item: #1 of 160 id: 10345 author: Trollope, Frances Milton title: Domestic Manners of the Americans date: None words: 115074 flesch: 61 summary: After many consultations, and hearing that many other ladies intended going, my friend Mrs. P--, and myself, decided upon making the attempt, accompanied by a party of gentlemen, and found the difficulty less than we anticipated, though the building was crowded in every part. It was not once, nor twice, nor thrice, but many many times, during my residence in America, that I was present when subjects which custom as well as principle had taught me to consider as fitter for the closet than the tea-table, were thus lightly discussed. keywords: air; america; americans; appearance; beauty; black; boat; children; cincinnati; city; country; day; distance; effect; england; english; eyes; family; feeling; fine; forest; general; gentlemen; good; ground; half; home; hour; house; ladies; lady; left; length; life; like; look; man; manner; means; men; miles; miss; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; noble; party; people; place; pleasure; point; poor; pretty; river; room; saw; scene; set; society; spot; state; table; thing; thought; time; town; trees; union; united; want; washington; water; way; white; women; work; world; years; york; young cache: 10345.txt plain text: 10345.txt item: #2 of 160 id: 10779 author: Unknown title: Happy Little Edward And His Pleasant Ride and Rambles in the Country. date: None words: 1955 flesch: 83 summary: The loud report not only frightened the bird, but startled little Edward also, which made his cousins laugh heartily. [Illustration] Come, little children, wake from sleep, And into the country take a peep; Happy Edward leads the way, So haste to the country, haste away! 1850. keywords: edward; little cache: 10779.txt plain text: 10779.txt item: #3 of 160 id: 10813 author: Boyd, Mary Stuart title: A Versailles Christmas-Tide date: None words: 20183 flesch: 67 summary: Five dishes, irrespective of _hors d'oeuvres_ at luncheon, and _potage_ at dinner, were allowed each guest, and Madame's selection was an affair of time. The tardy winter daylight had scarcely come before we were jolting in a _fiacre_ over the stony streets of Versailles. keywords: air; antoinette; boyd; cross; daily; day; french; good; half; home; hotel; illustration; iorson; king; life; louis; madame; marie; market; morning; night; place; queen; red; room; round; school; summer; time; town; tree; versailles; winter; world; years cache: 10813.txt plain text: 10813.txt item: #4 of 160 id: 11104 author: Wharton, Edith title: In Morocco date: None words: 51822 flesch: 60 summary: Everywhere behind the bristling walls and rock-clamped towers of old Morocco lurks the shadowy spirit of instability. It is hard to guess the age of some of the featureless houses propping each other's flanks in old Fez or old Salé, but people rich enough to rebuild have always done so, and the passion for building seems allied, in this country of inconsequences, to the supine indifference that lets existing constructions crumble back to clay. keywords: africa; arab; architecture; art; arts; atlas; black; blue; century; children; city; country; court; day; desert; european; eyes; fez; france; french; gardens; general; green; harem; house; idriss; illustration; life; lyautey; man; market; maroc; marrakech; meknez; moroccan; morocco; moslem; mosque; moulay; north; palaces; photograph; place; rabat; red; ruins; salé; south; spain; sultan; tangier; time; town; tribes; walls; war; way; white; women; years cache: 11104.txt plain text: 11104.txt item: #5 of 160 id: 11454 author: Sturge, Joseph title: A Visit to the United States in 1841 date: None words: 105443 flesch: 55 summary: I have recently learned that they are negotiating the purchase of the liberty of other slaves, who formerly belonged to Colonel Fitzhugh. The mistress of the Eagle Hotel sat at her table as a queen, surrounded by many slaves. keywords: abolitionists; american; anti; british; cause; character; children; christian; city; color; committee; convention; country; course; day; dollars; emancipation; england; following; foreign; friends; general; good; government; house; influence; interest; john; large; late; left; letter; life; man; means; meeting; members; men; new; north; number; opinion; people; persons; philadelphia; place; population; power; present; president; principles; public; question; right; slave states; slavery; slaves; society; states; subject; time; trade; tyson; united; united states; visit; war; way; work; world; years; york cache: 11454.txt plain text: 11454.txt item: #6 of 160 id: 1146 author: Fielding, Henry title: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon date: None words: 45576 flesch: 49 summary: What hath puzzled our physicians, and prevented them from setting this matter in the clearest light, is possibly one simple mistake, arising from a very excusable ignorance; that the passions of men are capable of swallowing food as well as their appetites; that the former, in feeding, resemble the state of those animals who chew the cud; and therefore, such men, in some sense, may be said to prey on themselves, and as it were to devour their own entrails. The vanity of knowing more than other men is, perhaps, besides hunger, the only inducement to writing, at least to publishing, at all. keywords: anchor; board; boat; cabin; captain; case; day; degree; evening; fish; good; hath; having; house; kind; land; man; men; morning; place; power; present; public; scarce; sea; set; ship; shore; thought; time; truth; voyage; water; way; wife; wind; work; world cache: 1146.txt plain text: 1146.txt item: #7 of 160 id: 11526 author: Fuller, Margaret title: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 date: None words: 68154 flesch: 73 summary: But as such men come not so often as once an age, their presence should not be absolutely needed to sustain life. I was all Spring, for in my being dwelt Eternal youth, where flowers are the fruit, Full feeling was the thought of what was felt, Its music was the meaning of the lute; But heaven and earth such life will still deny, For earth, divorced from heaven, still asks the question _ keywords: bear; beauty; book; character; children; country; day; days; death; earth; expression; eye; eyes; fair; father; feeling; fine; free; friend; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; indian; kind; lake; left; life; light; look; love; man; mariana; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; people; place; power; red; river; scene; spirit; state; thought; time; trees; true; water; way; white; wild; woman; world; years