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1. ainsworth-auriol-1850
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-auriol-1850
   • date: 1850
   • words: 51086
   • flesch: 83
   • summary: Beg pardin, sir, said the fellow, touching his hat, but ain't your name Mr. Auriol Darcy? It is, replied Auriol, regarding him fixedly. Do you allude to Mr. Auriol Darcy? cried Thorneycroft.
   • keywords: auriol; black; cried; dog; door; dwarf; ebba; eyes; ginger; hand; head; house; iron; like; little; long; man; merchant; night; old; parr; place; rougemont; sandman; sir; street; thorneycroft; time; tinker; young
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2. ainsworth-boscobel-1871
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-boscobel-1871
   • date: 1871
   • words: 157123
   • flesch: 80
   • summary: Taking Charles aside, he said to him in a low earnest tone: I will not waste time in professions of loyalty and devotion, nor can I be of any present use to your majesty. His ambition being boundless, nothing less than sovereign power would satisfy him, though he affected to disdain the title of king, being perfectly aware that the Royalists would never accept a regicide as king.
   • keywords: bridge; captain; careless; charles; city; colonel; cromwell; dame; day; dick; enemy; father; found; general; good; great; hill; house; jane; juliana; king; lane; large; left; liege; like; little; long; look; lord; majesty; man; men; moment; near; night; observed; old; party; penderel; place; room; sir; sire; thou; time; troopers; way; william; worcester; wyndham; young
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3. ainsworth-bourbon-1866
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-bourbon-1866
   • date: 1866
   • words: 119233
   • flesch: 77
   • summary: You know that the affection I bear for you is as great as that which I formerly entertained for my brother, Franois de Bourbon, Duke de Chtelleraut, who fell by my side at Marignan. Swear, therefore, on this fragment of the true cross, he added, holding towards him a reliquary whieh hung by a gold chain from his neek--swear upon this, know that the affection I bear for you is as great as that which I formerly entertained for my brother, Franois de Bourbon, Duke de Chtelleraut, who fell by my side at Marignan.
   • keywords: army; bayard; bonnivet; bourbon; camp; castle; chapter; charles; city; constable; cried; day; de bourbon; duchess; duke; emperor; france; franois; french; good; great; guard; head; highness; hugues; king; large; like; long; majesty; marcelline; marseilles; men; milan; moment; pescara; place; pomperant; saint; sire; soldiers; time; walls; warthy; way
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4. ainsworth-chetwynd-1876
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-chetwynd-1876
   • date: 1876
   • words: 96055
   • flesch: 84
   • summary: Sir Bridgnorth Charlton called on my lady; but, as she wasn't at home at the time, he conferred with me, and inquired whether I knew anything about Mr. Chetwynd Calverley. I can't tell what he wants, or why he began by asking about Mr. Chetwynd Calverley.
   • keywords: bridgnorth; calverley; captain; chetwynd; courland; cried; danvers; emmeline; good; great; hartley; lady; laura; like; lord; mildred; mrs; norris; replied; room; rose; said; sir; sir bridgnorth; tankard; thicknesse; think; time; tom; walter; young
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5. ainsworth-fawkes-1841
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-fawkes-1841
   • date: 1841
   • words: 160948
   • flesch: 76
   • summary: With loud shouts, Catesby and Guy Fawkes galloped towards the scene of strife. He had proceeded about a couple of miles along a cross-road leading to Nantwich, which he learnt from some cottagers was the route taken by the party before him, when he heard the tramp of a horse in the rear, and, turning at the sound, beheld Guy Fawkes.
   • keywords: catesby; chamber; chetham; conspirators; continued; cried; daughter; dee; doctor; door; earl; father; fawkes; garnet; great; guy fawkes; hall; hand; heaven; house; humphrey; ipgreve; left; life; long; lord; man; moment; mounteagle; night; observed; oldcorne; party; place; priest; radcliffe; room; salisbury; set; sir; small; son; thought; time; tone; topcliffe; tower; tresham; viviana; voice; way; young
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6. ainsworth-jack-1839
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-jack-1839
   • date: 1839
   • words: 156184
   • flesch: 81
   • summary: On an empty cask, which served him for a chair, and opposite Jack Sheppard, whose rapid progress in depravity afforded him the highest satisfaction, sat Blueskin, encouraging the two women in their odious task, and plying his victim with the glass as often as he deemed it expedient to do so. If Jack Sheppard sups with Mr. Kneebone, I'll make one of the party.
   • keywords: better; blueskin; carpenter; child; continued; cried; darrell; day; dear; door; exclaimed; eyes; father; good; great; hand; head; house; jack; jack sheppard; jonathan; jonathan wild; kneebone; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; master; moment; mother; mrs; newgate; night; observed; old; open; place; poor; quilt; replied; returned; room; rowland; sir; son; tell; thames; thief; thought; time; tone; trenchard; voice; way; widow; wild; winifred; wood
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7. ainsworth-manchester-1873
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-manchester-1873
   • date: 1873
   • words: 107855
   • flesch: 79
   • summary: But what of young Atherton Legh? I hope there is no chance of his falling into the hands of the enemy. Say that you will belong to the Manchester Regiment, Mr. Atherton Legh--say the word before these gentlemen--and I engage that you shall have a commission.
   • keywords: atherton; beppy; butler; byrom; captain; chapter; charles; colonel; constance; cried; duke; father; good; great; helen; highness; house; jemmy; legh; lord; manchester; men; monica; old; place; prince; rawcliffe; regiment; richard; room; royal; sergeant; sir; sir richard; time; townley; young
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8. ainsworth-pole-1863
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-pole-1863
   • date: 1863
   • words: 130213
   • flesch: 76
   • summary: That will follow immediately on the arrival of Cardinal Pole, said Philip. But if Philip was hated even by the Romanists, who after all were as true lovers of their country as those of the adverse sect, and equally hostile to the Spaniards, the universal feeling was favourable to Cardinal Pole, whose benevolent countenance pleased the Reformers, as much as his dignified deportment commanded their respect.
   • keywords: bishop; bonner; cardinal; carver; church; clinton; constance; cried; day; derrick; eminence; father; gardiner; gate; good; great; hand; head; heaven; henry; highness; king; large; life; like; little; long; lord; madam; majesty; man; mary; master; moment; night; observed; old; osbert; philip; place; pole; prince; queen; rodomont; royal; saint; sir; sire; southampton; thee; thou; time; tower; tyrrell; xit
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9. ainsworth-preston-1875
   • author: ainsworth
   • title: ainsworth-preston-1875
   • date: 1875
   • words: 94544
   • flesch: 77
   • summary: Lord Derwentwater and Lord Widdrington, with both of whom Sir William Lorraine was well acquainted, though political and religious differences kept them apart--these two proud nobles, we say, quite unbent, and were excessively complaisant, inviting him to take wine, and conversing very familiarly with him. Having made these observations, the prince and the ladies with him returned to the basement court where they found Lord Derwentwater and Lord Widdrington.
   • keywords: brigadier; captain; castle; chapter; charles; colonel; countess; day; dorothy; earl; father; forster; general; general forster; good; great; king; lady; large; lord; lord derwentwater; lordship; mackintosh; majesty; men; oxburgh; party; place; prince; radclyffe; sir; time; town; widdrington; wills
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10. ainsworth-rookwood-1834
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-rookwood-1834
    • date: 1834
    • words: 150277
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: You shall be Sir Luke Rookwood, but the conditions must be mine to propose. Luke Bradley, or, as I find he now is, Sir Luke Rookwood, may come down more handsomely.
    • keywords: alan; away; barbara; bess; best; better; black; blood; body; bradley; brother; coates; continued; cried; dark; day; dead; death; deep; devil; dick; door; eleanor; eyes; face; father; good; great; ground; hand; head; heart; highwayman; hour; house; instant; jack; lady; lady rookwood; life; like; little; long; look; luke; luke rookwood; major; man; moment; mother; mowbray; mrs; night; old; peter; piers; place; priest; ranulph; road; rookwood; room; sexton; sir; sir luke; sir ranulph; small; sybil; tell; thought; thy; time; tis; titus; turpin; voice
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11. ainsworth-saint-1841
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-saint-1841
    • date: 1841
    • words: 196636
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: Leaving Leonard and his companions to the contemplation of this tremendous spectacle, we shall proceed to take a nearer view of its ravages. Let me go with you, dear Leonard.
    • keywords: amabel; apprentice; better; blaize; bloundel; cathedral; chowles; city; cried; daughter; day; doctor; door; earl; exclaimed; father; fire; good; great; grocer; hand; hodges; house; judith; king; large; left; leonard; like; little; long; look; lord; man; master; moment; mrs; near; night; nizza; observed; old; parravicin; paul; pillichody; place; plague; poor; rejoined; replied; returned; rochester; room; saint; sir; street; time; tone; way; young
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12. ainsworth-star-1854
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-star-1854
    • date: 1854
    • words: 137643
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: Now, Sir Jocelyn, continued Sir Giles, fiercely; you shall answer for this interference-- Hold! As Sir Giles fell from his horse, and lay stretched in perfect insensibility on the ground, a tremendous shout was raised, and Sir Jocelyn was as much applauded as if he had performed an extraordinary feat--so universally was the extortioner detested.
    • keywords: aveline; buckingham; chamber; charles; countess; court; cried; day; dick; door; eyes; fair; father; fleet; gillian; gondomar; good; great; hand; hatton; house; james; king; knight; lady; lake; lanyere; let; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord roos; luke; majesty; man; master; means; moment; mompesson; mounchensey; old; place; prince; roos; said; sir francis; sir giles; sir jocelyn; sir thomas; star; thou; thought; time; way; young; young sir
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13. ainsworth-tower-1840
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-tower-1840
    • date: 1840
    • words: 184987
    • flesch: 75
    • summary: Remaining at Cornhill for some hours, Wyat divided his forces into two detachments, and committed one to Captain Bret, whom he directed to proceed to the upper part of Tower Hill, along Lombard-street, Fenchurch-street, and Tower-street, and to place his men within the churchyard of All-Hallows Barking, and at the rear of the scaffold on Tower Hill; while with the other he himself marched down Gracechurch-street, along Thames-street, taking up a position before the Bulwark Gate. 9025 N the 10th of July, 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grand-master of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings, known as the Adelphi; and, at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted,from the adjoining hospital of the Savoy,the old palace of Bridewell, recently converted by Edward VI., at the instance of Ridley, bishop of London, into a house of correction,Baynard's Castle, the habitation of the Earl of Pembroke,the gates of London-bridge,and, lastly, from the batteries of the Tower,a gallant train issued from the southern gateway of the stately mansion abovenamed, and descended the stairs leading to the water's edge, where, appointed for their reception, was drawn up a squadron of fifty superbly-gilt barges,some decorated with banners and streamers,some with cloth-of-gold and arras, embroidered with the devices of the civic companies,others with innumerable silken pennons to which were attached small silver bells, making a goodly noise and a goodly sight as they waved in the wind,while others, reserved for the more important personages of the ceremony, were covered at the sides with shields gorgeously emblazoned with the armorial bearings of the different noblemen and honourable persons composing the privy council, amid which the cognizance of the Duke of Northumberland,a lion rampant, or, double queve, vert,appeared proudly conspicuous.
    • keywords: bedingfeld; chamber; cholmondeley; cicely; continued; council; courtenay; cried; dame; day; door; dudley; duke; earl; elizabeth; eyes; father; feet; fortress; gardiner; good; great; guilford; hand; head; henry; highness; husband; jane; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; madam; magog; majesty; man; mary; moment; nightgall; noailles; northumberland; observed; old; place; princess; prisoner; queen; queen jane; queen mary; renard; returned; right; room; royal; said; set; sir; stone; stood; thomas; time; tower; white; wyat; xit
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14. ainsworth-windsor-1843
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-windsor-1843
    • date: 1843
    • words: 117088
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: I was serving-man to your father, good Sir Henry Wyat, before you, and I love you as a son, while I honour you as a master. Struck by the extreme beauty of the spot, for that it seemed exceeding profitable and commodious, because situate so near the Thames, the wood fit for game, and many other particulars lying there, meet and necessary for kings--yea, a place very convenient for his reception, William the Conqueror prevailed upon Abbot Edwin to accept in exchange for it Wakendune and Feringes, in Essex, together with three other tenements in Colchester; and having obtained possession of the coveted hill, he forthwith began to erect a castle upon it--occupying a space of about half a hide of land.
    • keywords: anne; boleyn; cardinal; castle; chamber; day; door; duke; earl; fair; fenwolf; forest; garter; george; good; great; hand; head; henry; herne; hunter; king; lady; like; long; love; mabel; majesty; man; moment; near; norris; old; queen; richmond; royal; said; sir; suffolk; surrey; thomas; thou; time; tower; tree; tristram; way; windsor; wolsey; wyat
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15. ainsworth-witches-1849
    • author: ainsworth
    • title: ainsworth-witches-1849
    • date: 1849
    • words: 234110
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: The great door to which these steps conducted stood wide open, and before it, on the upper landing-place, were collected Lady Assheton, Mistress Braddyll, Mistress Nicholas Assheton, and some other dames, laughing and conversing together. A shout that made the rafters ring again followed the address, after which a couranto was called for by the host, who, taking Mistress Nicholas Assheton by the hand, led her into the body of the hall, whither he was speedily followed by the other guests, who had found partners in like manner.
    • keywords: abbey; abbot; alizon; assheton; away; bess; better; black; boh; chattox; child; church; come; cried; dark; daughter; day; demdike; device; door; dorothy; elizabeth; exclaimed; eyes; followed; forest; forth; girl; good; great; hag; half; hand; having; head; hill; house; james; jem; jennet; john; king; lady; large; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; master; mistress; mistress nutter; moment; mother; nance; near; nicholas; night; nowell; nutter; observed; old; paslew; pendle; place; poor; potts; ralph; richard; richard assheton; roger; room; round; set; sir; sir richard; squire; sure; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tower; voice; way; whalley; witch; woman; young
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16. aloe-black-1890
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-black-1890
    • date: 1890
    • words: 52337
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: Our salvation is free; Mr. Lawrence pressed that point on us, observed Io Coldstream. What widow? asked Io Coldstream.
    • keywords: byu; chaplain; coldstream; day; doctor; god; good; hand; husband; karen; lawrence; like; little; love; man; moulmein; observed; oscar; oscar coldstream; pinfold; poor; reply; thah; thought; thud; way; wife; young
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17. aloe-bride-1889
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-bride-1889
    • date: 1889
    • words: 51074
    • flesch: 80
    • summary: I suppose that missionaries must not let their hearts cling to anything earthly, thought poor Alicia. We must have patience, dear Alicia, and try to remove them so gently that we shall not gall the poor wrists that have worn them so long.
    • keywords: alicia; day; english; eyes; father; fort; good; hand; harold; hartley; krip; lady; life; like; little; miranda; mission; missionary; observed; poor; premi; reply; robin; thought; way; white; wife; work; young
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18. aloe-children-1867
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-children-1867
    • date: 1867
    • words: 37622
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: After Mrs. Temple had started for church, Lucius, Agnes and Amy took up their Bibles to search in them for types, while little Elsie amused herself with a book of Scripture pictures. Lucius, a boy more than twelve years of age, and therefore a great deal too old to have made so foolish a use of his knife, stood with a vexed expression on his face, looking at his poor sister, who, in the violence of her distressing cough, had to grasp the table to keep herself from falling; Amy, her kind younger sister had run to support her; while Dora and little Elsie, who had both the same complaint, though in a milder form than their sister, coughed with her in chorus.
    • keywords: agnes; amy; children; dora; elsie; god; little; lord; lucius; mamma; model; mother; mrs; observed; sin; tabernacle; temple; thought; type; work
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19. aloe-claudia-1870
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-claudia-1870
    • date: 1870
    • words: 63093
    • flesch: 75
    • summary: PROJECTS. WONDER if this is all a strange dream ! exclaimed Claudia Hartswood aloud, after the dark veiled form bad vanished from her sight behind the shrubbery. So mused Claudia Hartswood, as she stood alone by her open window, looking forth on an extensive prospect of wood and dale, bathed in the glowing sunlight of June.
    • keywords: claudia; claudia hartswood; daughter; day; deceit; emma; eyes; father; friend; girl; heart; helena; know; lady; latham; lawyer; life; like; little; melton; mind; miss; mrs; nun; observed; papa; room; thought; time; way; work; young
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20. aloe-crown-1863
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-crown-1863
    • date: 1863
    • words: 43478
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: Little Nelly, though weak and lame, was the first of the children to come down to the parlour in the morning to help her mother, Dame Desley, to lay the table for breakfast. Little Nelly was enraptured at the sound.
    • keywords: cottage; cried; day; dear; dick; duty; folly; good; head; learning; little; lubin; matty; miss; mother; nelly; poor; pride; sister; time; work
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21. aloe-flora-1858
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-flora-1858
    • date: 1858
    • words: 36369
    • flesch: 75
    • summary: What dreadful children! said poor Flora to herself; they seem more unmanageable, more uncared for, both as regards their physical and moral condition, than the poorest cottager in the village! My dear sister! exclaimed Flora, in a tone of sympathy, again pressing to the carriage, and leaning forward into it to greet the afflicted widow.
    • keywords: ada; amery; children; day; dear; emma; flora; god; hand; heart; lady; life; little; love; mind; mother; mrs; old; poor; room; thy; time; vernon
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22. aloe-haunted-1876
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-haunted-1876
    • date: 1876
    • words: 71203
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: There are a fearful number of E's, said poor Emmie, very gravely surveying the paper. I cannot visit in cottages, said poor Emmie with something like a gasp, as she passed through the gateway and then stopped, as if she now felt herself safe.
    • keywords: brother; bruce; bruce trevor; captain; court; cried; door; emmie; father; good; harper; house; lady; like; little; man; mind; miss; mrs; myst; night; observed; place; poor; room; sister; susan; thought; time; trevor; vibert; way; young
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23. aloe-idols-1863
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-idols-1863
    • date: 1863
    • words: 55259
    • flesch: 72
    • summary: She could not remember whom Lord Greenallen's sister had married, or what had been the family name of the Duchess of Dinorben, and was ever referring for information to poor Clemence, who had never looked into a peerage in her life. About a week after her arrival in Belgrave Square we will glance again at Clemence Effingham.
    • keywords: arabella; captain; clemence; clemence effingham; day; dear; effingham; hand; heart; house; husband; lady; lady selina; life; like; little; long; louisa; love; man; mind; mother; mrs; old; room; step; thought; time; vincent; wife; words; world; young
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24. aloe-pride-1860
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-pride-1860
    • date: 1860
    • words: 61322
    • flesch: 72
    • summary: I think that I see Ida and Mabel Aumerle crossing the road, said Cecilia, glancing out of the window. In a rustic arbour at the end of the garden, garlanded with honeysuckle and clematis, through the interstices of whose bright, young leaves came the smiling sunshine, and the soft breath of Spring, sat Ida and Mabel Aumerle.
    • keywords: annabella; augustine; aumerle; balloon; bardon; cecilia; countess; dashleigh; day; doctor; earl; eyes; father; good; hand; heart; husband; ida; lady; like; little; long; mabel; man; mind; mrs; poor; pride; room; spirit; thought; time; vicar; wife; world; young
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25. aloe-seville-1875
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-seville-1875
    • date: 1875
    • words: 60960
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: Is this a prison or a palace? was the mental inquiry of Lucius, as, after again asking his way to the house of Don Alcala de Aguilera, he reached the stately building, which was one of the numerous relics which the Moors have left behind them in Seville. The torrent of abuse which the old dame launched after the retreating hawker, was suddenly stopped by the question of Lucius,---- Is Don Alcala de Aguilera within? Old Teresa was startled and annoyed at the preceding colloquy having been overheard by a stranger.
    • keywords: aguilera; alcala; alcala de; antonia; brother; cavalier; chico; de aguilera; donna; donna inez; friend; hand; house; inez; inez de; lady; lepine; life; like; little; long; lucius; man; old; passmore; place; seville; spain; spaniard; spanish; teresa; time; way; young
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26. aloe-sheer-1870
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-sheer-1870
    • date: 1870
    • words: 74492
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: What was the text of the sermon? repeated Ned Franks, addressing himself again to young Sims. And, as for these pious ways of his, which made me so mad against him, I only wish I could follow them myself, and have the same lookout for another world as honest Ned Franks and his wife.
    • keywords: boys; colme; day; franks; god; good; heart; home; husband; like; little; lord; man; master; mrs; nancy; ned; ned franks; norah; old; persis; poor; sands; school; sir; sophy; stone; thought; time; way; wife; work; young
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27. aloe-wings-1855
    • author: aloe
    • title: aloe-wings-1855
    • date: 1855
    • words: 20870
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: Sheathe your tongue! was an expression which the gossipping little bee had heard more often than she liked, especially from the mouth of Waxywill. But if poor little Johnny should be somewhere in this wood, only think what he would suffer left out all night.
    • keywords: bee; child; cottage; hive; johnny; little; minnie; mother; mrs; polly; poor; silverwing; tom
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28. austen-emma-1815
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-emma-1815
    • date: 1815
    • words: 160442
    • flesch: 73
    • summary: What say you to Mr. Weston and Mr. Elton? She heard enough to know that Mr. Weston was giving some information about his son; she heard the words “my son,” and “Frank,” and “my son,” repeated several times over; and, from a few other half-syllables very much suspected that he was announcing an early visit from his son; but before she could quiet Mr. Elton, the subject was so completely past that any reviving question from her would have been awkward.
    • keywords: bates; better; body; came; churchill; day; dear; dear emma; elton; emma; fairfax; father; frank; friend; going; good; great; half; happy; harriet; hartfield; having; highbury; home; hope; jane; knightley; like; little; long; look; man; mind; miss; mrs; poor; sure; thing; thought; time; way; weston; wish; woman; woodhouse; young
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29. austen-mansfield-1814
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-mansfield-1814
    • date: 1814
    • words: 161186
    • flesch: 73
    • summary: Her brother gave only a smile to this accusation, and soon afterwards said, I do not quite know what to make of Miss Fanny. Mr. Crawford did not mean to be in any danger!
    • keywords: aunt; bertram; better; crawford; day; dear; edmund; family; fanny; feelings; good; grant; great; half; having; henry; home; hope; house; julia; lady; like; little; long; look; mansfield; mind; miss; miss crawford; moment; mrs; norris; room; rushworth; said; sir; sir thomas; sister; sure; thomas; thought; time; way; william; wish; young
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30. austen-northanger-1818
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-northanger-1818
    • date: 1818
    • words: 77707
    • flesch: 73
    • summary: The rest of the evening she found very dull; Mr. Tilney was drawn away from their party at tea, to attend that of his partner; Miss Tilney, though belonging to it, did not sit near her, and James and Isabella were so much engaged in conversing together that the latter had no leisure to bestow more on her friend than one smile, one squeeze, and one dearest Catherine. Catherine's silent appeal to her friend, meanwhile, was entirely thrown away, for Mrs. Allen, not being at all in the habit of conveying any expression herself by a look, was not aware of its being ever intended by anybody else; and Catherine, whose desire of seeing Miss Tilney again could at that moment bear a short delay in favour of a drive, and who thought there could be no impropriety in her going with Mr. Thorpe, as Isabella was going at the same time with James, was therefore obliged to speak plainer.
    • keywords: allen; bath; brother; catherine; day; dear; eleanor; father; friend; general; good; great; heart; henry; isabella; like; little; long; man; miss; moment; morland; mrs; room; sure; thorpe; thought; tilney; time; way; world; young
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31. austen-persuasion-1818
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-persuasion-1818
    • date: 1818
    • words: 84163
    • flesch: 73
    • summary: Westgate Buildings! said he, and who is Miss Anne Elliot to be visiting in Westgate Buildings? Upon my word, Miss Anne Elliot, you have the most extraordinary taste!
    • keywords: anne; anne elliot; bath; better; captain; captain wentworth; charles; elizabeth; elliot; father; good; great; house; lady; little; long; louisa; man; mary; miss; mr elliot; mrs; musgrove; place; russell; sir; thought; time; walter; wentworth
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32. austen-pride-1813
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-pride-1813
    • date: 1813
    • words: 122657
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: Mr. Bingley does not know the whole of his history, and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have principally offended Mr. Darcy; but he will vouch for the good conduct, the probity, and honour of his friend, and is perfectly convinced that Mr. Wickham has deserved much less attention from Mr. Darcy than he has received; and I am sorry to say by his account as well as his sister's, Mr. Wickham is by no means a respectable young man. Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him.
    • keywords: bennet; bingley; catherine; collins; darcy; day; dear; elizabeth; family; father; friend; good; great; hope; house; jane; lady; letter; little; long; lydia; man; miss; mother; mrs; room; sister; thought; time; way; wickham; young
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33. austen-sense-1811
    • author: austen
    • title: austen-sense-1811
    • date: 1811
    • words: 120102
    • flesch: 71
    • summary: Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. Miss Marianne must not expect to have all the men to herself.
    • keywords: brandon; colonel; dashwood; day; dear; edward; elinor; ferrars; good; great; heart; house; jennings; john; know; lady; left; little; long; lucy; man; marianne; middleton; miss; moment; mother; mrs; room; sir; sister; sure; thing; thought; time; willoughby; young
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34. banim-boyne-1826
    • author: banim
    • title: banim-boyne-1826
    • date: 1826
    • words: 230837
    • flesch: 75
    • summary: A little Edmund Evelyn can already hear us talk about you, his namesake. We owe him our allegiance, young Evelyn went on; with it our honour and respect.
    • keywords: answer; arms; army; asked; body; boyne; boyne water; brother; carolan; cause; city; come; continued; country; cried; day; deny; distance; door; edmund; england; english; esther; eva; evelyn; eyes; face; far; father; fear; friends; general; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hill; house; ireland; irish; james; king; kirke; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; m'donnell; man; matter; men; mind; moment; morning; mrs; near; new; night; old; oliver; onagh; party; people; person; place; point; poor; present; road; round; sarsfield; schomberg; second; shall; sir; sister; soldiers; speak; think; thought; time; voice; walker; walls; water; way; wild; william; woman; words; young
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35. banks-manchester-1876
    • author: banks
    • title: banks-manchester-1876
    • date: 1876
    • words: 139721
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: In those days a seven-years' apprenticeship to any trade or business was deemed essential ; apprentices were part and parcel of commercial economy, and when Mr. Ashton spoke of looking after that boy, it was that he thought Jabez Clegg bade fair to be a tter inmate and a more reliable servant than others whose terms were about to expire. And so Jabez Clegg has been wasting our leather to make playthings for you? remarked Mr. Ashton interrogatively, in a not unkindly tone of voice.
    • keywords: arm; ashton; aspinall; augusta; bess; best; better; blue; boy; boys; brookes; business; chadwick; child; clegg; close; college; daughter; day; door; ellen; eyes; face; father; friends; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jabez; jabez clegg; joshua; know; lad; lady; laurence; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; manchester; manchester man; master; men; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; open; place; room; round; rst; said; school; set; simon; sir; son; street; thought; time; travis; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; yard; years; young
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36. barr-alamo-1888
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-alamo-1888
    • date: 1888
    • words: 81642
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: Well, honor is the subject of my story; I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. Other young men have other loves; I have only you, sweet mother.
    • keywords: alamo; americans; anna; antonia; children; city; day; doctor; eyes; face; father; fray; god; good; great; hand; heart; hour; house; houston; ignatius; isabel; jack; life; like; little; love; luis; man; maria; men; mexican; mother; night; rachela; room; santa; senora; tell; women; words; worth
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37. barr-daughter-1886
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-daughter-1886
    • date: 1886
    • words: 65852
    • flesch: 86
    • summary: and soon after he heard David greet Maggie in an unusually cheerful manner. My mammy wants some milk, Maggie Promoter, and Maggie filled the small pitcher, and then smilingly said, We hae forgotten our breakfast, Allan.
    • keywords: allan; boat; campbell; david; day; drumloch; face; father; girl; good; hae; hand; heart; home; john; left; life; like; little; love; maggie; maggie promoter; man; mary; old; pittenloch; promoter; room; sea; sir; tell; thought; time; woman
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38. barr-forgive-1899
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-forgive-1899
    • date: 1899
    • words: 86172
    • flesch: 86
    • summary: If you do go, Yanna, dress as Mrs. Harry Filmer ought to dress. My friend Rose Filmer--and twenty others beside her--can sing pieces I have not even the notes for.
    • keywords: adriana; alida; antony; day; dear; eyes; face; father; filmer; girl; good; great; harry; heart; home; hoosen; house; life; like; little; love; man; miss; mother; mrs; new; old; peter; room; rose; tell; thought; time; van; way; woman; yanna
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39. barr-hallam-1884
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-hallam-1884
    • date: 1884
    • words: 76429
    • flesch: 85
    • summary: He was pained and astonished; and, doubtless, his manner was influenced by his feelings, although he had no intention of allowing simple gossip to prejudice him against so old a friend as Elizabeth Hallam. It would not have been like Elizabeth Hallam to spill over either her joys or her sorrows at the first offer of sympathy.
    • keywords: antony; ben; day; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; god; good; great; hallam; hand; heart; hev; home; john; life; like; little; love; man; martha; men; miss; night; old; phyllis; richard; squire; sure; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; way
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40. barr-jan-1885
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-jan-1885
    • date: 1885
    • words: 65350
    • flesch: 89
    • summary: Jan's big cushioned chair again stood on the hearth, and little Jan took possession of it. As she approached her house, she saw a crowd of boys and little Jan walking proudly in front of them.
    • keywords: child; day; face; father; good; great; heart; home; house; jan; jan vedder; life; like; little jan; love; man; margaret; men; night; old; peter; snorro; suneva; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; wife
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41. barr-knight-1896
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-knight-1896
    • date: 1896
    • words: 70193
    • flesch: 86
    • summary: You may take my word, that he will break no commandment for any lass; and Sophy Braelands will now have to vacate his very thoughts. I tell you McFinlay and Co. were kept busy day and night for Sophy Braelands.
    • keywords: andrew; archie; binnie; braelands; christina; day; face; god; good; heart; home; house; jamie; janet; life; like; little; love; madame; man; mother; sea; sophy; tell; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words
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42. barr-maid-1900
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-maid-1900
    • date: 1900
    • words: 81700
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: A friend delayed Cornelia a while on the street; and turning, she met Hyde face to face; a moment more, or less, and the meeting had not been. For a few minutes he remained in conversation with the party, then he went forward, and Hyde turning with his beautiful charge, met Cornelia face to face.
    • keywords: annie; arenta; ariens; cornelia; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; father; george; good; great; heart; home; house; hyde; joris; letter; life; like; little; love; madame; man; moran; mother; mrs; new; rem; tell; things; thought; thy; time; van; way; words; young
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43. barr-orange-1893
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-orange-1893
    • date: 1893
    • words: 86919
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: Little could it have mattered to Madam Bogardus or Madam Stuyvesant what a lot of silly people said of them in Pearl Street or Maiden Lane, a century after their death; but poor Katherine Van Heemskirk shivered and sickened in the presence of averted eyes and uplifted shoulders, and in that chill atmosphere of disapproval which separated her from the sympathy and confidence of her old friends and acquaintances. Katherine Hyde would have the right to come.
    • keywords: batavius; bram; captain; child; come; day; dear; elder; eyes; face; father; good; gordon; great; hand; heart; heemskirk; home; hour; house; hyde; illustration; joanna; joris; katherine; life; like; little; love; lysbet; madam; man; men; mother; neil; night; semple; thee; thou; thought; thy; van; way; wife; words; young
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44. barr-prisoners-1897
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-prisoners-1897
    • date: 1897
    • words: 60147
    • flesch: 86
    • summary: As for the maidens, the prettiest ones in Lerwick had a shy smile for David Borson, and many wondered that such a beauty as Asta Fae should smile on him in vain; but David had taken Nanna and Vala into his heart, and his care and thought for them were so constant that there was no room for any other interest. David! He said, 'David Borson, there are four men ill with typhus this morning on the Sea Rover.
    • keywords: bele; borson; child; david; day; death; eyes; face; father; god; good; great; heart; karen; life; like; liot; little; love; man; matilda; men; minister; nanna; sea; thought; vala; words
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45. barr-rose-1891
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-rose-1891
    • date: 1891
    • words: 35515
    • flesch: 85
    • summary: I am going to make that measureless villain marry Aspatria. You are Aspatria Fenwick.
    • keywords: ambar; anneys; aspatria; brune; eyes; face; fenwick; good; great; heart; lady; life; like; little; love; men; mother; sarah; sister; thought; ulfar; william; woman
    • versions: original; plain text
46. barr-singer-1893
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-singer-1893
    • date: 1893
    • words: 92314
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: Poor little Denas! Three or four illustrated papers had been received with love from your daughter, Denas Tresham, written on the title-page; but the claim thus made satisfied no one but Joan.
    • keywords: away; burrell; come; day; dear; denas; denasia; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; great; heart; home; joan; john; life; like; little; long; love; man; money; mother; old; penelles; penfer; roland; sea; sure; thought; time; tresham; tris; way; woman
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47. barr-squire-1886
    • author: barr
    • title: barr-squire-1886
    • date: 1886
    • words: 66813
    • flesch: 86
    • summary: I like all bright, honest, good lads; but when they want to make love to Miss Charlotte Sandal, they think one thing, and I think another. Oh, I'm so glad! Charlotte Sandal says 'she's so glad.'
    • keywords: charlotte; charlotte sandal; day; ducie; face; father; good; great; harry; harry sandal; heart; home; house; joe; julius; latrigg; life; like; little; long; love; man; money; mother; old; right; sandal; sophia; squire; stephen; steve; thing; thought; time; way
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48. besant-armorel-1890
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-armorel-1890
    • date: 1890
    • words: 160083
    • flesch: 88
    • summary: When he grew old, he dreamed of the will he would make and of the envy with which other old men, when he was gone, should regard the memory of one who had cut up so well. Besides, he who is an artist thinks more than other young men about such things.
    • keywords: alec; armorel; believe; boat; come; day; dear; effie; eyes; face; feilding; girl; good; great; hand; head; island; lady; like; little; long; look; man; men; mind; money; old; people; philippa; picture; place; play; read; roland; room; round; samson; scilly; sea; stood; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; way; woman; work; world; years; young; young man; zoe
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49. besant-changeling-1898
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-changeling-1898
    • date: 1898
    • words: 86405
    • flesch: 89
    • summary: A college for girls is naturally more interesting than one for young men: first, because they are girls; next, because the male college contains so much that is disquieting,--ambition and impatience, with effort; strenuous endeavour to conciliate Fame, a goddess who presents to all comers at first a deaf ear, eyes that see nothing, and a trumpet silently dangling at her wrist; the resolution to compel Fortune, even against her will, to turn round that wheel which is to bear them up aloft. When young men reel and tremble with the vision of rapture inconceivable, girls have to be contented with a mild happiness.
    • keywords: alice; boy; child; cousin; day; dick; doctor; eyes; face; father; good; great; haveril; humphrey; husband; john; lady; like; man; molly; money; mother; old; sir; son; things; think; time; want; way; woman; woodroffe; world; young
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50. besant-chaplain-1881
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-chaplain-1881
    • date: 1881
    • words: 162481
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: I had been like other young men, but I trust that your imagination will not picture Lord Chudleigh carried away from the combination-room and put to bed by a couple of the college gyps. He, good man, lived in the country, where virtue, like fresh butter and new-laid eggs, flourishes easily and at the cost of a little husbandry in the way of prayer and meditation.
    • keywords: better; child; chudleigh; country; day; dear; doctor; esther; eyes; face; father; fleet; gentlemen; girl; good; great; hand; harry; hath; head; house; kitty; ladies; lady; left; life; like; little; london; long; lord; lord chudleigh; lordship; love; madam; man; men; miles; miss; morning; mrs; nancy; night; old; people; place; poor; pretty; room; sir; temple; thing; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; young
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51. besant-eulogy-1888
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-eulogy-1888
    • date: 1888
    • words: 69824
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: While any rags of Protestant independence and freedom of thought yet linger among us, let us, a thousand times, say, No! Other men, as is well known, take refuge in Authority. The history of the Churches shows that there have been many men who have embarked upon such an inquiry honestly and boldly, and have come out of it armed and strengthened with a natural religion upon which they have been able to graft a Christianity far deeper, stronger, and more real than that which is commonly taught in the pulpits, the schools, the catechisms, and the litanies of the Churches.
    • keywords: air; book; country; day; earth; far; good; grass; great; green; heart; jefferies; leaves; life; light; like; little; long; man; men; mind; money; nature; old; people; place; round; sea; soul; story; summer; sun; things; thought; time; way; wind; work; world; years; young
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52. besant-golden-1876
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-golden-1876
    • date: 1876
    • words: 178028
    • flesch: 87
    • summary: He was only different from other young men that he had learned, partly from a sympathetic nature and partly by travel, not to put all his pleasure in that life about town and in country houses which seems to so many the one thing which the world has to offer. Necessity is the mother of invention: there is nothing morally wrong in the use of thorns where other men use studs, diamond pins, and such gauds; and the effect is picturesque.
    • keywords: agatha; beck; better; brother; cassilis; city; colquhoun; cornelius; day; dear; dinner; dunquerque; dyson; eyes; face; find; fleming; gentlemen; gilead; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; home; house; humphrey; jack; jack dunquerque; joseph; l'estrange; ladds; lady; lawrence; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; new; old; people; phillis; poor; right; room; round; sir; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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53. besant-harp-1875
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-harp-1875
    • date: 1875
    • words: 169955
    • flesch: 88
    • summary: Families should keep their hawks as well as their pigeons among themselves; and it is only Christian to do unto your cousin that which other men would do unto him if they could. Its invention is said to be due to Sir Fretful Plagiary; but my own belief is that the distinguished dramatist appropriated that, as well as other beauties, from older men.
    • keywords: adie; best; better; boy; brother; captain; chacomb; chauncey; come; cousin; crown; day; dear; dicky; doctor; eyes; face; father; fred; gerald; girl; good; great; half; hand; harp; head; heart; home; joe; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; marion; marion revel; men; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; night; old; owen; people; picture; place; poor; revel; room; round; saw; sister; talk; things; think; thought; time; want; way; winifred; woman; work; world; years; young
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54. besant-inner-1888
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-inner-1888
    • date: 1888
    • words: 60116
    • flesch: 85
    • summary: Again, formerly, there would have been old men and old women looking with melancholy eyes on the scenes they were about to quit, and lamenting the days of their strength and their youth. Cannot, I ask again--cannot Science prolong the Vital Force, and stay the destroying hand of Decay? At this point a wonderful passion seized upon many of the people present; for some sprang to their feet and lifted hands and shouted, some wept aloud, some clasped each other by the hand; there were lovers among the crowd who fell openly into each other's arms; there were men of learning who hugged imaginary books and looked up with wild eyes; there were girls who smiled, thinking that their beauty might last longer than a day; there were women down whose cheeks rolled the tears of sorrow for their vanished beauty; there were old men who heard and trembled.
    • keywords: arch; christine; college; day; discovery; eyes; girl; great; house; life; like; linister; long; love; man; men; mildred; old; past; people; physician; things; time; women; work
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55. besant-ivory-1892
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-ivory-1892
    • date: 1892
    • words: 144869
    • flesch: 88
    • summary: And had it not been for the strange experience which he was to undergo, he would have remained to this day just like other young men. Hang it, old man, it isn't what you want, it's what you like.
    • keywords: athelstan; brother; business; checkley; cheque; day; dear; dering; edmund; edmund gray; elsie; find; george; good; gray; great; hand; letter; like; little; long; man; master; men; money; mother; office; old; old man; people; property; room; safe; said; sir; thing; thought; time; want; way; work; world; years; young; young man
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56. besant-revolt-1882
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-revolt-1882
    • date: 1882
    • words: 60150
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: The Row was well filled: young men were there, riding bravely and gallantly with their sisters, their mothers, or their wives; girls and ladies were taking their morning canter before the official day began; and along the gravel-walks girls were hastening quickly to their offices or their lecture-rooms; older ladies sat in the shade, talking politics; idlers of both sexes were strolling and sitting, watching the horses or talking to each other. She showed that the prisons were crammed with cases of young men who had 'broken out'; that very soon they would have no more room to hold their prisoners; that the impatience of men under the severe restrictions of the law was growing greater every day, and more dangerous to order; and that, unless some remedy were found, she trembled for the consequences.
    • keywords: chancellor; chester; constance; country; day; duchess; faith; girls; good; great; hand; house; lady; life; like; little; long; lord; lord chester; love; man; men; new; old; professor; religion; things; time; women; work; young; young men
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57. besant-sorts-1882
    • author: besant
    • title: besant-sorts-1882
    • date: 1882
    • words: 165010
    • flesch: 83
    • summary: Books on London pass it over; it has little or no history; great men are not buried in its church-yards, which are not even ancient, and crowded by citizens as obscure as those who now breathe the upper airs about them. Great men have not been born there or lived there; there are no associations.
    • keywords: angela; better; bunker; case; church; come; coppin; course; davenant; day; end; evening; eyes; girls; going; good; great; half; hands; harry; head; house; jocelyn; kennedy; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lordship; love; man; men; messenger; mind; miss; money; nelly; old; people; place; room; said; stepney; talk; tell; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; work; world; years; young; young man
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58. black-donald-1891
    • author: black
    • title: black-donald-1891
    • date: 1891
    • words: 140714
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: It was just young Mr. Ross of Heimra. And whether it was poaching, or smuggling, or whatever it was, that took young Mr. Ross up to that hut, it was a very lucky thing for us: we should never have seen the morning if we had been left there.
    • keywords: answer; archie; big; boat; calum; come; coming; course; day; donald; eyes; face; far; fred; going; good; great; heimra; house; island; kind; know; kthchen; left; like; little; lochgarra; long; look; mamie; man; mary; mary stanley; mean; mem; meredyth; miss; moment; morning; old; people; place; poor; purdie; right; ross; sea; small; stanley; things; think; time; want; way; wish; woman; young; young man; young ross
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59. black-fortunatus-1890
    • author: black
    • title: black-fortunatus-1890
    • date: 1890
    • words: 177842
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: Then I'll go and fetch her, said the indefatigable hostess; and now everybody seemed to know that Mr. Lionel Moore was about to sing The Starry Night. The composer of The Starry Night Valses would like a lithographic portrait of Mr. Lionel Moore to appear on the cover.
    • keywords: adela; burgoyne; coming; course; cunyngham; day; door; evening; eyes; face; far; francie; friend; good; great; hand; head; home; honnor; house; kind; lady; left; leo; life; like; linn; lionel; lionel moore; little; london; long; look; looking; lord; man; mangan; maurice; mind; miss; miss burgoyne; moment; moore; morning; new; night; nina; old; people; pretty; room; sir; small; stage; sure; table; talk; theatre; thing; thought; time; took; voice; want; way; young; young lady
    • versions: original; plain text
60. black-heather-1885
    • author: black
    • title: black-heather-1885
    • date: 1885
    • words: 183364
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: For wha'll be king but Charlie?' Nay, was not this the right popular kind of songto have two choruses instead of one? 'Come through the heather, around him gather, Come Ronald, and Donald, come a'thegither And claim your rightfu' lawfu' king, For who'll be king but Charlie?' And she hersel' sees that he canna afford to spend money even on little things; and yet she's feared to say anything to him.
    • keywords: air; better; boat; carry; clear; come; coming; course; day; doctor; door; douglas; evening; eyes; face; far; father; fish; friends; girl; glad; glasgow; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; highland; hodson; home; house; kind; lad; left; life; like; line; little; loch; long; look; looking; maggie; man; meenie; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; mudal; night; old; people; place; pretty; road; ronald; room; salmon; set; sir; small; sure; table; tell; thing; thinking; thought; time; want; water; way; white; wind; work; world; young
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61. black-judith-1884
    • author: black
    • title: black-judith-1884
    • date: 1884
    • words: 150339
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: At all events, he read out, and they sang, no further than these two verses: Then they to whom we prisoners were, Said to us tauntingly: Now let us hear your Hebrew songs And pleasant melody. But the Gesta are not jests, good Mistress Judith, said he, looking somewhat puzzled.
    • keywords: better; day; dear; dear judith; eyes; face; fair; far; father; friend; gentle; going; good; good sir; grandmother; hand; hath; heart; house; judith; kind; life; like; little; london; look; man; master; mind; mistress judith; nay; old; parson; perchance; prudence; right; sir; small; speak; sweet; sweetheart; tell; thee; things; thought; time; tis; town; truth; way; wench; young
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62. black-macleod-1879
    • author: black
    • title: black-macleod-1879
    • date: 1879
    • words: 168778
    • flesch: 85
    • summary: One morning a good-looking and slim young man knocked at the door of a small house in Bury Street, St. James's, and asked if Sir Keith Macleod was at home. But Miss White had some engagement; she and her father left together; and the young men followed them almost directly, Mrs. Ross saying that she would be most pleased to see Sir Keith Macleod any Tuesday or Thursday afternoon he happened to be passing, as she was always at home on these days.
    • keywords: beautiful; black; boat; came; carry; castle; coming; dare; day; eyes; face; far; fine; gertrude; gerty; going; good; great; hamish; hand; head; heart; house; janet; janet macleod; keith macleod; lady; lady macleod; life; like; little; london; long; look; macleod; major; man; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; ogilvie; old; people; room; rose; ross; sea; sir; sir keith; small; thing; thought; time; water; way; white; woman; world; young
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63. black-shandon-1883
    • author: black
    • title: black-shandon-1883
    • date: 1883
    • words: 160756
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: And would Mr. Fitzgerald sit down and have some lunch ?' and 'would Mr. Fitzgerald prefer a glass of sherry ?'
    • keywords: auntie; bells; bit; boat; book; chetwynd; clarke; course; day; dear; doubt; eyes; face; far; fitzgerald; garry; going; good; great; hilton; house; inisheen; kind; kitty; lady; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; man; master; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; poor; pretty; room; ross; scobell; sea; shandon; sure; tell; things; thinking; thought; time; want; way; willie; work; world; young
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64. black-silk-1869
    • author: black
    • title: black-silk-1869
    • date: 1869
    • words: 121599
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: Said Dove to him suddenly this morning Is Miss Brunel in town, Will? I don't know, Dove. This was Miss Annie Brunel, who in three months from the date of her arrival in this country had won the heart of London.
    • keywords: actress; anerley; annie; annie brunel; beautiful; brunel; christmas; count; day; dear; dove; eyes; face; girl; going; good; great; grete; hand; heart; hermann; home; house; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; man; miss; miss brunel; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; people; place; poor; room; round; schnstein; smile; stage; theatre; thought; time; way; white; wife; woman; young
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65. black-stand-1890
    • author: black
    • title: black-stand-1890
    • date: 1890
    • words: 171777
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: Has Maisrie, said George Bethune, with slow and measured enunciation, and he regarded the young man from under his shaggy eyebrows, has Maisrie intimated to you her wish for thatthat arrangement? No, said Vincent, eagerly. I forgot to mention that the postmark on the envelope was Port Said Port Said!
    • keywords: air; answer; bethune; better; book; certain; continued; course; day; doubt; ellison; evening; eyes; face; far; friend; george; george bethune; girl; good; granddaughter; grandfather; great; hand; harris; head; heart; home; hope; house; kind; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; maisrie; maisrie bethune; man; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; musselburgh; new; night; old george; old man; people; place; pretty; proud; room; scotch; sir; small; speak; street; sure; table; talk; tell; things; thought; time; vincent; want; way; white; wish; world; young man
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66. black-sunrise-1881
    • author: black
    • title: black-sunrise-1881
    • date: 1881
    • words: 180533
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: But when Natalie Lind came forward to receive him, he was more than surprised; he was almost abashed. When, by accident, she turned aside, and he saw the outline of that clear, olive-complexioned face, only broken by the outward curve of the long black lashes, he had to confess to himself that, adventuress or no adventuress, prophetess or no prophetess, Natalie Lind was possessed of about the most beautiful profile he had ever beheld, while she had the air and the bearing of a queen.
    • keywords: beautiful; brand; calabressa; child; council; daughter; day; dear; edwards; england; english; evelyn; eyes; face; far; father; friend; girl; going; good; great; hand; heart; house; lady; letter; life; like; lind; little; long; look; lord; madame; man; matter; moment; morning; mother; natalie; natalie lind; natalushka; night; old; people; poor; reitzei; room; rose; street; thing; thought; time; voice; way; wish; woman; work; world; young
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67. black-thule-1874
    • author: black
    • title: black-thule-1874
    • date: 1874
    • words: 194256
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: It wass some day or other Sheila will be sure to marry; and although I did not expect--no, I did not expect that--that she would marry a stranger and an Englishman, if it will please her, that is enough. I don't know, indeed, how you and Sheila ever escaped-- Look here, Lavender, said his companion, speaking in a somewhat more earnest fashion, if you marry Sheila Mackenzie
    • keywords: beautiful; boat; borva; coming; day; duncan; eyes; face; far; father; ferry; friends; girl; going; good; great; hand; heart; hef; home; house; husband; ingram; island; know; lavender; left; lewis; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; lorraine; mackenzie; mairi; man; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; old; people; place; room; sea; sheila; sheila mackenzie; small; sort; strange; things; time; wass; way; white; wild; woman; young
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68. black-wings-1880
    • author: black
    • title: black-wings-1880
    • date: 1880
    • words: 144248
    • flesch: 83
    • summary: As for her: Mary Avon was now two or three-and-twenty; she was not likely to prove attractive to young men; her small fortune was scarcely worth considering; she was almost alone in the world. At this, Miss Mary Avon flushes slightly, and hastily draws his attention to a small boat that is approaching.
    • keywords: angus; beautiful; better; bit; black; blue; board; breeze; captain; coming; dark; day; deck; denny; doctor; dove; eyes; face; far; fine; friend; girl; going; good; great; hand; head; hostess; john; laird; life; like; little; loch; long; look; mains; man; mary; mary avon; men; miss; miss avon; moment; morning; night; old; people; rocks; round; sea; sir; skye; small; south; sure; sutherland; tell; thing; time; water; way; white; wind; work; world; yacht; young
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69. blackmore-alice-1875
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-alice-1875
    • date: 1875
    • words: 199884
    • flesch: 83
    • summary: Therefore they overran it well, with bands of fine fellows of a warlike cast, and having strong tendencies towards good things; and these were of much use to the British, not only by stopping the Frenchmen's letters, but also by living at large and gratis, so that the British, who sometimes paid, became white sheep by the side of them. Hilary, in the gush of youthful spirits and promotion; in the glow of duty done and lofty standard satisfied; through all the pride of money paid by the nation he belonged to; and even the glory of saying good things in a language slightly known to him;--Hilary caught from time to time those grand reproachful eyes, and felt that they quite spoiled his dinner.
    • keywords: alice; away; best; better; bonny; boy; captain; course; daughter; day; dear; eyes; face; father; fine; girl; good; great; gregory; hales; hand; hard; having; head; heart; help; hilary; hill; home; hope; house; kind; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lorraine; love; lovejoy; mabel; man; mean; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nature; old; papa; people; poor; rector; right; roland; room; round; said; saw; set; sir; sir roland; son; struan; sure; tell; things; think; thought; time; true; want; water; way; white; work; world; years; young
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70. blackmore-cradock-1866
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-cradock-1866
    • date: 1866
    • words: 235743
    • flesch: 83
    • summary: Mr. Kettledrum might have been overlooked, for little men of a fussy nature are common enough in London, or for that matter everywhere. Almost any good man other than Mr. Rosedew would have managed to set this crooked matter straight, but the rector's sense of justice was already somewhat outraged ; and feeling the delicacy of his position as the host of Cradock Nowell, relying, moreover, as good men do, on the power of natural affection, and perceiving a certain change in the tone of Sir Cradock towards himself, he thought it wiser to let time plead the cause he was only injuring.
    • keywords: amy; best; better; bit; black; bob; boy; brother; bull; child; children; clayton; corklemore; course; cradock; cradock nowell; cried; darling; day; dear; doubt; eyes; face; far; father; fear; feel; fellow; forest; friend; garnet; georgie; god; going; good; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; hutton; john; know; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; love; man; manner; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; old; parson; people; place; poor; right; room; rosedew; round; rufus; saw; self; sense; set; sir; sir cradock; son; strong; sure; thing; thought; till; time; trees; true; uncle; want; water; way; wena; white; wind; woman; work; world; years; young
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71. blackmore-cripps-1876
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-cripps-1876
    • date: 1876
    • words: 138061
    • flesch: 84
    • summary: The men were good men, as men go, and they all felt love and pity for the lost young lady and the poor old master. He may be a great Court card and all that, and the rage with all the nobility; but for all that, Squire, there are good men in comparatively obscure positions; men who have devoted their lives to science from the purest motives; modest men, sir, who are thankful to pocket their poor guinea; men who would scorn any handle to their name or any shabby interloping; sir, I say there are d----d good men----
    • keywords: best; better; carrier; come; course; cried; cripps; day; dear; eyes; face; far; father; fine; good; grace; great; hand; hardenow; head; heart; home; horse; kit; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; luke; man; mary; master; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; oglander; old; overshute; poor; right; said; set; sharp; sir; squire; sure; tell; things; thought; time; took; way; word; worship; young; young man
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72. blackmore-mary-1880
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-mary-1880
    • date: 1880
    • words: 201976
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: There will be good time for a pipe. All in good time, my young friend, he answered, even with a smile of some pity for the youth.
    • keywords: anerley; bad; best; better; boat; boy; business; captain; carroway; children; come; course; day; dear; duncan; duty; eyes; far; father; fine; flamborough; free; going; good; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; high; home; house; jellicorse; lady; land; large; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; lyth; man; mary; master; men; mind; money; mordacks; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; right; robin; round; run; said; sea; set; sir; son; strong; sure; tell; things; thought; time; want; water; way; wife; word; work; years; yordas; young
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73. blackmore-perlycross-1894
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-perlycross-1894
    • date: 1894
    • words: 187725
    • flesch: 85
    • summary: However those who have much faith--and who can fail to have some?--in the exhortations of good men who practise their own preaching, would have been confirmed in their belief by this man's later conduct. And at present such a case could be dealt with best in Paris, although we have young men rising now, who will make it otherwise before very long.
    • keywords: best; better; big; black; brother; came; case; christie; church; course; dark; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; fair; far; father; fear; fellow; fine; fox; friend; gilham; good; great; gronow; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; jakes; jemmy; kind; lady; large; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nature; nicie; old; parish; parson; penniloe; people; perlycross; place; poor; pretty; right; round; sergeant; sir; sure; thing; thought; time; waldron; want; way; word; young; young man
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74. blackmore-springhaven-1887
    • author: blackmore
    • title: blackmore-springhaven-1887
    • date: 1887
    • words: 204343
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: For she was a very soft-hearted young woman, and the tale of his troubles and goodness to his mother had moved her affection toward him, while as one who was forever pledged--according to her own ideas--to a hero beyond comparison, she was able to regard young men with mercy, and with pity, if they had none to love. One would think that you liked to kiss younger men!
    • keywords: admiral; answered; best; better; captain; carne; come; country; cried; dan; darling; day; dear; dolly; duty; england; english; eyes; face; faith; father; fine; french; friend; going; good; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; kind; know; lady; land; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; nelson; old; people; place; poor; right; round; said; saw; scudamore; sea; set; sir; springhaven; stubbard; sure; tell; things; thought; time; tugwell; twemlow; way; work; world; years; young; young man
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75. blessington-repealers-1833
    • author: blessington
    • title: blessington-repealers-1833
    • date: 1833
    • words: 156514
    • flesch: 68
    • summary: Lord Oriel was five-and-twenty, remarkably handsome, good-looking, well-informed, good-tempered, of an ancient family, and enjoying not only� ## p. 307 (#315) ############################################ THE REPEALERS. This untoward rencontre was evidently as disagreeable to Lord Oriel as to his wife,� ## p. 99 (#107) ############################################# THE REPEALERS.
    • keywords: bad; believe; best; bill; cassidy; colonel; con; country; daughter; day; dear; delmore; desmond; england; english; eyes; faith; family; father; feelings; fine; forrester; friends; god; good; grace; great; half; happy; head; heart; house; husband; ireland; irish; jim; ladies; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; och; oriel; ould; people; place; poor; power; present; repealers; said; sister; springmount; sure; thing; thought; time; vernon; way; wife; woman; world; young
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76. braddon-all-1893
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-all-1893
    • date: 1893
    • words: 117742
    • flesch: 81
    • summary: Isola Disney climbed the hill, an easy matter to light-footed twenty. This honest matron was fond of Isola Disney.
    • keywords: allegra; baynham; better; captain; colonel; crowther; day; days; death; disney; eyes; face; garden; god; going; good; great; half; hand; happy; heart; home; house; hulbert; husband; isola; kind; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lostwithiel; love; man; martin; martin disney; morning; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; room; sea; sister; tabitha; talk; think; thought; time; want; way; white; wife; woman; world; year; young
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77. braddon-aurora-1863
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-aurora-1863
    • date: 1863
    • words: 188492
    • flesch: 73
    • summary: But turning sharply round to scrutinize Miss Floyd, he was gratified to find that young lady looking vacantly at the gathering mists upon the sea, and apparently unconscious of the existence of Mr. John Mellish, of Mellish Park, Yorkshire. The county families opened their eyes when the report reached them that the banker's daughter was going to be married, not to Talbot Bulstrode, but to Mr. John Mellish, of Mellish Park, near Doncaster.
    • keywords: archibald; aurora; aurora floyd; aurora mellish; away; banker; better; black; bulstrode; business; captain; conyers; dark; daughter; day; dear; doncaster; door; eyes; face; father; felden; floyd; girl; good; great; half; hand; happy; hargraves; head; heart; hour; house; husband; james; john mellish; lady; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; lucy; man; manner; mellish park; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; old; open; pale; people; place; poor; powell; prodder; room; secret; set; softy; talbot; talbot bulstrode; thought; time; trainer; want; white; wife; window; woman; woods; years; young; young man
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78. braddon-birds-1867
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-birds-1867
    • date: 1867
    • words: 166497
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: We'll look them up this evening, Val. Mr. George Sheldon dined at the Lawn on the day on which Horatio Paget determined on looking up his daughter's new friends, and he and the two girls were strolling in the garden when the Captain and Mr. Hawkehurst were announced. The inscription on the brass-plate informed the neighbourhood that No. 14 was occupied by Mr. Sheldon, surgeon-dentist; and the dwellers in Fitzgeorge-street amused themselves in their leisure hours by speculative discussions upon the character and pursuits, belongings and surroundings, of this gentleman.
    • keywords: asked; better; brother; business; captain; charlotte; charlotte halliday; course; days; dear; diana; eyes; face; father; fortune; friend; george sheldon; georgy; girl; good; great; half; halliday; hand; hawkehurst; haygarth; heart; home; house; judson; kind; left; letters; life; like; little; london; long; looking; love; man; manner; marriage; matthew; men; meynell; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; new; night; old; old man; paget; people; philip sheldon; place; poor; pounds; room; said; sheldon; street; sure; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; valentine; want; way; wife; woman; work; world; years; young; young man
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79. braddon-charlottes-1868
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-charlottes-1868
    • date: 1868
    • words: 154302
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: Thus it was that, after the profitable ripening of three such schemes, Mr. Sheldon deemed it advisable to retire from the field, and await a fitter time for the further exercise of his commercial genius. After that discovery of the telegraphic message sent by his brother George to Valentine Hawkehurst, and the further discovery of the advertisement relating to the unclaimed wealth of the lately deceased John Haygarth, Mr. Sheldon lost no time in organizing his plans for his own aggrandizement at the expense of his brother.
    • keywords: better; brother; business; captain; charlotte; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; diana; eyes; face; father; friend; george; girl; good; gustave; half; halliday; hand; hawkehurst; heart; home; hope; hour; house; kind; lady; lenoble; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; manner; marriage; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; night; old; paget; papa; people; philip; philip sheldon; poor; room; said; sheldon; things; thought; time; valentine; want; way; wife; woman; woolper; world; years; young
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80. braddon-doctors-1864
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-doctors-1864
    • date: 1864
    • words: 169881
    • flesch: 74
    • summary: Mr. Lansdell begged her to write him a line to say if Tuesday would suit Mr. Gilbert. The man was Mr. Roland Lansdell, the author of An Alien's Dreams.
    • keywords: beautiful; better; black; bright; church; creature; dark; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; friend; garden; george gilbert; gilbert; girl; good; graybridge; great; gwendoline; half; hand; happy; head; heart; home; house; husband; isabel; isabel gilbert; isabel sleaford; jeffson; kind; lady; lansdell; left; life; like; little; long; looking; love; man; manner; master; men; mind; miss; mordred; morning; mrs; new; night; old; pale; people; place; poor; pretty; raymond; roland lansdell; room; sigismund; sleaford; smith; surgeon; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; work; world; young; young man
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81. braddon-fentons-1871
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-fentons-1871
    • date: 1871
    • words: 177690
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: I should have thought such a chance as a death as unexpected as my--as old Mr. Nowell's would have made the fortune of a confidential clerk like you. Mr. Saltram was a barrister, almost a briefless one at present, for his habits were desultory, not to say idle, and he had not taken very kindly to the slow drudgery of the Bar.
