Our "lost cause" corpus contains texts from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. This process uses just the texts from Project Gutenberg, because they consistently mark paragraph boundaries with double new lines.
Our "lost cause" corpus contains 70 texts from Project Gutenberg.
This notebook topic treats paragraphs as "chunks".
To skip the boring stuff, scroll down to "The point of all of this".
import glob
PATH_TO_CORPUS = '/data/1/lost_cause/old_box_materials/lost_cause_box_folder/lost_cause_corpus/*'
pg_files = [p for p in glob.glob(PATH_TO_CORPUS) if '_PG_' in p]
print(len(pg_files))
70
We're going to use spacy to identify proper nouns.
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
print(spacy.__version__)
2.2.2
This paragraph loads a corpus, the file names of which are held in "pg_files", which was created a couple of cells above.
Each text is split into paragraphs. In Project Gutenberg, paragraphs are separated by double new lines. This separation isn't foolproof, because other things may be similarly separated; however, it seems like a reasonable approximation. The process treats each paragraph as a "chunk."
This separation isn't possible with Internet Archive texts, because paragraphs are not consistently separated.
Note that the process drops spaces, punctuation, proper nouns, numbers, and the NLTK stopwords.
import glob, re, string
def load_corpus(stopwords):
labels = []
raw_texts = []
texts = []
n_loaded = 0
for pg_file in pg_files:
file_name = pg_file.split('/')[-1]
text = open(pg_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8').read()
paragraphs = [p.strip() for p in re.split('\n\n+', text) if p.strip() > '']
for a, p in enumerate(paragraphs):
doc = nlp(p)
tokens = []
for t in doc:
if t.pos_ not in ['SPACE', 'PUNCT', 'PROPN']:
if '\'' not in t.text.lower() and \
'^' not in t.text.lower() and \
u'’' not in t.text.lower() and \
u'—' not in t.text.lower() and \
t.text.lower() not in string.digits and \
t.text.lower() not in string.punctuation and \
t.text.lower() not in stopwords:
tokens.append(t.text.lower())
if len(tokens) > 0:
labels.append(file_name + ' ' + str(a))
raw_texts.append(p)
texts.append(tokens)
return labels, texts, raw_texts
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
stopwords = stopwords.words('english')
print('len(stopwords)', len(stopwords))
len(stopwords) 179
labels, texts, raw_texts = load_corpus(set(stopwords))
100 topics. 136,363 paragraphs/chunks.
from gensim import corpora, models, similarities
from gensim.models.wrappers import LdaMallet
N_TOPICS = 50
gensim_dictionary = corpora.Dictionary(texts)
gensim_corpus = [gensim_dictionary.doc2bow(text) for text in texts]
print('len(gensim_dictionary)', len(gensim_dictionary))
print('len(gensim_corpus)', len(gensim_corpus))
lda_model = LdaMallet('/home/spenteco/0/mallet-2.0.8/bin/mallet',
corpus=gensim_corpus,
id2word=gensim_dictionary,
optimize_interval=10,
num_topics=N_TOPICS)
gensim_lda_corpus = lda_model[gensim_corpus]
print()
print('len(gensim_lda_corpus)', len(gensim_lda_corpus))
len(gensim_dictionary) 46620 len(gensim_corpus) 136363 len(gensim_lda_corpus) 136363
from collections import defaultdict, Counter
import textwrap
def report_topics():
topic_word_counts = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
word_topics = lda_model.load_word_topics()
for topic_n, word_counts in enumerate(word_topics):
for word_n, word_count in enumerate(word_counts):
topic_word_counts[topic_n][gensim_dictionary[word_n]] = word_count
topic_index_xref = defaultdict(list)
cells_accounted_for = []
for topic_n in range(N_TOPICS):
has_one = False
for a, doc in enumerate(gensim_lda_corpus):
for t in doc:
if t[0] == topic_n and t[1] >= 0.25:
has_one = True
topic_index_xref[topic_n].append([t[1], a])
if has_one == True:
texts_in_topic = []
for chunk_pct_index in topic_index_xref[topic_n]:
texts_in_topic.append(' '.join(labels[chunk_pct_index[1]].split(' ')[:-1]))
cells_accounted_for.append(labels[chunk_pct_index[1]])
texts_in_topic = list(set(texts_in_topic))
print()
print('=============================================================================')
print('TOPIC', topic_n, '--', len(topic_index_xref[topic_n]), 'chunks >= 0.25', \
'from', len(texts_in_topic), 'texts')
print('=============================================================================')
printed_words = []
for w in Counter(topic_word_counts[topic_n]).most_common(100):
printed_words.append(w[0] + ' ' + str(int(w[1])))
print('\n\t' + '\n\t'.join(textwrap.wrap('; '.join(printed_words), 80)))
high_for_topic = sorted(topic_index_xref[topic_n], reverse=True)
for chunk_pct_index in high_for_topic[:10]:
print()
print('%.02f' % chunk_pct_index[0], labels[chunk_pct_index[1]])
print()
print('\n\t' + \
'\n\t'.join(textwrap.wrap(re.sub('\s+', ' ', ''.join(raw_texts[chunk_pct_index[1]])), 80)))
cells_accounted_for = list(set(cells_accounted_for))
print()
print('len(cells_accounted_for)', len(cells_accounted_for))
. . . is a basic, readable report which produces simple information for each topic in the run . . . the top N words for each topic, and the N chunks with the highest percentage of the topic.
I imagine that we might use these to get a sense of the various kinds of content in our corpus. For example, we'll surely note that topis 87 is the topic which collects up representations of southern black dialects (the words "dis", "dat", and "dem", which we've noted before, are the signal features). But we should also look at topic 49 (some sort of a white--and perhaps Yankee?--dialect); topic 63 (a German-American dialect, or a borrowing of some such stereotypes to represent some other white dialect); and topic 67 (white Southern dialect, and/or another representations of a southern black dialect).
In other words, we can use this report as an entry point into questions like, "One representational style of southern black dialects, or more than one?"