cache: 11526.txt plain text: 11526.txt item: #8 of 160 id: 12380 author: Eddy, Arthur Jerome title: Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" date: None words: 80025 flesch: 67 summary: Here Washington, Lafayette, Burgoyne, and other great men of Revolutionary days had been entertained, for along this highway the troops marched and countermarched. It is singular the fascination exercised by localities and things identified with great men. keywords: american; automobile; buffalo; carriage; city; concord; country; day; days; death; emerson; end; fact; fine; gasoline; going; good; great; half; hawthorne; hill; home; horse; hour; individual; left; life; like; little; look; machine; man; matter; men; miles; moment; morgan; morning; mud; nature; new; night; o'clock; oil; people; place; power; professor; road; room; run; sand; short; soul; south; speed; stone; stop; street; things; thought; time; tire; trouble; turn; use; village; water; way; wheel; work; world; years; york cache: 12380.txt plain text: 12380.txt item: #9 of 160 id: 12617 author: Massey, Montague title: Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century date: None words: 29266 flesch: 67 summary: by Calcutta Phototype Co_ Old view of Government House, North aspect] Opposite to the hotel there used to be a very dirty and unsightly tank, quite different from all the other tanks in Chowringhee, which was eventually filled up, and the greater part of the ground thus reclaimed has been occupied by the Calcutta Tramways Co. for their Esplanade junction, and a small portion to the extreme west forms part of Lady Curzon's Garden. keywords: bank; bengal; buildings; calcutta; chowringhee; club; co.; corner; course; court; day; days; east; government; government house; hoffmann; hotel; house; house street; illustration; johnston; new; office; people; photo; place; premises; present; road; room; site; south; street; time; view; years cache: 12617.txt plain text: 12617.txt item: #10 of 160 id: 12874 author: Cameron, Agnes Deans title: The New North date: None words: 97753 flesch: 76 summary: Old men boast of their age and young ones of their youth. Is it too daring a conjecture to trace in these, which Eskimo men so sedulously cherish and resolutely refuse to talk about, a religious significance? keywords: air; arctic; athabasca; baby; bank; bay; big; black; boat; camp; canada; canadian; chapter; children; chipewyan; church; come; coming; company; country; cree; day; days; dogs; edmonton; eskimo; evening; family; father; feet; fish; fond; food; fort; fox; fur; god; going; good; h.b; half; hands; head; home; hope; hudson; ice; illustration; indian; island; lac; lake; land; landing; life; line; little; long; look; mackenzie; mackenzie river; making; man; meat; men; miles; moose; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; north; northern; peace; peace river; people; point; rapids; reach; red; river; round; run; school; scow; sea; seal; shore; simpson; skin; slave; smith; south; story; summer; sun; things; time; vermilion; water; way; whale; wheat; white; wife; winnipeg; winter; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12874.txt plain text: 12874.txt item: #11 of 160 id: 13150 author: Kolb, E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) title: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico date: None words: 84836 flesch: 80 summary: There was little water to be found, and in many ways it was just as inhospitable as the canyon. The boats, too, were somewhat unusual in design, having been carefully worked out by Galloway after much experience with the problem, and after building many boats. keywords: boat; camp; canyon; channel; colorado; colorado river; country; creek; current; day; days; distance; emery; end; evening; feet; find; foot; grand; green river; half; home; hour; land; left; line; making; man; men; miles; morning; mountains; near; night; old; picture; place; point; ranch; rapid; red; river; rock; run; sand; section; shore; stream; time; trail; trees; trip; walls; water; waves; way; work cache: 13150.txt plain text: 13150.txt item: #12 of 160 id: 13403 author: Howard, Clare title: English Travellers of the Renaissance date: None words: 55481 flesch: 75 summary: Footnote 399: _Ibid., Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ,_ ed. _ London, 1575. 1577. keywords: advice; ambassador; book; cambridge; century; charles; countries; country; court; day; duke; earl; education; edward; england; english; englishman; father; footnote; france; francis; french; gentleman; germany; good; governor; grand; hall; henry; history; home; ibid; iii; instructions; italian; italy; james; john; king; knowledge; learning; letters; life; like; london; lord; man; manners; means; men; new; oxford; papers; paris; place; prince; robert; rome; series; sidney; sir; sir thomas; society; son; sort; spain; state; study; things; thomas; time; tour; travel; travellers; university; vol; way; william; works; world; wotton; years; young cache: 13403.txt plain text: 13403.txt item: #13 of 160 id: 13450 author: Stokes, Katherine title: The Motor Maids in Fair Japan date: None words: 54583 flesch: 84 summary: It's all happened because Billie Campbell has a mole on the sole of her left foot and a Gypsy once told her that was the mark of the wanderer. Only to Palm Beach and across the Continent and to England-- At this dangerous turn in the conversation, the door was pushed open and Billie Campbell rushed in, followed by Elinor Butler and Mary Price. keywords: billie; buxton; campbell; day; door; elinor; eyes; face; father; fontaine; garden; girls; good; head; home; house; japanese; komatsu; lady; maids; mary; miss; miss campbell; mme; moment; mother; motor; nancy; nicholas; night; o'haru; onoye; papa; people; rain; room; thought; time; way; yoritomo cache: 13450.txt plain text: 13450.txt item: #14 of 160 id: 13749 author: Stevens, Thomas title: Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama date: None words: 176625 flesch: 59 summary: As though awed and paralyzed by this revelation of the panther's dread presence, the chirping and juggling and p-r-r-r-ring and yelping of inferior creatures cease as if by mutual impulse moved, and the pitter-patter of little feet