item: #1 of 15 id: 10059 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation date: None words: 50165 flesch: 82 summary: I'm sorry, for they seem good men and we may have trouble replacing them. But the girl journalists were all excitement and already were beginning to plan the things they might do to Make Hetty and Thursday happier. keywords: arthur; beth; big; bill; daily; editor; girls; good; hetty; john; louise; major; man; men; merrick; millville; miss; new; newspaper; office; paper; patsy; peggy; people; press; right; royal; run; sir; skeelty; skim; smith; thing; thursday; time; tribune; uncle; uncle john; way; west; work; york cache: 10059.txt plain text: 10059.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 14204 author: Klein, Charles title: The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of American Life date: None words: 84443 flesch: 79 summary: Then presenting Jefferson to Stott she said: This is Mr. Jefferson Ryder--Judge Stott. It was unusual to keep the town house open so late in the summer, but Mr. Ryder was obliged for business reasons to be in New York at this time, and Mrs. Ryder, who was one of the few American wives who do not always get their own way, had good-naturedly acquiesced in the wishes of her lord. keywords: bagley; book; burkett ryder; business; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; interests; jefferson; jefferson ryder; john; john ryder; judge; judge rossmore; kate; letters; life; like; love; man; matter; men; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; people; public; right; roberts; room; rossmore; ryder; secretary; senator; shirley; stott; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 14204.txt plain text: 14204.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 157 author: Webster, Jean title: Daddy-Long-Legs date: None words: 38862 flesch: 86 summary: Goodbye, Daddy dear, (I like to call you Daddy dear; it's so alliterative.) Trusting, my dear Mr. Smith, that this will find you in your usual good health, I remain, Most cordially yours, Jerusha Abbott 24th April Dear Daddy, Spring has come again! keywords: abbott; college; daddy; day; dear; family; girls; good; grier; home; jerusha; jervie; john; judy; julia; legs; letter; life; lippett; little; lock; man; master; mcbride; mind; morning; mrs; new; night; people; room; sallie; summer; things; time; way; willow; work; world; writing cache: 157.txt plain text: 157.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 15902 author: Hurston, Zora Neale title: Poker! date: None words: 1141 flesch: 100 summary: TUSH HAWG is seated at table so that he faces audience. NUNKIE (Laughs sheepishly--puts money down--TUSH HAWG pushes stack of chips toward him. keywords: hawg; nunkie; tush cache: 15902.txt plain text: 15902.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 20230 author: Mitchell, Ruth Comfort title: Jane Journeys On date: None words: 66501 flesch: 87 summary: In her world of bleak realities the tinsel trimmings for _fête_ days left her cold. The boy was the sort of little boy who makes you feel that Herod had the right idea, and the girl was the sort of little girl who makes you feel it was a pity to stop with the slaughter of the male infant. keywords: brother; chapter; come; course; daragh; day; days; dear; door; ellis; emma; eyes; face; feet; friend; girl; god; good; hands; harrison; head; heart; hills; home; hour; house; irishman; jane; jane vail; left; let; letter; life; little; look; love; man; michael; michael daragh; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; rodney; room; sally; sarah; sort; thing; thought; time; vail; voice; way; wetherby; woman; work; world; years cache: 20230.txt plain text: 20230.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 2528 author: Mason, Amelia Gere title: The Women of the French Salons date: None words: 92594 flesch: 68 summary: I do not know but Mme de Coulanges has already sent you word of our after-dinner conversations at Gourville's about people who have taste above or below their intelligence. de Staal de Launay, said Grimm. keywords: age; beauty; century; character; charm; circle; conversation; days; de la; de lambert; de lespinasse; de rambouillet; de scudery; de sevigne; de stael; de tencin; death; esprit; fashion; fayette; fine; friends; friendship; genius; good; great; heart; husband; influence; intellect; letters; life; light; literature; love; manners; mind; mlle; mme; nature; passion; people; period; power; read; salon; social; society; soul; spirit; talent; taste; things; thought; time; wit; women; world; years cache: 2528.txt plain text: 2528.