report_topics()
============================================================================= TOPIC 0 -- 4564 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= face 2664; eyes 2643; hand 1356; head 1134; looked 988; hands 987; lips 897; tears 831; turned 634; back 585; voice 541; arms 526; heart 505; pale 423; white 418; stood 397; moment 378; sat 355; girl 354; cheeks 352; laid 348; cheek 348; shook 336; hair 323; arm 313; kissed 311; fell 308; mother 301; bent 289; brow 288; put 285; drew 280; smile 271; lifted 266; side 259; pressed 259; fingers 255; rose 251; clasped 251; spoke 245; child 240; low 236; long 233; cold 232; held 230; bosom 227; expression 222; soft 218; chair 216; close 215; words 211; rested 202; gently 202; felt 200; forehead 200; softly 199; lay 194; suddenly 191; raised 189; whispered 184; smiled 183; woman 182; slowly 181; beautiful 180; room 176; shoulder 174; countenance 172; neck 171; leaned 171; trembling 169; full 166; forward 166; bowed 164; closed 163; passed 162; thought 160; dark 157; sweet 157; half 154; knees 154; gazed 153; breath 151; tone 150; silent 149; burst 146; speak 144; breast 144; opened 142; thin 141; instant 140; folded 140; deep 135; knew 131; cry 130; flushed 129; quickly 128; blood 126; pain 126; moved 125; fixed 125 0.92 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1282 Dr Bryant bent forward, and gently lifting her head, supported her with his strong arm, and stroked off from her beautiful brow the clustering hair. A long time she lay motionless, with closed eyes, and bending his head, he pressed a long kiss on the delicately-chiseled lips. 0.90 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 649 The cousins stood up, and each gazed full upon the other. Mary's face was colorless as marble, and her hands were tightly clasped as she bent forward with a longing, searching, eager look. A crimson glow rushed to Florence's very temples; then receded, leaving an ashy paleness. 0.89 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4367 Tears were streaming down the mother's cheeks, and pressing her lips to the white mournful face of her daughter she beckoned Mr. Palma to her side. For a moment she hesitated, held up the fair fingers and kissed them, then as if distrusting herself, quickly laid the little hand in his. 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1345 He bent his head till his lips rested on the white brow, now damp in death. Wearily she turned her face toward his; he clasped the wasted form tightly to his heart, and kissed the pale lips; her fingers clasped his hand gently, and she whispered, "Good-by!" 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4151 He threw his arms around her as she leaned toward him, and drew the head to his shoulder. So in silence they rested, and he felt that one arm tightened around him, as he knelt holding her to his heart. 0.87 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 390 Then, before she knew it, Viney was sobbing, and had crept close to him and put her arms around his neck. He threw out his arms with a convulsive gesture and gathered her up to his breast, and the tears gushed from his eyes. 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2144 He shook his head, but caught her hand and leaned his cheek against the soft palm, passing it gently and caressingly over his haggard face. 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2787 He saw a strange, startled expression leap into the large shadowy eyes, and the mouth quivered, the wan face grew whiter, and the thin fingers grasped each other; but she said nothing, and they sat looking at one another. 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4118 He strained her to his bosom, and kissed the pure face, while tears trickled over his cheeks and dripped down on hers. Her mother made a step forward to snatch her back, but at sight of his tears, of the close embrace in which he held her, the wife turned away, unable to look upon the spectacle and preserve her composure. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1863 The only reply was a tightening of the clasp of the little arms about his neck, and a half-suppressed sob; then two trembling lips touched his, a warm tear fell on his cheek, and she turned away and ran quickly from the room. ============================================================================= TOPIC 1 -- 2275 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= men 1010; enemy 736; troops 716; army 686; line 678; battle 591; position 456; rebels 418; force 413; left 412; lines 361; front 348; road 345; soldiers 331; attack 330; field 311; day 309; division 296; regiment 296; advance 292; miles 292; morning 290; rear 282; fire 279; river 277; back 266; guns 258; brigade 253; command 248; moved 245; hundred 244; officers 233; thousand 233; movement 233; artillery 231; made 229; batteries 228; cavalry 222; ground 218; town 215; march 214; marched 214; great 204; general 200; fight 198; night 189; forward 177; fighting 173; column 171; wounded 169; reached 165; time 164; prisoners 164; forces 162; retreat 156; woods 155; place 154; fought 151; south 150; order 149; twenty 148; bridge 148; captured 147; regiments 145; corps 142; camp 141; flank 141; move 140; ordered 138; infantry 137; north 136; moving 136; advanced 135; orders 132; battery 132; heavy 126; formed 125; hill 125; city 125; held 123; point 123; hours 123; house 122; marching 122; passed 120; victory 120; charge 118; divisions 117; thirty 115; quarters 114; pickets 114; ranks 113; days 112; till 111; loss 109; side 107; driven 106; lost 106; fell 106; crossed 105 0.96 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1148 "The first brigade to the right advanced several hundred yards over cleared ground, driving the enemy's skirmishers before them till they reached the woods in front of the railroad, which they entered, driving the enemy out of them to the railroad, where they were found strongly posted in ditches and behind temporary defences. The brigade (First) drove them from there and up the heights in their front. Owing to a heavy fire being received on their right flank, they obliqued over to that side, but continued forcing the enemy back till they had crowned the crest of the hill, crossed a main road which runs along the crest, and reached open ground on the other side, where they were assailed by a very severe fire from a larger force in their front, and at the same time the enemy opened a battery which completely enfiladed them from the right flank. After holding their ground for some time, no support arriving, they were compelled to fall back to the railroad."[15] 0.95 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1065 Across Deep Run are the head-quarters of Lee, who can stand by his tent and look down upon the battle-field. He can see what Couch and Wilcox are doing in the town. He is directly in front of Bernard's mansion, and can also behold all the movements of the Union troops on the plain. A. P. Hill's division of Jackson's corps is in front of him, -- Hill's left resting on Deep Run, and his right reaching to Captain Hamilton's house, where the railroad crosses the old Richmond road. Hill's troops are partially concealed in the woods. Behind Hill are the divisions of Early and Taliferro, -- Taliferro being on the right, near Hamilton's house. Farther in the rear, on the hill, is D. H. Hill's division, which is held in reserve. There are fourteen guns -- from Pegram's, McIntosh's, Crenshaw's, Latham's, and Johnson's batteries -- on the hill near Hamilton's. 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1349 The morning dawned. The fog prevented the Rebels from seeing the movements of Sedgwick, though Barksdale's pickets reported the town full of Yankees. From Chancellorsville came the roar of battle, the constant thunder of the cannonade. It was half past five when Shaler's brigade of Newton's division moved over the field where so many thousands fell on the 13th of December. It was a reconnoissance to ascertain the position and number of the force holding the place. The men marched on gallantly, but were forced to retire before the Mississippians and the artillery on the hill. 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2349 A. P. Hill had already been thrown south of Richmond, and was in front of Butler. The scouts up the Appomattox reported the rumbling of heavy trains along the Richmond and Petersburg railroad. Lee was putting his troops into the cars. The dash of Kautz, and the movement of Gillmore up to the entrenchments, and his retirement without an attack, had resulted in the manning of the Petersburg batteries. A brigade had been thrown down towards City Point, five miles from Petersburg. Soon after daylight the cavalry came upon the Rebel pickets, by the City Point railroad, beyond which they found the Rebels with two cannon behind rifle-pits, in the centre of an open field on Bailey's farm. 