item: #1 of 30 id: 11642 author: Home, Gordon title: What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association date: None words: 65498 flesch: 79 summary: =Accommodation Obtainable.=--Royal Hotel, Radley's Hotel, Dolphin, South-Western, etc., Southampton (3 miles from Netley). =Accommodation Obtainable.=--Royal Hotel, etc., at Worksop. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd =; = accommodation; = alternative; = fares.=--single; = nearest; abbey; average; bridge; building; castle; cathedral; century; chapel; charles; church; city; close; co.; country; cross; days; distance; eastern; edward; end; england; feet; fine; hall; henry; hill; home; hotel; hours; house; illustration; king; london; ltd; miles; norman; north; paddington; photochrom; place; present; railway; reign; remains; return; river; rly; road; roman; ruins; sir; south; station; stone; street; there.=--train; time.=--varies; tower; town; village; walls; west; western; william; work; years cache: 11642.txt plain text: 11642.txt item: #2 of 30 id: 13227 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First date: None words: 58529 flesch: 79 summary: They call me Res Wendot, answered the lad; generally Wendot at home here. I trusted Wendot ap Res Vychan once, and laid no hand upon his lands. keywords: alphonso; away; brothers; castle; child; country; days; dynevor; edward; english; eyes; face; father; gertrude; griffeth; hand; heart; howel; king; lady; lands; life; llewelyn; look; lord; love; man; prince; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; vychan; wendot; words cache: 13227.txt plain text: 13227.txt item: #3 of 30 id: 15551 author: Clay, Beatrice E. (Beatrice Elizabeth) title: Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion date: None words: 50847 flesch: 81 summary: When they were come into the great hall where Arthur sat, with Sir Gawain and other great lords about him, Sir Launcelot led Guenevere to the throne and both knelt before the King; then, rising, Sir Launcelot lifted the Queen to her feet, and thus he spoke to King Arthur, boldly and well before the whole court: My lord, Sir Arthur, I bring you here your Queen, than whom no truer nor nobler lady ever lived; and here stand I, Sir Launcelot du Lac, ready to do battle with any that dare gainsay it; and with these words Sir Launcelot turned and looked upon the lords and knights present in their places, but none would challenge him in that cause, not even Sir Gawain, for he had ever affirmed that Dame Guenevere was a true and honourable lady. Sir knight, said the old man, I am Yniol, and once I was lord of a broad earldom. keywords: castle; court; day; fair; geraint; good; horse; king; king arthur; knight; lady; lord; man; queen; sir arthur; sir bors; sir galahad; sir gareth; sir gawain; sir king; sir knight; sir launcelot; sir percivale; sir peredur; sir tristram; sword; thee; thou; time cache: 15551.txt plain text: 15551.txt item: #4 of 30 id: 16823 author: Evans, Caradoc title: My Neighbors: Stories of the Welsh People date: None words: 32201 flesch: 92 summary: Said the preacher: Heavy was the punishment of the Big Man on Twm Cwm, persons, because Twm speeched against the capel. By means of such women man is brought to a penny. keywords: bach; ben; brother; capel; dai; dan; day; enoch; evan; fach; father; gave; god; gwen; harries; house; jennie; joseph; lisbeth; lord; man; martha; men; money; mother; olwen; people; pounds; preacher; satan; shop; tim; towy; welsh; white; wife; woman cache: 16823.txt plain text: 16823.txt item: #5 of 30 id: 18758 author: Raine, Allen title: By Berwen Banks date: None words: 87936 flesch: 85 summary: Poor old Cardo! Poor old Cardo returned home at once, and finding Valmai gone from Abersethin made his way up here. keywords: berwen; captain; cardo; day; dear; door; ellis; essec; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; gwladys; hands; head; heart; home; house; know; left; letter; life; little; look; love; man; mind; moment; mrs; nance; night; powell; room; round; sea; shoni; sister; thought; time; uncle; valmai; vicar; voice; way; white; wife; wynne; young cache: 18758.txt plain text: 18758.txt item: #6 of 30 id: 18778 author: Raine, Allen title: Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead date: None words: 83641 flesch: 85 summary: I lay awake of course that night--yes, and many a night after, going over my troubles--worse than that, my shame; and through all my tossing and turning, one thought was clear before me, 'twould be better for me to bear the blame than for old Ebben Owens Garthowen to be known as a thief. He won't be bringing old Owens Garthowen here, I hope; couldn't bear that, you know. keywords: ann; boy; child; course; day; door; ebben; eyes; face; farm; father; garthowen; gethin; girl; good; gwenda; gwilym; hand; head; heart; home; lass; life; look; love; man; mind; moor; morning; morris; morva; mother; night; owens; round; sara; sea; son; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; uncle; voice; way; woman; work; world cache: 18778.txt plain text: 18778.txt item: #7 of 30 id: 19959 author: None title: The Mabinogion Vol. 1 date: None words: 34617 flesch: 86 summary: And thou shalt take a horse and armour of me; and with me thou shalt go to learn chivalry and the use of thy arms. Said Peredur, Thou shalt have mercy, if thou pledge thy faith thou wilt never more injure the dominions of the Countess. Said Owain the son of Urien, This youth will never come into the Court until Kai has gone forth from it. keywords: arthur; behold; black; castle; countess; court; day; horse; kai; knight; lord; maiden; man; men; owain; peredur; son; thee; thou; wilt; yellow; youth cache: 19959.txt plain text: 19959.txt item: #8 of 30 id: 19973 author: None title: The Mabinogion Vol. 2 date: None words: 37553 flesch: 87 summary: Said Geraint, I have spoken with men of equal rank with him. Said Geraint, I think that I shall have enough of knighthood with me. keywords: arthur; castle; court; daughter; day; earl; emperor; geraint; gwenhwyvar; head; heaven; horse; kai; king; knight; lady; lord; maiden; man; mayest; men; place; son; thee; thou; thy; time; unto; wilt; yonder; youth cache: 19973.txt plain text: 19973.txt item: #9 of 30 id: 19976 author: None title: The Mabinogion Vol. 3 date: None words: 36630 flesch: 88 summary: Said one of the women, Is there any counsel for us in the world in this matter? Said the man of the house to the swineherd, Well, youth, hath thy sow come in to-night? keywords: boy; counsel; court; day; elphin; gwydion; heaven; horse; king; lady; land; lord; man; men; night; place; pryderi; pwyll; rhiannon; son; thee; thou; time; unto; wife; year cache: 19976.txt plain text: 19976.txt item: #10 of 30 id: 20012 author: Gladstone, William Henry title: The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 date: None words: 9910 flesch: 73 summary: The Ruins of Hawarden Castle occupy a lofty eminence, guarded on the S. by a steep ravine, and on the other sides by artificial banks and ditches, partly favoured by the formation of the ground. On Nov. 11th, 1643, Sir William Brereton, who had declared for the Parliament, appeared with his adherents at Hawarden Castle, where he was welcomed by Robert Ravenscroft and John Aldersey, who had charge of it in the name of the King. keywords: castle; chester; church; earl; feet; gladstone; glynne; hall; hawarden; henry; house; john; king; park; place; pounds; present; sir; son; william; work; year cache: 20012.txt plain text: 20012.txt item: #11 of 30 id: 20096 author: Owen, Elias title: Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales date: None words: 116484 flesch: 75 summary: The most common expressions for the devil, however, are _Cythraul_, and _diawl_, or _diafol_, but these two last named words are merely forms of Diabolos. In Doctor Owen Pughe's Dictionary they are called Bendith _eu_ Mamau, or, _Their_ Mothers' Blessing. keywords: account; appearance; bed; bird; black; charm; children; church; cock; coming; common; conjuror; country; cow; cuckoo; david; davies; day; days; death; dogs; door; english; esq; evil; fairies; fairy; family; farmer; father; fire; folk; following; form; friend; gentleman; ghost; girl; god; good; ground; hand; hare; head; home; house; human; husband; john; jones; kind; lady; lake; land; left; legend; life; lore; love; luck; m.a; man; men; money; montgomeryshire; morning; mother; mountain; near; night; owen; parish; parts; people; person; place; power; preceding; present; race; related; rev; river; roberts; room; satan; saw; servant; sign; spirit; spot; stone; stories; story; tale; teg; thought; time; tradition; tree; vol; wales; water; way; welsh; wife; williams; witch; witches; woman; wood; words; work; writer; years