item: #1 of 10 id: 10447 author: Le Gallienne, Richard title: October Vagabonds date: None words: 25678 flesch: 75 summary: Now it happened that his suggestion came like a voice from heaven for poor Colin, one of whose shoes had been casting a gloom over our spirits for several miles. I'm afraid, said poor Colin, I can walk no more to-day. keywords: air; american; apples; away; chapter; colin; country; day; evening; face; friend; green; half; hills; house; like; look; man; morning; nature; new; night; place; road; summer; time; trees; valley; walking; water; way; woods; work; world; york cache: 10447.txt plain text: 10447.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 42252 author: Lindsay, Vachel title: Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty date: None words: 28410 flesch: 86 summary: Then come enormous wild roses, showing every hue that friend of man ever displayed. My platform was to be that railroad ties should be just close enough for men to walk on them in natural steps, neither mincing the stride nor widely stretching the legs. keywords: afternoon; beauty; day; earth; farmer; field; good; gospel; half; hand; harvest; heart; home; kansas; land; man; men; mennonite; miles; moon; morning; new; night; people; place; reaper; road; sun; time; town; village; walking; way; west; wheat; white; work; world cache: 42252.txt plain text: 42252.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 5782 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 date: None words: 13277 flesch: 75 summary: When the professor enters a beer-hall in the evening where students are gathered together, these rise up and take off their caps, and invite the old gentleman to sit with them and partake. Sometimes there would be as many dogs around the pavilion as students; and of all breeds and of all degrees of beauty and ugliness. keywords: caps; chapter; corps; day; duel; head; heidelberg; hole; hotel; jay; room; students; surgeon; sword; thing; time; way; white cache: 5782.txt plain text: 5782.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 5783 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 date: None words: 15829 flesch: 78 summary: That is very true, she said; he cannot sing now; it is already many years that he has lost his voice, but in other times he sang, yes, divinely! There were no rustlings, or whisperings, or other little disturbances; each act was listened to in silence, and the applauding was done after the curtain was down. keywords: bed; chapter; german; half; harris; head; hour; king; music; opera; people; person; place; principal; room; second; thing; time; water; way cache: 5783.txt plain text: 5783.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 5784 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03 date: None words: 19730 flesch: 78 summary: A fable of old Times so terrifies, Leaves my heart so thoughtful. As we panted up the sharp ascent, we met brown, bareheaded and barefooted boys and girls, occasionally, and sometimes men; they came upon us without warning, they gave us good day, flashed out of sight in the bushes, and were gone as suddenly and mysteriously as they had come. keywords: baden; captain; castle; chapter; day; english; german; good; legend; look; man; men; night; people; place; raft; river; room; thing; time; water; way; white; words; work; years cache: 5784.txt plain text: 5784.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 5785 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 date: None words: 24421 flesch: 82 summary: Presently the enemy laughed a happy laugh and said: I HAVE enjoyed this talk over old times, but you have not. Sometimes one of these monster precipices had the slight inclination of the huge ship-houses in dockyards--then high aloft, toward the sky, it took a little stronger inclination, like that of a mansard roof--and perched on this dizzy mansard one's eye detected little things like martin boxes, and presently perceived that these were the dwellings of peasants--an airy place for a home, truly. keywords: chamois; child; day; feet; forest; good; half; harris; home; hotel; house; kind; lake; lucerne; man; morning; mountain; new; people; place; rest; right; sunday; talk; thing; time; water; way; work cache: 5785.txt plain text: 5785.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 5786 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 date: None words: 23113 flesch: 73 summary: When really learned men write books for other learned men to read, they are justified in using as many learned words as they please--their audience will understand them; but a man who writes a book for the general public to read is not justified in disfiguring his pages with untranslated foreign expressions. How exquisitely green and beautiful that little valley down there was! keywords: courier; course; day; end; english; feet; foot; glacier; good; harris; hotel; ice; left; look; man; morning; mountains; people; place; precipice; right; set; snow; steep; thing; time; valley; way; world cache: 5786.txt plain text: 5786.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 5787 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 date: None words: 23916 flesch: 77 summary: I am aware that these vast bodies of ice do not travel at the same rate of speed; while the Gorner Glacier makes less than an inch a day, the Unter-Aar Glacier makes as much as eight; and still other glaciers are said to go twelve, sixteen, and even twenty inches a day. The rope crept away quite slowly, at times, at other times with some briskness. keywords: day; expedition; feet; find; glacier; great; guide; half; hand; harris; ice; man; matterhorn; men; morning; mountain; place; right; road; rope; snow; summit; thing; time; way; zermatt cache: 5787.txt plain text: 5787.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 5788 author: Twain, Mark title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 date: None words: 40639 flesch: 76 summary: That paragraph furnishes a text for a few remarks about one of the most curious and notable features of my subject--the length of German words. Good day. keywords: american; art; ascent; blanc; book; case; castle; chapter; come; course; daily; day; days; europe; feet; german; glacier; good; guides; half; hand; head; home; hotel; hours; ice; language; left; look; matter; means; men; mont; new; people; picture; place; right; sort; student; style; thing; time; water; way; woman; word; work; years cache: 5788.txt plain text: 5788.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 59813 author: None title: The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers date: None words: 52203 flesch: 73 summary: The wilderness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. keywords: air; country; course; day; days; earth; end; evening; feet; foot; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; hill; home; hours; house; inn; kind; knowledge; lake; land; left; life; london; look; love; man; men; miles; mind; morning; mountain; nature; new; night; pedestrian; people; place; road; round; sir; sort; sun; things; thought; time; town; trees; walker; walking; walks; way; west; wild; woods; world; years cache: 59813.txt plain text: 59813.txt