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1322 Anderson's division advanced rapidly up the Fredericksburg road, charging upon Kane's brigade of Geary's division, composed of new troops, which, after a short resistance, retreated in confusion. An aid from Slocum came down to Hooker for reinforcements. "No," said Hooker, "he must hold his own. Let Geary's division, however, be thrown to the right of the road, that the artillery may be able to sweep the enemy on the left." This was done, and the heavy fire that was given by Knapp's and other batteries checked Anderson's advance. A constant demonstration was kept up by Anderson to deceive Hooker as to Lee's intentions. Thus the night passed. 0.93 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 667 At daybreak next morning the cavalry crossed the river and attacked and routed a body of Federal cavalry on the road to Culpepper Courthouse. On the following day Jackson came up with his infantry to a point about eight miles from Culpepper, where Pope's army, 32,000 strong, were stationed upon the crest of a hill. General Ewell's division, which was the only one then up, at once advanced, and, after a severe artillery fight, gained a point on a hill where his guns could command the enemy's position. 0.93 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1567 On the 27th of April General Hooker's preparations were complete. His plan of action was that 20,000 men should cross the river near the old battlefield of Fredericksburg, and thus lead the Confederates to believe that this was the point of attack. The main body were, however, to cross at Kelley's Ford, many miles higher up the river, and to march down toward Fredericksburg. The other force was then to recross, march up the river, cross at Kelley's Ford, and follow and join the main army. At the same time the Federal cavalry, which was very numerous and well-organized, was, under General Stoneman, to strike down through the country toward Richmond, and thus cut the Confederate communication with their capital, and so prevent Longstreet's division, which was lying near Richmond, from rejoining Lee. 0.92 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1313 Captain Best, commanding the artillery of the Twelfth Corps, brought thirty-six guns into position between Chancellorsville and Dowdal's, sweeping the fields to the south and southwest, the Orangeburg plank-road, and the breastworks which Buschbeck had abandoned, and behind which the Rebels were forming for a second attack. Under cover of this fire, Birney and Whipple came back from Scott's Creek; Williams's division, which had been pushed out southeast of Chancellorsville, on the road to Fredericksburg, was drawn in. 0.92 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 809 Hooker gave Meade, with the Pennsylvania Reserves, the right, Ricketts the left, and placed Doubleday in support in rear. Mansfield joined Hooker's left, but was an hour behind time. Sumner was slow to come into action. Hooker advanced, drove in the Rebel pickets, found a Rebel battery on his extreme right, which, as soon as he came within its range began to plough him with a flanking fire. Meade obliqued to the right, poured in a few volleys, and drove the enemy across the turnpike. This was the extreme left of the enemy's line. Hooker crossed the turnpike a few rods north of Poffenberg's, marched through the fields to the ridge by the cornfield. Having obtained possession of the ridge east of Poffenberg's, he planted his batteries and opened a fierce cannonade upon the Rebels. 0.92 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 76 General Reynolds's Position. -- Beginning of the Fight. -- General Howard's Account. -- Weiderick's Battery. -- General Slocum at Two Taverns. -- Howard's Messages. -- General Hancock's Arrival. -- Color-Bearers of the Nineteenth Indiana. -- Arrival of the Third Corps. -- SECOND DAY. -- General Meade on the Field. -- The Cemetery. -- Major Howard. -- Ride along the Lines. -- Stannard's Brigade. -- Meade's Head-Quarters. -- Position of the Second Corps. -- The Third Corps. -- Sickles's Position at Noon. -- Lee's Intentions. -- Confidence of the Rebels. -- Longstreet's Command. -- His Plan. -- Half past Three. -- The Attack. -- Resistance of the Third Corps. -- McGilvery's Batteries. -- The Ninth Massachusetts Battery. -- Barnes's Division. -- The Regulars. -- Resistance of the Pennsylvania Reserves. -- Hood's Advance. -- Colonel Chamberlain's Position. -- Slocum's Movement. -- Doubleday and Williams. -- Men of Vermont. -- Fourteenth Maine. -- Louisiana Tigers. -- THIRD DAY. -- The Morning Cannonade. -- Rebel Prisoners. -- Fight on Culp's Hill. -- Cavalry Operations. -- Lee's Preparations for the last Attack. -- Position of the Troops. -- Scene at Meade's Head-Quarters. -- The Cannonade. -- Howard's Batteries. -- Hancock wounded. -- The Vermont Regiments. -- Repulse of the Rebels. -- Scenes along the Lines. -- In the Rebel Lines. -- Midnight. -- After the Battle. -- Lee's Retreat. -- Meade's Movements. -- Lee at Williamsport. -- Crossing the Potomac. -- Battle at Falling Waters. 269 ============================================================================= TOPIC 2 -- 3047 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= day 1958; time 1409; home 1128; morning 948; night 809; long 771; days 748; evening 614; hour 577; good 482; room 466; afternoon 461; back 453; found 406; week 381; hours 356; work 354; early 352; return 344; thought 335; rest 332; leave 324; school 320; left 318; spent 300; place 294; father 282; half 279; morrow 279; weeks 270; house 260; mother 259; breakfast 242; usual 237; stay 237; months 236; till 234; year 229; passed 228; ago 224; life 221; late 220; asked 218; aunt 216; pleasant 215; summer 214; coming 210; great 208; returned 208; made 207; visit 207; ready 205; friends 198; quiet 198; spend 196; find 191; month 186; 184; walk 183; happy 182; ride 180; times 178; busy 177; dinner 174; pleasure 173; talk 171; company 162; wife 159; winter 157; journey 154; longer 153; make 153; sick 152; hope 151; set 142; children 138; mind 136; doctor 135; taking 135; start 134; young 133; absent 133; remember 133; meet 130; short 130; party 130; brought 129; sit 129; called 128; change 128; study 124; waiting 120; end 118; wait 118; spring 117; things 117; began 117; leaving 117; promised 116; told 115 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2134 Elsie expected her children to find it a little hard to go back to the old routine; but it was not so. They came to her with bright, happy faces, were quiet and diligent and when the recitations were over, gathered about her for a little chat before returning to their play. 0.87 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1589 For a day or two I did not meet them. I was busy with the school routine, and beginning already to take pleasure in it. Knowledge was to be had here; lay waiting to be gathered up; and that gathering I always enjoyed. Miss Pinshon had kept me on short allowance. It was the third or fourth day after my arrival, that going up after dinner to get ready for a walk I missed my chinchilla cap from its peg. I sought for it in vain. 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2252 But, indeed, most of the party seemed dull; they had gone through such a round of pleasure and excitement, for the last two or three days, that now a reaction was beginning, and they wanted rest, especially the very little ones, who all retired quite early, when Elsie and her mates joined their parents in the drawing-room. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 591 Several days passed away very pleasantly, Lucy sharing Elsie's studies in the mornings, while Herbert remained with his mamma; and then in the afternoon all walking or riding out together, unless the weather was too warm, when they spent the afternoon playing in the veranda, on the shady side of the house, and took their ride or walk after the sun was down. 0.86 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1090 Here Mr. Miller joined them, and said it was time to make preparations for returning’ home. Accordingly in a short time the company were dispersing. When our party reached Mrs. Crane’s, Fanny went directly to Julia, whom she found most becomingly dressed, and apparently anxiously awaiting her return. 0.85 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1946 No summons to happiness reached me that year. My vacation was spent again with my aunt Gary, and without Preston. September saw me quietly settled at my studies for another school year; to be gone through with what patience I might. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2468 Richard Allison had gone to Lansdale for his bride a fortnight ago; they were now taking their bridal trip and expected to reach Elmgrove a day or two before the wedding of May and Harry Duncan. The latter would bring Aunt Wealthy with him, and leave her for a short visit among her friends. 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1390 "Not yet, wife; I shall stay half an hour longer, and if you ladies like to do the same we will send the carriage home with the children and their mammies, and let it return for you." 