    • keywords: better; branston; business; carley; course; daughter; day; days; dear; ellen; evening; face; father; friend; gentleman; gilbert; gilbert fenton; girl; going; good; great; heart; holbrook; house; husband; john; john saltram; kind; lady; left; life; like; little; london; long; looking; love; man; manner; marian; mind; money; mrs; night; nowell; old; old man; place; poor; room; saltram; sir; stephen; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; whitelaw; wife; woman; work; world; young
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82. braddon-golden-1883
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-golden-1883
    • date: 1883
    • words: 164887
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: Ida Palliser sat silent in her corner of the large landau which was taking Miss Wendover and her schoolfellows from Winchester station to Kingthorpe. At the other table, less lavishly but more elegantly furnished, sat Miss Wendover and Ida Palliser, with Dr. Rylance comfortably established in a Buckinghamshire wickerwork chair between them.
    • keywords: abbey; air; answered; aunt; bessie; betsy; better; boy; brian; brian wendover; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; father; garden; girl; going; good; great; half; happy; heart; home; hope; hour; house; husband; ida; ida palliser; idea; jardine; kind; kingthorpe; lady; left; life; like; little; long; looking; love; man; men; mind; miss; miss palliser; miss wendover; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; open; people; pew; place; poor; room; rylance; sir; talk; tea; thing; thought; time; told; urania; vernon; want; way; wendover; wife; wimperfield; young
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83. braddon-john-1863
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-john-1863
    • date: 1863
    • words: 197880
    • flesch: 76
    • summary: You don't think I'm such a snob as to admire a lady--he spoke thus of Miss Mary Marchmont, yet midway between her eighth and ninth birthday--the less because she isn't rich? Did papa dislike Mr. Paul Marchmont? Well, poor John had a sort of a prejudice against the man, I believe; but it was only a prejudice, for he freely confessed that he could assign no reason for it.
    • keywords: away; belinda; better; black; captain arundel; child; cousin; darling; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; door; edward arundel; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; hour; house; husband; john marchmont; kemberling; lady; lawford; left; life; like; lincolnshire; little; little mary; long; look; love; low; man; manner; marchmont; marchmont towers; mary arundel; mary marchmont; mind; miss; miss arundel; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; old; olivia arundel; olivia marchmont; papa; paul marchmont; people; place; poor; room; said; sir; soldier; son; street; think; thought; time; voice; weston; white; wife; window; woman; world; years; young; young man; young wife
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84. braddon-lady-1862
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-lady-1862
    • date: 1862
    • words: 152477
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: so cavalierlyI'll keep it; upon which Mr. Robert Audley put the note back into its envelope, and afterward thrust it into a pigeon-hole in his office desk, marked important. If any one could at that moment have told the young barrister that so simple a thing as his cousin's brief letter would one day come to be a link in that terrible chain of evidence afterward to be slowly forged in the only criminal case in which he was ever to be concerned, perhaps Mr. Robert Audley would have lifted his eyebrows a little higher than usual.
    • keywords: alicia; alicia audley; audley court; cousin; dark; day; dead; dear; door; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; george; george talboys; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; husband; lady audley; left; letter; life; like; little; long; looking; love; lucy; luke; man; marks; michael audley; mind; miss; morning; mrs; night; old; pale; phoebe; place; poor; pretty; robert audley; room; sir; table; talboys; tell; thought; time; uncle; want; way; wife; window; woman; young; young lady; young man
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85. braddon-london-1896
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-london-1896
    • date: 1896
    • words: 161155
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: In the mean time, Lady Fareham had a liberal income allowed her by the Marquise, her grandmother, and she and her husband had been among the most splendid foreigners at the French Court, where the lady's beauty and wit had placed her conspicuously in that galaxy of brilliant women who shone and sparkled about the sun of the European firmament--Le roi soleil, or the King, par excellence, who took the blazing sun for his crest. But now, before he went back to England, whither he hoped to accompany the King and the Princes ere the year was much older, Sir John Kirkland was coming to visit his younger daughter, bringing Lady Fareham, whose husband was now in attendance upon His Majesty in Holland, where there were serious negotiations on hand--negotiations which would have been full of peril to the English messengers two years ago, when that excellent preacher and holy man, Dr. Hewer, of St. Gregory, was beheaded for having intelligence with the King, through the Marquess of Ormond.
    • keywords: angela; beauty; better; child; children; city; coach; company; convent; country; court; cried; daughter; day; days; dear; dearest; death; denzil; door; doubt; england; eyes; face; fareham; fareham house; father; fine; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; happy; heart; henriette; hour; house; husband; hyacinth; john; king; lady fareham; ladyship; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lord fareham; lordship; love; majesty; malfort; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; new; night; old; papillon; paris; people; place; play; poor; room; said; sir; sister; talk; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; years; young
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86. braddon-mohawks-1886
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-mohawks-1886
    • date: 1886
    • words: 181836
    • flesch: 76
    • summary: Would I could believe, as that old man believes, in the mystery of a master mind ruling and pervading the universe! This old birthplace of mine, with its burdens upon its head, is all I have to leave to my adopted brother. I will remind you of your promised bequest when we are old men, Jack, said Herrick gaily; and now good-night, or good-morning, as you please. Get to bed and rest, if thou canst, my fever-brained friend, or thou wilt have a sorry countenance for a lover at breakfast-time.
    • keywords: air; beauty; better; bolingbroke; bosworth; child; company; court; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; doubt; durnford; evening; eyes; face; father; fine; fortune; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; herrick; home; honour; hope; hour; house; husband; irene; judith; kind; king; lady; lady judith; lavendale; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lord lavendale; lordship; love; man; master; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; people; play; poor; rena; room; saw; sir; squire; tell; thought; time; tis; topsparkle; town; twas; way; wife; woman; world; years; young
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87. braddon-mount-1882
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-mount-1882
    • date: 1882
    • words: 168160
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: At this autumn season, when Mount Royal was filled with visitors, all intent upon taking life pleasantly, it would have been impossible for a life to seem more prosperous and happy to the outward eye than that of Christabel Tregonell. In these days of fashionable agnosticism and hysterical devotion--when there is hardly any middle path between life spent in church and church-work and the open avowal of unbelief--something must be said in favour of that old-fashioned sober religious feeling which enabled Christabel Tregonell to walk steadfastly along the difficult way, her mind possessed with the ever-present belief in a Righteous Judge who saw all her acts and knew all her thoughts.
    • keywords: air; angus; angus hamleigh; aunt; baron; better; bridgeman; care; christabel; day; days; dead; dear; death; dinner; dopsy; eyes; face; friend; girl; going; good; half; hamleigh; hand; happy; heart; home; hope; hour; house; husband; idea; jack; jessie; kind; known; lady; left; leonard; life; like; little; london; long; looking; love; major; man; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mount; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; poor; room; royal; said; son; talk; thing; thought; time; tregonell; vandeleur; want; way; wife; woman; world; year; young
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88. braddon-phantom-1883
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-phantom-1883
    • date: 1883
    • words: 183383
    • flesch: 78
    • summary: The two young men strolled up to Easedale Tarn before they went back to Fellside, where Lady Maulevrier received them with a stately graciousness, and where Lady Lesbia unbent considerably at luncheon, and condescended to an animated conversation with her brother's friend. 'Lady Maulevrier, do I understand that Lady Lesbia has gone away?' He asked the question in an authoritative tone, with the air of a man who had a right to be answered.
    • keywords: afternoon; air; beauty; better; care; come; dark; day; days; dear; dear lady; door; eyes; face; fellside; friend; frulein; girl; going; good; grandmother; great; half; hammond; hand; hartfield; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; husband; idea; john; kind; lady kirkbank; lady lesbia; lady mary; lady maulevrier; ladyship; left; let; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; montesma; morning; new; night; old; old lady; old man; people; person; place; poor; room; season; sister; smithson; society; steadman; talk; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; years; young; young lady
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89. braddon-run-1868
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-run-1868
    • date: 1868
    • words: 190500
    • flesch: 80
    • summary: Yes, Mr. Eversleigh--or Sir Reginald Eversleigh--I did, and I do, believe that lady. Sir Reginald Eversleigh and his two cousins left the village of Raynham by the same coach.
    • keywords: baronet; black; brother; captain; carrington; castle; child; come; dale; day; death; door; douglas; durski; eversleigh; eyes; face; friend; george; girl; good; graham; hand; heart; honoria; hour; house; husband; jernam; lady eversleigh; larkspur; left; letter; life; like; little; long; love; lydia; man; men; milsom; mind; miss; mrs; night; old; oswald eversleigh; paulina; place; raynham; reginald; reginald eversleigh; room; sir; sir oswald; sir reginald; tell; thought; time; victor; way; wife; woman; young
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90. braddon-serpent-1860
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-serpent-1860
    • date: 1860
    • words: 155161
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: I am not so used to kind words from good men that I am likely to take any thing you can say amiss. Shouldn't I like to see that there young man as killed his uncle scraggedthat's all.
    • keywords: away; bad; better; black; blue; boy; dark; darley; day; dead; dear; door; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; gus; half; hand; head; hour; house; jabez; kuppins; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; madame; man; manner; marolles; marquis; marwood; mind; moment; monsieur; mother; night; old; peters; place; poor; prisoner; raymond; richard; room; round; serpent; sir; slopperton; small; smasher; street; think; thought; time; took; trail; voice; walerie; way; white; window; woman; words; years; young
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91. braddon-strange-1875
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-strange-1875
    • date: 1875
    • words: 57950
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: From the time I left Seacomb I never heard from Muriel Penwyn, though I had given her my London agent's address when we parted, an address from which letters would always be forwarded to me.' So most of her holiday time had been spent out visiting, in spite of old Mrs. Trevanard, who was always grumbling about it, and saying that no good ever came of people forgetting their position.
    • keywords: child; churchill; clissold; come; daughter; day; elgood; end; father; good; house; justina; life; like; little; love; madge; man; martin; maurice; miss; mrs; muriel; night; old; penwyn; poor; room; seacomb; thought; time; trevanard; wife; woman
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92. braddon-vixen-1879
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-vixen-1879
    • date: 1879
    • words: 180662
    • flesch: 80
    • summary: Mrs. Tempest and Mrs. Scobel were in high spirits, and prattled agreeably all the way, only giving Captain Winstanley time to get a word in edgeways now and then. Captain Winstanley maintained a forbidding silence; Mrs. Winstanley did not even ask anyone to have a cup of tea; Violet sat on the opposite side of the hearth, pale and quiet, with Argus at her knee, and one arm wound caressingly round his honest head.
    • keywords: abbey; best; better; captain; captain winstanley; care; come; conrad; course; cried; daughter; day; dear; dinner; dress; duchess; end; eyes; face; father; forest; friends; girl; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; kind; lady; lady mabel; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; love; mabel; mallow; mamma; man; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; poor; roderick; room; rorie; round; scobel; small; squire; talk; tea; tempest; thing; thought; time; vawdrey; violet; violet tempest; vixen; want; way; wife; winstanley; woman; world; years; young
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93. braddon-wyllard-1885
    • author: braddon
    • title: braddon-wyllard-1885
    • date: 1885
    • words: 171918
    • flesch: 80
    • summary: You have been irritated into a fever by that prosy old man. He sat down among his fields and his vineyards to take his ease just a little earlier than other men, that was all.
    • keywords: bothwell; brother; day; days; dear; death; distin; door; dora; edward; eyes; face; friend; general; georges; girl; good; grahame; great; half; hand; heart; heathcote; hilda; home; hour; house; husband; julian; kind; lady; left; lemarque; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; madame; man; marie; men; mind; money; monsieur; morning; murderer; new; night; old; paris; past; penmorval; people; poor; room; thing; thought; time; train; valeria; way; wife; woman; work; world; wyllard; years; young
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94. bronte-shirley-1849
    • author: bronte
    • title: bronte-shirley-1849
    • date: 1849
    • words: 219260
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: I am almost a stranger to Mr. Moore, murmured Sweeting. Mr. Moore is at home, I suppose? Yes, sir, but he is not in.
    • keywords: better; came; caroline; certain; dark; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; far; feel; fieldhead; fine; fire; god; good; great; half; hall; hand; head; heart; helstone; hollow; home; hortense; house; joe; keeldar; ladies; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; louis; love; malone; man; martin; men; mill; mind; miss; miss keeldar; moment; moore; morning; mother; mrs; nature; near; night; old; people; place; poor; present; pryor; quiet; read; robert; room; rose; round; said; saw; shirley; sir; talk; things; thought; time; uncle; voice; want; way; white; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; yorke; young
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95. broughton-alas-1890
    • author: broughton
    • title: broughton-alas-1890
    • date: 1890
    • words: 153170
    • flesch: 77
    • summary: Jim's eyes are still on the Spring, and he is thinking half absently how little kinship she has with the goitred green women, whom his nineteenth-century disciples present to the confiding British public as representatives of Sandro Botticelli's manner, when his attention is diverted by hearing the voice of Mrs. Byng at his elbow addressing him in an excited tone: Why, there's Willy! Although Mrs. Byng always speaks of Miss Wilson as Amelia, and is acquainted with every detail of that young lady's uneventful history--thanks to a long series of direct and interested questions, addressed through a considerable number of years, to her friend Jim, as to his betrothed--she has no personal acquaintance with the latter.
    • keywords: air; amelia; answer; better; burgoyne; byng; cecilia; course; cries; day; dear; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; fact; far; father; friend; going; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hotel; hour; jim; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; marchant; mean; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; place; poor; question; replies; room; round; second; sitting; smile; sure; sybilla; tell; think; thought; time; tone; voice; way; white; wish; woman; words; years; young
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96. broughton-bligh-1892
    • author: broughton
    • title: broughton-bligh-1892
    • date: 1892
    • words: 62484
    • flesch: 82
    • summary: I 326364 (3) ## p. 4 (#8) ################################################ 4 MRS. BLIGH. Mrs. Bligh has been all along expecting this name; so she hopes that she shows no par- ## p. 11 (#15) ############################################## MRS.
    • keywords: anne; bligh; coke; come; course; cries; czar; day; dear; eyes; face; friend; george; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; life; like; little; look; man; moment; mrs; mulholland; old; pamela; poor; room; sue; thought; time; tone; voice; way; young
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97. broughton-cupid-1886
    • author: broughton
    • title: broughton-cupid-1886
    • date: 1886
    • words: 126370
    • flesch: 83
    • summary: Some day she will wake to find her arms empty of little Prue, whom for seventeen fond years they have girdled. Poor little Prue!
    • keywords: answer; better; betty; come; course; cries; day; dear; evans; eyes; face; freddy; garden; going; good; great; half; hand; harborough; head; heart; home; house; john; lady; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; man; margaret; milady; mind; miss; moment; morning; new; night; old; peggy; people; poor; prue; replies; room; round; sister; talbot; tell; thought; time; voice; words; young
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98. broughton-rose-1870
    • author: broughton
    • title: broughton-rose-1870
    • date: 1870
    • words: 140002
    • flesch: 79
    • summary: She cannot hear what they say; she has no wish to hear--she has no wish for anything; only she lies, staring, with great eyes, straight before her at the bed-hangings, at the ceiling, at the little countless pigeon-holes in her toilet-table. Is it a beautiful tender fraud practised by themselves upon themselves, to save them from the despair of the black vagueness into which they must send out their departed ones, and go out themselves when life's little day is over?
    • keywords: answers; answers esther; arms; better; blessington; bob; brandon; child; cold; constance; craven; day; dear; death; door; essie; esther; eyes; face; gerard; girl; god; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; jack; john; lady; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; makes; man; mean; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; night; old; people; person; poor; red; replies; room; round; sir; small; smile; sure; things; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; white; wish; woman; words; world; young
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99. brunton-control-1811
    • author: brunton
    • title: brunton-control-1811
    • date: 1811
    • words: 186063
    • flesch: 68
    • summary: Laura was unable to divine what could have procured her a visit from persons of their appearance; yet, with her native courtesy, she was motioning them to a seat, when one of them stepped forward; and, laying on her shoulder a stick which he held, said, in a rough ferocious voice, 'Laura Montreville, I arrest you at the suit of John Dykes.' 'I don't want to be advised to marry him.' 'Are you sure,' returned Laura, smiling, 'that you know what you want.
    • keywords: aunt; captain; child; colonel; continued; cried; day; de courcy; dear laura; dearest laura; determined; douglas; eyes; face; father; friend; good; half; hand; hargrave; harriet; heart; home; hope; hour; house; lady pelham; laura; laura montreville; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; montague; montreville; morning; mother; mrs; mrs de; passion; place; pleasure; present; returned; room; saw; self; subject; tears; think; thought; time; visit; voice; wish; woman
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100. bulwer-alice-1838
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-alice-1838
     • date: 1838
     • words: 153632
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: Do you know, my dear Mrs. Merton, said Mrs. Hare, in a whisper, when they were safe in the billiard-room, that interposed between the apartment they had left and the hall; do you know whether Lord Vargrave and Mr. Maltravers are very good friends? No, indeed; why do you ask? Oh, because when I was speaking to Lord Vargrave about him, he shook his head; and really I don't remember what his lordship said, but he seemed to speak as if there was a little soreness. According to these expressions, it would seem that Lady Vargrave was not apprised of the approaching event; that, considering Miss Cameron's recent engagement to Mr. Maltravers suddenly (and, as Valerie thought, unaccountably) broken off on the arrival of Lord Vargrave; considering her extreme youth, her brilliant fortune; and, Madame de Ventadour delicately hinted, considering also Lord Vargrave's character for unscrupulous determination in the furtherance of any object on which he was bent,--considering all this, Madame de Ventadour had ventured to address Miss Cameron's mother, and to guard her against the possibility of design or deceit.
     • keywords: affection; age; alice; beautiful; better; cameron; caroline; cesarini; chapter; child; day; dear; doltimore; evelyn; evelyn cameron; eyes; fortune; friend; good; great; half; hand; happy; heart; home; hope; hour; house; know; lady vargrave; left; legard; life; like; little; long; look; lord doltimore; lord vargrave; love; lumley; maltravers; man; men; merton; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; old; paris; place; poor; return; room; said; saw; sir; thought; time; true; voice; world; years; young; youth
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101. bulwer-barons-1843
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-barons-1843
     • date: 1843
     • words: 255864
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: But for the bark that has borne Edward king of England to the land of his ancestors there is no return! but I am a friend to the king he has served, and the land of my birth to which he has given peace; and therefore, not till Warwick desert Edward, not till he wake the land again to broil and strife, will I mingle in the plots of those who seek his downfall.
     • keywords: adam; alwyn; anne; arms; blood; brother; cause; chamber; child; clarence; court; daughter; day; door; duchess; earl; earl warwick; edward; england; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; friar; friend; gloucester; gold; good; grace; great; half; hand; hastings; hath; head; heart; henry; high; honour; hour; house; isabel; king; king edward; king henry; knight; lady; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lord hastings; lord warwick; love; man; margaret; marmaduke; master; men; mind; moment; montagu; mother; nay; nevile; new; noble; old; people; poor; power; pride; prince; queen; rest; richard; right; rose; round; royal; said; saw; sibyll; sir; small; smile; son; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thought; throne; thy; time; true; voice; warner; warwick; way; woman; words; world; york; young; youth
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102. bulwer-calderon-1838
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-calderon-1838
     • date: 1838
     • words: 21214
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: But all this while there was formed a powerful cabal against both the Duke of Lerma and Don Roderigo Calderon in a quarter where it might least have been anticipated. The folding-doors were thrown open, and all conversation ceased at the entrance of Don Roderigo Calderon.
     • keywords: beatriz; calderon; don; duke; fonseca; hand; king; life; man; philip; prince; roderigo; thee; thou; thy; uzeda
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103. bulwer-disowned-1829
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-disowned-1829
     • date: 1829
     • words: 175253
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: Mr. Clarence Linden, M. P., did you say, sir? said the learned Jeremiah: surely, I have had that name or appellation in my books, but I cannot, at this instant of time, recall to my recollection the exact date and circumstance of my professional services to the gentleman so designated, styled, or, I may say, termed. For you, young man (and the republican turned to Clarence), I would fain hope that life has not already been diverted from the greatest of human objects; if so, come to-morrow night to our assembly, and learn from worthier lips than mine the precepts and the hopes for which good men live or die.
     • keywords: age; air; best; better; borodaile; brown; chapter; character; clarence; countenance; crauford; cried; day; dear; death; door; eyes; face; far; father; flora; friend; gentleman; glendower; good; great; half; hand; heart; heaven; home; hope; hour; house; human; lady; late; leave; left; life; like; linden; little; long; look; lord; love; man; master; mind; moment; mordaunt; mother; nature; new; night; old; person; place; poor; present; room; said; sir; son; spirit; sure; talbot; thought; till; time; true; truth; ulswater; virtue; voice; way; westborough; wolfe; words; world; years; young; youth
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104. bulwer-ernest-1837
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-ernest-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 140691
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: And he also knew that few become either great authors or great men (and he fancied Ernest was born to be one or the other) without the fierce emotions and passionate struggles, through which the Wilhelm Meister of real life must work out his apprenticeship, and attain the Master Rank. You cannot be contented, as poets and historians mostly are, by becoming great only from delineating great men, or imagining great events, or describing a great era.
     • keywords: alice; banker; better; cesarini; chapter; character; child; cleveland; come; darvil; day; dear; door; ernest; ernest maltravers; eyes; face; father; feel; ferrers; florence; friend; genius; girl; good; great; half; hand; heart; house; lady; lady florence; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; lumley; madame; maltravers; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; nature; new; night; old; place; poor; room; said; saw; sir; templeton; thought; time; valerie; ventadour; voice; way; woman; world; young
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105. bulwer-eugene-1832
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-eugene-1832
     • date: 1832
     • words: 155650
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: Yet, if all men were philosophers, I doubt whether, though more men would be virtuous, there would be so many instances of an extraordinary virtue. you see, you're great man of the parish.
     • keywords: air; aram; better; bunting; character; clarke; corporal; country; dark; day; death; door; ellinor; eugene; eyes; face; fate; father; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; honour; hope; houseman; leave; left; lester; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; madeline; man; master; men; mind; moment; nature; night; old; peter; place; poor; present; rest; round; said; sir; spot; squire; student; tell; thing; thought; time; town; voice; walter; way; words; world; years; young
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106. bulwer-godolphin-1833
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-godolphin-1833
     • date: 1833
     • words: 117095
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Into this set, out of the other set, fell young Godolphin; and oh! Go, Godolphin--dear Godolphin!
     • keywords: ambition; beauty; chapter; character; common; constance; day; dear; death; erpingham; eyes; face; fanny; father; godolphin; good; great; hand; heart; home; hour; house; lady; lady erpingham; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; lucilla; man; men; mind; moment; nature; new; night; old; percy; percy godolphin; poor; power; present; proud; saville; soul; thee; thought; thy; time; vernon; voice; woman; words; world; years; young
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107. bulwer-harold-1848
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-harold-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 196048
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: Thou turnest in loathing from the lord whose marriage-gift was a crown; and the sleek form of thy Saxon Harold rises up through the clouds of the carnage. In many a noiseless field, with Thoughts for Armies, your relics, O Saxon Heroes, have won back the victory from the bones of the Norman saints; and whenever, with fairer fates, Freedom opposes Force, and Justice, redeeming the old defeat, smites down the armed Frauds that would consecrate the wrong,--smile, O soul of our Saxon Harold, smile, appeased, on the Saxons land!
     • keywords: answered; arms; blood; brother; brow; chapter; chief; child; church; count; cried; crown; dark; day; dead; death; duke; earl; earl harold; edith; edward; england; english; eyes; face; fair; father; fell; foe; form; forth; godwin; good; grave; graville; great; gurth; haco; half; hand; harold; hast; hath; head; heart; high; hilda; house; king; king edward; king harold; knight; know; lay; left; life; like; lips; little; london; long; lord; love; men; moment; monk; noble; norman; peace; power; right; rose; round; saw; saxon; saxon king; son; sons; soul; strong; sword; thee; thegns; thine; thou; thou art; thought; throne; thy; time; tostig; true; voice; way; william; words; young; youth
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108. bulwer-kenelm-1873
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-kenelm-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 193368
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Mr. Kenelm Chillingly is the heir of a very ancient house and, I am told, of considerable estates. Yet if other men sigh for it, why do I stand apart from them?
     • keywords: age; best; better; bowles; boy; cameron; cecilia; chapter; child; chillingly; course; day; dear; doubt; eyes; face; family; father; friend; gentleman; girl; good; gordon; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; home; house; interest; jessie; kenelm; lady; left; life; like; lily; little; long; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; mivers; mother; mrs; nature; new; old; peter; place; poor; pretty; question; right; room; round; saw; sir; sir kenelm; sir peter; son; sure; talk; tell; thought; time; tom; travers; voice; way; wife; wish; woman; work; world; years; young; young man
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109. bulwer-last-1834
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-last-1834
     • date: 1834
     • words: 152219
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Glaucus found Ione in tears; he had already assumed the sweet privilege to console. Athenian Glaucus, it is thou?'
     • keywords: air; answered; apaecides; arbaces; athenian; beautiful; blind; calenus; city; clodius; cried; dark; day; death; diomed; door; earth; egyptian; eyes; face; form; girl; glaucus; gods; great; greek; half; hand; hast; heart; hour; house; ione; julia; left; life; like; little; long; love; lydon; man; moment; nature; new; night; nydia; old; place; pompeii; poor; priest; replied; returned; rose; round; said; sallust; slave; small; soul; thee; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; voice; way; words; young
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110. bulwer-leila-1838
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-leila-1838
     • date: 1838
     • words: 60991
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: King against king--so be it! I sell not my foes for gold, great king, said he, with a stern smile: I sell my foes to buy the ransom of my friends.
     • keywords: almamen; boabdil; christian; city; dark; day; eyes; father; ferdinand; god; granada; hand; hath; head; heart; king; left; leila; life; like; long; man; moment; moor; moorish; muza; prince; queen; race; said; son; spain; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; voice; ximen
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111. bulwer-lucretia-1846
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-lucretia-1846
     • date: 1846
     • words: 166084
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: Poor old man! Heaven support thee, old man!
     • keywords: age; ardworth; beck; boy; character; child; come; dalibard; day; dear; death; door; eyes; face; father; fear; fielden; gabriel; gentleman; good; grabman; great; half; hand; head; heart; helen; home; house; john; laughton; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; lucretia; madame; mainwaring; man; men; miles; mind; mivers; moment; mother; mrs; nature; new; old; percival; place; poor; power; right; room; rose; round; said; seen; shall; sir; sir miles; smile; son; susan; thought; till; time; uncle; varney; vernon; voice; way; woman; world; young; youth
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112. bulwer-night-1841
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-night-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 190424
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Mr. Beaufort, said the lawyer rising, Mr. Philip Beaufort--for such I now feel you are by right--though, he added, with his usual formal and quiet smile, not yet by law; and much--very much, remains to be done to make the law and the right the same;--I congratulate you on having something at last to work on. Some persons observed that it was reported that Mr. Philip Beaufort had also been generous--that he had agreed to give up the estates for his uncle's life, and was only in the meanwhile to receive a fourth of the revenues.
     • keywords: arthur; beaufort; boy; brother; camilla; catherine; child; children; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fanny; father; friend; gawtrey; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; home; house; know; lady; left; letter; life; like; lilburne; little; long; look; lord; love; madame; man; men; mind; moment; money; monsieur; morton; mother; mrs; night; old; old man; philip; philip beaufort; philip morton; place; poor; robert; room; round; said; saw; sidney; sir; son; thought; till; time; vaudemont; voice; way; wife; woman; world; years; young; young man
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113. bulwer-parisians-1873
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-parisians-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 256528
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Said Graham to himself, The bearded man is my Vicomte. I present you also to the Abbe Vertpre, who has passed his life in the vain endeavour to make other men as good as himself.
     • keywords: alain; chapter; character; child; cicogna; course; day; days; de mauleon; dear; doubt; duplessis; duval; english; englishman; enguerrand; eyes; face; father; france; frederic; french; friend; genius; girl; good; graham; great; gustave; half; hand; head; heart; high; home; honour; hope; house; interest; isaura; journal; known; lady; lebeau; left; lemercier; letter; life; like; little; long; look; louise; louvier; love; m. de; madame; madame de; mademoiselle; man; marquis; marriage; mauleon; men; mind; moment; money; monsieur; morley; mother; nature; new; old; paris; parisian; place; poor; present; rameau; right; rochebriant; room; said; savarin; society; talk; tell; thought; time; true; vane; vicomte; victor; voice; way; wife; woman; words; world; years; young
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114. bulwer-paul-1830
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-paul-1830
     • date: 1830
     • words: 180488
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: If it had not been for that dear angel, good young man, God only knows whether I might not have been a disconsolate widow by this time! While the affectionate matron was thus running on, Lucy's eye glancing round the room discovered in an armchair the round and oily little person of Dr. Slopperton, with a countenance from which all the carnation hues, save in one circular excrescence on the nasal member, that was left, like the last rose of summer, blooming alone, were faded into an aspect of miserable pallor. Mr. Brandon was, indeed, a barrister of considerable reputation, and in high esteem in the world, not only for talent, but also for a great austerity of manners, which, though a little mingled with sternness and acerbity for the errors of other men, was naturally thought the more praiseworthy on that account; there being, as persons of experience are doubtless aware, two divisions in the first class of morality,--imprimis, a great hatred for the vices of one's neighbour; secondly, the possession of virtues in one's self.
     • keywords: air; augustus; better; brandon; brother; captain; carriage; certain; character; clifford; come; country; cried; day; dear; door; dummie; earl; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; fine; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; honour; hope; house; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; lobkins; long; look; lord; lord mauleverer; love; lovett; lucy; lucy brandon; macgrawler; man; manner; mauleverer; men; mind; moment; mrs; nature; ned; new; night; old; paul; pepper; person; place; poor; present; public; room; said; sir; squire; sure; tell; think; thought; thy; time; tomlinson; true; voice; way; words; world; years; young
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115. bulwer-rienzi-1835
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-rienzi-1835
     • date: 1835
     • words: 179830
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: And confirmed Rienzi Senator? Arms and wealth are the sinews of power; it is power that I desire;--thou, bold Rienzi, strugglest thou not for the same?
     • keywords: adrian; angelo; answered; arms; barons; blood; boy; brother; capitol; cardinal; church; city; cola; colonna; come; court; crowd; dark; day; death; di rienzi; eyes; face; fair; fear; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; hour; house; irene; italy; knight; know; lady; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; man; men; moment; montreal; new; nina; noble; old; order; orsini; palace; people; pope; power; rest; returned; rienzi; right; roman; rome; round; savelli; senator; state; stephen; sword; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tribune; true; voice; walter; way; words; young
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116. bulwer-what-1858
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-what-1858
     • date: 1858
     • words: 335243
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: My dear Dick, Said Darrell, starting up, give me your hand. It was an euthanasia for the old knightly race to die into a House that was an institution in the empire, and revive phoenix-like in a line of peers, who might perpetuate the name of the heiress whose quarterings they would annex to their own, and sign themselves Darrell Montfort. Said Darrell inly, On the whole, such a marriage would have pleased my poor father.
     • keywords: age; alban; arabella; away; believe; boy; care; caroline; chapter; character; child; colonel; course; crane; cried; darrell; daughter; day; days; dear; dog; door; eyes; face; fairthorn; family; far; father; fear; fine; forth; fortune; friend; gentleman; george; girl; good; grandfather; great; great man; guy darrell; half; hand; happy; hartopp; haughton; head; heart; heaven; high; home; honour; hope; house; human; idea; interest; isaac; jasper; kind; know; lady; lady montfort; law; leave; left; letter; life; like; lionel; little; live; london; long; look; looking; losely; lost; love; man; mayor; men; mind; moment; money; montfort; morley; mother; mrs; nature; new; old man; open; place; poole; poor; power; present; pride; return; right; room; round; rugge; said; self; set; short; sir; small; son; sophy; speak; sure; talk; tell; think; thought; till; time; town; true; turned; vance; vipont; voice; waife; want; woman; words; world; years; young; young man; youth
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117. bulwer-zanoni-1842
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-zanoni-1842
     • date: 1842
     • words: 149390
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Are you, in truth, different from other men? He paused, looked steadily at Glyndon, and continued, Young man, think you that vague curiosity will supply the place of earnest labour? I read your heart.
     • keywords: air; beauty; chamber; chapter; child; come; dark; day; death; door; earth; eyes; face; father; fear; friend; glyndon; good; great; half; hand; hast; heart; heaven; home; hour; house; human; knowledge; left; life; like; lips; little; long; look; love; man; mejnour; men; mervale; mind; moment; mother; naples; nature; new; nicot; night; old; poor; power; prince; robespierre; room; rose; round; saw; signor; smile; soul; speak; spirit; stranger; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thou hast; thought; thy; time; true; turned; viola; voice; way; woman; words; world; young; youth; zanoni
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118. bulwer-zicci-1838
     • author: bulwer
     • title: bulwer-zicci-1838
     • date: 1838
     • words: 33995
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Zicci hath performed his task--he is wanted no more; the perfecter of his work is at thy side. He felt, while thus rapt in delicious revery, a slight touch upon his shoulder; he turned, and beheld Zicci.
     • keywords: day; eyes; glyndon; half; hand; heart; isabel; know; left; life; love; man; merton; naples; night; power; prince; signor; stranger; thee; thou; thy; young; zicci
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119. caine-bond-1891
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-bond-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 150964
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: If the memory of old men can be trusted, he contrived to keep a swashbuckler court there, but its festivities, like his own dignities, must have been maimed and lame. Troops of happy girls were there in their jackets of gray, braided with gold or silver, and with belts of filigree; troops of young men, too, in their knee breeches, with bows of red ribbon, their dark-gray stockings and sealskin shoes; old men as well in their coats of homespun; and old women in their long blue cloaks; children in their plaited kirtles, and here and there a traveller with his leather wallet for his snuff and money.
     • keywords: adam; child; come; coming; day; days; eyes; face; father; god; good; governor; great; greeba; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; iceland; jacob; jason; jorgen; life; like; little; little sunlocks; long; look; love; man; men; michael sunlocks; moment; mother; night; old; old man; orry; people; place; poor; sea; stephen; sunlocks; tell; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; years
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120. caine-christian-1897
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-christian-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 203182
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: But let's to bed, Said Sleepyhead. Say Paddington Station, at eleven--will that do? Yes.
     • keywords: bed; brother; child; church; come; coming; day; dear; door; drake; end; eyes; face; father; girl; glory; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hospital; house; john; john storm; know; lady; lay; left; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; lord; love; man; men; moment; morning; mrs; night; old; paul; people; place; polly; poor; robert; room; said; sir; soul; stood; street; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world; young
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121. caine-deemster-1887
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-deemster-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 153206
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: There a crowd had already gathered, strong men in blue pilots, old men in sheepskin coats, women with their short blue camblet gowns tucked over their linen caps, boys and girls on every side, all coming and going like shadows in the mist. A line of older men, with their hands in their pockets, were propped against the castle wall; and a young woman from Ballasalla, reputed to be a prophetess, was standing on the steps of the cross, and calling on the careless to take note that, while they cursed and swore and forgot their Maker, six men not twenty yards away were on the brink of their graves.
     • keywords: ballamona; billy; bishop; boat; court; dan; davy; day; dead; death; deemster; door; ewan; eyes; face; father; feet; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jarvis; kerry; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; men; moment; mona; night; old; old man; people; place; poor; quilleash; room; saw; sea; set; son; think; thorkell; thought; time; voice; way; woman; young
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122. caine-hagar-1886
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-hagar-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 141159
     • flesch: 92
     • summary: That man was Mr. Hugh Ritson. Did any one accompany the defendant to St. Pancras that night? My husband's brother, Mr. Hugh Ritson, was with him.
     • keywords: bonnithorne; brother; child; christian; come; day; door; drayton; eyes; face; father; fell; fire; girl; god; good; greta; gubblum; half; hand; head; heart; house; hugh ritson; left; like; lips; little; long; look; love; man; mercy; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; parson; paul; paul drayton; paul ritson; room; sir; tell; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world; young
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123. caine-manxman-1894
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-manxman-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 206910
     • flesch: 92
     • summary: You're wondering at me, Dempster, I know you are, sir, Said Pete, 'Deed, but I'm wondering at myself as well. But sometimes he would grow serious, and then he would say, 'Give little Philip some for all.
     • keywords: auntie; bed; black; boy; chapter; child; christian; come; coming; cried; csar; day; dead; deemster; door; eyes; face; father; fire; girl; god; good; grannie; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kate; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; love; man; moment; morning; mother; nancy; night; old; ould; pete; philip; poor; room; ross; round; saying; sea; sir; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; way; woman; young
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124. caine-scapegoat-1890
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-scapegoat-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 101580
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: At last Israel bethought him of the mearrah, and there he found her. And pray what is this I hear of your fine charities, master Israel? said Ben Aboo.
     • keywords: aboo; ali; ben; black; blind; child; children; cried; day; eyes; face; father; god; great; hand; heart; israel; israel ben; like; little; long; lord; man; men; naomi; night; old; people; place; poor; ruth; soul; tetuan; thought; time; town; voice; way; world
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125. caine-shadow-1885
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-shadow-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 125409
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: The rumor of these struggles was long in reaching the city of Wythburn, and longer in being discussed and understood there; but, to everybody's surprise, young Ralph Ray announced his intention of forthwith joining the Parliamentarian forces. Amid a general hush the crier called for Ralph Ray. Ralph stepped up quietly, and laid one hand on the rail in front of him.
     • keywords: come; cried; day; door; eyes; face; father; fell; fire; garth; girl; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; left; like; little; liza; long; look; man; matthew; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; old man; poor; ralph; ralph ray; ray; road; robbie; room; rotha; sim; stood; thought; time; voice; way; willy; wilson; woman; young
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126. caine-world-1885
     • author: caine
     • title: caine-world-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 46816
     • flesch: 92
     • summary: Prayers had been said that night to a thin congregation, but no sooner were they done, and the parson had prepared to leave, than great crowds of young men and maidens trooped down the aisles. He was the sort of man who gives his dog one blow for snapping at his hand, and then two more for not coming back to be caressed.
     • keywords: away; balladhoo; bill; boat; castle; christian; danny; eyes; face; hand; head; kinvig; kisseck; like; little; look; man; men; mona; night; old; ruby; sea; tommy; young
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127. cathcart-adelaide-1833
     • author: cathcart
     • title: cathcart-adelaide-1833
     • date: 1833
     • words: 166668
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: Julia's quick glance wandered towards her Brother, but his countenance� ## p. 157 (#179) ############################################ ADELAIDE. Mr. Shirley was completely stunned by the vio- lence with which he had been thrown to the ground, and as Woodgate endtavoured to ascertain the extent� ## p. 8 (#22) ############################################### 8 ADELAIDE.
     • keywords: able; adelaide; algernon; altamont; arthur; aware; away; colonel; come; continued; daughter; day; emily; family; far; father; fauconberg; feel; feelings; george; good; great; henry; home; horace; julia; kind; lady; length; little; long; lord; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; observed; person; place; present; return; room; shirley; sir; thing; thought; time; vernon; way; william; wish; young
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128. cholmondeley-charles-1889
     • author: cholmondeley
     • title: cholmondeley-charles-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 94810
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: CHAPTER I. Dear heart, Miss Ruth, my dear, now don't ye be a-going yet, and me that hasn't set eyes on ye this month and more--and as hardly hears a body speak from morning till night. Miss Ruth, the things I have heard folks say, a setting as it might be there, in poor Eccles his old chair by the chimley, as the Lord took him in.
     • keywords: alwynn; charles; dare; day; dear; door; eyes; face; going; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; mary; molly; moment; mrs; new; night; old; people; ralph; room; ruth; slumberleigh; thought; time; uncle; vandon; voice; way; years; young
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129. cholmondeley-devotee-1897
     • author: cholmondeley
     • title: cholmondeley-devotee-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 26286
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: I would have asked Mr. Loftus to let us live with him at Wilderleigh, and I would have taken such care of him--oh! such care--and I would have spent whole bags of money on the farms and fences and things, and he would have been happy, and Mr. Doll would have been happy, too.' 'Peggy,' said Lady Pierpoint, 'shall I tell you a secret? Now we only want Mr. Loftus.'
     • keywords: day; doll; face; lady; life; like; little; loftus; long; love; man; peggy; pierpoint; sibyl; thought; time; young
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130. cholmondeley-jewels-1886
     • author: cholmondeley
     • title: cholmondeley-jewels-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 35812
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: At last Charles returned. I thought of the play and the ball, of poor Charles and his debts--of anything and everything--but it was no good.
     • keywords: aurelia; carr; charles; door; evelyn; george; good; house; little; middleton; moment; night; ralph; room; said; sir; time
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131. cholmondeley-red-1899
     • author: cholmondeley
     • title: cholmondeley-red-1899
     • date: 1899
     • words: 119080
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Hester Gresley is a dear friend of mine, said Sybell, and I must stand up for her. He turned the conversation back to Hester Gresley and her writing.
     • keywords: better; bishop; book; come; day; dick; doll; eyes; face; good; great; gresley; half; hand; heart; hester; hugh; know; lady; lady newhaven; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord newhaven; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; newhaven; night; people; poor; pratt; rachel; regie; room; think; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman
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132. cholmondeley-tempest-1893
     • author: cholmondeley
     • title: cholmondeley-tempest-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 121669
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: I am not going to the house, either, said John Tempest, for it was he. Di, this is your first cousin, John Tempest. Both bowed, and then thought better of it and shook hands.
     • keywords: archie; certain; colonel tempest; come; courtenay; day; eyes; face; father; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hemsworth; house; john; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; madeleine; man; mind; miss; mitty; moment; morning; mrs; night; old; overleigh; people; poor; room; round; swayne; tempest; things; thought; time; voice; white; woman; world; years; young
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133. coleridge-phantasmion-1837
     • author: coleridge
     • title: coleridge-phantasmion-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 95718
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: I wish the bees could speak that they might tell thee all about it, for they saw the winged woman as well as I. ## p. 5 (#31) ############################################### CHAPTER II. I will not only see, but taste and ## p. 8 (#34) ############################################### 8 P/zantasmz'on.
     • keywords: anthemmina; beheld; black; bright; damsel; dark; eyes; face; fair; glandreth; ground; hand; head; heart; iarine; karadan; king; lake; leucoia; light; like; little; love; maiden; malderyl; mother; palmland; penselimer; phantasmion; pitcher; potentilla; prince; queen; saw; sky; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; ulander; vessel; voice; way; words; young; youth; zelneth
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134. collins-after-1856
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-after-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 109600
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: You have suspected your father of some infamy that you dare not openly charge him with, on no other testimony than the rambling nonsense of a half-witted, dying old man. You droll little man, why did you not ask me that before, if you wanted to know?
     • keywords: brother; child; danville; day; door; eyes; fabio; face; father; gabriel; girl; good; great; hand; head; house; left; life; little; lomaque; long; look; man; moment; mother; nanina; night; old; place; priest; rocco; room; rose; saw; sister; table; thought; time; trudaine; way; wife; words
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135. collins-anne-1868
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-anne-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 159097
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: How is it he's not with you I I have no friends, Miss Winslow, old' or new, Said Stephen solemnly. She was the terror of the whole family, except her father; and, as old Stephen Langton, the tanner, had never been known to fear anything, he was not likely to begin with his own daughter.
     • keywords: anne; anne page; aunt; beautiful; beauty; bed; better; boy; branscombe; came; care; child; claudia; come; course; daughter; day; devil; dinner; evening; eyes; far; father; fellow; fiordilisa; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hand; harriet; heard; home; house; humphrey; idlechester; isola; kingsleat; lady; langton; leave; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; love; man; marmaduke; marry; men; mind; miss; moment; morll; morning; mrs; night; old; page; panther; place; poor; pretty; raphael; raphael branscombe; room; rst; said; sat; school; seraph; sir; stephen; stephen langton; strange; street; sweet; sweet anne; talk; thing; thought; time; uncle; want; way; went; wife; wolf; woman; world; years; young
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136. collins-antonina-1850
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-antonina-1850
     • date: 1850
     • words: 167866
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: Greater difficulties even than these had been overcome by other men. It is with the beings, and not the buildings of old Rome, that their attention is to be occupied.
     • keywords: antonina; attention; beneath; body; child; city; cried; darkness; day; days; dead; death; despair; earth; emotions; entered; expression; eyes; face; father; form; garden; gates; girl; goisvintha; goths; great; hand; head; heart; hermanric; house; instant; left; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lost; man; mind; moment; new; night; numerian; old; pagan; past; people; place; rome; room; rose; round; senator; silence; solitary; steps; stood; street; temple; thought; time; ulpius; vetranio; voice; walls; woman; words; young
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137. collins-armadale-1866
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-armadale-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 303996
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: What rooms shall we put them in, on the first floor? Put Mr. Armadale in Number Four. I was christened Allan, after the name of a wealthy cousin of my father's--the late Allan Armadale--who possessed estates in our neighborhood, the largest and most productive in the island, and who consented to be my godfather by proxy.
     • keywords: allan; allan armadale; ambrose; answer; armadale; bashwood; brock; circumstances; course; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; far; father; friend; good; great; gwilt; hand; head; hour; house; know; lady; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; major; man; matter; midwinter; milroy; mind; miss; miss gwilt; miss milroy; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; opened; pedgift; person; place; present; question; room; said; second; silence; sir; son; tell; thorpe; thought; time; want; way; wife; window; woman; words; young
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138. collins-dead-1856
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-dead-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 142526
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: If Mr. Frankland chooses to call, and if Mrs. Frankland condescends to write to me, I am willing to think no more of the matter. Mrs. Frankland had nothing to suggest, Mr. Frankland had nothing to suggest, the doctor had nothing to suggest.
     • keywords: child; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; frankland; good; hand; head; heart; house; housekeeper; husband; jazeph; joseph; left; letter; like; little; long; look; looking; man; mistress; moment; morning; mrs; munder; old; place; porthgenna; room; rosamond; sarah; table; tell; think; time; treverton; uncle; way; woman; words
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139. collins-evil-1885
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-evil-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 112605
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Thinking it possible that Mrs. Presty might know why her husband had left the house, Mrs. Linley sent to ask for information. Nothing more was said by Mrs. Presty; Mrs. Linley remained absorbed in her own bitter thoughts.
     • keywords: bennydeck; captain; catherine; child; daughter; dear; door; face; friend; good; herbert; house; husband; kitty; left; letter; life; like; linley; little; look; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; old; poor; presty; randal; room; sydney; tell; time; way; westerfield; wife; woman
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140. collins-fallen-1879
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-fallen-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 135815
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Yours, friend Amelius, is a matter of minor importance. Brother Bawkwell looked at friend Amelius with a calm inquiring eye.
     • keywords: amelius; day; dear; door; eyes; face; farnaby; friend; girl; good; hand; head; house; jervy; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; old; phoebe; place; poor; regina; room; rufus; sally; sir; thought; time; toff; want; way; woman; words; young
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141. collins-frozen-1857
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-frozen-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 28846
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: The conversation between Captain Helding and Mrs. Crayford, in one of the intervals of the dance, turns on Miss Burnham. Mrs. Crayford shakes her head; sighs mysteriously; and answers, In very delicate health, Captain Helding.
     • keywords: captain; clara; crayford; face; frank; hand; man; mrs; officers; richard; time; wardour; words
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142. collins-haunted-1878
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-haunted-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 63543
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: A man who did not know that the Countess Narona had borrowed money at Homburg of no less a person than Lord Montbarry, and had then deluded him into making her a proposal of marriage, was a man who had probably never heard of Lord Montbarry himself. Speaking confidentially to his next neighbour, the Doctor discovered that the lady referred to was already known to him (through the Countess's confession) as the lady deserted by Lord Montbarry.
     • keywords: agnes; baron; brother; countess; day; doctor; door; ferrari; francis; good; henry; hotel; lady; lady montbarry; left; life; little; lord; lord montbarry; miss; montbarry; mrs; night; room; time; venice; woman
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143. collins-heart-1883
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-heart-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 130672
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: What will Mrs. Gallilee say? Don't tell her, Mr. Gallilee suggested. If Mrs. Gallilee claims her right, what are we to do? Mr. Gallilee rose in his turn, and took a walk up and down the room.
     • keywords: benjulia; carmina; child; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; frank; friend; gallilee; good; hand; house; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; look; man; mind; minerva; miss; moment; mool; mother; mrs; new; old; ovid; person; place; poor; room; tell; teresa; thought; time; way; woman; words
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144. collins-hide-1854
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-hide-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 162789
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: On the outskirts of that part of the new suburb appropriated to these unhappy middle classes with moderate incomes, there lived a gentleman (by name Mr. Valentine Blyth) whose life offered as strong a practical contradiction as it is possible to imagine to the lives of his neighbors. This gentleman is Mr. Valentine Blyth.
     • keywords: blyth; bracelet; child; day; dear; doctor; door; drawing; eyes; face; father; friend; going; good; great; grice; hair; hand; head; home; house; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; looking; madonna; man; mary; mat; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; peckover; place; poor; room; round; sir; street; table; tell; thorpe; thought; time; valentine; want; way; woman; words; young; zack
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145. collins-man-1870
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-man-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 233933
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Such was Sir Patrick Lundie; brother of the late baronet, Sir Thomas; and inheritor, at Sir Thomas's death, of the title and estates. BUT two persons were now left in the summer-house--Arnold Brinkworth and Sir Patrick Lundie.
     • keywords: anne; answer; arnold; bishopriggs; blanche; brother; day; dear; delamayn; door; eyes; face; friend; geoffrey; geoffrey delamayn; glenarm; going; good; hand; head; hester; house; husband; inn; julius; lady; lady lundie; law; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; look; lundie; man; marriage; married; matter; mind; miss; moment; mrs; person; place; position; present; question; right; room; round; silvester; sir patrick; tell; thing; time; want; way; wife; woman; words; young
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146. collins-no-1862
     • author: collins
     • title: collins-no-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 267964
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Mr. Noel Vanstone, having been expressly cautioned against Miss Magdalen Vanstone by his late lamented father, has not yet forgotten his father's advice. We are naturally astonished at the extraordinary mystery which hangs over you and your marriage, and we cannot be blind to the fact that your housekeeper has, apparently, some strong reason of her own for viewing Mrs. Noel Vanstone with an enmity and distrust which we are quite ready to believe that lady has done nothing to deserve.
     • keywords: admiral; answer; bygrave; captain; captain wragge; chair; clare; day; days; dear; door; end; eyes; face; family; far; father; felt; frank; future; garth; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; housekeeper; husband; lady; leave; lecount; left; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; magdalen; magdalen vanstone; man; master; mind; miss; miss garth; miss vanstone; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noel vanstone; norah; object; old; pendril; place; position; present; question; room; second; servant; sir; sister; subject; table; tell; think; thought; time; vanstone; view; voice; walk; want; way; wife; woman; words; wragge; young
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147. conrad-almayers-1895
     • author: conrad
     • title: conrad-almayers-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 63711
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever. This delay gave Almayer time to notice and greatly wonder at Babalatchi's official get-up.
     • keywords: almayer; babalatchi; canoe; dain; daughter; eyes; face; girl; great; hand; head; heart; house; lakamba; life; light; like; little; long; man; men; mrs; nina; old; rajah; river; round; saw; stood; time; verandah; voice; white; white man; woman; words
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148. conrad-narcissus-1897
     • author: conrad
     • title: conrad-narcissus-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 53057
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Some one cried at him: What's your name?--Donkin, he said, looking round with cheerful effrontery.--What are you? asked another voice.--Why, a sailor like you, old man, he replied, in a tone that meant to be hearty but was impudent.--Blamme if you don't look a blamed sight worse than a broken-down fireman, was the comment in a convinced mutter. Voices cried:--We will fit you out, old man.
     • keywords: away; baker; belfast; black; captain; cook; deck; donkin; door; eyes; face; got; half; hands; head; jimmy; life; like; little; long; man; master; men; moment; night; old; round; sea; ship; singleton; time; voice; wait; water; white; wind; yer
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149. conrad-outcast-1896
     • author: conrad
     • title: conrad-outcast-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 105673
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: She must put between him and other white men a barrier of hate. That man is not like other white men.
     • keywords: abdulla; aissa; almayer; arms; babalatchi; big; child; close; courtyard; day; days; eyes; face; fire; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; lakamba; left; life; like; lingard; little; long; look; man; men; moment; night; old; omar; river; round; sea; short; tell; thought; time; tuan; voice; water; way; white; white man; willems; woman; words
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150. corelli-ardath-1889
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-ardath-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 211984
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: O ignorant, ungenerous, fickle hypocrites, whose ruling passion is the greed of gold!--Why should great men perish, that YE may live! ... I must tell you, however, that nothing concerning its kings or great men has been preserved,--only a few allusions to one Hyspiros, a writer of tragedies, whose genius seems to have corresponded to that of our Shakespeare of to-day.
     • keywords: air; alwyn; appeared; beautiful; beauty; best; black; brain; certain; city; clear; dark; day; dead; death; deep; divine; dost; earth; eyes; face; fair; faith; fame; far; felt; field; fire; flowers; form; forth; friend; glance; glory; god; gold; good; great; half; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; heliobas; high; human; khosrul; king; know; kyris; laureate; left; life; light; like; lips; little; long; look; lost; love; luma; lysia; man; men; mere; mind; moment; music; nature; new; old; passion; past; people; place; poet; present; rose; round; sah; save; saw; self; sense; set; shall; silence; silver; smile; soft; soul; spirit; strange; strong; sudden; sun; sweet; tell; thee; theos; thine; things; thou; thou art; thou dost; thou hast; thought; thy; time; tis; touch; true; truth; villiers; voice; way; white; woman; words; work; world
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151. corelli-boy-1900
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-boy-1900
     • date: 1900
     • words: 83467
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Why don't you go and hunt up old Miss Letty? Then, and quite suddenly, Boy flared up. murmured Miss Letty, but don't put yourself out in any way.
     • keywords: alister; boy; child; course; d'arcy; day; dear; desmond; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; kiss; know; leslie; life; like; little; long; look; love; major; major desmond; man; mind; miss letty; mother; mrs; muir; old; poor; room; round; said; thought; time; violet; way; woman; world; young
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152. corelli-christian-1900
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-christian-1900
     • date: 1900
     • words: 224086
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Good men and brave thinkers, whom in our arrogance we consign to eternal damnation, instead of endeavouring to draw out the heart of their mystery, and gather up the gems of their learning as fresh proofs of the active presence of God's working in, and through all things! There is their great Pantheon where most of their prophets lie,--their poets and their teachers whom they wronged and slandered in their lifetime-- My child, interrupted Bonpre gently, Poets and so-called teachers are not always good men.
     • keywords: abbe; air; angela; archbishop; aubrey; believe; better; bonpre; boy; cardinal; cardinal bonpre; child; christ; church; cyrillon; dark; day; dead; dear; death; divine; door; eyes; face; faith; far; father; figure; florian; fontenelle; friend; gherardi; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; holy; knew; left; leigh; life; light; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; love; madame; man; manuel; marquis; matter; men; mind; moment; moretti; mother; old; paris; patoux; people; picture; place; poor; prince; rome; room; rose; said; saw; set; silence; smile; son; soul; sovrani; spirit; strange; strong; sylvie; things; thought; time; true; truth; varillo; vergniaud; voice; way; white; woman; words; work; world; young
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153. corelli-delicia-1896
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-delicia-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 55141
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: Lady Delicia Carlyon to need the championship of an actor! 'Delicia VaughanLady Carlyon,' answered the first man.
     • keywords: carlyon; course; day; dear; delicia; eyes; face; good; great; half; head; home; husband; lady; life; like; little; looking; lord; love; marina; men; moment; night; old; people; said; spartan; thought; time; valdis; way; wife; woman; world
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154. corelli-thelma-1887
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-thelma-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 206238
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: She lay there white and motionless--little Thelma meanwhile sat smilingly on the edge of the rock, assuring me that her mother had gone to sleep 'down there.' Do you know, I can't imagine anything more utterly distracting than having to see such a woman as Thelma day after day,--loving her all the time, and knowing such love to be absolutely hopeless!
     • keywords: air; beautiful; best; better; bonde; boy; britta; child; clara; come; course; cried; dark; day; dear; death; door; duprz; dyceworthy; errington; eyes; face; fair; father; francis; friend; girl; gldmar; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady; left; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lord; lorimer; love; lovisa; low; macfarlane; man; marvelle; men; mind; moment; mrs; new; night; olaf; old; paused; people; philip; philip errington; place; poor; returned; room; rose; round; sigurd; sir; sir philip; smile; sort; soul; speak; strange; sweet; tell; thelma; things; think; thought; time; ulrika; vere; voice; way; white; wife; winsleigh; woman; words; world; young
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155. corelli-ziska-1897
     • author: corelli
     • title: corelli-ziska-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 63018
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Allow me to present to you my friend, Armand Gervase, the most famous artist in France--Gervase, the Princess Ziska. He knew, despite his own undeniably handsome personality, which was set off to such advantage that night by the richness of the Florentine costume he had adopted, that there was a certain fascination about Gervase which was inborn, a trick of manner which made him seem picturesque at all times; and that even when the great French artist had stayed with him in Scotland and got himself up for the occasion in more or less baggy tweeds, people were fond of remarking that the only man who ever succeeded in making tweeds look artistic was Armand Gervase.
     • keywords: air; araxes; chetwynd; dean; denzil; doctor; eyes; face; fulkeward; gervase; good; great; gutenberg; helen; know; lady; life; like; little; love; man; men; murray; night; old; princess; princess ziska; project; soul; strange; think; time; way; woman; work; world; ziska
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156. dacre-libertine-1807
     • author: dacre
     • title: dacre-libertine-1807
     • date: 1807
     • words: 141957
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: At the sight of Angelo, so long estranged from her eyes, and with air and countenance that spoke some dire ill, her weakened nerves were nearly over powered, a hectic blush of terror and agitation flushed her hollow cheek; not that she dreaded for herself an accu- mulation of sorrow, of insult, or of out- ## p. 130 (#140) ############################################ 130 TIE, LIBERTINE. But not to you ; exclaimed Oriana, bursting into a loud laugh, as Gabrielle, ## p. 162 (#444) ############################################ 169 TIE LIBERTINE.
     • keywords: agnes; angelo; beheld; bertrand; child; countenance; daughter; day; dear; death; dreadful; eugene; eyes; fair; far; father; felix; fiorenza; friend; gabrielle; hand; heart; hope; house; idea; length; libertine; life; like; little; long; longer; look; love; madame; man; milborough; mind; moment; montmorency; mother; night; oriana; paulina; present; return; son; soul; tears; tender; think; thought; time; voice; world; youth
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157. dickens-barnaby-1841
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-barnaby-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 258099
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: As great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents, so old John was impelled to these exercises of authority by the applause and admiration of his Maypole cronies, who, in the intervals of their nightly pipes and pots, would shake their heads and say that Mr Willet was a father of the good old English sort; that there were no new-fangled notions or modern ways in him; that he put them in mind of what their fathers were when they were boys; that there was no mistake about him; that it would be well for the country if there were more like him, and more was the pity that there were not; with many other original remarks of that nature. Stiff, lank, and solemn, dressed in an unusual manner, and ostentatiously exhibiting--whether by design or accident--all his peculiarities of carriage, gesture, and conduct, all the qualities, natural and artificial, in which he differed from other men; he might have moved the sternest looker-on to laughter, and fully provoked the smiles and whispered jests which greeted his departure from the Maypole inn.
     • keywords: air; barnaby; best; better; chester; cried; crowd; dark; day; dear; dennis; dolly; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; fire; friend; gashford; gentleman; george; good; great; half; hand; haredale; head; heart; home; hope; house; hugh; joe; john; kind; left; life; like; little; locksmith; long; look; looking; lord; man; manner; master; maypole; men; miggs; mind; miss; moment; mother; mr haredale; mr tappertit; mr willet; mrs; night; old; people; place; poor; replied; room; round; said; saw; silence; sir; son; street; strong; sure; tappertit; tell; thought; time; varden; voice; way; willet; word; young
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158. dickens-christmas-1843
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-christmas-1843
     • date: 1843
     • words: 29210
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied. At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, said the gentleman, taking up a pen, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
     • keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; door; ghost; good; great; hand; head; like; little; man; marley; merry; old; scrooge; spirit; time
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159. dickens-chuzzlewit-1844
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-chuzzlewit-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 343574
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: The tollman--a crusty customer, always smoking solitary pipes in a Windsor chair, inside, set artfully between two little windows that looked up and down the road, so that when he saw anything coming up he might hug himself on having toll to take, and when he saw it going down, might hug himself on having taken it--the tollman was out in an instant. 'Left Mr Pecksniff!' cried the tollman. repeated Mr Pecksniff.
