item: #1 of 9
          id: 10401
      author: Drayton, Daniel
       title: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl
        date: None
       words: 34376
      flesch: 67
     summary: It was desired to make us out guilty of a penitentiary offence at the least; and for that purpose recourse was had to an old, forgotten act of Maryland, passed in the year 1737, the fourth section of which provided That any person or persons who, after the said tenth day of September [1737], shall steal any ship, sloop, or other vessel whatsoever, out of any place within the body of any county within this province, of seventeen feet or upwards by the keel, and shall carry the same ten miles or upwards from the place whence it shall be stolen, _or who shall steal any negro or other slave_, or who shall counsel, hire, aid, abet, or command any person or persons to commit the said offences, or who shall be accessories to the said offences, and shall be thereof legally convicted as aforesaid, or outlawed, or who shall obstinately or of malice stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above twenty, shall suffer death as a felon, or felons, and be excluded the benefit of the clergy. It provided That any person or persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave, or person held to service, or shall be found to assist, by advice, donation or loan, or otherwise, the transporting of any slave or any person held to service, from this state, or by any other unlawful means depriving a master or owner of the service of his slave or person held to service, for every such offence the party aggrieved shall recover damages in an action on the case, against such offender or offenders, and such offender or offenders shall also be liable, upon indictment, and conviction upon verdict, confession or otherwise, in this state, in any county court where such offence shall happen, to be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, one-half to the use of the master or owner of such slave, the other half to the county school, if there be any; if there be no such school, to the use of the county.
    keywords: attorney; board; business; case; counsel; court; day; district; evidence; good; half; jail; judge; jury; law; man; men; pearl; people; prisoner; property; sayres; slaves; state; time; trial; vessel; washington
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: 22566
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
        date: None
       words: 43125
      flesch: 87
     summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. So I will do as you say, friend Wizard.
    keywords: air; boy; buggy; dorothy; earth; eureka; eyes; girl; good; horse; illustration; jim; kitten; land; man; ozma; people; piglets; princess; room; sorcerer; time; voice; way; wizard; zeb
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: 27515
      author: None
       title: State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 76976
      flesch: 72
     summary: Said I, Mr. Tryon's house was robbed, and you are the person that I will lay flat felony to; you should have been one of them that were to rob him a year since, when Col. Ashton betrayed you all. I had fast hold of his breeches all this while; and yet I was afraid he might have some dagger, and stab me; Said I, be brief, you are alone, either resolve me or I will call out.
    keywords: answer; attorney; authority; business; case; charge; court; day; dunne; england; evidence; god; good; guilty; hath; having; hear; house; jewels; justice; king; kingdom; lady; law; life; lord; lord cecil; lord chief; lord cobham; lord president; man; money; parliament; people; persons; peters; prisoner; raleigh; read; sir; thee; thing; thou; time; treason; trial; truth; tryon; turner; way; witness
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: 31096
      author: De Mille, James
       title: The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia
        date: None
       words: 70104
      flesch: 85
     summary: For about an hour they walked on in this way, ascending steadily most of the time, until at length Claude found himself upon an open space overgrown with shrubbery, and altogether bare of trees. At last Claude spoke again.
    keywords: board; boat; captain; cazeneau; claude; commandant; count; day; face; father; france; french; good; hope; indians; laborde; left; length; life; louisbourg; man; margot; michel; mimi; mind; monsieur; montresor; new; place; present; priest; père; schooner; terry; thought; time; way; words; zac
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: 34770
      author: Jókai, Mór
       title: Told by the Death's Head: A Romantic Tale
        date: None
       words: 88617
      flesch: 78
     summary: I was not the first man who had had such an experience; and I was philosophical enough to conclude that if other men had survived their disgrace, I might also. During a calm, the large sea-crabs are more easily taken than at other times.
    keywords: band; blood; body; calf; captain; cavern; chair; chapter; city; company; comrades; court; day; days; death; door; drink; duke; earth; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; fire; gold; good; haidemaken; hand; head; highness; home; honor; house; hugo; human; leader; left; life; madus; man; master; mayor; men; moment; money; moo; neck; need; order; place; prince; prisoner; rest; return; right; robbers; saw; second; table; thaler; thought; time; tree; wall; want; water; way; wife; wine; woman; world
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: 38088
      author: None
       title: State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 89234
      flesch: 75
     summary: Said he, I think my brother writes better than he used to do. Said he, You had best get the room ready against Saturday, and make a fire, and just dust it.
    keywords: attorney; body; cabin; captain; coote; court; cowper; day; earl; evidence; french; general; gentleman; goodere; gurrey; hand; house; john; jones; king; lord; lord chief; lord high; lord howard; lord mohun; lord russell; lord shaftesbury; lord warwick; mahony; mrs; night; pray; saw; sir; sir john; steward; stout; time; vernon; water; witness; yes
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: 420
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
        date: None
       words: 42881
      flesch: 87
     summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. Said he: This child, who is from the crust of the earth, like yourself, called you a Wizard.
    keywords: air; boy; buggy; dorothy; earth; eureka; eyes; friends; girl; good; horse; jim; kitten; land; man; ozma; people; piglets; princess; room; time; voice; way; wizard; zeb
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: 43714
      author: Otis, James
       title: The Boy Spies with the Regulators The Story of How the Boys Assisted the Carolina Patriots to Drive the British from That State
        date: None
       words: 57048
      flesch: 70
     summary: the attorney asked sharply, and our prisoner replied whiningly: I'm held here by force, good Master Fanning, having been taken prisoner by two lads. Master Howell himself seconded the proposition, kindly stating that he desired no abler escort than our two selves, and thus was the matter settled, much to my satisfaction, even though there was more than the shadow of a suspicion in my mind as to the reception with which we might meet.
    keywords: boy; boys; day; fanning; force; general; good; governor; governor tryon; hamilton; hillsborough; horses; hunter; husband; king; lads; man; master; master hamilton; master howell; master hunter; men; night; order; people; regulation; regulators; river; sandy; save; sidney; story; time; tryon; way; word
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: 59148
      author: Riley, Frank
       title: The Cyber and Justice Holmes
        date: None
       words: 5082
      flesch: 77
     summary: One court reporter confided to Judge Anderson that bookmakers were offering odds of ten to one on Cyber IX. Professor Neustadt turned to Judge Anderson, and his voice dropped almost to a whisper.
    keywords: anderson; cyber; d.a; judge; neustadt; professor; walhfred
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