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2013 When Elsie left her father she found that the Carringtons had just arrived. She and Lucy had not seen each other since the week the latter had spent at Roselands early in the summer, and both felt pleased to meet. 0.82 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3434 One afternoon when Virginia was sitting in the summer house alone, her thoughts wandering back, as they sometimes did, to another afternoon she had spent there, -- it seemed so long ago, -- when she saw Mammy Easter coming toward her. ============================================================================= TOPIC 3 -- 2241 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= time 397; escape 342; present 329; made 317; purpose 300; make 251; plan 249; prisoner 239; place 235; country 218; soldier 218; part 213; sergeant 213; circumstances 212; service 206; enemy 200; danger 200; success 192; condition 189; means 189; prisoners 189; war 184; great 181; determined 176; officer 175; good 172; moment 171; duty 169; hope 167; journey 167; attempt 159; party 153; situation 149; rebel 147; short 146; leave 142; enterprise 141; found 139; object 136; military 136; guard 135; night 132; events 132; safety 132; man 131; late 129; retreat 129; position 129; opportunity 129; case 129; capture 128; mind 128; prison 128; view 126; whilst 126; order 121; soldiers 121; life 119; ready 119; secret 118; friends 118; character 116; risk 115; companion 115; expedition 114; information 114; interest 114; active 114; felt 113; friend 113; regard 112; escaped 112; resolved 111; companions 111; doubt 109; succeeded 108; manner 108; advantage 107; difficulties 105; difficulty 105; operations 105; fully 105; obtain 104; delay 102; important 102; army 101; care 100; long 100; occasion 100; discovered 98; required 98; safe 97; plans 97; act 96; result 96; engaged 95; conclusion 94; brought 94; anxious 92; point 89 0.85 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2347 Grant was quick to see the advantages to be gained. Lee was slower in arriving at a perception of the fatal consequences to himself which would result from the loss of the place; but when awakened to a sense of his danger, acted with great energy. On the other hand, Smith, who was intrusted with the execution of the enterprise, was dilatory in the execution. Birney in part is to be held responsible for the delay in the execution of the order. 0.85 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2070 It was soon ascertained that Williams had abandoned the field he had won, and had retreated beyond the reach of immediate pursuit. And as the post at Musgrove's mill afforded many advantages, in reference to the means of communicating with the garrisons of the middle section of the province, and was more secure against the hazard of molestation from such parties of Whigs as might still be out-lying, an order was sent to Macdonald to remove with his prisoner to the habitation of the miller, and there to detain him until some final step should be taken in his case. 0.84 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1116 These disclosures opened the eyes of Butler and his companion to the imminent perils that encompassed them, and prompted them to the exercise of the strictest vigilance. Like discreet and trusty soldiers, they pursued their way with the most unwavering courage, confident that the difficulty of retreat was fully equal to that of the advance. 0.84 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1354 Then, again, there was abundant cause of anxiety to the unfortunate officer in the question whether Robinson could be kept acquainted with his condition, or even of the place to which he might be removed -- and if acquainted with these particulars, whether, in the disturbed state of the country, he could render any service. These thoughts all contributed to sink his spirits. 0.82 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 994 "Very well! You have confidence in yourself; and that is the first requisite of success. If you discharge this duty with fidelity and skill, you may be sure of being made a sergeant the moment you return." 0.82 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1936 When Arthur Butler was conducted back to his place of confinement, after his trial, orders were given that no one should be allowed to approach him, except the officer to whom was intrusted his safe custody. The intercourse of this person with him was short; and concerned only with the scant accommodation which his condition required. He was, therefore, deprived of all chance of becoming acquainted with the extraordinary events that had led to his present respite from death. In the interrogations that had, during the first moments of excitement, been put to him, in regard to the letter, he was not told its import; from what quarter it had come; nor how it affected his fate. He only knew, by the result, that it had suspended the purpose of his immediate execution; and he saw that it had produced great agitation at head-quarters. He found, moreover, that this, or some other cause, had engendered a degree of exasperation against him, that showed itself in the retrenchment of his comforts, and in the augmented rigor of his confinement. 0.81 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2717 Brief time was taken by the fugitives for refreshment at David Ramsay's dwelling. Here Butler put on the disguise which Christopher Shaw had provided for him. Then arming himself with a pair of pistols which John had appropriated to his use, the trooper himself using a similar precaution, our two adventurers resumed their journey. Their first object was to gain a point, some seven or eight miles distant, in the direction of the Fair Forest, where John Ramsay had concealed a few troopers that had been furnished him by Williams, to give their aid, if necessary, in securing Butler's escape. 0.80 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 110 Still keeping in concealment, he permits Julia to depart, not only unmolested, but unchallenged. There may be some secret in the letter to concern, though it may not console him. In any case, it will soon be his. 0.80 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2780 Great agitation prevailed at Macdonald's post, when the morning disclosed the escape of Butler. The lieutenant was conscious that this mischance had exposed him to the risk of heavy censure, and as was natural to a man who could not entirely acquit himself of some neglect in the performance of his duty, his first measures were taken in a spirit of peevish and angry severity. Small parties were sent out to explore the neighborhood, with a view to gain intelligence of the direction taken by the fugitive, with orders to bring him in dead or alive. The sentinels who were on duty during the night were arrested, and subjected to a rigid examination on the events of their watch; the several members of Musgrove's family were also interrogated as to matters touching their own connexion with the prisoner. Nothing, however, was gathered from these investigations that was calculated to cast a suspicion of connivance in Butler's liberation, upon any individual either of the garrison or of the family. It was only apparent that the prisoner had availed himself of the remissness of the guard and the darkness of the night, to make a bold descent from the window; and had succeeded by one of those lucky accidents which sometimes baffle the most cautious foresight. The nature of the attempt did not necessarily suppose the aid of an accomplice, and a faint hope was, therefore, entertained that Butler would be found still lurking in the vicinity of the post. 0.79 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1347 "Your late schoolfellow, Frank Frost," proceeded Mr. Rathburn, "has the merit of originating the plan to which I have referred, and he is no doubt prepared to unfold it to you." ============================================================================= TOPIC 4 -- 1724 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= boat 1058; water 958; river 895; shore 435; stream 345; miles 317; sea 305; bank 288; wind 287; boats 255; half 230; raft 229; steamer 197; channel 197; sail 186; long 176; vessel 174; land 169; mile 165; current 163; island 160; work 155; feet 155; landing 154; made 153; night 150; small 147; fleet 146; distance 143; deep 142; hour 140; found 139; side 134; tide 130; time 129; reached 125; point 125; sand 124; great 123; high 120; oars 119; yards 117; place 112; floating 111; lake 111; bottom 103; beach 101; vessels 100; passed 100; hours 98; close 97; waters 96; ahead 95; craft 94; make 92; cut 91; waves 90; ten 89; light 88; fast 86; bow 84; fish 83; ship 83; head 82; surface 81; stern 81; men 80; wreck 79; clear 78; hundred 78; ashore 78; wharf 78; voyage 76; passage 75; minutes 74; spot 74; north 74; end 74; dark 74; fishing 73; large 72; day 72; sails 72; creek 72; short 71; sight 71; morning 71; left 69; lay 68; till 68; ran 68; running 68; board 67; banks 67; twenty 66; reach 66; wide 65; sailing 64; turned 62; deck 62 0.94 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 636 "February 6.-I took the diahbeeah a mile and a quarter ahead to a sudd, passing over several shallows of only two feet eight inches, and three feet, which will again cause great delay and labour. I returned to the fleet and assisted in the tedious work of dragging the vessels over the shallows. In the evening I returned to the diahbeeah, and having dragged the dingy across the sudd, I explored the channel ahead for an hour, for about three miles; passed over distressing shallows for a space of a quarter of a mile ahead of the diahbeeah, after which I entered a deep, narrow channel with very rapid current. 