item: #1 of 29 id: 11901 author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title: Tommy and Grizel date: None words: 126974 flesch: 90 summary: Let us hasten into Marylebone before little Tommy arrives and Pym is swallowed like an oyster. Hide there again, Grizel, he cried to her, little Tommy cried to her, Stroke the Jacobite, her captain, cried to the Lady Griselda; and he disappeared, and presently marched down the path with an imaginary Elspeth by his side. keywords: aaron; arms; book; boy; corp; david; day; dear; doctor; door; elspeth; eyes; face; gavinia; girl; good; grizel; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; know; lady; life; little; look; love; man; mind; moment; mrs; pym; right; room; sandys; saying; sure; things; think; thought; time; tommy; want; way; woman; words cache: 11901.txt plain text: 11901.txt item: #2 of 29 id: 12449 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago date: None words: 134100 flesch: 77 summary: This is Mistress Anne Woodford, sir, said Charles, the next moment. For the rest, Mistress Anne Woodford was my sister's friend and playfellow from early childhood. keywords: anne; anne woodford; archfield; black; boy; brother; charles; child; court; daughter; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; family; father; fear; fellowes; french; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; king; ladies; lady; leave; life; little; look; looking; lucy; madam; major; man; master; mind; miss; mistress; mistress anne; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nay; night; oakshott; peregrine; philip; place; poor; present; prince; queen; rest; round; sedley; sir; sir peregrine; son; spirit; tell; thought; time; tis; uncle; voice; way; wife; woodford; words; years; young cache: 12449.txt plain text: 12449.txt item: #3 of 29 id: 13183 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince date: None words: 154074 flesch: 78 summary: At the first glimpse of coming day they were to start forth for the south, and by hard riding might hope to reach Saut by the evening of the second day. I trow that many men would smile at me were I to put my thoughts into words, for it seems to me that for us who call ourselves after the sacred name of Christ there can be no higher or holier service than the service in which He himself embarked, and bid His followers do likewise -- feeding the hungry, ministering to the sick, cheering the desolate, binding up the broken heart, being eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. keywords: arms; away; basildene; black; boy; brocas; brother; day; days; dead; death; england; english; ere; eyes; face; father; fear; french; gaston; good; great; hand; hast; head; heart; home; house; joan; john; king; lady; left; life; light; little; look; lord; love; man; master; men; moment; mother; place; power; prince; raymond; raymond de; roger; round; sanghurst; save; scarce; set; sir; son; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; walls; words; world; years; young cache: 13183.txt plain text: 13183.txt item: #4 of 29 id: 13234 author: Pansy title: Ester Ried date: None words: 73679 flesch: 81 summary: Long looked for, come at last! and Sadie's clear voice rang through the dining-room, and a moment after that young lady herself reached the pump-room, holding up for Ester's view a dainty envelope, directed in a yet more dainty hand to Miss Ester Ried. _How_ Ester laughed! keywords: abbie; anden; chapter; christian; come; day; dear; doctor; douglass; ester; eyes; face; god; good; heart; home; julia; life; look; man; matter; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; ralph; ried; room; sadie; thing; thought; time; van; voice; way; words cache: 13234.txt plain text: 13234.txt item: #5 of 29 id: 13840 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London date: None words: 88413 flesch: 81 summary: Gertrude had heard stories of ghastly robberies, committed during these past days in plague-stricken houses, which were entered by worthless vagabonds, when all within were dead or helpless, and from which vantage ground they had gained access into other houses, and had sometimes brought the dread infection with them. We have done what we could; and we cannot be surrounded as are other houses. keywords: boys; builder; child; city; day; days; dead; death; dinah; door; dorcas; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; frederick; gertrude; god; good; harmer; home; house; joseph; lady; life; little; lord; man; master; men; mother; night; peril; plague; poor; reuben; scrope; sick; think; thou; thought; time; way; wife cache: 13840.txt plain text: 13840.txt item: #6 of 29 id: 15958 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America date: None words: 130843 flesch: 82 summary: The Indians are