item: #1 of 29 id: 10795 author: Home, Gordon title: Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes date: None words: 25815 flesch: 64 summary: So that we, who would learn something of this region, must make the journey on foot; for a bicycle would be an encumbrance when crossing the heather, and there are many places where a horse would be a source of danger. The predominant note is the red of the chimneys and roofs and stray patches of brickwork, but the walls that go down to the water's edge are green below and full of rich browns above, and in many places the sides of the cottages are coloured with an ochre wash, while above them all the top of the cliff appears covered with grass. keywords: abbey; bay; beck; bridge; castle; church; coast; cottages; country; day; east; feet; guisborough; high; house; hugh; little; men; moor; place; railway; road; scarborough; sea; sir; staithes; stone; time; town; valley; view; village; way; west; whitby; yorkshire cache: 10795.txt plain text: 10795.txt item: #2 of 29 id: 17396 author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson title: The Secret Garden date: None words: 83413 flesch: 94 summary: His face looked dreadful, white and red and swollen, and he was gasping and choking; but savage little Mary did not care an atom. I shall not want to go poking about, said sour little Mary; and just as suddenly as she had begun to be rather sorry for Mr. Archibald Craven she began to cease to be sorry and to think he was unpleasant enough to deserve all that had happened to him. keywords: ben; bit; boy; colin; craven; day; dickon; door; eyes; face; garden; good; head; little; look; magic; martha; mary; medlock; moor; mother; mrs; people; robin; room; round; talk; tha; thee; things; thought; time; want; way; weatherstaff cache: 17396.txt plain text: 17396.txt item: #3 of 29 id: 17472 author: Hartley, John title: Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings date: None words: 22673 flesch: 89 summary: Noa wayver i' th' world can produce a gooid clooath; Then let us endeavour, bi working and striving, To finish awr piece soa's noa fault can be fun; An' then i' return for awr pains an contriving, Th' takker in 'll reward us an' whisper' well done.' An' when aw wor gooin towards hooam Aw heeard som'dy comin behund: 'Twor pitch dark, an' aw thowt if they coom, Aw should varry near sink into th' graund. keywords: 'em; aat; abaat; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; bit; chap; come; daan; day; fowk; goa; gooid; i'th; little; mak; net; niver; noa; nowt; o'th; owd; poor; shoo; sich; soa; summat; tak; tell; tha; thee; ther; think; thowt; throo; time; varry; wor; year; yor cache: 17472.txt plain text: 17472.txt item: #4 of 29 id: 17799 author: Hartley, John title: Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings date: None words: 21119 flesch: 91 summary: Aw've a rare lump o' beef on a dish, We've some bacon 'at's hung up o' th' thack, We've as mich gooid spike-cake as we wish, An' wi' currens its varry near black; We've a barrel o' gooid hooam brewed drink, We've a pack o' flaar reared agean th' clock, We've a load o' puttates under th' sink, An' then agean,--he goes on th' rant; Nah, that aw niver do;-- Aw allus mark misen content, Wi' an odd pint or two. keywords: abaat; aw'm; aw've; bit; chap; daan; day; fowk; goa; gooid; heart; i'th; lass; little; mak; moor; niver; noa; nowt; o'th; poor; sed; shoo; sich; soa; tell; tha; thee; ther; thi; things; think; tho; time; varry; wol; wor cache: 17799.txt plain text: 17799.txt item: #5 of 29 id: 18173 author: Moorman, F. W. (Frederic William) title: Tales of the Ridings date: None words: 22509 flesch: 80 summary: I niver thowt to see t' snakes clim' t' moors; they sud hae bided i' t' dale and left t' owd shipperd to dee in peace. Aye, I's proud o' what I've larnt misel through tendin' sheep on t' Craven moors for mair nor sixty year; and thou's proud o' thy meadows and pasturs down i' t' dale, aye, and o' thy beasts an' yowes and all thy farm-gear; but it's t' pride that gans afore a fall. keywords: abe; bin; day; fowks; heart; heaven; job; leeds; life; man; mind; moorman; moors; nay; noan; nowt; peregrine; place; reckon; sheep; shoo; steel; thou; throp; thy; time; voice; way; wife; work; years cache: 18173.txt plain text: 18173.txt item: #6 of 29 id: 18175 author: Hartley, John title: Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley date: None words: 111135 flesch: 87 summary: What's th' meanin o' that, he sed, as he sam'd hissen up,--Isn't it enuff, thinks ta, to goa on th' spree an' ommost kill a horse, but tha mun come an' start o' illusin me? Aw think aw could tell what day it wor th o' aw didn't know if aw could see a lot o' factry fowk gooin to ther wark. keywords: 'em; abaat; abaat th; abaght; agean; agean th; aght; aght o; aght th; allus; amang th; aw wor; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; away; awd; awl; awm; awr; bed; befoor; began; believe; bit o; brass; chap; come; con; coom; daan th; day; dooant; door; enuff; fowk; gate; getten; goa; gooid; haase; heead; hooam; i'th; ivery; joa; know; lad; lass; left; let; life; like; little; long; luk; luk'd; mak; mich; mind; monny; moor; mother; mun; nah; nay; neet; net; niver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nowt; o'th; ommost; ony; ovver; ovver th; owd; poor; raand; reight; saw; sed th; set; shoo sed; shoo wor; sich; sin; soa; soa th; sooart; sooart o; sooin; summat; sure; tak; tak th; tell; tell'd; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thear; thee; ther wor; thi; things; think; thowt; throo; time; want; way; weel; went; wi th; wife; wol; woman; wor soa; wor th; wor varry; word; worn't; yor cache: 18175.txt plain text: 18175.txt item: #7 of 29 id: 18176 author: Hartley, John title: Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect date: None words: 38495 flesch: 90 summary: In a varry few minnits, shoo wor daan agean, an flingin a shillin on th' table shoo sed, Thear's th' brass to pay th' sweep if tha gets one, and be sewer to tell him net to mak onny moor muck nor he can help, an aw'll cleean an fettle all up ith' mornin; an if tha wants owt to ait, tha knows whear it is, an as for owt to sup, tha'rt better baght, an tha knows tha spends sadly to mich, an away shoo went. Shoo's left a shillin for th' sweep but nowt for me. keywords: abaat; agean; aght; aw'll; aw've; awm; bit; chap; coom; daan; day; dooant; getten; goa; gooid; i'th; know; little; long; mak; mally; moor; nah; nivver; noa; nobbut; nowt; o'th; onny; ovver; owd; sammywell; sed; sewer; shoo; shoo sed; shoo wor; shop; sich; soa; summat; sydney; tell; tha; thee; ther; ther wor; thi; think; time; varry; went; whear; wor; wor th; young cache: 18176.txt plain text: 18176.txt item: #8 of 29 id: 18260 author: Moorman, F. W. (Frederic William) title: More Tales of the Ridings date: None words: 24012 flesch: 85 summary: Now Doed had heerd his mother tell about his Uncle Ned, an' when t' lad said that Ned Bowker were his father, he gat a bit aisier in his mind; but for all that he didn't altogether like t' looks o' him. Soomtimes 'twere like t' yowlin' o' t' wind i' t' chimley, an' soomtimes 'twere like t' yammerin' o' tewits an' curlews on t' moor. keywords: 'em; afore; bed; bit; day; doed; eyes; farm; fire; gat; girl; house; jerry; lad; lass; learoyd; man; mary; melsh; mind; mother; owd; ower; place; round; set; shoo; tell; thou; time; way cache: 18260.txt plain text: 18260.txt item: #9 of 29 id: 19470 author: Hartley, John title: Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect date: None words: 83127 flesch: 93 summary: If tha'll leeav it alooan it'll mell nooan o' thee, Put th' mustard spooin daan! Aw remember mi day dreeams o' fame, keywords: 'em; aght; aght o; allus; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; away; awm; awr; bonny; brass; care; chap; come; coom; daan; day; days; dear; dooant; door; een; face; fair; far; feel; find; fowk; goa; gooid; hand; hard; heart; help; hooam; i'th; ivvery; know; lad; lass; left; let; life; little; live; long; lot; love; mak; mak th; man; mi heart; mi life; mi