     • keywords: air; bed; best; better; business; certain; chair; company; course; cried; day; dear; dear mr; door; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; friend; gamp; general; gentleman; going; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hope; house; john; kind; know; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; long; looking; love; man; manner; mark; martin; matter; mean; mind; miss; miss pecksniff; moment; morning; mr bailey; mr bevan; mr chuffey; mr chuzzlewit; mr fips; mr jinkins; mr jonas; mr martin; mr montague; mr mould; mr nadgett; mr pecksniff; mr pinch; mr pogram; mr tapley; mr tigg; mr westlock; mrs; mrs gamp; mrs todgers; nature; new; night; observed; old; old man; old martin; people; place; poor; replied; returned; room; round; saw; short; sir; sister; state; strong; sure; tell; think; thought; time; todgers; tom; tom pinch; voice; way; wish; word; young
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160. dickens-dombey-1848
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-dombey-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 360545
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: The administration of infantine doses of physic awakened all the active sympathy of her character; and being on one occasion secreted in a cupboard (whither she had fled in modesty), when Mr Dombey was introduced into the nursery by his sister, to behold his son, in the course of preparation for bed, taking a short walk uphill over Richards's gown, in a short and airy linen jacket, Miss Tox was so transported beyond the ignorant present as to be unable to refrain from crying out, Is he not beautiful Mr Dombey! Mr Dombey'sonly Mr Dombey's.
     • keywords: arm; bed; better; blimber; boy; brother; brown; came; captain; captain cuttle; chair; child; coming; course; cried; dark; daughter; day; dear; dear dombey; doctor; door; edith; eyes; face; father; fire; florence; friend; friend dombey; gentleman; going; good; great; grinder; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hope; house; kind; know; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; little dombey; long; looking; love; major; man; manner; master; mind; miss; miss dombey; miss tox; moment; morning; mother; mr carker; mr chick; mr dombey; mr feeder; mr gills; mr perch; mr toodle; mr toots; mr towlinson; mr walter; mrs; mrs pipchin; mrs skewton; near; new; night; nipper; observed; old; paul; people; place; point; polly; poor; present; returned; richards; rob; room; round; saw; set; short; sir; skewton; sol; state; sure; susan; table; thought; time; tox; uncle; voice; walter; way; wish; woman; word; young
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161. dickens-dorrit-1857
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-dorrit-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 343975
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Mr Clennam I heard was here, from Mr Dorrit. But there were circumstances attending my--ha--slight knowledge of Mr Clennam (it was very slight), which,' here Mr Dorrit became extremely grave and impressive, 'would render it highly indelicate in Mr Clennam to--ha--to seek to renew communication with me or with any member of my family under existing circumstances.
     • keywords: affery; air; amy; arthur; arthur clennam; barnacle; better; business; child; coming; course; cried; day; dear; dear mr; door; eyes; face; family; fanny; far; father; find; flora; friend; general; gentleman; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; hum; john; kind; know; lady; left; life; like; little dorrit; little man; long; look; looking; love; maggy; man; manner; marshalsea; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mr arthur; mr baptist; mr barnacle; mr blandois; mr casby; mr chivery; mr clennam; mr dorrit; mr doyce; mr f.; mr flintwinch; mr gowan; mr meagles; mr merdle; mr pancks; mr plornish; mr rugg; mr sparkler; mrs; mrs general; night; old; people; place; poor; present; prison; returned; room; round; said; saw; sir; sister; society; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; wish; woman; word; yard; years; young
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162. dickens-drood-1870
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-drood-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 95616
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: As he held it incumbent upon him to call on Mr. Jasper before leaving Cloisterham, Mr. Grewgious went to the gatehouse, and climbed its postern stair. And how did you leave Mr. Jasper, reverend sir? said Mr. Grewgious.
     • keywords: air; better; canon; cathedral; cloisterham; crisparkle; day; dear; drood; durdles; edwin; eyes; face; good; great; grewgious; hand; head; helena; house; jack; jasper; lady; life; like; little; long; look; looking; man; mind; minor; miss; mrs; neville; night; old; place; poor; rosa; sapsea; sir; thought; time; twinkleton; way; young
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163. dickens-hard-1854
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-hard-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 104782
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: The gentleman he addressed, who was talking to Mrs. Bounderby on the sofa, got up, saying in an indolent way, 'Oh really?' and dawdled to the hearthrug where Mr. Bounderby stood. 'The girl wanted to come to the school, and Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come to the school, and Louisa and Thomas both said that the girl wanted to come, and that Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come, and how was it possible to contradict them when such was the fact!' 'Now I tell you what, Gradgrind!' said Mr. Bounderby.
     • keywords: better; bounderby; coketown; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fact; father; good; gradgrind; great; hand; harthouse; head; home; know; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; louisa; ma'am; man; manner; mind; mrs; night; old; people; rachael; returned; room; said; sir; sissy; sparsit; stephen; thought; time; tom; way; woman; young
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164. dickens-mutual-1865
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-mutual-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 332539
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: 'I tell you I am not rich,' repeated Mr Boffin, 'and I won't have it.' 'A Teapot,' repeated Mr Boffin, continuing to muse and survey the books; 'a Teapot, a Teapot.
     • keywords: air; arm; bella; better; boy; bradley; business; child; coming; cried; day; dear; dear mr; door; eyes; face; father; find; fire; friend; gentleman; going; good; great; half; hand; having; home; hope; house; john; lady; left; life; like; little; lizzie; long; look; looking; love; man; manner; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mortimer; mr boffin; mr dolls; mr eugene; mr fledgeby; mr george; mr headstone; mr inspector; mr john; mr lammle; mr lightwood; mr milvey; mr podsnap; mr riah; mr riderhood; mr rokesmith; mr sampson; mr sloppy; mr twemlow; mr venus; mr wegg; mr wrayburn; mrs; new; night; old; people; person; place; poor; question; replied; returned; river; room; round; said; saw; secretary; set; sir; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; veneering; want; way; wilfer; woman; word; work; young
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165. dickens-nickelby-1839
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-nickelby-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 328480
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: The two words were had apart; in a couple of minutes Mr. Wackford Squeers announced that Mr. Nicholas Nickleby was, from that moment, thoroughly nominated to, and installed in, the office of first assistant master at Dotheboys Hall. 'Mr. Nicholas!' cried Miss La Creevy, starting in great astonishment.
     • keywords: air; arm; arthur; best; better; boy; boys; brother; browdie; business; come; course; creevy; cried; crummles; daughter; day; dear; dear nicholas; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; gride; half; hand; head; hear; home; hope; house; john; kate; kenwigs; kind; knag; lady; left; let; life; like; lillyvick; linkinwater; little; long; look; lord; love; madame; man; manner; mantalini; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mr squeers; mrs; mrs nickleby; mulberry; newman; nicholas; nicholas nickleby; nickleby; night; noggs; old; people; place; poor; ralph; ralph nickleby; replied; room; round; said; short; sir; small; smike; snevellicci; speak; squeers; street; sure; taking; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; word; young
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166. dickens-oliver-1839
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-oliver-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 160756
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Is Mr. Brownlow at home? inquired Mr. Bumble of the girl who opened the door. Mr. Brownlow moved the lamp, so as to obtain an uninterrupted view of the beadle's countenance; and said, with a little impatience, Now, sir, you come in consequence of having seen the advertisement? Yes, sir, said Mr. Bumble.
     • keywords: better; bill; boy; brownlow; bumble; child; come; day; dear; doctor; dodger; door; eyes; face; fagin; gentleman; giles; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; house; jew; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; master; men; mind; monks; mrs; nancy; night; noah; old; old gentleman; oliver; place; poor; room; rose; round; said; sikes; sir; table; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; young
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167. dickens-pickwick-1837
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-pickwick-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 307568
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: 'Mr. Pickwick observed (says the secretary) that fame was dear to the heart of every man. 'Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.
     • keywords: allen; away; bardell; bed; better; bob; boy; chair; coach; coat; countenance; course; day; dear mr; dear sir; door; elder mr; exclaimed; eyes; face; fat; father; fellow; fire; fogg; friend mr; friends; gentleman; glass; going; good; great; half; hand; hat; having; head; heart; honourable mr; hour; house; inquired; jingle; job; ladies; lady; large; left; let; life; like; little mr; long; looking; ma'am; man; manner; matter; mean; mind; moment; morning; mr pickwick; mrs; night; old gentleman; old man; old mr; people; perker; pickwick; place; pocket; poor mr; pott; replied; reverend mr; room; round; round mr; said; sam; sam weller; sammy; sat; sawyer; short; sir; small; snodgrass; stranger; street; table; thing; thought; time; time mr; tom; tupman; uncle; voice; wardle; water; way; weller; wery; winkle; words; young
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168. dickens-tale-1859
     • author: dickens
     • title: dickens-tale-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 138103
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: I speak for myself, answered Mr. Lorry, and for Mr. Darnay, and for Miss Lucie, and--Miss Lucie, do you not think I may speak for us all? He asked her the question pointedly, and with a glance at her father. He now stepped up to where Mr. Lorry and Mr. Darnay stood upon the pavement.
     • keywords: business; carton; charles; child; cruncher; darnay; day; dear; defarge; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; head; house; husband; jerry; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lorry; lucie; madame; man; manette; manner; men; mind; miss; monseigneur; monsieur; night; old; people; place; prisoner; pross; room; said; sir; stryver; tellson; time; way; wife; wine; young
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169. disraeli-coningsby-1844
     • author: disraeli
     • title: disraeli-coningsby-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 165576
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: 'Let me present to your Highness,' said Rigby, with an air of some ceremony, Mr. Coningsby.' Well, sir, I believe it was Mr. Coningsby.'
     • keywords: beautiful; buckhurst; chapter; character; circumstances; colonna; come; coningsby; country; daughter; day; days; dinner; duke; edith; england; eskdale; eton; everingham; family; flora; friend; generation; good; government; grandfather; great; hand; heart; henry; high; house; influence; lady; life; like; little; long; lord; lord monmouth; lucretia; man; marquess; millbank; mind; moment; monmouth; morning; new; old; parliament; party; political; position; power; present; public; rigby; room; said; sidonia; sir; society; spirit; state; tadpole; taper; things; thought; time; villebecque; wallinger; world; years; young
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170. dixon-story-1894
     • author: dixon
     • title: dixon-story-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 60910
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Don't, little woman, don't. It had been, he reminded himself, delightful to see little Mary again.
     • keywords: alison; child; day; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; good; great; hemming; house; jane; lady; life; like; little; london; long; look; mary; modern; night; old; people; perry; room; round; story; strange; street; thought; time; vincent; way; white; woman; young
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171. doyle-raffles-1891
     • author: doyle
     • title: doyle-raffles-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 38566
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: And how is Mr. Robert McIntyre? Robert McIntyre rose from the sketch upon which he had been working, and taking one of the lamps in his hand peered out into the darkness.
     • keywords: door; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; haw; house; know; laura; like; little; long; man; mcintyre; money; old; raffles; robert; room; time; way; work
     • versions: original; plain text
172. edgeworth-absentee-1812
     • author: edgeworth
     • title: edgeworth-absentee-1812
     • date: 1812
     • words: 104265
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: However, her ladyship, after sending a whisper along the line, gained the desired information, that the young gentleman was Lord Colambre, son, only son, of Lord and Lady Clonbrony--that he was just come from Cambridge--that he was not yet of age--that he would be of age within a year--that he would then, after the death of somebody, come into possession of a fine estate, by the mother's side 'and therefore, Cat'rine, my dear,' said she, turning round to the daughter, who had first pointed him out, 'you understand, we should never talk about other people's affairs.' I hope to goodness, mamma, Lord Colambre did not hear what you and Mrs. Dareville were saying!' 'How could he, child?
     • keywords: broadhurst; come; count; country; cried; dear; father; friend; good; grace; great; honour; hope; house; ireland; know; lady; lady clonbrony; lady dashfort; like; little; lord clonbrony; lord colambre; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nugent; old; room; sir; son; terence; think; thought; time; way; young
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173. edgeworth-belinda-1801
     • author: edgeworth
     • title: edgeworth-belinda-1801
     • date: 1801
     • words: 185805
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: Oh, take the moneypay Mr. Hervey, dear Lady Delacour, and it will all be right.' Can you, dear Lady Delacour,' cried Belinda, 'speak in this manner, and recollect all we heard from Marriott this morning?
     • keywords: belinda; belinda portman; better; clarence; clarence hervey; cried; day; dear; dear lady; eyes; freke; friend; good; great; hand; heart; helena; hervey; lady anne; lady delacour; ladyship; left; life; like; little; look; lord delacour; love; luttridge; manner; marriott; mind; miss; mrs; old; ormond; percival; philip; poor; portman; room; said; shall; sir; sure; thing; thought; time; vincent; virginia; way; woman; world; young; young lady
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174. edgeworth-fashionable-1812
     • author: edgeworth
     • title: edgeworth-fashionable-1812
     • date: 1812
     • words: 172573
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: Lady Glistonbury listened, and tried, and seemed to understand--bowed to Mr. Vivian and smiled, and said she remembered he was often at Glistonbury during the last election--that she was happy to hear she should have the pleasure to see Lady Mary Vivian--that some people disliked election times, but for her part she did not, when she was strong. After proper thanks and compliments to Lady Mary and Mr. Vivian, for securing for him such a treasure as Mr. Russell, he introduced Lord Lidhurst, a sickly, bashful boy of fourteen, to his new governor, with polite expressions of unbounded confidence, and a rapid enunciation of undefined and contradictory expectations.
     • keywords: almeria; amelia; beaumont; captain; come; daughter; day; dear; family; friend; good; great; having; heart; house; hunter; john; know; lady; lady glistonbury; lady hunter; lady julia; lady mary; lady sarah; ladyship; life; like; little; lord; love; man; manner; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; palmer; public; room; russell; said; sir; son; thing; thought; time; turnbull; vivian; walsingham; wharton; woman; world; young lady
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175. edgeworth-patronage-1814
     • author: edgeworth
     • title: edgeworth-patronage-1814
     • date: 1814
     • words: 194823
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: When they returned to the ball-room, Count Altenberg was in earnest conversation with Mr. Percy; but Mrs. Falconer observed that the Count saw Miss Caroline Percy the moment she re-appeared. At last Mr. Percy touched upon love and women, and, by accident, mentioned an Italian lady whom they had known abroad.--A flash of pale anger, almost of frenzy, passed across Lord Oldborough's countenance: he turned short, darted full on Mr. Percy a penetrating, imperious, interrogative look.--Answered by the innocence, the steady openness of Mr. Percy's countenance, Lord Oldborough grew red instantly, and, conscious of his unusual change of colour, stood actually abashed.
     • keywords: alfred; altenberg; buckhurst; caroline; caroline percy; character; clay; colonel; commissioner; count; country; day; dear; falconer; family; father; friend; georgiana; godfrey; good; great; having; heart; hope; hungerford; jane; ladies; lady; lady jane; ladyship; letter; life; like; little; look; lord; lord oldborough; lordship; love; man; manner; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; oldborough; people; percy; room; rosamond; said; sir; son; sure; thing; thought; time; world; young; young lady
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176. eliot-adam-1859
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-adam-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 220686
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: At last Adam lifted up his head, for there was a general movement round him. Poor Adam was led on to speak about Arthur because he thought Hetty would be pleased to know that the young squire was so ready to befriend him; the fact entered into his future prospects, which he would like to seem promising in her eyes.
     • keywords: adam; adam bede; arthur; aunt; bartle; best; better; bit; church; dark; day; dinah; donnithorne; door; eyes; face; farm; father; feeling; fellow; fine; folks; god; going; good; got; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; hetty; home; house; irwine; lad; left; let; life; like; lisbeth; little; long; look; looking; love; making; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nay; new; old; people; place; poor; poyser; pretty; right; room; round; saw; seth; sir; sure; tell; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; voice; want; way; woman; words; work; young
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177. eliot-daniel-1876
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-daniel-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 315298
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: What did you say was the name of that gentleman near the door? Deronda--Mr. Deronda. Mr. Deronda found her only just in time to save her.
     • keywords: anna; answer; arrowpoint; best; better; brother; care; change; children; consciousness; course; davilow; day; dear; deronda; door; effect; eyes; ezra; face; fact; family; far; father; feeling; felt; gascoigne; getting; going; good; grandcourt; great; gwendolen; half; hand; hans; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; hugo; husband; kind; klesmer; know; lady; left; life; light; like; likely; little; long; looking; love; lush; making; mamma; man; marriage; mean; men; meyrick; mind; mirah; miss; moment; mordecai; morning; mother; mrs; near; new; old; people; place; poor; possible; present; question; ready; reason; rex; room; round; said; saw; self; sense; set; sir; sort; soul; speech; strong; sure; things; thinking; thought; till; time; tone; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; words; world; years; young
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178. eliot-felix-1866
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-felix-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 182646
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: For if the mixed political conditions of Treby Magna had not been acted on by the passing of the Reform Bill, Mr. Harold Transome would not have presented himself as a candidate for North Loamshire, Treby would not have been a polling-place, Mr. Matthew Jermyn would not have been on affable terms with a Dissenting preacher and his flock, and the venerable town would not have been placarded with handbills, more or less complimentary and retrospective--conditions in this case essential to the where, and the what, without which, as the learned know, there can be no event whatever. On this second of September, when Mr. Harold Transome had had his first interview with Jermyn, and when the attorney went back to his office with new views of canvassing in his mind, Mrs. Holt had put on her bonnet as early as nine o'clock in the morning, and had gone to see the Reverend Rufus Lyon, minister of the Independent Chapel usually spoken of as Malthouse Yard.
     • keywords: better; business; called; christian; church; course; day; dear; debarry; door; esther; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; felix; felix holt; fellow; fine; going; good; got; great; hand; harold; harold transome; head; holt; home; jermyn; johnson; large; life; like; little; long; look; love; lyon; man; men; mind; minister; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; old mr; people; poor; present; right; room; round; saw; sense; sir; small; sort; sure; tell; things; think; thought; time; transome; treby; want; way; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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179. eliot-middlemarch-1872
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-middlemarch-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 321478
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: Well, Harriet, if I am to speak my mind, said Mrs. Plymdale, with emphasis, I must say, anybody would suppose you and Mr. Bulstrode would be delighted with what has happened, for you have done everything to put Mr. Lydgate forward. Now that I am not to have the land, James, I might do as Mr. Bulstrode proposed, and take his place in providing for the Hospital; and I have to consult Mr. Lydgate, to know thoroughly what are the prospects of doing good by keeping up the present plans.
     • keywords: bad; believe; best; better; brooke; bulstrode; business; cadwallader; caleb; casaubon; celia; certain; change; chettam; course; day; deal; dear; dorothea; end; eyes; face; fact; family; farebrother; father; featherstone; feeling; fellow; fine; fred; garth; getting; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; husband; james; kind; knowledge; ladislaw; large; leave; left; let; life; like; little; long; looking; love; lowick; lydgate; making; man; marriage; mary; mean; men; middlemarch; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; old; opinion; people; place; point; poor; poor mr; possible; present; question; raffles; reason; right; room; rosamond; round; seeing; sense; set; sir; small; sort; speak; strong; subject; sure; tell; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; town; turn; uncle; usual; vincy; want; way; wife; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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180. eliot-mill-1860
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-mill-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 213019
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: A truly respectable young man, Mr Tom Tulliver; quite likely to rise in the world! An' there was niver nobody else gen me nothin' but what I got by my own sharpness, only you, Mr Tom; if it wasn't Bill Fawks as gen me the terrier pup istid o' drowndin't it, an' I had to jaw him a good un afore he'd give it me.
     • keywords: aunt; better; bit; bob; brother; business; come; day; dear; eyes; face; family; far; father; feeling; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; lucy; maggie; maggie tulliver; man; mill; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mr deane; mr glegg; mr stelling; mr stephen; mr tom; mr tulliver; mr wakem; mrs; new; ogg; old; people; philip; poor; poor maggie; pullet; right; room; round; said; sense; sister; small; sort; stephen; sure; things; think; thought; time; tom; tom tulliver; tone; uncle; voice; wakem; want; way; woman; world; young
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181. eliot-romola-1863
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-romola-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 229557
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: For why is a young man like Poliziano (who was not yet born when I was already held worthy to maintain a discussion with Thomas of Sarzana) to have a glorious memory as a commentator on the Pandectswhy is Ficino, whose Latin is an offence to me, and who wanders purblind among the superstitious fancies that marked the decline at once of art, literature, and philosophy, to descend to posterity as the very high priest of Platonism, while I, who am more than their equal, have not effected anything but scattered work, which will be appropriated by other men? Perdio, I have no affection for them, said Tito, with a shrug; servitude agrees well with a religion like theirs, which lies in the renunciation of all that makes life precious to other men.
     • keywords: baldassarre; bardo; bernardo; better; black; care; certain; chapter; church; city; close; coming; dark; day; dead; death; door; end; eyes; face; far; father; feeling; felt; fire; florence; florentine; fra; frate; girolamo; god; good; great; greek; half; hand; head; heart; high; hope; house; husband; know; lay; leave; left; life; light; like; lips; little; long; look; love; making; man; men; messer; mind; moment; monna; morning; near; need; nello; new; old; old man; people; piazza; piero; place; poor; power; ready; romola; round; said; san; savonarola; saw; self; sense; small; sort; speak; strong; tell; tessa; things; thought; time; tito; tone; true; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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182. eliot-silas-1861
     • author: eliot
     • title: eliot-silas-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 73465
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: They had, perhaps, heard their fathers and mothers hint that Silas Marner could cure folks' rheumatism if he had a mind, and add, still more darkly, that if you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience, but for the villagers near whom he had come to settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation, and his advent from an unknown region called North'ard.
     • keywords: cass; child; day; dolly; door; dunstan; eppie; eyes; father; godfrey; good; hand; head; life; like; little; long; look; macey; man; marner; master; men; mind; miss; money; nancy; old; raveloe; right; round; silas; silas marner; squire; things; thought; time; way
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183. ferrier-inheritance-1824
     • author: ferrier
     • title: ferrier-inheritance-1824
     • date: 1824
     • words: 162705
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: Mrs. St. Clair had spared no pains to render her daughter as great an adept in dissimulation as she was herself; but all her endeavours had proved unsuccessful, and Miss St. Clair remained pretty much as nature had formed her-a mixture of wheat and tares, flowers and weeds. Much was said about having a longer visitof taking a family dinner-of spending a few days-of leaving Miss St. Clair to spend a little time and get acquainted with her cousins; and Mrs. St. Clair could only disengage herself from this well-meant hospitality, by pro- mising to take the earliest opportunity of repeating her visit.
     • keywords: adam; bell; better; black; clair; colonel; colonel delmour; countess; cousin; daughter; day; dear; delmour; earl; eyes; family; feelings; gertrude; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; inheritance; know; lady; lady rossville; leave; length; lewiston; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; lyndsay; major; man; manner; mind; miss; miss st; moment; mother; mrs; old; person; pratt; present; room; rossville; sure; think; thought; till; time; uncle; voice; way; wish; world
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184. ferrier-marriage-1818
     • author: ferrier
     • title: ferrier-marriage-1818
     • date: 1818
     • words: 148658
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: No such thing: he yesterday stumbled upon Lady Juliana all alone, and, in the weakest of his weak moments, informed her that the loss he had sustained was no less than the loss of that precious jewel his heart; and that the object of his search was no other than that of Miss Mary Douglas to replace it! Many were the inquiries about dear Lady Juliana; hoped she had rested well; hoped the found the bed comfortable, etc. etc.
     • keywords: adelaide; aunt; better; colonel; come; cousin; daughter; day; dear; dear lady; dear mary; douglas; eyes; family; father; feelings; friend; general; glenfern; good; great; grizzy; hand; head; heart; henry; hope; house; husband; jacky; lady; lady audley; lady emily; lady juliana; lady maclaughlan; ladyship; length; lennox; life; like; lindore; little; long; look; lord; love; man; manner; mary; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; nicky; old; people; place; poor; room; sampson; short; sir; sister; sure; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
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185. frere-mazes-1821
     • author: frere
     • title: frere-mazes-1821
     • date: 1821
     • words: 109922
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: She still re- tained, rather increased than impaired, the valuable patrimony which had purchased� ## p. 253 (#261) ############################################ MAZES FO LIFE. Such deference the laborious classes of society pay to those whom they falsely call their betters, that honest Stubble, though at that time in a dis- c 2� ## p. 28 (#42) ############################################## 28 MAZES OF LIFE.
     • keywords: act; best; brother; cause; chapter; clermont; con; consequence; count; day; domville; door; effect; face; fair; family; father; gentleman; good; hand; head; heart; henry; hero; high; house; ing; intended; king; know; lady; late; left; length; letter; life; like; little; long; louise; love; man; manner; mazes; means; men; mind; morning; night; old; order; person; place; present; return; room; said; self; short; sir; sister; son; state; subject; sum; thought; time; tion; took; voice; way; young; youth
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186. galt-entail-1823
     • author: galt
     • title: galt-entail-1823
     • date: 1823
     • words: 149256
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: ane o' the hen's feathers is playing at whirley wi' the breath o' your nostril!' Thus ended the annunciation of the conjugal felicity of which Grippy was the architect. He's noo o' a time o' life when I would like he were settled in the world, and amang a' our frien's there's no a family I would be mair content to see him connected wi' than the Givans, who are come o' the best blood, and are, moreover, o' great wealth and property.' 'Weel, if e'er there was the like o' you, gudeman,' replied the Leddy, delighted with the news; 'an ye were to set your mind on a purpose o' marriage between a goose and a grumphie, I dinna think but ye would make it a' come to pass.
     • keywords: better; betty; chapter; charles; charlie; claud; come; daughter; day; exclaimed; family; father; frae; george; glasgow; great; grippy; hae; hand; head; heart; hope; house; keelevin; ken; lady; laird; law; leddy; left; let; like; little; long; mak; man; man o; manner; milrookit; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nae; old; ony; replied; room; said; sic; son; sure; tak; thing; thought; time; time o; uncle; walkinshaw; walter; watty; way; weel; wife; ye hae; ye ken; ye'll; young
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187. gaskell-dark-1863
     • author: gaskell
     • title: gaskell-dark-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 68556
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: For his next partner he had one of the Lady ---s; for the duchess, to whom the--shire squires and their little county politics and contempts were alike unknown, saw no reason why her lovely Lady Sophy should not have a good partner, whatever his pedigree might be, and begged the stewards to introduce Mr. Wilkins to her. Mr. Wilkins had given his son an education and tastes beyond his position.
     • keywords: come; corbet; day; dixon; dunster; ellinor; father; good; great; hamley; house; letter; life; like; little; long; man; miss; monro; mrs; ness; night; old; ralph; room; said; thought; time; way; wilkins; words; young
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188. gaskell-mary-1848
     • author: gaskell
     • title: gaskell-mary-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 165568
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: The waves of time seemed long since to have swept away all trace of poor Mary Barton. poor Mary!
     • keywords: alice; away; bit; carson; child; come; day; death; door; eyes; face; far; father; god; going; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jem; job; john; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; margaret; mary; mary barton; men; mind; mother; mrs; night; old; place; poor; room; saw; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; way; wilson; words; work; young
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189. gaskell-north-1855
     • author: gaskell
     • title: gaskell-north-1855
     • date: 1855
     • words: 186010
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Mr. Hale had received several letters from Mr. Bell, and one or two from Mr. Thornton, and he was anxious to ascertain at once a good many particulars respecting his position and chances of success there, which he could only do by an interview with the latter gentleman. Mr. Thornton called almost directly after you left; and as I understood, from what the gentleman said, you would be back in an hour, I told him so, and he came again about five minutes ago, and said he would wait for Mr. Hale.
     • keywords: bell; bessy; better; come; day; dear; dixon; door; edith; eyes; face; far; father; frederick; going; good; great; hale; half; hand; head; heart; helstone; higgins; home; house; kind; left; lennox; life; like; little; long; look; mamma; man; margaret; margaret hale; men; milton; mind; miss; mother; mrs; night; old; papa; people; place; poor; room; round; speak; sure; tell; thornton; thought; time; way; wish; words; work
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190. gaskell-ruth-1853
     • author: gaskell
     • title: gaskell-ruth-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 164481
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: But remember, said Mr Benson, how strict Mr Bradshaw has always been with his children. They coincided in many points with those held by Mr Benson, but he once or twice interposed with a plea for those who might differ; and then he was heard by Mr Bradshaw with a kind of evident and indulgent pity, such as one feels for a child who unwittingly talks nonsense.
     • keywords: better; boy; child; come; day; dear; denbigh; door; eyes; face; father; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; jemima; kind; left; leonard; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; miss benson; mother; mr bellingham; mr benson; mr bradshaw; mr donne; mr farquhar; mrs; night; old; people; place; poor; quiet; room; ruth; sally; sir; sure; tell; thought; time; voice; way; words; young
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191. gaskell-sylvia-1863
     • author: gaskell
     • title: gaskell-sylvia-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 196093
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Philip saw, however, that there was some wish ungratified on the part of the little maiden which he was expected to inquire into, and, accordingly, he did his duty. As it was, he opened the door, made a noise, and Sylvia started up, her face all one flush, her eyes wild and uncertain; she looked about her as if she did not know where she was; pushed the hair off her hot forehead; all which actions Philip saw, dismayed and regretful.
     • keywords: bell; better; child; come; coming; coulson; daniel; day; days; dead; door; eyes; face; far; father; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hepburn; hester; home; house; husband; kind; kinraid; know; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; men; mind; molly; monkshaven; mother; new; night; niver; old; philip; place; poor; robson; round; said; saw; sea; set; shop; sure; sylvia; tell; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; way; wife; woman; words; young
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192. gissing-born-1892
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-born-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 161007
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: 'I have come to Twybridge,' began Marcella, gently and respectfully, 'that is to say, I have stopped in passing--to ask for the address of Mr. Godwin Peak. The name of the student called upon to come forward was--Godwin Peak. 'Beaten!' escaped from Buckland's lips.
     • keywords: buckland; chilvers; christian; course; day; doubt; earwaker; eyes; face; far; father; felt; friend; godwin; godwin peak; good; half; hand; home; hope; house; interest; kind; length; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; love; malkin; man; marcella; martin; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; mother; moxey; mrs; new; old; peak; people; position; replied; room; saw; self; sidwell; sister; smile; talk; things; thought; time; voice; warricombe; way; whitelaw; woman; years; young
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193. gissing-crown-1899
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-crown-1899
     • date: 1899
     • words: 122071
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: But, put it at the best, he would be doing as other men do, taking a wife for his solace, for the defeat of his assailing blood. Intensely self-conscious, he suffered much from a habit of comparing, contrasting himself with other men, with men who achieved things, who made their way, who played a part in the world.
     • keywords: arnold; brother; come; course; daniel; day; derwent; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; hannaford; heart; hope; house; irene; jacks; know; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; olga; otway; piers; piers otway; room; smile; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; woman; world; years
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194. gissing-denzil-1892
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-denzil-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 81856
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: If Mr. Quarrier should come whilst I'm away, say that Mrs. Quarrier and I have gone out, but shall be back very soon. Here were seated eleven persons: Mr. Liversedge and his wife, their seven children (four girls and three boys), Miss Pope the governess, and Mr. Denzil Quarrier; waited upon by two maid-servants, with ruddy cheeks, and in spotless attire.
     • keywords: course; day; denzil; eyes; face; glazzard; good; half; house; life; like; lilian; little; liversedge; long; look; man; mind; moment; mrs; mumbray; northway; old; people; polterham; quarrier; room; serena; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; wade; way; wife; woman
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195. gissing-emancipated-1890
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-emancipated-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 146073
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Local talk had inspired Mrs. Mallard with a prejudice against him, but substantial services mitigated this, and the widow was in course of time less uneasy at her son's being practically under the guardianship of this singular man of business. Mrs. Mallard was given to understand that no expenses were involved save those of the lad's support in Manchester, where Banks lived, and Mallard himself did not till long after know that his friend had paid the artist a fee out of his own pocket.
     • keywords: cecily; course; day; denyer; doran; eleanor; elgar; end; eyes; face; far; felt; girl; good; hand; home; hope; house; husband; kind; left; lessingham; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; madeline; mallard; man; mean; mind; miriam; morning; mrs; naples; old; people; reuben; room; spence; talk; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; wife; wish; woman; work
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196. gissing-eves-1895
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-eves-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 56547
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: Mr. Hilliard will tell you all he can about the Black Country. Of course I don't mean you, Mr. Hilliard, but--oh!
     • keywords: better; come; course; day; eve; eyes; girl; good; hilliard; life; like; little; london; long; look; man; money; narramore; patty; place; talk; thought; time; way
     • versions: original; plain text
197. gissing-isabel-1885
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-isabel-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 135983
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: At present she had to be content with a couple of rooms in Mr. Meresâ�� house. Do you know yourself?â�� Kingcote went on, under his breath.
     • keywords: adaâ �; asquithâ �; bernard?â �; canâ �; clarendon; didnâ �; donâ �; fatherâ �; friendâ �; girl.â �; havenâ �; him?â �; isnâ �; it.â �; itâ �; know; london.â �; me?â �; meresâ �; mustnâ �; myself.â �; news?â �; oneâ �; oâ �; sheâ �; sisterâ �; thatâ �; thereâ �; time.â �; well?â �; weâ �; womanâ �; wonâ �; worldâ �; youâ �; â �; � ada; � chapter; � clock; � dear; � gabriel; � good; � hilda; � isabel; � kingcote; � lacour; � ll; � market; � mary; � mrs; � robert; � s; � t; � vincent; � �
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198. gissing-lifes-1888
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-lifes-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 144035
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: The last to enter the room was the governess, Miss Emily Hood. Look at Emily Hood: why, that girl was keeping herself, and, most likely, paying her mother's butcher's bill into the bargain, and her advantages had been fewer than Jessie's.
     • keywords: athel; baxendale; beatrice; better; come; course; dagworthy; day; dunfield; emily; eyes; face; father; felt; girl; good; half; hand; heart; home; hood; hour; house; kind; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; old; room; rossall; said; self; things; thought; time; voice; way; wilfrid; woman; words; years
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199. gissing-nether-1889
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-nether-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 164769
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: I came back, and I found little Jane, and then bit by bit I began to understand what my duty was. 'Oh, your name's Jane Snowdon, is it?' said the barman.
     • keywords: bessie; better; bob; child; children; clara; clem; course; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; felt; girl; good; half; hand; head; hewett; home; house; jane; john; joseph; kind; kirkwood; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; michael; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; night; old; peckover; pennyloaf; people; poor; room; said; sidney; snowdon; speak; street; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; work; world; years
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200. gissing-new-1891
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-new-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 190775
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Who hasn't seen or heard of such men? That's what such men are driven to.
     • keywords: amy; better; biffen; book; course; day; dora; end; eyes; face; far; father; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; home; hope; house; jasper; kind; life; like; literary; little; live; long; look; love; man; marian; maud; milvain; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; old; people; poor; reardon; room; sure; talk; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; wife; wish; woman; word; work; year; yule
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201. gissing-odd-1893
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-odd-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 140749
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: I do, do wish, sighed Miss Barfoot, with a pained smile, that I knew some honest man who would be likely to fall in love with little Monica! For some reason or other Miss Barfoot left the room.
     • keywords: alice; barfoot; better; course; day; everard; eyes; face; girl; going; good; great; half; home; hope; hour; house; husband; kind; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; marriage; mind; miss; miss barfoot; moment; monica; mrs; nunn; old; people; place; rhoda; room; sister; sure; talk; things; thought; time; virginia; way; widdowson; wife; wish; woman; work
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202. gissing-paying-1895
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-paying-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 28037
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: I haven't learnt to do anything, and I suppose I shall never need to.' 'Do you wish to see much society?' inquired Mrs. Mumford, who was thinking rapidly, 'or should you prefer a few really nice people? The first sight of the portly lady made the situation clearer to Mrs. Mumford.
     • keywords: cobb; derrick; emmeline; girl; good; higgins; home; house; like; louise; miss; mrs; mumford; people
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203. gissing-thyrza-1887
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-thyrza-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 200455
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: She was about to say something, but her cousin replied rapidly: 'Oh, Mr. Egremont is in London--at least, he was a month ago. But I can count on Mr. Egremont for at least four sides--well, three.'
     • keywords: ackroyd; annabel; better; bower; come; course; day; dear; door; egremont; end; eyes; face; gilbert; girl; going; good; grail; great; half; hand; home; hope; house; kind; know; life; like; little; long; look; love; lyddy; lydia; man; mind; miss; morning; mrs; night; old; ormonde; people; room; said; sister; street; sure; talk; things; thought; thyrza; time; totty; voice; way; words; work
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204. gissing-town-1898
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-town-1898
     • date: 1898
     • words: 66847
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Mr. Gammon read this with an appreciative smile, which, accompanied by a nod, became a greeting to Mrs. Clover, who was aware of him from within the shop. To afford herself occupation Mrs. Clover went into the glass and china business, assisted by her parents' experience, and by the lively interest of her friend Mr. Gammon.
     • keywords: bubb; clover; course; day; door; face; friend; gammon; girl; good; greenacre; house; know; letter; like; little; look; lord; man; mind; miss; mrs; old; polly; polperro; sparkes; sure; tell; thought; time; way; young
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205. gissing-unclassed-1884
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-unclassed-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 127444
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: On the following day, just as he had collected his rents, and was on his way out of Litany Lane, Waymark was surprised at coming face to face with Mrs. Casti; yet more surprised when he perceived that she had come out from a public-house. But when she at length read upon the faces of those about her that her fate hung in the balance, and when she saw the face of little Ida, come there she knew not how, looking upon her from the bedside, then her purpose yielded, and in a whisper she told her father's address, and begged that he might be apprised of her state.
     • keywords: better; child; course; day; door; enderby; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; half; hand; harriet; home; house; ida; julian; kind; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; maud; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; room; things; thought; till; time; voice; waymark; woman; woodstock; work
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206. gissing-whirlpool-1897
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-whirlpool-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 166312
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: How could it be quieter?--unless one followed the example of Alma Rolfe; but Alma was quite an exceptional person--to be admired and liked, not to be imitated. CHAPTER 13 He forced the window; he rushed into the room, and there before him, pallid, trembling, agonising, stood Alma Rolfe.
     • keywords: abbott; alma; better; business; care; carnaby; children; course; day; dear; doubt; dymes; eyes; face; friend; frothingham; good; great; half; hand; harvey; harvey rolfe; head; home; house; hugh; husband; kind; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; matter; mean; mind; moment; money; mrs; new; old; people; redgrave; replied; rolfe; room; sibyl; strangeways; sure; talk; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; world; years
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207. gissing-year-1894
     • author: gissing
     • title: gissing-year-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 134743
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Of her intimate acquaintances only one could lay claim to intellectual superiority, and even she, Nancy Lord to wit, shrank from the ordeals of Burlington House. On their return to London, the children passed from Miss. Morgan's care into that of Mrs. Baker, who kept house for the widower at Champion Hill; but Jessica did not wholly lose sight of them, and, at their request, she persuaded Nancy Lord to make an occasional call with her.
     • keywords: barmby; beatrice; better; business; come; course; crewe; damerel; day; eyes; face; fanny; father; friend; girl; good; half; home; horace; house; jessica; kind; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; mary; mean; mind; miss; money; mrs; nancy; old; people; place; room; samuel; sure; talk; tarrant; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; young
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208. gore-banker-1843
     • author: gore
     • title: gore-banker-1843
     • date: 1843
     • words: 146552
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: 41 to favour the public with the measure of your fortune and either policy as a banker, or weakness as a man, in- clined old Hamlyn to create an exaggerated idea of his property, by providing himself with a residence requiring a nobleman's income and establishment for its support. Acting on this principle, old Hamlyn preferred build- ing one that was excellent, and completing his establish- ment on the model of that of Lord Vernon; and the con- sequence was that, when the new family mansion of the Hamlyns came to be discussed at justice meetings, turn- pike meetings, and quarter sessions, the smaller squires of the neighbourhood ventured to predict that, on the death of the old banker, and division of his property, Dean Park would prove too much for his son.
     • keywords: banker; better; brother; burlington; business; city; colonel; colonel hamilton; country; court; dartford; daughter; day; dean; dear; dinner; ellen; eyes; family; father; friend; good; great; half; hamilton; hamlyn; hand; having; head; heart; henry; home; house; hyde; lady; life; like; little; london; long; lord; lydia; man; manor; markham; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; park; people; place; poor; present; richard hamlyn; room; said; sir; son; spilsby; time; vernon; walter; walter hamlyn; way; wife; world; years; young
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209. gore-marchmont-1824
     • author: gore
     • title: gore-marchmont-1824
     • date: 1824
     • words: 16005
     • flesch: 54
     • summary: The present visit of Lord Greville to the Cross, was supposed to originate in the dangerous illness of an old and favourite female servant, who had held undisturbed control over the household since the death of the first Lady Greville about ten years before. Lord Greville had never visited the North since the death of his first wife, a young and beautiful woman whom he had tenderly loved, and who died and was interred at Greville Cross.
     • keywords: affection; court; greville; hand; helen; husband; king; lady; lady greville; life; lord; mind; theresa; wife
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210. gore-soldier-1831
     • author: gore
     • title: gore-soldier-1831
     • date: 1831
     • words: 156815
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: If Camille Valazy, from his first hour of maturity till the present, could have pointed out a hope dear to his heart, an event desirable beyond his most sanguine expect- ations, it would have been the power of conferring an im- portant obligation on Madame de St. Florentin. Emiline de Navelles had been a bright particular star shining in the heaven of his fancy; and Emiline de St. Florentin could be nor more nor less.
     • keywords: air; assembly; blood; camille; camille valazy; cause; child; children; country; court; cousin; cried; daughter; day; de st; dear; delplanque; emiline; euphroisine; exclaimed; eyes; family; father; fayette; flavie; florentin; france; friend; general; good; guard; hand; head; heart; hour; house; king; life; like; little; long; lonie; lyons; madame; madame de; madelon; mademoiselle; man; manoir; marchioness; marquis; maximilien; mind; mirepoix; moment; monsieur; mother; national; navelles; new; night; paris; party; person; place; poor; presence; present; public; queen; return; round; royal; safety; sir; soldier; thought; thy; time; valazy; voice; way; woman; young
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211. gray-silence-1886
     • author: gray
     • title: gray-silence-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 159998
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: preach a little more precisely than other men, or that any grave lapse on their part is not worse in them than in others. Everard's next week, therefore, was spent within the dreary connes of the prison, partly at accounts and partly at hospital duty, in which he was much more useful than other men on account of his previous training, but duties which he particularly abhorred for many reasons; among others, on account of the connement and the leisure they gave the mind for brooding.
     • keywords: air; alma; better; boy; brother; children; church; come; continued; cyril; dark; day; dean; dean maitland; dear; death; deep; door; everard; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; felt; friend; good; got; granfer; gray; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; henry; home; hope; hour; human; lee; left; life; light; like; lilian; little; long; look; love; maitland; man; marion; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; observed; old; people; poor; quiet; road; room; round; rst; saw; silence; sir; swaynestone; sweet; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; words; world; years; young; youth
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212. griffin-collegians-1829
     • author: griffin
     • title: griffin-collegians-1829
     • date: 1829
     • words: 162846
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Trust not to the permanence of your present feelings, nor to the practical correctness ## p. 127 (#131) ############################################ trie COLLEEN BAWN. ## p. 245 (#249) ############################################ Tri: COLLEEN BAWN.
     • keywords: anne; bawn; chair; chute; colleen; colleen bawn; continued; creagh; cregan; daly; danny; dat; day; dear; door; eily; eyes; face; fair; father; feeling; fire; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hand; hardress; head; heart; house; kyrle; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; lowry; man; manner; master; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; people; person; place; poll; poor; returned; room; said; sir; small; sure; tell; thought; time; tis; voice; way; word; young
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213. haggard-beatrice-1890
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-beatrice-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 112804
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: The only Geoffrey that I know is Mr. Geoffrey Bingham, the barrister, who is staying at the Vicarage, and whose life Beatrice saved. Have you got Miss Beatrice? shouted a voice.
     • keywords: beatrice; bingham; child; come; course; davies; day; effie; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; geoffrey; good; granger; great; hand; head; heart; honoria; house; lady; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; night; old; owen; room; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world
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214. haggard-brighteyes-1891
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-brighteyes-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 107439
     • flesch: 95
     • summary: Comes Eric to the feast by the road of Golden Falls, Gudruda? Nay, no man may try that path and live. Then Eric bade men clear the decks of the dead, and tend the wounded.
     • keywords: asmund; atli; come; dead; eric; eric brighteyes; face; gizur; good; great; gudruda; hall; hand; heart; like; lord; love; man; men; ospakar; sat; saw; skallagrim; swanhild; thee; thou; thou art; thy
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215. haggard-colonel-1889
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-colonel-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 123711
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Jeffries is our clergyman, you know, Colonel Quaritchand Dr. Bass and the two Miss Smiths, one of whom he is supposed to be in love with, and Mr. and Mrs. Quest, and Mr. Edward Cossey, and a few more. Young as the face was, it had, if observed closely, a somewhat worn and worried air, such as one would scarcely expect to see upon the countenance of a gentleman born to such brilliant fortunes, and so well fitted by nature to do them justice, as was Mr. Edward Cossey.
     • keywords: came; colonel; cossey; course; day; edward; edward cossey; face; father; george; good; great; hand; harold; house; ida; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; man; matter; mind; molle; money; old; place; quaritch; quest; right; room; said; sir; squire; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman
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216. haggard-dawn-1884
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-dawn-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 191319
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Presently it turned and saw him, and he recognized the great grey eyes and golden hair of little Angela Caresfoot. In the first place, Love's young dreamhe was barely thirtycame to a rude awakening, for, once married, it was impossible though he had, in common with the majority of little men, a tolerably good opinion of himselfbut that he should perceive that his wife did not care one brass farthing about him.
     • keywords: angela; arthur; bellamy; better; caresfoot; carr; course; cousin; day; dead; dear; end; eyes; face; father; fraser; george; girl; good; great; hand; happy; head; heart; heigham; house; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; married; matter; mean; mildred; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; old; philip; pigott; place; poor; room; round; said; sir; speak; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; world; years; young
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217. haggard-desire-1890
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-desire-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 85495
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: And wherefore comest thou here alone in a ship of dead men, and with more treasure than a king's ransom? be at rest for an hour; as in death men believe they shall rest, But they wake!
     • keywords: bow; dead; death; eyes; face; gods; golden; great; hand; hathor; heart; helen; like; love; man; men; meriamun; odysseus; pharaoh; queen; rei; thee; thou; thou art; thou wanderer; thy; wanderer
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218. haggard-jess-1887
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-jess-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 112481
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Without love man is a brute, and nothing but a brute; with love he draws near to God. [*] It is not a very rare thing to meet white men in South Africa who believe more or less in the efficacy of native witchcraft, and, although such a proceeding is forbidden by law, who at a pinch will not hesitate to consult the witch-doctors.
     • keywords: bessie; boers; cart; day; dead; english; eyes; face; frank; frank muller; going; good; great; half; hand; head; horses; house; jantje; jess; john; left; life; like; little; look; love; man; men; mind; muller; niel; night; old; old man; place; round; saw; silas; tell; thought; time; uncle; way; woman
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219. haggard-joan-1895
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-joan-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 160194
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Two days after her visit to Mr. Levinger Joan began her simple preparations for departure, for it was her intention to leave Bradmouth by the ten o'clock train on the following morning. You've done me a good turn, ma'am, and now I'm sure that I'll marry Joan; but for all that a day shall come when you will wish that your hand had been cut off before you touched those forty sovereigns: you remember my words when you lie a-dying, Mrs. Gillingwater, with all your deeds behind you and all the doom before.
     • keywords: better; bird; course; day; dear; ellen; emma; eyes; face; father; gillingwater; girl; good; graves; great; henry; henry graves; house; joan; joan haste; lady; levinger; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; right; rock; room; said; samuel; sir; sir henry; things; thought; time; way; wish; woman
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220. haggard-mist-1894
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-mist-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 146406
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: When they had finished their meal, at the request of Leonard Juanna translated all that had been said in the temple, and among her listeners there was none more interested than Soa. Then at last Leonard broke out.
     • keywords: baas; day; dead; death; dwarf; eyes; face; father; francisco; gods; good; great; hand; head; heart; juanna; left; leonard; life; like; little; look; love; man; men; mist; nam; night; olfan; otter; people; place; priest; said; shepherdess; snake; soa; stone; stood; tell; thought; time; water; way; white; woman
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221. haggard-nada-1892
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-nada-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 115219
     • flesch: 92
     • summary: You crept up behind the giant Chaka, and with you came others, great men of a royal look. They were all great men, made fierce with rage and shame.
     • keywords: axe; chaka; dead; death; dingaan; father; galazi; great; hand; heart; king; kraal; like; little; man; men; mopo; nada; people; thou; umslopogaas; wolf; wolves; woman
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222. haggard-witch-1884
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-witch-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 135460
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: No, miss, only to Mr. Ernest in a general way (so that wicked Ernest had set a trap to catch her). For a long while they could find no game, but at last Ernest came across a fine bull-eland standing rubbing himself against a mimosa thorn-tree.
     • keywords: alston; better; boy; cardus; ceswick; day; dear; door; dorothy; ernest; eva; eyes; face; fellow; florence; going; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; jeremy; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; old; plowden; right; room; round; said; things; think; thought; time; way; white; woman; years; young
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223. haggard-wizard-1896
     • author: haggard
     • title: haggard-wizard-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 60900
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Yonder where we shall halt is a mount, and on that mount stands a tree; it is called the Tree of Death, and it stretches a thousand hands to Heaven, praying for mercy that does not come, and from its boughs there hangs fruit, a fruit of dead men--yes, twenty of them hang there this day. Until that people is conquered--which very likely will not be for generations, seeing that they live in Central Africa, occupying a territory that white men do not desire--no missionary will dare again to visit them.
     • keywords: day; death; god; great; hafela; hokosa; king; little; man; men; messenger; nodwengo; noma; owen; people; place; prince; said; white; woman
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224. hamilton-cottagers-1808
     • author: hamilton
     • title: hamilton-cottagers-1808
     • date: 1808
     • words: 68624
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: As such Mrs Mason received it; but she now found that Mr Stewart was commissioned to make the comfort of her situation a first object of attention. Observing Mrs Mason smile, she paused, and then good-humouredly added, I canna expect every ane to think as highly of my gude- man as I do; but I am sure I may safely say, that, baith for learning and worth, he's equal to a higher post than schoolmaster o' Glenburnie.
     • keywords: children; cottagers; cried; day; father; glenburnie; god; good; great; having; heart; house; lady; little; lord; macclarty; man; mary; miss; mollins; mother; mrs; mrs macclarty; mrs mason; poor; returned; room; stewart; thought; time
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225. hardy-desperate-1871
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-desperate-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 144122
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Why, although upon the surface it appeared her whole property was for Miss Cytherea, by the word wife being used, and not Cytherea's name, whoever was the wife o' Manston would come in for't. 'And Miss Cytherea was now Manston's widow and only relative, and inherited all absolutely.' 'True, she did.
     • keywords: aldclyffe; brother; continued; course; cytherea; day; door; edward; evening; eyes; face; father; fire; good; graye; half; hand; home; house; kind; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; long; looking; love; manston; matter; men; mind; miss; miss aldclyffe; morning; mrs; night; old; owen; place; room; round; said; saw; springrove; steward; tell; thing; thought; time; train; way; wife; woman; words; young
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226. hardy-far-1874
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-far-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 139180
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: I must get used to such as that; other men have, and so shall I. Oak then left him. They were all carefully packed in paper, and each package was labelled Bathsheba Boldwood, a date being subjoined six years in advance in every instance.
     • keywords: bathsheba; boldwood; coggan; come; day; door; end; everdene; eyes; face; fanny; farmer; feeling; gabriel; gabriel oak; going; good; great; half; hand; head; hill; home; house; joseph; left; liddy; life; like; little; long; looking; love; ma'am; man; men; mind; miss; mistress; moment; morning; new; night; oak; place; poorgrass; room; round; said; saw; sergeant; shepherd; small; tell; think; thought; time; tis; troy; true; voice; want; way; weatherbury; wish; woman; words; years; young
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227. hardy-hand-1876
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-hand-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 144399
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: 'I suppose,' continued Ethelberta, in the quiet way of one who had only a headache the matter with her, 'that he remembered you after the meeting at Anglebury?' 'Yes, he remembered me.' 'Did you tell me you had seen him before that time?' 'And why shouldn't we?' continued Ethelberta, with interest.
     • keywords: better; came; chickerel; christopher; course; day; door; end; ethelberta; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; good; great; half; hand; house; julian; knollsea; know; lady; ladywell; left; like; little; long; look; lord; lord mountclere; love; man; matter; mean; mind; moment; morning; mountclere; mrs; neigh; night; old; people; petherwin; picotee; place; room; round; sister; sol; thing; thought; time; town; way; wish; woman; words; young
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228. hardy-jude-1895
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-jude-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 147340
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: At the back of the door were fixed two hooks for hanging garments, and from these the forms of the two youngest children were suspended, by a piece of box-cord round each of their necks, while from a nail a few yards off the body of little Jude was hanging in a similar manner. When Jude had seen the two little boxesone containing little Jude, and the other the two smallestdeposited in the earth he hastened back to Sue, who was still in her room, and he therefore did not disturb her just then.
     • keywords: arabella; away; better; boy; care; child; christminster; church; course; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; far; father; friend; going; good; great; half; hand; home; house; husband; jude; know; left; life; little; long; look; love; man; married; men; mind; moment; morning; new; night; old; people; phillotson; place; poor; room; round; saw; school; sue; suppose; tell; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; work; years; young
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229. hardy-laodicean-1881
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-laodicean-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 140859
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Miss De Stancy had great pleasure in giving Mr. Somerset full permission to walk through whatever parts of the building he chose. But the plain features of Miss De Stancy--who she undoubtedly was--were rather severely handled by Somerset's judgment owing to his impression of the previous night.
     • keywords: architect; aunt; captain; captain de; castle; charlotte; course; dare; day; de stancy; door; eyes; face; far; father; going; good; goodman; great; half; hand; havill; house; lady; left; light; like; little; long; looking; love; man; markton; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; old; paula; people; place; power; present; room; round; said; saw; sir; somerset; stancy castle; thought; time; way; window; wish; woman; words; young
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230. hardy-lifes-1894
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-lifes-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 79302
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: When she was indoors and alone Mrs. Harnham thought what a well-bred and chivalrous young man Anna's companion had seemed. No doubt we might get to love each other as warmly as we did in old times?'
     • keywords: anna; better; church; day; door; emily; eyes; face; father; girl; good; great; hand; home; house; joshua; left; life; like; little; long; man; mind; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; place; said; saw; think; thought; time; tony; town; way; wife; woman; years; young
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231. hardy-mayor-1886
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-mayor-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 118203
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: That's Mr. Henchard, the Mayor, at the end of the table, a facing ye; and that's the Council men right and left.... Her mother, though her head was bowed, had already caught from the inn-window tones that strangely riveted her attention, before the old man's words, Mr. Henchard, the Mayor, reached her ears.
     • keywords: business; casterbridge; corn; day; days; donald; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; farfrae; father; girl; good; got; great; half; hand; head; henchard; home; house; husband; jane; left; life; like; little; long; lucetta; man; mind; moment; morning; mother; newson; night; old; place; room; round; sir; street; things; thought; till; time; tis; town; way; wife; window; wish; woman; words; years; young; young man
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232. hardy-pair-1873
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-pair-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 133199
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: With Elfride Swancourt, a powerful reason why the displacement should be successful was that the new-comer was a greater man than the first. 'In writing to Stephen, never by any means mention the name of Elfride Swancourt again.
     • keywords: better; course; day; door; elfride; endelstow; evening; eyes; face; far; father; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; knight; know; lady; left; life; light; like; little; long; look; lord; love; luxellian; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mrs; old; people; place; room; round; smith; stephen; stephen smith; swancourt; thing; thought; time; vicar; way; wish; woman; words; world; years; young
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233. hardy-return-1878
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-return-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 143873
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: However, he says that when people are living upon their capital they must keep down current expenses by turning a penny where they can. The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. It was sometimes suggested that reddlemen were criminals for whose misdeeds other men wrongfully sufferedthat in escaping the law they had not escaped their own consciences, and had taken to the trade as a lifelong penance.
     • keywords: better; boy; christian; clym; course; day; door; egdon; end; eustacia; evening; eyes; face; fairway; far; fire; good; great; half; hand; head; heath; home; hour; house; husband; left; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; place; reddleman; room; round; saw; thing; thomasin; thought; time; tis; venn; walk; way; wife; wildeve; wish; woman; words; yeobright; young
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234. hardy-tess-1891
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-tess-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 151540
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: First she fetched a great basin, and washed Tess's hair with such thoroughness that when dried and brushed it looked twice as much as at other times. But she could not, as at other times, hit the exact under-surface of the cream with the delicate dexterity required, try as she might; sometimes she was cutting down into the milk, sometimes in the air.
     • keywords: angel; angel clare; better; chapter; clare; come; d'urberville; dairyman; day; days; dear; door; durbeyfield; eyes; face; family; far; father; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; izz; know; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; man; marian; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; place; poor; room; round; saw; sir; tell; tess; tess durbeyfield; things; think; thought; till; time; way; white; wife; wish; woman; words; work; world; young
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235. hardy-trumpet-1880
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-trumpet-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 116459
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Bob kissed Anne, and there was no affectation in her receiving that mark of affection as she said through her tears, 'God bless you!' His eyes having lighted on the table-cloth, plates, and viands, he found himself in a position which had a sensible awkwardness for a modest man who always liked to enter only at seasonable times the presence of a girl of such pleasantly soft ways as Anne Garland, she who could make apples seem like peaches, and throw over her shillings the glamour of guineas when she paid him for flour.
     • keywords: anne; anne garland; bob; come; derriman; door; eyes; face; father; festus; garland; going; good; hand; head; home; house; john; john loveday; king; like; little; long; look; loveday; major; man; matilda; men; miller; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; place; room; round; said; saw; thought; time; tis; trumpet; way; window; woman; young
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236. hardy-two-1882
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-two-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 95513
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Had a concert, bazaar, lecture, or Dorcas meeting required the patronage and support of Lady Constantine at this juncture, the circumstance would probably have been sufficient to divert her mind from Swithin St. Cleeve and astronomy for some little time. With experiences so much wider than his, Lady Constantine saw that the chances were perhaps a million to one against Swithin St. Cleeve ever being Astronomer Royal, or Astronomer Extraordinary of any sort; yet the remaining chance in his favour was one of those possibilities which, to a woman of bounding intellect and venturesome fancy, are pleasanter to dwell on than likely issues that have no savour of high speculation in them.
     • keywords: bishop; cleeve; column; come; day; door; eyes; face; going; good; great; hand; home; house; lady constantine; left; letter; life; like; little; long; louis; man; mind; moment; morning; new; night; old; position; room; said; sir; swithin; swithin st; thought; time; tower; viviette; way; welland; woman; world; years; young
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237. hardy-under-1872
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-under-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 59020
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Is that thee, young Dick Dewy? came from the darkness. Then why not stop for fellow-craters--going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well? Dick Dewy faced about and continued his tune in an under-whistle, implying that the business of his mouth could not be checked at a moment's notice by the placid emotion of friendship.
     • keywords: come; day; dewy; dick; eyes; face; fancy; father; geoffrey; good; hand; head; leaf; like; little; look; man; mind; mrs; old; penny; round; said; shiner; time; tis; tranter; vicar; way; william; young
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238. hardy-well-1897
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-well-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 63955
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Jocelyn Pierston hurried after; and, discerning his movement, Avice stood still. he said tenderly; 'Avice Caro!' even now unable to get over the strange feeling that he was twenty years younger, addressing Avice the forsaken.
     • keywords: avice; castle; day; door; face; father; girl; good; hand; house; island; jocelyn; lady; left; like; little; long; man; marcia; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; pierston; room; saw; sir; thought; time; way; woman; years; young
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239. hardy-woodlanders-1887
     • author: hardy
     • title: hardy-woodlanders-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 137982
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: This had been tied across the gig; and as it would be left behind in the town, it would cause no inconvenience to Miss Grace Melbury coming home. She followed his gaze, and saw walking across to him a flexible young creature in whom she perceived the features of her she had known as Miss Grace Melbury, but now looking glorified and refined above her former level.
     • keywords: better; charmond; day; doctor; door; evening; eyes; face; far; father; fitzpiers; giles; giles winterborne; girl; good; grace; grace melbury; great; hand; head; heart; hintock; home; hour; house; husband; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; man; marty; melbury; mind; moment; morning; mrs; night; old; passed; place; room; round; saw; south; stood; things; thought; timber; time; tree; voice; way; wife; window; winterborne; woman; wood; young
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240. hofland-barbadoes-1825
     • author: hofland
     • title: hofland-barbadoes-1825
     • date: 1825
     • words: 36463
     • flesch: 49
     • summary: The agonies of the repentant girl, as this afflictive thought came over her mind, arose to desperation; and Mrs. Harewood, who felt much for her, endeavoured to bestow some comfort upon her; but poor Matilda, who was ever violent, even in her better feelings, could not, for a long time, listen to the kind voice of her consoler--she could only repeat her own faults, recapitulate all the crimes she had been guilty of, and display, in all their native hideousness, such traits of ill-humour, petulance, ungovernable fury, outrageous passion, and vile revenge, as are the natural offspring of the human heart, when its bad propensities are matured by indulgence, particularly in those warm countries, where the mind partakes the nature of the soil, and slavery in one race of beings gives power to all the bad passions of another. The warm fume of the basin was offensive to the invalid--Me no likee brothies, said she; and as it was not instantly removed, she unhappily pushed away the plate, and turned the scalding contents of the basin completely into the bosom of poor Matilda, as she reclined towards her.
