time; underwood; walter; way; williamson; world; young cache: 47556.txt plain text: 47556.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 47557 author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) title: The Wizard's Son, Vol. 3 (of 3) date: None words: 74341 flesch: 82 summary: But life has not said out its last word, and ye will have to tread them one time or other with bleeding feet, or all is done--if the Lord has not given you a lot apart from that of other men. It is pretty of you, all you girls, to take an interest in Walter's mother; but for my part I like young men best without their mothers, Miss Herbert said, with a laugh, and a glance towards the attendant squire, who said to himself that here was a girl above all pretences, who knew better than to attempt to throw dust in the eyes of wise men like himself. keywords: boat; day; door; erradeen; eyes; face; good; hamish; hand; heart; house; julia; katie; lady; life; light; like; little; loch; lord; man; methven; mind; moment; mother; mrs; old; oona; place; poor; tell; thought; time; underwood; voice; walter; way; woman cache: 47557.txt plain text: 47557.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 56101 author: Johnston, Mary title: Sweet Rocket date: None words: 44110 flesch: 93 summary: Said Curtin: I remember a line of Masefield's: ... Said Curtin, When we come and come, what do you do at last? keywords: air; anna; curtin; darcy; day; deep; drew; earth; eyes; fire; forest; good; house; land; life; light; linden; man; marget; mind; miss; mountain; place; richard; river; road; rocket; room; saw; sun; sweet; things; thought; time; tree; way; world cache: 56101.txt plain text: 56101.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 7120 author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich title: Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories date: None words: 63842 flesch: 89 summary: You've gone clean off your head, old man, he said with a jeer. Now, mind, old man, he added as he pulled the cord off his wrists, remember, I have spared you, mind that! Naum Ivanitch, my dear, faltered Yefrem, the Lord will have mercy upon you! keywords: akim; aunt; avdotya; bed; colibri; david; day; door; emilie; eyes; face; father; going; good; hand; head; home; house; inn; kirillovna; kuzma; left; lizaveta; looking; man; money; naum; night; raissa; room; round; thought; time; tyeglev; vassilyevitch; voice; watch; way; wife; yefrem cache: 7120.txt plain text: 7120.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 9964 author: Blackwood, Algernon title: The Centaur date: None words: 92063 flesch: 77 summary: He had always dreamed the Earth alive, a mothering organism to humanity; and himself, _via_ his love of Nature, in some sweet close relation to her that other men had forgotten or ignored. The wise and wonderful Earth opened her mind and her deep heart to him in a way few other men seemed to know. keywords: air; beauty; body; boy; cabin; close; consciousness; doctor; dream; earth; expression; eyes; face; far; half; hand; heart; inner; irishman; joy; kind; know; lay; left; life; man; men; mind; moment; mountains; nature; night; o'malley; personality; place; power; room; rose; sea; self; sense; silence; sky; soul; sound; stahl; state; steamer; things; thought; time; vision; voice; way; wild; wind; words; world cache: 9964.txt plain text: 9964.txt