cache: 20096.txt plain text: 20096.txt item: #12 of 30 id: 34704 author: Sikes, Wirt title: British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions date: None words: 130852 flesch: 78 summary: _ _s._ _d._ 7A Medium 32mo, cloth limp 0 8 7B ditto roan 1 2 7C ditto morocco or calf 2 6 8A Super-royal 32mo, cloth limp 1 0 8B ditto red edges 1 2 8C ditto roan 2 2 8D ditto morocco or calf 3 6 9A Crown 8vo, cloth, red edges 3 0 9B ditto roan 4 0 9C ditto morocco or calf 6 0 10A Crown 8vo, with Introduction and Notes, red edges 4 0 10B ditto roan 5 0 10C ditto morocco 7 6 11A Penny Edition in Wrapper 0 1 11B ditto cloth 0 2 11G ditto fancy cloth 0 4 11C With Prayer Book, cloth 0 It is not surprising that imagination (and the Welsh imagination is peculiarly vivid) should conjure up the faces and forms of gnomes and coblynau, of phantoms and fairy men. keywords: 8vo; account; arthur; author; bed; belief; bell; black; book; boy; bridge; candle; century; chapter; character; children; christmas; church; cloth; company; connection; corpse; country; crown; custom; dancing; david; day; days; death; demy; devil; dogs; door; edition; english; extra; eyes; fairies; fairy; farmer; field; fire; folk; footnote; form; ghost; gilt; glamorganshire; goblin; god; good; hand; head; home; house; human; iii; illustrations; john; jones; king; lady; lake; land; legend; life; little; lore; man; manner; master; men; modern; money; morning; mountain; music; new; night; origin; page; parish; parts; people; person; place; post; purpose; red; river; round; saw; sea; set; sir; small; sort; spirit; stone; story; superstition; tale; teg; thomas; time; tradition; tylwyth; voice; vols; wales; water; way; welsh; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 34704.txt plain text: 34704.txt item: #13 of 30 id: 35611 author: Machen, Arthur title: The Great Return date: None words: 14181 flesch: 77 summary: I was born and brought up in Glamorganshire, and old men have wept as they told me of the weeping and contrition that there was when the Red Priest broke the Bread and raised the Cup. Old men felt young again, eyes that had been growing dim now saw clearly, and saw a world that was like Paradise, the same world, it is true, but a world rectified and glowing, as if an inner flame shone in all things, and behind all things. keywords: bell; church; day; light; llantrisant; man; men; morning; mrs; paradise; people; place; red; saw; sea; things; thought; world; years cache: 35611.txt plain text: 35611.txt item: #14 of 30 id: 37180 author: Lee, Vernon title: Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century date: None words: 21993 flesch: 77 summary: Let me also explain that before this event, which took place in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy-two, Sir Eustace Brandling was merely a young Englishman of handsome person, gentlemanly bearing, an uncommon knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, and a most blameless and amiable temper, but with no expectations of fortune in the future, and only a modest competence in the present. Having reached an age when the morrow is more than uncertain, and knowing how soon all verbal tradition becomes blurred and distorted, I, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Jacques de Morat, a cadet of the Counts of that name, sometime a captain in the service of King Louis XV., and of Sophia Hamilton, his wife; and furthermore, widow of the late Sir Eustace Brandling, ninth baronet, of St. Salvat's Castle, in the county of Glamorgan, have yielded to the wishes of my dear surviving sons, and am preparing to consign to paper, for the benefit of their children and grandchildren, some account of those circumstances in my life which decided that the lot of this family should so long have been cast in foreign parts and remote colonies, instead of in its ancestral and legitimate home. keywords: brandling; child; davies; day; dear; eustace; eyes; house; hubert; husband; lady; life; little; man; manner; mother; penelope; place; salvat; sea; thought; time; uncle cache: 37180.txt plain text: 37180.txt item: #15 of 30 id: 37502 author: Hart, Henry Chichester title: Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. 