item: #1 of 12 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: #2 of 12 id: 13405 author: Marryat, Frederick title: The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas date: None words: 152250 flesch: 67 summary: They evidently anticipated that they would become great men in the republic, upon the safe delivery of our persons to the Mexican Government, and every day took good care to remind us that the gibbet was to be our fate on our arrival. I do not mean to say that all the animals, as the buffaloes, mustangs, deer, &c., had run this distance; of course, as the fire rolled on, the animals were gradually collected, till they had formed the astounding mass which I have described, and thousands had probably already perished, long before the fire had reached the prairie where we were encamped; still I have at other times witnessed the extraordinary exertions which animals are capable of when under the influence of fear. keywords: animal; apaches; arrapahoes; bear; body; buffalo; chief; children; comanches; country; course; crows; day; days; death; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; east; evening; expedition; far; father; feet; fire; gabriel; general; good; government; ground; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; indians; joe; journey; kind; land; left; life; long; man; men; mexican; miles; moment; money; monterey; morning; mountains; new; night; north; party; pass; people; place; prairie; red; return; rifle; river; roche; shoshones; smith; south; spirit; states; stream; texas; thought; time; tribe; warriors; water; way; west; western; white; wild; yards; years; young cache: 13405.txt plain text: 13405.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 14415 author: Naylor, John Anderton title: From John O'Groats to Land's End Or, 1372 miles on foot; A book of days and chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tour date: None words: 290249 flesch: 66 summary: These were very old men with bent heads and white hair, and had the appearance of centenarians; they were indeed the queerest-looking group of old men we had ever seen assembled together. [Illustration: OLD MAN OF WICK. keywords: abbey; ancient; appearance; arms; army; away; battle; bed; bishop; black; boat; body; book; breakfast; bridge; brother; building; castle; cathedral; cave; century; charles; children; church; city; coast; coming; company; cornwall; country; course; cross; dark; day; days; dead; death; direction; distance; door; duke; earl; edward; end; england; english; entrance; evening; fair; family; father; feet; find; fine; fire; following; form; friend; gate; gentleman; god; going; good; great; green; half; hand; having; head; heart; henry; high; hill; history; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; illustration; inn; interest; james; john; journey; kind; king; lady; lake; leaving; left; life; little; loch; london; looking; lord; man; mary; men; miles; monument; morning; near; neighbourhood; new; night; north; number; o'clock; occasion; open; order; passing; past; people; place; poet; point; position; prince; queen; reach; remains; rest; return; river; road; rocks; roman; room; rose; round; royal; ruins; scotland; scott; sea; second; seeing; service; shall; ships; short; sir; soldiers; son; south; standing; stay; stone; story; stream; street; tea; thought; time; tower; town; trees; view; village; visit; visitors; walk; walking; walls; war; water; way; weather; west; white; wife; wild; william; wind; words; work; world; years; york; young cache: 14415.txt plain text: 14415.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 16202 author: Brunt, Samuel title: A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country date: None words: 37568 flesch: 64 summary: There was a Time, when I foolishly mistook my own Interest so far, as by my Conduct to give some Offence to these _Squabbaws_ for which I suffered a severe Disgrace: I then endeavour'd to shelter my self among those who are stiled the Patriots, but they would neither receive me into their Counsels, nor put the least Trust in me. But to come nearer to my present Purpose; my Design of placing you at Court, is to serve as a Spy for me upon the _Squabbaws_; for my Enemies, who have tried in vain all other Means to overturn me, may perhaps at last attempt it that Way; and the Avarice of these _Squabbaws_, which has hitherto been my Support, may one Time or other (if I am not very vigilant) prove my Ruine. keywords: air; cacklogallinians; captain; country; court; day; days; earth; emperor; english; good; honour; interest; journey; know; life; light; look'd; man; men; minister; money; moon; nation; number; people; power; publick; reason; return; sea; self; squabbaws; tho; time; volatilio; way; world cache: 16202.txt plain text: 16202.