0.89 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 607 "January 15. -- Made three-quarters of a mile, and having reached the lake Timsah (crocodile lake) we found the river blocked up; we therefore cut our way into an open but shallow channel which last year was impassable from want of depth. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 517 Although it was still quite dark, the Frenchman continued on his course very confidently. The reefs extended out two miles from the main shore; but the navigator was so familiar with the locality that they did not trouble him. Bearing about north-west from the light was Wreck Hill, one hundred and fifty feet high, which assisted him in keeping his course. As he approached the mainland he made out the fort, and steering directly for it, passed safely through Hogfish Cut. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 286 "April 1. -- All the vessels are stuck fast for want of water! This is terrible. I went on in advance with my diahbeeah, accompanied by Mr. Baker, for about three miles to explore. Throughout this distance the greatest depth was about four feet, and the average was under three feet. At length the diahbeeah, which drew only two feet three inches, was fast aground! This was at a point where two raised mounds, or dubbas, were on opposite sides of the river. I left the vessel, and with Mr. Baker, I explored in the rowing boat for about two miles in advance. After the first mile, the boat grounded in about six inches of water upon firm sand. The river, after having deepened for a short space, was suddenly divided into three separate channels, all of which were too shallow for the passage of the diahbeeah, and two were even too shallow to admit the small boat. The boatmen jumped out, and we hauled her up the shallows until we reached the main stream, above the three channels, which ran from the S.S.E., but having no greater mean depth than about two feet six inches. 0.88 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 794 I had to claw away from the bank pretty lively four or five times, to keep from knocking the islands out of the river; and so I judged the raft must be butting into the bank every now and then, or else it would get further ahead and clear out of hearing -- it was floating a little faster than what I was. 0.87 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 278 At four in the afternoon tide again slackened, and as soon as it had fairly turned they pushed out from the creek and again set sail. In three hours they were at the mouth of the river. A short distance out they saw several boats fishing, and dropping anchor a short distance away from these, they lowered their sail, and taking the fishing-lines from the locker of the boat, set to to fish. As soon as it was quite dark the anchor was hauled up, and Vincent and Dan took the oars, the wind having now completely dropped. For some time they rowed steadily, keeping the land in sight on their right hand. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 633 "Tayib Agha's boats are in sight, about four miles distance, bearing north. We cut through the small sudd, and in a quarter of a mile, we arrived at an open water, very shallow: in many places only three feet deep. Stopped for the fleet, and upon arrival of the steamer and others, I had marked out the channel to be cleared. The men set to work immediately. I then passed ahead with the diahbeeah for about a mile and a half, the depth of water, as usual, varying, but often as low as four feet. We were at length stopped at the confluence of two channels, each shallow. The sun was setting, therefore we halted for the night. A buffalo crossed the river about 200 yards ahead. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1188 The stream ran at three miles and a half per hour: thus, with good pulling, we reached head-quarters in one hour and thirty-two minutes, a distance of about ten miles and a half. 0.85 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 624 "January 27.-We are thankful for a comparatively open ditch, deep, but covered with grass, through which the diahbeeah cut her path by sailing before a strong breeze, and we entered the lake at 11.20 a.m. There is no change here since last year. The steamer and fleet are close up, but there is a little deepening necessary at the mouth of the channel. The diahbeeah went ahead for six miles along the lake and broad river, and anchored for the night. 0.85 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1098 When the first cutter was within three lengths of the shore, he elevated both his hands above his head, which was the signal to cease rowing, though the two bow oarsmen kept their oars in the water instead of boating them as the others did. Mr. Amblen continued to feel the way, and in a few minutes more, aided by the shoving of the two bow oarsmen, he brought the boat to the shore. ============================================================================= TOPIC 5 -- 3329 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= love 2006; life 1099; heart 1055; man 679; world 644; dear 589; loved 545; woman 499; hope 444; true 418; give 404; long 393; child 377; make 366; live 352; good 346; mother 345; die 312; ah 310; day 303; happy 289; wife 287; mine 287; pray 286; soul 285; father 279; words 275; feel 271; forget 269; peace 268; trust 261; friend 261; poor 258; fear 251; time 249; bear 234; remember 234; thy 227; thee 224; girl 223; forgive 221; happiness 216; care 211; save 210; sake 208; knew 204; hand 202; loves 199; duty 198; faith 197; dead 189; husband 184; wrong 180; marry 180; noble 175; years 173; leave 170; find 170; saved 167; children 165; death 163; affection 162; sin 160; darling 155; brave 152; thought 151; honor 151; things 150; speak 148; promise 148; word 147; earth 145; past 141; home 141; sister 141; hear 139; truth 139; daughter 135; hard 133; proud 133; son 132; died 130; precious 128; brother 126; sweet 125; end 123; back 123; lost 122; women 120; rest 120; spirit 119; longer 118; future 115; told 115; comfort 115; turn 113; thing 112; strong 110; loving 110; grace 108 0.91 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3590 "Edna, it is useless to tell you how devotedly I love you, for you have known that for years; and yet you have shown my love no mercy. But perhaps if you could realize how much I need your help in my holy work, how much more good I could accomplish in the world if you were with me, you might listen, without steeling yourself against me, as you have so long done. Can you, will you trust me fully? Can you be a minister's wife, and aid him as only you can? Oh, my darling, my darling! I never expect to be worthy of you! But you can make me less unworthy! My own darling, come to me." 0.89 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1964 "All honor to the heroic living, all glory to the gallant dead! They have not fought in vain, they have not died for naught. No man liveth to himself alone. Not for themselves, but for their children; for those who may never hear of them in their nameless graves, how they yielded life; for the future; for all that is good, pure, holy, just, true; for humanity, righteousness, peace; for Paradise on earth; for Christ and for God, they have given themselves a willing sacrifice. Blessed be their memory forevermore!" 0.89 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1622 "O my God! have mercy upon him! save his wretched soul from eternal death! Help me so to live and govern myself that I bring no shame on the cause of Christ. And if it be thy will, O my God! grant that I may be instrumental in winning this precious but wandering, sinful soul back to the faith as it is in Jesus!" 0.88 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2821 "Mary, daughter! Shame on you, girl!" said her father. "Do you forget, in the hour of your affliction, that you have a friend who is able to comfort? There is one who can heal up your sorrows and speak peace to your troubled spirit, if you be not too proud to ask it. I have taught you, daughter, in all time of tribulation to look to Him for patience and for strength to bear adversity. Why do you neglect this refuge now?" 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2055 "Ah! you dare not! You can not look me steadily in the eye and say, 'St. Elmo, I never have loved -- do not -- and never can love you!' You are too truthful; your lips can not dissemble. I know you do not want to love me. Your reason, your conscience forbid it; you are struggling to crush your heart. You think it your duty to despise and hate me. But, my own, Edna -- my darling! my darling! you do love me! You know you do love me, though you will not confess it! My proud darling!" 