2 - Wales and Ireland date: None words: 47251 flesch: 77 summary: Then good rock follows, and bearing towards the right we come in sight of a square-walled chimney overlooking the main gully, marked by small cairns at top and bottom. From this we emerge on to the open face of the mountain, and a few feet of good rock bring us to the main ridge. keywords: ascent; cliffs; climbed; climbing; cwm; east; face; foot; good; great; gully; half; hand; head; high; hours; illustration; lake; left; llanberis; llyn; long; lough; miles; mountain; north; pass; place; point; ridge; right; road; rock; route; sea; snowdon; south; summit; wales; wall; way; west; western; years cache: 37502.txt plain text: 37502.txt item: #16 of 30 id: 39482 author: Onions, Oliver title: Mushroom Town date: None words: 100798 flesch: 82 summary: Llanyglo started from practically nothing, and it's grown to this before John Willie Garden has a single grey hair on his head (though, to be sure, that cowslip colour doesn't show grey very much). I should like you to meet John Willie Garden. keywords: black; blue; briggs; coming; dafis; dafydd; day; days; delyn; drub; edward; edward garden; eesaac; end; eyes; face; garden; good; gruffydd; hafod; half; hand; head; house; howell; john; john pritchard; john willie; june; kerr; lacey; land; little; llanyglo; look; looking; man; men; minetta; moment; money; morning; mountains; mrs; ned; neigr; new; night; oliver; past; people; percy; philip; place; porth; pritchard; red; road; room; sandhills; saw; sea; set; squire; stone; street; talk; terry; things; think; thought; time; tommy; town; trwyn; tudor; want; water; way; welsh; white; williams; willie; willie garden; years; ynys cache: 39482.txt plain text: 39482.txt item: #17 of 30 id: 39903 author: Devereux, Blanche title: Star of Mercia: Historical Tales of Wales and the Marches date: None words: 38381 flesch: 89 summary: Richard Scrob's son--good neighbour---- Now, cease thy whimpering of a dog, Ulwin of Moor, if man thou be, said Richard. Said Mogneid to Gwrtheyrn: If Ambrosius come upon us, and Garmon and his monks from Llanharmon, we are undone, and they will surely do thee to death. keywords: algive; beorn; daughter; david; day; earl; ethelbert; ethelfrith; eyes; face; father; feet; god; godwin; good; gwrtheyrn; hand; head; holy; king; lady; land; left; life; little; look; lord; man; men; mogneid; mother; queen; richard; son; sweyn; thee; thou; thy; ulwin; wife; woman; years cache: 39903.txt plain text: 39903.txt item: #18 of 30 id: 40726 author: Marks, Jeannette Augustus title: Through Welsh Doorways date: None words: 42950 flesch: 85 summary: Ariel _dear_, I--I saw them--them laughin' an'--then--ye, the flood-gates burst and Janny threw herself sobbing into Ariel's arms. Aye, it was gay and fine an'--na---- Catherine halted, remembering the reason she had given for coming home, and tried to explain. keywords: annie; ariel; aye; barbara; catherine; david; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; gabriel; goin'; good; griffiths; hand; head; jane; janny; jones; lad; little; love; maggie; mam; man; mother; mrs; nelw; och; pedr; room; shop; thought; time; tis; woman; years cache: 40726.txt plain text: 40726.txt item: #19 of 30 id: 42011 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: Pabo, the Priest: A Novel date: None words: 52555 flesch: 84 summary: He always had a cunning above other men. If you need men you shall have them. keywords: archpriest; bernard; bishop; blood; brother; cadell; caio; chaplain; chief; church; david; dead; door; eyes; face; father; fire; gerald; hand; head; henry; house; howel; king; life; light; man; men; morwen; nest; norman; pabo; people; place; rogier; thee; thou; thy; time; wales; way; welsh; wife; woman; words cache: 42011.txt plain text: 42011.txt