love; mich; moor; mother; mun; nah; ne'er; neet; net; nivver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nowt; o'th; old; poor; reight; rest; sed; set; share; shoo; shoo wor; sich; sin; soa; sooin; sweet; tak; tell; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thee; ther; ther wor; thi; things; think; tho; thowt; throo; thy; time; true; try; varry; want; weel; whear; wi th; wife; wod; wol; wor; wor th; world; yo'll; yor; young cache: 19470.txt plain text: 19470.txt item: #10 of 29 id: 2888 author: Moorman, F. W. (Frederic William) title: Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems date: None words: 32711 flesch: 89 summary: He beals(25); tak t' barghams(26) off o' t' beams An' fetch some breckons(27) frae the clames.(28) Gamkeepers com wi' dogs an' guns, Thinkin' 't was some comical beast; An' they wad eyther kill him or catch him, Or drive him awa at least. Sea into Lady wood keywords: aat; anonymous; awd; bit; bud; century; coom; day; dean't; dialect; doon; dree; english; fair; frae; gam; good; heart; john; lad; lads; lang; lass; life; little; love; mair; mak; man; monny; mun; nea; neet; new; niver; noo; north; nowt; oot; owd; ower; place; play; poems; poetry; riding; sea; shoo; song; tak; tha; thee; thoo; thowt; thy; time; verse; volume; wad; way; weel; wife; work; yan; year; yorkshire; yorkshire dialect cache: 2888.txt plain text: 2888.txt item: #11 of 29 id: 33043 author: Riley, W. (William) title: Windyridge date: None words: 85837 flesch: 81 summary: Oh, either of them, love, she said; they are both good men, and they must arrange to suit their own convenience. Good men are unselfish, and bachelors are brazenly self-centred, and usually unbearably conceited. keywords: barjona; believe; bit; book; case; cottage; course; cynic; day; days; dear; end; eyes; face; farmer; father; god; good; goodenough; grace; grey; hand; head; heart; holden; home; hubbard; lad; left; life; little; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mother hubbard; need; people; poor; right; rose; self; squire; ted; tell; things; thought; time; village; voice; want; way; wife; windyridge; woman; work cache: 33043.txt plain text: 33043.txt item: #12 of 29 id: 35393 author: Tracy, Louis title: The Revellers date: None words: 88349 flesch: 86 summary: Elsie, this is young Martin Bolland, of whom I have been telling you. She took care that the chauffeur should not see her, and remembered also that young Martin Bolland had conversed with her while she was in the worst paroxysm of drink-craving. keywords: angèle; beckett; betsy; bolland; boy; child; colonel; course; day; door; elmsdale; elsie; eyes; face; fair; farmer; father; frank; françoise; garden; george; german; girl; good; grant; half; hand; head; herbert; home; hour; house; jim; john; kitty; knife; lady; leave; left; life; look; lord; man; martha; martin; martin bolland; matter; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; night; people; pickering; place; police; poor; read; room; saumarez; sir; smythe; son; stockwell; tell; thought; thwaites; time; vicar; village; way; white; woman; words; years; yer; young cache: 35393.txt plain text: 35393.txt item: #13 of 29 id: 35933 author: White, Walter title: A Month in Yorkshire date: None words: 112624 flesch: 69 summary: In old times, when a pot was lifted off, the maid was careful to stop the swinging of the crook, because, whenever the reckon-crooks swung the blessed Virgin used to weep. Their actual experience was not uncommon; and at other times they would get as much jet in a week as paid them for six months' labour. keywords: abbey; alum; away; bank; bay; beverley; bridge; castle; cave; chapter; church; clay; cliff; coast; country; course; cross; dale; day; days; deep; distance; door; end; eye; fall; feet; fell; fields; floor; foot; form; good; grass; great; green; half; hall; hand; head; height; high; hill; hour; house; hull; john; land; left; long; look; looking; lord; man; men; miles; morning; neighbourhood; north; old; page; pass; past; place; pleasure; point; prospect; read; river; road; rock; room; round; saw; scenery; sea; set; shore; sight; slope; spot; stands; stone; stream; summit; talk; thought; till; time; tower; town; trees; valley; view; village; walk; walls; water; way; west; whitby; white; wild; woods; work; years; yorkshire