     • keywords: charles; child; dear; edmund; ellen; good; great; hanson; harewood; heart; little; mamma; matilda; mind; mother; mrs; poor; time; young; zebby
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241. hofland-moderation-1825
     • author: hofland
     • title: hofland-moderation-1825
     • date: 1825
     • words: 51372
     • flesch: 58
     • summary: But how am I to do it, dear Emma? By inducing him to pursue his studies unceasingly, and refusing to marry him tili he has taken his degree by renouncing, my� ## p. 106 (#114) ############################################ 10G MODERATION. This silence did not proceed from awe, for to confess the truth, that was a quality the Rector was rather deemed deficient in his power of inspiring, being a man more gene- rally loved than feared, both in the house and the parish ; but surprise, which is sorae- B� ## p. 2 (#10) ############################################### 2 MODERATION what related to that emotion, he had undoubt- edly awakened, as his eldest daughter, Har- riet, indignantly announced by the observa- tion which followed upon his removal.
     • keywords: carysford; charles; dear; emma; eyes; family; father; good; great; harriet; heart; james; know; life; little; long; love; man; melville; mind; miss; moderation; moment; poor; present; sister; sophia; time; wilmington; young
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242. hughes-tom-1857
     • author: hughes
     • title: hughes-tom-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 109120
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Tom had two abettors in the shape of a couple of old boys, Noah and Benjamin by name, who defended him from Charity, and expended much time upon his education. Now, Master East, I shall be very angry if you don't go, said she; there's some capital cold beef and pickles up-stairs, and I won't have you old boys in my room first night.
     • keywords: arthur; boys; brooke; brown; day; doctor; door; east; end; fellow; flashman; form; good; got; great; half; hand; head; home; house; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; martin; master; men; new; old; place; right; room; round; said; school; sir; small; study; think; thought; time; tom; tom brown; way; work; year; young
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243. hungerford-faith-1881
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-faith-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 112155
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: The high chimney-piece is en rapport with all the rest, and scowls unceasingly; and the very windows--long and deep--have little faces carved on either side of them, of the most diabolical. What a pretty girl Clarissa Peyton is!
     • keywords: branscombe; clarissa; course; day; dear; dorian; eyes; face; georgie; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; horace; james; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lord; love; man; miss; moment; mrs; night; old; peyton; room; ruth; sartoris; scrope; sir; smile; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; voice; way; world
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244. hungerford-geoffrey-1881
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-geoffrey-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 122913
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Just now, indeed, it is a favorite theory of hers that she could never have been really uncivil to dear Mona (she is always dear Mona of late days) I want to very much, says poor Mona, her eyes filling with tears.
     • keywords: come; course; darling; day; eyes; face; geoffrey; girl; going; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; lady; lady rodney; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mean; moment; mona; mother; mrs; nicholas; night; nolly; old; people; poor; returns; rodney; room; said; sir; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; violet; voice; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
245. hungerford-haunted-1886
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-haunted-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 36503
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Sir Adrian Dynecourt, after a prolonged tour on the Continent and lingering visits to the East, has at last come home with the avowed intention of becoming a staid country gentleman, and of settling down to the cultivation of turnips, the breeding of prize oxen, and the determination to be the M.F.H. when old Lord Dartree shall have fulfilled his declared intention of retiring in his favor. But unhappily she set her affection upon Sir Adrian Dynecourt, with his grand old castle and his princely rent-roll--a crumb the magnitude and worth of which she was not slow to appreciate.
     • keywords: adrian; arthur; cousin; delmaine; door; dora; dynecourt; eyes; face; florence; hand; little; man; mrs; ringwood; room; sir adrian; talbot; time
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246. hungerford-hoyden-1894
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-hoyden-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 117440
     • flesch: 94
     • summary: If it were not for her one child, the present Sir Maurice Rylton, this fallacy might have been carried through. All at once, from the shadow of the room, the memory of a small, sweet, angry, frowning little face stands out.
     • keywords: bethune; chichester; cries; dear; eyes; face; girl; good; gower; hands; heart; hescott; lady; lady rylton; life; like; little; looks; love; man; margaret; marian; maurice; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; room; rylton; thought; time; tita; tone; way; wife
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247. hungerford-irish-1890
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-irish-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 25411
     • flesch: 90
     • summary: He's come of a race that ground the poor and raised the rints, and sent poor mothers and old men and babies on to the highway to die of hunger and cold and heart-wretchedness! I love you as better men would tell you they love their own souls.
     • keywords: eyes; face; girl; heart; honor; launce; like; little; looks; love; man; night; old; power
     • versions: original; plain text
248. hungerford-lady-1890
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-lady-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 121586
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: An' is it you, Miss Joyce? An' what'll ye be takin' now, Miss Joyce dear?--with a return to her hospitable mood--a dhrop o' hot punch, now?
     • keywords: baltimore; barbara; beauclerk; browne; day; dysart; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; hand; head; heart; joyce; kavanagh; lady; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; maliphant; man; mind; miss; moment; monkton; mrs; night; old; people; room; smile; swansdown; tell; thing; thought; time; tommy; tone; way; world
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249. hungerford-lilian-1879
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-lilian-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 132517
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Almost at this moment, Sir Guy Chetwoode is announced, and is shown by the inestimable Kate into the parlor instead of the drawing-room, thereby causing unutterable mischief. I am Guy Chetwoode, says he, laughing, and raising his hat.
     • keywords: archibald; arlington; beauchamp; cecilia; chesney; chetwoode; cousin; cyril; day; dear; eyes; face; florence; going; good; guy; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; lady; lady chetwoode; like; lilian; lips; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; pretty; replies; returns; room; sir; sir guy; smile; sure; taffy; tell; think; thought; time; tone; way; woman; young
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250. hungerford-molly-1878
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-molly-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 146626
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: It is so sudden, says poor Molly. See, holding out to him a slim cool hand; touch me, and be convinced, I am only Molly Massereene.
     • keywords: amherst; cecil; coming; day; dear; eyes; face; far; good; half; hand; head; heart; hope; john; lady; laugh; letitia; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; luttrell; man; marcia; massereene; mean; mind; miss; molly; moment; night; old; penthony; philip; poor; potts; pretty; replies; room; sir; smile; stafford; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; voice; way; white; wish; word; young
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251. hungerford-portia-1882
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-portia-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 111626
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Dicky Browne, bending over her (Roger has taken Dulce home), says: Oh, Portia! May I stay with you till Dulce returns, and will you walk on a little?
     • keywords: blount; browne; christopher; coming; day; dicky; dulce; eyes; fabian; face; good; gower; half; hand; head; heart; julia; life; like; lips; little; long; looking; looks; love; man; mark; miss; moment; night; old; portia; roger; room; shall; sir; smile; stephen; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; voice; word
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252. hungerford-rebel-1890
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-rebel-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 29716
     • flesch: 90
     • summary: It is you who know it--not I. Say it! But then if an old man of fifty wasn't an old man of fifty----The professor checks his thoughts, they are growing too mixed.
     • keywords: aunt; eyes; face; girl; good; guardian; hardinge; like; little; man; miss; old; perpetua; professor; sir; wynter
     • versions: original; plain text
253. hungerford-red-1893
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-red-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 53833
     • flesch: 93
     • summary: Nothing in a pecuniary sense, certainly, said Mrs. Greatorex; but he likes good society--- Agatha made a sudden movement. Mrs. Greatorex turned quickly to Agatha.
     • keywords: agatha; ambert; blount; browne; darkham; dicky; dillwyn; elfrida; eyes; face; girl; good; greatorex; hand; like; little; love; man; moment; mrs; poor
     • versions: original; plain text
254. hungerford-rossmoyne-1882
     • author: hungerford
     • title: hungerford-rossmoyne-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 120670
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Just thry her, ma'am, an' if ye don't like her, an' if Miss Monica finds even one fault in her, just send her back to her mother. Go an' ate yer praties now, and thank yer stars Miss Monica was here to say a good word for ye. Paddy, glad of his rescue, casts a shy glance at Monica, and then, going over to where his grandmother and the pot of potatoes rest side by side, sits down (close cuddled up to the old dame) to fill his little empty stomach with as many of those esculent roots as he can manage, which, in truth, is the poor child's only dinner from year's end to year's end.
     • keywords: aunt; beresford; brian; child; course; day; dear; desmond; eyes; face; good; great; hand; head; heart; kelly; kit; like; little; long; look; love; madam; man; mean; miss; miss priscilla; moment; monica; mrs; night; o'connor; old; olga; penelope; poor; pretty; priscilla; ronayne; room; rossmoyne; smile; tell; terence; thing; thought; time; tone; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
255. hunter-maclairn-1805
     • author: hunter
     • title: hunter-maclairn-1805
     • date: 1805
     • words: 227709
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Let it suffice that Mrs. Cowley persevered, and from the hour of her daughter's departure, her mother nourished an irreconcilable hatred to Mr. Cowley; attributing to his cruelty and undue authority the absence of his wife, who was not permitted to love even her mother, nor that mother to shelter her from his tyrannical temper. Candour as well as the proofs before mc, exact from my pen, however, some quali- fications, which will soften down to the weakness of human nature these severe traits in Mrs. Dawson's character; for it would be unjust not to give it more ## p. 7 (#15) ############################################### THE VICTIM OF VILLANY. what must be the condition of a being, liable to contradiction and disappointment from ## p. 16 (#24) ############################################## 16 LADY MACLAIRN; the very tenure on which she holds her being, who U3ust never be controuled in her will, whose tears put Mr. Cowley into a fever, and whose infant caprices are laws which no one dare to disobey.
     • keywords: allen; answered; brother; captain; care; child; conduct; continued; cowley; daughter; day; dear; death; eyes; face; family; father; flamall; flint; friend; girl; god; good; hall; hand; hardcastle; health; heart; hope; horace; hour; house; howard; ing; know; lady; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; long; lost; love; lucretia; lucy; maclairn; malcolm; man; mary; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nature; observed; old; order; peace; philip; poor; rachel; room; sir; sister; son; spirits; tell; think; thought; time; tion; uncle; victim; villany; whilst; wife; wish; woman; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
256. james-agincourt-1844
     • author: james
     • title: james-agincourt-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 175851
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: You are not one who--whatever might be his errors--would deprive a poor old man of blessed ground to rest in, or the prayers of good men for his soul. The tale, however, though told with much loquacity, furnished but few particulars beyond those which the pilgrim had already gained; for the monk appeared a meek, good man, who took everything as he found it, and deduced but little from anything that he heard.
     • keywords: arms; away; brune; count; cried; dacre; day; door; duke; dyram; ella; eyes; fair; father; friend; girl; good; great; grey; hand; head; heart; henry; john; king; knight; lady; left; like; little; long; lord; love; man; mary; men; moment; ned; noble; old; philip; place; poor; replied; richard; right; round; roydon; said; simeon; sir; sir john; sir knight; sir richard; thought; time; way; woodville; young
     • versions: original; plain text
257. james-agnes-1853
     • author: james
     • title: james-agnes-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 169322
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Thus saying, he turned to the door, and, taking a different way back from that which he had followed in leading Jean Charost to his apartments, he paused for a moment at a little dark den, shut off from one of the lower halls by a half door, breast high, and spoke a few words to some invisible person within. And murmuring a few more indistinct words to herself, she rang a small silver bell which lay upon the cushions beside her, and the man who had given Jean Charost admission speedily appeared.
     • keywords: agnes; brecy; burgundy; c[oe]ur; court; day; de brecy; door; duke; eyes; face; france; friend; gentleman; good; great; grille; hand; head; highness; horse; hour; jacques; jean charost; king; large; let; life; like; little; long; look; lord; madame; man; martin; moment; monsieur; night; old; orleans; place; prince; room; round; sir; small; somewhat; thing; thought; time; tone; way; words; young; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
258. james-arrah-1845
     • author: james
     • title: james-arrah-1845
     • date: 1845
     • words: 161377
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: It is Lord Walton and his sister, answered the young nobleman; let down the bridge, good man. Yet it is one that in all civil strifes many wise and many good men have entertained, till they discovered, when too late, how cruelly they had deceived themselves; till, hanging between two parties and supporting neither, they saw the one sink lower and lower, and the other, which perhaps they most condemned, rise into power, and go on in evil; and then, when they strove to arrest the course of wrong, found themselves either carried away by the current and involved in wickedness they would fain have opposed, or sunk beneath the torrent with those who endeavoured to divert it while it was yet feeble, and whose efforts they might have rendered successful, had they joined therein in time.
     • keywords: annie; arrah; barecolt; beverley; captain; captain barecolt; charles; cried; day; dear; door; dry; earl; eyes; falgate; good; great; hand; head; hotham; house; hull; king; lady; left; let; like; little; long; look; lord; lord walton; man; margaret; master; men; moment; neil; night; o'donnell; old; party; place; poor; room; said; sir; thought; time; walton; way; white; young
     • versions: original; plain text
259. james-attila-1837
     • author: james
     • title: james-attila-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 175632
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: Gladly would I see the country and manners of these wild Huns; and oh, if I had a father's murder to avenge as you have, I would march on with that brave and mighty Attila, and smite the tyrant, Theodosius, on his throne. Then I have once more to thank thee, mighty Attila, for life, said Theodore; to thank thee, the enemy of my native land, the destroyer of my countrymen.
     • keywords: ardaric; arms; attila; barbarian; blood; bright; brother; dark; day; death; deep; earth; ere; eyes; far; father; feelings; find; flavia; god; great; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; huns; ildica; king; land; leave; left; length; life; light; like; long; love; mighty; moment; monarch; mother; neva; rest; roman; round; son; stood; sweet; tent; thee; theodore; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; way; wild; words; young; youth
     • versions: original; plain text
260. james-augustus-1831
     • author: james
     • title: james-augustus-1831
     • date: 1831
     • words: 172916
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: In the mean while he resumed the conversation with Arthur and Savary de Maulon, who--cooled by the momentary pause, and also somewhat soothed by something flattering, he scarce knew what, in the idea of the sort of avarice of glory De Coucy had attributed to him--replied to the young knight with more cordiality than he had at first evinced. Back like lightning De Coucy trod his steps, but with a different order of march from what he had pursued in advancing.
     • keywords: agnes; arms; arthur; barons; beau; castle; come; count; cried; d'auvergne; day; days; de coucy; eyes; face; fair; far; father; france; gallon; god; good; great; guerin; guy de; hand; haw; head; heart; hermit; horse; jodelle; john; king; knight; lady; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; man; mind; moment; noble; old; page; philip; place; queen; right; round; said; sir; sire; small; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; true; voice; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
261. james-awkward-1899
     • author: james
     • title: james-awkward-1899
     • date: 1899
     • words: 135608
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Of this observation Mrs. Brook, whose eyes attached themselves again to Mr. Longdon, took at first no further notice than might have been indicated by the way it set her musing. Mrs. Brook had only fixed Mr. Longdon with the air of unutterable things.
     • keywords: aggie; brook; brookenham; companion; continued; course; dear; duchess; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; great; lady; little; longdon; look; man; mean; mitchy; moment; mother; mrs; nanda; old; place; question; room; talk; thing; thought; time; took; vanderbank; want; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
262. james-beauchamp-1846
     • author: james
     • title: james-beauchamp-1846
     • date: 1846
     • words: 182644
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: Well, do not let us grieve, but act, my dear lady, said Ned Hayward; let us consult together, and see what can be done, good Sir John must be saved at any cost. The latter I will, please Heaven, torment out of the remnant of seven senses that he has left, for a more pompous, vulgar old blockhead I never saw; and therefore I should propose at once--that is to say, as soon as I have done this cup of coffee--you have finished I see--to go to good Mr. Wittingham's and belabour him with our small wits till he is nearly like the man who was scourged to death with rushes.
     • keywords: beauchamp; better; boy; captain; captain hayward; clifford; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; gimlet; good; got; great; half; hand; hayward; head; heart; hour; house; isabella; lady; life; like; little; long; look; man; mary; miles; mind; miss; moment; moreton; ned; ned hayward; night; old; room; said; saw; sir; sir john; slingsby; stephen; thing; thought; time; way; went; wharton; wittingham; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
263. james-bostonians-1886
     • author: james
     • title: james-bostonians-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 165722
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: He didn't hate poor Miss Olive, though she might make him yet; and even if he did, any chivalry was all moonshine which should require him to give up the girl he adored in order that his third cousin should see he could be gallant. The daughter of Doctor Tarrant, the mesmeric healer--Miss Verena.
     • keywords: air; basil ransom; better; birdseye; boston; burrage; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; farrinder; friend; girl; going; good; great; house; idea; kind; lady; life; like; little; long; luna; man; mind; miss; miss birdseye; miss chancellor; miss olive; miss tarrant; miss verena; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; olive; olive chancellor; people; place; ransom; room; saw; tarrant; things; thought; time; verena; verena tarrant; want; way; women; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
264. james-castle-1847
     • author: james
     • title: james-castle-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 158058
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: It is nevertheless true, answered Father George; I was crossing the end of the hall in the dusk to visit my young friend, Count Ferdinand, here, when I saw you and Bertha together: I heard her scream, but, guessing what was the occasion, took no notice, and went upon my way. Is it not so, good Count of Ehrenstein? Faith!
     • keywords: adelaide; baron; bertha; better; castle; count; count frederick; cried; day; door; ehrenstein; eyes; father; ferdinand; george; good; great; hall; hand; head; heart; hour; jester; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; men; moment; night; noble; old; place; said; saw; saying; tell; thought; time; voice; way; words; young; youth
     • versions: original; plain text
265. james-charles-1839
     • author: james
     • title: james-charles-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 123797
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: I should think, sir, replied the coroner, that no one would object to your stating the conversation you held with them, considering the circumstances in which you are placed, and I am very desirous, indeed, Sir Charles Tyrrell, that you should be explicit; for the jury are anxious to arrive at a calm and just conclusion, and I fear, under present circumstances, that our decision must be a very painful one. The coroner then demanded the verdict in the usual manner, and the foreman replied at once, Wilful murder against Sir Charles Tyrrell of Harbury Park.
     • keywords: charles tyrrell; course; day; door; driesen; effingham; father; francis tyrrell; good; great; hailes; hand; heart; house; lady tyrrell; life; like; little; longly; lucy; man; mind; moment; morrison; mother; mrs; old; park; place; room; said; sir; sir charles; sir francis; thought; time; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
266. james-confidence-1879
     • author: james
     • title: james-confidence-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 77468
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: By leaving me alone. Bernard looked at her a moment, then came straight back into the drawing-room and took his hat. What a wonderful discovery! Bernard looked at her a moment in the brightening fire-light.
     • keywords: angela; baden; bernard; blanche; captain; day; dear; eyes; friend; girl; good; gordon; gordon wright; great; like; little; longueville; looking; lovelock; man; miss; moment; mother; mrs; things; thought; time; vivian; wright; young
     • versions: original; plain text
267. james-convict-1847
     • author: james
     • title: james-convict-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 154737
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: My purposes never sleep; my objects never fade: the one engrossing object of my country's fate and the welfare of my fellow-men is never a passing vision to my eyes, but a stern reality ever present, so that I am little able to comprehend the hesitations of other men. He was by no means without passions: fiery, eager, impetuous; but they were subdued to the one strict rule, and setting out with that mighty conquest, it was in general more easy for him to subdue the minds of other men also.
     • keywords: adelon; arthur; better; brandon; captain; clive; day; dear; dudley; eda; edgar; eyes; face; father; filmer; friend; gentleman; good; great; hadley; hand; heart; helen; house; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; men; mind; moment; night; norries; place; priest; room; said; saw; sir; sir arthur; sure; thought; time; tone; way; words; young
     • versions: original; plain text
268. james-darnley-1830
     • author: james
     • title: james-darnley-1830
     • date: 1830
     • words: 186665
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: However that may be, deceiving himself as we have seen, Sir Henry Talbot left the young knight to meditate over the conduct of Wolsey, who would indeed have committed an egregious piece of folly in sending to arrest him by the name of Sir Osborne Maurice alone, if he had known him to be Lord Darnley, as Sir Osborne thought. Sir knight, said he, I give you a precious charge in this my dead sister's child; and I give her wholly to your charge, with the most perfect confidence, sure that you will guide her kindly and safely to her journey's end.
     • keywords: arms; better; buckingham; cardinal; constance; court; cried; darby; darnley; day; door; duke; eyes; far; good; good sir; grace; great; hand; having; head; heart; henry; high; horse; jekin; katrine; king; lady; lady constance; left; length; life; light; like; little; longpole; look; lord; love; man; master; maurice; mind; moment; morning; nay; old; osborne maurice; place; road; round; said; sir cesar; sir knight; sir osborne; sir payan; small; sort; sure; thought; time; way; wolsey; world; worship; young; young knight
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269. james-delaware-1833
     • author: james
     • title: james-delaware-1833
     • date: 1833
     • words: 179155
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: The rest of the business was soon settled, except the matter of a stamp; and as the miser--although he now frankly admitted that he knew the quondam Mr. Burrel to be Henry Beauchamp, nephew and heir to Lord Ashborough--seemed not a little anxious upon this matter, alleging sagely that Mr. Beauchamp might die, might be thrown from his horse and killed, et c[oe]tera, et c[oe]tera; his young visiter both drew up such an acknowledgement as might be afterwards stamped if necessary, and desired him to send down to Emberton for what was farther required, promising that he himself would return in an hour and sign the document, which was still more cautiously to insure the miser against loss. The fact was, however, she added smiling, that what happened afterwards was not because you were Mr. Burrel; but because I discovered you were Mr. Beauchamp.
     • keywords: ashborough; beauchamp; blanche; blanche delaware; burrel; business; captain delaware; course; day; dear; delaware; door; earl; emberton; eyes; far; father; good; great; hand; harding; having; heart; henry; house; lawyer; left; like; little; long; lord; lord ashborough; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; old; person; place; room; said; sidney delaware; sir; sir sidney; tell; thing; thought; time; tims; way; william; wilton; world; young
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270. james-eagle-1854
     • author: james
     • title: james-eagle-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 151127
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: That he was different from the common multitude--higher, brighter, nobler in his thoughts--she had gathered from their short acquaintance; and so far she might be led to think of him somewhat more than she thought of other men. You must not judge of them or deal with them as you would other men; and these are the only critturs amongst them I could get to help me, if their habits came in the way in the least bit.
     • keywords: black; brother; chief; day; eagle; edith; eyes; face; far; father; fire; french; friend; good; great; h----; hand; head; heart; hour; house; indian; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moment; night; old; otaitsa; people; place; prevost; round; sir; small; spirit; thought; time; walter; way; white; woodchuck; words; young
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271. james-europeans-1878
     • author: james
     • title: james-europeans-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 60411
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Clifford was going to remark that in this case the Baroness must desire greatly to bring about a marriage between Mr. Clifford Wentworth and Miss Elizabeth Acton; but he resolved, on the whole, to suppress this observation. Her glance fell upon young Mr. Brand, who stood there, with his arms folded and his hand on his chin, looking at her.
     • keywords: acton; away; baroness; brand; charlotte; clifford; eugenia; eyes; father; felix; gertrude; good; great; house; like; little; man; mnster; moment; sister; things; thought; time; wentworth; woman; young
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272. james-fate-1851
     • author: james
     • title: james-fate-1851
     • date: 1851
     • words: 148969
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: I heard that there had been a quarrel between young Ralph Woodhall, with whom I was, and Robert Ratcliffe, in the ball-room of the duke's house. Mr. Ralph Woodhall, the gentleman said, replied the servant.
     • keywords: coldenham; come; cousin; danvers; day; door; duke; eyes; face; father; gaunt; good; great; hand; heart; henry; hortensia; house; lady; lady danvers; letter; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord woodhall; love; man; margaret; master; mind; moment; night; old; place; ralph; ralph woodhall; robert; room; said; saying; servant; sir; stilling; thing; thought; time; tone; way; young
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273. james-forest-1843
     • author: james
     • title: james-forest-1843
     • date: 1843
     • words: 171141
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: But as the reader is well aware of the circumstances connected with the sudden disappearance of Lucy de Ashby, and of the part in seeking her which Hugh de Monthermer had taken upon himself, we shall not recapitulate this part of the young knight's account, but content ourselves with stating what success he had met with in the pursuit. What it was that Lucy de Ashby said to Hugh de Monthermer I know not, but it drew back the veil from her heart and showed him a new world, such as he had never dreamt was near at hand.
     • keywords: alured; alured de; arms; cried; day; de ashby; de margan; de montfort; de monthermer; door; earl; edward; eyes; face; fair; father; good; good lord; great; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; hugh de; kate; king; know; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord hugh; love; lucy; lucy de; man; men; moment; night; nottingham; old; place; prince; richard de; robin; round; said; sir; somewhat; thee; thought; time; way; young
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274. james-forgery-1849
     • author: james
     • title: james-forgery-1849
     • date: 1849
     • words: 163710
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: He had a natural repugnance to going to Mr. Scriven again; yet, as Mr. Hayley had not mentioned to him his changed circumstances, he was anxious to keep his proceedings a secret at home till his arrangements were formed. An examination into the affair took place that day at Bow Street; but it was proved that Henry had, unknown to Mr. Hayley, frequented the counting-house of Mr. Scriven for more than a fortnight; that he was anxious to conceal his doing so from his father; that, on the very morning of his departure for Northumberland, he had written to Mr. Scriven to say he should come no more; that at four o'clock that day he had obtained money upon the forged bill, and then gone, no one rightly knew whither, further than that his journey was towards Northumberland; for Mr. Hayley took care to give no explanations on that head.
     • keywords: boy; charles; colonel; day; dear; dear lady; door; eyes; father; friend; gentleman; going; good; great; hand; hayley; henry; henry hayley; house; lady; lady anne; lady fleetwood; life; like; little; long; look; man; maria; marston; middleton; mind; moment; old; pedlar; people; place; poor; room; said; scriven; sir; sure; things; thought; time; way; winkworth; world; years; young
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275. james-gipsy-1835
     • author: james
     • title: james-gipsy-1835
     • date: 1835
     • words: 213011
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: A hat, which had seen other days, and many of them, covered his brows; but under that hat was a countenance, which, however ordinary might be the rest of his appearance, redeemed the whole from the common herd. This personage was spare in form, and without being tall, as compared with other men, he was certainly tall in reference to his other proportions.
     • keywords: better; circumstances; colonel manners; course; cried; day; de vaux; dear; dewry; edward; eyes; falkland; far; father; feelings; friend; gipsies; gipsy; good; great; half; hand; heart; house; isadore; left; life; like; little; long; lord; lord dewry; love; manners; marian; mind; miss; moment; mrs; night; peer; people; person; pharold; place; poor; present; regard; roger; room; round; sir; things; think; thought; time; vaux; way; william; world
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276. james-gowrie-1848
     • author: james
     • title: james-gowrie-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 158609
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: On the following day, however, he did go to Holyrood, and was extremely graciously received; and for a week more he continued to frequent the court with other men of his rank and station. The passions of young men, said Mr. Rhind, gravely, will often lead them to act contrary even to their own judgment.
     • keywords: austin; beatrice; better; brother; court; day; dear; door; earl; eyes; find; good; gowrie; great; hand; head; heart; house; hume; james; john; julia; jute; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord gowrie; love; majesty; man; mind; moment; old; people; place; ramsay; right; room; ruthven; sir; tell; thought; till; time; tone; way; young; young man
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277. james-guise-1839
     • author: james
     • title: james-guise-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 188859
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: The other two were both young men in the very early outset of life, and were so nearly of the same age, that it was difficult to say which was the elder. What is that you say, young man? exclaimed a voice from one of the windows of the inn above; and looking up, the citizen saw a young and gay-looking man sitting in the open casement, and leaning out with his arm round the iron bar that ran up the centre.
     • keywords: abb; abb de; boy; brother; charles; count; day; de clairvaut; de montsoreau; duke; eyes; far; fear; friend; gaspar; good; great; guise; hand; head; heart; henry; highness; king; lady; left; life; like; little; logres; long; lord; love; mademoiselle de; majesty; man; marie de; marquis; mind; moment; monsieur; montsoreau; paris; people; place; queen; said; thing; thought; time; villequier; way; words; young
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278. james-heidelberg-1846
     • author: james
     • title: james-heidelberg-1846
     • date: 1846
     • words: 174712
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: It was a glad sight for poor Agnes Herbert, and she drew a long deep sigh, while Algernon Grey inquired if they could have refreshment there, and rest for the night. In his letter, I am but called his young kinsman, Master Algernon Grey, and the good doctor will be ignorant of all the rest.
     • keywords: agnes; algernon grey; better; castle; companion; court; cousin; cried; day; dear; door; elector; enemy; eyes; fair; fear; frederic; friend; gentleman; good; great; hand; head; heart; herbert; high; horse; hour; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moment; night; oberntraut; old; open; place; prince; room; round; sir; small; sweet; things; thought; time; tone; town; way; william; words; world; young
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279. james-highway-1840
     • author: james
     • title: james-highway-1840
     • date: 1840
     • words: 180089
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: He then turned and gazed upon the boy with a look of interest; but little Wilton seemed perfectly happy, and was still looking over the book of paintings which the Earl had given to him to examine. He accordingly determined to send the boy to school, and little Wilton heard the announcement with pleasure; for though by this time he had become greatly attached to the Earl, he longed for the society of beings of the same age and habits as himself.
     • keywords: better; byerdale; day; dear; dear wilton; door; duke; earl; eyes; father; feelings; fenwick; friend; gentleman; good; great; green; hand; head; heart; house; john; king; lady; lady laura; laura; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord sherbrooke; man; mind; moment; night; person; place; present; room; sherbrooke; sir; thought; time; tone; way; wilton; wilton brown; young
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280. james-huguenot-1839
     • author: james
     • title: james-huguenot-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 213396
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: The effect upon the heart of the Count de Morseiul was full and deep. Be to me, as far as we are brought into communication together, the same Count de Morseiul that I have heard you are to others, frank, straightforward, sincere.
     • keywords: albert; better; chevalier; clmence; clmence de; come; count; count de; course; day; de morseiul; eyes; face; fear; feelings; friend; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hour; king; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; lord; louis; love; man; marly; means; mind; moment; monsieur; morseiul; night; officer; old; order; pelisson; people; place; possible; riquet; room; round; said; saw; saying; sir; thing; thought; time; voice; way; words; young count
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281. james-leonora-1857
     • author: james
     • title: james-leonora-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 142450
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Take her not to Rome, young man. But there are arts, young man, you know not of--drugs of terrible power, which lull the spirit into a sleep like that of death, and leave the body impotent for resistance or defence.
     • keywords: antonio; better; borgia; cardinal; charles; d'orco; day; days; eyes; father; france; french; good; great; hand; head; heart; hour; italy; king; know; lady; left; leonora; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lorenzo; love; man; mardocchi; men; mind; moment; night; old; people; place; ramiro; saw; signor; thought; time; visconti; vitry; way; words; young; young man
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282. james-man-1860
     • author: james
     • title: james-man-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 153295
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: From the house of Sir Philip Hastings Mr. Short rode quickly on to the cottage of Mistress Best, which he had visited once before in the morning. At first Sir Philip Hastings did not like him at all.
     • keywords: ayliffe; better; character; day; dear; door; emily; emily hastings; eyes; face; father; friend; good; great; hand; hastings; hazleton; heart; house; john; john hastings; lady; lady hastings; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; marlow; mind; moment; mother; mrs; old; philip hastings; room; shanks; short; sir john; sir philip; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; way; woman; words; young; young man
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283. james-mary-1833
     • author: james
     • title: james-mary-1833
     • date: 1833
     • words: 181401
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: But there is more intelligence still, good Master Albert Maurice, exclaimed a little fat merchant, whose face expressed all that extravagant desire of wondering, and of exciting wonder, which goes greatly to form the character of a newsmonger; but there is more intelligence still, which you will be delighted to hear, as a good citizen, and a friend to honest men. Such, I believe, are the feelings of every bosom: though some, ashamed of the sudden transition, have power enough to master its expression, and clothe themselves with external calmness, while their hearts are really as much agitated as those of other men.
     • keywords: albert; albert maurice; alice; arms; better; boy; burgher; burgundy; citizen; city; country; course; day; deep; degree; druggist; duke; eyes; fair; far; father; fear; feelings; ganay; ghent; good; great; gueldres; hand; hannut; head; heart; horse; imbercourt; know; left; life; like; little; long; lord; man; mary; means; mind; moment; night; noble; old; party; people; place; power; present; prevot; princess; sir; small; thought; time; town; way; words; young
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284. james-morley-1842
     • author: james
     • title: james-morley-1842
     • date: 1842
     • words: 221117
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: Scarcely, however, had Morley Ernstein time to utter the few words which have been mentioned when the lady's companion interposed, saying--At this time of the year sir, one does not expect to see people flying over a park fence like madmen. Oh, I understand, sir, what you want, replied Higgins, while at one comprehensive view he saw every possible use that a gentleman, situated as Sir Morley Ernstein was, could make of the intelligence he was desirous of obtaining; and, remaining perfectly satisfied that the object was to frustrate Neville, and at once to put brother and sister into his own power, he repeated, with greater emphasis than before,--Oh, I understand, sir--I understand!
     • keywords: barham; better; brother; carr; case; companion; day; dear; door; eyes; face; far; father; feelings; friend; gentleman; good; great; hand; heart; helen; helen barham; hour; house; juliet; lady; left; lieberg; life; like; little; long; look; love; malcolm; man; martin; mind; miss; moment; morley; morley ernstein; night; old; people; place; poor; room; round; said; saw; sir morley; spirit; sure; things; thought; time; tone; way; william; woman; words; world; young; youth
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285. james-page-1858
     • author: james
     • title: james-page-1858
     • date: 1858
     • words: 170813
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Young men are young men, all the world over; and you have fewer of their faults and more of their best qualities than any one of your age I ever met with. The thought that perhaps Richelieu might have obtained, through his many-eyed communications, some news of Lucette gave Edward fresh spirit; but still he followed the secretary's advice, for, after having ridden so hard for many days, some more repose was absolutely needful.
     • keywords: better; cardinal; clement; day; days; door; edward; edward langdale; eminence; eyes; face; france; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; horse; hour; left; life; like; little; long; lord; lucette; man; master; men; mind; moment; monsieur; montagu; ned; night; old; old man; people; pierrot; place; poor; richelieu; rochelle; room; said; saw; sir; small; somewhat; soubise; tell; think; thought; time; tournon; way; young; young man
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286. james-portrait-1881
     • author: james
     • title: james-portrait-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 254053
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Iâ��m going.â�� â��Good-bye then.â�� â��Good-bye.â�� He lingered still, however. No, you wonâ��t believe what a comfort I take in it.â�� â��What truth do you speak of?â��
     • keywords: back?â �; canâ �; couldnâ �; countessâ �; cousinâ �; daughterâ �; didnâ �; doesnâ �; donâ �; else.â �; england.â �; enough.â �; everything.â �; fatherâ �; girlâ �; hasnâ �; havenâ �; here.â �; him?â �; husbandâ �; isnâ �; it.â �; itâ �; iâ �; know.â �; me!â �; more.â �; myself.â �; night.â �; oneâ �; osmond.â �; oâ �; pansy.â �; rome.â �; same.â �; sheâ �; shouldnâ �; so.â �; thatâ �; thereâ �; theyâ �; time.â �; touchettâ �; warburton.â �; well.â �; weâ �; what?â �; wifeâ �; womanâ �; wonâ �; youâ �; â �; � ah; � caspar; � clock; � d; � good; � goodwood; � henrietta; � heâ; � isabel; � ll; � lord; � madame; � mrs; � osmond; � pansy; � poor; � ralph; � s; � s.â; � t; � t.â; � yes; � �
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287. james-princess-1886
     • author: james
     • title: james-princess-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 211972
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: Then they agree, for so does poor Hyacinth. It is not the most authenticated point in this veracious history, but there is strong reason to believe that tears were shed that night, in Lisson Grove, over poor little Hyacinth Robinson.
     • keywords: added; aurora; away; better; captain; care; certain; companion; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; far; friend; going; good; grandoni; great; hand; having; head; hour; house; hyacinth; idea; kind; lady; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; madame; man; manner; mean; millicent; mind; miss; moment; muniment; old; paul; people; person; pinnie; place; poor; poupin; princess; pynsent; question; room; rosy; said; saw; sense; sholto; sort; sure; things; thought; time; tone; vetch; want; way; woman; work; world; young; young man
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288. james-reverberator-1888
     • author: james
     • title: james-reverberator-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 56811
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: If a big newspaper told you everything there was in the world every morning, that was what a big newspaper-man would have to know, and Mr. Dosson had never supposed there was anything left to know when such voices as Mr. Flack's and that of his organ had daily been heard. The only action taken by Mr. Dosson on his elder daughter's admonitions was to convert the general issue, as Mr. Flack would have called it, to a theme for daily pleasantry.
     • keywords: brecourt; delia; dosson; father; flack; francie; gaston; girl; good; little; man; mean; mme; old; people; probert; right; sister; things; thought; time; want; waterlow; way; young
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289. james-richelieu-1829
     • author: james
     • title: james-richelieu-1829
     • date: 1829
     • words: 172177
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: Between two persons so inclined, preliminaries are soon adjusted: nor had De Blenau time to proceed with diplomatic caution, even had he had reason to suspect the sincerity of the Woodman. The first, which opened from the staircase and communicated with the second by means of a small door, was conveniently furnished in its way, containing, besides a very fair complement of chairs and tables of the most solid manufacture, that happy invention of our ancestors, a corner cupboard, garnished with various articles of plate and porcelain, and a shelf of books, which last De Blenau had no small pleasure in perceiving.
     • keywords: bastille; cardinal de; chavigni; cinq; continued; count; cried; day; de beaumont; de blenau; de chavigni; de hauteford; de la; de richelieu; door; exclaimed; eyes; far; farther; fontrailles; forest; friend; good; governor; great; hand; head; heart; henry de; horse; king; lady; left; let; like; little; long; louis; madame de; mademoiselle de; majesty; man; mars; mind; moment; monsieur; monsieur de; night; norman; old; pauline; pauline de; philip; place; power; queen; round; said; sir; thing; thought; time; way; woodman; young
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290. james-robber-1838
     • author: james
     • title: james-robber-1838
     • date: 1838
     • words: 175539
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: He seldom did anything like other men, acting upon principles which we may hereafter pause upon for a moment; and he did not now come at once to the declaration which Alice felt was hanging upon his lips, but went on to speak of things apparently of far less interest. Other men hate their neighbours as well as I, and I see not wherefore I should not have my own private enmities, and gratify them like others.
     • keywords: alice; boy; come; country; danemore; dark; door; earl; eyes; face; father; feelings; franklin; good; gray; great; hand; harold; head; heart; herbert; house; justice; langford; lawyer; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; master; mind; moment; night; place; room; round; sir; sir walter; son; tell; thought; time; voice; walter; way; words; young
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291. james-roderick-1875
     • author: james
     • title: james-roderick-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 133890
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Mrs. Rowland, for so handsome a woman, proved a tranquil neighbor and an excellent housewife. Hudson asked Rowland questions which poor Rowland was quite unable to answer, and of which he was equally unable to conceive where he had picked up the data.
     • keywords: away; beautiful; beauty; believe; better; cavaliere; cecilia; certain; christina; course; day; dear; eyes; face; friend; garland; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; hudson; know; lady; left; life; light; little; long; looking; mallet; man; mary; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; prince; roderick; rome; rowland; saw; sense; things; thought; time; way; woman; work; world; years; young
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292. james-rose-1844
     • author: james
     • title: james-rose-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 168866
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Mademoiselle, replied the maid, I have heard such high words just now in the hall between the Count, and Monsieur de Chazeul, and Monsieur de Montigni. It was, indeed, replied the Marquis, glad of a subject which enabled him to speak more freely; I know nought so brilliant on the face of the earth as was the court of Henry of Valois, some five years before his death; but I trust ere long we shall see a monarch who will hold as bright a one, without displaying his weaknesses; and then I trust Rose de Chazeul will shine amongst the very first in splendour, and in beauty.
     • keywords: count; cried; d'albret; day; de chazeul; de la; de liancourt; de montigni; door; estoc; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; heart; helen de; hour; king; lady; let; like; little; long; madame de; mademoiselle; man; marchioness; mind; moment; monsieur de; old; place; poor; priest; right; room; rose; said; sir; thought; time; tone; walter de; way; young
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293. james-smeaton-1851
     • author: james
     • title: james-smeaton-1851
     • date: 1851
     • words: 174537
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: My father never meddled with politics, good man; but my mother was a staunch Tory, and a wise one; for she always cried when there was anything to be got, and held her tongue when there was no use in crying. I sought abstraction from myself in the study of other men.
     • keywords: ale; better; country; day; door; earl; emmeline; eskdale; eyes; face; father; friend; general; good; great; hand; head; house; john; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; master; men; mind; moment; newark; night; noost; old; people; place; richard; road; room; round; said; servant; sir; sir john; small; smeaton; stair; tell; thought; time; tone; van; way; words; young
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294. james-smuggler-1845
     • author: james
     • title: james-smuggler-1845
     • date: 1845
     • words: 183145
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: In order to lead away from the obnoxious subject, the clergyman returned to Mr. Croyland's hatred of London, saying, not very advisedly perhaps, just as young Mr. Radford entered, I cannot imagine, my dear sir, why you have such an animosity to our magnificent capital, and to all that it contains, especially when we all know you to be as beneficent to individuals as you are severe upon the species collectively. Get me every information you can obtain regarding young Mr. Radford, where he goes, what he does, and all about him.
     • keywords: better; country; cried; croyland; day; dear; digby; door; edith; eyes; father; friend; gentleman; good; great; hand; harding; head; heart; house; let; leyton; like; little; long; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; mowle; mrs; night; officer; old; place; radford; robert croyland; room; round; said; sir; sir edward; sir robert; sure; tell; thought; time; tone; way; young; young radford; zara
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295. james-spoils-1897
     • author: james
     • title: james-spoils-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 72481
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: This girl, one of the two Vetches, had no beauty, but Mrs. Gereth, scanning the dullness for a sign of life, had been straightway able to classify such a figure as the least, for the moment, of her afflictions. Mrs. Gereth had long ago generalized the truth that the temperament of the frump is amply consistent with a certain usual prettiness.
     • keywords: brigstock; come; day; eyes; face; fleda; gereth; girl; great; house; lady; little; mean; moment; mona; mother; mrs; owen; owen gereth; place; poynton; question; right; things; time; way; young
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296. james-stuart-1844
     • author: james
     • title: james-stuart-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 163444
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: CHAPTER V. Neither good soldier nor good man was ever without love for his horse, if he had one; and the reader may have already divined, from certain words let fall by good Sir Harry West, that he was peculiarly careful and attentive to the four-hoofed creatures under his care. You have many friends, good men and noble, wise and honourable; and I should be proud to see the husband that I love surrounded and admired by those he himself esteems.
     • keywords: arabella; countess; court; cried; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fear; gentleman; girl; good; great; hand; harry; head; heart; hour; house; ida; king; knight; lady; lady arabella; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; majesty; man; mara; moment; old; overbury; poor; right; rochester; room; seymour; sir; sir harry; speak; thomas; thought; time; tone; way; west; william; words
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297. james-thirty-1848
     • author: james
     • title: james-thirty-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 179206
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: At all events, said Mr. Wilkinson, who, saw that his client was becoming rather fatigued, and perhaps the more unmanageable from that circumstance--At all events, Mr. Beauchamp, before you set out once more, like the Knight of La Mancha, upon a new sally in search of such perilous adventures, you must give me fuller powers to act for you, and fuller instructions, too, as to how I am to act; for good Mr. Tims has already been hinting at winding up the affairs of the late Henry Beauchamp, Esquire, as he phrases it. The baronet, however, in dying, had given to his two nephews, Lord Ashborough and Mr. Beauchamp, who had been very constant in their attentions, a far larger share of his fortune than he left to him who was to inherit the baronetcy; and thus, the latter, having counted largely on his future fortune, found himself more embarrassed than relieved by the death of his uncle.
     • keywords: ashborough; beauchamp; blanche; blanche delaware; burrel; business; captain delaware; course; day; dear; delaware; door; emberton; eyes; far; father; good; great; hand; harding; having; heart; henry; house; lawyer; left; like; little; long; lord; lord ashborough; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; old; person; place; room; said; sidney; sidney delaware; sir; sir sidney; tell; thing; thought; time; tims; way; william; wilton; world; young
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298. james-thousand-1835.txt
     • author: james
     • title: james-thousand-1835
     • date: 1835
     • words: 170105
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: The character of the Duke of Mayenne St. Real could not but esteem: there was a dignity, a generosity, a frankness about it, which, together with his splendid talents, commanded no small admiration; and had St. Real been convinced that his opposition to his king, that his bold rebellion, that even his connexion with a party, factious, turbulent, and depraved, originated in motives of patriotism and virtue, his views of the League might have been modified by his opinion of the leader, and his ultimate conduct determined by the judgment he might form in regard to whether that leader's efforts would, or would not, be ultimately beneficial to his country. There was a brief pause--for St. Real would not trust his voice with a reply--and the Duke, after having dismissed the officers by whom he had been surrounded, proceeded: I trust, Monsieur de St. Real, that you know enough of him who speaks to you to believe, even without my saying it, that Charles of Mayenne is utterly incapable of such an act as that by which my safe-conduct was violated in your instance.
     • keywords: beatrice; better; come; count; count d'aubin; cousin; d'aubin; day; de menancourt; de st; door; duke; dwarf; ere; eugenie; eugenie de; eyes; fair; father; feelings; good; great; hand; heart; henry; king; lady; league; left; length; life; like; little; long; lord; love; madame; man; mayenne; means; menancourt; mind; moment; monsieur; montpensier; night; old; paris; party; real; room; said; small; thought; time; tone; way; words; young
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299. james-tragic-1890
     • author: james
     • title: james-tragic-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 213500
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Dear old Nick! If it leads to good things, to honour and fortune and greatness, I'm enchanted.
     • keywords: agnes; better; biddy; carr; carteret; course; dallow; dashwood; day; dear; eyes; face; far; felt; fine; friend; gabriel; girl; good; grace; great; hand; having; head; high; hour; house; idea; julia; lady; life; like; little; long; look; madame; man; mean; mind; miriam; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nash; nick; nick dormer; old; paris; people; peter; peter sherringham; place; poor; question; right; room; rooth; sense; sherringham; sort; talk; things; think; thought; time; want; way; woman; work; young
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300. james-washington-1880
     • author: james
     • title: james-washington-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 64717
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: The Doctor had not proposed to Mrs. Penniman to come and live with him indefinitely; he had suggested that she should make an asylum of his house while she looked about for unfurnished lodgings. It is uncertain whether Mrs. Penniman ever instituted a search for unfurnished lodgings, but it is beyond dispute that she never found them.
     • keywords: almond; asked; aunt; brother; catherine; doctor; eyes; father; girl; good; great; lavinia; like; little; long; mean; moment; morris; morris townsend; mrs; penniman; poor; tell; thought; time; townsend; young
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301. james-what-1897
     • author: james
     • title: james-what-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 98162
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: For Sir Claude then Mrs. Beale was young, just as for Mrs. Wix Sir Claude was: that was one of the merits for which Mrs. Wix most commended him. The note of this particular danger emboldened Maisie to put in a word for Mrs. Wix, the modest measure of whose avidity she had taken from the first; but Mrs. Beale disposed afresh and effectually of a candidate who would be sure to act in some horrible and insidious way for Ida's interest and who moreover was personally loathsome and as ignorant as a fish.
     • keywords: beale; child; companion; day; dear; eyes; face; farange; father; friend; good; great; hand; lady; ladyship; like; little; long; maisie; mamma; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; overmore; papa; question; sense; sir claude; things; thought; time; way; wix; young
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302. james-whim-1847
     • author: james
     • title: james-whim-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 166260
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: We are happy to be able to state, it went on to say, that Lord Overton, the sufferer in the late duel with Mr. Chandos Winslow, is proceeding rapidly towards convalescence.--Very little fever followed the extraction of the ball, and that which did supervene has quite subsided. To hear therefore that he was in reality no other than Mr. Chandos Winslow, did not excite in me the same surprise which it did, I dare say, in others.
     • keywords: better; boy; brother; chandos; chandos winslow; come; course; day; dear; door; evidence; eyes; father; friend; gardener; general; gentleman; good; great; half; head; hour; house; left; life; like; little; lockwood; long; look; man; mind; minutes; moment; night; northferry; old; place; poor; prisoner; roberts; room; rose; said; sir; sir william; tell; thought; time; tracy; way; william; woman; young
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303. james-woodman-1849
     • author: james
     • title: james-woodman-1849
     • date: 1849
     • words: 179643
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Good men and true, keep your men back yet a while, till you receive command. Ay, lawless violence in other men, said the woodman; but crimes committed in our own cause become gentle failings in the eyes of tyrants.
     • keywords: abbess; abbey; arden; better; bishop; chartley; constance; day; dear; door; earl; eyes; face; fair; friend; fulmer; good; good lord; great; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; iola; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord chartley; lord fulmer; low; man; men; moment; nay; night; old; place; replied; richard; richmond; road; room; round; sir; thought; time; tone; way; william; woodman; words; young
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304. kelly-jane-1813
     • author: kelly
     • title: kelly-jane-1813
     • date: 1813
     • words: 122617
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: His head rested on pillows of down, his body reposed under gilded canopies of state,� ## p. 3 (#21) ############################################### JANE DE DUNSTANVILLE. Each moment his breath was waxing fainter and fainter ; his pulse weaker, and his voice less articu- late ; yet were the words is he not come r b 2� ## p. 4 (#22) ############################################### 4 JANE DE DUNSTANVILLE.
     • keywords: added; bosom; calm; character; child; clancarron; cold; con; dark; daughter; day; dear; death; dillon; don; dunstanville; eglentine; ellen; eye; eyes; face; family; father; feel; feeling; fitz; friend; geoffry; good; great; hand; heart; hope; hour; human; ing; jane; jane de; know; lady; ladyship; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lordship; lost; love; man; mary; mind; miss; moment; moreland; morning; mother; mrs; nature; night; ormond; poor; power; said; sir; son; soul; spirit; thing; thought; thy; time; voice; world; young
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305. keon-harding-1852
     • author: keon
     • title: keon-harding-1852
     • date: 1852
     • words: 125371
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Surely your manner, said she, with dignity, exceeds any right which the past can give to Mr. Cuthbert Harding ! In Sir Walter Mandeville's mind, little Henrietta Mandeville was, of course, nothing to Mr. Cuthbert Harding ; yet, in Mr. Cuthbert Harding's mind, it seems, she was something to that young gentleman-a rather curious notion to so much as pass through this youth's brain.
     • keywords: algernon; childering; cried; cuthbert; cuthbert harding; day; dear; doctor; emily; face; falconer; father; friend; gentleman; geoffrey; good; great; half; hand; harding; head; henrietta; horse; know; lady; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mandeville; master; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; night; old; person; replied; returned; road; room; round; said; sir; thing; thought; time; uncle; walter; way; whitsund; winny; young
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306. kipling-captain-1896
     • author: kipling
     • title: kipling-captain-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 55535
     • flesch: 91
     • summary: Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: How about progress and Catholic superstitions? Huh! Harvey saw half a dozen knives stuck in a cleat in the hatch combing.
     • keywords: boat; boy; cheyne; dad; dan; day; disko; dory; fer; fish; good; half; harvey; head; jack; like; little; long; man; manuel; men; old; penn; platt; right; said; salters; sea; time; tom; uncle; water; way
     • versions: original; plain text
307. kipling-light-1891
     • author: kipling
     • title: kipling-light-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 74361
     • flesch: 91
     • summary: When at last Dick forwarded the gift, she forgot to thank him for it. At first Dick, on his awakenings, would grope along the corridors of the chambers till he heard some one snore.
     • keywords: bessie; better; care; day; dick; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; life; like; little; long; look; maisie; man; men; nilghai; old; right; sea; studio; things; thought; till; time; torpenhow; want; way; work; world
     • versions: original; plain text
308. lamb-glenarvon-1816
     • author: lamb
     • title: lamb-glenarvon-1816
     • date: 1816
     • words: 156132
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Take Lady Calantha then, exclaimed Lady Margaret, with assumed calmness, while every furious passion shook her frame; and may she prove a serpent to your bosom, and blast the peace of your whole family. II. B and seeing Calantha, By my soul, he exclaimed, if here ain't my own dear Lady Calantha; and God be praised Ma- dam, you are come amongst us; for the devil and all is broke loose since you've been away.
     • keywords: boy; buchanan; calantha; castle; chapter; child; continued; day; dear; death; duke; eyes; father; fear; feel; friend; glenarvon; god; gondimar; hand; heart; hope; hour; lady; lady avondale; lady calantha; lady margaret; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord avondale; lord glenarvon; love; man; mind; moment; mrs; night; power; return; saw; seymour; sir; soul; spoke; tell; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; voice; words; young
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309. lathom-freebooter-1806
     • author: lathom
     • title: lathom-freebooter-1806
     • date: 1806
     • words: 217628
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: exclaimed lord Edward. Philip Watkins threw himself at the feet of Lord Edward, and implored forgiveness for the confession which had been forced from his lips, rather by the polished blade of lord Rufus's sword, than the elo- quence of his tongue; and lord Edward, kindly remembering only the happy consequence which had arisen from his want of fortitude, bestowed on him, with his pardon, the permission of continuing in his service for life.
     • keywords: allanrod; apartment; baron; castle; chamber; child; continued; d'altonville; dame; daughter; day; de mowbray; death; door; edward; evening; eyes; father; gertrude; governor; hand; heart; heaven; hour; hubert; lady; lady rosalind; left; life; like; little; lord; lord baron; lord de; lord edward; lord rufus; lord william; madginecourt; man; means; mind; moment; morning; mother; mowbray; nature; night; passed; place; power; present; prison; queen; return; rosalind; rufus de; saw; shall; sir; sir edward; spot; thou; thy; time; voice; wife
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310. lawless-grania-1892
     • author: lawless
     • title: lawless-grania-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 90323
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: At other times they gathered chiefly upon the doorstep, which, in all Irish cabins, is the coveted place, and only ceases to be so in exceptionally cold weather, or after actual darkness has set in. Little Grania did not go back to her former place upon the ballast, but, trotting after him, scrambled nimbly on to the narrow, almost knife-like edge of the hooker, twisting her small pampootie-clad feet round a rope, so as to get a better purchase and be able to balance herself.
     • keywords: air; away; big; cabin; child; day; door; eyes; face; girl; god; good; grania; great; half; hand; head; honor; house; inishmaan; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; man; moment; murdough; night; o'malley; old; poor; rocks; round; sea; small; thing; time; tis; woman; world
     • versions: original; plain text
311. lever-barrington-1853
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-barrington-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 180736
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Though to Tom she seemed to bear a great resemblance to old Miss Barrington, there was really little likeness between them, beyond an inordinate pride of birth, and an intense estimation for the claims of family. It's as much as old Peter Barrington can do to bear his shabby ways, and his cranky temper, but he puts up with everything because he knew his son George.
     • keywords: barrington; better; brother; case; certain; conyers; course; darby; day; dear; dill; dinah; doctor; far; father; fellow; friend; george; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; india; josephine; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; m'cormick; major; man; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; miss barrington; moment; morning; old; peter; place; polly; poor; right; room; sir; sister; sort; stapylton; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; way; withering; words; world; years; young
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312. lever-burke-1857
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-burke-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 341928
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: We 'll not have long to wait for that, cried the other; see there! I lifted my eyes as he spoke, and beheld the pink stain of coming day rising above the top of a large mountain. All the Irishmen I have ever seen, replied he,--and I have known some scores of them,--were bold, dashing, intrepid fellows, that cared nothing for an enterprise if danger had no share in it; who loved a difficulty as other men love safety; who had an instinct for where their own reckless courage would give them an advantage over all others; and took life easily, under the conviction that, every day could present the circumstance where a ready wit and a stout heart could make the way to fortune.
     • keywords: air; arms; army; attention; battle; beauvais; better; blood; boy; bubbleton; burke; captain; cause; cavalry; continued; country; court; cried; darby; dark; day; days; death; deep; door; duchesne; emperor; enemy; entered; evening; eyes; face; far; father; feel; feeling; fell; fellow; fire; fortune; forward; france; friend; general; good; great; guard; half; hand; head; heart; heavy; high; honor; hope; hour; house; instant; kind; large; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; long; look; low; man; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; morning; napoleon; near; new; night; officer; old; open; paris; party; passed; past; people; place; poor; present; reply; road; room; round; save; service; short; sir; small; soldier; speak; step; strange; sure; table; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; true; turning; voice; way; words; world; wounded; years; young
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313. lever-butler-1865
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-butler-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 201908
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Just say that I have come from her own neighborhood; or, better, say Mr. Tony Butler would be glad to see her. Nonsense; you look right well in your brigand costume, and with an old friend, not to say--Well, well, don't look sulky; and as he got thus far--he had been gradually edging closer and closer to the door--he flung it wide open, and called out, Mr. Tony Butler!
     • keywords: alice; arthur; ask; believe; bella; better; caffarelli; certain; course; cried; day; days; dear; dear tony; dolly; eyes; far; father; fellow; friend; going; good; great; half; hand; head; hear; home; hope; house; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; lyle; m'caskey; maitland; man; mark; mean; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; poor tony; right; room; saw; shall; sir; skeffy; sort; sure; thing; thought; time; tony; tony butler; voice; want; way; words; world; young
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314. lever-cashel-1850
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-cashel-1850
     • date: 1850
     • words: 272568
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: I have followed you, Mr. Linton, said she, in a voice whose agitation was perceptible, because I thought it possible that some time or other, in your close intimacy with Mr. Cashel, you might allude to this topic, and I know what distress such a communication would occasion to my grandfather. Is it true, Mr. Cashel, that Mr. Linton is your nominee for the borough of Derraheeny?
     • keywords: air; aunt; believe; better; care; case; cashel; certain; company; corrigan; country; course; day; dear; deep; door; drawing; eyes; face; fact; fancy; far; feel; fellow; fortune; friend; frobisher; game; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; heard; high; hope; hour; house; interest; janet; kennyfeck; kilgoff; kind; lady; large; leave; left; life; like; linton; little; long; look; looking; lord; lost; man; manner; mary; matter; mean; meek; mere; mind; miss; miss kennyfeck; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; night; old; olivia; party; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; present; question; roland; roland cashel; room; sat; saw; sir; small; sure; table; tell; thing; thought; tiernay; time; tom; true; voice; way; white; wish; words; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
315. lever-dalton-1852
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-dalton-1852
     • date: 1852
     • words: 337903
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Had he anything remarkable about his appearance,----anything that might easily distinguish him from other men? Tis, maybe, his eyes you mane? What about his eyes, then? They could be lookin' at ye when ye 'd aware they were only lookin' at the ground; and he 'd a thrick of stopping himself when he was laughing hearty by drawing the back of his hand over his mouth, this way. If it were not for my fears of our unfitness our inability, she stammered in confusion and shame; and old Dalton broke in, Don't mind her, my Lady; we 're as well used to company as any family in the country; but, you see, we don't generally mix with the people one meets abroad; and why should we?
     • keywords: abb; air; away; better; boy; case; certain; character; come; count; course; cried; d'esmonde; dalton; dark; day; days; dear; deep; door; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fellow; felt; fortune; frank; friend; general; george; good; great; grounsell; haggerstone; half; hand; hans; head; heart; hester; high; home; hope; hour; house; interest; jekyl; kate; kate dalton; kind; know; lady; lady hester; lay; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; madam; man; manner; martha; matter; mean; mere; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; muttered; nature; nelly; new; night; nina; norwood; old; onslow; open; people; peter; place; pleasure; poor; present; priest; prince; purvis; question; read; remember; ricketts; road; room; sir; sister; small; smile; society; stafford; strange; sure; table; tell; thing; thought; till; time; true; voice; want; way; words; world; years; young
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316. lever-davenport-1859
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-davenport-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 301957
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Great men--greater men than Lord Glengariff himself--had asked him to dinner. There is this wealth in the heart of man, if he but knew how to profit by it: it is to teach us this lesson that great men have arisen from time to time.