item: #20 of 30 id: 43119 author: Meade, L. T. title: David's Little Lad date: None words: 57916 flesch: 87 summary: I managed to hush little David into a sound sleep, before Gwen returned from her supper in the old servants' hall. Gwladys, what I says is, that little David and me should go too. keywords: baby; brother; child; coal; come; david; day; dear; eyes; face; father; god; good; gwen; gwladys; hand; heart; home; life; little; love; man; men; miles; miss; morgan; mother; night; owen; thought; time; words cache: 43119.txt plain text: 43119.txt item: #21 of 30 id: 45178 author: Broughton, Rhoda title: Red as a Rose is She: A Novel date: None words: 140061 flesch: 79 summary: Stop a bit, Miss Esther, you have got some hay on your frock behind. He is much too good a fellow to be played tricks with; mind that, Miss Esther! I have not the slightest desire in life to play tricks with him; if I ever do play tricks, I hope it will be with some one more amusing, answers Essie, very pettishly, looking excessively mutine and ill-humoured. keywords: answers; arms; bed; black; blessington; blue; bob; brandon; brother; child; church; cold; coming; companion; constance; course; craven; cries; dark; day; dead; dear; death; door; end; essie; esther; evening; eyes; face; feet; gerard; girl; god; going; good; green; grey; hair; half; hand; hard; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; jack; john; lady; laughing; life; like; lips; little; look; looking; love; low; making; man; men; mind; miss; miss blessington; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; person; poor; red; replies; robert; room; round; saying; sir; smile; sort; table; things; thomas; thought; time; turns; voice; want; way; white; window; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 45178.txt plain text: 45178.txt item: #22 of 30 id: 45712 author: Hissey, James John title: A Leisurely Tour in England date: None words: 112079 flesch: 68 summary: About Chapel House many stories, astonishing and otherwise, truthful and untruthful, of old days and old ways are told; but though sadly tempted to relate some of these, I refrain, for I find I am always writing about inns. It must have been a gruesome sight in old days, and one not at times to be avoided, for travellers to see a man hung up thus by the wayside, his shrivelled body swinging, or perhaps only his bones rattling, in the wind to the creaking of the chains. keywords: abbey; away; beauty; book; building; car; chapter; charm; church; clerk; close; country; day; days; door; england; eye; find; fine; good; green; grey; half; hand; hills; home; house; inn; interest; journey; king; land; landlord; lane; left; life; little; look; man; map; miles; morning; night; oak; old; open; past; people; picturesque; place; quaint; quiet; remote; river; road; room; round; scenery; sea; sir; spot; stone; story; thing; thought; time; town; traveller; trees; valley; village; walls; water; way; west; white; wild; wind; windows; woods; work; world; years cache: 45712.txt plain text: 45712.txt item: #23 of 30 id: 53915 author: Davies, Jonathan Ceredig title: Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales date: None words: 145079 flesch: 70 summary: Mawr oedd y gofid yn y teulu drwy y nos; ac erbyn dranoeth yr oedd eu pryder yn llawer mwy. Nid oedd ond y ceryg yn llawn yn y ty ac oddiamgylch iddo. keywords: aberystwyth; account; ancient; animal; bed; bird; body; book; boy; bride; candle; cardiganshire; carmarthenshire; century; children; church; churchyard; close; coming; conjurer; corpse; country; custom; dafydd; daughter; david; davies; day; days; dead; death; distance; door; evans; evening; evil; fairies; fairy; family; farmer; father; field; fire; folk; following; form; friends; funeral; future; gentleman; ghost; girl; good; hand; head; home; horses; house; husband; informant; john; jones; journey; kind; king; lady; lake; land; late; left; life; lord; love; man; manner; means; men; merlin; miles; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; near; neighbourhood; new; night; north; number; occasion; order; owen; paper; parish; parts; pembrokeshire; people; person; place; present; red; rev; rhys; river; road; room; round; saw; saying; sea; servant; sign; singing; sir; son; south; spirit; spot; stone; story; tale; things; thomas; thought; time; town; tradition; tree; village; wales; water; way; wedding; welsh; west; white; wife; williams; witch; wizard; woman; work; years