attacking white men--English men. It was of such men as these that the best soldiers were made in the days that were at hand; although the military leaders, especially if they came from the Old World with its code of civilized warfare, were slow to recognize it. keywords: brother; camp; charles; city; colin; corinne; day; days; drucour; enemy; england; english; eyes; face; fire; foe; forest; fort; france; french; friends; fritz; general; good; guns; hand; heart; humphrey; indians; julian; left; life; look; madame; man; men; moment; montcalm; news; night; place; quebec; rangers; river; rogers; ships; soldiers; sound; stark; tell; thought; time; town; war; way; white; wolfe; words; work cache: 15958.txt plain text: 15958.txt item: #7 of 29 id: 15961 author: Hall, S. C., Mrs. title: Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales date: None words: 44299 flesch: 72 summary: I cannot unsay what I have said, little Rose, he answered; I cannot; it is better for her to play without heart, as you call it, than to have that heart too highly uplifted by play. Look, lady! said little Rose; father put that stone over that grave to please mother. keywords: adams; bond; brother; charles; children; cousin; dear; edward; father; girl; god; good; heart; helen; lady; life; look; love; mabel; man; mary; mind; mother; mrs; poor; room; rose; sarah; thought; time; woman; world; years cache: 15961.txt plain text: 15961.txt item: #8 of 29 id: 18868 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman date: None words: 140511 flesch: 82 summary: Other men would do to purchase animals from the Arabs, or to receive them at the ports when they were brought over from Spain and Italy; but it required a variety of qualities, difficult to obtain in the same person, to act as agent with the army. White men could not have supported it for an hour, but these blacks and Egyptians had a hundred miles to go, and the steamers could not make more than a knot an hour against the rapid stream, now swollen to its fullest. keywords: abu; army; battle; british; camp; colonel; course; day; days; dervishes; doubt; egyptian; enemy; father; fight; fire; force; general; good; gregory; half; hilliard; hope; horses; hour; house; khalifa; left; life; mahmud; man; men; miles; morning; native; officers; omdurman; place; position; river; saw; sir; sirdar; soudanese; time; town; troops; water; way; white; work; years; zaki cache: 18868.txt plain text: 18868.txt item: #9 of 29 id: 19714 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War date: None words: 125134 flesch: 78 summary: The men are good men, the king said, and if I had Keith and Schwerin by my side, I should feel more hopeful; but they are gone, and there are none to fill their places. He knew that your majesty and the whole army would be watching him, sire, Keith said quietly; and I fancy that, under such circumstances, few cavalry men would draw rein till they had done something worthy of themselves. keywords: army; austrians; battle; camp; cavalry; count; course; daun; day; days; dresden; drummond; fergus; fire; force; frederick; french; general; good; half; hand; horse; hour; karl; keith; king; left; lindsay; major; man; marshal; men; miles; morning; news; officers; order; place; position; prince; prussian; right; round; service; sir; time; town; troops; war; way; work; wounded cache: 19714.txt plain text: 19714.txt item: #10 of 29 id: 20524 author: Gaylord, Glance title: Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught date: None words: 58303 flesch: 87 summary: _To Noll Trafford_: Come; you are welcome. Noll Trafford stood leaning against a great post and looking after the lawyer's carriage with a slight choking in his throat, till the skipper's gruff Get aboard here, lad! warned him that the Gull was about to cast off. keywords: boy; culm; day; dirk; eyes; face; fur; good; gull; hagar; heart; house; know; lad; life; look; lord; man; ned; night; noll; noll trafford; papa; richard; rock; sand; sea; skipper; thought; time; trafford; uncle; uncle richard; way; work; yer cache: 20524.txt plain text: 20524.txt item: #11 of 29 id: 20641 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti date: None words: 120332 flesch: 80 summary: Other men shirked it, but to him there was something delightful to stand there almost alone, rifle in hand, watching the expanse of snow for a moving figure. He feared to excite the jealousy of his comrades and, though there were no signs of this, he felt that his promotion caused some difference in the manner of other men towards him. keywords: advance; attack; baggage; bullen; camp; captain; colonel; column; company; country; course; day; days; doubt; enemy; fighting; fire; force; fort; general; good; guard; guns; half; hallett; hill; left; lisle; man; march; men; miles; morning; native; night; officers; party; pass; place; position; regiment; river; round; shot; sir; time; troops; valley; village; way; work; wounded; yards