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 18809 author: Lansdown, Henry Venn title: Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath date: None words: 18052 flesch: 73 summary: We were shown upstairs, passing many fine family pictures, and were ushered into the neat library, where Mr. Beckford was waiting to receive us. Mr. Beckford and my Father were kindred spirits, conversant with the same authors, had visited the same countries, and were both gifted with extraordinary memories. keywords: beckford; door; drawing; effect; father; feet; fine; fonthill; gold; left; light; man; manner; picture; place; portrait; road; room; time; tower; trees; vathek; view; windows; years cache: 18809.txt plain text: 18809.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 21338 author: Nash, Thomas title: The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse date: None words: 48780 flesch: 71 summary: Though the high priests office was expired, when _Paul_ said vnto one of them, God rebuke thee thou painted sepulchre, yet when a stander by reproued him saying, Reuilest thou the high priest? My husband going to warre with the diuell and his enticements when hee surrendred, left no musition with me but mourning and melancholy: had he left anie, as _Aegistus_ kild _ keywords: age; anie; armes; backe; bee; bloud; bodie; chamber; close; court; day; death; doe; eares; earth; eies; end; england; english; ere; euen; euerie; eyes; face; giue; god; goe; good; greene; halfe; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heauen; hee; hell; high; himselfe; home; house; italy; king; life; little; liue; lord; loue; lyke; man; master; mee; men; mistres; mouth; nash; neuer; new; number; ouer; owne; place; quoth; read; reuenge; rome; selfe; set; shee; soule; tell; thee; themselues; theyr; thing; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; verie; vnder; vnto; vpon; waie; water; wee; went; wil; wit; world; woulde cache: 21338.txt plain text: 21338.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 21378 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Yussuf the Guide; Or, the Mountain Bandits Being a Story of Strange Adventure in Asia Minor date: None words: 92280 flesch: 84 summary: What did Mr Burne say about the poor fellow going to Madeira or the south of France? Said, sir, that he'd better take his Madeira out of a wine-glass and his south of France out of a book. Well, I should write at once to the professor and tell him that Mr Lawrence is in a critical condition, and also to his father's executor, Mr Burne, and insist upon my patient being taken for the winter to a milder clime. keywords: boat; boy; country; course; day; dear; doctor; dunn; effendi; excellency; eyes; good; greek; guide; hand; head; horses; lad; lawrence; lawyer; left; look; man; men; mountains; mr burne; mr preston; mrs; people; place; preston; professor; right; rock; round; sir; stone; time; travellers; water; way; yussuf cache: 21378.txt plain text: 21378.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 21556 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet date: None words: 152547 flesch: 67 summary: They evidently anticipated that they would become great men in the republic, upon the safe delivery of our persons to the Mexican government, and every day took good care to remind us that the gibbet was to be our fate on our arrival. I do not mean to say that all the animals, as the buffaloes, mustangs, deer, etcetera, had run this distance; of course, as the fire rolled on, the animals were gradually collected, till they had formed the astounding mass which I have described, and thousands had probably already perished, long before the fire had reached the prairie where we were encamped; still I have at other times witnessed the extraordinary exertions which animals are capable of when under the influence of fear. keywords: animal; apaches; arrapahoes; bear; body; buffalo; chief; children; comanches; come; country; course; crows; day; days; death; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; evening; expedition; far; father; feet; fire; gabriel; general; good; ground; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; indians; joe; journey; kind; land; left; life; man; men; mexican; miles; moment; money; monterey; morning; mountains; new; night; north; party; people; place; prairie; red; return; rifle; river; roche; shoshones; smith; south; spirit; states; stream; texas; texians; thing; thought; time; tribe; warriors; water; way; west; western; white; wild; yards; years; young cache: 21556.txt plain text: 21556.