cache: 53915.txt plain text: 53915.txt item: #24 of 30 id: 55025 author: Rhys, John, Sir title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) date: None words: 152049 flesch: 69 summary: In fact, the whole country round Llanfabon Church teemed with fairies, ghosts, and all kinds of uncanny creatures:-- Mewn amaethdy ag syd yn aros yn y plwyf a elwir y Berth Gron, trigiannai gwedw ieuanc a'i phlentyn bychan. i Glogwyn y Gwin, efe a welod y Tylwyth yn ymlodestu a dawnsio ei hochr hi ar weirglod wrth lan Llyn Cawellyn. keywords: a'i; a'r; ac yn; account; aeth; afanc; age; amser; ar y; arthur; attention; baby; bed; belief; bendith y; bod; book; boy; brython; cael; cambrian; case; cattle; cave; celtic; century; chapter; children; church; close; coed; coming; corwrion; country; course; cow; cwm; dancing; daughter; david; davies; day; days; death; district; door; drws y; dyn; early; effect; english; evans; evening; eyes; fact; fairies; fairy; family; farmer; father; fawr; fel; ffynnon; field; fire; fod; folklore; following; foot; form; friend; gan; girl; good; green; half; hand; head; hen; history; home; house; hughes; husband; i'r; i'w; idea; ido; iii; information; inhabitants; instance; irish; iron; island; isle; john; jones; kind; know; lady; lake; language; late; leave; left; legend; life; little; living; lle; llyn y; london; look; love; mae; making; man; manx; meaning; means; men; mention; mewn; mind; money; morgan; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; music; names; native; near; neighbourhood; night; north; notes; number; o'r; oed; oed y; ond yn; order; origin; owen; oxford; pan; parish; pennant; people; person; place; point; present; question; reader; regard; return; rev; rhys; river; road; roberts; round; saying; sea; servant; sheep; society; son; sort; south; spot; stone; stories; story; subject; summer; tale; teg; things; thomas; thought; time; town; tree; version; volume; wales; water; way; wedi; welsh; white; wife; williams; witch; woman; word; work; wraig; wrth; y fan; y gwr; y mamau; y nos; y tylwyth; y wraig; years; yn ei; yn y; yn yr; yno; young; ystrad cache: 55025.txt plain text: 55025.txt item: #25 of 30 id: 55989 author: Rhys, John, Sir title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) date: None words: 106920 flesch: 65 summary: The question then is, in how many of these six cases the story of the hunt accounts for the names of the places of the deaths respectively, that is to say, accounts for them in the ordinary way with which one is familiar in other Welsh stories. For, though construed as Welsh, the name would mean the Silly who is go Dwt [195], 'somewhat tidy or natty'; but the dwt (mutated from twt) was suggested doubtless by the tot of such fairy names as Tom Tit Tot. keywords: account; afanc; appears; arthur; aryan; attention; belief; black; book; brythonic; case; cave; celtic; century; chapter; compare; country; course; cúchulainn; day; death; dinas; district; dôn; eagle; early; english; face; fact; fairies; fairy; family; father; folklore; following; form; generation; genitive; gives; goidelic; goidels; great; hand; head; history; home; horse; idea; iii; instance; ireland; irish; kind; king; kulhwch; lake; language; latin; lawgoch; legend; life; lir; little; llyn; london; mabinogion; magic; man; meaning; means; men; mention; mother; mountain; names; native; near; neighbourhood; night; north; notes; occurs; order; origin; original; owen; oxford; people; person; place; point; power; present; question; race; reader; reason; regard; return; river; sea; sense; snowdon; son; sort; soul; south; spot; stone; stories; story; swine; things; time; tradition; trwyth; twrch; version; wales; water; way; welsh; wife; woman; word; year cache: 55989.txt plain text: 55989.txt item: #26 of 30 id: 56059 author: Vallance, Aymer title: Old Crosses and Lychgates date: None words: 39632 flesch: 70 summary: THE SHAFT-ON-STEPS TYPE The average