     • keywords: air; annesley; augusta; beecher; bella; best; better; care; certain; classon; come; company; conway; country; course; cried; daughter; davenport; davis; day; dear; deep; door; driscoll; dunn; eyes; face; fact; far; father; fellow; felt; fortune; friend; girl; glengariff; good; great; grog; half; hand; hankes; hard; head; heart; high; house; interest; kellett; kind; lackington; lady; law; leave; left; life; like; little; lizzy; long; look; lord; lordship; man; manner; matter; mean; men; mere; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; muttered; new; old; old man; open; paul; people; place; poor; question; read; right; room; said; saw; sir; small; sort; speak; spicer; station; strange; sure; table; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; true; turn; twining; voice; want; way; wish; words; world; years; young
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317. lever-donoghue-1845
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-donoghue-1845
     • date: 1845
     • words: 180241
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: By my soul, sir, broke in O'Donoghue; but fortunately an interruption saved the speech from being concluded, for at the same moment the door opened, and Mark O'Donoghue, travel-stained and weary-looking, entered the room. He turned, and there stood Mark O'Donoghue himself, pale and haggard after his night's excess.
     • keywords: archy; better; boy; character; come; country; day; deep; door; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; french; glen; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hemsworth; herbert; high; honour; hope; house; kate; kerry; lanty; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; mark; mark o'donoghue; marmaduke; mary; master; mind; moment; mountain; night; o'donoghue; old; old man; people; place; poor; present; road; room; saw; sir; sir archy; sir marmaduke; sure; talbot; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; travers; voice; way; words; young; youth
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318. lever-dragoon-1841
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-dragoon-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 337754
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: But little time had I for reflection. I had little time for reflecting over my past adventure, such numbers of my brother officers poured in upon me.
     • keywords: air; army; artillery; battle; better; blake; boy; burst; captain; cavalry; chapter; charley; cold; coming; country; cried; dark; dashwood; day; days; dear; deep; devil; dinner; doctor; door; enemy; evening; eyes; face; fair; far; father; features; feeling; fellow; fire; followed; forward; free; french; friend; general; george; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heavy; high; home; hope; horse; hour; instant; kind; large; leave; left; length; life; like; line; little; long; look; looking; lord; lost; love; major; man; matter; mean; mike; mind; minutes; moment; morning; near; night; o'malley; officer; old; open; party; people; place; poor; position; power; present; regiment; road; room; round; said; saw; saying; service; set; short; sir; small; sparks; staff; sure; table; tell; think; thought; time; tone; troops; true; uncle; voice; way; words; years; young
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319. lever-fitzgerald-1851
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-fitzgerald-1851
     • date: 1851
     • words: 140015
     • flesch: 75
     • summary: His various readings had taught him much; and he had already learned that in the Mutual Assurance Company we call Life men are ever more or less dependent on their fellows. 'The game is not played out yet, boy,' said she at last; 'there are great men, and wise ones too, who say that the condition of Europe, the peace of the world, requires the recognition of rights so just as those of the Stuarts.
     • keywords: better; boy; cardinal; cause; certain; count; cried; day; deep; door; eminence; eyes; face; fitzgerald; fra; france; friar; gabriel; gerald; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; kelly; lay; left; life; like; little; long; look; low; man; marietta; massoni; men; mere; mind; mirabeau; moment; muttered; night; noble; old; people; place; poor; pre; prince; room; royal; sir; strange; thought; time; true; voice; way; wild; words; world; young; youth
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320. lever-folly-1868
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-folly-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 200566
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: But the same haughty defiance he gave the world in other things urged him here to show that he cared little for the judgments which might be passed upon him, or even for the circumstances which would have influenced other men. No; their talk was all of personalities, of Russian princes and grandees of Spain, archduchesses and marchesas, whose crafts and subtleties, and pomps and vanities, make up a world like no other world, and play a drama of life--happily it may be for humanity--like no other drama that other men and women ever figured in.
     • keywords: augustus; best; bramleigh; brother; case; certain; claim; colonel; come; course; culduff; cutbill; day; dear; declare; dinner; fact; family; father; fellow; george; good; great; half; hand; head; hope; house; jack; julia; know; l'estrange; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; marion; matter; mean; men; moment; money; morning; nelly; old; people; place; poor; pracontal; question; right; room; sedley; sir; sister; small; sort; sure; talk; temple; things; thought; time; tone; want; way; words; world
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321. lever-fossbrooke-1856
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-fossbrooke-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 219696
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: I added, that old men are not good subjects for shocks; and I will say, sirs, that he looked at me as I spoke with a compassionate pity which won all my gratitude! You are too abrupt, Beattie; you snap the cords of thought by such rough handling, and we old men lose our dexterous knack of catching the loose ends, as we once did.
     • keywords: balfour; baron; beattie; believe; better; came; cave; chief; colonel; come; course; cried; day; dear; doctor; door; far; father; fellow; fossbrooke; friend; good; got; great; haire; half; hand; head; hope; house; judge; know; lady; leave; left; lendrick; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lucy; man; mean; men; mind; moment; morning; old; old man; people; place; right; room; saw; sewell; sir; sir brook; sort; sure; thing; thought; time; tom; trafford; voice; want; way; wife; wish; words; world; years; young
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322. lever-glencore-1857
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-glencore-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 153305
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Indeed it seemed as though he kept this malady for the pastime of idle hours, as other men do a novel or a newspaper, but would never permit it to interfere with the graver business of life. Perils may try me, but not the whims and tastes of other men.
     • keywords: air; best; better; billy; boy; certain; chapter; course; craggs; cried; day; dear; dinner; duke; events; face; fellow; friend; glencore; good; great; half; hand; harcourt; head; heart; horace; house; kind; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; mean; men; mere; mind; moment; muttered; nature; night; old; people; place; poor; princess; question; room; sea; sir; small; society; state; strange; stubber; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; true; upton; voice; want; way; words; world; years; young; youth
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323. lever-gwynne-1847
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-gwynne-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 288232
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: Say Lady Eleanor Darey, said she, unaware that her coming had been already telegraphed to the sick man's chamber. The air, should our reader be musically given, was the well-known one, There was a Miller had Three Sons:-- Says Major Sirr to Major Swan, You have two rebels, give me one; They pay the same for one as two, I 'll get five pounds, and I 'll share with you.
     • keywords: added; bagenal; better; captain; case; castlereagh; certain; character; country; course; daly; darcy; daughter; day; days; dear; deep; dempsey; door; eleanor; eyes; face; family; far; father; feeling; fellow; felt; fire; forester; fortune; friend; gentleman; gleeson; good; great; gwynne; half; hand; head; heart; heffernan; helen; hickman; high; honor; hope; house; interest; ireland; kind; knight; lady; lady eleanor; large; leave; left; life; like; lionel; little; long; look; lord; man; manner; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; muttered; netherby; new; o'reilly; old; old man; party; paul; people; place; poor; present; question; ready; right; room; sandy; saw; short; sir; small; speak; sure; table; tate; tell; think; thought; time; tone; true; voice; way; words; world; years; young
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324. lever-hinton-1843
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-hinton-1843
     • date: 1843
     • words: 198234
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Major Bob Mahon was a short, thickset little man, with round blue eyes, a turned-up nose, and a full under lip, which he had a habit of protruding with an air of no mean pretension; a short crop of curly black hair covered a head as round as a billiard-ball. A comfortable, well-carpeted room, with curtained windows, cushioned chairs, and, not least inviting of all, a blazing fire of wood upon the hearth, were objects I was little prepared for; but I had little time to note them, my attention being directed with more curiosity to the living occupants of this strange dwelling.
     • keywords: air; arm; bellew; better; bob; burke; certain; character; corny; country; cried; dark; day; dear; deep; dinner; door; drawing; duke; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; forward; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; high; hinton; hour; house; ireland; jack; kind; know; lady; large; laughter; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; major; man; manner; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; o'grady; old; party; paul; people; place; poor; priest; room; rooney; round; short; sir; sure; table; tell; think; thought; time; voice; way; words; world
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325. lever-kilgobbin-1872
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-kilgobbin-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 211519
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: The little indiscretions of old men--especially old men--with these women, the lapses of confidence they made them, the dropping admissions of this or that intention, made up what Walpole knew to be high diplomacy. Your statesmen have no need to be journalists, teachers, tutors; Frenchmen and Italians are all these, and on the Lower Danube and in Greece we are these and something more.--Nor are we less politicians that we are more men of the world.--The little of statecraft that French Emperor ever knew, he picked up in his days of exile.'
     • keywords: asked; atlee; better; castle; certain; come; country; cried; day; dear; dick; dinner; donogan; far; father; fellow; friend; girl; going; good; great; greek; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; ireland; irish; joe; kate; kearney; kilgobbin; know; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; maude; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; nina; o'shea; old; people; place; poor; question; read; right; room; said; sir; small; sort; sure; thing; thought; time; walpole; want; way; woman; words; world; young
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326. lever-luttrell-1865
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-luttrell-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 225906
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Old Sir Within is about the greatest prig I ever met; and as for the ward, she is either insufferably impertinent, or downright under bred. Perhaps you do; perhaps you'd like it better if old Sir Within would have the politeness to die off and give you no further trouble?
     • keywords: believe; better; certain; child; courtenay; cried; day; dear; door; eyes; face; far; father; fellow; friend; girl; good; great; grenfell; half; hand; harry; head; heart; hope; house; kate; know; ladarelle; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; luttrell; m'kinlay; man; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; muttered; night; o'rorke; old; old man; people; place; poor; read; room; sat; saw; sea; sir; sir gervais; sort; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; turned; voice; vyner; want; way; words; world; years; young
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327. lever-martin-1856
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-martin-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 271987
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Well, I bought that little mare from young Mr. Martin--the Captain--when he was ordered out to India; I put her in training, and ran her at the Curragh in three weeks, and won, too, the St. Lawrence Handicap. Mr. Martin was often alarmed at some of his niece's measures of reform.
     • keywords: added; asked; best; better; captain; catty; certain; come; country; course; cried; crow; day; dear; deep; door; dorothea; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; feel; fellow; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; henderson; high; home; hope; house; ireland; jack; joe; kate; kind; lady; ladyship; leave; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; magennis; man; manner; martin; mary; mary martin; massingbred; matter; mean; men; mere; merl; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nelligan; new; old; party; passed; people; place; poor; present; question; repton; right; room; scanlan; self; sir; small; sure; table; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; uncle; voice; want; way; words; world; years; young
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328. lever-one-1861
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-one-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 205267
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Was n't it by pretend in' to be good men? Old men like myself get to know a good deal of life without any study of it.
     • keywords: agincourt; alfred; better; boy; called; certain; charles; clara; come; course; cried; day; dear; doctor; door; face; far; father; fellow; fortune; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heathcote; hope; hour; house; joe; know; layton; leave; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; man; mean; men; mind; moment; morning; morris; mrs; muttered; o'shea; old; old man; paten; people; place; poor; quackinboss; question; right; room; saw; sir; small; sort; stocmar; sure; thing; thought; time; tone; trover; voice; want; way; william; woman; words; world; years; yes; young
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329. lever-rent-1869
     • author: lever
     • title: lever-rent-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 71462
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: The answer came by return of post; it ran thus: Miss Calvert has to acknowledge the receipt of Miss Grainger's note of the 8th inst. Miss Calvert is not aware of any claim Miss Grainger can prefer to address her by letter, still less, of any right to bring under her notice the name of the person she has dared to inquire after.
     • keywords: aunt; boat; calvert; come; cried; day; dear; fellow; florence; friend; good; grainger; great; half; leave; letter; life; like; little; long; loyd; man; mean; miss; old; place; room; sort; thought; time; want; way; word
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330. lyttleton-emma-1858
     • author: lyttleton
     • title: lyttleton-emma-1858
     • date: 1858
     • words: 20255
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Lady Harewood soon made choice in her own mind of a gentle, thoughtful-looking girl, neat and modest in her dress and manner: and when the girls were sent back into the school, she said to the schoolmistress, 'I have chosen little Jane; for I have often noticed the humility of her behaviour, and the attention with which she has always listened to my instructions. Jane then proceeded to teach her something more about the love of God to little children, always trying .to tell her everything in as pleasant a way as she could; and when she was attentive, she would reward her with some roses and sweet-smelling flowers to put in her little garden basket, or she would give her a few early strawberries.
     • keywords: arthur; child; emma; god; jane; lady; little; mother; sir; time
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331. macdonald-curdie-1883
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-curdie-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 56656
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: And with that the darkness of its complexion melted away, and down from the face dawned out the form that belonged to it, until at last Curdie and his father beheld a lady, beautiful exceedingly, dressed in something pale green, like velvet, over which her hair fell in cataracts of a rich golden colour. The housemaid poured out the wine; and as she poured for Curdie red wine that foamed in the cup, as if glad to see the light whence it had been banished so long, she looked him in the eyes.
     • keywords: curdie; door; eyes; father; good; great; hand; king; like; lina; little; long; man; moment; mother; night; old; place; princess; tell; time; way
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332. macdonald-david-1863
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-david-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 173655
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Said Hugh to himself: I must tell this man the whole story; and with it all my own. At length, one evening, entering the drawing-room before dinner, Hugh found Euphra there alone.
     • keywords: arnold; best; better; boy; come; david; day; dear; door; elton; emily; euphra; eyes; face; falconer; far; father; feeling; funkelstein; god; good; great; half; hand; harry; heart; help; home; house; hugh; janet; kind; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; margaret; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; night; place; poor; read; ring; room; said; saw; sir; sutherland; tell; things; think; thought; till; time; way
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333. macdonald-donal-1883
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-donal-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 178726
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: But I s' come to the table.--Wud ye alloo me to speir efter yer name, sir? My name 's Donal Grant, replied Donal. My name is Donal Grant, returned Donal, with an accent on the my intending a wish to know in return that of the speaker.
     • keywords: arctura; believe; better; castle; come; davie; day; donal; donal grant; door; earl; eppy; eyes; face; far; father; find; forgue; gien; god; good; grant; great; hae; hand; heart; help; house; know; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lordship; love; man; mind; miss; moment; night; old; place; room; saw; set; sir; stair; stood; things; think; thought; time; true; wad; way; weel; world
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334. macdonald-elect-1888
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-elect-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 60264
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Said Andrew to himself: I will be her servant always. Said Alexa to herself: I have at least been refused by a man worthy of the honor I did him!
     • keywords: alexa; andrew; cup; dawtie; day; father; george; god; good; laird; like; little; lord; love; ma'am; man; old; right; said; sir; thing; thought; time; way
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335. macdonald-faber-1879
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-faber-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 171515
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: It may be difficult to keep such men out of holy orders, but if ever the benefices of the church come to be freely bestowed upon them, that moment the death-bell of religion is rung in England. While such men keep to barns and conventicles we can despise them, but when they creep into the fold, then there is just cause for alarm.
     • keywords: better; child; church; curate; day; doctor; door; dorothy; drake; eyes; faber; face; far; father; god; good; great; hand; heart; helen; help; hope; house; husband; juliet; know; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; minister; moment; mrs; nature; old; paul; place; poor; returned; right; room; soul; thing; thought; time; true; truth; way; wife; wingfold; woman; world
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336. macdonald-gibbie-1879
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-gibbie-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 186065
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: The books they bought were carried to Donal's room, there to be considered by Gibbie Donal's, and by Donal Gibbie's. there lay poor black Sambo, so dear to wee Sir Gibbie, motionless and covered with blood!
     • keywords: angus; bed; better; boy; child; come; cottage; croale; day; donal; door; eyes; face; far; father; feet; fergus; galbraith; gibbie; gien; ginevra; god; good; great; hae; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; janet; laird; lay; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; minister; mistress; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; place; read; robert; room; rose; round; said; sclater; seen; set; sir gibbie; tell; thing; thought; till; time; time gibbie; wad; water; way; went; woman; word; yer
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337. macdonald-goblin-1872
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-goblin-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 52009
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: 'My name's Curdie, little princess.' 'What a funny name! I don't doubt I can find my way--without you, princess, or your old grannie's thread either,' said Curdie quite rudely.
     • keywords: curdie; goblins; grandmother; great; house; irene; king; lady; like; little; lootie; mountain; nurse; old; princess; thought; time; way
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338. macdonald-guild-1868
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-guild-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 167121
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: When he had taken his leave of them, just as they came in sight of the flag-staff, where Mr. Worboise and Mr. Boxall had appointed to meet them on their return from the pines, Jane begged Amy to say nothing about having met him. For some days Mr. Boxall was so uneasy about Mary that he forgot his appointment with Mr. Worboise.
     • keywords: away; better; boxall; child; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; fuller; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; kitely; left; like; little; long; look; love; lucy; man; mattie; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; old; poppie; right; room; said; saw; spelt; stopper; things; thomas; thought; time; tom; way; worboise
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339. macdonald-gutta-1873
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-gutta-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 48985
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: My shoemaking is nearly over, Mr Willie, he said. But I should be such a trouble to you all, Mr Willie!
     • keywords: better; father; good; great; hector; like; little; mother; night; old; people; room; thing; thought; time; water; willie; work
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340. macdonald-home-1887
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-home-1887
     • date: 1887
     • words: 51620
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: No one needs find it hard to believe such snobbishness in a youth gifted like Walter Colman; for a sweet temper, fine sympathies, warmth of affection, can not be called a man's own, so long as he has felt and acted without co-operation of the will; and Walter had never yet fought a battle within himself. What he half thought in his silence, was something like this: that Jesus Christ was not the type of manhood, but a man by himself, who came to do a certain work; that it was both absurd and irreverent to talk as if other men had to do as He did, to think and feel like Him; that He was so high above the world He could not care for its fame, while to mere man its praises must be dear.
     • keywords: book; come; day; father; good; lady; like; little; love; lufa; man; molly; night; read; sefton; things; think; thought; time; true; walter; way; work
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341. macdonald-howglen-1865
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-howglen-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 193491
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: The next morning, Alec saw Mr Cupples in bed before he left. Eh! it's bonnie, woman; and I wiss ye had the sicht o' yer een to see't wi'; though ye do preten' to think little o' 't. Weel, weel!
     • keywords: aboot; ain; alec; alec forbes; ane; annie; beauchamp; bed; better; bruce; canna; chapter; child; come; cupples; curly; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; frae; gang; gin ye; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jist; kate; lay; left; life; like; little; long; love; man; master; moment; mother; mr alec; mr bruce; mr cupples; mrs; nae; night; old; oot; oot o; ower; place; robert; room; sae; said; school; set; sir; tak; tell; think; thomas; thought; tibbie; till; time; upo; wad; want; water; way; weel; whan; word; ye dinna; ye hae; ye ken; ye maun; ye wad; ye're; yer
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342. macdonald-malcolm-1875
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-malcolm-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 195050
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Malcolm o' his. Weel, ye see, Providence has been kin' till him as weel 's ither blin' craturs. Fery coot, my chilt, Jeannie; but young Malcolm and old Tuncan hasn't made teir prayers yet, and you know fery well tat she won't sell pefore she's made her prayers.
     • keywords: aboot; ane; better; body; came; catanach; come; day; dinna; door; duncan; eyes; face; far; father; florimel; fowk; frae; gang; gien; gien ye; god; good; graham; great; hae; half; hand; head; heart; horn; house; jist; know; lady; laird; lay; leddy; left; length; life; like; little; long; lord; lordship; mair; malcolm; man; marquis; maun; mem; miss; moment; mrs; nae; night; old; ony; oot o; ower; phemy; place; room; rose; sae; said; saw; sea; set; sic; son; tell; things; think; thought; till; time; upo; voice; wad; way; weel; whaur; woman; word; ye dinna; ye hae; ye ken; ye maun; ye wad; yer
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343. macdonald-marquis-1877
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-marquis-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 175351
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: And then at last Malcolm poured forth his whole story, and his heart with it, to Miss Horn, who heard and received it with understanding, and a sympathy which grew ever as she listened. --This much of a man at least, answered his waking dignity, that he could not condescend to be accepted as Malcolm, Marquis of Lossie, knowing he would have been rejected as Malcolm MacPhail, fisherman and groom.
     • keywords: better; clementina; come; day; door; eyes; face; factor; far; father; find; florimel; gien; god; going; good; great; ha'e; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kelpie; lady; lady clementina; left; lenorme; life; liftore; like; little; lizzy; long; look; lord; lossie; love; malcolm; man; marquis; mind; mistress; moment; morning; old; people; peter; place; returned; right; room; rose; said; saw; sea; set; sir; stood; tell; thing; thought; till; time; wad; way; woman; word; yer
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344. macdonald-marston-1881
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-marston-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 178071
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: And now at last Mary understood at least this specimen of his strange music, and was able to fill up the blanks in the impression it formerly made upon her. I must not sit and hear you call Mary names, aunt, she said.
     • keywords: better; come; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; godfrey; going; good; great; hand; heart; help; hesper; house; lady; left; letty; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mary; mean; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; people; place; redmain; room; said; saw; sepia; shop; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; wardour; way; wife; woman; world
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345. macdonald-michael-1876
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-michael-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 164995
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: But find it we must.' 'Think you not, my lord, it were best set mistress Dorothy on the search? But mistress Dorothy was startled, and mistress Dorothy did not choose to be startled, and therefore mistress Dorothy was dignified, if not angry.
     • keywords: better; caspar; castle; chamber; come; court; cousin; day; door; dorothy; eyes; face; far; father; god; good; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heywood; horse; king; know; lady; left; like; little; long; lord; lord herbert; lord marquis; lordship; love; majesty; man; margaret; marquis; master; mistress; mistress dorothy; moment; mother; night; old; place; raglan; returned; richard; room; rowland; said; scudamore; shall; sir; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; tom; way
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346. macdonald-mine-1886
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-mine-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 152885
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: I thought better of all highlanders; they have the reputation of good men at the bottle! Few have learned that one is of no value except to God and other men.
     • keywords: alister; better; chief; christina; come; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; god; good; great; hand; heart; hill; home; house; ian; land; life; like; little; long; look; love; macruadh; man; men; mercy; moment; money; mother; new; night; old; palmer; people; poor; rob; room; said; soul; thing; thought; time; true; way; woman; world; young
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347. macdonald-north-1871
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-north-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 91271
     • flesch: 93
     • summary: He is old Diamond, and I am young Diamond; or, if you like it better, for you're very particular, Mr. North Wind, he's big Diamond, and I'm little Diamond; and I don't know which of us my father likes best. DIAMOND'S FRIENDS ONE day when old Diamond was standing with his nose in his bag between Pall Mall and Cockspur Street, and his master was reading the newspaper on the box of his cab, which was the last of a good many in the row, little Diamond got down for a run, for his legs were getting cramped with sitting.
     • keywords: away; baby; boy; diamond; diamond thought; father; good; great; horse; like; little; little diamond; man; mother; nanny; night; north wind; old diamond; said; saw; tell; thought; time; wind
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348. macdonald-salted-1896
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-salted-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 70525
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: But upo' the ither han' there's ae thing it's eesed for by some, 'at canna be considert a richt eese to mak o' 't: there's ae wull tribe in America they tell me o', 'at ait a hantle Isna there time eneuch to put oot o' yer sicht what ye ance lo'ed
     • keywords: aboot; child; come; day; face; father; gien; god; hae; heart; isy; james; jist; ken; left; like; little; long; lord; love; maggie; man; maun; minister; moment; mother; said; sir; soutar; tell; thing; thought; til; time; weel; ye hae; ye ken; yer
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349. macdonald-snow-1893
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-snow-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 75920
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: 'What do you want, Kirsty Barclay?' demanded Phemy, who had within the last week or two advanced considerably in confidence of manner; 'I am in a hurry!' 'Ye're in a waur hurry nor ye ken, for yer hurry sud be the ither gait!' answered Kirsty; 'and I'm gaein to turn ye, or at least no gaein to lat ye gang, ohn heard a bit o' the trowth frae a woman aulder nor yersel! Haggard as he looked, the old twinkle awoke in his eye responsive to her joyous amusement; and David, coming in the next moment from putting up the gray mare with which he had met the coach to bring Kirsty home, saw them all three laughing in such an abandonment of mirth as, though unaware of the immediate motive, he could not help joining.
     • keywords: aboot; answered; bonny; come; david; day; face; father; feet; francis; gang; gien; gordon; hae; heart; house; ken; kirsty; like; little; man; moment; mother; oot; phemy; sae; steenie; think; thought; time; way; weel; wud; ye hae; ye ken; ye maun; ye wud; yer
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350. macdonald-there-1891
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-there-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 174271
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: What in Barbara Richard had begun well, Wingfold was carrying on better. Nobody; the property's not entailed, and who cares whether it be sir Richard or sir Arthur?
     • keywords: alice; ann; arthur; barbara; better; came; child; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; god; going; good; got; heart; house; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; old; richard; right; room; said; saw; sir; son; tell; thing; thought; time; true; way; wilton; wingfold; woman; work; world
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351. macdonald-wanting-1882
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-wanting-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 166980
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: I would think of money as Christ thought of it, not otherwise; for no other way is true, however it may recommend itself to good men; and neither Christ nor his apostles did anything by means of money; nay, he who would join them in their labors had to abandon his fortune. You set me thinking of more things than I can manage all at once, she replied in a troubled way.
     • keywords: amy; best; better; child; children; cornelius; corney; day; door; eyes; face; family; far; father; god; good; great; heart; help; hester; home; house; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; major; man; mark; mind; miss; moment; mother; old; people; poor; raymount; right; room; said; small; things; think; thought; time; vavasor; way; wife; woman; world
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352. macdonald-warlock-1881
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-warlock-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 183897
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: I'll tell you what you must do, Mr. Cosmo: you must get a few sheets of tissue paper, and wrap every stone up separately--a long job, but the better worth doing! she said, offended at his silence; Ye'll hae to learn manners afore ye're laird o' Glenwarlock, young Cosmo! A shadow of indignation passed over Grizzie's rippled, rather than wrinkled face, but she said nothing.
     • keywords: aggie; ane; auld; bed; best; better; boy; came; come; cosmo; day; door; eyes; face; far; father; fire; frae; gang; gien; gien ye; god; good; great; grizzie; hae; hand; heart; home; house; joan; ken; know; lady; laird; lay; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lordship; love; mair; man; moment; money; night; old; old man; place; room; sae; said; saw; set; son; tell; thing; thought; time; upo; wad; way; weel; whan; woman; world; ye hae; ye wad; yer
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353. macdonald-wingfold-1876
     • author: macdonald
     • title: macdonald-wingfold-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 166646
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: There are so many things, comfortably settled like Presumption's tubs upon their own bottoms, which such men would, if they could, at once upset and empty! He would; but that there may be such men I am bound to allow, for here am I wishing with all my heart that I had never done them.
     • keywords: bascombe; better; brother; chapter; church; come; curate; day; death; door; eyes; face; far; father; george; god; good; great; hand; heart; helen; help; hope; house; jesus; lay; left; leopold; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; mind; moment; people; polwarth; poor; right; room; soul; things; think; thought; time; true; truth; way; wingfold; woman; words; world
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354. marryat-children-1847
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-children-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 115024
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: This was human nature; and much as Jacob Armitage would expostulate with him, and try to divert his feelings into other channels; long as he would preach to him about forgiveness of injuries, and patience until better times should come, Edward could not help brooding over these thoughts, and if ever there was a breast animated with intense hatred against the Puritans it was that of Edward Beverley. Edward was already satisfied that he was not quite looked upon with indifference by Patience Heatherstone; and he was not yet certain whether it was not a grateful feeling that she had towards him more than any other; that she believed him to be beneath her in birth, he felt convinced, and therefore she could have no idea that he was Edward Beverley.
     • keywords: alice; cart; clara; cottage; day; edith; edward; father; forest; good; house; humphrey; intendant; jacob; king; leave; little; man; old; oswald; pablo; patience; sir; sisters; thought; time
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355. marryat-dog-1837
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-dog-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 142747
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Give Mr Vanslyperken his purse, Susan, said the prudent Moggy to the young woman who had taken it out of his pocket. With what a bounding heart did Mr Vanslyperken step into the boat attired in his best!
     • keywords: board; boat; cabin; corporal; corporal van; cutter; deck; dog; door; good; hand; head; house; jemmy; king; krause; left; lieutenant; like; little; man; men; moggy; mr vanslyperken; mynheer; mynheer vanslyperken; nancy; observed; old; ramsay; replied; said; short; sir; smallbones; snarleyyow; spitter; thought; time; way; widow; woman
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356. marryat-forster-1842
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-forster-1842
     • date: 1842
     • words: 137133
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: I tell you what, my lads, if poor Mr Newton is to die, let this scoundrel keep him company. The captain looked glum, and Miss Revel observing it, turned the conversation, by inquiring--Who was that gentleman who saved me from falling? Mr Newton Forster, one of the mates of the vessel.
     • keywords: board; boat; brother; captain; castle; colonel; continued; cried; day; dear; deck; door; father; fontanges; forster; french; good; great; hand; head; home; hour; isabel; john; lady; left; little; long; man; men; miss; monsieur; mr forster; mr newton; mrs; newton; newton forster; nicholas; observed; old; return; revel; room; said; ship; sir; thing; thought; time; vessel; water; way; years; young
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357. marryat-king-1830
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-king-1830
     • date: 1830
     • words: 153000
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: I find there are many good men among us: for my own part, I have had full confidence of all in this ship; and once more I beg to express my approbation of your conduct. The boats hastened back to the frigate; they had but few men hurt, except those mentioned in our narrative; but the wounds of Courtenay and of Prose were dangerous.
     • keywords: board; boy; captain; captain m---; come; company; continued; courtenay; cried; day; deck; emily; father; frigate; good; great; hand; having; head; hero; jerry; lieutenant; life; like; little; long; m---; macallan; man; master; mcelvina; men; mind; morning; mrs; observed; officers; old; party; place; prose; quarter; rainscourt; room; round; said; sea; service; seymour; ship; sir; think; thought; time; vessel; water; wife; willy; wish; years; young
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358. marryat-midshipman-1836
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-midshipman-1836
     • date: 1836
     • words: 142207
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: By nine o'clock that evening, Mr Jack Easy was safe on board his Majesty's sloop Harpy. Everybody appeared excited except Master Jack Easy himself, who, with a rag round his finger, and his pinafore spotted with blood, was playing at bob-cherry, and cared nothing about the matter.
     • keywords: board; boat; captain; captain wilson; day; deck; don; father; gascoigne; good; governor; great; head; hero; jack; lieutenant; like; little; long; man; massa; men; mesty; morning; mr easy; mr gascoigne; observed; point; right; sawbridge; service; ship; shore; sir; thought; time; vessel; way; wilson; young
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359. marryat-mission-1845
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-mission-1845
     • date: 1845
     • words: 108560
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: The next morning, Swanevelt and Bremen went down the banks of the river, and discovered the body of the hippopotamus, which they dragged on shore, and, returning to the wagons, sent the Caffres to cut it up; but before the Caffres belonging to the caravan could arrive there, they found that the work had been done for them by the natives, and that nothing was left but the bones of the animal; but this is always considered fair in the Caffre-land; every one helps himself when an elephant or other large animal is killed, although he may have had no hand in its destruction. The streets presented a bustling and animated scene; wagons with goods, or returning empty with their long teams of oxen; horses, sheep, and other animals, just landed; loud talking; busy inquirers; running to and fro of men; Hottentots busy with the gods, or smoking their pipes in idle survey; crates and boxes, and packages of all descriptions, mixed up with agricultural implements and ironware, lining each side of the road, upon which were seated wives and daughters watching the property, and children looking round with astonishment, or playing or crying.
     • keywords: alexander; animal; bremen; caffres; cape; caravan; cattle; country; day; good; great; horses; hottentots; large; lion; little; long; major; man; men; morning; night; observed; omrah; oxen; party; people; return; river; sir; swinton; time; travelers; wagons; water
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360. marryat-phantom-1839
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-phantom-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 141056
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Before Philip Went downstairs, he inquired about Mynheer Poots. Philip, would it not be better (instead of leaving me in a maze of doubt) that you now confided to us both all the facts connected with this strange history, so that we may ponder on them, and give you the benefit of the advice of those who are older than yourself, and who, by their calling may be able to decide more correctly whether this supernatural power has been exercised by a good or evil intelligence? The holy Father speaks well, Philip Vanderdecken, observed Mathias.
     • keywords: amine; board; captain; commandant; company; day; death; door; eyes; father; good; hand; krantz; leave; left; life; little; long; man; mathias; men; money; mother; mynheer; mynheer philip; night; observed; old; philip; philip vanderdecken; poots; raft; return; room; sail; schriften; ship; shore; thought; time; vessel; water
     • versions: original; plain text
361. marryat-pirate-1836
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-pirate-1836
     • date: 1836
     • words: 56872
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: 'It will be dark in less than an hour,' observed Francisco; 'and that is our only chance.' Cain reflected a minute. 'Get the long gun ready, my lads! But the judge stood up, and addressing the jury, told them that it was his most painful duty to remind them that as yet they had heard but assertion, beautiful and almost convincing assertion truly; but still it was not proof. 'Alas!' observed Francisco, 'what evidence can I bring forward, except the evidence of those around me at the bar, which will not be admitted?
     • keywords: blood; board; boat; cain; captain; crew; deck; edward; francisco; hawkhurst; little; long; man; men; pirate; said; schooner; ship; sir; templemore; time; vessel; water; witherington
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362. marryat-ready-1841
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-ready-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 100773
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Upon the question being put to Mrs. Seagrave, she replied that she was quite satisfied with the ship having no motion, and did not feel herself equal to going on shore; it was therefore decided that she should remain on board with the two younger children, and that, on the following day, Mr. Seagrave should take William and Tommy to see Cape Town, and return on board before night. Poor Juno was very much astonished when she came up the ladder and perceived the condition of the vessel, and the absence of the men; but Mr. Seagrave told her what had happened, and cautioned her against saying a word to Mrs. Seagrave.
     • keywords: better; boat; cocoa; come; day; good; great; house; island; juno; little; man; mrs; old; ready; seagrave; ship; sir; time; tommy; trees; vessel; water; william; work
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363. marryat-rushbrook-1841
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-rushbrook-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 126204
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: We have now wound up the history of little Joey Rushbrook, the poacher. Since his return from Saint Petersburg, Joey had always, by their request, called himself Joey McShane, and he was not sorry when they gave him the permission, although he did not comprehend the advantages which were to accrue from taking the name.
     • keywords: austin; better; boy; chopper; day; father; furness; good; great; hero; house; joey; leave; left; like; little; long; man; mary; mcshane; miss; money; morning; mrs; nancy; night; o'donahue; old; poor; replied; rushbrook; sir; spikeman; thought; time; way; wish
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364. marryat-settlers-1844
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-settlers-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 112009
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: It was from Mr Douglas Campbell, the new proprietor of the estate, requesting Mr Bates would ascertain if Mr Campbell was willing that the furniture, etcetera, should be disposed of by valuation, and if so, requesting Mr Bates to put a liberal value on it, and draw upon him for the amount. After a short silence, during which they were all occupied with their correspondence, Mr Campbell said, I also have good news to communicate to you; Mr H. writes to me to say, that Mr Douglas Campbell, on finding the green-houses and hot-houses so well stocked, considers that he was bound to pay for the plants; that they have been valued at seven hundred pounds, and that he has paid that money into my agent's hands.
     • keywords: alfred; captain; captain sinclair; day; dear; emma; fort; good; great; henry; house; indian; john; little; malachi; man; martin; mary; mr campbell; mrs; observed; old; party; percival; replied; sinclair; sir; strawberry; time
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365. marryat-simple-1834
     • author: marryat
     • title: marryat-simple-1834
     • date: 1834
     • words: 217608
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: You will go in the boat with Mr O'Brien, and take care that none of the men slip away from it, and get drunk at the tap. 'Mr O'Brien, since you have perched yourself on that gun to please yourself, you will now continue there for two hours to please me.
     • keywords: board; boat; brig; captain; captain o'brien; company; cried; day; days; deck; father; french; good; great; half; hand; head; hour; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; like; little; long; lord; man; men; morning; mr o'brien; mr simple; mrs; night; o'brien; observed; officer; old; peter; place; poor; quarter; replied; room; round; service; ship; shore; sir; swinburne; thought; time; vessel; water; way; woman; young
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366. martineau-billow-1846
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-billow-1846
     • date: 1846
     • words: 57360
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: do you say? exclaimed Lady Carse, with a start. It was an illegal proceeding of Mr Hope's, and resorted to only when his attempts to obtain a warrant from the proper authority to search for and liberate Lady Carse were frustrated by the influence of her husband and his friends.
     • keywords: annie; children; day; good; house; island; lady carse; little; lord; macdonald; night; people; place; president; rollo; ruthven; sir; thought; time; way; widow
     • versions: original; plain text
367. martineau-crofton-1841
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-crofton-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 56648
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: At last, Hugh saw Mr Tooke. poor Hugh exclaimed.
     • keywords: boys; come; crofton; dale; day; holt; hugh; little; mother; phil; school; tell; thought; time; tooke
     • versions: original; plain text
368. martineau-deerbrook-1839
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-deerbrook-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 224528
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Oh, mamma, don't send us to bed if it is Mr Hope! cried the little girls. Let us sit up a little longer if it is Mr Hope.
     • keywords: better; brother; children; day; dear; deerbrook; door; family; going; good; great; having; heart; hester; home; house; husband; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; margaret; maria; mind; miss; moment; morning; morris; mother; mr enderby; mr grey; mr hope; mr rowland; mr walcot; mrs; night; old; people; philip; place; room; saw; sister; sophia; sure; sydney; think; thought; time; way; young
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369. martineau-hour-1839
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-hour-1839
     • date: 1839
     • words: 175150
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: L'ouverture ! cried the multitude, f uUy comprehending what the word contained in its application to their chief, Toussaint L'Ouverture ! Henceforth, the city, the colony, the island, and, after a time, all Europe, rang with the name of Toussaint L'Ouverture.
     • keywords: aimee; asked; blacks; bonaparte; child; colony; come; cried; day; dessalines; domingo; euphrosyne; eyes; far; father; france; french; general; genifrede; god; good; great; hand; heart; henri; home; hour; house; island; know; l'ouverture; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; madame; man; moment; mother; moyse; negro; negroes; night; old; papalier; pascal; people; place; race; saw; speak; tell; therese; thought; time; toussaint; vincent; voice; way; whites; wiu; young
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370. martineau-orphan-1844
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-orphan-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 37512
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Jane afterwards asked her the reason, and good Hannah declared that she could not find in her heart to disturb so refreshing a repose, till it was time to call Mr Charles also. O that I could send him back his bank-notes and his presents, and be free of all obligation! Nay, dear Charles, do not let us be ungrateful because he is hasty.
     • keywords: barker; charles; day; friend; good; hope; isabella; jane; little; monteath; rathbone; thought; time
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371. martineau-prince-1841
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-prince-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 59729
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: When they were assembled, they required of me things which I could not do, either for my own sake or yours; as you are to be king after me. The Empress Catherine of Russia wrote to the queen, Kings ought to proceed on their course without troubling themselves about the cries of the people, as the moon traverses the sky without regard to the baying of dogs.
     • keywords: children; count; day; family; great; king; little; louis; madame; man; marie; mother; night; palace; paris; people; poor; princess; queen; royal; royal family; time; way
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372. martineau-settlers-1841
     • author: martineau
     • title: martineau-settlers-1841
     • date: 1841
     • words: 56645
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Oliver was really glad to take Mildred away from seeing and hearing him, as long as the child would be quiet with Roger: so he asked her to filter more water through the gravel. No need, Oliver dear! said Ailwin again.
     • keywords: ailwin; day; father; george; good; house; like; little; look; mildred; oliver; poor; roger; sure; thought; time; water; way
     • versions: original; plain text
373. maturin-milesian-1812
     • author: maturin
     • title: maturin-milesian-1812
     • date: 1812
     • words: 140968
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: TE I feel a source of internal enjoyment springing up within my heart like a foun- tain of life, and giving a vernal freshness to its hopes and desires : formerly, amid luxury and pom, life hung heavy on my spirits ; it seemed too long to me in early youth: now I dread that life will be too short, that some disaster will tear from me the opportunity of expressing a pas. sion for which eternity seems only com- mensurate : the first, the noblest of bu- man hearts is mive; and had I been taught in my earlier days to pray, hourly would I pray that I might be worthy of him in the trials to which destiny has called bim. II. Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, Said then the lost Arch-angel.
     • keywords: armida; arms; brother; castle; connal; country; cried; danger; dark; day; death; desmond; endymion; eyes; father; fear; feel; figure; ground; hand; heart; heaven; hour; lady; left; length; life; like; long; look; love; man; mind; moment; montclare; night; o'morven; passion; pride; rock; room; rosine; silence; sound; speak; terror; think; thought; time; vain; voice; wandesford; woman; world
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374. mcelgun-annie-1873
     • author: mcelgun
     • title: mcelgun-annie-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 51748
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Oh! there is not a doubt of that, father, said Annie, looking around joyously on her bro- ther who, with his face toward them, rested his Annie Reilly. The day, or week, or month it became such neither could tell; and, as they looked back if look back Annie Reilly.
     • keywords: annie; annie reilly; day; door; evening; eyes; face; farrell; father; good; head; home; james; kitty; like; little; long; look; man; mother; mrs; new; old; ryan; sir; time; way
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375. meredith-beauchamps-1875
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-beauchamps-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 195685
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: CHAPTER I. THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman's jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Afric's fires and savagery. Nevil Beauchamp dozed for an hour.
     • keywords: austin; baskelett; beauchamp; bevisham; captain; captain beauchamp; case; cecilia; colonel; colonel halkett; come; common; country; day; dear; denham; earl; england; english; everard; eyes; face; father; fellow; french; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; halkett; hand; head; heart; house; husband; jenny; lady; letter; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord romfrey; love; lydiard; madame; man; men; mind; miss; morning; mrs; nevil beauchamp; night; old; old nevil; palmet; people; poor; read; rene; roland; romfrey; room; rosamund; round; set; shrapnel; sir; speak; steynham; tell; thought; time; tuckham; uncle; way; wife; woman; word; young
     • versions: original; plain text
376. meredith-case-1877
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-case-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 20181
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: By express arrangement, the card of General Wilson Ople, as her nearest neighbour, followed the card of the rector, the social head of the district; and the rector was granted an interview, but Lady Camper was not at home to General Ople. Their speech concerning Lady Camper was an exchange of commonplaces over her loneliness: and this condition of hers was the more perplexing to General Ople on his hearing from his daughter that the lady was very fine-looking, and not so very old, as he had fancied eccentric ladies must be.
     • keywords: daughter; dear; elizabeth; general; general ople; hand; lady; lady camper; ladyship; like; little; man; morning; woman; young
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377. meredith-diana-1885
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-diana-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 154759
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: She says, that 'In their judgements upon women men are females, voices of the present (sexual) dilemma.' Few tasks are more difficult than for a young woman under a cloud to hoodwink old women of the world.
     • keywords: arthur; beauty; best; character; common; copsley; country; crossways; dacier; danvers; day; days; dear; death; diana; diana warwick; dunstane; emma; english; eyes; face; fellow; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; husband; lady; lady dunstane; left; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; love; lukin; men; mind; miss; morning; mrs; nature; night; old; percy; place; poor; present; redworth; room; secret; sir; smith; soul; speak; sullivan; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; tony; warwick; wathin; way; wife; woman; work; world; young
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378. meredith-egoist-1879
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-egoist-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 188696
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: This running off on a by-road is no deviation from Sir Willoughby Patterne and Miss Clara Middleton. Young Sir Willoughby was fond of talking of his military namesake and distant cousin, young Patterne--the Marine.
     • keywords: air; best; better; boy; busshe; clara; clara middleton; colonel; craye; crossjay; dale; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; feel; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; house; idea; know; ladies; lady; laetitia; leave; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; men; middleton; mind; miss; miss middleton; morning; mountstuart; mrs; nature; night; old; patterne; person; poor; present; room; sir willoughby; speak; thought; time; vernon; way; whitford; wife; wish; women; world; yes; young
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379. meredith-emilia-1864
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-emilia-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 188157
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: She wished to cure Emilia of her love for Mr. Wilfrid Pole. CHAPTER XLIX My brother tells me it is your wish to see Mr. Wilfrid Pole.
     • keywords: adela; arabella; barrett; besworth; better; braintop; brookfield; brother; charlotte; chump; come; cornelia; day; dear; emilia; eyes; face; father; friend; georgiana; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; idea; italy; ladies; lady; laura; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mean; men; merthyr; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; music; nature; night; old; papa; people; pericles; place; pole; poor; said; sir; think; thought; time; tracy; voice; want; way; wilfrid; wish; woman; words; world; young
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380. meredith-evan-1861
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-evan-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 176715
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: As there is hardly any situation, however, so interesting to reflect upon as that of a man without a penny in his pocket, and a gizzard full of pride, we will leave Mr. Evan Harrington to what fresh adventures may befall him, walking toward the funeral plumes of the firs, under the soft midsummer flush, westward, where his father lies. In justice to Mr. Evan Harrington, it must be said, he built up this extraordinary card-castle to dazzle his mother's mind: he had lost his right grasp of her character for the moment, because of an undefined suspicion of something she intended, and which sent him himself to take refuge in those flimsy structures; while the very altitude he reached beguiled his imagination, and made him hope to impress hers.
     • keywords: andrew; away; beckley; brother; caroline; countess; day; dear; drummond; duke; evan; evan harrington; eyes; face; fallowfield; father; fellow; friend; gentleman; george; good; great; half; hand; harrington; harry; head; heart; house; jocelyn; juliana; lady; lady jocelyn; laxley; let; letter; like; little; long; look; louisa; love; man; mel; men; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; polly; poor; raikes; room; rose; said; sir; sister; son; tell; think; thought; time; tom; want; way; wife; woman; word; young
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381. meredith-house-1877
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-house-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 32874
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Mr. Tinman, however, this high-stepping person in question, happened to have come of a marketing mother. His purchase of herrings completed, Mr. Tinman walked across the mound of shingle to the house on the beach.
     • keywords: annette; cavely; crickledon; dear; diemen; england; father; fellingham; glass; good; herbert; house; like; mart; mrs; old; smith; tinman; van; van diemen
     • versions: original; plain text
382. meredith-lord-1894
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-lord-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 109888
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: 'Pardon me, my lady: I have no right to call Lady Ormont Aminta.' Young women, animated by the passions their feeling bosoms of necessity breed, and under terror discover, do not distinguish an abstract justice from a concrete.
     • keywords: aminta; aunt; boys; brother; browny; countess; country; day; days; dear; earl; english; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady; lady charlotte; lady ormont; lawrence; left; letter; life; like; little; london; look; lord ormont; love; matey; men; mind; morsfield; mrs; nature; old; pagnell; read; right; round; rowsley; school; steignton; thought; time; way; weyburn; wife; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
383. meredith-one-1891
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-one-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 162850
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Moreover, Nesta had rashly promised her father's faithful servant Skepsey to walk, out with him in the afternoon; and the ladies hoped she would find the morning's walk to have been enough; good little man though Skepsey was, they were sure. 'I can engage to teach young men, upon a proper observance of first principles.'
     • keywords: barmby; burman; captain; case; city; colney; country; dartrey; day; dear; dudley; durance; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; fenellan; fredi; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; idea; kind; ladies; lady; lakelands; left; let; life; like; little; london; long; look; love; man; marsett; master; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nataly; nature; nesta; old; people; place; poor; present; radnor; right; room; saw; sir; skepsey; soul; sowerby; speak; tell; things; thought; time; victor; victor radnor; voice; way; wife; woman; words; world; young
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384. meredith-ordeal-1859
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-ordeal-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 171684
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Of the other uncles of young Richard, Cuthbert, the sailor, perished in a spirited boat expedition against a slaving negro chief up the Niger. But the reply, the thanks which young Richard should have delivered in person were not forthcoming.
     • keywords: adrian; ask; austin; baronet; benson; berry; better; blaize; blandish; boy; child; clare; day; dear; doria; eyes; face; fair; farmer; father; feverel; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; hero; hippias; house; lady; left; life; like; little; look; lord; love; lucy; man; men; mind; morning; mrs; nature; night; old; people; poor; raynham; richard; ripton; said; sir; sir austin; son; speak; sure; sweet; system; think; thompson; thought; time; tom; want; way; wife; wise; woman; words; world; young; young man; young richard; youth
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385. meredith-rhoda-1865
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-rhoda-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 156423
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Try again, old man, said the farmer. When will old men understand young ones?
     • keywords: algernon; anthony; cried; dahlia; day; dear; door; edward; eyes; face; farmer; father; gammon; gentleman; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; lady; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; lovell; man; master; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; old; old man; percy; poor; rhoda; right; robert; sedgett; sir; sister; squire; sumfit; thing; thought; time; uncle; want; way; william; woman; word; young
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386. meredith-tale-1879
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-tale-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 23289
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: At a quarter to four o'clock of a midsummer morning, as Mr. Beamish relates of his last share in the Tale of Chloe, a woman's voice, in piercing notes of anguish, rang out three shrieks consecutively, which were heard by him at the instant of his quitting his front doorstep, in obedience to the summons of young Mr. Camwell, delivered ten minutes previously, with great urgency, by that gentleman's lacquey. And so she is now for airing her accomplishments: such are women!' 'Have you heard of Chloe?' said Mr. Beamish.
     • keywords: beamish; beau; camwell; caseldy; chloe; duchess; duke; gentleman; good; lady; like; love; madam; sir; susan; woman; young
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387. meredith-tragic-1880
     • author: meredith
     • title: meredith-tragic-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 60575
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: His forty years--the forty, the fifty, the sixty of Alvan, matched the twenties and thirties of other men. 'You see the perfect gentleman in Dr. Alvan,' she remarked, for she had heard him ordering his morning bath at the hotel, and he had also been polite to her under vexation.
     • keywords: alvan; baroness; blood; clotilde; day; eyes; father; friend; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; jew; lady; letter; life; like; little; look; love; man; marko; men; mind; night; parents; people; thing; thought; time; tresten; way; wife; woman; world; young
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388. montgomery-misunderstood-1869
     • author: montgomery
     • title: montgomery-misunderstood-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 46819
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: The toilette now began in earnest: Humphrey gave Miles his stockings to put on while he proceeded to dress himself, and was all ready but his jacket, when turning round he found Miles in great perplexity, with his toe unaccountably fixed in the place where his heel ought to be. It's no use our trying to keep it any longer, because we can't! Are you surprised, Fardie? asked little Miles, clapping his hands, and Humphrey eagerly repeated the question.
     • keywords: boy; child; children; day; everard; face; father; great; humphrey; like; little; little miles; miles; old; room; sir; sir everard; time; uncle; virginie
     • versions: original; plain text
389. montgomery-thrown-1872
     • author: montgomery
     • title: montgomery-thrown-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 106573
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: The leader was always frisky; and Colonel Middleton could not but envy the power of imagination with which children are gifted, when little Mervyn would say, earnestly, looking at the inanimate, motionless chair, He kicks deerly, doesn't he but you needn't be fightened, Uncle Rowley, 'cause I'll hold him. What time will dear little Mervyn come P I cannot say.
     • keywords: boy; cecily; child; children; come; day; eyes; face; father; good; heart; home; life; like; little; long; lord; love; magdalen; mervyn; middleton; mind; mother; mrs; nina; old; room; said; thought; time; totty; wardlaw; wav; way
     • versions: original; plain text
390. newman-callista-1855
     • author: newman
     • title: newman-callista-1855
     • date: 1855
     • words: 95876
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Even at other times she would have prized it, but now, when she was so desolate and lonely, it was simply a gift from an unseen world. It was all very well to profess Christianity as a matter of sentiment, mystery, and singularity; but when it was found to compromise the life or limbs of another, and that other Callista, why it was plain that Agellius would be the very first to try and entreat the wayward girl to keep her good looks for him, and to be loyal to the gods of her country; and he chuckled over the thought, as others have done in other states of society, of a love-scene or a marriage being the termination of so much high romance and fine acting.
     • keywords: agellius; aristo; better; boy; brother; callista; ccilius; christian; city; come; continued; country; cried; day; death; earth; far; father; god; gods; good; great; hand; head; heart; juba; jucundus; life; like; little; long; love; man; men; mind; old; place; poor; prison; religion; rome; round; said; sicca; thought; time; way; words; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
391. newman-loss-1848
     • author: newman
     • title: newman-loss-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 108308
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: And thus it was that Charles Reding was brought across William Sheffield, who had come into residence the same term as himself. Now Charles Reding, a youth of twenty, could not be supposed to have much of a view in religion or politics; but no clever man allows himself to judge of things simply at hap-hazard; he is obliged, from a sort of self-respect, to have some rule or other, true or false; and Charles was very fond of the maxim, which he has already enunciated, that we must measure people by what they are, and not by what they are not.
     • keywords: bateman; believe; better; campbell; carlton; catholic; charles; church; continued; day; dear; doctrine; england; faith; freeborn; friend; god; good; great; like; little; mary; mean; men; mind; mother; old; oxford; party; people; place; reding; rome; said; sheffield; things; thought; time; true; truth; way; white; willis; years
     • versions: original; plain text
392. oldham-trent-1864
     • author: oldham
     • title: oldham-trent-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 125040
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: To tell the truth, however, he did not anticipate the young men would really attempt to push through any one of the arches he imagined they would come back when fairly their strength had been tried against the current; and he was too well accustomed in his situation of boat-keeper to the vagaries and hair-breadth escapes of young men on the water, to feel at all nervous or anticipative of danger. But what business had you young men to take a boat up the river, and my son in it, when the flood was raging as it did that day?--when
     • keywords: away; better; broadbent; called; clara; day; dear; door; drink; eyes; face; father; fire; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; james; john; left; life; like; little; long; look; lost; love; man; mary; mind; moment; morning; morris; mrs; near; night; old; poor; river; room; said; stephen; tell; thought; time; veronica; voice; white; wine; woman; words; work; young
     • versions: original; plain text
393. oliphant-arden-1871
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-arden-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 223500
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: But in the meantime Mr. Edgar Arden is the Squire, and in full possession. For, in the meantime, I cannot go on describing Edgar Arden.
     • keywords: arden; arthur arden; best; better; brother; clare; course; day; dear; edgar; edgar arden; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; fielding; girl; going; good; great; gussy; half; hand; head; heart; house; jeanie; kind; know; lady; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; old arden; people; pimpernel; poor; room; sister; somers; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
394. oliphant-arthur-1877
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-arthur-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 172038
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: That she was no longer Nancy Bates but Mrs. Arthur Curtis, to be my Lady Curtis sometime--no longer a poor girl, the tax-collector's daughter, but a lady! she said, is it a reason that no one should dare to speak, because you are Mrs. Arthur Curtis?
     • keywords: arthur; arthur curtis; bates; better; curtis; day; durant; eyes; family; girl; good; got; great; half; heart; home; house; jane; john; kind; lady; lady curtis; life; like; little; long; look; lucy; man; matilda; mean; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nancy; old; people; place; poor; poor arthur; room; sarah; sir; tell; thing; thought; time; way; wife; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
395. oliphant-athelings-1857
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-athelings-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 166303
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: Agnes Atheling was not wise; she had no particular gift for conversation, and none whatever for logic; no accomplishments, and not a very great deal of information. And we are grieved to confess that, for the whole afternoon thereafter, Agnes Atheling was about as idle as it is possible even for a happy girl to be.
     • keywords: agnes; anastasia; away; better; book; boy; chapter; charlie; children; come; cried; day; door; edgerley; endicott; eyes; face; family; far; father; foggo; girls; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; lady; life; like; little; lodge; long; look; lord; louis; mamma; man; marian; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs atheling; new; night; old; papa; people; poor; pretty; rachel; rector; rivers; room; said; sir; sister; sudden; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; willsie; winterbourne; wood; world; young; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
396. oliphant-blencarrow-1890
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-blencarrow-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 24722
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Mrs. Blencarrow had been a widow for five or six years, having lived there for some dozen years before, the most beloved of wives. The ladies of the district thought this sentiment exaggerated, but everybody acknowledged that Mrs. Blencarrow made him an excellent wife.
     • keywords: blencarrow; brown; door; emmy; house; kitty; little; look; man; mother; mrs; room; time; walter
     • versions: original; plain text
397. oliphant-bloomsbury-1894
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-bloomsbury-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 82179
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Take it to Miss Bethune, or wait till Miss Dora comes back. And then there came a knock at the door, and Gilchrist appeared, begging that Miss Dora would put on her hat and go out for a walk with Miss Bethune.
     • keywords: bethune; child; doctor; dora; eyes; face; father; gilchrist; good; great; heart; lady; life; like; little; long; man; mannering; mind; miss; miss bethune; mother; poor; roland; room; thing; thought; time; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
398. oliphant-brothers-1870
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-brothers-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 244345
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: It was Alice who had thus come unaccompanied and unexpected,--or, rather, it was Mrs. Frank Renton, a young matron of six years' standing, with one wistful, bright-eyed, wondering little girl by her side, and the child on the nurse's knee. Somehow, through those six years of correspondence, the Manor and the Square had got jumbled together in the mind of Mrs. Frank Renton.
     • keywords: alice; ben; ben renton; best; better; certain; child; course; cried; day; dear; eyes; face; fellow; frank; frank renton; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kind; laurie; laurie renton; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; man; mary; matter; mean; millicent; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; nelly; old; padrona; people; picture; place; poor; renton; rich; room; round; severn; soft; suffolk; sure; talk; thing; thought; time; tracy; want; way; woman; work; world; years; young
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399. oliphant-brownlows-1868
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-brownlows-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 221344
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Then young Mr. Brownlow got Hobson's lantern, and searched for his skates and flung them over his shoulders. It was not considered by many people as quite fair to John, though some did say that it was he above all who urged the step upon old Mr. Brownlow.
     • keywords: better; body; brownlow; child; come; day; door; eyes; face; father; girl; going; gone; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jack; jack brownlow; john; kind; know; life; like; little; long; look; looking; man; mean; mind; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; pamela; people; poor; powys; preston; room; sara; sir; swayne; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
400. oliphant-car-1889
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-car-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 54195
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Little Tom stood smacking the whip which was his perpetual accompaniment, and making ejaculations. But little Tom had come home for his holidays, which showed that it was four or five months since the settling down.
     • keywords: beaufort; boy; carry; cried; edward; eyes; good; great; house; janet; lady; lady car; life; little; look; man; mind; mother; old; place; thing; thought; time; tom; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
401. oliphant-charge-1876
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-charge-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 83898
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Cicely St. John was not in the least beautiful. What was it to him that Cicely St. John was like her mother?
     • keywords: children; cicely; curate; day; dear; eyes; girls; good; great; john; kind; life; like; little; long; look; mab; man; mildmay; mind; miss; old; papa; parish; people; poor; said; things; thought; time; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
402. oliphant-cuckoo-1892
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-cuckoo-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 155529
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Sir Giles might have bowed to old Patty, but never did she have it in her power to become Lady Piercey, if she chose. Poor little Patty!
     • keywords: better; colonel; cried; day; dear; dunning; father; gervase; gervase piercey; giles; going; good; great; greyshott; head; hewitt; house; lady; lady piercey; life; like; little; long; look; man; margaret; meg; mind; moment; mother; mrs; old; old lady; old man; osy; patty; piercey; place; poor; room; sir; sir giles; thing; thought; time; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
403. oliphant-curate-1864
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-curate-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 198533
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: He was not a man of any intellect to speak of, nor did he pretend to it; but he had that glimmering of sense which keeps many a stupid man straight, and a certain amount of natural sensibility and consideration for other people's feelings which made persons who knew no better give Mr Wentworth credit for tact, a quality unknown to him. When Mr Wentworth first came to Carlingford, it was in the days of Mr Bury, the Evangelical rector--his last days, when he had no longer his old vigour, and was very glad of assistance, as he said, in his public and parish work.
     • keywords: aunt; better; brother; carlingford; curate; dear; door; dora; eyes; face; frank; frank wentworth; gerald; going; good; great; half; hand; heart; jack; know; leonora; life; like; little; look; lucy; man; mean; mind; miss; miss dora; miss leonora; miss wentworth; miss wodehouse; moment; mr elsworthy; mr morgan; mr proctor; mr wentworth; mr wodehouse; mrs; old; people; perpetual; perpetual curate; poor; rector; room; rosa; sir; sister; sure; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
404. oliphant-daughters-1890
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-daughters-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 27640
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: For anything as I know to the contrary, he's quite well, Mr Gervase--as well as you or me. He's--he's left town, Mr Gervase; but that's all, sir,--that's all, I give you my word.
     • keywords: burton; business; father; gervase; house; like; little; madeline; man; thought; thursley; time; way; young
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405. oliphant-doctor-1861
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-doctor-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 55150
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Thinking had done Nettie little good hitherto. There the good mistress of the cottage listened to all his directions, and promised devoutly to obey him--to keep the room quiet, if she could--to tell everything he had said to Miss Nettie.
     • keywords: children; doctor; door; dr rider; edward; eyes; fred; heart; life; like; little; look; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nettie; night; poor; rider; room; sister; sudden; susan; time; way; wodehouse; young
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406. oliphant-effie-1886
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-effie-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 77953
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: To think that Mr. Dirom's money, and Fred's accomplishments, and their position in society and in the city, all things which might have made happy a duke's daughter, were to be laid at the careless feet of little Effie Ogilvie! And though they were so much finer than she was, knew so much more, and possessed so much more, yet these young ladies were as the comedians of life to little Effie, performing their drawing-room drama for her amusement.
