item: #1 of 5 id: 36827 author: Hillern, Wilhelmine von title: The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] date: None words: 62892 flesch: 86 summary: At last Wally opened her eyes and gathered her strength to go on; no further lamentation passed her lips, she looked at her father strangely, as though she had never seen him before; her tears were dried up. At last Wally broke away from her dreamy contemplation. keywords: afra; child; day; door; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; joseph; life; love; luckard; man; men; people; round; stromminger; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; vincenz; vulture; wally; way cache: 36827.txt plain text: 36827.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 40889 author: Holland, Clive title: Tyrol and Its People date: None words: 112238 flesch: 54 summary: There are many other picturesque places in the neighbourhood of Hall, enticing the wanderer from valley to valley and height to height; but a small volume would be required in which to adequately describe them alone; and almost a lifetime to become thoroughly acquainted with their romantic legends, story and beauty. Natter, one of the most famous of native sculptors, who was also the artist of the famous Berg Isel Hofer Monument, of the very finely conceived and well-executed statue of Ulrich Zwingli at Zurich, and many other works. keywords: air; alpine; archduke; arms; art; austria; battle; bavarian; beautiful; beauty; bishop; bozen; brenner; building; castle; century; chapel; character; charming; chief; church; city; council; country; day; days; death; district; duke; emperor; end; fact; feet; ferdinand; fine; forces; frederick; french; general; green; half; hall; hand; history; hofer; houses; illustration; inhabitants; innsbruck; interest; italy; land; left; life; maria; marriage; maximilian; men; meran; middle; mountain; north; number; pass; past; peaks; peasants; people; period; philippine; picturesque; place; position; present; quaint; road; roman; salzburg; scenery; sidenote; slopes; snow; son; south; spot; story; summer; thal; time; town; trent; tyrol; tyrolese; valley; view; village; von; walls; way; work; years cache: 40889.txt plain text: 40889.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 43614 author: Busk, Rachel Harriette title: The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them date: None words: 124919 flesch: 68 summary: At other times he would earn his day's food by manual labour before he disclosed to his entertainers who he was, and then he would only partake of the same frugal fare, and the same hard lodging, as the peasants who received him. There are other churches in Hall; where that of S. Saviour now stands was once a group of crazy cottages; but one day, in the year 1406, in one of them a poor man lay dying, and the priest bore him the holy Viaticum, which knows no distinction between the palace and the hovel: the furniture was as rickety as the tenements themselves; the only table, on which the priest had deposited the sacred vessels, propped against the wall for support, gave way by some accident, and the Santissimo was thrown upon the floor. keywords: account; altar; austria; bank; bear; bishop; building; castle; century; chapel; chapter; character; charles; chief; children; christian; church; come; country; course; day; days; death; der; devotion; die; distance; earth; emperor; faith; family; father; favourite; feet; ferdinand; find; fire; following; form; french; german; god; gold; good; hall; hand; having; head; history; holy; home; honour; hour; house; innsbruck; interest; italian; italy; lake; left; legend; life; man; maria; maximilian; means; memory; men; mind; morning; mother; mountain; near; neighbourhood; neighbouring; night; north; number; occasion; order; pass; path; peasant; people; place; power; present; priest; remains; rest; return; road; rock; rome; round; saw; schwatz; set; son; south; spirit; spot; stone; story; tell; thought; time; tirol; tirolean; tirolese; town; traditions; trent; valley; village; visit; von; wall; water; way; wife; wild; work; world; wälsch; years cache: 43614.txt plain text: 43614.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 47533 author: Rosegger, Peter title: The Forest Farm: Tales of the Austrian Tyrol date: None words: 71683 flesch: 84 summary: It was a good thing for him that it was pressing, and left little time for his heartache. I made up my mind not to look at the bushes and little trees which stood beside the way and loomed eerily out of the mist, for they scared me. keywords: altar; away; bed; black; boy; children; church; day; days; door; eyes; face; farm; father; forest; god; good; hand; head; heart; high; home; house; kickel; left; life; little; look; man; men; morning; mother; people; peter; place; poor; red; right; room; rosegger; round; saw; snow; table; things; thought; time; white; wife; woman; wood; work; world; years cache: 47533.txt plain text: 47533.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 49290 author: Manning, Anne title: The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol date: None words: 68582 flesch: 85 summary: So, then we had jolly work! Ah, don't tell me all about the slaying and slaughtering! Why, there was _none_, mother! When a stone came tumbling upon him from the mountain-top, he shook his fist savagely, and muttered, Even the little people (_i. e._ fairies) are against me!--and then, considering that if he provoked them, they might lead him a weary dance after the hidden treasure, he muttered a spell supposed to have a propitiating effect. keywords: 8vo; anderl; arms; baron; bavarians; boy; chapter; children; cloth; come; d.d; day; dear; edges; edition; emperor; enemy; engravings; eyes; father; fcap; franz; french; general; gilt; god; good; hand; head; heart; hofer; home; hormayr; house; illustrations; innsbruck; joachim; john; life; little; look; looking; man; men; mother; new; night; poor; post; rev; round; rudolf; sandwirth; second; shall; speckbacher; tell; theresa; thought; till; time; tyrolese; way cache: 49290.txt plain text: 49290.txt