form of standing cross, and such to which the vast majority of them, not in churchyards only, but also on village greens and squares, or by the wayside, belongs, is that of the shaft-on-steps type. And so the distinctive form of market cross was evolved at length, planned from the outset as a cross and roof combined in one coherent structure, the base of the central shaft being surrounded by a footing of only a single step, a convenient bench to sit upon, instead of the old-fashioned high flight of graduated steps. keywords: arches; arms; bishop; buckler; century; churchyard cross; cross; crosses; date; del; eleanor cross; face; fig; figs; figures; form; head; height; high; illustration; john; late; london; lychgate; market cross; middle; museum; north; paul; photo; place; plan; roof; sculptured; shaft; socket; somersetshire; south; square; standing; steps; stone; stone cross; structure; time; town; type; village cross; west; work; year cache: 56059.txt plain text: 56059.txt item: #27 of 30 id: 57427 author: Jacob, Violet title: The Sheep-Stealers date: None words: 112089 flesch: 84 summary: He longed to shout, to cry her beauty aloud, to flaunt it and her condescension to him in the faces of other men, but there was no one he could speak to except a dull yokel, to whom the very name of love would convey nothing but the most ordinary instincts. There was only one dark blot in all her eminently satisfactory day-dream, and that was the fact that Llewellyn would probably be best man. keywords: boy; bumpett; coming; crishowell; day; days; door; driver; eyes; face; father; fenton; george; girl; going; good; half; hand; harry; head; heart; home; house; howlie; isoline; lady; left; lewis; life; like; llewellyn; look; looking; man; mary; men; mind; moment; mrs; nannie; night; people; pig; place; rhys; road; room; round; things; thought; time; toll; vicar; voice; walters; way; williams; woman; work; world; young cache: 57427.txt plain text: 57427.txt item: #28 of 30 id: 63502 author: Raine, Allen title: Torn Sails: A Tale of a Welsh Village date: None words: 71822 flesch: 85 summary: Everyone thought that when thou wert the wife of Hugh Morgan thou wouldst be the brightest and happiest in Mwntseison; but instead of that thou look'st like a white storm-driven pigeon. Hard by, in a cleft of the great hillside, stood the house of the master, Hugh Morgan, Mishteer, as he was called, for he was the owner of more than half of Mwntseison. keywords: day; door; eyes; face; girl; good; gwen; gwladys; hand; head; heart; home; hugh; hugh morgan; ivor; jos; lallo; life; look; love; man; mari; mishteer; moment; morgan; mother; mwntseison; n'wncwl; night; parry; poor; round; sail; sea; shed; thee; think; thou; thought; time; tis; village; voice; way; woman; work cache: 63502.txt plain text: 63502.txt item: #29 of 30 id: 7055 author: Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith title: Gone to Earth date: None words: 84333 flesch: 92 summary: Before long Hazel brought out the bird-cage and hung it in the sun. We wondered where you were, Hazel Marston!' keywords: abel; air; black; coming; dark; day; dear; door; dress; dunna; ed'ard; edward; eyes; face; father; foxy; god; good; green; half; hand; hazel; head; home; house; james; life; like; long; look; looking; love; man; marston; martha; mind; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; night; place; quiet; reddin; room; round; saw; tea; things; thought; time; tree; undern; vessons; voice; way; white; woman; world cache: 7055.txt plain text: 7055.txt item: #30 of 30 id: 9368 author: Griffis, William Elliot title: Welsh Fairy Tales date: None words: 43672 flesch: 87 summary: Old men took rushes and reeds and wove them into cages for song birds to live in. Old men said that the children of the aborigines played under it, and here was the home of the god of lightning, which they worshiped. keywords: boy; cave; children; cymric; day; days; door; fairies; fairy; father; giant; good; hand; home; iron; king; lady; lake; land; love; man; men; mother; new; night; people; place; powell; puck; red; round; story; taffy; things; thought; time; wales; water; way; welsh; wife cache: 9368.txt plain text: 9368.txt