cache: 20641.txt plain text: 20641.txt item: #12 of 29 id: 27251 author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe title: "Some Say"; Neighbours in Cyrus date: None words: 16076 flesch: 88 summary: She and Miss Peace were the rival seamstresses of Cyrus Village; that is, they would have been rivals, if Mrs. Means had had her way; but rivalry was impossible where Anne Peace was one of the parties. Miss Peace was a little plump, partridge-like woman, with lovely waving brown hair, and twinkling brown eyes. keywords: anne; children; david; eyes; good; jenny; lindsay; means; mellen; minister; miss; mother; mrs; peace; rose; thought; time cache: 27251.txt plain text: 27251.txt item: #13 of 29 id: 28887 author: Munsey, Frank Andrew title: The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street date: None words: 56494 flesch: 85 summary: When talking with young Bob Hunter, the newsboy, he had intimated that he might be glad even to get a chance to sell papers; but it must be remembered that he had not at that time seen a New York paper, and knew nothing of the tremendous demand for help. From this view of the boy it is plain that he was sincere in thanking young Bob Hunter, a little later, for the newsboy's generous offer to take him into the paper trade. keywords: banker; bob; bob hunter; boy; boys; business; city; course; detective; felix; flannery; goldwin; good; gunwagner; herbert; herbert randolph; look; man; money; mortimer; new; randolph; right; street; thought; tom; tom flannery; want; way; work; young cache: 28887.txt plain text: 28887.txt item: #14 of 29 id: 31128 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Facing Death; Or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines date: None words: 73999 flesch: 84 summary: In a short time I hope that the Vaughan pit will be pumped out and at work again, and when it is, Mr. Jack Simpson will be its manager! So young Jack Simpson led a dual life, spending twenty-six days of each month as a pit lad, speaking a dialect nearly as broad as that of his fellows, and two as a quiet and unobtrusive young student in the pleasant home of Mr. Merton. keywords: 'em; bill; boy; brook; day; girls; good; haden; harry; head; house; jack; jack simpson; know; lad; lads; life; look; man; men; merton; mother; mrs; nelly; night; pit; place; round; school; shaft; sir; stokebridge; thou; thought; time; vaughan; water; way; work; years cache: 31128.txt plain text: 31128.txt item: #15 of 29 id: 34494 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China date: None words: 104468 flesch: 87 summary: The two soldiers smiled and listened and nodded their heads, before going out and fastening the door after them, leaving poor Stan with the determination upon him to wait patiently until the messages were delivered, but all the time with his heart sinking and his common-sense telling him that his present jailers had not grasped a word he said. Stan Lynn, by George Manville Fenn. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ STAN LYNN, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. keywords: big; blunt; boat; boy; chinese; close; come; coming; course; door; enemy; eyes; father; fellow; fire; good; half; hand; head; help; jeff; junk; know; lad; like; little; look; looking; lynn; making; man; manager; men; place; rifle; right; river; round; sir; stan; tell; thought; time; uncle; uncle jeff; velly; want; way; wharf; window; wing; young cache: 34494.txt plain text: 34494.txt item: #16 of 29 id: 37588 author: Stables, Gordon title: The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn date: None words: 81014 flesch: 88 summary: The storm had gone down almost as quickly as it had arisen, and sea and sky were blue and beautiful once again. Said James, as they all sat smoking there,-- Brother Halcott, my first words are these--and I'm an older man than either of you--We must not despair! We must not despair! repeated both his shipmates. When in action, on the field, or on the march, he had little time to think; but here, in this solitude, the seared conscience regained its softness, and in his thoughts by day and in his dreams at the dead hours o' night, Charles Halcott, rose visions of the terrible misery he brought on Europe, and the black and awful deeds he did in Egypt. keywords: admiral; babs; board; boat; bob; boy; captain; cave; come; dark; day; days; dear; eyes; face; father; fire; flower; going; gold; good; green; halcott; hand; head; high; hill; home; island; james; kind; left; life; like; look; man; men; miss; moment; nelda; night; poor; ransey; round; sailor; savages; scragley; sea; ship; tandy; time; tree; way; weathereye; white; wild; wind