     • keywords: beenie; dirom; effie; eyes; father; fred; girl; good; great; heart; home; house; john; like; little; little effie; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; ogilvie; old; people; ronald; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
407. oliphant-elinor-1891
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-elinor-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 170421
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Said Elinor, unsuspecting, That is just what he is, John! But I think if the secrets of the hearts could be revealed, Phil for a moment was sorry for poor little Elinor too.
     • keywords: better; boy; child; compton; course; day; dear; dennistoun; elinor; eyes; face; going; good; great; half; head; heart; house; john; john tatham; kind; lady; life; like; little; long; look; man; mariamne; mean; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nell; night; old; people; phil; philip; pippo; poor; sure; tatham; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
408. oliphant-executor-1861
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-executor-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 12907
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: With a sigh of general discontent Mr Brown pulled his bell violently, and had the fire made up, and asked for his tea. A parlour of very grim and homely aspect, furnished with dark mahogany and black haircloth, the blinds of the two windows solemnly drawn down, the shutters of one half-closed; two traditional decanters of wine standing reflected in the shining uncovered table; half-a-dozen people all in mourning, in various attitudes of surprise, disappointment, and displeasure; and close by one of the windows Mr Brown, the attorney, holding up to the light that extraordinary scrap of paper, which had fallen upon them all like a thunderbolt.
     • keywords: bessie; brown; house; little; mr brown; mrs; nancy; poor; thomson
     • versions: original; plain text
409. oliphant-fortune-1894
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-fortune-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 174367
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: You are not changed, not changed a bit; but I am not little Lily any longer. If I had only been behind the door to give ye a look, Miss Lily.
     • keywords: beenie; better; bonnie lily; come; cried; day; days; dougal; eyes; face; far; going; good; great; half; hands; head; heart; helen; house; katrin; kind; life; like; lily; little; little lily; long; look; man; mind; minister; miss; moment; moor; new; night; old; place; poor; poor lily; robert; ronald; room; sir; sir robert; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
410. oliphant-gates-1872
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-gates-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 191297
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: He wanted little Norah Drummond to be his child, and he wanted nothing more. Poor little Norah crept about everywhere after her, and lay watching with great wide-open eyes, through the silvery half-darkness of the summer night, till she should come to bed.
     • keywords: better; burton; business; child; clara; come; cried; day; drummond; eyes; face; father; felt; going; golden; good; great; haldane; half; hand; heart; helen; house; husband; life; like; little; little norah; long; look; mamma; man; maurice; mean; mind; moment; mother; mr burton; mrs; ned; new; night; norah; old; people; poor; rivers; robert; room; stephen; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world
     • versions: original; plain text
411. oliphant-gentleman-1886
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-gentleman-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 168907
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Bagley, with her best bonnet hastily put on, and holding little Geoff Markland by the hand. To give countenance and support, or to take care of, as little Geoff said, this young woman whom she scarcely knew, who had not in the depth of trouble made any claim upon her sympathy.
     • keywords: better; boy; cavendish; chatty; child; come; cried; day; dear; dick; eyes; face; far; geoff; going; good; great; head; heart; home; house; kind; lady; life; like; little; lizzie; long; look; mamma; man; markland; mind; minnie; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; people; place; poor; rector; right; room; sure; theo; thing; thought; time; warrender; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
412. oliphant-governess-1891
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-governess-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 152322
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Miss Janet Summerhayes rose from her chair, pale, with her eyes shining. Poor little Janet, when left alone, felt for the first time how terrible it was to be so young, so impressionable, and among strangers.
     • keywords: cried; dolff; door; eyes; face; family; good; great; gussy; half; hand; harwood; head; heart; house; janet; julia; know; life; like; little; little janet; long; look; man; meredith; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; people; room; round; said; summerhayes; things; thought; time; vicars; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
413. oliphant-he-1880
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-he-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 173753
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: He was as well lodged, and had his wants as comfortably supplied as if he had been Sir Paul Markham. Thus Paul Markham had his property again when he had given up all thought of it; but the little gentleman who is the greatest man in Barbadoes has not the slightest intention of dying to oblige him, and in all likelihood the master of Markham will never be Sir Paul.
     • keywords: alice; bell; better; brown; children; come; cried; day; eyes; face; fairfax; family; father; going; good; great; gus; half; hand; head; heart; house; janet; kind; lady markham; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; moment; mother; old; paul; paul markham; people; place; poor; room; sir; sir paul; sir william; spears; tell; thing; thought; time; way; william; young
     • versions: original; plain text
414. oliphant-heir-1891
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-heir-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 156367
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: The members of the family who stood by Mar were the two eldest, and little Mary, the youngest girl, whom her mother called Tiny, in order not to use poor Lady Frogmore's name, which John had insisted upon giving her--who made a slave of the quiet boy and found him very serviceable. Where is little Frogmore?
     • keywords: agnes; boy; child; day; dear; duke; eyes; face; frogmore; good; great; hand; head; heart; hill; house; john; lady; lady frogmore; letitia; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord frogmore; man; mary; mary hill; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nurse; old; parke; poor; poor mary; ralph; room; tell; things; think; thought; time; way; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
415. oliphant-heiress-1880
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-heiress-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 181920
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: And I dare say little Lucy has begun to give her opinion, too. Poor little Lucy had grown very pale; her limbs trembled under her, her blue eyes got a wistful look which went to the heart of the woman who had not, so opaque are some intelligences, intended to be unkind.
     • keywords: bertie; better; clair; day; dear; eyes; face; father; ford; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jock; katie; kind; lady; life; like; little; little jock; little lucy; lucy; lucy trevor; man; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; old; people; philip; poor; randolph; room; rushton; russell; said; sir; stone; thing; thomas; thought; time; tom; trevor; want; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
416. oliphant-hester-1883
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-hester-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 205504
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Such were the scenes and the people among whom Hester Vernon grew up. Hester Vernon had been, during the most important years of her existence, a sort of outlaw from life.
     • keywords: bank; better; business; captain; catherine; catherine vernon; course; day; dear; edward; ellen; emma; eyes; face; far; girl; going; good; great; hand; harry; head; heart; hester; house; john; kind; lady; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; right; roland; said; sure; things; think; thought; time; want; way; woman; young
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417. oliphant-house-1886
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-house-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 176888
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Little Frances, who was English enough to stare too, though in a gentlewomanly way, saw a change gradually come, as he gazed, over the face of the stranger. She said it with a slight sigh, for it was she, in old times, who had expounded Society to little Frances, and taught her what in an emergency it would be right to do and say; and now little Frances had taken a stride in advance.
     • keywords: better; come; constance; cried; day; dear; eyes; face; father; frances; gaunt; girl; going; good; great; half; head; heart; home; kind; lady markham; life; like; little; little frances; long; look; man; markham; mean; mind; moment; mother; mrs; old; papa; people; place; poor; right; room; said; sir; sister; thing; thought; time; want; waring; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
418. oliphant-jeanne-1896
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-jeanne-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 112756
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: Jeanne, however, having freely expressed her opinion, adapted herself to the circumstances, though extremely averse to separate herself from her soldiers, good men who had confessed and prepared their souls for every emergency. At last Jeanne would seem to have wrought herself up to the most desperate of expedients.
     • keywords: answer; bishop; charles; church; country; day; days; doubt; dress; end; english; france; french; girl; god; good; great; hands; heart; jeanne; king; life; like; little; long; lord; maid; man; men; mind; moment; orleans; paris; people; place; prison; said; thing; thought; time; town; trial; voices; way; woman; words; young
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419. oliphant-john-1870
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-john-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 125710
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: And at the same time he had the substantial foundation of justice to rest upon, that in point of fact John Mitford was not a suitable match for Kate Crediton. Mr John Mitford, I am sure, she said, making him a stately little curtsy, and swallowing at once her fright and her laughter as best she could.
     • keywords: better; come; crediton; dear; eyes; face; father; fred; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; huntley; john; john mitford; kate; kate crediton; life; like; little; look; man; mind; mitford; moment; mother; mr john; mrs; mrs mitford; poor; room; tell; thought; time; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
420. oliphant-joscelyn-1881
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-joscelyn-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 199105
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: We will not say that nothing had happened in the White House to mark the ten years from the time when young Harry Joscelyn disappeared from the Fell country, and it became evident that no one there was likely to hear anything of him more. So we think--or I think, said Joan, that he may have stopped at the 'Red Lion;' and I want to know; but, Simon, I don't want you to go like a lion roaring and ask, has Mr. Harry Joscelyn slept a' night here?
     • keywords: best; better; bonamy; brotherton; consul; day; door; english; eyes; face; family; father; friend; good; great; half; hand; harry; harry joscelyn; head; heart; home; house; isaac; joan; joscelyn; kind; knew; lady; liddy; life; like; little; long; look; lydia; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; oliver; paolo; people; place; poor; rita; room; selby; sure; thing; thought; time; vice; want; way; white; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
421. oliphant-joyce-1888
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-joyce-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 179064
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Poor Joyce, poor little Joyce! Joyce: your name is Joyce Hayward.
     • keywords: andrew; bellendean; captain; colonel; colonel hayward; come; cried; day; dear; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; far; father; felt; girl; good; great; half; hand; hayward; head; heart; home; house; janet; joyce; joyce hayward; kind; lady; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; right; room; said; tell; things; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word; young
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422. oliphant-kirsteen-1890
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-kirsteen-1890
     • date: 1890
     • words: 147683
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Alone, or all but alone, for there was one guest to meet them in the person of Miss Kirsteen Douglas, who was not a stranger in the house nor awkward, as the bride was in her new gown and much overdressed for the family party. And she began to sing in a fresh, sweet, but uncultivated voice: He turned him right and round about, Said, Scorn not at my mither, True loves I may get mony an ane But Minnie ne'er anither.
     • keywords: anne; come; day; door; douglas; drumcarro; eyes; face; family; far; father; girl; glendochart; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jeanie; kind; kirsteen; lady; life; light; like; little; long; look; lord; man; marg'ret; mary; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; place; poor; room; sister; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
423. oliphant-lass-1883
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-lass-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 206546
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Jean was Jean, and Lilias Lilias. Is it true, Miss Jean, the grand story I hear about Margaret and you and little Lilias all going up to London next spring?
     • keywords: away; best; better; come; day; dear; eyes; face; far; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jean; katie; kind; ladies; lady; lewis; life; like; lilias; little; little lilias; long; look; man; margaret; mind; miss; miss jean; miss margaret; moment; mother; mrs; murkley; murray; new; old; people; philip; place; poor; right; room; sense; seton; sister; stormont; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; way; world; young
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424. oliphant-lindores-1880
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-lindores-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 224331
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Poor little man! The end was, that Mrs. Erskine became Mrs. Kingsford, to the great though silent astonishment of little John, now eleven years old, who could not make it out.
     • keywords: air; barbara; beaufort; best; better; carry; coming; country; cried; dalrulzian; day; doubt; edith; erskine; eyes; face; family; far; father; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; john; john erskine; kind; know; ladies; lady lindores; life; like; lindores; little; long; look; lord; lord lindores; man; mean; millefleurs; mind; miss; moment; mother; new; nora; old; people; place; poor; right; rintoul; rolls; room; round; sense; sir; speak; tell; things; think; thought; time; tinto; torrance; way; wife; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
425. oliphant-lost-1894
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-lost-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 91801
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: He thought you, perhaps, dear Mrs Ogilvy, as such a very old friend, would tell her,--and then, when he found that you were disinclined to do it, he--well, I fear he has shirked it again. CHAPTER I. One of the most respected inhabitants of the village, rather of the parish, of Eskholm in Mid-Lothian was Mrs Ogilvy, still often called Mrs James by the elder people who had known her predecessors, who had seen her married, and knew everything about her, her antecedents and belongings.
     • keywords: day; face; good; great; half; hand; heart; house; janet; lew; life; like; little; long; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs ogilvy; night; old; place; robbie; robert; room; son; susie; things; think; thought; time; way; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
426. oliphant-love-1874
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-love-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 160677
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: I never knew anything about this said shop till I was at Eton, when I denied the connection stoutly, and fought for it, and came off triumphant, though the other fellow was the biggest. But it's a pleasure to serve Mr. Edgar, night or day.
     • keywords: arden; augusta; best; better; clare; come; day; earnshaw; edgar; eyes; face; family; feeling; going; good; great; gussy; half; hand; harry; head; heart; house; jeanie; kind; lady; lady mary; life; like; little; long; look; man; margaret; mary; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; people; place; poor; room; said; sister; sure; thing; thought; time; tottenham; way; woman; world; young
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427. oliphant-madam-1884
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-madam-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 175107
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: She had little Rosalind brought home at once, and was henceforth as devoted as any young mother could be to the lovely little plaything of a three-years-old child. Rosalind Trevanion was a girl who had never had a lover--at least, such was her own conviction.
     • keywords: amy; aunt; better; children; come; dear; eyes; face; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jane; john; john trevanion; lady; lennox; let; life; little; long; look; madam; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; people; rivers; room; rosalind; russell; sophy; sort; thing; thought; time; trevanion; uncle; want; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
428. oliphant-madonna-1867
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-madonna-1867
     • date: 1867
     • words: 199608
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: But for my own satisfaction, for my peace of mind--if we were to go through the ceremony again---- Mary Ochterlony rose up with sudden passion. The only other special feature was that Mary, with the corners of her mouth turned down, and her whole soul wound up to obstinacy, would not call herself by any name but Mary Ochterlony.
     • keywords: aunt agatha; best; boy; boys; children; day; dear; dear mary; edward; eyes; face; going; good; great; head; heart; home; house; hugh; kind; kirkman; life; like; little; little hugh; long; look; love; major; man; mary; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nelly; ochterlony; old; penrose; people; percival; poor; poor mary; room; sir; sure; things; think; thought; time; uncle; way; winnie; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
429. oliphant-marjoribanks-1866
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-marjoribanks-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 209225
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: I wouldn't, not if I was you, Miss Lucilla, asking pardon for the liberty: as for having no mamma, you have no mamma yourself, and you the young lady as is most thought upon in Carlingford, and as different from that brazen-faced thing, with her red cheeks---- Hush, oh hush, Nancy, Lucilla said, as she sank back in her chair; but Miss Marjoribanks, after all, was only human, and she was not so distressed by these unpolished epithets as she might or perhaps ought to have been. I am Lucilla Marjoribanks, you know.
     • keywords: archdeacon; barbara; best; carlingford; certain; chiley; day; dear; doctor; dr marjoribanks; eyes; face; going; good; grange; great; hand; heart; home; house; kind; lady; lake; lane; like; little; long; look; lucilla; lucilla marjoribanks; man; mind; miss lucilla; miss marjoribanks; moment; mr ashburton; mr cavendish; mrs; mrs chiley; natural; old; papa; people; poor; room; rose; sense; society; sure; thing; thinking; thought; time; tom; tom marjoribanks; way; woman; woodburn; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
430. oliphant-mary-1880
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-mary-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 66829
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Said Mary, These regulations don't trouble me. She was about the same size as little Mary, Hetty said to herself, but Mary played better, though she had never had any lessons, and her hair was so soft, falling with just a soft twist in it, which was natural.
     • keywords: asquith; better; child; curate; family; girl; good; great; hetty; hofland; house; john; life; little; man; mary; miss; mother; mrs; old; poor; prescott; things; thought; time; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
431. oliphant-may-1873
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-may-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 164859
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Say Marjory at once. Matty, listen; old Mr. Heriot--your father-in-law--Charlie's father, died this morning.
     • keywords: best; better; charles; charlie; come; day; dear; eyes; face; family; fanshawe; father; feeling; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heriot; house; isabell; jean; kind; life; like; little; long; look; man; marjory; matilda; milly; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; people; pitcomlie; place; poor; room; sister; sure; tell; think; thought; time; tom; uncle; verna; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
432. oliphant-merkland-1850
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-merkland-1850
     • date: 1850
     • words: 168009
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Mrs. Catherine is in the library, Miss Anne, said Mrs. Euphan Morison, the portly, active housekeeper, whose medical propensities so frequently annoyed her mistress; and threading the dark passages familiarly, Anne passed on alone. Mrs. Catherine is in the library, Miss Anne, repeated a dark, thin, elfin-like girl, who sat on the sill of a deep window, reading, and hiding her book beneath the stocking which she ought to have been knitting, as she threw furtive glances to the door of the housekeeper's especial sanctum: but there's gentlemen with her.
     • keywords: alice; anne; anne ross; archibald; aytoun; bairn; brother; catherine; child; christian; come; dark; day; door; duncan; eyes; face; falconer; far; father; ferguson; foreman; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; ill; jacky; james; know; lad; left; lewis; life; like; lilie; little; long; look; lord; lumsden; man; marjory; merkland; mind; miss; miss anne; mother; mrs; night; norman; old; place; room; sister; strange; strathoran; strong; sutherland; tell; thought; time; tower; way; woman; work; world; years; young
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433. oliphant-moor-1861
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-moor-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 168886
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: Colonel Sutherland was accustomed to believe that he had rather a natural gift for the guidance of young men--his sympathies with youth were warm--his heart young--his kindness unbounded. Answer me plainly and truly, young man--is there no such person in country or town, within twenty miles of the place where you have lived all your days? Musgrave had changed colour several times during this address, and evidently hesitated much to answer.
     • keywords: amelia; better; boy; brother; child; colonel; colonel sutherland; come; cornel; day; dear; door; edward; eyes; face; father; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; horace; horace scarsdale; house; john; kind; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; marchmain; mind; moment; mother; mrs; musgrave; new; night; old; old man; peggy; people; place; poor; pouncet; roger; room; said; scarsdale; sir; son; stenhouse; sure; susan; table; tell; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; world; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
434. oliphant-musgrave-1877
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-musgrave-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 161221
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: She was his sole guardian, no one sharing her powers, for it never had been supposed that little Geoff would be anybody in particular, or that it was of the least importance how his mother brought him up. He took the child's head between his trembling hands, and stooped down, and gave him a hasty kiss upon his soft round forehead--God bless you, little man!
     • keywords: boy; brother; children; come; day; eyes; face; family; father; felt; geoff; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; john; kind; lady; let; life; like; lilias; little; little boy; little lilias; long; look; man; mary; mind; miss; moment; mother; musgrave; nello; old; pen; people; place; poor; randolph; sir; squire; stanton; thought; time; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
435. oliphant-norlaw-1858
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-norlaw-1858
     • date: 1858
     • words: 158049
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: I was young then, and Cosmo little mair than an infant, and a' thing left in my hands. but he did not know any thing about it, and said to himself compassionately, Poor little thing--how pretty she is!--what could bring her here? as he threw himself back upon the pillow in that room of which Antonio had regulated the temperature, and thought no more about Desire; whereas poor little Desire, charmed with the new voice, and the new grace, and the unusual kindness, dreamed of him all night.
     • keywords: away; better; boy; cameron; cosmo; country; cried; day; desire; door; eyes; face; family; father; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; huntley; jaacob; joanna; katie; lad; lady; life; like; little; livingstone; long; look; love; madame; man; marget; marie; melmar; mind; mistress; moment; mother; new; night; norlaw; old; oswald; patricia; place; poor; poor little; roche; room; said; son; speak; tell; thing; thought; time; window; woman; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
436. oliphant-oliver-1885
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-oliver-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 25919
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Was it to be executed that he feared, or to be banished, or put in prison, tied, yes, that was it--tied to a dead body, as other men had been before him? Grace had not been without her little successes in that time; others had seen that she was sweet as well as Oliver Wentworth; but she was so light-hearted and cheerful that no one could say it was for Oliver's sake, or for any reason but because she did not choose, that she would have no one in her own sphere.
     • keywords: eyes; ford; grace; like; little; man; moment; oliver; poor; time; trix; wentworth; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
437. oliphant-ombra-1872
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-ombra-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 168541
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: 'What you say is all very true, Ombra; but we have two spare bedrooms--there would still be one left for a friend, even if we took in poor dear little Kate.' 'Poor Kate! At fifteen Kate Courtenay was the very impersonation of youthful beauty, vigour, and impetuous life.
     • keywords: anderson; aunt; bertie; caryisfort; child; course; courtenay; cried; day; dear; eldridge; eyes; face; francesca; girl; going; good; great; half; hardwick; head; heart; house; kate; know; lady; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; ombra; people; poor; room; said; sure; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
438. oliphant-phoebe-1876
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-phoebe-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 159649
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: And little Ursula May, another poor relative on the other side of the house, whom they had charitably brought up to town with them, might go too, they decided, to such a gathering. But then he went off and danced with Phoebe Beecham, and the Miss Dorsets stood by Mrs. Copperhead, almost concealing behind them the slight little snow-white figure of little Ursula May.
     • keywords: anne; beecham; better; carlingford; children; clarence; copperhead; cried; day; deal; eyes; family; father; girl; good; got; great; half; heart; house; janey; kind; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; northcote; old; papa; people; phoebe; poor; reginald; room; sir; sure; thing; thought; time; tozer; ursula; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
439. oliphant-poor-1886
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-poor-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 165391
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: He wanted to surround young Walter Penton with a halo of romance in Mabel's eyes, to call forth in his favor that charm of the unfortunate, that natural desire of the very young to compensate a sufferer, the very sentiments which he ought to have exorcised had they come by themselves into being. He bore a family likeness to Sir Walter Penton, having a high nose and long face; but he was not the same kind of man.
     • keywords: alicia; ally; anne; away; better; boy; children; come; cried; day; edward; edward penton; eyes; family; father; good; great; hand; heart; home; house; lady penton; life; like; little; long; look; mab; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; old; penton; people; poor; rochford; room; russell penton; sir; sir walter; thing; thought; time; walter; walter penton; wat; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
440. oliphant-precincts-1875
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-precincts-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 213508
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: It was, however, on a summer afternoon, at the time this history begins, that Lottie Despard--the only daughter of Captain Despard, a Chevalier not very long appointed to that office--sat, with her head out through the open window, framed between the mullions, watching the broad slope of the Dean's Walk which lay between her and the church, and led to the Deanery and the heights beyond. Lottie Despard was beyond all comparison the prettiest, and she was also the youngest, of all the ladies in the lodges.
     • keywords: abbey; ashford; better; captain; caroline; coming; cried; dear; despard; door; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kind; lady; law; life; like; little; long; look; lottie; lottie despard; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; old; people; place; polly; poor; poor lottie; purcell; right; rollo; room; signor; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; work; world; young
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441. oliphant-primrose-1878
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-primrose-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 193723
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: They came occasionally to see their father, and to hold up their hands and shake their heads at the way in which little Margaret was being brought up. There is little Margaret at the Hall.
     • keywords: aubrey; bell; bellingham; better; day; dear; earl's; eyes; face; father; girl; glen; going; good; grace; great; half; hall; hand; head; heart; house; jean; jeanie; john; kind; lady; leslie; life; like; little; little margaret; long; look; ludovic; man; margaret; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; papa; place; poor; randal; rob; rob glen; room; sir; sir ludovic; tell; things; think; thought; time; want; way; young
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442. oliphant-prodigals-1885
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-prodigals-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 57738
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: She started up in her bed, and saw on the carpet close to her the little three-year-old boy, a small, square figure with very large wide-open blue eyes, who was altogether new to her experiences, and whom she only identified after a moment's astonished consideration as little George, her brother's child. Mr. George Chester, he said, you are the eldest son; your father, I suppose, had his reasons for cutting you out, but those reasons I hope don't exist now.
     • keywords: chester; come; edward; farrell; father; george; good; heart; langton; life; like; little; man; mind; miss; moment; old; thought; time; tom; winifred; winnie
     • versions: original; plain text
443. oliphant-quiet-1854
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-quiet-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 70097
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: From morning to night I'm aye doing my endeavour to get comfort to her--hearing of the lads that have done weel in London, and aye standing up for Johnnie that he's no sae ill as he's ca'ed, though he mayna write as often as some do; and just yesterday I gaed myself to Burnside, a guid mile o' gate from our house, to ask Miss Menie Laurie to write to Randall Home for word about Johnnie,--and I'm sure what ony mortal could do mair, I canna tell. What business has Miss Menie Laurie, or Randall Home either, with my trouble? exclaimed the mother indignantly.
     • keywords: annie; annie laurie; come; day; door; eyes; face; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jenny; johnnie; july; life; like; lithgow; little; look; menie; menie laurie; mind; miss; miss menie; mother; mrs laurie; nelly; night; poor; randall; randall home; room; said; tell; time; way; window; young
     • versions: original; plain text
444. oliphant-railway-1891
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-railway-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 212846
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: It was not possible little Archie could be that age. Aunty, ye need not be taking up time with little things of yours when there's us to settle about.
     • keywords: archie; best; better; boy; brown; children; come; course; day; dear; door; eddy; evelyn; eyes; face; far; father; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; james; kind; lady; laugh; life; light; like; little; long; look; man; marion; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; old; people; place; poor; room; rosamond; rosmore; rowland; saumarez; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
445. oliphant-rector-1861
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-rector-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 12161
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Though she was verging upon forty, leisurely, pious, and unmarried, that good Miss Wodehouse was not polemical. He had been living out of nature so long that he wondered within himself whether it was common to retain the habits and words of childhood to such an age as that which good Miss Wodehouse put no disguise upon, or if sisters with twenty years of difference between them were usual in ordinary households.
     • keywords: good; lucy; man; miss; mother; old; proctor; rector; wodehouse
     • versions: original; plain text
446. oliphant-rose-1874
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-rose-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 75764
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Come Rose, he said, perhaps it is not quite decorous for you, a young lady, to be here alone. Rose Damerel was the last dainty ornament of his house in which her father delighted most.
     • keywords: damerel; day; eyes; girl; good; great; heart; incledon; life; like; little; long; love; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; people; poor; rector; room; rose; thought; time; way; wodehouse; world; young
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447. oliphant-salem-1863
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-salem-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 168861
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Mr. Vincent knows more about me than he has any right to know, continued the strange woman, turning her head towards him for the moment with an amused glance--a man takes one on trust sometimes, but a woman must always explain herself to a woman: perhaps, Mr. Vincent, you will leave us together while I explain my circumstances to your mother? Oh, I am sure it--it is not necessary, said Mrs. Vincent, half alarmed; but, Arthur, you were to ask---- What were you to ask? said Mrs. Hilyard, laying her hand with an involuntary movement upon a tiny note lying open on the table, to which Vincent's eyes had already wandered. Mr. Vincent trusts me, and so must you; and I am heartbroken to think all that you must have gone through---- Stop! said Mrs. Vincent, with a gasp.
     • keywords: arthur; carlingford; child; day; dear; door; dreadful; eyes; face; fordham; good; got; great; half; hand; heart; hilyard; house; lady; life; like; little; long; look; looking; man; mind; minister; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; pastor; people; phoebe; place; poor; poor vincent; room; salem; son; strange; sudden; sure; susan; tell; thought; time; tozer; tufton; vincent; way; western; widow; woman; world; young; young man; young minister; young vincent
     • versions: original; plain text
448. oliphant-soil-1865
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-soil-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 200006
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: If it hadna been for little Colin o' Ramore--was about all Mrs. Campbell made out of the tale. You see we know no better--said the farmer of Ramore, who came in at this moment to the porch of his house, where the young gentleman was standing, confronted by young Colin, who would have exploded in boyish rage before now, if he had not been restrained by the knowledge that his mother was within hearing--and, wet or dry, the country-side comes natural to them it belongs to.
     • keywords: alice; awfu; aye; better; big colin; boy; callant; campbell; colin; come; day; eyes; face; far; father; frankland; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; hard; harry; heart; home; house; kind; lady; lauderdale; life; like; little; loch; long; look; looking; love; man; matty; meredith; mind; miss; mistress; moment; mother; natural; new; night; people; poor; poor colin; ramore; room; scotch; sense; sir; smile; son; sure; tell; things; think; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; world; young colin; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
449. oliphant-son-1886
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-son-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 186177
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: And the porters touched their hats and said 'Good-bye, Mr. John,' with a kind recollection of sixpences past. He had a faint sort of notion that it had not always been John Sandford.
     • keywords: better; boy; cattley; cried; day; dear; egerton; elly; eyes; face; father; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; jack; john; john sandford; kind; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; people; percy; place; poor; sandford; sort; susie; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman; work; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
450. oliphant-sorceress-1893
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-sorceress-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 150133
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: The good doctor, who knew nothing about any individual cause little Bee could have for agitation, thought he saw that her very being was arrested by a terror which as yet her intelligence had not grasped; something dreadful in the air which she did not understand. Poor little Bee!
     • keywords: aubrey; bee; better; betty; charlie; children; colonel; colonel kingsward; come; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; great; heart; house; kingsward; know; lady; lance; leigh; life; like; little; little bee; long; look; mamma; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; papa; poor; poor bee; room; tell; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
451. oliphant-strangers-1895
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-strangers-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 26480
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: The dinner at Wradisbury was heavy after the great success of the afternoon; there was a little conversation about that, and about how everybody looked, and on Ralph's part, who was decidedly the least dull of the party, on the changes that time had made, especially upon the women whom he remembered as little girls, and who were now, as he said, elderly, some of them with little girls of their own; but neither Mr. Wradisley nor Mr. Bertram were at all amused, and Lucy was tired, and agreeing with Ralph completely in his estimation of the old young ladies, was not exhilarated by it as she might have been. Nothing so dangerous as little widows about.
     • keywords: bertram; great; like; little; lucy; man; mother; mrs; nugent; ralph; thing; thought; tiny; wradisley
     • versions: original; plain text
452. oliphant-tom-1883
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-tom-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 170606
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Little Tom had been brought in, too, in his nurse's arms, and crowed and clapped his fat little baby hands for his father; and when his mother took him and stepped out upon the balcony, from which her husband was speaking an impromptu address to his new constituents, with the child in her arms, not suspecting that she would be seen, the cheers and outcries ran into an uproar of applause. She would have liked that every child should have a nursery like little Tom's, and every mother the same prospects for her infant, and was charitable and tender beyond measure to all the mothers and children within reach on little Tom's account, which was an extravagance which her husband did not grudge, but liked and encouraged, knowing the sentiment from which it sprang.
     • keywords: better; bice; boy; child; contessa; day; dear; eyes; face; girl; going; good; got; great; half; hand; heart; house; husband; jock; kind; lady; lady randolph; laugh; life; like; little; little tom; long; look; lucy; man; matter; mind; moment; montjoie; old; people; poor; randolph; room; sir tom; sort; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
453. oliphant-tredgold-1895
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-tredgold-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 165700
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Little Stella, while still under the age of sixteen, had driven off all these ladies and kept her father in constant amusement. The consequence of this conversation was that little Stella appeared at Steephill, notwithstanding her vapoury and girlish toilettes of white chiffon and other such airy fabrics, with a rivire of diamonds sparkling round her pretty neck, which, indeed, did them much greater justice than did Lady Jane.
     • keywords: away; better; burnet; charles; charlie; cried; day; dear; doctor; father; girl; good; great; hand; head; house; jane; katherine; lady; lady jane; life; like; little; little stella; long; look; man; mildmay; mind; miss; money; mrs; old; papa; people; poor; room; sir; sister; somers; stella; sure; thing; thought; time; tredgold; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
454. oliphant-trelawny-1892
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-trelawny-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 67934
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Sophy had been at Mrs. Seymour's school--a piece of extravagance which had cost her kind aunt a great deal more than she could afford--but the girl had been delicate, and sea-air had been prescribed for her, and good little Mrs. Norton was willing to live anyhow in order to secure advantages for the child to whom she had performed all a mother's duties. When old Lady Trelawny died, Mrs. Norton wrote, with much timidity, to offer, if Diana would like it, a visit of sympathy for one day only--for she had her pride, and meant nothing but kindness, if not perhaps a tremulous expedient of love to recall little Sophy to the mind of one who now might be as good a friend to the little girl as I tried to be to her, my dear, in her days of poverty.
     • keywords: cried; dear; diana; english; eyes; friend; good; great; heart; hunstanton; italian; kind; lady; life; like; little; look; man; mind; mrs; norton; old; pandolfini; people; poor; sophy; things; thought; time; way
     • versions: original; plain text
455. oliphant-trust-1881
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-trust-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 158717
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Miss Anne Mountford can't stand for the county!' Rose has always been a better child to me than you have been; and she shall have the money if you don't mind.' Whoever had looked at Anne Mountford then would not have given much for the chance of her submission.
     • keywords: anne; anne mountford; better; charley; cosmo; day; dear; douglas; eyes; family; father; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heathcote; heathcote mountford; house; kind; life; like; little; long; look; loseby; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mountford; mrs; old; people; place; poor; right; room; rose; thing; thought; time; want; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
456. oliphant-unjust-1896
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-unjust-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 78341
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: For what was the good of anything, even an original discovery, if such a thing was permitted to be under the skies, as that a girl such as Elsie Buchanan should elect out of all the world the like of Frank Mowbray, half-hearted Scot, dandy, and trifler, for her master? who was Elsie Buchanan that she should look for better than that?
     • keywords: buchanan; cried; day; elsie; father; frank; good; great; johnny; like; little; man; marion; mind; minister; money; morrison; mother; mowbray; mrs; old; poor; rodie; thing; thought; time; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
457. oliphant-valentine-1875
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-valentine-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 192813
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Lady Eskside received her son with the child by her side, going forward to meet him with little Val clinging to her hand; but when she forgot Val and threw her arms round her own boy whom she had not seen for so long, the child, bewildered, shifted his grasp to her gown, which he held fast, somewhat appalled as well as jealous at the appearance of this new-comer. He had not touched the child or spoken to him, except that unfriendly touch; and little Val stood by his grandmother's knee, still clutching her dress, looking on with a bewildered sense of something adverse to himself which was going on over his head, but which he did not understand.
     • keywords: better; boy; child; come; cried; day; dear; dick; eskside; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kind; lady; lady eskside; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord eskside; man; mary; mind; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; old; old lady; old lord; people; place; poor; pringle; richard; river; room; ross; son; strange; sure; tell; things; thought; time; val; valentine; violet; way; woman; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
458. oliphant-whiteladies-1875
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-whiteladies-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 188252
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Austine! cried poor Miss Susan, shrinking, dropping to the floor at the feet of the immaculate creature who was to her as a saint. Wherever are you going to, miss? said cook, who was as old as her mistress, and had never changed her style of addressing her since the days when she was young Miss Susan and played at house-keeping.
     • keywords: augustine; austin; best; better; boy; child; come; day; dear; everard; eyes; face; family; farrel; feeling; giovanna; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; herbert; home; house; kate; kind; life; like; little; long; look; madame; man; mind; mirfleur; miss susan; moment; mother; night; old; people; place; poor; reine; room; sense; sister; sophy; sure; thing; thought; time; want; way; whiteladies; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
459. oliphant-wife-1869
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-wife-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 150637
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Isabel Diarmid, promise me you'll come to the prayer-meeting the morn.' 'O Ailie, how can I promise?' said Isabel in dismay, 'and Margaret so ill.' 'Dinna set that up for an excuse. Eh, but I'm content!' 'Oh, Ailie,' said Isabel, looking wistfully from the bed, 'I cannot follow what you say.' 'Never mind, it will come back some time,' said Ailie; 'and I'm come to bless you, Isabel Diarmid.
     • keywords: ailie; catherine; child; come; cried; day; door; eyes; face; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; isabel; jean; john; life; like; little; loch; long; look; lord; lothian; love; man; margaret; mind; minister; miss; moment; night; old; poor; speak; stapylton; tell; thought; time; way; woman; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
460. oliphant-william-1894
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-william-1894
     • date: 1894
     • words: 174040
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: The family, Mrs. Swinford?' 'Poor little thing, poor little thing,' said Mrs. Swinford, 'I think you were very wise, my dear Mrs. Plowden, in advising your sister-in-law to marry again. The old gentleman was fond of little Mab, and hoped that it was she, though she was so ridiculously young, that was to make this great match; but he did not feel so sure as he would have liked to do, whether this was what Leo meant.
     • keywords: better; brown; course; cried; day; dear; emily; emmy; eyes; face; father; florence; girl; good; great; grey; house; jim; kind; lady; lady william; leo; like; little; little mab; long; look; mab; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; osborne; people; plowden; poor; rector; room; said; sure; swinford; things; think; thought; time; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
461. oliphant-wizard-1884
     • author: oliphant
     • title: oliphant-wizard-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 227348
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: He went everywhere with us, and met us everywhere---- Then, Katie, cried Oona, with a little burst of natural impatience; you must know him a great deal better than I. Said Kate calmly--I am a quite different person from you, and I saw him only in society. He was ashy pale or grey, as old men become when the blood is driven from their faces.
     • keywords: air; best; better; boat; captain; cried; day; door; eyes; face; family; forrester; girl; going; good; great; half; hamish; hand; head; heart; house; julia; katie; kind; know; lady; laugh; life; light; like; little; loch; long; look; lord; lord erradeen; man; mean; methven; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; old; oona; people; place; pleasure; poor; room; round; sense; sort; strange; symington; tell; thing; thought; time; underwood; voice; walter; want; way; woman; world; young; young lord; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
462. opie-adeline-1804
     • author: opie
     • title: opie-adeline-1804
     • date: 1804
     • words: 107443
     • flesch: 59
     • summary: But when Adeline replied, 'My name is Adeline Mowbray,' Mrs Pemberton started, and eagerly exclaimed, 'Art thou Adeline Mowbray of Gloucestershire--the young heiress, as she was called, of Rosevalley?' In a moment the world to him seemed to contain only two beings, Adeline Mowbray and Frederic Glenmurray; and that Adeline, starting and blushing with joyful surprise at seeing him so near her, was then coming in search of him!--of him, the neglected Glenmurray!
     • keywords: adeline; adeline mowbray; berrendale; child; colonel; cried; day; dear; eyes; friend; glenmurray; good; great; hand; heart; letter; life; like; little; long; love; mind; miss; moment; mordaunt; mother; mrs glenmurray; mrs mowbray; mrs pemberton; norberry; patrick; poor; room; savanna; sir; thought; time; wife; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
463. owenson-florence-1818
     • author: owenson
     • title: owenson-florence-1818
     • date: 1818
     • words: 163523
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: A general burst of half-smothered laughter followed this speech, but Mr. Crawley, wholly occupied with his own description and importance, continued : That painting in the front is done by Miss Craw- ley, and is an aregorical device of Lady Dunore, in the character of the horn of plenty, throwing down pace and prosperity on her people. Lady Dunore, whose hysterical affection had re- cently taken a tone of risibility wholly beyond her own control, now absolutely screamed with laugh- ter ; while the civil Mr. Pottinger, full of the re- spectability of the Crawley family, and of the excel- lence of Mr. Crawley's dinners, observed in a low voice : I assure your ladyship, for all his lapsus lingua , Mr. Crawley, of Merrion square, is a most worthy gentleman, and a peculiarly loyal man.
     • keywords: air; baron; castle; cause; character; clancare; commodore; con; continued; countenance; country; court; crawley; daly; day; dear; deep; door; dublin; dunore; english; eyes; family; father; feelings; fitzadelm; fitzwalter; florence; florence macarthy; forward; frederick; friend; general; gentlemen; good; great; half; hand; head; honor; hour; house; ing; interrupted; ireland; irish; know; lady; lady clancare; lady dunore; ladyship; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; macarthy; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; night; o'leary; object; och; old; ould; people; person; place; poor; present; road; room; rosbrin; round; self; sir; son; spirit; stranger; table; think; time; tion; tone; town; voice; way; woman; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
464. pater-marius-1885
     • author: pater
     • title: pater-marius-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 110751
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: The young Commodus had departed from the cham- ber, anxious to witness the exercises of certain gladiators, with a native taste for such company, inherited, according to popular rumour, from his true father-anxious also to escape from the too impressive company of the gravest and sweetest specimen of old age Marius had ever seen, the tutor of the imperial children, who had arrived to offer his birthday congratulations, and now, very familiarly and affectionately, made a part of the group, falling on the shoulders of the emperor, kissing the empress Faustina on the face, and the little ones both on the face and hands. XI 131 MARIUS THE EPICUREAN quaint, immeasurably venerable, like the relics of the medieval city in the Paris of Lewis the Fourteenth : the work of Nero's own time had come to have that sort of old world and picturesque interest which the work of Lewis has for ourselves; while without stretching a parallel too far we might perhaps liken the architectural finesses of the archaic Hadrian to the more excellent products of our own Gothic revival.
     • keywords: actual; age; air; aurelius; beauty; body; certain; chap; children; church; come; cornelius; day; days; dead; death; divine; early; emperor; epicurean; experience; expression; far; gods; great; greek; hand; heart; house; human; kind; life; light; like; little; long; love; man; marius; matter; men; mere; mind; moment; natural; nature; new; old; people; philosophy; place; power; real; religion; religious; roman; rome; sense; sort; soul; thee; things; thought; thy; time; true; truth; way; white; work; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
465. payn-bone-1871
     • author: payn
     • title: payn-bone-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 151548
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Richard was on tolerably intimate terms with Chandos, and other young men of the same class--but he had never been introduced to their sisters. She was not averse to his dissipations, for in them indeed lay his best chance of getting acquainted with young men of this class; nor, so far, had she been disappointed.
     • keywords: balfour; better; carew; case; coe; crompton; day; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; gentleman; gethin; girl; good; great; half; hand; harry; heart; house; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; night; old; old man; place; richard; richard yorke; room; sir; solomon; son; squire; thing; thought; time; trevethick; way; years; yorke; young; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
466. payn-mirk-1865
     • author: payn
     • title: payn-mirk-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 122262
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: He rose and kissed his mother, then, as he left the room, delayed with his fingers on the door-handle, saying: Have Walter and--and his wife consented to be present at my Coming of Age? Certainly, dear Richard: they will both be very pleased to come--nay, Arthur thinks that they may return to the Abbey immediately. Now, pray, be reasonable, and assure yourself that Walter is no worse than other young men, because he makes up a book upon the Derby.
     • keywords: abbey; arthur; aynton; captain; day; dear; derrick; eyes; face; fellow; forest; girl; good; great; hand; heaven; lady; lady lisgard; left; letty; life; like; little; look; love; man; mary; master; mirk; miss; mistress; mother; night; old; place; poor; ralph; richard; room; rose; said; sir; sir richard; sure; tell; thought; time; walter; way; woman; young; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
467. payn-town-1885
     • author: payn
     • title: payn-town-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 95210
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: 'I said that I came upon business of importance, after young Mr. Erin. It so happened, however, that Mr. Erin was bringing his niece, Miss Margaret Slade, with him; and, to judge by the tenderness of Mr. Dennis's glance when it rested on her, it is probable that the prospect of her companionship had had some attraction for him.
     • keywords: antiquary; better; case; course; dennis; doubt; erin; eyes; face; fellow; frank; friend; gentleman; good; great; hand; heart; like; little; love; man; margaret; matter; mind; mrs; new; observed; old; play; said; shakespeare; sir; talbot; thought; time; true; uncle; wallis; way; william henry; willie; word; young; young man
     • versions: original; plain text
468. peacock-crotchet-1831
     • author: peacock
     • title: peacock-crotchet-1831
     • date: 1831
     • words: 37258
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: The stranger having returned the reverend gentleman's good morning, resumed his sketch, and was intently employed on it when Mr. Crotchet made his appearance with Mr. Mac Quedy and Mr. Skionar, whom he was escorting round his grounds, according to his custom with new visitors; the principal pleasure of possessing an extensive domain being that of showing it to other people. Mr. Crotchet, senior, as the master of the house, was left to entertain himself with his own meditations, till the Reverend Doctor Folliott tore himself from Mr. Mac Quedy, and proceeded to expostulate with Mr. Crotchet on a delicate topic.
     • keywords: better; captain; castle; chainmail; company; crotchet; day; doctor; folliott; friend; gentleman; good; great; lady; like; little; mac; man; miss; old; quedy; rev; reverend; said; sir; time; way; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
469. peacock-headlong-1815
     • author: peacock
     • title: peacock-headlong-1815
     • date: 1815
     • words: 27562
     • flesch: 61
     • summary: While this amiable and enlightened quintetto were busily employed in flattering one another, Mr Cranium retired to complete the preparations he had begun in the morning for a lecture, with which he intended, on some future evening, to favour the company: Sir Patrick O'Prism walked out into the grounds to study the effect of moonlight on the snow-clad mountains: Mr Foster and Mr Escot continued to make love, and Mr Panscope to digest his plan of attack on the heart of Miss Cephalis: The next arrival was that of Mr Cranium, and his lovely daughter Miss Cephalis Cranium, who flew to the arms of her dear friend Caprioletta, with all that warmth of friendship which young ladies usually assume towards each other in the presence of young gentlemen.[3.2] Miss Cephalis blushed like a carnation at the sight of Mr Escot, and Mr Escot glowed like a corn-poppy at the sight of Miss Cephalis.
     • keywords: doctor; gaster; great; headlong; human; little; man; men; miss; mr chromatic; mr cranium; mr escot; mr foster; mr gall; mr jenkison; mr mac; mr milestone; mr nightshade; mr panscope; reverend; sir; skull; squire
     • versions: original; plain text
470. peacock-marian-1822
     • author: peacock
     • title: peacock-marian-1822
     • date: 1822
     • words: 36232
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Ho! ho! friar! said the baron--singing friar, laughing friar, roaring friar, fighting friar, hacking friar, thwacking friar; cracking, cracking, cracking friar; joke-cracking, bottle-cracking, skull-cracking friar! At length, through the midst of the internal confusion, the earl, by the help of his good sword, the staunch valour of his men, and the blessing of the Virgin, fought his way to the chapel-gate--his bowmen closed him in--he vaulted into his saddle, clapped spurs to his horse, rallied his men on the first eminence, and exchanged his sword for a bow and arrow, with which he did old execution among the pursuers, who at last thought it most expedient to desist from offensive warfare, and to retreat into the abbey, where, in the king's name, they broached a pipe of the best wine, and attached all the venison in the larder, having first carefully unpacked the tuft of friars, and set the fallen abbot on his legs.
     • keywords: abbot; baron; castle; earl; father; forest; friar; gamwell; good; john; king; knight; lady; little; little friar; man; marian; matilda; men; old; ralph; robin; said; sir; thou; young
     • versions: original; plain text
471. peacock-nightmare-1818
     • author: peacock
     • title: peacock-nightmare-1818
     • date: 1818
     • words: 26771
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: But the dearest friend of Mr Glowry, and his most welcome guest, was Mr Toobad, the Manichaean Millenarian. Mr Glowry, during his residence in London, had come to an agreement with his friend Mr Toobad, that a match between Scythrop and Mr Toobad's daughter would be a very desirable occurrence.
     • keywords: abbey; good; great; honourable mr; lady; like; love; marionetta; mr asterias; mr cypress; mr flosky; mr glowry; mr hilary; mr larynx; mr listless; mr toobad; reverend mr; said; scythrop; sir; time
     • versions: original; plain text
472. pilkington-mariner-1809
     • author: pilkington
     • title: pilkington-mariner-1809
     • date: 1809
     • words: 42575
     • flesch: 61
     • summary: This plan once formed, was rapidly put into execution ; and the / B4 ## p. 8 (#18) ############################################### 8 RICHARD THE RUNAWAY. Still it is necessary to impress the youthful imagination with a love of honour, and a sacred veneration for truth; for the being wh from mo- tives of self-interest prostitutes his real ## p. 11 (#21) ############################################## RICHARD THE RUNAWAY.
     • keywords: boy; captain; dear; doctor; eliott; fowler; friend; gennings; heart; life; little; master; mind; moment; mother; mrs; poor; richard; rivington; runaway; son; time; young
     • versions: original; plain text
473. porter-chiefs-1810
     • author: porter
     • title: porter-chiefs-1810
     • date: 1810
     • words: 287812
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: Those whom the lawless plunderer had driven from their houses or stripped of their covering, found shelter, clothing, and food at the house of Sir William Wallace. None to Sir William Wallace, more than to any other brave Scot, replied the earl: but we all see the oppression of our country; we all know the treachery by which it was subjugated; and this night, in my own person, I have felt the effects of both.
     • keywords: arms; blood; bothwell; brave; brave wallace; breast; bruce; castle; chief; countess; country; cried; day; dear; death; earl; edward; edwin; enemy; england; english; entered; exclaimed; eyes; face; father; fell; forth; friend; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; heaven; helen; honor; hour; king; knight; know; lady helen; lady mar; lady wallace; lay; left; life; like; long; look; lord; lord mar; love; man; mar; men; moment; murray; near; noble wallace; power; prince; regent; replied; ruthven; saw; scotland; scots; scottish; sight; sir; son; soul; spirit; stirling; stood; sword; tears; thought; thy; till; time; valence; voice; wallace; way; wife; william wallace; words; young
     • versions: original; plain text
474. porter-knight-1817
     • author: porter
     • title: porter-knight-1817
     • date: 1817
     • words: 157898
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: I I ## p. 25 (#35) ############################################## *THE KNIGHT OF ST. JOHN. When he thus took upon him the obli- gation to live a life of celibacy, and to devote himself to the interests of reli- gion, he had scarcely attained the age of ## p. 27 (#37) ############################################## THE KNIGHT OF ST. JOHN.
     • keywords: adimari; asked; beatrice; cesario; character; cigala; countenance; day; death; doria; enemy; exclaimed; eyes; face; father; feelings; friend; friendship; giovanni; grand; great; hand; happiness; head; heart; hope; instant; john; knight; left; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; malta; man; marco; master; mind; moment; nature; object; order; person; power; present; prince; returned; reuben; rodolphe; sea; short; signor; soul; spirit; thing; thought; time; toledo; valette; voice; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
475. porter-pastor-1817
     • author: porter
     • title: porter-pastor-1817
     • date: 1817
     • words: 246086
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: Sir Anthony Athelstone is very sensible of the respect due to his reverend Uncle, and to his noble guests; but Louis de Montemar being engaged with a hunting-party, it is impossible he can have the honour of waiting upon them. The eldest, Louisa, was the mother of Louis de Montemar; and the youngest, Catherine, you have seen in Mrs. Coningsby.
     • keywords: alice; arm; athelstone; bosom; breast; continued; cornelia; countenance; countess; country; cruz; daughter; day; de montemar; de ripperda; don; door; duke; duke de; duke wharton; elizabeth; empress; eyes; face; father; ferdinand; friend; good; great; hand; head; heart; honour; hour; house; ignatius; king; left; letter; life; like; lips; little; long; lorenzo; louis; louis de; love; man; marcella; marquis; marquis de; martini; master; mind; moment; montemar; morning; mother; nature; near; new; night; noble; object; open; pastor; person; power; present; queen; returned; ripperda; room; santa; saw; sieur; sir; smile; son; soul; spain; spanish; spirit; stood; thought; till; time; uncle; voice; way; wharton; words; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
476. porter-warsaw-1803
     • author: porter
     • title: porter-warsaw-1803
     • date: 1803
     • words: 185162
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: Insulted by this speech, and, above all, by the manner of the printseller, Thaddeus was snatching up the drawings to leave the shop without a word, when the man, observing his design, and afraid to lose them, laid his hand on the heap, exclaiming-- Let me tell you, young man, it does not become a person in your situation to be so huffy to his employers. But had the frank and innocent Mary exhibited half the like attentions which she paid to these men in one hour to the common class of young men through the course of a month, they would have declared that the poor girl was over head and ears in love with them, and have pitied what they would have justly denominated her folly.
     • keywords: arms; beaufort; constantine; continued; count; countess; country; cried; day; dear; door; dundas; euphemia; eyes; face; family; father; friend; general; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; honor; hope; hour; house; king; lady; lady sara; lady tinemouth; ladyship; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; man; mary; mind; miss; miss beaufort; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; pembroke; people; place; poland; poor; robert; robson; room; sara; sir; sobieski; somerset; son; soul; tears; thaddeus; thaddeus sobieski; thought; time; tinemouth; voice; way; woman; words; young
     • versions: original; plain text
477. reade-christie-1853
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-christie-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 50615
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: And now a knot collected round Christie Johnstone, and urged her to undertake the sad task. They ca' me Christie Johnstone.
     • keywords: barbara; christie; day; flucker; gatty; hae; hand; heart; ipsden; jean; johnstone; lady; like; liston; little; lord; lordship; love; man; mother; newhaven; old; poor; said; saunders; tell; time; wife; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
478. reade-cloister-1861
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-cloister-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 283224
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: THE HEARTH When little Gerard was nearly three months old, a messenger came hot from Tergou for Catherine. The next minute Margaret was on her knees kissing little Gerard in the cradle, and showering four gold pieces on him again and again, and relating the whole occurrence to him in very broken Dutch,
     • keywords: alas; arms; better; blood; body; boy; catherine; child; church; clement; come; cried; day; dead; dear; death; denys; door; earth; eli; ere; eyes; face; far; father; feet; fell; fire; friar; friend; gerard; ghysbrecht; girl; god; good; great; hair; half; hand; hard; hath; head; heart; heaven; holy; home; hour; house; ill; kate; lay; leave; left; lie; life; like; little; little gerard; long; look; love; man; margaret; martin; master; men; mind; moment; mother; nay; night; old; peter; place; poor; poor gerard; read; reicht; road; room; round; said; sat; saw; set; shall; soldier; soul; strange; sweet; tell; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; town; true; turn; voice; water; way; went; white; woman; words; work; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
479. reade-foul-1869
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-foul-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 157702
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Said Helen: He hates poor Arthur, his benefactor. He avoided the kitchen still more; and that, by the by, was unlucky; for there he could have learned something about Miss Helen Rolleston that would have warned him to keep at the other end of the garden whenever that charming face and form glided to and fro among the minor flowers.
     • keywords: arthur; boat; captain; course; cried; day; eyes; face; father; general; good; great; hand; hazel; head; heart; helen; helen rolleston; island; know; lady; left; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; nancy; night; penfold; place; poor; proserpine; robert; rolleston; said; saw; sea; seaton; set; ship; sir; tell; thought; time; wardlaw; water; way; welch; word; work; wylie; young
     • versions: original; plain text
480. reade-griffith-1866
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-griffith-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 143961
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: I think the people in this country are as blind as bats, or they'd-- All except Mr. Griffith Gaunt; he has found a paragon where wiser people see a wayward, capricious girl. This letter is to Mr. Griffith Gaunt.
     • keywords: come; day; eyes; face; father; francis; gaunt; george; good; great; griffith; griffith gaunt; hand; head; heart; house; husband; kate; lady; left; leicester; leonard; like; little; long; look; love; man; mercy; mistress; moment; mrs; nay; neville; old; place; poor; prisoner; room; ryder; said; saw; sir; thomas; thought; time; tis; vint; way; wife; woman; word
     • versions: original; plain text
481. reade-hard-1863
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-hard-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 269554
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: And then, for the first the in her life, she thought her mother hardly gracious; and she wanted to say she was obliged to Mr. Alfred Hardie, but dared not, and despised herself for not daring. Mr. Alfred Hardie interests me; he was good to Edward.
     • keywords: alfred; alfred hardie; archbold; black; body; captain; captain dodd; child; come; coming; course; david; day; dead; dear; deck; doctor; dodd; door; edward; edward dodd; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; half; hand; hardie; head; heart; heaven; high; home; hour; house; jane; julia; julia dodd; know; lady; lay; leave; left; let; letter; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; mad; mamma; man; maxley; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; old; open; people; place; poor; poor alfred; pounds; pray; ran; read; right; room; rose; round; said; sampson; saw; sea; set; ship; short; sir; skinner; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; turn; voice; water; way; white; woman; words; work; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
482. reade-love-1859
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-love-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 145540
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Said Lucy, with gentle enthusiasm, It must be beautiful to be a sailor, and to have seen the real world, and, above all, to be brave and strong like Mr. ----,. Said Lucy to herself: The man is a fool!
     • keywords: aunt; bazalgette; better; boat; came; cried; david; david dodd; day; dear; dodd; eve; eyes; face; fountain; friend; gentleman; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; hardie; head; heart; home; house; lady; like; little; long; look; love; lucy; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; old; poor; right; room; round; said; sea; sir; talboys; tell; thought; time; uncle; way; woman; word; young
     • versions: original; plain text
483. reade-never-1856
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-never-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 263326
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: As soon as he saw Mr. Eden coming Hawes gave a vindictive chuckle. As the schoolmen labored most intellectually and scientifically--practical result, nil, so these labor harder than other men--result, nil.
     • keywords: better; black; cell; chaplain; come; crawley; day; dead; door; eden; evans; eyes; face; fellow; fielding; find; friend; fry; george; george fielding; gold; good; governor; great; half; hand; hard; hawes; head; heart; heaven; home; hour; house; jacky; jail; jem; know; leave; left; levi; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; meadows; men; merton; mind; moment; nature; new; night; old; old man; place; poor; pounds; prisoner; robinson; round; said; saw; sir; soul; susan; tent; thing; thought; till; time; tom; turn; voice; water; way; white; william; woman; words; work; world; young
     • versions: original; plain text
484. reade-peg-1853
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-peg-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 55093
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Mrs. Woffington continued: Mr. Soaper, Mr. Snarl; gentlemen who would butter and slice up their own fathers! Bless me! cried Mrs. Vane, faintly. Mrs. Vane cast an imploring look on Mrs. Woffington.
     • keywords: actress; charles; cibber; cried; day; face; good; great; hand; heart; lady; like; little; love; mabel; madam; mrs; old; pomander; poor; room; said; sir; sir charles; stage; triplet; vane; way; wife; woffington; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
485. reade-perilous-1884
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-perilous-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 101464
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Mr. Walter Clifford was a gentleman, but we must do him the justice to say that in this interview with his employer he was a very impertinent one, not only in words, but in the delivery thereof. Strange to say, after this, whether Mary walked out or rode out, she very often met Mr. Walter Clifford.
     • keywords: bartley; child; clifford; colonel; colonel clifford; come; day; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grace; great; hand; heart; hope; house; julia; know; like; little; love; man; mary; mary bartley; moment; monckton; mrs; old; poor; sir; tell; thing; time; walter; walter clifford; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
486. reade-put-1870
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-put-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 208296
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: But, in this one instance, go to the fountain-head, and ask Mr. Henry Little there, to tell you his own tragedy, with all the ins and outs. While they sat debating his case in whispers, and with their heads so close you might have covered them all with a tea-tray, a clear musical voice was heard to speak to the barmaid, and, by her direction, in walked into the council-chamber--Mr. Henry Little.
     • keywords: amboyne; bayne; carden; cheetham; church; coventry; day; dead; dear; dence; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; girl; gone; good; grace; grace carden; great; hand; head; heart; henry; henry little; hillsborough; home; house; jael; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; old; place; poor; raby; ransome; room; said; saw; set; sir; thing; thought; time; water; way; woman; word; work; young
     • versions: original; plain text
487. reade-simpleton-1873
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-simpleton-1873
     • date: 1873
     • words: 132311
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: Said Rosa, Well, if he should happen to be so foolish, pray think of ME; of all we owe him, and how much I love him, and ought to love him. Said Rosa, When shall I have another tete-a-tete with YOU, I wonder?
     • keywords: better; came; child; christopher; come; day; dear; dick; doctor; eyes; face; falcon; father; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; lusignan; man; mind; moment; money; mrs; old; philip; phoebe; poor; pounds; room; rosa; sir; staines; tell; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word; young
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488. reade-terrible-1871
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-terrible-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 136556
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: They suffered deeply, with this difference--that Lady Bassett pined and Sir Charles Bassett fretted. Is Sir Charles Bassett in town? said she, mighty carelessly, but bending a little lower over her embroidery.
     • keywords: bella; boy; came; charles bassett; child; compton; day; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; huntercombe; husband; lady bassett; letter; like; little; long; look; love; man; mary; mind; miss; moment; mrs; old; poor; reginald; richard bassett; rolfe; room; ruperta; saw; sir charles; tell; thing; thought; time; way; wells; wheeler; wife; woman; young
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489. reade-white-1857
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-white-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 121601
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: [Said peasant is now the principal proprietor of the soil. Josephine Raynal, late Dujardin, is by this time no stranger to my intelligent reader.
     • keywords: aubertin; baroness; beaurepaire; camille; colonel; dard; day; dear; doctor; dujardin; edouard; eyes; face; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; jacintha; josephine; let; like; little; long; look; love; madame; man; moment; mother; old; poor; raynal; room; rose; said; saw; sister; thought; time; way; woman; word; young
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490. reade-woman-1877
     • author: reade
     • title: reade-woman-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 159081
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Said Vizard, pompously, The pulpit and the tea-table are centers of similar phenomena. But the man put his salver right between our noses, and how could I help seeing Poikilus in large letters, and S. I. in little ones up in the corner? Said Vizard, The female eye is naturally swift.
     • keywords: ashmead; better; came; course; day; dear; dover; eyes; face; fanny; friend; gale; girl; going; good; great; half; hand; harrington; head; heart; home; house; ina; klosking; ladies; lady; left; let; like; little; long; look; lord; love; maitland; man; mind; miss; moment; money; music; old; poor; pounds; rhoda; right; room; said; severne; sir; sure; thing; thought; time; uxmoor; vizard; way; woman; words; young; zoe; zoe vizard
     • versions: original; plain text
491. robinson-owen-1862
     • author: robinson
     • title: robinson-owen-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 155900
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: You've been two years at this fun, haven't you, Owen Owen? I'm glad to see the improvement, Owen Owen.