cache: 35933.txt plain text: 35933.txt item: #14 of 29 id: 37086 author: Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una title: The Dales of Arcady date: None words: 9384 flesch: 89 summary: O tiresome bird, one primrose does not bring The warm sweet days for which I yearning wait. For a moment the melody seemed to float O'er the heather; and then with increased surprise I saw a troop Of little green men around me group. keywords: blue; day; eyes; gold; great; heart; land; mab; o'er; pan; queen; song; spring; thou; thro; white; wind cache: 37086.txt plain text: 37086.txt item: #15 of 29 id: 39432 author: Tracy, Louis title: The House 'Round the Corner date: None words: 67572 flesch: 84 summary: In the meantime, Mr. Robert Armathwaite had watched his hurried departure, in the first instance from the porch and subsequently from one of the windows in the dining-room. I'll have a word with the manager, said Mr. Armathwaite. keywords: armathwaite; betty; course; dalrymple; daughter; day; dobb; door; elmdale; eyes; face; fact; father; garth; girl; grange; half; hour; house; jackson; james; let; life; like; man; marguérite; matter; meg; mind; miss; moor; mother; mrs; new; nuttonby; ogilvey; people; percy; place; right; room; sir; stephen; story; tell; thing; thought; time; village; walker; way; whittaker; window; years cache: 39432.txt plain text: 39432.txt item: #16 of 29 id: 40522 author: Ross, Frederick title: Yorkshire Family Romance date: None words: 50361 flesch: 60 summary: He explained the law to her, and knowing and approving of her love for young Percy, expressed a hope that His Majesty would not interfere in her case, but, added he, King John is a bad man, unscrupulous in his actions, and an arch-heretic, even to the defying of the Holy Father at Rome--the Vicegerent of God upon earth, saying that he will allow no foreign priest to meddle in his dominion. Hubert, however, compassionated the boy, and saved him from that fate, upon which King John removed Arthur from his custody, and had him taken to Rouen, and placed in safe keeping. keywords: act; age; arms; baron; battle; bishop; castle; church; clifford; daughter; day; days; death; duke; earl; edward; england; estates; family; father; following; forest; forth; god; great; hand; head; henry; house; hull; john; king; lady; life; london; long; lord; man; marriage; men; northumbria; parliament; people; place; queen; richard; robert; said; sheriff; sir; sir john; sir william; son; thomas; time; town; walls; wife; william; years; york; yorkshire; young cache: 40522.txt plain text: 40522.txt item: #17 of 29 id: 40874 author: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert title: Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire date: None words: 141063 flesch: 73 summary: Little Jacob is expected at dinner-time, and little Jacob loves pudding, especially apricot roly-poly. Little Jacob, little Jacob, come, my lad, come; it's nobbut old Sarah an' Jim. keywords: alice; anison; bardly; bed; captain; chapter; child; church; colonel; colonel stanburne; come; day; days; doctor; door; edith; face; farm; father; fire; friend; good; hall; hand; helena; house; isaac ogden; jacob ogden; john; john stanburne; kind; lady; lady helena; left; life; little; little jacob; look; man; manner; men; milend; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; philip; philip stanburne; place; poor; present; prigley; room; sarah; shayton; sootythorn; stanburne; stedman; tell; thing; thought; time; twistle; uncle; way; wenderholme; whittlecup; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 40874.txt plain text: 40874.txt item: #18 of 29 id: 43910 author: Partington, S. W. title: The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire date: None words: 48129 flesch: 74 summary: From the year 880 when Halfdene divided the lands of