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 33432 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder date: None words: 35126 flesch: 82 summary: In common with a large number of other great men in history Baron Munchausen has suffered because he is not understood. II THE SPORTING TOUR OF MR. MUNCHAUSEN Good morning, Mr. Munchausen, said the interviewer of the _Gehenna Gazette_ entering the apartment of the famous traveller at the Hotel Deville, where the late Baron had just arrived from his sporting tour in the Blue Hills of Cimmeria and elsewhere. keywords: ananias; angelica; baron; baron munchausen; beelzy; course; day; diavolo; fact; feet; good; house; jang; left; life; lion; man; miles; minutes; munchausen; people; right; sapphira; story; thing; thought; time; twins; uncle; water; way; wriggletto cache: 33432.txt plain text: 33432.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 35574 author: Warner, Anne title: Seeing France with Uncle John date: None words: 37041 flesch: 91 summary: Frontispiece_ She lies still and talks to M. Sibilet 8 While we walk 9 Rouen--Maison du XV siècle 24 'Richard Coeur-de-Lion--petrified, eh?' 33 'So that's the clock?' 41 'There's been no tampering with _this_ ruin' 65 'This is as good a time as we'll have to study up on Gisors' 79 'Tell her we want dinner for four, and prompt' 93 Beauvais 96 'What's that chopped-off creation before us?' 99 'Look how mad that old lady is' 105 We found our beloved relative 116 She took hold of our hands as if she'd been our long-lost mother for years 121 Dreux 150 Elfrida says they are seeing Europe nicely on less than a dollar a day, and Uncle said, 'Great Scott!' 157 Falaise 160 Paid the man at the entrance and let him go 163 The coming down was awful 168 'I'm happy that it will be out of the question for me ever to travel again' 177 Lee was awfully rude and kept yawning, and I know she didn't like it by the way she looked at him 195 Caen 198 He has his meals in his room, for he says he cannot even think calmly of a stair-case yet 205 Bayeux 216 And it was Lee 221 We passed Elfrida and her sister to-day, pedaling along for dear life 228 Miss Clara Emily is getting very much in earnest 245 In Mont-Saint-Michel 276 Uncle sitting on the ramparts with Miss Clara Emily 281 Mrs. Whalen has just come in to say she is going to Dol 293 A Street in Auray 301 When he went to wash I gave the waiter an extra tip to feed us quickly 303 Broke the bell-rope ordering breakfast 307 He told Mrs. Clary that he had foreseen this finale to our trip all along, etc. 315 _Seeing France With Uncle John_ * If Uncle John marries Miss Clara Emily, I know no one is going to like it at all. keywords: book; clara; course; day; edna; emily; good; illustration; lee; left; look; man; mrs; peters; right; room; thing; thought; time; train; uncle; way; yvonne cache: 35574.txt plain text: 35574.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 36069 author: Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington) title: Explorers and Travellers date: None words: 82687 flesch: 57 summary: Another rapid was so bad that all papers, guns, ammunition, and such men as could not swim made a land portage, while Lewis and Clark took the canoes through safely, two at a time. The astute Lincoln and the diplomatic Seward, supported by the patriotic Sumner in the Senate, and other conservative men in the House of Representatives, after due correspondence acceded to the demands of Great Britain that the prisoners should be released. keywords: american; arctic; bay; boat; camp; canoes; cape; captain; carver; clark; coast; columbia; country; day; days; distance; english; expedition; feet; food; fort; french; frémont; general; gray; great; half; hall; hayes; head; horses; iberville; ice; illustration; indians; island; joliet; journey; kane; lake; land; lewis; life; man; march; marquette; men; miles; mississippi; missouri; mountains; mouth; new; north; party; pike; point; return; river; route; sea; ship; snow; stanley; states; time; united; voyage; war; water; west; wilkes; winter; years cache: 36069.txt plain text: 36069.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 36657 author: Bullen, Frank Thomas title: The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life date: None words: 103159 flesch: 74 summary: At a time of life when many men are not long past their prime, he was reduced to childishness--a very picture of senile decay. It was the strangest scene I ever witnessed on board ship. keywords: aft; air; anchor; away; bill; black; board; boat; boy; cabin; captain; cargo; cook; course; crew; day; days; deck; end; face; fact; fine; food; forecastle; forrard; good; half; hands; hard; head; home; hour; house; kind; know; land; left; life; looking; making; man; mate; men; minutes; money; morning; new; night; officers; passage; place; poor; port; rest; river; round; sail; sailors; saw; sea; second; set; ship; skipper; small; things; thought; time; town; vessel; watch; water; way; weather; white; wind; word; work; years cache: 36657.txt plain text: 36657.txt