cache: 37588.txt plain text: 37588.txt item: #17 of 29 id: 38764 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti date: None words: 133300 flesch: 84 summary: But there is no doubt that the _Orpheus'_ men have had all the luck, and the big ships' turn won't come till we have war with France. Me had a little pickanniny and could 'teal away widout being noticed, and me went dere seberal times; den oberseer killed by anoder slabe, and de master, who was good man, he come out to enquire about it. keywords: better; blacks; board; brigantine; captain; come; course; crew; dat; day; deck; dey; dinah; doctor; doubt; duchesne; fight; fire; french; frigate; glover; good; guns; half; hands; hope; house; island; know; lieutenant; look; madame; man; men; monsieur; myra; nat; negroes; news; pirates; place; round; schooner; ship; sir; tell; thought; time; town; turnbull; war; water; way; white; work cache: 38764.txt plain text: 38764.txt item: #18 of 29 id: 41784 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Wyoming date: None words: 60560 flesch: 77 summary: Mr. Brainerd, who walked close to Fred Godfrey, said, in a low voice, Under Heaven, my son, you are our only hope; if you see a chance, no matter how desperate, take it. It is idle to attempt to picture the feelings of Jake Golcher, when he learned from Mr. Brainerd, one of the captives, that Fred Godfrey had escaped but a few minutes before. keywords: aunt; brainerd; dat; eva; father; fred; friends; fugitives; gimp; godfrey; golcher; good; gravity; gun; habakkuk; hand; head; indians; jake; little; maggie; man; mcewen; party; peggy; point; river; senecas; time; tory; way cache: 41784.txt plain text: 41784.txt item: #19 of 29 id: 42099 author: Castlemon, Harry title: Frank Before Vicksburg The Gun-Boat Series date: None words: 51327 flesch: 77 summary: As he approached, that individual appeared at the door, shaded his eyes with his hand, gazed at our hero for a moment, and then sprang out, and greeted him with-- Arrah, Master Frank! That's the way they always do, Master Frank; me old cap seems to give 'em a deal of throuble. keywords: board; boat; cabin; captain; colonel; day; deck; fight; fire; frank; gun; hands; head; house; left; man; manner; mate; men; moment; officer; order; place; rebels; river; room; ship; shot; sir; thing; time; vessel cache: 42099.txt plain text: 42099.txt item: #20 of 29 id: 43067 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers date: None words: 31905 flesch: 84 summary: I feel sure that mother has been killed, for the valley was full of Indians, and I know that there were but few men at home. I thought you must be a stranger even before I observed your dress, for street frays are not uncommon in this town, whereas in other ports there are scores of men ready for any villany, and few of my people would care to interfere in a fray in which they have no interest. keywords: antonio; chief; day; days; father; good; hacienda; half; horses; indians; juan; man; men; miles; river; sancho; señor; skins; time; valley; vaqueros; way cache: 43067.txt plain text: 43067.txt item: #21 of 29 id: 43806 author: Otis, James title: Sarah Dillard's Ride: A Story of the Carolinas in 1780 date: None words: 48500 flesch: 74 summary: When this command had been obeyed, and the animals tied with their heads together in groups of five, it was found that the man who held Evan prisoner was thus detailed to care for the animals, while his comrade belonged to the force which would advance. I do not mean that you are to go blindly ahead without taking due precautions; but it seldom pays at such times to map out an elaborate plan, for much depends upon accident. keywords: 12mo; boys; britishers; captain; cloth; colonel; dillard; ephraim; escape; evan; ferguson; force; hour; king; lads; life; major; men; moment; nathan; price; prisoners; ride; sarah; soldiers; sowers; spy; time; tory; trail; way; work; young cache: 43806.txt plain text: 43806.txt item: #22 of 29 id: 49529 author: Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald) title: General Nelson's Scout date: None words: 73375 flesch: 85 summary: When Mr. Shackelford saw Fred, he excused himself a moment, and calling him, said: Where in the world have you been, Fred? Tell him, replied Fred, rather indignantly, that Fred Shackelford wishes to see him. keywords: army; boy; boys; calhoun; captain; colonel; command; confederate; day; eyes; face; father; ferror; fred; general; good; grant; hand; horse; kentucky; lieutenant; louisville; major; man; men; moment; morning; nelson; officer; right; shackelford; south; state; thomas; thought; time; train; union; war; way cache: 49529.txt plain text: 49529.txt item: #23 of 29 id: 53345 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Dan, the