are heard on the clay floor of my bungalow. The twenty-one miles are covered, however, by 8.30 a.m., that hour finding me wheeling down the broad suburban road to the Lahore Gate amid throngs of country people carrying baskets of mangoes, plantains, pomegranates, and other indigenous products into the markets of the old Mogul capital. keywords: afghanistan; afternoon; appearance; bicycle; big; blue; bungalow; camel; camp; caravanserai; character; chief; city; country; couple; course; crowd; dark; day; days; deep; desert; distance; door; doubt; east; end; english; european; evening; eyes; face; feet; fields; fire; following; foot; form; garden; gate; general; going; good; gray; great; green; half; hand; head; herat; hills; horses; hour; house; human; india; inside; japanese; journey; khan; kiang; left; level; life; looking; looks; making; man; manner; men; miles; mirza; moment; money; morning; mountains; mud; narrow; native; nature; new; night; number; officer; outside; party; pass; past; peculiar; people; persian; person; piece; place; plain; point; present; quarters; rain; reach; red; rice; ride; river; road; room; round; russian; sahib; scene; sea; shah; smooth; snow; sowars; station; stone; stream; streets; sun; tea; teheran; telegraph; things; time; trail; travellers; trees; valley; village; walls; water; way; weather; wheel; white; wild; women; world; yards; young cache: 13749.txt plain text: 13749.txt item: #15 of 160 id: 1436 author: Lobo, Jerónimo title: A Voyage to Abyssinia date: None words: 41414 flesch: 57 summary: The Nile runs here so near the shore that it might without much difficulty be turned through this opening of the mountains into the Red Sea, a design which many of the Emperors have thought of putting in execution, and thereby making a communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but have been discouraged either by the greatness of the expense or the fear of laying great part of Egypt under water, for some of that country lies lower than sea. Among great numbers whom we consulted on this occasion, we were informed by some that we might go through Melinda. keywords: abyssinia; abyssins; account; aethiopia; church; country; danger; day; days; death; emperor; father; god; head; inhabitants; journey; king; kingdom; length; life; man; men; nile; patriarch; people; place; portuguese; red; sea; thought; time; viceroy; water; way cache: 1436.txt plain text: 1436.txt item: #16 of 160 id: 14384 author: O'Brien, Frederick title: White Shadows in the South Seas date: None words: 126109 flesch: 82 summary: That brave African soldier was ever dramatic, and _D'Artagnan_ could not have struck a finer attitude as he thrust the gun in my face and called out, _Halte là_! Fifty thousand Marquesans have died to bring peace to the soul of that _corvette_ commander who so jauntily flourished his cane in the faces of the wondering savages. keywords: air; american; atuona; bay; beach; bed; black; blood; blue; boat; body; breadfruit; canoe; captain; chapter; chief; children; church; cocoanut; cut; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; drink; earth; eggs; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; fish; food; french; girl; god; gods; good; governor; great; green; hae; hair; half; hand; head; hiva; home; house; illustration; islands; lay; leaves; left; life; making; man; marquesan; men; moment; morning; mother; mountains; mouth; native; new; night; paepae; people; pig; place; popoi; porter; père; rain; red; river; rocks; rose; rum; saw; schooner; sea; set; ship; small; son; stones; sun; tahiti; thought; time; trail; tree; valley; war; water; way; white; wind; women; wood; words; work; world; years; young cache: 14384.txt plain text: 14384.txt item: #17 of 160 id: 14658 author: London, Jack title: The Road date: None words: 52174 flesch: 90 summary: I have known men who have been robbed and who have talked all the rest of their lives about it. Here were more men in convict stripes. keywords: away; blind; boat; car; day; days; door; engine; eyes; feet; freight; good; half; hall; hand; head; hoboes; kid; lay; left; life; little; man; men; miles; moment; morning; new; night; railroad; river; road; run; shack; stop; street; time; town; train; tramp; water; way; work cache: 14658.txt plain text: 14658.txt item: #18 of 160 id: 14681 author: Galton, Francis title: The Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries date: None words: 130937 flesch: 74 summary: Thus, a dog or other small animal usually sees a man's legs long before he sees his face. Opera-glass.--An opera-glass is an excellent night glass, and at least doubles the clearness of vision in the dark (0p. 284). Now if the digging be continued deeper, in hopes of more water, the result is often most unfortunate; for the clay stratum may prove extremely thin, in which case the digging will pierce it: then the water that had been seen will drain rapidly and wholly away, to the utter discomfiture of the traveller. keywords: air; animal; bags; boat; canvas; case; cattle; cold; countries; country; cut; day; days; degrees; distance; dry; end; ends; feet; fig; fire; following; food; foot; form; glass; good; gun; half; hand; head; heat; hide; hole; horse; inches; iron; journey; lbs; lead; leather; left; length; line; making; man; means; meat; men; night; number; pack; paper; party; piece; place; plan; point; pole; purpose; river; rope; round; saddle; salt; sand; set; shape; sides; size; sketch; skin; small; snow; stick; stone; string; sun; tea; tent; time; tinder; traveller; tree; use; water; way; weight; wet; wind; wood; work cache: 14681.txt plain text: 14681.txt item: #19 of 160 id: 15171 author: Griffith, William title: Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries date: None words: 203490 flesch: 69 summary: The banks of the Naree are clothed with small _Furas_, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt. _6th_.