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id: 58974
author: Bixby, Jerome
title: Our Town
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words: 8431
sentence: 599
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Sit down, Ben Bates, old Jim snarled. Tom Pace shook his head, and old Jim looked like he'd like to go, if he only could--and Ben said, Maybe I'll be down a little while later, Windy.


id: 19416
author: Holmes, William Henry
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words: 19339
sentence: 1546
flesch: 80
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title:
  Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510

summary:
  Height, 4½ inches; width, of base, 3½ inches. 62766. It is 2½ inches in length, 1½ in width, and three-fourths of an inch in thickness.


id: 19932
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
extension: .txt
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words: 23380
sentence: 1710
flesch: 97
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives

summary:
  We had good clothes ter w'ar en w'en we went ter de table hit wuz loaded wid good food en we could set down en eat our stomachs full. I wuz bawn in slavery en b'longs ter de Brown family.


id: 5306
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: Down the Ravine
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words: 33673
sentence: 1987
flesch: 85
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summary:
  An' dad gin his cornsent ter Nate ter let me work a month an' better fur him, ter pay out'n debt fur the shoat. I kem home by the tanyard Jube Perkins hollered ter me ter tell Birt ter come thar right quick.


id: 19776
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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words: 41354
sentence: 1931
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Although failing in no observance of courtesy, Mrs. Briscoe had been a little less than complaisant toward the departed guest. Mrs. Briscoe, considerably in advance of her guest, paled at the sight of him, and, silent and visibly shocked, paused as abruptly as if she beheld a ghost.


id: 20365
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
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words: 45090
sentence: 2544
flesch: 86
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summary:
  I'd ruther squeeze myself small enough ter git inter his'n, than ter hev ter yell like a catamount fur an hour I seen yer brother Alf awhile back, an' he axed me ter git ye ter go by Tom Brent's house, an' tell Tom ter meet him up the road a piece by that thar big sulphur spring.


id: 45708
author: Torrey, Bradford
title: Spring notes from Tennessee
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words: 44469
sentence: 2199
flesch: 78
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summary:
  The roads gave the visitor convenience of access,--a ready means of moving about with his eyes in the air,--and at the same time, by making the place more open, they made it more birdy; for birds, even the greater part of wood birds, like the borders of a forest better than its darker recesses. Few birds are more freely and easily observed.


id: 57212
author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd)
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words: 48703
sentence: 2053
flesch: 68
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title:
  Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865)

summary:
  As a result of the controversy that ensued, General Jackson was required by the Secretary of War to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester. So I returned to the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was enthusiastically received by the officers and members of my regiment; and especially by General Polk and his staff, upon which I found my dear friends Colonel Harry Yeatman, Colonel William B. Richmond and Colonel William D. Gale.


id: 14863
author: Daviess, Maria Thompson
title: The Tinder-Box
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words: 52604
sentence: 2026
flesch: 76
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summary:
  And the sight of dear old Jane mixing with those Harpeth Valley farmer folk was one of the things I have put aside to remember for always. Sometimes it startles me to find that with all my emancipation I am very like other women.


id: 37925
author: Crockett, Davy
title: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.
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words: 54734
sentence: 2252
flesch: 80
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summary:
  few greater men in the world than myself. For then I might have been, by _common consent_, called _doctor_, as a heap of people get to be great men.


id: 3745
author: Daviess, Maria Thompson
title: The Road to Providence
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words: 55704
sentence: 2337
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Yes, I heard Tom Mayberry disgraced himself over your maple syrup jug, Bettie Pratt, called Mother Mayberry after her. As she spoke, Mother Mayberry had been rearranging the deserted nest with practised hand and had tenderly lifted two feeble, moist little new-borns on her broad palm to show to the Doctor.


id: 3073
author: Skinner, Constance Lindsay
title: Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
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words: 63445
sentence: 2690
flesch: 69
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summary:
  To head an enterprise of such danger and hardship Henderson required a man of more than mere courage; a man of resource, of stability, of proven powers, one whom other men would follow and obey with confidence. But when the man whom he hated--apparently for no reason except that other men loved him--assented to the people's will and was appointed to the highest post within their gift, Tipton withdrew, disavowing all connection with Frankland and affirming his loyalty to North Carolina.


id: 33970
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories
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words: 63597
sentence: 2951
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Then why n't ye leave it ter men? I can't _prove_ An' he got old man Byars ter wagin him down ter Colb'ry, a-layin' on two feather beds 'count o' the rocky roads, an' thar he got on the steam kyars an' he rid on them back ter


id: 31122
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories
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words: 63466
sentence: 2848
flesch: 75
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summary:
  An' then, kase a mean-spirited half-liver flings dirt on ye an' yer fambly, fur ye ter sit down on a low stool, an' fill yer mouth with mud, an' 'low this air plenty good enough fur we-uns! Waal, he resumed, I b'lieve ef that thar traveler had been able ter speak ter ye when ye fund him, like ye said he tried ter do, I b'lieve he would hev tole ye suthin' 'bout that thar valley man.