Newsboy date: None words: 62067 flesch: 90 summary: What is your name, my boy? Dan, sir--Dan Mordaunt. After much search and many thwarted plans, at last Dan discovers the treasure and is the means of finding Harry's father. keywords: 12mo; althea; bill; book; boy; business; child; cloth; dan; day; dollars; donovan; girl; good; hartley; home; house; lady; look; man; mike; money; mordaunt; mother; mrs; new; pay; price; right; rogers; room; sir; story; street; talbot; thought; time; tom; want; way; work cache: 53345.txt plain text: 53345.txt item: #24 of 29 id: 55779 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War date: None words: 128748 flesch: 78 summary: They are good men and faithful to me, and I rely upon them as I could not do on any of my own tribesmen. I don't like the idea of killing the man, Azim. You killed many men at Herat. keywords: 8vo; afghan; akbar; angus; army; attack; azim; british; burnes; cabul; camp; candahar; chief; city; country; course; crown; day; days; dost; doubt; edges; enemy; english; felt; fire; force; general; good; henty; herat; horses; illustrations; india; journey; khan; left; little; macnaghten; mahomed; man; men; morning; native; news; officers; page; party; pass; passes; people; persian; place; position; pottinger; round; shah; sir; story; thought; time; town; troops; way; work cache: 55779.txt plain text: 55779.txt item: #25 of 29 id: 59404 author: Ludwig, Edward W. title: The Drivers date: None words: 4891 flesch: 91 summary: You'll be staying home for your birthday, won't you, Tom? Tom Rogers shook his head. If the medics didn't understand, how could Harry Hayden?_ Tom licked his lips. keywords: boy; dad; driving; harry; hayden; hornet; miles; right; tom; white cache: 59404.txt plain text: 59404.txt item: #26 of 29 id: 5970 author: Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan title: Lovey Mary date: None words: 22669 flesch: 91 summary: When Lovey Mary stumbled over the Hazy threshold with the sleeping Tommy and the duck in her arms, Miss Hazy fluttered about in dismay. Lovey Mary crushed the letter in her hand; she would not give it to Miss Hazy. keywords: asia; bell; cabbage; come; eyes; fer; girl; git; good; hand; hazy; home; house; jes; kate; lovey mary; mary; miss; mrs; patch; right; time; tommy; way; wiggs cache: 5970.txt plain text: 5970.txt item: #27 of 29 id: 60633 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Wolf Ear the Indian: A story of the great uprising of 1890-91 date: None words: 27833 flesch: 81 summary: How do you do? asked the Ogalalla, extending his hand, which Brinton took with a smile, and the reproving remark-- I did not expect such a welcome from you, Wolf Ear. I did not know it was you, good friend Brinton. Brinton said-- You know where we live, Wolf Ear; I have set out to ride to the reservation to learn whether it is safe to stay where we are: what is your judgment in the matter? An indefinable expression passed over the broad face before him. keywords: bank; brinton; ear; edith; father; head; horse; hostiles; indian; jack; kingsland; left; moment; pony; saddle; time; way; wolf; youth cache: 60633.txt plain text: 60633.txt item: #28 of 29 id: 61767 author: Castlemon, Harry title: Winged Arrow's Medicine; Or, The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney date: None words: 51024 flesch: 84 summary: He rode over the field, taking care that his horse did not step upon any of the dead men, looking in vain for Guy Preston, for of course he did not know that Guy, securely sheltered by the picket tower, had seen almost as much of the fight as he had himself. THE SECOND LIEUTENANT Guy Preston was a young and beardless boy fresh from The Point. keywords: arrow; colonel; come; cyrus; fort; good; guy; hand; horse; indian; left; letter; man; men; officer; preston; right; sioux; sir; soldiers; thing; thought; time; want; way cache: 61767.txt plain text: 61767.txt item: #29 of 29 id: 9968 author: Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) title: The Young Woodsman; Or, Life in the Forests of Canada date: None words: 31889 flesch: 75 summary: Mr. Stewart had promised Frank that he would take care to put him under a foreman who would treat him well; and when one evening he was called into the office and introduced to a tall, powerful, grave-looking man, with heavy brown beard and deep voice, Mr. Stewart said,-- Here is Frank Kingston, Dan; Jack's only son, you know. All these men had to be fed three times a day, and almost insatiable were their appetites, as poor Frank had no chance to forget. keywords: baptiste; boy; camp; damase; day; foreman; frank; good; half; heart; home; johnston; kingston; life; logs; men; mind; mother; mrs; right; river; shanty; snow; time; way; winter; work cache: 9968.txt plain text: 9968.txt