--Not much cultivation was observed on the road to-day, which extended over a naked marshy saline plain, or through a _Kureel_, and small _Jundy_ and _Phulahi_ district. keywords: a.m.; abies; abundance; air; appearance; arborea; artemisia; ascent; assam; bank; barren; base; beautiful; bed; berberis; birds; black; body; boundary; brown; cabul; camp; change; chief; churra; close; commences; common; compositae; consists; country; course; cultivation; cut; day; days; deal; degrees; descent; direction; distance; ditto; dry; east; elevation; etc; euphorbia; evening; extent; face; features; feet; ferns; ficus; fields; fine; fish; flower; foliis; following; foot; form; fort; fruit; gaultheria; general; genus; good; grasses; grassy; green; ground; half; halting; head; heavy; height; high; hills; hours; houses; journey; jungle; leaves; left; length; level; like; limestone; little; looking; low; major; man; march; means; miles; mimosa; mogoung; morning; mosses; mountains; nature; near; new; north; northern; nullah; number; oaks; occurs; ones; opposite; p.m.; panee; parts; pass; passing; path; pendula; people; pinus; place; plains; plants; point; polygonum; portion; present; primula; quercus; rain; range; rare; ravine; red; remains; rhododendron; rice; ridge; right; river; road; rocks; rosa; route; running; runs; saccharum; salix; sand; saw; season; sides; size; snow; soil; sort; south; species; specimens; spots; stones; stony; stream; summit; surface; tea; temperature; thermometer; thibaudia; thing; time; town; trees; uncommon; upper; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; way; weather; west; wheat; white; wind; woods; yards; yellow; yesterday cache: 15171.txt plain text: 15171.txt item: #20 of 160 id: 16565 author: Lewis, Meriwether title: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. date: None words: 178827 flesch: 65 summary: The party reach Lewis river. Affecting interview between the wife of Chaboneau and the chief of the Shoshonees--Council held with that nation, and favourable result--The extreme navigable point of the Missouri mentioned--General character of the river and of the country through which it passes--Captain Clarke in exploring the source of the Columbia falls in company with another party of Shoshonees--The geographical information acquired from one of that party--Their manner of catching fish--The party reach Lewis river--The difficulties which captain Clarke had to encounter in his route--Friendship and hospitality of the Shoshonees--The party with captain Lewis employed in making saddles, and preparing for the journey. keywords: banks; black; buffaloe; camp; canoes; captain; captain clarke; captain lewis; chief; clarke; cold; country; course; creek; day; deer; elk; evening; falls; feet; fine; game; grounds; half miles; having; hills; horses; hunters; indians; island; left; lewis; man; mandans; men; miles; miles distance; missouri; morning; mountains; nation; night; north; number; o'clock; opposite; party; place; plain; point; quarter miles; rapid; river; second; shore; sides; sioux; south; stream; timber; time; village; water; way; weather; white; willow; wind; yards; yesterday; young cache: 16565.txt plain text: 16565.txt item: #21 of 160 id: 16793 author: Neihardt, John G. title: The River and I date: None words: 41874 flesch: 85 summary: When I looked again, I could half imagine the old turbulent fellow winking slyly at me and saying in that undertone you hear when you forget the thunders for a moment: Don't you worry about me, little man. Old men--too old for voyages--had talked about this place; a long time ago, 'way down on the Kansas City docks, I had heard them. keywords: atom; benton; big; black; boat; country; current; day; days; engine; evening; eyes; face; fire; good; half; head; illustration; kid; left; look; man; men; miles; missouri; moon; morning; mouth; new; night; place; power; rapids; river; speed; stream; sun; things; think; thought; time; town; water; way; wind; world; yellowstone cache: 16793.txt plain text: 16793.txt item: #22 of 160 id: 18541 author: Slocum, Joshua title: Voyage of the Liberdade date: None words: 34989 flesch: 75 summary: As sailing day drew near, a half-day liberty to each watch was asked for by the men, who wanted to make purchases for their friends and relatives at Paranagua. On the morrow, which was sailing day, every man was at his post and all sang Cheerily, ho! keywords: bark; board; boat; canoe; cape; captain; cargo; chapter; coast; course; craft; crew; day; days; deck; gale; good; home; island; liberdade; man; miles; new; night; place; port; rio; river; sail; sailing; sailors; sea; seas; ship; thought; time; voyage; water; way; wind cache: 18541.txt plain text: 18541.txt item: #23 of 160 id: 1865 author: Trollope, Anthony title: North America — Volume 1 date: None words: 143132 flesch: 73 summary: Such is their character, although there have been such men as Papineau, and although there have been times in which English rule has been unpopular with the French settlers. It was inexpressibly melancholy to see such men as these twisting and turning about at the corporal's word, each handling some stick in his hand in lieu of weapon. keywords: american; boston; canada; case; city; constitution; corn; country; course; day; doubt; education; england; english; englishman; fact; feeling; general; good; government; governor; great; half; house; idea; lake; law; life; lowell; man; matter; means; men; miles; military; money; nature; new; new england; new york; north; northern; number; people; place; point; political; population; position; power; present; president; public; question; railway; rate; right; river; room; secession; south; states; street; subject; things; think; thought; time; town; union; united; united states; war; washington; water; way; west; western; women; work; world; years cache: 1865.txt plain text: 1865.txt item: #24 of 160 id: 1866 author: Trollope, Anthony title: North America — Volume 2 date: None words: 153270 flesch: 69 summary: Such men can't grow in a down-trodden country of slaves and paupers. But political equality is not what such men want, nor indeed is it social equality. keywords: american; army; case; circumstances; city; congress; constitution; country; course; day; days; doubt; england; english; fact; feeling; general; good; government; ground; hands; house; judges; kentucky; law; laws; letters; life; man; matter; means; members; men; money; nation; new; north; number; office; officers; pay; people; place; population; position; post; power; present; president; public; question; rate; regards; representatives; right; river; secession; secretary; senate; senators; slave states; slavery; slaves; soldiers; south; states; states government; subject; things; time; town; union; united states; war; washington; way; west; words; work; world; years; york cache: 1866.txt plain text: 1866.txt item: #25 of 160 id: 18975 author: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) title: The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club date: None words: 108042 flesch: 72 summary: In explorations and discoveries the results of these two later expeditions were not so rich, but the experience in ice work so obtained gave Parry conclusions which revolutionized all methods in arctic navigation. Three members of the expedition had had sufficient experience in traveling over arctic ice to enable them to estimate a day's journey very closely. keywords: = =; april; arctic; away; bartlett; bay; borup; camp; cape; coast; columbia; course; day; days; distance; dogs; end; eskimos; expedition; feet; floes; going; good; greenland; hours; ice; igloo; illustration; journey; land; lead; left; little; man; march; marvin; men; miles; new; night; north; north pole; observations; party; peary; point; polar; pole; pressure; return; roosevelt; sea; sheridan; ship; shore; sledge; snow; south; sun; supplies; time; trail; water; way; white; wind; winter; work; years; york cache: 18975.txt plain text: 18975.txt item: #26 of 160 id: 19475 author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts title: Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains date: None words: 34836 flesch: 87 summary: He expressed so strong a belief in them that he said that he himself would ride with the outfit, thus permitting most of the Family in the boats that first day. (Although he was not the sort of horse one really became familiar with.) keywords: bed; boats; boy; camp; cook; day; days; feet; flathead; forest; glacier; going; head; horses; lake; miles; morning; mountain; national; night; outfit; pack; park; pass; river; round; snow; time; trail; trees; trip; trout; water; way cache: 19475.txt plain text: 19475.txt item: #27 of 160 id: 19589 author: Bigges, Walter title: A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine. date: None words: 12851 flesch: 56 summary: In the meane time the Gouernour of GALLISIA had reared such forces as he might, his numbers by estimate vvere some two thowsand foot, and three hundred horse, and marched from BAYON to this part of the countrey, vvhich lay in sight of our Fleete, vvhere making stand, he sent to parle vvith our Generall, vvhich vvas graunted by our Generall, so it might be in boates vpon the vvater: and for safetie of their persons, there vvere pledges deliuered on both sides, vvhich done, the Gouernour of GALLISIA put him selfe vvith two others into our Vice-Admirals Skiffe, the same hauing bene sent to the shore for him. Now to the satisfying of some men, who maruel greatly that such a famous and goodly builded Citie so vvell inhabited of gallant people, very brauely apparelled (vvhereof our souldiers found good store for their reliefe) should afoord no greater riches then vvas found there, vvherein it is to be vnderstood that the Indian people, which were the naturals of this vvhole Island of HISPANIOLA (the same being neare hand as great as England) were many yeares since cleane consumed by the tyrannie of the Spaniards, vvhich vvas cause, that for lacke of people to vvorke in the Mines, the gold and siluer Mines of this Island are vvholy giuen ouer, and thereby they are faine in this Island to vse copper money, whereof vvas found verie great quantitie. keywords: captaine; day; fleete; generall; good; great; hauing; maister; men; ordinance; page; place; sea; shore; shot; time; towne; verie; vnto; vpon; vvas; vve; vvhich; vvith cache: 19589.txt plain text: 19589.txt item: #28 of 160 id: 2024 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Diary of a Pilgrimage date: None words: 42629 flesch: 81 summary: The God of the Christian, for his sake, became a man, and lived and suffered and died as a man; and, as a man, living, suffering, dying among other men, he had that day seen him. He said: I'll tell you one thing you'll have to take with you, old man, and that's a box of cigars and some tobacco. keywords: ammergau; bed; beer; book; carriage; day; door; english; friend; german; good; half; head; home; idea; life; look; man; matter; men; morning; munich; night; ober; people; play; poor; railway; room; round; sleep; station; things; thought; time; train; way; work; world cache: 2024.txt plain text: 2024.txt item: #29 of 160 id: 20263 author: Boswell, James title: Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica date: None words: 65264 flesch: 75 summary: But his appetite for knowing great men could never be satisfied. He observed that the Epicurean philosophy had produced but one exalted character, whereas Stoicism had been the seminary of great men. keywords: "--ed; account; andrew; author; book; boswell; captain; character; corsica; corsicans; corte; country; day; days; deal; dear; death; donaldson; edinburgh; english; erskine; footnote; france; french; friend; general; genius; genoese; gentleman; good; history; honour; hope; house; island; james; james boswell; johnson; journal; king; lady; letter; liberty; life; london; long; lord; man; manner; men; mind; nation; ode; paoli; people; pleasure; present; return; room; rousseau; saw; set; signor; sir; society; state; thing; thought; time; tour; town; volume; war; way; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 20263.txt plain text: 20263.txt item: #30 of 160 id: 2064 author: Johnson, Samuel title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland date: None words: 56809 flesch: 67 summary: At New-year's eve, in the hall or castle of the Laird, where, at festal seasons, there may be supposed a very numerous company, one man dresses himself in a cow's hide, upon which other men beat with sticks. At that instant one of the Macleods came to his rescue; who, as it is said, offered quarter to the dragoon, but he thought himself obliged to reject what he had before refused, and, as battle gives little time to deliberate, was immediately killed. keywords: appearance; boswell; cattle; chief; col; countries; country; danger; day; english; general; gentleman; good; ground; highlands; house; inhabitants; islands; laird; language; left; life; maclean; macleod; man; men; money; mull; parts; people; place; power; present; reason; scotland; sea; sir; sky; state; stone; thought; time; want; water; way; years cache: 2064.txt plain text: 2064.txt item: #31 of 160 id: 20928 author: Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, Sir title: Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 date: None words: 72340 flesch: 71 summary: [10] General Longstreet