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 28862 author: Meade, L. T. title: The Time of Roses date: None words: 81006 flesch: 91 summary: I am sorry you have made the acquaintance of Miss Florence Aylmer, she said. But Mrs. Aylmer has something to say to me also--something about that particularly nice girl, Miss Florence Aylmer. keywords: aylmer; bertha; course; day; dear; edith; eyes; face; florence; florence aylmer; franks; girl; good; keys; kitty; man; maurice; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; night; room; story; think; thought; time; trevor; want; way; young cache: 28862.txt plain text: 28862.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 30435 author: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray title: A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen date: None words: 55608 flesch: 71 summary: 'Before we had reached the place where the cart had been blown up,' says Mrs. Edgeworth, 'Mr. Edgeworth suddenly recollected that he had left on the table in his study a list of the yeomanry corps which he feared might endanger the poor fellows and their families if it fell into the hands of the rebels. With characteristic directness she did not take us into the library until she had told us that we should find there Mrs. Alison, of Edinburgh, and her aunt, Miss Sneyd, a person very old and infirm, and that the only other persons constituting the family were Mrs. Edgeworth, Miss Honora Edgeworth, and Dr. Alison, a physician.... keywords: aikin; austen; away; barbauld; book; brother; children; country; daughter; day; days; death; edgeworth; eyes; family; father; feeling; friends; good; heart; home; honora; house; interest; jane; lady; letter; life; little; london; love; madame; man; maria; mind; miss; miss edgeworth; mother; mrs; nature; new; opie; people; place; poor; read; sister; story; things; time; way; wife; woman; work; world; writing; years cache: 30435.txt plain text: 30435.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 32394 author: Marquis, Reina Melcher title: The Torch Bearer date: None words: 50299 flesch: 84 summary: The master's star pupil? Yes, she insisted, little Sheila. It requires a sort of earthy, benign patience thus to hold back one's hand and passively wait--especially when one has, in spite of oneself, the dominating parent instinct!--but Sheila forced herself to it. keywords: caldwell; charlotte; child; day; dear; eric; eyes; face; girl; hand; heart; home; life; love; moment; mother; mrs; night; north; peter; self; shadyville; sheila; ted; thing; thought; time; voice; woman; work; years cache: 32394.txt plain text: 32394.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 34613 author: Whitmore, Clara Helen title: Woman's Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period date: None words: 69461 flesch: 70 summary: In _Ethelinda_ there are beautiful descriptions of the English Lakes, part of the scene being laid at Grasmere; _Celestina_ is in the romantic Provence; _Desmond_ in Normandy; and in _ Andrew Lang in the introduction to _Rob Roy_ in the Border edition of the _Waverley Novels_ calls attention to the fact that Waverley, Guy Mannering, Lovel of _The Antiquary_, and Frank Osbaldistone were all poets. keywords: age; austen; author; book; brontë; century; chapter; characters; charles; charlotte; children; country; daughter; day; death; edgeworth; elizabeth; england; english; family; father; fiction; friend; gaskell; genius; george; good; heroine; history; husband; interest; jane; ladies; lady; life; like; london; lord; love; man; maria; mary; mind; miss; mrs; nature; new; novel; people; place; plot; poor; romance; scott; second; shelley; sir; smith; society; stories; story; thought; time; village; wife; william; women; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 34613.txt plain text: 34613.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 36641 author: Marshall, Emma title: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations date: None words: 66488 flesch: 65 summary: Amongst her most popular works also are The Channings and Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, 1862; The Shadow of Ashlydyat, 1863; St. Martin's Eve, 1866; A Life's Secret, 1867; Roland Yorke, a sequel to The Channings, 1869; Johnny Ludlow, stories re-printed from the _Argosy_, 1874 to 1885; Edina, 1876; Pomeroy Abbey, 1878; Court Netherleigh, 1881; and many other stories and novels. Cherry and Violet was a tale of the plague of London; Edward Osborne told of the apprentice who leapt from the window of a house on London Bridge to save his master's daughter from drowning; The Old Chelsea Bunhouse described the haunts with which Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, such as the Ladies of Bever Hollow. keywords: age; author; book; brontë; character; charlotte; child; children; daughter; day; days; death; eliot; english; family; father; fiction; gaskell; george; girl; good; great; half; heart; henry; hero; home; house; husband; interest; john; kind; lady; life; little; love; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; new; novel; paul; people; place; power; reader; sense; sisters; stories; story; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; wood; work; world; writer; years cache: 36641.txt plain text: 36641.