Deira among his followers the conditions of life became those of colonists, and the Danes settled down to cultivate their own lands, learning the language of the earlier Angles, teaching them many words, and ways of northern handicraft, and gradually intermarrying and forming the vigorous character of body and mind which denotes the modern Englishman. From the middle of the tenth century men bearing Anglo-Danish names held high positions in the Church; Odo was Archbishop of Canterbury, his nephew Oswald was Bishop of Worcester and afterwards Archbishop of York in succession to Oskytel, and many Norse names appear as witnesses to Royal Charters. In the manors bearing English names the sokemen numbered two-fifths of the population, while in those manors with Danish names they formed three-fifths of the population. keywords: a.d; anglo; art; century; coins; conquest; country; cross; crosses; cumberland; danes; danish; day; days; death; districts; england; english; fact; find; form; god; good; great; half; hill; history; house; illustration; influence; john; king; lancashire; lord; man; means; men; modern; names; near; norman; norse; north; number; odin; origin; page; people; period; place; present; right; runes; runic; saxon; scandinavian; settlements; stone; tenants; tenure; time; way; west; wheat; word; work; year; yorkshire cache: 43910.txt plain text: 43910.txt item: #19 of 29 id: 44852 author: Lamplough, Edward title: Yorkshire Battles date: None words: 47087 flesch: 64 summary: Disdaining to meet death in other than his customary guise of warrior and chief, he caused his servitors to invest his gigantic frame in the iron panoply of war, to arm him with the heavy sword and tempered battle-axe which he had so long and ably employed in the national service, and so breathed his last, leaving the wild hordes of Northumbria to be disposed of by King Edward, for his son, the afterwards far-famed Waltheof, was too young to rule over so extensive and warlike a province. No doubt Harold employed his great influence with King Edward to secure the aggrandisement of his own family, for his brother Tosti was invested with command of the province. keywords: archbishop; archers; arms; army; barons; battle; blood; bridge; castle; conflict; day; death; duke; earl; edward; enemy; england; english; fairfax; field; foot; ground; hand; harold; head; henry; horse; hull; john; king; king edward; lord; march; men; newcastle; norman; northumberland; position; prince; queen; ranks; richard; robert; royal; saxon; scotland; scots; sir; slain; son; sword; thomas; time; town; troops; william; york; yorkshire cache: 44852.txt plain text: 44852.txt item: #20 of 29 id: 4534 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 date: None words: 69339 flesch: 79 summary: 'It'll be manners t' ask some one as knows how to sing. There's one lying outside t' bar!' keywords: bell; cloak; corney; coulson; cousin; daniel; day; days; door; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; head; heart; hepburn; hester; home; house; kinraid; know; lass; life; like; look; man; men; mind; molly; monkshaven; mother; mrs; night; niver; philip; place; robson; round; sea; set; shop; sylvia; tell; thee; think; thought; time; way; words; work; year cache: 4534.txt plain text: 4534.txt item: #21 of 29 id: 4535 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 date: None words: 64368 flesch: 81 summary: An' I don't believe a word about Annie Coulson; an' I'm not going to suffer yo' to come wi' yo'r tales to me; say 'em out to his face, and hear what he'll say to yo'.' 'Sylvie, Sylvie,' cried poor Philip, as his offended cousin rushed past him, and upstairs to her little bedroom, where he heard the sound of the wooden bolt flying into its place. 