     • keywords: best; better; business; cherbury; chickney; child; come; cutcheld; day; dear; dell; face; friend; glindon; good; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; house; john; life; like; little; long; love; man; mary; mother; mrs; new; old; owen; owen owen; owns; right; room; rst; ruth; sir; street; tarby; thought; till; time; way; wife; woman; world; years; young
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492. roche-nocturnal-1800
     • author: roche
     • title: roche-nocturnal-1800
     • date: 1800
     • words: 78088
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: Mr. Greville luckily dined abroad this day; so that Mrs. Greville and her daughter had again an opportunity of decorating their persons accord- ing to their own taste. Mrs. Greville and Gertrude, who, in the early part of the evening, had been at a party in the vil- lage, were all amazement (an amazement not in- termingled with much concern for any one of them) at the long absence of Mr. Greville, Jacin- tha and Egbert; and vainly inquired from the maid and the boys, if they knew where the latter were gone?
     • keywords: conduct; day; decourcy; egbert; father; gertrude; greville; gwytherin; happiness; heart; henry; house; idea; jacintha; letter; like; little; long; lord; manner; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nocturnal; nocturnal visit; oswald; present; thought; time; visit; woodville
     • versions: original; plain text
493. scott-abbot-1820
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-abbot-1820
     • date: 1820
     • words: 181990
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: Two men were already stretched on the causeway, and the party of Seyton began to give ground, being much inferior in number to the other, with which several of the citizens had united themselves, when young Roland Graeme, beholding their leader, a noble gentleman, fighting bravely, and hard pressed with numbers, could withhold no longer. Roland--Roland Graeme--Master Roland Graeme (an emphasis on the word Master,) will you be pleased to undo the door?--What ails you?--are you at your prayers in private, to complete the devotion which you left unfinished in public?--Surely we must have a screened seat for you in the chapel, that your gentility may be free from the eyes of common folks!
     • keywords: abbot; apartment; avenel; better; boy; brother; castle; catherine; church; day; door; douglas; eyes; fair; far; father; fear; fleming; friend; god; good; grace; great; halbert; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; honour; house; knight; lady; lady lochleven; left; life; like; lindesay; little; lochleven; long; look; lord; love; madam; magdalen; man; mary; master; men; mind; mistress; moment; mother; nay; old; page; person; place; poor; purpose; queen; regent; roland; roland graeme; said; saint; scotland; seyton; sir; son; speak; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tone; trust; way; woman; woodcock; word; young; youth
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494. scott-anne-1829
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-anne-1829
     • date: 1829
     • words: 95169
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: Most princes are contented with privately hating such men as have rendered them extraordinary services--I feel no such disposition--I only detest being reminded of having had occasion for them.--Pshaw! This is a period of the year when good men forgive their enemies;--I know not why,--my mind was little apt to be charged with such matters,--but I feel an unconquerable desire to stop the approaching combat betwixt you and Campo-basso.
     • keywords: annette; arthur; burgundy; charles; colvin; country; day; duke; earl; england; englishman; father; france; geierstein; good; grace; great; hand; head; highness; horse; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; lord; man; margaret; men; noble; old; order; oxford; person; philipson; place; poor; queen; ren; sir; swiss; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; young; youth
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495. scott-antiquary-1816
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-antiquary-1816
     • date: 1816
     • words: 164695
     • flesch: 66
     • summary: He turn'd him right and round again, Said, Scorn na at my mither; Light loves I may get mony a ane, But minnie neer anither. Hae ye brought the lantern and a pock for the siller? Ay-ay, mine goot friend, said the German, here it is--my pair of what you call saddlebag; one side will be for you, one side for me;--I will put dem on my horse to save you de trouble, as you are old man.
     • keywords: ancient; ane; antiquary; auld; believe; better; brother; captain; caxon; chapter; continued; country; day; dear; door; dousterswivel; earl; edie; eyes; fairport; family; father; friend; gentleman; glenallan; god; good; great; hae; half; hand; head; hear; hector; honour; hope; house; ken; knockwinnock; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lovel; m'intyre; mair; man; mendicant; mind; miss; monkbarns; morning; mother; mrs; nae; night; ochiltree; old man; oldbuck; ony; person; place; poor; present; room; sae; said; sea; sir; sir arthur; speak; sure; thought; till; time; true; uncle; voice; wad; wardour; way; weel; woman; word; young
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496. scott-betrothed-1825
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-betrothed-1825
     • date: 1825
     • words: 125158
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: And all for what?-- Forsooth the great De Lacy must have an heir to his noble house, and his fair nephew is not good enough to be his representative, because his mother was of Anglo-Saxon strain, and the real heir must be pure unmixed Norman; and for this, Lady Eveline Berenger, in the first bloom of youth, must be wedded to a man who might be her father, and who, after leaving her unprotected for years, will return in such guise as might beseem her grandfather! These animals traversed without difficulty, and beneath the load of a heavy soldier, the wild mountain paths by which the country was intersected, and in one of which Lady Eveline Berenger concluded she was now engaged, from the manner in which her own palfrey, supported by a man on foot at either rein, seemed now to labour up some precipice, and anon to descend with still greater risk on the other side.
     • keywords: arms; art; berenger; best; better; castle; constable; dame; damian; day; de lacy; death; doloureuse; eveline; eyes; far; father; flammock; fleming; garde; gillian; good; great; gwenwyn; hand; hath; holy; honour; house; lacy; lady; lady eveline; left; life; like; little; long; lord; man; master; men; moment; noble; norman; old; place; present; purpose; raoul; raymond; rose; said; sir; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; welsh; wilkin; young
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497. scott-bride-1819
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-bride-1819
     • date: 1819
     • words: 124420
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: But what is all this to old Lord Ravenswood, my friend? said the Master, who, with an anxiety not unnatural in his circumstances, was desirous of prosecuting the musician's first topicwhat had his memory to do with the degeneracy of the trumpet music? Just this, sir, answered the sexton, that I lost my wind in his service. I know Athole promised his interest to old Ravenswood, and here is his son already bandying and making a faction by his own contemptible influence.
     • keywords: alice; ancient; apartment; ashton; auld; better; betwixt; bucklaw; caleb; castle; come; crag; craigengelt; daughter; day; family; far; father; friend; good; great; hae; hand; heard; honour; hope; house; keeper; know; lady; lady ashton; left; life; like; little; long; lord; lord keeper; lord ravenswood; lucy; man; marquis; master; mind; miss; mother; old; person; place; present; ravenswood; ravenswood castle; right; said; sir; sure; thought; time; way; william; william ashton; wolf; woman; young; young ravenswood
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498. scott-chronicles-1827
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-chronicles-1827
     • date: 1827
     • words: 65399
     • flesch: 66
     • summary: She mused a little, and then added: Put it is something better wi' Croftangry when the changes is frae the field to the habited place, and not from the place of habitation to the desert; for Shanet, her nainsell, kent a glen where there were men as weel as there may be in Croftangry, and if there werena altogether sae mony of them, they were as good men in their tartan as the others in their broadcloth. Every object around me; as I passed them in succession, reminded me of old days, and at the same time formed the strongest contrast with them possible.
     • keywords: best; better; country; croftangry; day; death; donald; elspat; family; father; friend; good; great; hamish; hand; highland; house; janet; left; life; like; little; long; look; mactavish; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; oig; old; person; place; poor; purpose; robin; said; son; thought; time; way; woman; young
     • versions: original; plain text
499. scott-fair-1828
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-fair-1828
     • date: 1828
     • words: 179965
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Say Catharine will never vex him more by her remonstrances, but that she will never forget him in her prayers. Hark you, Gerard; get me some half score of good men instantly to horse, and let them take jack and spear.
     • keywords: albany; arms; best; better; blood; bonnet; brother; catharine; chief; church; clan; conachar; daughter; day; douglas; duke; dwining; earl; fair; father; fellow; friend; glover; good; grace; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; henry; high; honour; house; john; king; know; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; maiden; man; master; men; nay; night; old; oliver; perth; place; poor; prince; purpose; ramorny; rothsay; royal; said; saw; scotland; simon; sir; smith; son; speak; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; true; way; woman; young
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500. scott-fortunes-1822
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-fortunes-1822
     • date: 1822
     • words: 183816
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: A yeoman in the kitchen--a scullion! exclaimed Lord Nigel, pacing the room in displeasure. Well, my honest Richie, said Lord Nigel, your attempt was well meant, and not so ill conducted, I think, as to have deserved so bad an issue; but go to your beef and mustard, and we'll talk of the rest afterwards.
     • keywords: apartment; best; better; business; citizen; come; company; court; dame; daughter; day; door; duke; eyes; far; father; friend; gentleman; george; good; great; hand; hath; head; heriot; honest; honour; house; james; jenkin; kind; king; know; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lord dalgarno; lord glenvarloch; lord huntinglen; lord nigel; lordship; lowestoffe; majesty; man; margaret; master; means; men; mind; mistress; moment; money; moniplies; mungo; noble; old; old lord; person; place; poor; presence; present; prince; purpose; ramsay; richie; right; royal; said; sir; speak; tell; thing; thought; time; true; way; weel; woman; word; young lord
     • versions: original; plain text
501. scott-guy-1815
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-guy-1815
     • date: 1815
     • words: 164989
     • flesch: 68
     • summary: Fielding has described one class as feras consumere nati; but the love of field-sports indicates a certain activity of mind, which had forsaken Mr. Bertram, if ever he possessed it. One of Sampson's great recommendations to the favour of Mr. Bertram was, that he never detected the most gross attempt at imposition, so that the Laird, whose humble efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to what were then called bites and bams, since denominated hoaxes and quizzes, had the fairest possible subject of wit in the unsuspecting Dominie.
     • keywords: appearance; auld; bertram; better; brown; business; captain; character; colonel; colonel mannering; come; country; day; dinmont; dominie; door; ellangowan; family; far; father; friend; gentleman; gipsy; glossin; good; great; hae; half; hand; hatteraick; having; hazlewood; head; high; honour; hope; house; julia; lady; laird; leave; left; length; life; like; little; long; look; lucy; mac; mannering; meg; mind; miss; moment; morlan; morning; mrs; night; old; person; place; pleydell; poor; present; robert; room; round; said; sampson; saw; sir; thought; time; way; weel; woman; young
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502. scott-heart-1818
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-heart-1818
     • date: 1818
     • words: 211471
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: Ye musquet and calliver-men, Do you prove true to me, Ill be the foremost man in fight, Said brave Lord Willoughbee. But the presiding Judge, better versed in Scripture history, whispered to his learned brother the necessary explanation; and the pause occasioned by this mistake had the good effect of giving Jeanie Deans time to collect her spirits for the painful task she had to perform.
     • keywords: ain; ane; answer; archibald; auld; best; better; butler; case; character; child; circumstances; city; come; country; court; daughter; david; day; deans; death; door; duke; dumbiedikes; edinburgh; effie; eyes; family; far; father; folk; friend; gang; george; god; good; grace; great; gude; hae; hand; head; heart; high; house; ill; jeanie; jeanie deans; ken; lady; laird; law; left; life; like; little; long; madge; mair; man; manner; matter; maun; men; mind; morning; mrs; muckle; nae; night; old; person; place; poor; porteous; present; purpose; ratcliffe; reuben; saddletree; sae; said; saw; scotland; sir; sister; situation; speak; staunton; tell; think; thought; time; tone; true; voice; wad; way; weel; woman; word; ye ken; young
     • versions: original; plain text
503. scott-ivanhoe-1820
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-ivanhoe-1820
     • date: 1820
     • words: 177725
     • flesch: 67
     • summary: For three men to attempt them at this moment, were little else than madness; for they are good men of war, and have, as such, placed sentinels to give the alarm when any one approaches. If the person calling himself the Black Knight have indeed a claim to the honours of chivalry, he ought to know that he stands degraded by his present association, and has no right to ask reckoning at the hands of good men of noble blood.
     • keywords: arms; athelstane; best; better; black; blood; bois; bracy; brian; brother; buf; castle; cedric; daughter; day; de bracy; death; england; eyes; fair; far; father; friar; friend; god; good; grand; great; guilbert; gurth; hand; hast; hath; head; heaven; high; holy; honour; horse; isaac; ivanhoe; jew; john; king; knight; lady; left; life; like; lists; little; long; love; man; master; men; noble; norman; old; order; place; present; prince; prior; purpose; rebecca; richard; rowena; said; saint; saxon; sir; tell; templar; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thou hast; thy; time; true; voice; wamba; way
     • versions: original; plain text
504. scott-kenilworth-1821
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-kenilworth-1821
     • date: 1821
     • words: 183803
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: Can my lady be by no means persuaded to bear for a brief space the obscure character which circumstances impose on her? Said Varney after some hesitation. Why, Said Blount, thy braveries are like to dazzle the eyes of none but some poor groom or porter.
     • keywords: amy; apartment; art; best; better; boy; castle; chamber; countess; court; day; devil; door; earl; elizabeth; eyes; fair; father; favour; fear; fellow; foster; found; friend; god; gold; good; great; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; honour; horse; host; janet; kenilworth; lady; lambourne; left; leicester; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; madam; man; master; master tressilian; master varney; men; mind; moment; nay; night; noble; old; person; place; poor; presence; purpose; queen; said; secret; sir; smith; sussex; tell; thee; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; tressilian; true; varney; wayland
     • versions: original; plain text
505. scott-legend-1819
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-legend-1819
     • date: 1819
     • words: 81130
     • flesch: 60
     • summary: As clear as it could be, replied Captain Dalgetty, considering we had drunk six flasks of Rhenish, and about two mutchkins of Kirchenwasser. I should have thought, said he to Captain Dalgetty, that a cavalier of your honourable mark, who hath so long followed the valiant King of Sweden, and entertains such a suitable contempt for the base mechanical States of Holland, would not have hesitated to embrace the cause of King Charles, in preference to that of the low-born, roundheaded, canting knaves, who are in rebellion against his authority? Ye speak reasonably, my lord, said Dalgetty, and, CAETERIS PARIBUS, I might be induced to see the matter in the same light.
     • keywords: allan; annot; ardenvohr; argyle; arms; army; campbell; captain; captain dalgetty; castle; country; dalgetty; duncan; friend; good; great; gustavus; hand; head; highland; honour; horse; king; like; little; long; lord; lord menteith; m'aulay; maceagh; major; man; marquis; menteith; military; montrose; old; person; place; ranald; said; service; sir; sir duncan; soldier; time; way
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506. scott-monastery-1820
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-monastery-1820
     • date: 1820
     • words: 158037
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: your reverence, said the widow of Glendearg apart to the Sub-Prior, bestow on him your forgiveness--how shall we poor folk sleep in security in the dark nights, if the convent is at feud with such men as he is? Whether it were that the wonderful Being with whom he had so lately held communication, had bestowed on him a grace and dignity of look and bearing which he had not before, or whether the being conversant in high matters, and called to a destiny beyond that of other men, had a natural effect in giving becoming confidence to his language and manner, we pretend not to determine.
     • keywords: abbot; avenel; best; better; blood; brother; christie; church; come; dame; day; edward; elspeth; english; eustace; eyes; family; far; father; glendearg; glendinning; god; good; great; halbert; halbert glendinning; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; holy; house; knight; lady; left; life; like; little; long; lord; man; martin; mary; master; men; miller; mind; monk; mother; murray; mysie; old; piercie; place; poor; presence; prior; reverend; said; saint; shafton; sir; sir piercie; son; sub; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tower; warden; way; white; young; youth
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507. scott-peveril-1822
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-peveril-1822
     • date: 1822
     • words: 227666
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: There is a circumstance, good Master Julian Peveril, which should have been yours, had Providence permitted our farther intimacy, but it fits not the present hour. These walks will be the death of me, she said, and all on your account, Master Julian Peveril; for if Dame Christian should learn that you have chosen to make your visits to her niece, I promise you Mistress Alice would be soon obliged to find other quarters, and so should I. Come now, Mistress Deborah, be good-humoured, said Julian; consider, was not all this intimacy of ours of your own making?
     • keywords: alice; apartment; best; better; betwixt; black; bridgenorth; buckingham; castle; charles; chiffinch; christian; countess; country; court; dame; day; deborah; derby; door; duke; eyes; fair; family; far; father; fellow; friend; geoffrey; geoffrey peveril; good; grace; great; hall; hand; hath; heard; heaven; high; honour; house; julian; julian peveril; king; knight; known; lady; lady peveril; lance; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; madam; majesty; major; man; manner; martindale; master; master bridgenorth; means; men; mind; mistress; moment; nay; old; party; person; peveril; place; pleasure; poor; presence; present; purpose; said; saw; sir; sir geoffrey; speak; state; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; way; woman; young
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508. scott-pirate-1822
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-pirate-1822
     • date: 1822
     • words: 190755
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: The group of old men who looked on, bore no inconsiderable resemblance to a party of aged tritons, engaged in beholding the sports of the sea-nymphs; so hard a look had most of them acquired by contending with the elements, and so much did the shaggy hair and beards, which many of them cultivated after the ancient Norwegian fashion, give their heads the character of these supposed natives of the deep. Vaughan, answered Magnus, is a name which I have some reason to remember; and, from what I have lately heard from my cousin Norna, that old man has a right to bear it.
     • keywords: ancient; baby; best; better; betwixt; boat; brenda; bunce; burgh; captain; captain cleveland; claud; cleveland; come; country; dark; day; eyes; fair; far; father; fear; friend; good; great; halcro; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; house; islands; kirkwall; know; leave; left; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; magnus; man; manner; master; men; mertoun; mind; minna; moment; mordaunt; mordaunt mertoun; norna; old; place; poor; purpose; said; saint; saw; sea; sister; small; son; speak; stranger; swertha; thing; thought; thy; till; time; tone; triptolemus; troil; udaller; vessel; voice; water; way; westra; wild; woman; word; yellowley; young; zetland
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509. scott-quentin-1823
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-quentin-1823
     • date: 1823
     • words: 182556
     • flesch: 62
     • summary: To enhance his surprise, his companion told him that the environs of the Castle, except the single winding path by which the portal might be safely approached, were, like the thickets through which they had passed, surrounded with every species of hidden pitfall, snare, and gin, to entrap the wretch who should venture thither without a guide; that upon the walls were constructed certain cradles of iron, called swallows' nests, from which the sentinels, who were regularly posted there, could without being exposed to any risk, take deliberate aim at any who should attempt to enter without the proper signal or password of the day; and that the Archers of the Royal Guard performed that duty day and night, for which they received high pay, rich clothing, and much honour and profit at the hands of King Louis. And were I King Louis, said the youth, in reply, I would trust my safety to the faith of the three hundred Scottish gentlemen, throw down my bounding walls to fill up the moat; call in my noble peers and paladins, and live as became me, amid breaking of lances in gallant tournaments, and feasting of days with nobles, and dancing of nights with ladies, and have no more fear of a foe than I have of a fly.
     • keywords: arms; art; balafre; better; bishop; boar; bohemian; burgundy; called; castle; character; charles; come; countess; court; cousin; crawford; crevecoeur; croye; day; duke; dunois; durward; duty; eyes; fair; far; father; france; friend; good; great; guard; hand; hath; hayraddin; head; high; hold; honour; isabelle; king; king louis; ladies; lady; left; liege; life; like; little; long; look; lord; louis; majesty; man; marck; master; men; moment; noble; old; oliver; person; place; present; purpose; quentin; quentin durward; right; said; saint; saw; scottish; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tone; way; young; youth
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510. scott-rob-1817
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-rob-1817
     • date: 1817
     • words: 163388
     • flesch: 63
     • summary: It is very cruel in you, Miss Vernon, to take away all particular marks of favour from your communications, but I must receive them on your own terms.--You have not included Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone in your domestic sketches. she would secure me as a pis aller, I suppose, in case Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her!
     • keywords: air; andrew; ane; appearance; bailie; best; better; business; campbell; come; continued; country; cousin; day; diana; door; doubt; eyes; family; far; father; fear; found; frank; friend; gentleman; glasgow; good; great; gude; hae; hall; hand; head; honest; honour; house; ill; jarvie; justice; king; left; length; life; like; little; long; look; macgregor; man; manner; means; men; mind; miss; miss vernon; morning; morris; nae; night; old; osbaldistone; owen; person; place; purpose; rashleigh; rob; sae; said; scotland; set; sir; tell; thought; time; vernon; voice; wad; way; weel; word; young
     • versions: original; plain text
511. scott-ronan-1824
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-ronan-1824
     • date: 1824
     • words: 177463
     • flesch: 62
     • summary: At this moment the door of the shop opened, and Lady Penelope Penfeather entered, with her eternal pendante, the little Miss Digges. Have you seen Mr. Mowbray?--Has Mr. Mowbray of St. Ronan's been down this morning?--Do you know any thing of Mr. Mowbray, Mrs. Pott? were questions which the lettered lady eagerly huddled on the back of each other, scarcely giving time to the lady of letters to return a decided negative to all and each of them. At the head of one of these parties was no less a personage than Lady Penelope Penfeather, to whom the establishment owed its fame, nay, its existence; and whose influence could only have been balanced by that of the Lord of the Manor, Mr. Mowbray of St. Ronan's, or, as he was called usually by the company who affected what Meg called knapping English, The Squire, who was leader of the opposite faction.
     • keywords: best; better; bingo; binks; brother; called; captain; cargill; case; character; clara; clara mowbray; come; company; day; doctor; dods; earl; etherington; family; father; fellow; find; found; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; honour; hope; house; jekyl; know; lady; lady penelope; ladyship; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord etherington; lordship; man; matter; meg; mind; miss; miss mowbray; moment; mowbray; mrs; old; penelope; person; place; poor; present; purpose; right; ronan; room; said; set; sir; sister; stranger; sure; thing; thought; time; tone; touchwood; tyrrel; way; winterblossom; woman; word; young
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512. scott-talisman-1825
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-talisman-1825
     • date: 1825
     • words: 126508
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited, Tell me, Sir Knight of the Leopard, granting (which I do not doubt) that thou art thyself satisfied in this matter, shall I do well, in a land where the art of poisoning is as general as that of cooking, to bring this unknown physician to practise with his drugs on a health so valuable to Christendom? My lord, replied the Scot, thus only can I reply--that my squire, the only one of my retinue whom war and disease had left in attendance on me, has been of late suffering dangerously under this same fever, which, in valiant King Richard, has disabled the principal limb of our holy enterprise. But for my hours of liberty or of idleness King Richard has no title to bar my recreation.
     • keywords: arms; art; banner; camp; christian; conrade; edith; england; eyes; god; good; grand; great; hakim; hand; hast; hath; head; hermit; high; holy; honour; kenneth; king; king richard; knight; know; lady; life; like; lion; little; long; lord; man; marquis; master; men; noble; physician; place; princes; queen; richard; royal; said; saladin; saracen; sir; sir kenneth; soldan; speak; tent; thee; think; thou; thou art; thy; time; vaux; voice
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513. scott-waverley-1814
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-waverley-1814
     • date: 1814
     • words: 190607
     • flesch: 62
     • summary: And such a catastrophe of the most gentle creature on earth might have been prevented if Mr. Edward Waverley had had his eyes! Which sum being advanced, by Mr. Edward Waverley, chiefly from the price of his father's property which I bought from him, is secured to his lady your daughter and her family by this marriage.
     • keywords: appearance; arms; bailie; baron; bradwardine; brother; callum; captain waverley; castle; cause; chapter; character; chieftain; circumstances; colonel; country; course; day; dear; donald; edward; edward waverley; english; evan; everard; eyes; family; far; father; feelings; fergus; flora; friend; general; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hero; high; highland; highlanders; honour; house; interest; ivor; king; lady; large; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; little; long; mac; major; man; manner; men; military; mind; miss; moment; morning; night; old; party; person; place; poor; present; prince; purpose; richard waverley; rose; said; scotland; scott; service; set; short; sir; sister; small; state; talbot; thought; time; veolan; waverley; way; years; young
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514. scott-woodstock-1826
     • author: scott
     • title: scott-woodstock-1826
     • date: 1826
     • words: 186910
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: Worthy Master Bibbet was a little overcome with liquor, (as is his fashion, good man, about this time of the evening,) not that he is in the least given to ebriety, but simply, that since the Scottish campaign he hath had a perpetual ague, which obliges him so to nourish his frame against the damps of the night; wherefore, as it is well known to your honour that I discharge the office of a faithful servant, as well to Major-General Harrison, and the other Commissioners, as to my just and lawful master, Colonel Desborough I know all that. I will now ask thee a few questions, old man, said the General, when they had arrived in the room; and I warn thee, that hope of pardon for thy many and persevering efforts against the Commonwealth, can be no otherwise merited than by the most direct answers to the questions I am about to ask.
     • keywords: albert; alice; answer; apartment; art; better; cause; cavalier; character; charles; church; colonel; colonel everard; come; cromwell; day; devil; doctor; door; england; everard; eyes; father; fear; fellow; find; friend; general; gentleman; god; good; great; hand; hath; head; heaven; henry; high; holdenough; honour; house; joceline; kerneguy; king; knight; lee; left; life; light; like; little; lodge; long; look; lord; man; markham; master; men; mind; nay; old; old man; party; pearson; phbe; place; poor; present; purpose; rochecliffe; said; saw; sir; sir henry; sword; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; till; time; tomkins; true; voice; way; wildrake; woodstock; words; young
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515. sewell-hawstone-1845
     • author: sewell
     • title: sewell-hawstone-1845
     • date: 1845
     • words: 251461
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: I hope Mr. Villiers will not suffer himself to be corrupted by your sad res notions, said Mabel, partly 66 66 ## p. 20 (#376) ############################################# 20 HAWKSTONE. Pearce was at the door waiting to put up the steps ; the General was feebly and querulously demanding where Mr. Villiers was, that he might drive with him, and read the newspaper to him, but no Villiers appeared ; his servant only came to say that his master had an engage. ment, and could not come.
     • keywords: abb; arms; atkinson; beattie; bed; bentley; better; bevan; blacker; body; brook; care; chapel; child; children; church; connell; continued; day; deep; door; eleanor; england; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; general; god; good; great; half; hand; hawkstone; head; heart; help; hope; house; kind; lady; lay; leave; left; life; like; little; lomax; long; look; lost; mabel; macarthy; man; means; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; night; o'foggarty; old; open; pearce; person; place; poor; power; present; religion; rome; room; round; self; sir; society; state; system; table; tell; thing; thought; time; truth; villiers; voice; way; wheeler; words; work; world; young
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516. shaw-cashel-1882
     • author: shaw
     • title: shaw-cashel-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 85460
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Mr. Cashel Byron: Miss Carew. Mr. Cashel Byron raised his straw hat and reddened a little; but, on the whole, bore himself like an eminent man who was not proud. I am told that you are a student, Mr. Cashel Byron.
     • keywords: alice; bashville; better; boy; byron; carew; cashel; cashel byron; day; face; gentleman; good; house; like; little; long; lord; lucian; lydia; man; mellish; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; old; paradise; people; right; room; skene; tell; thought; time; way; worthington; young
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517. shaw-irrational-1880
     • author: shaw
     • title: shaw-irrational-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 116378
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Miss Marian Lind.' Miss Marian Lind and Miss McQuinch.
     • keywords: better; care; come; conolly; constance; course; day; douglas; elinor; george; going; good; great; home; house; like; lind; little; look; man; marian; marmaduke; matter; mcquinch; mean; miss; moment; mrs; ned; nelly; old; people; right; room; sholto; susanna; thought; time; want; way; wish; woman
     • versions: original; plain text
518. shaw-unsocial-1883
     • author: shaw
     • title: shaw-unsocial-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 89284
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: He bought more cotton, and more machinery, and more factories with it; employed more men to make wealth for him, and saw his fortune increase like a rolling snowball. Miss Wilson can't help hearing when you come down with a thump like that.
     • keywords: agatha; better; brandon; charles; day; erskine; father; gertrude; good; half; henrietta; house; jane; jansenius; lady; like; lindsay; little; love; man; men; mind; miss; miss wilson; mrs; people; poor; right; room; sir; smilash; thought; time; trefusis; way; wilson; woman; work; wylie; young
     • versions: original; plain text
519. shelley-falkner-1837
     • author: shelley
     • title: shelley-falkner-1837
     • date: 1837
     • words: 154014
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: You do not, Sophia; that I have long known, and the feeling of disappointment is already blunted; but it will revive, it will be barbed with a new sting, if I am deceived in my belief that Elizabeth Falkner shares my convictions, and appreciates the utility, the necessity of my endeavours. Elizabeth was no child of his--Elizabeth Falkner could never wed Gerard Neville--but between him and Elizabeth Raby there existed no obstacle.
     • keywords: alithea; boyvill; cecil; child; day; dear; death; elizabeth; eyes; face; falkner; far; father; fear; feeling; friend; gerard; good; hand; happiness; happy; heart; home; hope; hour; lady; letter; life; like; little; long; love; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nature; neville; new; night; osborne; raby; sir; son; soul; speak; thought; time; true; truth; voice; words; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
520. shelley-fortunes-1830
     • author: shelley
     • title: shelley-fortunes-1830
     • date: 1830
     • words: 184172
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: Other men perform the various parts allotted to them, and yet are something else the while; as is the actor, even while he struts in the garb of royalty: but Edmund yielded himself wholly up, and was the mere creature of the thought within. It was on the death of Edward, that the earl of Lincoln visited the Tower, and saw young Richard.
     • keywords: arms; boy; brampton; cause; clifford; cousin; cried; dark; day; dear; death; duke; earl; edmund; edward; elizabeth; england; english; eyes; fair; far; father; fear; friend; frion; good; hand; head; heart; henry; high; hope; hour; ill; james; katherine; king; lady; let; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lost; love; man; men; mind; moment; monina; mother; near; new; night; noble; old; place; plantagenet; poor; power; prince; queen; replied; richard; rose; royal; save; sir; son; soul; spirit; spoke; thought; time; voice; warwick; way; white; words; world; york; young; youth
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521. shelley-lodore-1835
     • author: shelley
     • title: shelley-lodore-1835
     • date: 1835
     • words: 149520
     • flesch: 69
     • summary: At first Lady Lodore could only speak of the injury and insult she had herself suffered; and Lady Santerre, who by no means wished to encourage feelings, which might lead to violence in action, tried to soothe her irritation. He was then married, and Lady Lodore accompanied him.
     • keywords: affection; aunt; child; cornelia; daughter; day; days; dear; edward; england; ethel; eyes; face; fanny; father; feelings; fitzhenry; good; happiness; heart; home; hope; house; husband; idea; kind; lady lodore; left; life; like; little; lodore; london; long; lord; love; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; place; present; return; room; saville; saw; soul; thing; thought; time; villiers; voice; wife; words; world; years; young
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522. shelley-perkin-1830
     • author: shelley
     • title: shelley-perkin-1830
     • date: 1830
     • words: 184172
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: Other men perform the various parts allotted to them, and yet are something else the while; as is the actor, even while he struts in the garb of royalty: but Edmund yielded himself wholly up, and was the mere creature of the thought within. It was on the death of Edward, that the earl of Lincoln visited the Tower, and saw young Richard.
     • keywords: arms; boy; brampton; cause; clifford; cousin; cried; dark; day; dear; death; duke; earl; edmund; edward; elizabeth; england; english; eyes; fair; far; father; fear; friend; frion; good; hand; head; heart; henry; high; hope; hour; ill; james; katherine; king; lady; let; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lost; love; man; men; mind; moment; monina; mother; near; new; night; noble; old; place; plantagenet; poor; power; prince; queen; replied; richard; rose; royal; save; sir; son; soul; spirit; spoke; thought; time; voice; warwick; way; white; words; world; york; young; youth
     • versions: original; plain text
523. shelley-valperga-1823
     • author: shelley
     • title: shelley-valperga-1823
     • date: 1823
     • words: 157558
     • flesch: 65
     • summary: The King proved his gratitude by bestowing on him such praises and rewards as filled Castruccio with triumph and delight. But, when Castruccio spoke these last words, his face fell, his mouth was drawn down, his arms sunk close to his sides, and, glancing at his mean clothing, he replied: I am always poor, always unfortunate; and, Messer Castruccio, you do me great injustice and injury by supposing that I have any wealth.
     • keywords: air; beatrice; castle; castruccio; city; country; cried; day; days; death; deep; euthanasia; eyes; far; father; fear; feelings; florence; friend; god; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; hope; italy; joy; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; lucca; man; mind; moment; new; night; old; palace; party; peace; pepi; poor; power; prince; replied; rest; saw; small; soul; spirit; tell; thought; time; town; valperga; voice; war; words; world; years; young
     • versions: original; plain text
524. stephens-manuscripts-1835
     • author: stephens
     • title: stephens-manuscripts-1835
     • date: 1835
     • words: 350211
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: p. p. p. 10 (#16) ############################################## 10 MANUSCRIPTS OF ERDELY.
     • keywords: air; answered; antoine; apartment; arms; balassi; battle; better; black; blood; body; bosom; breath; broken; brow; cardinal; castaldo; certain; chamber; character; child; city; close; coloswar; come; common; con; continued; count; countenance; country; course; cried; cygani; czerina; dark; daughter; day; dear; death; deep; demanded; dominick; door; earth; eminence; exclaimed; expression; eyes; face; fair; far; fate; father; features; feelings; fell; felt; ferraro; find; force; form; found; friend; god; good; graf; great; ground; half; hand; hath; having; head; heart; heaven; hermanstadt; high; hold; holy; hour; hubert; human; hungarian; hungary; instant; isabella; iwan; john; king; know; lady; lay; leave; left; length; let; life; light; like; lips; little; long; look; lord; lost; love; low; manner; manuscript; martinuzzi; matter; maximilian; means; mind; minute; moment; monk; mother; nature; nay; near; noble; object; open; pale; pause; pereny; person; peter; place; point; power; presence; present; purpose; queen; ragotzy; reader; regent; reply; returned; richter; rodna; room; royal; save; secret; self; sense; set; short; sigismund; silence; single; sir; small; smile; soul; speak; spirit; spot; state; strong; swartz; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tion; tis; tone; transylvania; unna; veronica; vicchy; view; voice; way; words; world; years; young
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525. sterling-fitzgeorge-1832
     • author: sterling
     • title: sterling-fitzgeorge-1832
     • date: 1832
     • words: 145315
     • flesch: 71
     • summary: Lady Fitzgeorge was as proud of her prudery, as Lord Fitzgeorge was of his piety; and if her ladyship had any spite against any ## p. 206 (#224) ############################################ 206 FITZGEORGE. of her neighbours, and wished to take away their good name, she had nothing to do but to decline receiving their visits, and to give out that her reasons for so doing were of a delicate mature, and forthwith all the neighbours set the rejected one down as being very little better than she should be. Mrs. Jernigan had frequently repeated to Lady Fitzgeorge the remarks of Lady Louisa, which remarks were not very flattering to the object of them; and though Lady Fitzgeorge ## p. 207 (#225) ############################################ -FITZGEORGE.
     • keywords: augustus fitzgeorge; borrowman; course; father; fitzgeorge; friends; gentleman; good; graves; great; happy; heart; human; jernigan; juliet; lady; life; like; little; long; look; lord fitzgeorge; lordship; louisa; love; man; marriage; matter; means; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; old; people; pleasure; power; present; public; simkin; sir; society; son; steward; thing; thought; time; wife; world; young
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526. stoker-betty-1898
     • author: stoker
     • title: stoker-betty-1898
     • date: 1898
     • words: 45239
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Miss Betty told me her- ## p. 199 (#213) ############################################ AT CHEYNE WALK 199 self to lay a cover for you for supper, for that she wouldn't be surprised if you looked in this evening. He took in the situation at a glance, and with a boldness and readiness which com- mended itself to every man present who could swim, he dived beneath the boats, taking with him Betty, who had not uttered a sound and ## p. 36 (#50) ############################################## 36 MISS BETTY who now yielded herself quietly to his guidance.
     • keywords: abigail; betty; child; day; dear; eyes; face; good; great; hand; heart; like; little; man; miss; old; rafe; sir; thought; time; way; young
     • versions: original; plain text
527. strutt-queenhoo-1802
     • author: strutt
     • title: strutt-queenhoo-1802
     • date: 1802
     • words: 138366
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: * # # # # * # The unexpected arrival of the baron's daughter had occasioned the greatest conster- nation among the ringleaders of the pageant; they concluded that all their preparations had been made to no purpose, and, vexed by the disappointment, were returning to their respective duties with very gloomy counte- nances ; but when it was known among them that their lovely young mistress not only per- mitted the exhibition of the sports, but pro- posed to honour their performance with her presence, the hall rang with acclamations of� ## p. 9 (#33) ############################################### joy; the pageant was rehearsed with great glee ; and every heart was exhilarated by her condescension.
     • keywords: answered; baron; bed; best; brother; cast; clere; come; company; con; cousin; cried; dame; daughter; day; dear; door; eleanor; eyes; fair; father; find; friend; gold; good; great; gregory; hall; hand; head; heart; holy; honour; house; ing; know; ladies; lady; large; left; let; life; like; little; long; lord; man; margery; master; matilda; mind; moment; morning; night; old; place; ralph; return; room; said; saint; set; small; thee; thought; time; way; young
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528. thackeray-history-1850
     • author: thackeray
     • title: thackeray-history-1850
     • date: 1850
     • words: 361694
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: In order to keep Mr. Pen from indulging in that idleness of which his friend the Doctor of the Cistercians had prophesied such awful consequences, Mr. Smirke, Dr. Portman's curate, was engaged at a liberal salary, to walk or ride over from Clavering and pass several hours daily with the young gentleman. Besides these amusements and occupations in which Mr. Pen indulged, there was one which forms the main business and pleasure of youth, if the poets tell us aright, whom Pen was always studying; and this young fellow's heart was so ardent, and his imagination so eager, that it is not to be expected he should long escape the passion to which we allude, and which, ladies, you have rightly guessed to be that of Love.
     • keywords: altamont; amory; arthur; arthur pendennis; best; better; blanche; bows; boy; bungay; captain; chambers; clavering; come; company; conversation; costigan; country; course; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; dear pen; dinner; doctor; door; eyes; face; fairoaks; family; fanny; father; fellow; fine; foker; fortune; francis; friend; friend pen; gentleman; girl; going; good; great; hand; happy; head; heart; helen; home; honest; honour; house; huxter; kind; know; ladies; lady; lady clavering; laura; left; letters; life; like; little; little pen; london; long; look; looking; lord; love; major; major pendennis; man; manner; master; men; mind; miss; money; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; old gentleman; old lady; old man; old mr; old pendennis; pay; pen; pendennis; people; person; place; play; poor; poor little; poor pen; present; pretty; read; room; round; saw; sir; smirke; society; son; speak; street; strong; sure; table; talk; tell; thought; time; town; uncle; voice; warrington; way; widow; wife; wish; woman; world; years; young; young gentleman; young lady; young man; young mr; young pen
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529. thackeray-mens-1852
     • author: thackeray
     • title: thackeray-mens-1852
     • date: 1852
     • words: 67245
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: This note was sealed with yellow wax, and sent to its destination; and of course Mr. Eglantine went himself for the answer in the evening: and of course he told the ladies to look out for a certain new coat he was going to sport on Sunday; and of course Mr. Walker happens to call the next day with spare tickets for Mrs. Crump and her daughter, when the whole secret was laid bare to him--how the ladies were going to Richmond on Sunday in Mr. Snaffle's clarence, and how Mr. Eglantine was to ride by their side. Mr. Eglantine had arrested Mr. Walker: she had been trying to gain time for him; Eglantine had refused.
     • keywords: berry; captain; course; crump; day; dear; dinner; eglantine; fellow; fitz; gentleman; george; good; great; hair; hand; house; know; ladies; lady; like; little; love; man; miss; morgiana; mrs; old; place; poor; room; sir; thought; thrum; time; walker; way; wife; woolsey; young
     • versions: original; plain text
530. thackeray-rose-1855
     • author: thackeray
     • title: thackeray-rose-1855
     • date: 1855
     • words: 29608
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: he said; and they led the way, deeply affected; and they came into the courtyard, and out into the square, and there was King Giglio come to take leave of him, and His Majesty most kindly shook hands with him, and the 'Take off that marched on:--when hark! Haw--wurraw--wurraw--aworr! King Giglio slapped him most kindly on the back, and said, 'Bulbo, my boy, I am delighted, for your sake, that Her Majesty has arrived.'
     • keywords: angelica; betsinda; bulbo; fairy; giglio; gruffanuff; king; king giglio; little; majesty; padella; poor; prince; prince giglio; princess; queen; rosalba; royal; said
     • versions: original; plain text
531. thackeray-vanity-1848
     • author: thackeray
     • title: thackeray-vanity-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 309870
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: During the time of these battles and dangers, old Miss Crawley was living at Brighton, very moderately moved by the great events that were going on. What had that little Mrs. Crawley to say to him?
     • keywords: amelia; becky; best; better; black; boy; briggs; brother; bute; captain; carriage; child; colonel; come; course; crawley; daughter; day; days; dear; dear little; dinner; dobbin; door; emmy; eyes; face; fair; family; father; french; friend; gentleman; george; george osborne; girl; good; great; half; hand; happy; having; head; heart; home; house; husband; jane; jos; kind; ladies; lady; lady crawley; left; life; like; little; little amelia; little boy; little george; little rawdon; little woman; long; look; looking; lord; love; major; man; men; miss; miss crawley; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; o'dowd; old; old gentleman; old lady; old man; old mr; old osborne; old sedley; osborne; people; pitt; pitt crawley; place; poor; poor little; pretty; rawdon; rawdon crawley; rebecca; regiment; room; round; said; saw; sedley; sharp; sir; sir pitt; sister; son; steyne; street; sure; table; tell; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; years; young; young lady
     • versions: original; plain text
532. thackeray-virginians-1859
     • author: thackeray
     • title: thackeray-virginians-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 362550
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: The order of their sitting I have not been able exactly to ascertain; but, somehow, Miss Theo had a place next to the chickens and Mr. George Warrington, whilst Miss Hetty and a ham divided the attentions of Mr. Harry. This brief biography the kind reader will please to accept, not in the precise words in which Mr. Harry Warrington delivered it to Madam Bernstein, but in the form in which it has been cast in the Chapters next ensuing.
     • keywords: aunt; baroness; bernstein; best; better; boy; brother; care; castlewood; chaplain; child; children; colonel; come; company; country; course; cousin; cries; day; days; dear; doubt; england; esmond; esmond warrington; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; fine; french; friend; general; gentleman; george; george warrington; going; good; good mr; great; gumbo; hand; harry; harry warrington; head; heart; heaven; help; hetty; home; honour; house; kind; king; ladies; lady; lady maria; ladyship; lambert; leave; left; life; like; little; little mr; london; long; look; lord; love; madam; mamma; man; maria; master; men; miles; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; old lady; papa; people; place; play; poor; poor harry; present; pretty; read; room; round; said; sampson; sir; sir george; sister; sure; table; tell; theo; thought; time; tis; virginia; washington; way; wife; woman; world; years; young; young gentleman; young harry; young lady; young man; young mr
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533. trollope-american-1877
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-american-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 210722
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: How great was the difference between him and that other young man, the smartness of whose apparel was now becoming peculiarly distasteful to her! People still spoke of old Mr. Reginald Morton as though his death had been a sore loss to the neighbourhood.
     • keywords: arabella; augustus; bragton; country; course; day; dillsborough; father; girl; goarly; going; good; great; home; house; lady; lady ushant; larry; letter; like; little; lord rufford; love; man; mary; masters; miss; moment; money; morton; mother; mrs; old; old lady; place; poor; reginald; room; said; senator; thought; time; trefoil; twentyman; ushant; way; woman; word; young; young man
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534. trollope-ayala-1881
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-ayala-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 221141
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: He doubted very much whether Colonel Stubbs could keep a carriage in London for his wife, while it had been already arranged that he was to be allowed to do so should he succeed in marrying Ayala. Upon the whole, I am inclined to pity poor Ayala.
     • keywords: albury; augusta; aunt; away; ayala; captain; colonel; course; day; dear; dosett; father; gertrude; girl; good; great; hamel; house; houston; lady; lady albury; lady tringle; letter; like; little; love; lucy; man; mind; money; mrs; room; sir; sir thomas; stubbs; sure; tell; think; thomas; thought; time; tom; traffick; tringle; uncle; way; wife; word; young
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535. trollope-belton-1866
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-belton-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 156358
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Captain Aylmer had made a positive promise to his aunt on her deathbed that he would ask Clara Amedroz to be his wife, and he had no more idea of breaking his word than he had of resigning the whole property which had been left to him. Captain Aylmer at last expressed his determination to go to Belton unless the invitation were given; and then, should he do that, there might be danger that he would never be again seen at Aylmer Park till he brought Clara Amedroz with him as his wife.
     • keywords: amedroz; askerton; aunt; aylmer; belton; captain aylmer; clara; clara amedroz; course; cousin; day; dear; father; good; house; lady aylmer; letter; life; like; little; love; man; mean; miss; mother; mrs; old; place; room; tell; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word
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536. trollope-bertrams-1859
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-bertrams-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 226800
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: I imagine that he had neither counting-house, shop, nor ware-rooms: but he was not on that account at a loss whither to direct his steps; and those who knew city ways knew very well where to meet Mr. George Bertram senior between the hours of eleven and five. It must be added, however, that she was an orphan; that she lived entirely with her aunt, Miss Baker; that her father had been in early life a sort of partner with Mr. George Bertram; that Mr. George Bertram was her guardian, though he had hitherto taken but little trouble in looking after her, whatever trouble he may have taken in looking after her money; and that she was possessed of a moderate fortune, say about four thousand pounds.
     • keywords: adela; arthur; aunt; bertram; better; caroline; course; day; dear; father; friend; george; george bertram; good; great; hand; harcourt; heart; henry; hope; house; lady; left; let; life; like; little; littlebath; long; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; miss; miss baker; moment; money; mrs; old; rate; room; sir; sir henry; sir lionel; sure; tell; thought; time; todd; uncle; waddington; way; wilkinson; wish; world; years; young
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537. trollope-castle-1860
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-castle-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 207680
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Any commands that way? This is Mr. Fitzgerald--Mr. Herbert Fitzgerald; and I am Mr. Somers, the agent. They were now at the hall-door, and Somers, turning to Mollett, told him that Mr. Herbert Fitzgerald would carry the card to his father.
     • keywords: away; better; castle; clara; clara desmond; come; countess; course; daughter; day; desmond; father; fitzgerald; good; great; hand; heart; herbert; herbert fitzgerald; house; lady; lady clara; lady desmond; lady fitzgerald; left; life; like; little; love; man; matter; men; mind; mollett; moment; mother; mrs; old; owen; owen fitzgerald; poor; prendergast; richmond; room; sir; sir herbert; son; tell; thomas; thought; time; way; woman; word; young
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538. trollope-claverings-1867
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-claverings-1867
     • date: 1867
     • words: 208808
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Yes; happy would be the wife of Sir Harry Clavering. Poor Harry Clavering!
     • keywords: archie; better; brother; burton; count; course; day; fanny; florence; friend; going; good; great; hand; harry clavering; house; hugh; husband; julia; knew; lady; lady ongar; let; like; little; london; lord; love; man; money; mrs; old; poor; room; saul; sir; sister; sophie; things; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word
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539. trollope-cousin-1879
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-cousin-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 71420
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Has Mr Henry Jones expressed an opinion of his own as to what became of the will which the Messrs Cantor witnessed? Has Mr Henry Jones consulted any friend, legal or otherwise, as to his tenure of the Llanfeare estate? Has Mr Henry Jones any friend to whom he can speak in Carmarthenshire? Has Mr Henry Jones inquired into the cause of his own isolation? Has Mr Henry Jones any idea why we persecute him in every fresh issue of our newspaper? Has Mr Henry Jones thought of what may possibly be the end of all this? Has Mr Henry Jones any thought of prosecuting us for libel? Has Mr Henry Jones heard of any other case in which an heir has been made so little welcome to his property? Mr Henry Jones, of Llanfeare, was known to have indicted Mr Gregory Evans, of the Carmarthen Herald, for the publication of various wicked and malicious libels against himself; and it was known also that Mr Apjohn was Mr Jones's attorney in carrying on the prosecution.
     • keywords: book; cousin; cousin henry; henry; house; isabel; jones; llanfeare; man; mind; mr apjohn; old; property; room; squire; tell; thought; uncle
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540. trollope-harry-1874
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-harry-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 41687
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: So Nokes and he vanished, away into the bush together--as such men do vanish--wandering forth to live as the wild beasts live. At an age at which young men at home are still subject to pastors and masters, he had sprung at once into patriarchal power, and, being a man determined to thrive, had become laborious and thoughtful beyond his years.
     • keywords: fire; gangoil; harry; heathcote; jacko; kate; like; man; medlicot; men; mrs; night; nokes; old; word
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541. trollope-he-1869
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-he-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 345436
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Somebody must tell him, said Mrs. Trevelyan, and I don't know who can do so better than so old a friend as Mr. Stanbury. What is the use, Emily, of your repeating that to Mr. Stanbury? Why should I not repeat it?
     • keywords: aunt stanbury; away; bozzle; brooke; burgess; camilla; child; colonel; course; day; dear; dorothy; dorothy stanbury; emily; father; friend; gibson; glascock; going; good; great; hand; home; house; hugh stanbury; husband; lady; lady rowley; left; letter; life; like; little; long; love; mamma; man; marmaduke; matter; mean; mind; miss; miss stanbury; moment; mother; mrs; nora; nuncombe; old; osborne; outhouse; people; poor; priscilla; right; room; rowley; said; sir; sister; speak; stanbury; sure; things; thought; time; trevelyan; truth; way; wife; woman; word; young
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542. trollope-is-1878
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-is-1878
     • date: 1878
     • words: 214065
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Then followed Lady Selina,--and Lady George, the bald-headed gentleman telling her where to place herself. When the unwonted perturbation was over at Manor Cross Lord George was obliged to revert again to the tidings he had received from Mr. Knox.
     • keywords: baron; better; brotherton; come; course; cross; day; dean; dear; family; father; going; good; great; houghton; house; husband; jack; lady george; lady sarah; life; little; london; lord george; love; man; manor; marchioness; marquis; married; mary; mind; moment; mrs; old; popenjoy; room; said; tell; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word; young
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543. trollope-john-1879
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-john-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 210171
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: (These words were underscored doubly by way of showing how very much superior was Mr. Augustus Smirkie to Mr. John Caldigate.) It was shocking to him; and he moved himself in the matter with much more energy than old Mr. Caldigate had expected from him.
     • keywords: bagwax; better; bolton; caldigate; come; course; crinkett; daughter; day; dick; doubt; evidence; father; folking; going; good; great; hester; home; house; husband; john caldigate; judge; law; life; like; little; man; marriage; matter; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; old; old man; poor; robert; shand; sir; son; squire; sure; tell; thought; time; way; wife; woman; word; young
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544. trollope-kellys-1848
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-kellys-1848
     • date: 1848
     • words: 184367
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Done, said Dot, and his little book was output that down, Morris, and I'll initial it: a hundred guineas, even, that O'Connell is not in prison within twelve months of this time. Done, said Mat; and the bet was booked.
     • keywords: abbey; anty; armstrong; barry; better; brother; come; daly; day; dear; fanny; father; frank; going; good; got; great; grey; house; kelly; know; lady; like; little; long; lord; lord ballindine; lord cashel; lord kilcullen; lynch; man; martin; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; old; poor; room; selina; sister; son; sure; tell; thought; time; want; way; widow; word; wyndham; young
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545. trollope-kept-1882
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-kept-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 75596
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Of Mr. Western Sir Francis knew something. Now the subject had been much discussed in Exeter--whether Sir Francis had jilted Miss Holt or Miss Holt Sir Francis.
     • keywords: altifiorla; cecilia; exeter; francis; geraldine; holt; husband; lady; letter; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; sir; sir francis; thought; western; wife; woman
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546. trollope-lady-1874
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-lady-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 139701
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: I don't believe, and I never shall believe, that she is really Lady Anna Lovel. Lady Anna Lovel has been staying with Mrs. Bluestone.
     • keywords: anna lovel; bluestone; countess; countess lovel; course; daniel; daniel thwaite; daughter; earl; earl lovel; flick; girl; good; lady anna; lady lovel; life; lord; lord lovel; lovel; mamma; man; marriage; money; mother; mrs; old; serjeant; sir; tailor; thought; thwaite; wife; william; word; young; young lady
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547. trollope-landleaguers-1883
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-landleaguers-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 152276
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Mr. Jones had expended over 30,000 in purchasing the property, and was congratulated by all men on having done well with his money. At the end of ten years all men who knew Mr. Jones personally, or had seen the increasing comforts of Morony Castle, declared that, as he liked the kind of life, he had done uncommonly well for himself. Nor had he done badly for his three married sisters, each of whom had left 4,000 in his hands.
     • keywords: ada; better; boy; captain; carroll; castlewell; clayton; course; daly; day; edith; father; florian; frank; galway; girl; good; house; jones; know; life; like; little; lord; man; men; money; moss; o'mahony; old; pat; poor; rachel; tell; thought; time; truth; way; word; young
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548. trollope-linda-1868
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-linda-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 71657
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: To Linda Madame Staubach was willing to own that she had been wrong, but she could make no such acknowledgment to the wife of her half-brother,--to a benighted Papist. Tell Linda that we take it amiss that she did not come to our girl's wedding.
     • keywords: aunt; herr; house; linda; linda tressel; little; love; ludovic; madame staubach; man; molk; moment; nuremberg; old; peter; peter steinmarc; tetchen; thought; wife; woman; word; young
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549. trollope-macdermots-1847
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-macdermots-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 174803
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: and Joe Reynolds swallowed a glass of whiskey; and you may tell Mr. Thady, Pat, if he wants the boys to stick to him, let him stick to them, and not be helping a d----d ruffian to be dhriving the lives out of them he should befriend. It's little Mr. Thady loves the Captain, Joe, and it's little he ever will, I think; however, you can come up, you know, on Friday, and say your own say about your brother, and the rint and all.
     • keywords: ballycloran; better; boys; brady; brother; captain; captain ussher; come; course; day; father; father john; feemy; good; house; joe; keegan; know; left; like; little; long; macdermot; man; mary; mckeon; mind; miss; morning; mrs; night; old; pat; place; poor; priest; prisoner; room; said; sister; tell; thady; thought; time; ussher; way; word; yer; young
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550. trollope-marion-1882
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-marion-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 210929
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: There had been Hautboy, and Scatterdash, and Lord Plunge, and the young Earl of Longoolds, all of them elder sons, whom he described as young men without a serious thought in their heads. That horrid young man who came from the Post Office was aware of it.
     • keywords: away; better; clerk; course; crocker; day; doubt; father; fay; frances; friend; george; girl; good; great; greenwood; heart; house; kingsbury; know; lady; life; like; little; lord hampstead; love; man; marion; marquis; matter; moment; mother; mrs; office; old; post; roden; room; sister; tell; think; thought; time; way; wife; word; young; young lord; young man
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551. trollope-miss-1865
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-miss-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 143821
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Upon that he wrote a note to Mrs Mackenzie, setting forth that he had a private communication to make, much to the advantage of her cousin, Miss Margaret Mackenzie. CHAPTER II Miss Mackenzie Goes to Littlebath I fear that Miss Mackenzie, when she betook herself to Littlebath, had before her mind's eye no sufficiently settled plan of life.
     • keywords: aunt; ball; brother; course; day; good; house; john; john ball; lady; lady ball; like; little; littlebath; mackenzie; man; margaret; margaret mackenzie; mind; miss; miss mackenzie; money; mr ball; mr mackenzie; mr maguire; mr rubb; mr slow; mr stumfold; mrs; room; shall; think; thought; time; way
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552. trollope-mr-1883
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-mr-1883
     • date: 1883
     • words: 214381
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: Your nephew will tell you, said Mr. Grey,--or Mr. Merton; or Mr. Greenwood can do so, if he has permission from Mr. Scarborough. Mr. Prosper, Mr. Harry?
     • keywords: annesley; augustus; better; brother; captain; course; day; doubt; father; florence; good; grey; harry; lady; left; life; like; little; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mountjoy; mountjoy scarborough; mrs; old; pounds; property; prosper; room; scarborough; sir; son; squire; tell; thoroughbung; thought; time; tretton; truth; uncle; way; word; young
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553. trollope-nina-1867
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-nina-1867
     • date: 1867
     • words: 73863
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: I wish to marry Nina. Nina Balatka was the daughter of one Josef Balatka, an old merchant of Prague, who was living at the time of this story; but Nina's mother was dead.
     • keywords: anton; aunt; christian; father; girl; house; jew; lotta; love; man; nina; old; prague; rebecca; souchey; thought; trendellsohn; zamenoy; ziska
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554. trollope-old-1884
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-old-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 75197
     • flesch: 90
     • summary: This was said, soon after breakfast, by Mr Whittlestaff to Mary Lawrie, on the day after Mr Gordon's coming. But Mr Gordon knew as well what Mr Whittlestaff had to say as did Mr Whittlestaff himself.
     • keywords: baggett; come; good; gordon; hall; john; john gordon; lawrie; love; man; mary; miss; mr gordon; mr whittlestaff; mrs; old; tell; thought; way; word; young
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555. trollope-orley-1862
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-orley-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 313540
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: But what a very wicked man that other Mr. Mason must be! said Mrs. Furnival. And thus Mr. Mason became an agriculturist with special scientific views as to chemistry, and a philologist with the object of making that pursuit bear upon his studies with reference to the races of man.
     • keywords: better; case; course; day; dear; dockwrath; doubt; eyes; farm; father; felix; friend; furnival; going; good; graham; great; hand; heart; home; house; judge; know; lady mason; lady staveley; left; life; like; little; look; love; lucius; lucius mason; madeline; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; mother; moulder; mrs; old; orme; peregrine; peregrine orme; poor; present; right; room; round; sir; sir peregrine; staveley; sure; thought; time; trial; truth; way; woman; words; world; years; young
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556. trollope-phineas-1867
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-phineas-1867
     • date: 1867
     • words: 264227
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Mr. Finn, said she, smiling as she spoke, I am sure that you did not mean it, but you were uncourteous to my friend Mr. Kennedy. Who? I am quite sure of that, and so, if Mr. Finn can tell me nothing about the iron fleet, I'll go to bed. Mr. Kennedy will tell you everything when he comes home, said Phineas.
     • keywords: believe; better; course; day; dear; doubt; duke; earl; effingham; father; fitzgibbon; friend; goesler; going; good; great; hand; house; husband; kennedy; lady baldock; lady laura; left; life; like; little; london; lord; lord chiltern; love; low; madame; man; mary; mean; men; mildmay; mind; miss; moment; money; monk; mrs; old; parliament; people; phineas; phineas finn; place; question; right; room; tell; thing; thought; time; violet; way; wife; woman; word; work; young
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557. trollope-rachel-1863
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-rachel-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 145950
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: Mrs. Ray hoped that Mrs. Tappitt and the young ladies were quite well, and then there was a short silence, very oppressive to Mrs. Ray, but refreshing rather than otherwise to Mrs. Rowan. Mrs. Rowan perceived at once that Mrs. Tappitt was provincial,--as she told her son, but she was a good motherly woman, and on the whole, Mrs. Rowan condescended to be gracious to her.
     • keywords: baslehurst; brewery; comfort; cornbury; course; dear; going; good; house; like; little; love; luke; luke rowan; mamma; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; old; prime; prong; rachel; rachel ray; ray; rowan; shall; sure; tappitt; things; think; thought; time; way; word; young; young man
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558. trollope-ralph-1871
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-ralph-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 214918
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: What should have induced Mr. Newton to come to him for money he could not guess;--but he did know that, of all the young men who came into his back shop to be measured, there was no one whose looks and manners and cheery voice had created so strong a feeling of pleasantness as had those of Mr. Ralph Newton. Mr. Ralph Newton had long favoured him with his custom; but, we are sorry to say, Mr. Ralph Newton had become a thorn in the flesh to many a tradesman in these days.
     • keywords: better; bonner; clarissa; clary; course; day; dear; doubt; father; girl; going; good; great; gregory; griffenbottom; half; heart; heir; home; house; life; like; little; love; man; mary; matter; men; mind; moggs; moment; money; neefit; old; ontario; patience; percycross; place; polly; property; ralph; ralph newton; room; sir thomas; son; squire; tell; things; thought; time; trigger; way; word; young; young man
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559. trollope-sir-1871
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-sir-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 71371
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of what sort the magnificence, which his position as a great English commoner required of him. Such was Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite.
     • keywords: boltby; captain; course; cousin george; daughter; elizabeth; emily; father; george; george hotspur; good; hotspur; house; humblethwaite; lady; letter; lord; love; man; sir harry; thought; young
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560. trollope-three-1858
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-three-1858
     • date: 1858
     • words: 215135
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: 'You borrowed it from Mr. Alaric Tudor--that is, from the gentleman now upon his trial. The proposition was this: that as he had unfortunately been the means of introducing Mr. Alaric Tudor to the club, he considered it to be his duty to suggest that the name of that gentleman should be struck off the books.