0.88 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 964 "By whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1005 "Yes, God tells us to repent; and He says, 'Give me thine heart;' you can do that; you can love Jesus; at least He will enable you to, if you ask Him, and He will teach you to be sorry for your sins; the Bible says, 'He is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins;' and if you ask Him He will give them to you. It is true we cannot do anything good of ourselves; without the help of the Holy Spirit we can do nothing right, because we are so very wicked; but then we can always get that help if we ask for it. Jesus said, 'Your Heavenly Father is more willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, than parents are to give good gifts unto their children. Oh, Lora! don't be afraid to ask for it; don't be afraid to come to Jesus, for He says, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in nowise cast out;' and He is such a precious Saviour, so kind and loving. But remember that you must come very humbly; feeling that you are a great sinner, and not worthy to be heard, and only hoping to be forgiven, because Jesus died. The Bible says, 'God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.'" 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3249 If she were Douglass Lindsay's wife, would she not find it far easier to forget her guardian? Would it be sinful to promise her hand to one, while her heart stubbornly enshrined the other? She loved Mr. Lindsay very much: he seemed holy, in his supremely unselfish and deeply religious life; and after awhile perhaps other feelings would grow up toward him. 0.86 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1099 She does not care -- no. It is not this that afflicts her. Could she but bring him to life again, she would laugh the world to scorn, brave the frowns of her father, to prove herself a true woman by becoming the wife of him her heart had chosen for a husband. 0.85 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1067 "I know, Captain," she said, "that we can't have longings, strivings, or hopes, without beliefs; beliefs are what they live on. I believe in being strong and sweet and true for the pure sake of being so; and yet more for the world's sake; and as much more again for God's sake as God is greater than his works. I believe in beauty and in joy. I believe they are the goal of all goodness and of all God's work and wish. As to resurrection, punishment, and reward, I can't see what my noblest choice has to do with them; they seem to me to be God's part of the matter; mine is to love perfect beauty and perfect joy, both in and infinitely beyond myself, with the desiring love with which I rejoice to believe God loves them, and to pity the lack of them with the loving pity with which God pities it. And above all I believe that no beauty and no joy can be perfect apart from a love that loves the whole world's joy better than any separate joy of any separate soul." ============================================================================= TOPIC 6 -- 929 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= train 390; town 317; office 283; morning 270; back 246; carriage 240; station 227; hotel 221; time 201; street 191; night 174; car 170; day 163; drove 161; hour 159; man 157; home 156; house 150; stopped 143; post 143; left 142; place 135; half 133; wagon 132; road 128; cars 123; bag 112; miles 109; mail 109; driver 108; seat 105; walked 104; started 102; drive 102; railroad 98; stage 95; reached 94; waiting 91; found 90; met 90; early 89; city 88; hours 86; business 86; late 83; afternoon 83; ride 83; minutes 82; passed 82; store 79; horse 78; walk 78; journey 77; people 75; ten 75; passengers 74; railway 73; village 71; doctor 71; carpet 69; good 67; buggy 66; wheels 65; door 65; travel 62; cart 60; platform 57; brought 56; put 56; young 56; long 56; trunk 56; end 55; told 55; set 55; turned 54; telegraph 54; till 53; evening 53; arrived 52; entered 52; taking 52; meet 51; past 51; baggage 50; shop 49; boy 49; streets 49; box 48; standing 48; gate 47; clerk 47; short 46; coach 46; passing 45; stop 45; church 45; stopping 45; carried 44; heard 44 0.85 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 553 The doctor's buggy was waiting at the gate. As they were passing the hotel on their drive down town, the clerk came out to the curbstone and called to the doctor. 0.83 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 779 Lately a covered wagon had commenced running twice a day between Rossville and the railway-station at Wellington. It was started at seven in the morning, in time to meet the early trains, and again at four, in order to receive any passengers who might have left the city in the afternoon. 0.82 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 524 The next day Tom went to Barnesville. He left the Cross-roads on horseback early in the morning, and reached his journey's end at noon. He found on arriving at the town that the story of his undertaking had preceded him. 0.78 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1874 The next morning Mr. Morton was a passenger by the early stage for Webbington, where he took the train for Boston. Thence he was to proceed to New York by the steamboat train. 0.77 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1847 "This pike's hardly a pike at all since the railroad's started," said the Major, more to himself than to Barbara and Johanna; for these were the two rear occupants of the carriage. 0.77 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 70 The first train for Rivermouth left at noon. After a late breakfast on board the Typhoon, our trunks were piled upon a baggage-wagon, and ourselves stowed away in a coach, which must have turned at least one hundred corners before it set us down at the railway station. 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 686 But he did not return that night, or even the next morning. It was dusk the next evening before Louisiana heard the buggy wheels on the road. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 159 The locomotive whistled, the train moved slowly on, and the miller hastened back to his cart. 0.76 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1273 When they arrived at the gate, therefore, Vincent helped Lucy and Chloe to alight, and then jumping into the buggy again told the driver to take him to the inn. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1559 "Like some other people of my acquaintance, Hagar reckons without her host. I have been at home ever since twelve o'clock, and saw the carriage as you drove off." ============================================================================= TOPIC 7 -- 2141 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= white 766; hair 727; black 714; dress 467; blue 451; eyes 436; red 378; face 371; long 361; wore 357; head 332; coat 323; hat 291; large 279; made 266; dressed 241; gray 241; silk 229; looked 222; gold 213; pair 213; wear 205; clothes 203; fine 196; small 183; dark 182; neck 175; yellow 172; figure 169; brown 169; handsome 168; tall 167; man 161; great 154; beautiful 153; silver 151; shoulders 151; lace 150; round 148; hands 147; bright 145; set 143; pretty 142; cloth 139; gown 139; hung 137; cut 133; worn 132; shirt 131; boots 131; shoes 130; broad 125; green 123; feet 121; suit 121; skin 118; cap 118; young 117; soft 117; appearance 112; color 112; years 110; full 110; short 109; light 109; linen 108; complexion 108; velvet 105; high 104; rich 103; cotton 103; uniform 103; thin 102; woman 99; slender 99; heavy 98; beauty 97; features 96; covered 96; wearing 95; glass 94; lady 94; delicate 94; brass 93; picture 93; pink 93; buttons 93; hand 88; cheeks 88; arms 87; garments 87; forehead 85; collar 84; half 83; ball 83; thick 82; low 81; women 80; put 80; girl 80 0.93 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 163 The first was a tall, gaunt woodman, of a sallow complexion, jet black eyes, and round head of smooth black hair. His dress was simply a coarse linen shirt and trowsers, the heat of the day being such as to allow him to dispense with coat and waistcoat. He carried, in one hand, a battered straw hat, and in the other, trailed a long rifle. His feet were covered with a pair of moccasins of brown leather, and the ordinary hunting equipments were suspended about his person. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1493 Each boy wore the fez or tarboosh. The uniforms were very becoming. There was dark blue trimmed with red facings; pure white with red facings, for high days and holidays; scarlet flannel suits complete; and a strong cotton suit dyed brown for travelling and rough wear. 0.90 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4281 In honour of her mother's birthday, she wore a white India muslin, with a blue sash girding her slender waist, and only a knot of blue ribbon at her throat, where the soft lace was gathered. Her silky hair rolled in a heavy coil low at the back of her head, and was secured by a gold comb; and close to one small ear she had fastened a cluster of snowy velvet pansies, which contrasted daintily with the glossy blackness of her hair. 0.89 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1137 He was a small, black man, quite old, but with a curious attempt at jauntiness, as he made his three bows with his one hand on his breast, the other holding his cane and a jockey cap of ancient fashion. It contrasted oddly with the swallow- tailed coat he wore, which had evidently been made for a much larger man; the sleeves came to his finger tips, and the tails touched his heels. The cloth of which it was made was very fine dark blue, with buttons of brass. His waistcoat of maroon brocade came half way to his knees. Warm as the day was he wore a broad tie of plaid silk arranged in a bow, above which a white muslin collar rose to his ears. He was evidently an ancient beau of the plantations in court dress. 