'And when will he go?' asked poor Philip, in dismay. keywords: bell; come; coulson; daniel; day; dead; door; eyes; face; father; good; half; head; heart; hepburn; house; kester; kinraid; left; little; look; love; man; men; mind; monkshaven; mother; night; niver; philip; place; poor; robson; said; sylvia; thee; think; thought; thy; time; way; words cache: 4535.txt plain text: 4535.txt item: #22 of 29 id: 4536 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 date: None words: 62775 flesch: 81 summary: Poor little Sylvia! This life is full o' changes o' one kind or another; them that's dead is alive; and as for poor Philip, though he was alive, he looked fitter to be dead when he came into t' shop o' Wednesday morning. keywords: baby; bella; child; come; day; days; door; eyes; face; good; hand; heart; hester; home; house; husband; kinraid; know; lay; left; life; little; look; love; man; mother; mrs; night; niver; philip; place; said; shop; sylvia; thee; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words cache: 4536.txt plain text: 4536.txt item: #23 of 29 id: 4537 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Sylvia's Lovers — Complete date: None words: 196328 flesch: 80 summary: Some instinct told Philip that if the specksioneer had only flirted with too many, yet that for Sylvia Robson his love was true and vehement. It was in the form of an assertion, but was said in the tone of a question, and as such Philip replied to it. keywords: alice; bed; bell; bit; business; charley; child; come; coming; coulson; cousin; daniel; day; days; dead; deal; door; evening; eyes; face; far; father; fire; foster; gang; good; half; hand; haytersbank; head; heart; hepburn; hester; home; house; husband; jeremiah; kind; kinraid; know; lass; lay; left; let; life; like; little; look; love; making; man; men; mind; molly; moment; monkshaven; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; niver; people; philip; philip hepburn; place; poor; press; pretty; robson; room; rose; round; said; sea; set; shop; spoke; sylvia; tell; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; town; way; wife; wish; woman; words; work; year cache: 4537.txt plain text: 4537.txt item: #24 of 29 id: 46002 author: Stawell, Rodolph, Mrs. title: Motor tours in Yorkshire date: None words: 43685 flesch: 71 summary: So many men were drent and drowned that day in the Cock that their comrades, it is said, crossed the stream on their dead bodies, and even the river Wharfe was red with blood. Such are a hundred Yorkshire villages and little towns. keywords: abbey; away; beauty; bolton; bridge; castle; century; church; country; cross; day; edward; fountains; good; henry; hill; house; illustration; john; king; left; life; lord; man; mary; miles; monks; moors; north; pass; place; queen; richard; richmond; right; river; road; sir; son; stone; time; tower; town; trees; valley; village; walls; years; york cache: 46002.txt plain text: 46002.txt item: #25 of 29 id: 47386 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events date: None words: 134282 flesch: 75 summary: During the last few years of his life Jemmy was confined a great deal within doors, and the neighbouring gentry used very often to visit him for the sake of old times; but he never would tolerate a visit from a clergyman. But old men sleep lightly. keywords: account; bateman; bed; blind; body; bridge; brother; captain; child; church; clothes; come; cousin; day; days; dead; death; door; east; end; evening; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fire; following; friend; gentleman; god; good; greenwood; half; hand; having; head; home; house; husband; james; jemmy; john; know; lady; lay; leeds; left; letter; life; little; london; lord; man; martin; mary; men; metcalf; mike; miles; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; near; nicholson; night; o'clock; people; person; place; purpose; return; road; room; round; saw; set; thee; thought; thy; time; water; way; wife; william; window; woman; work; wroe; years; york; yorkshire; young cache: 47386.txt plain text: 47386.txt item: #26 of 29 id: 54030 author: Walker, George Henry title: Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale date: None words: 83129 flesch: 90 summary: Well? Why it wer' just on six when Mr. Horsfall wer' shot on Crosland Moor, an' if George were i' th' White Hart at hauf past six, it stan's to reason