     • keywords: alaric; alaric tudor; best; better; captain; charley; course; day; dear; eyes; friend; gertrude; going; good; got; great; gregory; hand; harry; heart; house; katie; know; left; life; like; linda; little; long; look; love; macassar; mamma; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; neverbend; norman; office; old; place; poor; present; room; said; scott; sir; sure; tell; thought; till; time; tudor; uncle; undy; val; way; woodward; work; world; young
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561. trollope-vicar-1870
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-vicar-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 210739
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: What will Mr. Fenwick say? What will Mr. Gilmore say? When she compared Mr. Fenwick and Mr. Gilmore together, she found that she liked Mr. Fenwick the best.
     • keywords: brattle; bullhampton; carry; come; course; day; doubt; father; fenwick; friend; gilmore; good; great; home; house; letter; life; little; lord; love; lowther; man; marquis; marrable; mary; matter; men; mill; mind; moment; mrs; old; parson; place; right; sam; sir; sure; tell; thought; time; vicar; walter; way; wife; woman; word; young
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562. trollope-way-1875
     • author: trollope
     • title: trollope-way-1875
     • date: 1875
     • words: 356628
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: It was at any rate an established fact that Mr. Melmotte had made his wealth in France. There were three or four card-tables in one of the lower rooms, and at one of them sat Lord Alfred Grendall and Mr. Melmotte, with two or three other players, cutting in and out at the end of each rubber.
     • keywords: better; carbury; come; course; crumb; daughter; day; dolly; doubt; father; felix; felix carbury; friend; girl; going; good; great; great man; hand; having; hetta; house; hurtle; john; known; lady carbury; left; life; like; little; london; longestaffe; lord; love; man; marie; marie melmotte; matter; mean; melmotte; miles; mind; miss; moment; money; montague; morning; mother; mrs; nidderdale; old; old man; paul; people; pipkin; poor; present; rate; right; roger; roger carbury; room; ruby; sir; sir felix; son; sure; tell; things; thought; till; time; want; way; woman; world; young; young man
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563. walton-peep-1877
     • author: walton
     • title: walton-peep-1877
     • date: 1877
     • words: 67963
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: 'Thank you, ma'am,' said little Rosalie; 'but please may mammie have it? 'No, never, mammie dear,' said little Rosalie.
     • keywords: caravan; child; day; dear; door; father; girl; good; like; little rosalie; long; mammie; mother; mother manikin; night; old; poor; rosalie; shepherd; time; woman
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564. ward-jasper-1851
     • author: ward
     • title: ward-jasper-1851
     • date: 1851
     • words: 138598
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: In rear of the house, within the trellised passage, was a little corps de reserve of young men and matrons, the latter being in charge of spare ammunition, and provided each with a brace of pistols, which they had earned the use of by experience. The women, children, and old men, occupying the wagon bivouac, were fain to be content with the news they received occasionally from their friends at their homesteads; the Trails kept the even tenor of their way in the school, and among the humble people of the settlement; and Ormsby, unable to restrain his passion for Marion, was in a serious dilemma between his wish to remain and Frankfort's advice to him to rejoin his regiment at once, if he was not in earnest.
     • keywords: adrian; amabel; amayeka; arms; cattle; clarence; daveney; day; eleanor; english; eyes; face; fairfax; far; father; frankfort; good; gray; great; hand; head; heart; house; husband; john; kafir; lady; lee; left; life; like; little; long; lyle; man; manvers; marion; men; mother; mrs; night; old; open; ormsby; party; people; poor; river; roey; room; round; said; sir; thought; time; trail; vander; voice; war; way; white; wife; women; young
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565. ward-robert-1888
     • author: ward
     • title: ward-robert-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 292280
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: According to old Meyrick, he buried his last chance of living like other men at Berlin. From the general narrative there stood out little pictures of individual persons or scenes, clear cut and masterly--of his father, the Gainsborough churchwarden; of his Methodistical mother, who had all her life lamented her own beauty as a special snare of Satan, and who since her husband's death had refused to see her son on the ground that his opinions 'had vexed his father'; of his first ardent worship of knowledge, and passion to communicate it; and of the first intuitions in lecture, face to face with an undergraduate, alone in college rooms, sometimes alone on Alpine heights, of something cold, impotent and baffling in himself, which was to stand for ever between him and action, between him and human affection; the growth of the critical pessimist sense which laid the axe to the root of enthusiasm after enthusiasm, friendship after friendship--which made other men feel him inhuman, intangible, a skeleton at the feast: and the persistence through it all of a kind of hunger for life and its satisfactions, which the will was more and more powerless to satisfy: all these Langham put into words with an extraordinary magic and delicacy of phrase.
     • keywords: afternoon; agnes; air; arm; beauty; best; book; catherine; catherine elsmere; certain; charlotte; child; church; come; common; course; cried; day; days; dear; door; elsmere; end; evening; eyes; face; far; father; feeling; fell; figure; flaxman; friends; girl; god; going; good; gray; great; grey; half; hand; head; heart; help; high; home; hour; house; human; husband; kind; lady; langham; lay; left; leyburn; life; like; little; london; long; look; looking; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; murewell; nature; new; night; old; open; oxford; passion; past; people; place; poor; quick; rector; robert; robert elsmere; room; rose; round; saw; self; sense; silence; sister; sort; soul; squire; story; strange; strong; talk; things; thornburgh; thought; time; tone; vicar; voice; want; way; wendover; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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566. weatherly-oxford-1879
     • author: weatherly
     • title: weatherly-oxford-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 31823
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: Out at four o'clock, they strolled down Oriel Street, past Corpus, by Merton Church, and into Christ-Church Broad Walk; and meeting three friends, also up for matriculation at some other college, took a boat from Salter's and rowed to Iffley, Frank steering. Frank Ross was just eighteen, the eldest of six brothers.
     • keywords: books; college; crawford; edwards; evening; examination; frank; law; little; long; man; men; morning; old; oxford; rooms; rose; ross; term; time; university; work
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567. webb-mummy-1827
     • author: webb
     • title: webb-mummy-1827
     • date: 1827
     • words: 167431
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: My nephew, Lord Edmund Montagu. My brother-in-law, Sir Ambrose Montagu, and my nephew, Lord Edmund Montagu, are coming to stay with us during a triumph, with which her most gracious Majesty the Queen intends to honour Lord Edmund, my nephew.
     • keywords: alas; ambrose; cheops; clara; continued; cried; day; dear; deep; doctor; duke; edmund; edric; elvira; eyes; father; father morris; feelings; friend; god; good; gustavus; hand; having; head; heart; know; life; like; little; long; look; lord; lord edmund; love; man; mean; mind; moment; montagu; morris; mummy; nature; old; pauline; people; place; poor; power; prince; queen; returned; roderick; rosabella; said; sir; sir ambrose; state; thing; thought; time; voice; wish
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568. wells-invisible-1897
     • author: wells
     • title: wells-invisible-1897
     • date: 1897
     • words: 49397
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic. There's a story, said the mariner, fixing Mr. Marvel with an eye that was firm and deliberate; there's a story about an Invisible Man, for instance.
     • keywords: adye; door; face; feet; glass; hall; hand; house; invisible; invisible man; kemp; like; little; man; marvel; moment; mrs; open; room; round; stranger; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; window
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569. wells-love-1899
     • author: wells
     • title: wells-love-1899
     • date: 1899
     • words: 66669
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love--indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness.
     • keywords: book; chaffery; day; dear; end; ethel; eyes; face; good; hand; heydinger; home; lagune; lewisham; life; like; little; long; love; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; people; right; room; sat; smithers; sort; table; things; thought; time; way; white; work; world; young
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570. wells-sleeper-1899
     • author: wells
     • title: wells-sleeper-1899
     • date: 1899
     • words: 76387
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: White men must be mastered by white men. And now Graham beheld men running down among the wind-wheels, pointing weapons from which jetted out little smoky flashes.
     • keywords: air; black; blue; city; council; day; days; eyes; face; graham; great; hall; hand; howard; life; light; like; lincoln; little; long; man; master; men; mind; moment; old; old man; ostrog; people; place; red; room; shouting; sleeper; space; strange; things; time; vast; voice; way; ways; white; wind; world; years
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571. wells-wheels-1896
     • author: wells
     • title: wells-wheels-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 56845
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: That'll do me very well, said Mr. Hoopdriver, terminating the pause. Mr. Hoopdriver in alternating spasms anon straightens his gingham and anon becomes meditative, with his tongue in the hollow of his decaying wisdom tooth.
     • keywords: brown; course; dangle; day; eyes; face; felt; good; grey; hand; head; hill; hoopdriver; jessie; lady; left; like; little; machine; man; milton; mind; mrs; phipps; right; road; round; saw; things; thought; time; want; way; widgery; young
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572. wells-wonderful-1895
     • author: wells
     • title: wells-wonderful-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 39056
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Don't you find it inconvenient, Mr Angel? He suddenly walked round so as to look in the Angel's face. Can you do Imitations, Mr Angel? said Lady Hammergallow.
     • keywords: angel; chapter; crump; curate; dear; eyes; face; jehoram; lady; life; like; little; man; mendham; mrs; music; people; saw; sir; strange; things; thought; vicar; way; wings; world
     • versions: original; plain text
573. west-loyalists-1812
     • author: west
     • title: west-loyalists-1812
     • date: 1812
     • words: 150106
     • flesch: 56
     • summary: And nothing cuts a man up like sorrow, as I have heard good Dr. Beaumont say. I marvel not that Evellin interests my sister; he engages most of my thoughts, and I have employed myself in collecting instances of good men suffering wrongfully, and of the piety, humility, and patience with which they endured chastening.
     • keywords: army; barton; beaumont; bellingham; brother; care; cause; church; constantia; cromwell; dear; death; doctor; duty; england; eustace; evellin; family; father; friend; general; god; good; great; hand; heart; honour; hope; house; isabel; jobson; king; lady; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; mellicent; men; mind; monthault; morgan; mrs; neville; noble; old; parliament; party; people; person; power; present; public; returned; right; royal; safety; said; sedley; self; sir; spirit; state; thought; thy; till; time; true; vallance; williams; world; young
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574. west-refusal-1810
     • author: west
     • title: west-refusal-1810
     • date: 1810
     • words: 152267
     • flesch: 64
     • summary: After a pause long enough to give vent to those signs of contrition which she thought must move his flinty heart, and which indeed would have induced him to pity any offender but the slanderer of Selina, she exclaimed, Is it thus we meet : 'Tis weil,'^ returned Lord Avondel, that we meet in circumstan- ces vi^hich allow us to retrieVe our errors. Have you then, said she, indignant at his cold- ness, utterly renounced the woman whose confidence you so earnestly solicited, and cruelly betrayed r No, madam, returned the earl, with a look of ineffable disdain ; Lady Avondel shall find me faith- ful to m) vows, and you may depend upon m v invio- lable secrecy. It so happened that Sir Walter Mandeville, in one of his .warm eulogiums on Lord Avondel, used the same exclamation of admiration that had burst Irom Lady Selina on Emily's discovering the mysterious picture, and with all that warmth of imagination which teaches young people to believe that to be true which ## p. 55 (#59) ############################################## THE REFUSAL jj is only possible, and also, that the object which occu- pies their own thoughts is the only one in the world worth contemplating, the amiable girl persuaded her- self, that this most distinguished of human beings, the celebrated Lord Avondel, was equally esteemed and loved by her two nearest relations, and was some- how connected with the melancholy of her dearest aunt.
     • keywords: affection; attachment; aunt; beauty; best; caddy; character; child; con; conduct; confidence; convinced; countess; country; day; dear; death; delicacy; dis; duty; earl; emily; england; eyes; fair; fear; feel; form; fortune; friend; friendship; future; general; girl; glenvorne; good; great; hand; happiness; happy; heart; high; honour; hope; husband; ing; know; lady; lady avondel; lady paulina; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lord avondel; love; mackintosh; man; mandeville; mean; mind; miss; monthermer; mother; nature; noble; norbury; old; paulina; people; person; present; public; real; refusal; saw; self; selina; sir; society; soul; state; think; thought; thy; time; tion; tis; true; virtue; walter; wife; wish; wished; woman; world; young
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575. wiseman-fabiola-1854
     • author: wiseman
     • title: wiseman-fabiola-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 133627
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: At last the dusty roads become encumbered with every species of vehicle, from the huge wain carrying furniture, and slowly drawn by oxen, to the light chariot or gig, dashing on behind spirited barbs; and as the best roads were narrow, and the drivers of other days were not more smooth-tongued than those of ours, we may imagine what confusion and noise and squabbling filled the public ways. Have you heard of such men here? The fame of holy Paul and Anthony is as great in the West as in the East, replied the lady.
     • keywords: agnes; better; blood; body; catacombs; cemetery; child; christian; church; corvinus; day; dear; death; early; emperor; eyes; fabiola; father; felt; fulvius; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; holy; house; illustration; lady; left; life; light; like; little; long; look; love; man; mind; moment; morning; mother; noble; old; pancratius; place; poor; replied; rome; round; sebastian; slave; syra; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; torquatus; way; words; young; youth
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576. wood-arkell-1865
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-arkell-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 218875
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: It could not be but that such a man should be beloved in private life, respected in public; and some of those grand old cathedral clergy, who, with their antiquated and obsolete notions, were fast dropping off to a place not altogether swayed by exclusiveness, might have made an exception in favour of Mr. Arkell, and condescended to admit their knowledge, if questioned, that a man of that name did live in Westerbury. Mr. Arkell--perhaps a little in advance of his contemporaries--believed that such acquirements might be useful to his son, and a private tutor had been provided for him.
     • keywords: arkell; betsey; boys; came; carr; charlotte; day; dean; dundyke; eyes; face; father; fauntleroy; george; going; good; great; hand; head; henry arkell; home; house; john; lady; lewis; life; like; little; lucy; man; mildred; mildred arkell; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; old; peter; peter arkell; place; prattleton; robert; room; said; sir; squire; tell; thought; time; travice; travice arkell; way; westerbury; william; william arkell; young
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577. wood-bessy-1870
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-bessy-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 178647
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Don't come to me again, Smith, to beg grace for you of Mr. Richard North. Little did she suspect that Mr. Richard North, leaning against the door-post of the half-open drawing-room door, whilst he watched the movements of the men, had heard every syllable of the colloquy.
     • keywords: adair; arthur; arthur bohun; bessy; bohun; captain; cumberland; dallory; day; death; doctor; door; ellen; face; father; gass; good; hall; hand; home; house; jelly; know; letter; like; little; madam; man; men; miss; morning; mrs; night; north; old; oliver; rane; richard; richard north; room; said; saw; sir; tell; thought; time; way; wife; work
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578. wood-channings-1862
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-channings-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 204387
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: No, sir, I don't think Mr. Arthur Channing is likely to become a paid clerk, said Jenkins. Mr. Arthur Channing found him there when he came with your kind message, sir.
     • keywords: arthur; arthur channing; augusta; boys; bywater; channing; charley; college; come; constance; day; door; face; galloway; going; good; hamish; hamish channing; hand; head; home; huntley; jenkins; ketch; know; lady; left; letter; like; little; look; master; money; morning; mrs; night; note; office; old; roland; roland yorke; room; school; sir; sure; tell; thought; time; tom; work; yorke
     • versions: original; plain text
579. wood-east-1861
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-east-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 211114
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: It is Mr. Carlyle, of West Lynne. The servant did as he was bid, and introduced Mr. Carlyle.
     • keywords: afy; archibald; barbara; captain; carlyle; child; come; day; earl; east; eyes; face; francis; going; good; hand; hare; head; heart; home; house; isabel; isabel carlyle; joyce; justice; lady; lady isabel; levison; like; little; lord; lynne; madame; mamma; man; miss carlyle; mount; mrs; night; old; returned; richard; room; severn; sir; tell; thorn; thought; time; vine; way; went; west; wife
     • versions: original; plain text
580. wood-edina-1876
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-edina-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 164419
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Mrs. Frank Raynor had been taken seriously and unexpectedly ill. In the small back sitting-room, underneath its two lighted gas-burners, stood Mrs. Frank Raynor, her heart beating faster than usual, her breath laboured.
     • keywords: alice; atkinson; bell; better; blase; charles; clare; come; cried; daisy; day; eagles; edina; eyes; face; frank; frank raynor; good; home; house; left; like; little; major; major raynor; man; money; morning; mother; mrs; nest; night; old; pellet; place; room; rosaline; said; saw; sir; street; tell; thought; time; uncle; way; young
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581. wood-eve-1866
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-eve-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 187241
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: This did not tell Mr. St. John much: and the involuntary thought crossed him that had Benja been her own child Mrs. St. John might herself have helped him with the answers. I suppose you do not mean to say that Mrs. St. John is unkind to him? returned Mr. St. John, rather at a loss how to frame his words with a due regard to what was due to the dignity of that lady, when speaking of her to her servant.
     • keywords: adeline; alnwick; benja; carleton st; carr; castella; castle; charlotte; child; darling; day; door; eyes; face; frederick st; george st; georgina; going; good; great; hand; heart; honour; isaac; isaac st; john; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; love; madame; mamma; man; mary; miss; mother; mrs; night; old; prance; pym; room; rose; sir; thought; time; wafer; way; wife; words; young
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582. wood-farm-1868
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-farm-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 167197
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: She, Mrs. Isaac Thornycroft, a schoolteacher again! Isaac, who had seen her once or twice before introduced Mrs. Copp, and whispered the fact that Anna was no longer Miss Chester, but Mrs. Isaac Thornycroft.
     • keywords: anna; anne; captain; chester; clara; come; copp; court; cyril; day; ellis; eyes; face; going; good; half; home; house; hunter; isaac; isaac thornycroft; jupp; justice; know; lady; lady ellis; lake; life; like; little; look; man; mary; miss; mrs; night; plateau; red; richard; robert; room; saw; tell; thornycroft; thought; time; way; went; wife; young
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583. wood-folly-1866
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-folly-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 153386
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Tell Lord Hartledon we are waiting tea for him. How far he might have accomplished this but for being backed by the urgent influence of old Lord Hartledon, was a question.
     • keywords: anne; ashton; brother; carr; clerk; countess; day; dowager; elster; eyes; face; good; gum; hand; heart; home; house; kirton; know; lady hartledon; lady maude; like; little; look; lord hartledon; man; maude; morning; mrs; night; old; pike; room; saw; sir; thought; time; val; way; went; wife; young
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584. wood-greylands-1872
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-greylands-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 193818
     • flesch: 85
     • summary: I mean Mr. Anthony Castlemaine. According to what you say, John Bent, it would appear that Mr. Anthony Castlemaine must have locked it; since you maintain that no one went in or came out subsequently to himself.
     • keywords: anthony castlemaine; bent; castlemaine; day; door; ethel; eyes; face; father; friar; george; good; greylands; guise; hallet; hand; harry castlemaine; home; house; james; jane; john; lady; left; like; little; long; look; madame; man; mary; master; miss; miss castlemaine; mrs; night; north; nunnery; old; place; poor; rest; room; sea; sir; sister; tell; thought; time; uncle; ursula; way; young
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585. wood-halliburton-1862
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-halliburton-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 225828
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Mr. Dare told me he was expressly acting for Mr. Ashley. Can't you speak to Mr. Ashley, sir? Where would be the use? asked Mr. Dare.
     • keywords: anna; anthony; ashley; better; charlotte; children; cried; cyril; dare; day; dobbs; door; evening; eyes; face; frank; going; good; great; half; halliburton; hand; head; helstonleigh; henry; herbert; herbert dare; home; house; jane; life; like; little; long; look; lynn; man; mary; mind; money; mother; mrs; night; old; patience; returned; room; saw; sir; tell; thee; things; thought; time; way; william; william halliburton; work; young
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586. wood-maze-1872
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-maze-1872
     • date: 1872
     • words: 183913
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: It was Sir Karl Andinnian. Putting aside his lack of family and the other disrepute, we could not wish a better son-in-law than Sir Karl Andinnian.
     • keywords: ann; answer; blake; brother; cleeve; come; day; eyes; face; foxwood; gentleman; good; grey; hand; heart; home; hopley; house; karl andinnian; lady; let; life; like; little; look; lucy; man; maze; miss; miss blake; mother; mrs; night; old; place; room; rose; said; salter; saw; sir adam; sir karl; smith; strange; sure; tell; think; thought; time; way; wife; young
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587. wood-netherleigh-1881
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-netherleigh-1881
     • date: 1881
     • words: 169042
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: It is Adela Mr. Grubb proposed for--not you. Lady Adela Grubb for one.
     • keywords: acorn; adela; alice; charles; cleveland; colonel; cried; dalrymple; day; face; francis; gerard; good; grace; grubb; home; hope; house; husband; lady; lady adela; left; life; like; little; look; lord; man; mary; miss; morning; mother; mrs; netherleigh; night; old; oscar; robert; room; said; sarah; selina; sir; thought; time; way; wife; world; young
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588. wood-orville-1867
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-orville-1867
     • date: 1867
     • words: 98298
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: The new German master it was, Mr. Henry. Mr. Henry, of English birth, had been chiefly educated in Germany.
     • keywords: bertie; boys; brabazon; brown; college; day; dick; eyes; face; gall; george; good; great; hand; head; henry; like; little; loftus; man; master; miss; mrs; orville; paradyne; school; simon; sir; sir simon; talbot; thought; time; trace; way; young
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589. wood-oswald-1864
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-oswald-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 231148
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: That baby was named Oswald Oswald, and was the Mr. Oswald Cray whom you have seen: but the stare from the baronet's carriage was not less stony than before. What will Mr. Oswald Cray say to your marking his book? Mr. Oswald Cray asked me to mark anything that struck me.
     • keywords: answer; aunt; barker; better; bettina; captain davenal; caroline; davenal; day; dick; doctor; door; eyes; face; going; good; great; hallingham; hand; heart; home; house; knew; know; lady oswald; left; let; life; like; little; long; look; man; mark cray; mind; miss; miss davenal; moment; money; morning; mrs; neal; night; oswald cray; oswald oswald; place; richard; room; sara; sara davenal; sir; sure; things; thought; time; way; wife; words; world; young
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590. wood-pride-1863
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-pride-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 265526
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: Mr. Lionel Verner is. If anything came up to the house, leases, deeds, other papers, she would say: Tynn, see to it, or Tynn, take it over to Mr. Lionel Verner, and ask what's to be done.
     • keywords: answer; better; brother; cheese; come; day; decima; deerham; door; duff; eyes; face; frederick; going; good; hand; head; home; house; jan; jan verner; john; know; lady verner; left; life; like; lionel verner; little; long; look; lucy; man; massingbird; master; mind; miss; mother; mrs; night; old; peckaby; place; pride; rachel; returned; room; roy; said; sibylla; sir; sir lionel; tell; things; thought; time; tone; tynn; way; west; white; wife
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591. wood-roland-1869
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-roland-1869
     • date: 1869
     • words: 196096
     • flesch: 84
     • summary: First the swing-door gave a bang, then the clerks' door opened and banged; now this one was sent back with a breeze; and a tall fine-looking young man came bustling in, head foremost--Mr. Roland Yorke. Mr. Hurst, Mr. Roland Yorke.
     • keywords: annabel; answer; arthur; bede greatorex; book; brown; butterby; channing; come; day; door; evening; eyes; face; gerald; going; good; got; hamish; hand; helstonleigh; home; house; jones; know; left; life; like; little; long; look; man; mind; miss; money; mrs; night; old; ollivera; place; roland; roland yorke; room; rye; sir; sir roland; sure; tell; things; think; thought; time; vincent; way; wife; work; world; young
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592. wood-secret-1862
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-secret-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 100855
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Who is this person, may I ask?' 'This lady is Mrs. Hunter,' haughtily replied Austin, after a pause, surprised that Mr. Hunter did not take up the words--the offensive manner in which they were spoken--the insulting look that accompanied them. 'I have wished to do it before we finally part.' 'Say what you will.' 'Should time and perseverance on my part be crowned with success, so that the prejudices of Mr. Hunter become subdued, and I succeed in winning Florence, will you not say that you bless our union?' Mrs. Hunter paused.
     • keywords: austin; austin clay; baxendale; better; bevary; clay; darby; day; face; florence; good; gwinn; henry; henry hunter; home; house; hunter; like; man; mary; masters; men; miss; mrs; quale; room; sam; shuck; sir; time; way; wife; work
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593. wood-shadow-1863
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-shadow-1863
     • date: 1863
     • words: 257825
     • flesch: 89
     • summary: It is edifying to hear these filial sentiments expressed by Mr. George Godolphin! Or of mine? I did not run after it from my own curiosity; I went because the rest went, answered poor Maria in her confusion, all too conscious that the stolen moonlight walk with Mr. George Godolphin had been a far more powerful motive to the expedition than the Shadow.
     • keywords: answer; ashlydyat; averil; bank; better; cecil; charlotte; charlotte pain; child; day; ethel; eyes; face; george godolphin; going; good; grace; great; hand; hastings; head; heart; home; house; isaac; janet; lady godolphin; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; man; margery; maria; maria godolphin; meta; miss; money; morning; mrs; night; old; pain; place; prior; returned; room; sarah; sir george; things; thomas godolphin; thought; time; tone; verrall; way; wife; wish; words
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594. wood-trevlyn-1864
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-trevlyn-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 181404
     • flesch: 87
     • summary: Mr. Chattaway, suspicious Mr. Chattaway, pressed one more question. I don't think much of that kind of thing will do for Mr. Rupert Trevlyn.
     • keywords: ann; answer; better; canham; chattaway; come; cris; day; diana; diana trevlyn; door; eyes; face; farm; father; george; george ryle; good; hand; head; hold; home; horse; jim; life; like; little; long; man; master; maude; mind; miss; mrs; night; nora; octave; room; rupert; rupert trevlyn; ryle; sanders; sir; squire; thought; time; trevlyn hold
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595. wood-true-1865
     • author: wood
     • title: wood-true-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 159429
     • flesch: 86
     • summary: The rail was open all the way to quiet Ashleigh now, and although the place did not boast of a railway van or even porter, still the station master always found some willing lad ready to take the basket to the cottage, and great was the excitement it caused to Sarah and even quiet old Hannah, but then the latter always knew her darling Miss Amy would marry an Earl at the very least. We are to lose Miss Amy to-morrow, Hannah, said Mrs. Neville, in a sad tone of voice.
     • keywords: amy; anne; better; charles; come; day; eyes; face; frances; going; good; half; hall; hand; heart; home; hope; husband; know; life; like; linchmore; little; long; look; love; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; neville; old; robert; room; tell; thought; time; vavasour; way; wife; woman; words
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596. yonge-abbeychurch-1844
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-abbeychurch-1844
     • date: 1844
     • words: 73775
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: Elizabeth Woodbourne and Anne Merton were first cousins, and nearly of the same age. Perhaps we cannot take leave of Elizabeth Woodbourne at a better moment, therefore we will say no more of her, or of the other inhabitants of the Vicarage, but make a sudden transition to the conversation, which Anne had hoped to enjoy on the journey back to Merton Hall.
     • keywords: anne; church; day; dear; dora; edward; elizabeth; good; great; harriet; hazleby; helen; katherine; lady; like; little; lizzie; lucy; mamma; merton; mrs; old; papa; people; room; rupert; sure; think; thought; time; woodbourne
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597. yonge-beechcroft-1847
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-beechcroft-1847
     • date: 1847
     • words: 86057
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: On coming home Lily found Emily and Jane in her room, eagerly discussing the circumstances which, to their prejudiced eyes, seemed strong confirmation. Papa, let me help you to take off your greatcoatyou are coldwill you have a fire?' Never had Lily heard Eleanor say so much in a breath, or seen her eye so bright, or her smile so ready, yet, when she entered the drawing-room, she saw that Mrs. Hawkesworth was still the Eleanor of old.
     • keywords: ada; alethea; claude; day; devereux; eleanor; emily; good; great; home; jane; like; lilias; lily; little; lord; marianne; maurice; miss; mohun; mrs; old; papa; phyllis; poor; reginald; room; rotherwood; thought; time; way; weston; william
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598. yonge-brides-1876
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-brides-1876
     • date: 1876
     • words: 164543
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Duncombe, you don't know Mrs. Raymond Poynsett--one must not say senior bride, but the senior's bride. Mrs. Raymond had left her in ignorance!
     • keywords: anne; better; bowater; boy; brother; cecil; charnock; come; day; dear; duncombe; eleonora; eyes; face; father; frank; going; good; great; hand; head; heart; herbert; home; hope; house; jenny; julius; lady; lady rosamond; like; little; long; look; man; miles; miss; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; poynsett; raymond; right; room; rosamond; said; sir; sister; tell; think; thought; till; time; tyrrell; vivian; way; wife; woman; work; young
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599. yonge-broods-1900
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-broods-1900
     • date: 1900
     • words: 77889
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Bernard had been obliged to go to London, to report himself to Sir Ferdinand Travis Underwood, but his wife and little girl were the reigning joy at Clipstone. There will be pain, especially over little Thekla and Polly.
     • keywords: agatha; angela; bernard; best; better; child; church; dear; delrio; dolores; father; girl; good; great; home; hubert; know; lady; life; like; little; magdalen; man; merrifield; miss; mother; mrs; mysie; old; paula; phyllis; poor; prescott; sister; thekla; thought; time; vera; way; white; wilfred; young
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600. yonge-carbonels-1896
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-carbonels-1896
     • date: 1896
     • words: 57584
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: It was a painful performance to reverent ears, and as soon as practicable Mrs Carbonel stopped it with Good child! and a penny, and asked what the others read. But Sophy was not there, and had not been heard of, and Mrs Carbonel, in her anxiety, could not rest on the sofa in the parlour, after she had persuaded little Mary into eating her long-delayed dinner of some mutton hastily minced for her, and had seen her safely asleep and cuddling a kitten.
     • keywords: better; captain; captain carbonel; carbonel; children; dan; dora; father; good; great; hewlett; home; john; judith; ladies; like; little; man; mary; mrs; old; people; poor; pucklechurch; said; sir; sophy; time; way; work
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601. yonge-changeling-1889
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-changeling-1889
     • date: 1889
     • words: 133962
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: For the rest, Mistress Anne Woodford was my sister's friend and playfellow from early childhood. Have with you then! shouted Sedley, ready for a fray on whatever pretext, and off they rushed, as nurse led little Anne up the broad shallow steps of the dark oak staircase, but Lucy stood laughing with exultation in the intended vengeance, as her brother took down her father's hunting-whip.
     • keywords: anne; anne woodford; archfield; better; boy; brother; charles; child; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lucy; madam; man; master; miss; mistress; moment; mother; mrs; night; oakshott; old; peregrine; philip; poor; prince; queen; said; sedley; sir; son; strange; tell; thought; time; uncle; way; woodford; young
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602. yonge-chaplet-1868
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-chaplet-1868
     • date: 1868
     • words: 182568
     • flesch: 73
     • summary: Tennyson, A VISION OF SIN It was in the month of June that Berenger de Ribaumont first came in sight of Paris. This was all their relief, while for days, for weeks, Berenger de Ribaumont lay in a trance or torpor between life and death.
     • keywords: added; baron; berenger; better; black; boy; brother; chevalier; child; court; cousin; cried; daughter; day; de ribaumont; diane; door; england; english; eustacie; eyes; face; family; far; father; french; gardon; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; king; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; lucy; madame; madame de; man; moment; monsieur; mother; night; old; paris; philip; place; poor; queen; ribaumont; round; save; sidney; sir; son; thought; time; true; voice; walwyn; way; white; wife; words; young
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603. yonge-clever-1865
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-clever-1865
     • date: 1865
     • words: 184956
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: The whole picture, with its clear, soft sky, was retraced on the waters of the little lake set in emerald meadows, which lay before the eyes of Rachel Keith, as she reclined in a garden chair before the windows of a pretty rustic-looking hotel, but there was no admiration, no peaceful contemplation on her countenance, only the same weary air of depression, too wistful and startled even to be melancholy repose, and the same bewildered distressed look that had been as it were stamped on her by the gaze of the many unfriendly eyes at the Quarter Sessions, and by her two unfortunate dinner parties. They say the grace and simplicity of her manner of giving her evidence were the greatest contrast to poor Rachel's.
     • keywords: alick; alison; aunt; bessie; better; boys; brother; care; child; children; colin; colonel; colonel keith; coming; conrade; curtis; day; dear; dear rachel; ermine; eyes; face; fanny; going; good; grace; great; hand; help; home; hope; house; keith; lady; let; life; like; little; long; look; man; mauleverer; mind; miss; mother; mrs; old; people; poor; rachel; right; room; rose; said; sister; sure; tell; temple; thing; thought; till; time; uncle; way; williams; wish; woman; young
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604. yonge-daisy-1856
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-daisy-1856
     • date: 1856
     • words: 303083
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Ethel May's last of all. Tell Ethel she will be the best mother to her.
     • keywords: best; better; blanche; boy; brother; came; care; children; cocksmoor; come; coming; cried; day; dear; dear ethel; doctor; ernescliffe; ethel; eyes; face; far; father; flora; george; glad; going; good; great; half; hand; harry; having; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; kind; life; like; little; long; look; looking; margaret; mary; meta; mind; miss; mrs; norman; old; papa; people; place; poor; poor ethel; rest; richard; right; rivers; room; said; school; set; sister; spencer; sure; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; tom; voice; want; way; wilmot; wish; words; work; young
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605. yonge-dove-1866
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-dove-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 108146
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: But the slight form is active and brisk, and there are ready smiles and looks of interest for the pretty fair-haired maidens, three in number, who run in and out from their household avocations to appeal to the dear grandmother, mischievously to tell of the direful yawns proceeding from brothers Ebbo and Gottfried over their studies with their tutor, or to gaze from the window and wonder if the father, with the two brothers, Friedel Max and Kasimir, will return from Ulm in time for the mid-day eating. Said I well, Herr Freiherr?
     • keywords: adlerstein; baron; better; brother; castle; child; christina; day; ebbo; eberhard; ermentrude; eyes; face; far; father; freiherr; friedel; good; gottfried; great; hand; head; heart; home; kasimir; knight; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mother; mountain; nay; old; poor; said; schlangenwald; sir; son; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; true; ulm; uncle; way; wildschloss; young
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606. yonge-duke-1854
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-duke-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 40495
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: CHAPTER VI Away from the tall narrow gateway of Rollo's Tower, with the cluster of friendly, sorrowful faces looking forth from it, away from the booth-like shops of Rouen, and the stout burghers shouting with all the power of their lungs, Long live Duke Richard! He renewed his friendship with Osmond, no longer started at the entrance of Sir Eric, laughed at Alberic's merry ways, and liked to sit on Fru Astrida's lap, and hear her sing, though he understood not one word; but his especial love was still for his first friend, Duke Richard.
     • keywords: alberic; astrida; bernard; carloman; count; duke; eric; father; hand; king; little; long; lord; lothaire; normandy; old; osmond; richard; sir; young
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607. yonge-dynevor-1857
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-dynevor-1857
     • date: 1857
     • words: 241263
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: 'There,' was his aside, as he sat down, 'I only hope I have not made him surly; poor fellow, I have put him in a predicament, but it could not be otherwise!' Clara had tears in her eyes, but not like those she had shed at Cheveleigh; James gave Louis a look of heartfelt gratitude, bowed the lowest to the happy pair, and held up little Kitty that her imitative nod and sip might not be lost upon them. It seemed a mere barbarity to deprive him of what he now esteemed as the charm of his life--the cousin who had been as a brother, ever seeking his sympathy, never offended by his sharp, imperious temper, and though often slighted or tyrannized over, meeting all in his own debonnaire fashion, and never forsaking the poor, hard-working student, so that he might well feel that the world could not offer him aught like Louis Fitzjocelyn.
     • keywords: aunt; best; better; boy; care; charlotte; clara; coming; conway; cried; day; dear; door; dynevor; earl; exclaimed; eyes; face; far; father; fitzjocelyn; frost; girl; glad; going; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; isabel; james; jane; jem; kind; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; long; look; lord; louis; love; man; mary; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; old; oliver; ormersfield; people; place; ponsonby; poor; poor louis; right; room; said; school; set; sir; sure; thing; thought; time; tom; uncle; way; wish; words; work; world; young
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608. yonge-globe-1871
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-globe-1871
     • date: 1871
     • words: 14370
     • flesch: 88
     • summary: And then there came an echo back to little Lucy: For out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. There was a great murmur and buzz of learning lessons; rows upon rows of little boys were sitting before desks, studying; very few heads looked up as Lucy found herself walking round the room--a large clean room, with maps hanging on the walls, but hot and weary-feeling, because there were no windows open and so little fresh air.
     • keywords: big; black; bunker; good; great; home; like; little; lucy; mrs; round; white
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609. yonge-grisly-1893
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-grisly-1893
     • date: 1893
     • words: 62421
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: That, however, was quite enough and too much for poor Grisell when Lady Margaret had thrown it to her on her bed, and rushed down the stair so as to come in the rear of the household just in time. O what a hope in a mother, thought poor Grisell.
     • keywords: castle; copeland; countess; duchess; duke; earl; face; father; good; great; grisell; hand; king; lady; lady grisell; lambert; leonard; like; little; long; lord; love; man; master; men; mother; nay; old; poor; ridley; salisbury; sir; sister; thou; time; way; whitburn; young
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610. yonge-guardians-1852
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-guardians-1852
     • date: 1852
     • words: 131385
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: When they went in, Gerald told Saunders the whole adventure; and she, who at Fern Torr had been inclined to the same opinion as Miss Morley, and had often sighed and declared it to be unlike young ladies when Marian and Agnes had played, now agreed with him that it was very hard on Miss Marian not to have a little exercise, lamented that she should always be cooped up in the schoolroom, and declared that there could be no harm in playing with such a little boy as Master Lionel. Clara met Marian in the hall.
     • keywords: agnes; better; caroline; clara; day; dear; edmund; elliot; eyes; face; gerald; glad; good; great; home; house; lady; like; lionel; little; long; look; lyddell; marchmont; marian; mind; miss; morley; mrs; old; people; poor marian; right; room; sure; thing; thought; time; time marian; walter; way; wortley
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611. yonge-heartsease-1854
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-heartsease-1854
     • date: 1854
     • words: 239294
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Grieved to be Mrs. Arthur Martindale?' 'O Violet dared not look up at her, and thought, with mysterious awe, of the caution not to shrink if she were kissed, but it was not needed, Lady Martindale only said, 'My aunt, Mrs. Arthur Martindale,' and Mrs. Nesbit, half rising, just took her hand into her long skinny fingers, which felt cold, damp, and uncertain, like the touch of a lizard.
     • keywords: arthur; arthur martindale; aunt; best; better; brother; care; child; children; day; dear; elizabeth; emma; erme; eyes; face; father; fotheringham; gardner; glad; going; good; great; hand; heart; helen; help; home; hope; house; john; johnnie; kind; lady; lady martindale; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; mamma; man; martindale; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; old; papa; percy; poor; poor violet; right; room; sister; tell; theodora; things; think; thought; time; violet; way; wife; wish; yes; young
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612. yonge-heir-1853
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-heir-1853
     • date: 1853
     • words: 237900
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Nothing was studied but the sky; and the conversation consisted of prognostications, reports of rises and falls of the glass, of the way weather-cocks were turning, or about to turn, of swallows flying high or low, red sunsets, and halos round the moon, until at last Guy, bursting into a merry laugh, begged Mrs. Edmonstone's pardon for being such a nuisance, and made a vow, and kept it, that be the weather what it might, he would say not another word about it that evening; it deserved to be neglected, for he had not been able to settle to anything all day. Sir Guy Morville?' 'Yes, quite suddenly--poor old man.'
     • keywords: amabel; amy; believe; best; better; brother; came; charles; charlotte; day; dear; edmonstone; eveleen; eyes; face; far; father; glad; good; great; guy; guy morville; hand; head; help; hollywell; home; hope; lady; laura; left; life; like; little; little amy; long; look; looking; mamma; man; markham; mary; mind; moment; morning; morville; mother; mrs; old; philip; poor; read; redclyffe; right; room; saw; sir guy; sister; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; way; wish; young
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613. yonge-hermit-1900
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-hermit-1900
     • date: 1900
     • words: 47022
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: Then turning again to the young noble, he poured out his love, devotion and gratitude for being able to serve his beloved lord's noble son; while poor Hal stood under the discomfort of being surrounded with friends who knew exactly what to say and do to him, their superior, while he himself was entirely at a loss how to show himself gracious or grateful as he knew he ought to do. Hob had been awakened by contact with his lady and her husband, as well as with the old comrade, Simon Bunce, to perceive that if there were any chance of the young Lord Clifford's recovering his true position he must not be allowed to lounge and slouch about like Piers, and he was continually calling him to order, making him sit and stand upright, as he had seen the young pages forced to do at the castle, learn how to handle a sword, and use the long stick which was the substitute for a lance, and to mount and sit on the old pony as a knight should do, till poor Hal had no peace, and was glad to get away upon the moor with Piers and the sheep, where there was no one to criticise him, or predict that nothing would ever make him do honour to his name if he were proved ten times a baron.
     • keywords: anne; boy; clifford; father; giles; good; hal; hermit; hob; king; lady; like; little; lord; man; master; mother; old; poor; prioress; sir; son; thee; thou; thy; time; way; young
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614. yonge-hopes-1860
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-hopes-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 285985
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: he will be so unhappy,' her tears were coming fast; 'and, Lucy, I did like you so much!' 'Well, this is the funniest thing of all,' cried Lucilla, by way of braving her own emotion; 'little Miss Phoebe gone into the heroics!' CHAPTER II Enough of science and of art, Close up those barren leaves! Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.--WORDSWORTH 'Half-past five, Miss Phoebe.' 'Thank you;' and before her eyes were open, Phoebe was on the floor.
     • keywords: bertha; best; better; brother; care; charlecote; charteris; child; children; coming; cried; day; dear; door; eyes; face; family; far; father; fennimore; friend; fulmort; girl; glad; going; gone; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; honor; hope; house; humfrey; kind; know; ladies; lady; leave; left; life; like; little; little owen; little phoebe; long; look; looking; lucilla; lucy; man; maria; mervyn; mind; miss; miss charlecote; moment; morning; mother; mrs; old; owen; people; phoebe; place; poor; poor phoebe; prendergast; present; rashe; right; robert; robin; room; round; said; sandbrook; saw; set; sir; sister; sure; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; way; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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615. yonge-kate-1862
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-kate-1862
     • date: 1862
     • words: 64494
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: Then she thanked Mr. Wardour for having brought Lady Caergwent home, and offered him some luncheon; but in such a grave grand way, that it was plain that she did not want him to eat it, and, feeling that he could do no more good, he kissed poor Kate and wished Lady Barbara Little Kate had then become the charge of her mother's sister, Mrs. Wardour, and had grown up in the little parsonage belonging to the district church of St. James's, Oldburgh, amongst her cousins, calling Mr. and Mrs. Wardour Papa and Mamma, and feeling no difference between their love to their own five children and to her.
     • keywords: aunt; aunt barbara; came; child; day; dear; eyes; girl; good; great; home; jane; kate; lady barbara; lady jane; like; little; lord; mary; mrs; papa; poer; poor; room; said; sylvia; thought; time; wardour
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616. yonge-lion-1870
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-lion-1870
     • date: 1870
     • words: 107663
     • flesch: 72
     • summary: The knight leant back, with a pensive look softening his features as he said, after a little consideration, 'Then, fair lady, I will sing you the song made by King James, when he had first seen the fair mistress of his heart, on the slopes of Windsor, looking from his chamber window. These were both dead, and were represented, the one by the captive young King James, the other by the Regent, Duke Murdoch of Albany, and his brother John, Earl of Buchan, now about to head a Scottish force, among whom Patrick Drummond intended to sail, to assist the French.
     • keywords: alice; bedford; better; brother; come; day; duke; english; esclairmonde; eyes; face; fair; father; good; great; hand; harry; heart; henry; home; james; king; king henry; king james; knight; lady; left; life; light; like; lilias; little; long; look; lord; lord malcolm; malcolm; man; men; nay; old; patrick; poor; queen; said; scotland; shall; sir; sir james; sister; stewart; thought; time; voice; way; young
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617. yonge-love-1880
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-love-1880
     • date: 1880
     • words: 105093
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: And taking the pen, she wrote her simple refusal, signing it Aurelia Belamour. He intended to shorten the service, but his nervous terror and the obscurity of the room made him stumble in finding the essential passages, and blunder in dictating the vows, thus increasing the confusion and bewilderment of poor little Aurelia.
     • keywords: amyas; aurelia; belamour; betty; brother; child; children; dark; day; dear; delavie; door; eugene; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; harriet; heart; home; house; jumbo; lady; lady belamour; like; little; long; loveday; madam; major; man; miss; mother; mrs; old; poor; room; said; sir; sir amyas; sister; tell; thought; time; voice; way; woman; young; young lady
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618. yonge-lynwood-1855
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-lynwood-1855
     • date: 1855
     • words: 58216
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Arise, Sir Eustace Lynwood. Thanks, thanks, my gracious Prince, said Reginald, a light glancing in his fading eyes. I know it, said Reginald, and making an effort to raise his voice, he continued, Bear witness, all of you, that I leave my son in the wardship of the King, and of my brother, Sir Eustace Lynwood.
     • keywords: arthur; brother; castle; clarenham; eustace; eustace lynwood; father; gaston; good; hand; john; knight; lady; leonard; little; long; lord; lynwood; man; master; men; old; prince; reginald; said; sir eustace; sir reginald; squire; time; young
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619. yonge-magnum-1879
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-magnum-1879
     • date: 1879
     • words: 229942
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: However, they were good little things, and it was not hard to re-establish discipline with them. The husband and wife had little more time for intimate communings, for the strangulation grew worse, more remedies were tried, and one of the greatest physicians of the day was called in, but only to make unavailing efforts.
     • keywords: allen; armine; aunt; babie; barbara; best; better; bobus; boys; brother; brownlow; caroline; cecil; child; children; colonel; come; coming; course; day; dear; door; elvira; evelyn; eyes; face; family; far; father; fellow; fordham; good; great; half; hand; head; help; home; house; janet; jessie; jock; john; johnny; lady; left; life; like; little; long; look; lucas; man; mary; mean; mind; miss; mother; mother carey; mrs; ogilvie; old; people; place; poor; right; robert; room; said; school; set; sister; sure; sydney; tell; things; think; thought; time; uncle; want; way; wish; work; young
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620. yonge-nuttie-1885
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-nuttie-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 119780
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: 'I am pretty sure that he does,' said the aunt; 'I did not stay long when I saw that I was not wanted, but I heard him say something about his having a home for her now, and her cutting out the Redcastle ladies.' 'Besides, there is the nephew, Mr. Mark Egremont,' said Mary. 'You expect Mr. Egremont to marry?' 'Not a future marriage, but one in the past.' 'A private marriage!
     • keywords: alice; alwyn; annaple; aunt; better; boy; came; child; daughter; day; dear; dutton; egremont; eyes; father; gerard; girl; going; good; great; gregorio; hand; headworth; home; kirkaldy; lady; like; little; long; look; man; mark; mark egremont; mary; miss; mother; mrs; nuttie; old; poor; room; sister; thing; thought; time; uncle; ursula; way; wife; young
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621. yonge-penniless-1891
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-penniless-1891
     • date: 1891
     • words: 70171
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: The stranger had no choice save to obey, and came up on a strong white mare, which old Andrew scanned, and muttered to his son, 'The Mearns breed--did he come honestly by it?' 'Up with your beaver, young man,' said Sir Patrick peremptorily; 'no man rides with me whose face I have not seen.' A face not handsome and thoroughly Scottish was disclosed, with keen intelligence in the gray eyes, and a certain air of offended dignity, yet self-control, in the close-shut mouth. 'Mountains they are, young man!' said Madame de Ste.
     • keywords: castle; douglas; drummond; duke; eleanor; far; father; french; george; good; great; hand; head; jean; king; ladies; lady; like; little; long; lord; madame; man; margaret; men; mother; old; patrick; poor; rene; ringan; scotland; sigismund; sir; sir patrick; sister; time; way; young
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622. yonge-pigeon-1860
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-pigeon-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 27592
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: And you are little Walter, returned the cavalier, instantly dismounting, and flinging his arm around his brother; why, what a fine fellow you are grown! Everyone in the village loved Rose Woodley, for everyone had in some way been helped or cheered by her.
     • keywords: deborah; diggory; edmund; eleanor; good; lady; little; long; lucy; mother; old; poor; rose; time; walter; woodley
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623. yonge-pillars-1874
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-pillars-1874
     • date: 1874
     • words: 478379
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: A formal little note came on the ensuing morning, in which 'the Misses Hepburn'--in the third person--requested the favour of the company of Mr. Felix Underwood and his brother at luncheon. 'Mrs. Rivers, let me introduce Mr. Felix Underwood.'
     • keywords: added; afraid; alda; angela; answered; audley; bear; bed; bernard; best; better; boy; boys; brother; brought; business; came; care; cherry; child; children; church; clement; come; coming; course; cried; day; deal; dear; dear felix; dinner; door; drawing; edgar; end; evening; exclaimed; eyes; face; family; far; father; feel; felix; felix underwood; fellow; ferdinand; find; froggatt; fulbert; geraldine; girl; glad; going; good; great; half; hand; happy; hard; harewood; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; john; kind; know; lady; lance; leave; left; life; like; little; little cherry; little lance; long; look; looking; lord; making; man; marilda; mean; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; o felix; old; people; place; poor; poor little; present; rest; right; robina; room; round; said; saw; saying; school; sense; set; sir; sister; sort; stay; stella; sure; talk; tell; theodore; things; think; thought; time; tone; true; underwood; voice; want; wanted; way; went; white; wilmet; wish; words; work; world; years; young
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624. yonge-post-1860
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-post-1860
     • date: 1860
     • words: 68741
     • flesch: 79
     • summary: And what's your name?' 'Alfred King, Sir,' was the answer. Where be'est going? says I. To doctor's, says he, arter some stuff for Alfred King.
     • keywords: alfred; better; boy; cope; day; ellen; good; great; harold; home; jane; king; lady; like; little; long; miss; mother; mrs; paul; poor; sir; thought; time; way
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625. yonge-prentices-1884
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-prentices-1884
     • date: 1884
     • words: 115402
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: Though Master Stephen had begun by being high and mighty about mechanical crafts, and thought it a great condescension to consent to be bound apprentice, yet when once again in the Dragon court, it looked so friendly and felt so much like a home that he found himself very anxious that Master Headley should not say that he could take no more apprentices at present, and that he should be satisfied with the terms uncle Hal would propose. There be worse folk than they, your worship, protested Tib, but he did not pursue their defence, only adding, but 'tis not that which ails young Stephen.
     • keywords: alderman; ambrose; better; brother; cardinal; come; court; day; dennet; dragon; eyes; far; father; giles; good; great; hal; hand; hath; headley; home; house; john; king; know; lads; left; life; like; little; london; long; lord; lucas; man; master; master headley; men; mistress; nay; new; old; perronel; poor; randall; returned; sir; smallbones; son; stephen; thee; thou; thought; thy; tibble; time; tis; uncle; way; work; young
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626. yonge-prince-1866
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-prince-1866
     • date: 1866
     • words: 66267
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: An ark of pure gold, chased and ornamented with the surpassing grace of that period of perfect taste, had received the royally robed corpse, which Churchmen averred lay calm and beautiful, untainted by decay; and this was now uplifted by the arms of King Henry himself, of Richard King of the Romans his brother, and of the two princes, Edward and Edmund. Queen Eleanor of Provence, still bent on youthfulness, looked somewhat haggard in this garb; but it well became Beatrix von Falkmorite, the young German girl whom Richard King of the Romans had wedded in his old age for the sake of her fair face.
     • keywords: beggar; boy; brother; child; day; edward; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; head; henry; john; king; knight; lady; life; like; little; lord; man; montfort; old; poor; prince; princess; richard; richard de; said; simon; sir; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; young
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627. yonge-rockstone-1888
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-rockstone-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 124713
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: My niece, Miss Gillian Merrifield. 'Miss Gillian Merrifield,' was the response.
     • keywords: ada; alexis; aunt; aunt jane; better; day; dear; father; fergus; gillian; girl; going; good; great; home; house; jane; jasper; kalliope; lady; like; little; mamma; man; maura; merrifield; miss; miss mohun; mohun; mother; mrs; mysie; old; people; poor; rotherwood; said; sir; sister; stebbing; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; valetta; way; white; young
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628. yonge-secret-1861
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-secret-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 62006
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Though hide-and-seek on the lawn with Papa was the supremest bliss that life had yet offered to the young Merrifields, and though Susan, Bessie, Annie, and Johnnie, had all severally burst into the room to proclaim it and summon Sam, he had refused them all; but this call settled it; he broke off in the middle of his rectangle, and dashed down stairs, to the great relief of kind Miss Fosbrook, who, with all her good-will, found her head beginning to grow weary of angles and right-angles on a hot evening in the height of summer. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, was Sam's cry, in so funny a voice, that Miss Fosbrook could only laugh; is this bread and scrape the fare for a rising young family of genteel birth? Oh! with a pathetic grimace, cried the pretty-faced though sandy-haired Henry, the next to him in age, if our beloved parents knew how their poor deserted infants are treated A fine large infant you are, Hal!
     • keywords: annie; bessie; boys; children; christabel; david; dear; elizabeth; fosbrook; good; great; hal; henry; john; johnnie; like; little; mamma; miss; miss fosbrook; papa; pig; sam; susan; thought; time; way
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629. yonge-shield-1885
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-shield-1885
     • date: 1885
     • words: 101900
     • flesch: 81
     • summary: Mysie alone sought her out and brought her forward with any real earnestness, and good little Mysie had a somewhat difficult part to play between kindness to her and Fly's occasional little jealous tiffs and decided disapproval. She hadn't--' 'The 'Jenny Say Caw,' as Macrae calls it?' said his mother.
     • keywords: aunt; better; child; children; come; constance; dear; dolly; dolores; father; fly; gillian; girl; good; great; hacket; home; jane; jasper; lady; lady merrifield; like; lily; little; mamma; merrifield; miss; mohun; mother; mysie; old; poor; room; rotherwood; sure; thought; time; uncle; way; wilfred
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630. yonge-stepmother-1861
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-stepmother-1861
     • date: 1861
     • words: 216005
     • flesch: 76
     • summary: The equinoctial sun had long set, and the blue haze of March east wind had deepened into twilight and darkness when Albinia Kendal found herself driving down the steep hilly street of Bayford. Albinia Kendal was a person of the latter description.
     • keywords: albinia; algernon; aunt; best; better; boy; brother; came; child; children; cried; day; dear; door; dusautoy; edmund; exclaimed; eyes; face; father; ferrars; found; genevieve; gilbert; gilbert kendal; going; good; great; hand; heart; help; home; hope; house; kendal; kind; life; like; little; little albinia; long; look; lucy; mamma; man; maria; maurice; meadows; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; old; papa; people; poor; right; room; said; sister; sophy; sure; tell; thought; till; time; ulick; way; wife; winifred; wish; young
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631. yonge-stick-1892
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-stick-1892
     • date: 1892
     • words: 73952
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: It was startling news, for though the Misses Lang were kindly women, and had never thrown obstacles in the way of her engagement, they had merely permitted it, and almost ignored it, except when old Mrs. Morton was dying, and they had freely facilitated her attendance. This done, chiefly by Constance, the sisters put on their hats, and sallied forth with their astounding news to such of their friends as were within reach, and by the time they had finished their expedition they were convinced of their own nobility, and prepared to be called Lady Ida and Lady Constance Northmoor on the spot.
     • keywords: adela; bertha; better; boy; child; come; constance; dear; frank; good; great; herbert; home; house; ida; lady; like; little; lord; man; mary; miss; morton; mother; mrs; northmoor; old; poor; rollstone; rose; said; thought; time; uncle; way
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632. yonge-storm-1888
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-storm-1888
     • date: 1888
     • words: 65260
     • flesch: 82
     • summary: Stead, good old Stead, she cried, to come just as I was half dead with white seam and scolding! You would be glad? Poor old Stead.
     • keywords: ben; bristol; brother; church; day; elmwood; emlyn; father; good; great; home; house; jeph; kenton; king; like; little; man; master; old; patience; place; poor; rusha; said; sir; stead; steadfast; thought; time; way; young
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633. yonge-sword-1859
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-sword-1859
     • date: 1859
     • words: 24539
     • flesch: 83
     • summary: Let not those who have no temptation, who live with those who regard falsehood as a great crime, and perjury as one almost beyond mention or possibility, look upon poor Ben Sylvester as a lost and wicked wretch, if he were grievously tossed about in mind during that month before the Winston assizes. Of course the first impression was that Ben Sylvester had been captured by Mr. Elliot in the midst of mischief; but when the school-master explained exactly how the matter had been, Mr. Conroy did not look nearly so much displeased.
     • keywords: ben; elliot; fanny; harry; jacob; long; mother; poor; sylvester; thought; word
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634. yonge-telemachus-1886
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-telemachus-1886
     • date: 1886
     • words: 57341
     • flesch: 70
     • summary: From Lanty Arthur further heard that the poor Abbe had languished and died soon after reaching home. Poor little Estelle turned away her head at first, but Hebert, alarmed at her shivering in her wet clothes, contrived to make her swallow a little, and then took off the soaked dress, and wrapped her in the bournouse.
     • keywords: abbe; arthur; bourke; boy; brother; captain; child; children; estelle; eyes; french; good; great; hand; heart; hebert; hope; lady; lanty; like; little; long; madame; man; mother; old; poor; sheyk; son; tam; time; ulysse; victorine; white; young; yusuf
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635. yonge-trial-1864
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-trial-1864
     • date: 1864
     • words: 184922
     • flesch: 74
     • summary: And Bishop Gawain as he rose, Said, 'Wilton, grieve not for thy woes, Disgrace and trouble; For He who honour best bestows, Can give thee double. In the drawing-room, she left the other ladies to their own devices in her eagerness to secure a few minutes with Ethel May, and disabuse her of whatever Mrs. Ledwich or Mrs. Pugh might have said.
     • keywords: aubrey; averil; bed; best; better; boy; brother; child; come; cora; day; dear; doctor; door; ethel; eyes; face; family; father; flora; friend; gertrude; glad; going; good; great; half; hand; harry; head; heart; henry; home; hope; house; left; leonard; life; like; little; long; look; man; mary; mind; minna; moment; mrs; new; old; papa; place; poor; richard; right; room; said; sister; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; want; ward; way; words; work; young
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636. yonge-unknown-1882
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-unknown-1882
     • date: 1882
     • words: 169217
     • flesch: 77
     • summary: Mrs. Talbot might be anxious at Bridgefield, and her son at Fotheringhay, and poor Queen Mary, whose life hung in the balance, more heartsick with what old writers well named 'wanhope' than any of them; but they had to live on, and rise morning after morning without expecting any intelligence, unable to do anything but pray for those who might be in perils unknown. It would have been safer for you both, said poor Queen Mary to Humfrey afterwards, if I had denied her, but I could not disown my poor child, or prevent her from yet claiming royal rights.
     • keywords: antony; babington; bring; cavendish; child; cicely; cis; countess; daughter; day; diccon; earl; elizabeth; eyes; face; far; father; girl; good; grace; great; hand; hath; head; heart; home; house; humfrey; husband; known; lady; letter; life; like; little; long; lord; madam; maiden; majesty; man; master; men; mistress; mother; mrs; nay; old; poor; queen; queen mary; richard; richard talbot; sir; son; susan; talbot; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; true; way; wife; woman; young
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637. yonge-vacation-1895
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-vacation-1895
     • date: 1895
     • words: 91934
     • flesch: 80
     • summary: This was impossible, as the Marquis was due at an agricultural dinner at Clarebridge, but in return, in the openness of his heart, he invited the Travis Underwoods to their dinner that evening at the hotel, where the Merrifields and the Underwoods were already engaged, little boys and all. As Dolores walked back to Silverton, she heard drums and trumpets, and was nearly swept away by a rushing stream of little boys and girls.
     • keywords: adrian; anna; aunt; better; boy; brother; clement; day; dear; dolores; family; father; fergus; gerald; geraldine; gillian; girl; good; great; home; lady; lance; life; like; little; long; look; man; merrifield; miss; mohun; mother; mrs; old; place; poor; school; sir; sister; thought; time; uncle; underwood; way; white; young
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638. yonge-wish-1850
     • author: yonge
     • title: yonge-wish-1850
     • date: 1850
     • words: 88487
     • flesch: 78
     • summary: Few words more require to be said of Frederick and Henrietta Langford. For once Beatrice let Henrietta be as slow as she pleased, for she was willing to let as much of the visit as possible pass before they arrived there.
     • keywords: alex; aunt; beatrice; bee; better; come; day; dear; fred; frederick; geoffrey; geoffrey langford; good; grandmamma; grandpapa; great; henrietta; home; langford; like; little; long; mamma; mary; mother; mrs; old; poor; queen; roger; room; sutton; thought; time; uncle; uncle geoffrey; way
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