0.89 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 537 She was dressed in white of medieval cut. Heavy white silk cord was knotted about the slender waist and touched the embroidered hem. The square neck had also the simple finish of cord and above it was the one bit of color; a flat necklace of etruscan gold fitted closely about the white throat, holding alternate rubies and pearls in their curiously wrought settings. On one arm was a bracelet of the same design; and the linked fillet above her dark hair gleamed, also, with the red of rubies. 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3056 Her pale lilac robe showed admirably the transparency of her complexion, and in her waving gilded hair she wore a cluster of delicate rose anemones. 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 695 Over his dreamy violet eyes arched the peculiarly fine jet brows that Mr. Palma had found so distinctive in Regina's face, and his glossy hair and beard possessed that purplish black tint so rarely combined with the transparent white complexion, which now gleamed conspicuously in his broad, full, untanned forehead. 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1874 The dress of pearly cashmere was cut in the style usually denominated "infant waist," and fully exposed the dazzling whiteness and dimpling roundness of the neck and shoulders; while the short puffed sleeves showed admirably the fine modelling of the arms. 0.84 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 568 The dress of Marie-Louise blue merino was relieved at the throat by a neatly crimped ruffle, and, as in days of yore, she wore the white apron with pretty pockets, and ruffled bands passing over her shoulders and down to the belt behind, where broad strings of linen were looped into a bow. Her abundant hair was plaited in two long thick braids, and passed twice around her head, forming a jet coronal, and imparting a peculiarly classic contour. 0.84 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2145 "And I -- I have seen you, with the sword, and the powdered hair, and the blue coat and the buff waistcoat. It is a buff waistcoat like that my great- grandfather wears in his pictures." ============================================================================= TOPIC 8 -- 2646 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= give 630; make 439; time 410; replied 392; good 360; hope 308; leave 274; present 266; accept 240; father 238; matter 237; feel 233; question 233; friend 227; find 227; sir 218; offer 215; remain 205; place 204; suppose 204; duty 194; answer 187; understand 170; care 168; return 167; pleasure 167; request 164; kind 158; answered 150; honor 150; decided 149; desire 149; intend 148; future 146; glad 145; thing 143; stay 139; promise 137; added 136; wishes 136; home 135; business 135; expect 134; asked 133; trust 132; speak 132; made 131; permit 131; excuse 131; offered 130; mind 130; reply 129; part 128; friends 128; great 127; plan 127; thought 126; dear 126; put 125; position 123; refused 122; refuse 121; hand 120; promised 120; doubt 119; pay 119; prefer 119; company 117; follow 115; service 114; subject 114; permission 114; reason 112; choose 112; meet 111; favor 111; send 109; opportunity 109; gentleman 109; longer 108; beg 107; continued 106; taking 106; mother 105; word 103; mine 103; act 102; assure 102; till 100; circumstances 100; matters 98; choice 97; cousin 97; regard 96; invitation 96; advice 96; fear 95; pardon 95; obliged 93; call 93 0.87 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 756 "I have the honor to say to your lordship, that your lordship must be aware of your lordship's important duty as a Minister to the United States, and I trust that your lordship will pay a little attention to your lordship's grammar when next your lordship addresses your lordship's most obedient servant. Your lordship will permit me to say to your lordship, that your lordship is in no way capable of interpreting the Constitution to your lordship's American friends; and I trust your lordship will not be offended when I state to your lordship, that your lordship will find nothing in the Constitution to compel your lordship to demand your lordship's passport on account of the recent capture of State prisoners from one of your lordship's government's vessels, your lordship." 0.86 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3466 "Your determination to submit to these annoyances in the service of your country, and to overlook personal slights, while hope remains that your continued presence in England may benefit our cause, cannot fail to command the approval of your government."[99] 0.83 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 439 "I ought not to have said any thing, sir; but what I was about to say, but did not say, does relate to Miss Florence," replied Percy, not a little embarrassed by the situation. "But I assure you, sir, that it was nothing that reflects in the slightest degree upon her. As I have said so much, I may as well say the rest of it, or you will think more than was intended was meant." 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 804 "I thank you both for your kind attention to my little girl," he replied courteously, "but while fully appreciating your kindness in extending the invitation, I must beg leave to decline it, as I am satisfied that home is the best place for her at present." 0.81 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3022 "I should more readily excuse your visit," replied the lady, "if you would time it when General Marion was levying his contribution. You might then adjust your right to the share you claim. This house is yours, sir; and it is not fit that I should remain to debate with you your claim to dispose of whatever you may find in it." 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1844 "Take time to satisfy yourselves, gentlemen, and give me your decision as requested. Then you have my permission to give your opinions to Major St. John." 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2459 "None whatever. All are kind and considerate. But I can never be satisfied till I see my mother. I shall write tonight, imploring her permission to join her in Europe, and I beg that you will please use your influence in favour of my wishes. Oh, sir, do help me to go to my mother!" 0.79 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 300 "Thanks, thanks, dear Henry! I can trust you for a ready friend, and will even follow your good advice. A more favorable season for this concern may soon arrive; meantime, I will bear this hint in mind." 0.79 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 620 "I thank you for your good opinion; and I assure you, sir, that I should be very glad to serve my country in any capacity in which she may require my humble labors." 0.79 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1169 "Well, sir, you have done a bold thing, and perhaps the best thing for you. Since you have voluntarily delivered yourself up, I shall feel bound to protect you. But I have only one of two alternatives to offer you -- the same I offer to each of these worthy gentlemen here, giving them their choice. Take the oath of allegiance to the confederate government, and volunteer; that is one condition." ============================================================================= TOPIC 9 -- 4154 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= room 3049; door 3014; house 1461; window 856; back 800; open 782; stood 712; entered 675; opened 633; sat 606; chair 554; hall 534; left 528; steps 528; floor 512; front 501; table 490; stairs 428; turned 420; sitting 417; side 411; heard 401; walked 383; bed 367; corner 367; cabin 355; moment 348; found 336; looked 334; closed 311; light 311; reached 309; hand 306; fire 279; seated 278; rose 273; windows 272; passed 267; wall 252; standing 247; feet 243; ran 242; parlor 236; called 226; half 226; place 224; rooms 223; key 219; street 210; led 204; apartment 203; head 202; slowly 200; dining 199; hour 198; kitchen 198; small 197; put 195; great 193; doors 193; veranda 191; drawing 188; wide 186; seat 184; porch 179; mother 177; step 174; returned 171; end 170; night 170; shut 169; dark 169; gate 167; opening 164; locked 164; garden 163; library 162; chamber 161; yard 158; softly 154; carriage 153; low 153; large 152; sound 152; lighted 152; evening 151; leaving 148; drew 146; close 145; threw 145; hastily 145; moved 144; made 143; started 143; walk 143; father 143; air 141; chairs 139; minutes 133; entrance 132 0.88 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1328 And she passed from him into the box-bordered walk. He watched her tall figure until it ascended the stone steps and paused upon the porch, whence came the sound of voices. Through the wide open doors he could see the swinging lamp in the centre of the great hall and the broad stairway leading to the floor above. For a moment he stood motionless; then, turning back into the avenue, he retraced his steps to his father's house. 