he couldn't be shootin' folk on th' moor at six. Womersley's a decent man, and his word will have weight, said my father with relief in his tone. It 'ad seem him better if he washed th' powder out o' his own yed i'stead o' puttin' stuff an' nonsense into other folks! If yo mun talk your own business ovver wi' all th' countryside why can't you go to Mr. Webster, as is well known to ha' more o' th' root o' keywords: 'em; aye; bamforth; ben; ben o; bit; booth; church; come; day; days; door; eyes; face; faith; father; folk; george; good; hand; head; heart; home; horsfall; house; jack; john; little; long; look; love; man; martha; mary; mellor; men; mill; mind; mother; nay; night; noan; nowt; poor; room; set; siah; soldier; talk; tell; tha; thee; thi; things; thought; time; voice; walker; way; webster; wer; woman; word; work; yo'r cache: 54030.txt plain text: 54030.txt item: #27 of 29 id: 54121 author: Sykes, D. F. E. title: Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood date: None words: 87468 flesch: 85 summary: And is that all you have to tell me, Mr. Tom Tinker? No, Dorothy, I have another secret to tell you. If you mean Mr. Tom Pinder, of Co-op Mill, Hinchliff Mill, I think I may go so far as to say I do. keywords: abaat; aleck; aye; ben; betty; black; business; chapel; child; come; course; day; days; door; dorothy; eyes; face; father; folk; garside; gate; god; good; hand; hannah; head; heart; holmfirth; home; house; jabez; jack; jones; lad; law; left; life; like; little; look; lucy; man; master; men; mill; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; nehemiah; night; nooan; pinder; poor; redfearn; room; schofield; set; sunday; sykes; talk; think; thought; time; tinker; tom; tom o; tom pinder; uncle; valley; village; want; water; way; weel; wer; wilberlee; wimpenny; woman; word; work; yo'r; young cache: 54121.txt plain text: 54121.txt item: #28 of 29 id: 63476 author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell title: A Man of the Moors date: None words: 100115 flesch: 89 summary: Gabriel Hirst sent his self-communing to the winds as he saw Griff--old Griff--standing on the top of the coach, his head somewhere up about the level of the Spotted Heifer's chimney-stacks, his face one comprehensive laugh of satisfaction. He had but one thought now--he might save old Griff, if that clear drop of fifty feet had not broken his neck. keywords: bit; come; coming; crag; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; friend; gabriel; girl; god; good; greta; griff; griff lomax; half; hand; head; heart; hirst; home; house; joe; kate; lad; left; life; ling; little; lomax; look; love; man; marshcotes; mind; moor; morning; mother; mrs; night; preacher; roddick; round; set; strangeways; tell; tha; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; voice; want; war; way; wife; woman; word cache: 63476.txt plain text: 63476.txt item: #29 of 29 id: 9973 author: Home, Gordon title: Yorkshire date: None words: 61116 flesch: 64 summary: So that we, who would learn something of this region, must make the journey on foot; for a bicycle would be an encumbrance when crossing the heather, and there are many places where a horse would be a source of danger. The predominant note is the red of the chimneys and roofs and stray patches of brickwork, but the walls that go down to the water's edge are green below and full of rich browns above, and in many places the sides of the cottages are coloured with an ochre wash, while above them all the top of the cliff appears covered with grass. keywords: abbey; beck; bridge; building; castle; century; chapter; church; cliffs; close; country; cross; dale; day; distance; doubt; earl; east; end; england; english; feet; great; green; head; henry; high; hills; house; left; light; little; lord; market; men; miles; moor; nave; new; norman; north; period; place; railway; richmond; river; road; sea; sides; sir; south; steep; stone; street; time; tower; town; trees; valley; view; village; walls; water; way; west; whitby; work; years; yorkshire cache: 9973.txt plain text: 9973.txt