remembered both Sargent and the Judge perfectly, and he was much amused by my experiences with these worthies. He introduced me to General Chilton, the Adjutant-General of the army, to Colonel Cole, the Quartermaster-General, to Major Taylor, Captain Venables, and other officers of General Lee's Staff; and he suggested, as the headquarters were so busy and crowded, that he and I should ride to Winchester at once, and afterwards ask for hospitality from the less busy Staff of General Longstreet. keywords: a.m.; army; captain; cavalry; colonel; confederate; corps; country; day; days; division; enemy; evening; fire; fort; general; general johnston; general lee; good; guns; horses; house; jackson; johnston; judge; left; longstreet; major; man; manner; men; miles; military; morning; new; night; officers; p.m.; people; place; polk; regiment; river; road; sargent; soldiers; south; staff; state; texas; time; town; troops; war; water; way; yankee; years cache: 20928.txt plain text: 20928.txt item: #32 of 160 id: 21244 author: Young, Egerton Ryerson title: By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians date: None words: 81151 flesch: 76 summary: We found out, before we had been there many days, that we had much to learn about Indian customs and habits and modes of thought. For many days I needed no other themes. keywords: camp; canoe; children; christian; church; cold; country; day; days; dogs; fire; fish; food; god; good; great; head; heart; help; home; house; ice; indians; know; lake; land; left; life; like; love; man; men; miles; missionary; night; people; place; poor; rest; river; snow; spirit; things; time; way; wife; words; work; years; young cache: 21244.txt plain text: 21244.txt item: #33 of 160 id: 22022 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 Shawl-Straps date: None words: 44708 flesch: 74 summary: Jules did the swearing; and never were heard such big oaths as fell from the lips of this irate little man. there's a _trattoria_ man with somebody's breakfast on his head! keywords: air; amanda; black; blue; boy; carriage; children; church; city; dark; day; dear; door; english; eyes; french; friends; gay; girls; good; green; half; hands; head; heart; home; horses; house; ladies; lady; lavinia; life; livy; london; look; madame; manner; matilda; new; night; people; place; poor; red; rome; room; round; time; town; way; white; window; women; young cache: 22022.txt plain text: 22022.txt item: #34 of 160 id: 23031 author: Seacole, Mary title: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands date: None words: 60614 flesch: 69 summary: It was on this same day, I think, that bending down over a poor fellow whose senses had quite gone, and, I fear me, would never return to him in this world, he took me for his wife, and calling me Mary, Mary, many times, asked me how it was he had got home so quickly, and why he did not see the children; and said he felt sure he should soon get better now. But little time had we to think of the dead, whose business it was to see after the dying, who might yet be saved. keywords: army; balaclava; british; brother; camp; chapter; cholera; course; crimea; cruces; day; days; death; england; english; fellow; following; french; friends; good; great; hand; hill; home; hotel; house; kind; life; little; men; morning; mrs; new; night; officers; panama; place; reader; saw; seacole; sebastopol; sick; spring; store; things; thought; time; way; woman; work; world cache: 23031.txt plain text: 23031.txt item: #35 of 160 id: 2311 author: Smollett, T. (Tobias) title: Travels through France and Italy date: None words: 143624 flesch: 65 summary: On the third day, the wind being abated, though still unfavourable, we reimbarked and rowed along shore, passing by Porto-mauricio, and Oneglia; then turning the promontory called Capo di Melle, we proceeded by Albenga, Finale, and many other places of inferior note. There is plenty of gravel on the road between Paris and Versailles, as well as in many other parts of this kingdom; but the French, who are all for glare and glitter, think the other is more gay and agreeable: one would imagine they did not feel the burning reflexion from the white sand, which in summer is almost intolerable. keywords: account; air; antient; appearance; architecture; bath; boat; body; boulogne; carriage; case; century; church; city; climate; coach; coast; cold; company; consequence; country; day; days; dear; distance; effect; england; english; expence; family; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fish; florence; form; france; french; friend; garden; general; genoa; gentleman; good; grand; great; ground; half; hand; harbour; head; health; horses; hours; house; ill; inhabitants; inn; italian; italy; journey; kind; king; lady; left; letter; life; livres; london; man; manner; marble; master; means; men; miles; money; montpellier; morning; mountains; nature; neighbourhood; new; nice; night; number; opinion; order; paris; pass; pay; people; person; piece; place; point; post; pounds; present; provence; public; purpose; reason; remains; return; river; road; roman; rome; run; sea; sense; servant; service; set; smollett; sols; sort; south; stands; statues; stone; subject; summer; taste; temple; thing; time; town; travelling; travels; trees; view; walls; war; water; way; weather; white; wife; wind; wine; winter; word; work; years; young cache: 2311.txt plain text: 2311.txt item: #36 of 160 id: 23137 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Diary in America, Series One date: None words: 167941 flesch: 65 summary: +===============+=+============+====+===============================+ Ã�Relief Ã� Ã�PhiladelphiaÃ�1836Ã� Ã� +---------------+-+------------+----+-------------------------------+ Ã�Barque Pioneer Ã� Ã�Boston Ã�1836Ã�New York (nearly ready for sea)Ã� +---------------+-+------------+----+-------------------------------+ Ã�Barque Consort Ã� Ã�Boston Ã�1836Ã� Ã� +---------------+-+------------+----+-------------------------------+ Ã�Schooner ActiveÃ� Ã�Purchased Ã�1837Ã� Ã� +===============+=+============+====+===============================+ The ratings of these vessels will, however, very much mislead people as to the real strength of the armament. And of the whole number committed there were-- +========================+====+===============+====+ Ã�Natives of MassachusettsÃ� 720Ã�England Ã� 104Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�New Hampshire Ã� 175Ã�Scotland Ã� 38Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Maine Ã� 130Ã�Ireland Ã� 839Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Vermont Ã� 17Ã�Provinces Ã� 69Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Rhode Island Ã� 35Ã�France Ã� 10Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Connecticut Ã� 28Ã�Spain Ã� 2Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�New York Ã� 50Ã�Germany Ã� 2Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�New Jersey Ã� 3Ã�Holland Ã� 2Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Pennsylvania Ã� 28Ã�Poland Ã� 2Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Delaware Ã� 6Ã�Denmark Ã� 2Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Maryland Ã� 10Ã�Prussia Ã� 1Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Virginia Ã� 20Ã�Sweden Ã� 8Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�North Carolina Ã� 10Ã�West Indies Ã� 12Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�South Carolina Ã� 1Ã�Cape de Verde Ã� 1Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Georgia Ã� 5Ã�Island of MaltaÃ� 1Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�District of Columbia Ã� 3Ã�At Sea Ã� 7Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã� Ã� Ã�Foreigners Ã�1100Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�United States Ã�1241Ã�Unknown Ã� 5Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�MORAL States Ã�1905Ã� Ã� Ã� +------------------------+----+---------------+----+ Ã�Other States Ã� 236Ã�Total Ã�2346Ã� +========================+====+===============+====+ He sums up as follows:-- I have nearly finished, but I should not do justice to my subject did I omit to advert to the beggarly catch-penny system on which the whole concern is conducted. keywords: + ----------------------------------------------------+------------+; + =; = +; = =; banks; captain; case; chapter; children; church; city; climate; country; course; day; dollars; eastern; education; england; english; etcetera; fact; falls; feet; fine; following; general; good; government; half; hands; head; house; indians; labour; lake; law; leave; left; life; little; look; majority; man; men; miles; mind; miss; mississippi; money; number; opinion; party; pay; people; person; philadelphia; place; point; population; portion; power; present; public; question; religion; right; river; room; shall; sioux; slave; slavery; society; south; states; system; thing; thought; time; town; union; united; volume; want; war; water; way; west; western; white; work; world; years; york ã; young; ã �; � +; � american; � board; � boston; � delaware; � new; � north; � ohio; � pennsylvania; � vermont; � virginia cache: 23137.txt plain text: 23137.txt item: #37 of 160 id: 23138 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Diary in America, Series Two date: None words: 168477 flesch: 61 summary: +======+====+======+===+==========+===+ Ã�AlectoÃ� 799Ã�LizardÃ�282Ã�PolyphemusÃ�799Ã� +------+----+------+---+----------+---+ Ã�ArdentÃ� 799Ã�LocustÃ�282Ã�PrometheusÃ�799Ã� +------+----+------+---+----------+---+ Ã�Dover Ã�IronÃ�MedinaÃ�889Ã� Ã� Ã� +======+====+======+===+==========+===+ I trust that the above statement will satisfy the Americans that we are ahead of them in steam navigation. +=======================================+ Ã�Astor House, Wednesday, March 21, 1838.Ã� +---------------------------------------+ Ã�Table-d'Hote Ã� +---------------------------------------+ Ã�Vermicelli Soup Ã� +---------------------------------------+ Ã�Boiled Cod Fish and Oysters Ã� +---------------------------------------+ Ã�Do. keywords: + =; = +; = =; american; author; boat; canada; captain; case; character; children; congress; consequence; country; course; day; dollars; england; english; fact; feeling; following; force; french; general; good; government; half; hands; having; head; high; home; house; increase; indians; institutions; law; laws; life; loss; majority; man; martineau; means; mind; mississippi; money; nation; new; number; opinion; party; people; person; place; point; population; portion; pounds; power; present; president; price; property; province; public; question; report; right; river; shillings; society; states; steam; subject; taken; thing; timber; time; treaty; tribes; union; united states; upper; want; war; water; way; west; western; white; women; work; world; years; york; � + cache: 23138.txt plain text: 23138.txt item: #38 of 160 id: 23460 author: None title: Abroad date: None words: 5483 flesch: 86 summary: [Illustration] ÉGLISE de ST · OEUN Said Dennis, first, This city bold Belonged to us In days of old. Said Nellie, Here Prince Arthur wept-- By cruel John A prisoner kept. keywords: bertie; children; come; day; dennis; illustration; mabel; night; paris; rose cache: 23460.txt plain text: 23460.txt item: #39 of 160 id: 2385 author: Hamilton, Gail title: Gala-Days date: None words: 102855 flesch: 76 summary: These little things are great to little men and women. O men and women everywhere who are following on to know the Lord, faint yet pursuing; men women who are troubled, toiling, doubting, hoping, watching, struggling; whose attainments through the long green days, worn bare of grass and sunshine, lag hopelessly behind your aspirations; who are haunted evermore by the ghosts of your young purposes; who see far off the shining hills your feet are fain to tread; who work your work with dumb, assiduous energy, but with perpetual protest,--I bid you good luck in the name of the Lord. keywords: beauty; black; blood; book; care; cheri; children; church; college; country; course; day; days; death; dress; earth; end; eyes; face; fact; fair; feet; fine; fire; girls; glory; god; good; gray; green; ground; half; halicarnassus; hand; head; heart; hold; home; hope; house; kind; land; left; life; line; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mountain; music; nature; need; new; old; people; place; point; poor; power; rest; right; river; room; saw; sea; self; set; sky; soul; stand; state; strength; summer; sunshine; things; thought; time; turn; voice; water; way; white; wild; wish; women; woods; work; world; wrong; years cache: 2385.txt plain text: 2385.txt item: #40 of 160 id: 2512 author: London, Jack title: The Cruise of the Snark date: None words: 86000 flesch: -104 summary: At Port Resolution, in the New Hebrides, Martin elected to walk barefooted in the bush and returned on board with many cuts and abrasions, especially on his shins.