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 37471 author: None title: Mind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls date: None words: 82841 flesch: 75 summary: Yes, it was a sunny day; but for many days before, the sky had been veiled in gloomy clouds; and joyous indeed was it to look up into that blue vault, and see it unobscured by its sombre screen; and my heart fluttered, like a prisoned bird, with its painful longings for an unchecked flight amidst the beautiful creation around me. And how he would like to see Lina's chart, and to know if Jimmy had brains--he was sure he had legs, and a big heart for a little boy; and he wondered what girls ran up to have their heads felt of in public; and what the man said about matrimony--an affair which in old times was thought to have more to do with the heart than the head. keywords: ann; bed; brother; day; days; dear; evening; eyes; factory; father; form; friend; girls; good; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hours; house; isabel; labor; leave; left; letter; life; little; look; love; lowell; man; martha; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; people; place; present; return; room; sister; son; spirit; susan; things; think; thought; time; way; white; wife; wish; words; work; world; years; young cache: 37471.txt plain text: 37471.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 39145 author: Vivanti, Annie title: The Devourers date: None words: 92353 flesch: 91 summary: When they alighted at the peaceful country station, there was Mrs. Avory and little Nancy and the grandfather awaiting them; and there were more greetings and more noise. In Valeria's terror-stricken heart maternal love had pushed all else aside, and only one thought possessed her--the thought of keeping Nancy out of danger, out of reach of Edith's light breath, out of reach of Edith's tender kisses; while Nino, seeing her with little Nancy on her lap or at her side all day, gradually grew to look upon her in the light of Valeria the mother, and lost sight of her as Valeria the betrothed. keywords: aldo; anne; away; baby; bemolle; black; blue; book; carlo; child; clarissa; day; dear; door; edith; evening; eyes; face; francs; fräulein; giacomo; girl; good; hair; hand; hat; head; heart; house; left; letter; life; little; looking; love; man; marie; mind; money; mother; mrs; music; nancy; new; night; nino; people; play; room; round; small; table; things; thought; time; valeria; violin; voice; white; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 39145.txt plain text: 39145.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 49772 author: Johnston, Mary title: Hagar date: None words: 109576 flesch: 88 summary: Miss Hagar Ashendyne. Aunt Dorinda, for instance, the old, turbaned cook, passed, but she saw nothing but one of the teachers stopping to say, Merry Christmas! to Miss Hagar. keywords: air; ashendyne; away; balm; black; blue; boat; book; chair; child; children; colonel; come; coming; course; dark; day; days; door; eglantine; eyes; face; father; gilead; girl; good; grandmother; green; hagar; hagar ashendyne; half; hand; head; home; house; kind; laydon; left; legrand; letter; life; little; look; love; man; maria; medway; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; rachel; ralph; room; rose; sea; serena; sky; street; table; talk; things; thomasine; thought; time; voice; white; wish; woman; work; world; years; york cache: 49772.txt plain text: 49772.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 5119 author: Hornblow, Arthur title: The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life date: None words: 84026 flesch: 79 summary: Then presenting Jefferson to Stott, she said: This is Mr. Jefferson Ryder--Judge Stott. Your engagement to Mr. Jefferson Ryder is, to say the least, a most uncertain fact. keywords: bagley; book; burkett ryder; business; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; interests; jefferson; jefferson ryder; john; john ryder; judge; judge rossmore; kate; letters; life; like; love; man; matter; men; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; people; public; right; roberts; room; rossmore; ryder; secretary; senator; shirley; stott; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 5119.txt plain text: 5119.txt