id: 13724
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Frontiersmen
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words: 66970
sentence: 2394
flesch: 65
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summary:
  A few old women, their minds intent upon the preparation of dinner, a few of the very young children, relishing their own pottering devices as of a finer flavor of sport, a few old men, like other old men elsewhere, with thoughts of the past so vivid that the present could show but a pallid aspect--these were absent, and were not missed. He was fast aging now; the difficulties of diplomacy constantly increasing in view of individual aggressions and encroachments of the Carolina colonists on the east, and the ever specious wiles and suave allurements of the French on the west, to win the Cherokees from their British alliance; the impossibility, in the gentle patriarchal methods of the Cherokee government, to control the wild young men of the tribe, who, as the half-king, Atta-Kulla-Kulla said, often acted like madmen rather than people of sense (and it is respectfully submitted that this peculiarity has been observed in other young men elsewhere); the prophetic vision, doubtless, of the eventual crushing of his people in the collisions of the great international struggle of the Europeans for the possession of this country,--all fostered tokens of time in the face of Colannah, and bowed his straight back, and set an unwonted quiver in the nerves of his old hand that had been firm in his heyday, and strong and crafty and cruelly bloody.


id: 35619
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
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words: 68304
sentence: 3760
flesch: 82
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summary:
  I oughter do ter g'long with the sher'ff an' leave it ter men. Ye air ter be cast down--ye who hev stood high.


id: 10621
author: Stribling, T. S. (Thomas Sigismund)
title: Birthright: A Novel
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words: 72821
sentence: 4485
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Peter turned, and caught an alcoholic breath over his shoulder, and the blurred voice of a Southern negro called out above the rumble of the car and the roar of the engine: 'Fo' Gawd, ef dis ain't Peter Siner I's been lookin' at de las' twenty miles, an' not knowin' him wid sich skeniptious clo'es on! Peter stood in the brilliant light, astonished, not at Captain Renfrew's being a Harvard man,--he had known that,--but that this old gentleman was telling the fact to him, Peter Siner, a negro graduate of Harvard.


id: 2390
author: Henderson, Archibald
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words: 73892
sentence: 2614
flesch: 56
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title:
  The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

summary:
  For many months each year he threaded his way through that marvelously beautiful country of western North Carolina felicitously described as the Switzerland of America. Terrible indeed was the havoc wrought among the elk; and it was reported that the last elk was killed in western North Carolina as early as 1781.


id: 13202
author: Watkins, Samuel R. (Samuel Rush)
title: "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or, A Side Show of the Big Show
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words: 85617
sentence: 4655
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Both were old men, and very poor, with large families at home; and they were forced to go to war against their wishes, while their wives and little children were at home without the necessaries of life. Every day I would look on at the suffering of delicate ladies, old men, and mothers with little children clinging to them, crying, O, mamma, mamma, and old women, and tottering old men, whose gray hairs should have protected them from the savage acts of Yankee hate and Puritan barbarity; and I wondered how on earth our generals, including those who had resigned--that is where the shoe pinches--could quietly look on at this dark, black, and damning insult to our people, and not use at least one effort to rescue them from such terrible and unmitigated cruelty, barbarity, and outrage.


id: 20941
author: Bente, F. (Friedrich)
title: American Lutheranism, Volume 1 Early History of American Lutheranism and the Tennessee Synod
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words: 92546
sentence: 3991
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Helffenstein be the committee to the New York Synod, and the Rev. Messrs. Hendel, Hoffmeier, and Wack, Sr., the committee to the Lutheran Synod. Minutes of German Reformed Synod, 1818: The committee which was appointed to confer with a committee of the Lutheran Synod in reference to the founding of a theological school reported that they attended the Lutheran Synod of last year, and were received in a very fraternal manner; and that that Synod has appointed a committee to confer after the present meeting with a committee of the Reformed Synod on any subjects relating to the school, and to submit something definite; and they proposed that a similar committee be appointed.


id: 31801
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Story of Old Fort Loudon
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words: 95497
sentence: 3229
flesch: 64
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summary:
  The Cherokee kings had offered Captain Stuart life and practically liberty in exchange for this service. The corporal, a dark-haired, blue-eyed, florid young Irishman, looking very stanch and direct and steady, but not without a twinkle of humor which betokened some histrionic capacity to support the situation, speaking partly in English and partly, glibly enough, in very tolerable Cherokee, although incongruously embellished with an Irish brogue, detailed that Captain Stuart had been apprised that there was a band of Indians on the river who had some white people with them, and he wished to know if these white people were French, in which case, according to the treaty made with the Cherokees, they must be arrested and delivered up to the commandant of the fort, or if English, he wished to be assured that they were at liberty to go where they pleased, and were under no restraint.


id: 48937
author: MacGowan, Alice
title: The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage
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words: 94977
sentence: 5282
flesch: 86
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summary:
  But not any Callista Lance had ever known; not the scornful beauty who throned herself among her mates and accepted the homage of mankind as her due; not the flushed, tremulous Callista of that Thar comes Lance now! announced Fuson, and then winked at his companions.


id: 36771
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories
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words: 95836
sentence: 4492
flesch: 78
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summary:
  It's ye that oughter be 'shamed, an' ef ye ain't, it's more shame ter ye. She axed me ter put it on, so ez ter see which one I looked most like.


id: 28328
author: Brownlow, William Gannaway
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words: 96077
sentence: 3450
flesch: 60
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title:
  Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors

summary:
  Would either have entered into any political league, when _secrecy_ was enjoined, if he had not approved of the principle of secrecy in political associations? But these Bishops, Elders, and other Ministers, would receive all this with a greater degree of allowance, if they did not believe that your generous patronage, so lavishly bestowed upon them and their creed, was prompted by a principle of which _selfishness_ is the soul!


id: 31406
author: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
title: Cudjo's Cave
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words: 116135
sentence: 7851
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Mr. Villars, however, blind and venerated old man, had sufficient influence over the people, Penn believed, to serve as a protection to his household even with him in it. Toby says that poor old man, Mr. Ellerton, who assisted you to escape, was caught and hung by some of the soldiers yesterday.