“You’d better be careful,” I warned him.  “I’ll mix up some corrosive sublimate for you to wash those cuts with.  An ounce of prevention, you know.”

But Martin smiled a superior smile.  Though he did not say so,  I nevertheless was given to understand that he was not as other men (I was the only man he could possibly have had reference to), and that in a couple of days his cuts would be healed.  He also read me a dissertation upon the peculiar purity of his blood and his remarkable healing powers.  I felt quite humble when he was done with me.  Evidently I was different from other men in so far as purity of blood was concerned.

Nakata, the cabin-boy, while ironing one day, mistook the calf of his leg for the ironing-block and accumulated a burn three inches in length and half an inch wide.  He, too, smiled the superior smile when I offered him corrosive sublimate and reminded him of my own cruel experience.  I was given to understand, with all due suavity and courtesy, that no matter what was the matter with my blood, his number-one, Japanese, Port-Arthur blood was all right and scornful of the festive microbe.

Wada, the cook, took part in a disastrous landing of the launch, when he had to leap overboard and fend the launch off the beach in a smashing surf.  By means of shells and coral he cut his legs and feet up beautifully.  I offered him the corrosive sublimate bottle.  Once again I suffered the superior smile and was given to understand that his blood was the same blood that had licked Russia and was going to lick the United States some day, and that if his blood wasn’t able to cure a few trifling cuts, he’d commit hari-kari in sheer disgrace.

From all of which I concluded that an amateur M.D. is without honour on his own vessel, even if he has cured himself.  The rest of the crew had begun to look upon me as a sort of mild mono-maniac on the question of sores and sublimate.  Just because my blood was impure was no reason that I should think everybody else’s was.  I made no more overtures.  Time and microbes were with me, and all I had to do was wait.

“I think there’s some dirt in these cuts,” Martin said tentatively, after several days.  “I’ll wash them out and then they’ll be all right,” he added, after I had refused to rise to the bait.

Two more days passed, but the cuts did not pass, and I caught Martin soaking his feet and legs in a pail of hot water.

“Nothing like hot water,” he proclaimed enthusiastically.  “It beats all the dope the doctors ever put up.  These sores will be all right in the morning.”

On the platform Tehei and Bihaura danced, accompanied by songs and choruses or by rhythmic hand-clappings.  At other times a musical knocking of the paddles against the sides of the canoes marked the accent.  A young girl dropped her paddle, leaped to the platform, and danced a hula, in the midst of which, still dancing, she swayed and bent, and imprinted on our cheeks the kiss of welcome.  Some of the songs, or himines, were religious, and they were especially beautiful, the deep basses of the men mingling with the altos and thin sopranos of the women and forming a combination of sound that irresistibly reminded one of an organ.  In fact, “kanaka organ” is the scoffer’s description of the himine.  On the other hand, some of the chants or ballads were very barbaric, having come down from pre-Christian times.

And so, singing, dancing, paddling, these joyous Polynesians took us to the fishing.  The gendarme, who is the French ruler of Bora Bora, accompanied us with his family in a double canoe of his own, paddled by his prisoners; for not only is he gendarme and ruler, but he is jailer as well, and in this jolly land when anybody goes fishing, all go fishing.  A score of single canoes, with outriggers, paddled along with us.  Around a point a big sailing-canoe appeared, running beautifully before the wind as it bore down to greet us.  keywords: air; align; anchor; big; board; boat; boy; cabin; canoe; captain; case; charmian; course; crew; day; days; deck; deep; don’t; east; end; engine; fact; feet; fella; fish; flying; god; good; half; hands; head; high; him.  hours; house; island; it.  know; land; latitude; ldquo;i; lepers; leprosy; life; line; long; longitude; man; martin; matter; me.  men; miles; mind; minota; moment; morning; native; nature; new; night; north; place; rain; reef; rest; roscoe; run; sailing; saw; sea; sea.  small; snark’s; snark; snark.  south; span; style="text; sun; surface; td>