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 301 As the others returned to the drawing-room on leaving the table, she stole out upon the moonlighted veranda. Gazing wistfully down the avenue, was she thinking of one probably even then on his way to the Oaks -- thinking of him and his disappointment at not finding her here? 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2910 There was a door leading from Mr. Palma's sleeping-room, to the curtained alcove behind the writing desk, and having quietly entered by that passage soon after Regina came home, the master of the house sat on a lounge veiled by damask and lace curtains, and holding the drapery slightly aside, watched what passed in the library. 0.85 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1122 He had seen a light in the sitting-room. He found the door, and knocked. No answer came. He opened it softly, and entered. There burned the lamp on the table -- there stood the vacant chairs -- he was alone in the deserted room. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1085 But another sound startled her. Surely she heard some stealthy step on the veranda upon which the windows of the room opened (long windows reaching from the floor almost to the ceiling), and then a hand at work with the fastenings of the shutters of the one farthest from the bed. 0.83 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 385 As he stepped upon the porch, piled against the wall beside the door were fagots as he used to see them. When he reached the door itself, he stopped, gazing foolishly at those fagots, at the little gray lichens on them: he could not knock, he could not turn the knob without knocking. But his step had been heard. His mother opened the door and peered curiously out. 0.83 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 126 My grandfather leisurely extinguished the fire with his hands, and Miss Abigail, who sat near a low table, knitting by the light of an astral lamp, did not even look up. She was quite used to this catastrophe. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3202 She left the room jingling the bunch of keys, and a few moments after they heard her humming an air from "Rigoletto," as she bent over the mint-bed, under the study window. 0.82 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 246 Once within the hall Madame Blanc dropped into the chair nearest the door, while the Marquise swept into the reception room and hastily to a window fronting on the street. 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1195 Silently they groped their way over the stairs, through the halls and corridors, till they reached a side door, which Mr. Travilla cautiously unbarred. ============================================================================= TOPIC 10 -- 1278 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= dog 381; dogs 223; wild 190; animal 158; tree 141; time 126; trail 125; hound 122; sees 122; hunter 121; blood 113; tail 112; deer 112; back 108; game 105; long 99; makes 99; hunting 98; head 94; gun 93; hounds 89; bird 87; master 85; horse 85; woods 85; make 83; red 78; birds 78; cat 76; sight 75; caught 75; spot 73; sheep 73; close 71; making 71; bear 68; shot 66; forest 66; clancy 66; hunters 65; fear 65; panther 65; short 63; turns 62; hears 61; fish 59; bull 59; run 59; boys 59; stands 59; longer 58; shows 58; coon 58; killed 57; hunt 57; savage 56; eyes 56; ran 56; brute 56; kill 56; body 55; wolves 55; young 54; human 54; sign 54; track 54; eye 53; beast 53; horses 52; skin 52; white 51; teeth 51; scent 51; taking 50; squirrel 50; rifle 48; dead 48; plain 48; pursuit 48; legs 47; draws 47; live 46; continues 46; black 45; keeping 45; feels 45; danger 44; direction 43; hole 43; chase 43; knife 43; mulatto 43; neck 42; appears 42; barking 42; death 41; trap 41; approach 41; catch 41; length 40 0.84 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2522 At length, arriving on its edge, they make stop; Clancy drawing back the dog. Looking across the plain he sees that, which tells him the instinct of the animal will be no longer needed -- at least for a time. 0.81 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 171 Before he can bring his gun to bear upon it, the animal is out of sight; having passed behind the thick standing trunks of the cypresses. He restrains his hound, about to spring off on the slot. The stag has not seen him; and, apparently, going unscared, he hopes to stalk, and again get sight of it. 0.80 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2259 "Come, Brasfort!" says Clancy, apostrophising the hound, while lengthening the leash, and setting the animal on the slot. "You tell us where the redskin riders have gone." 0.79 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1873 "They will be upon our track, sun after sun, keen-eyed as the hawk, tireless as the wild horses, hungry as the wolf, until we reach the tribes that are friendly to the palefaces. And that will be many suns from now. I told my brother that we followed Death into the Blue Mountains. Now Death is upon our trail." 0.78 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 766 "They do," said Joe, "but Jonah doesn't need to follow it as the other dogs do. The dog that runs with his nose to the ground can never catch a red fox." 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2861 Alone with but the companionship of hostile creatures -- wolves that threaten to gnaw the skin from his skull, and vultures ready to tear his eyes out of their sockets. 0.76 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2910 "They took the dog with them. I saw one lead him away. They've let him loose, and he has scented back on the trail? That's it. Oh! if Jupiter were but with him! No fear of their letting him off -- no." 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 193 "Why, there is a big black bull-dog, the biggest that ever was, that has run mad. He has bitten ever so many other dogs, and horses, sheep, and cattle. He is as big as a bear, and froths at the mouth. He is the savagest critter that ever was," said Hans in a breath. 0.75 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1926 Perceiving this, Tucker runs his eyes inquiringly along the path leading towards the mission, at the same time setting his ears to listen. What can be keeping his comrade, who promised so soon to be back? 0.74 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 259 On its master being shot down, the animal had scampered off -- perhaps fearing a similar fate. It had not gone far, and is now returning -- by little and little, drawing nearer to the dangerous spot. ============================================================================= TOPIC 11 -- 2368 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= horse 1957; horses 979; road 913; back 679; rode 511; saddle 453; house 398; side 396; turned 379; riding 372; ride 340; men 337; mounted 261; man 251; sight 241; left 237; fence 223; gate 222; reached 217; woods 216; time 215; moment 212; stable 208; half 206; pace 198; speed 183; passed 181; ahead 176; bridle 173; forward 172; full 170; hour 165; distance 161; direction 159; party 157; head 157; walk 152; hand 150; led 150; made 149; walked 149; stood 148; carriage 147; started 146; ran 145; ground 144; front 143; stopped 142; wagon 141; heard 140; steps 139; rider 138; field 134; mile 133; close 132; gave 132; short 131; galloped 131; called 130; coming 128; door 128; boys 128; minutes 127; camp 127; brought 124; rear 124; animal 121; slowly 119; set 118; halted 117; caught 117; dismounted 116; hill 116; path 114; gallop 114; straight 111; foot 110; round 108; presently 106; horsemen 106; turn 104; run 103; knew 102; till 102; drew 102; stop 99; halt 98; sprang 98; steed 98; leading 97; rein 97; began 96; reins 96; horseback 95; pony 95; suddenly 94; whip 91; ridden 89; hoofs 89; rapidly 86 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 986 A march of a short distance farther across the field brought them to a road, which they followed till they came to a wagon drawn by two horses. The animals were hitched at the side of the road, and no one seemed to be in charge of the team. But the sergeant halted his party at this point; and, leaving the prisoners in charge of his men, he went to the wagon. 0.87 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1832 They were on the road now, and ran at full speed until they approached Union. They left the track as they neared the village, and as they did so they heard the sound of a horse at full gallop behind them. 0.87 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 888 A courier galloped up the road to recall the advance-guard. The head of the column passed through the gap, and, without waiting for the others, dashed up the hill at a gallop -- the General and the colonel a score of yards ahead of any of the others. 0.84 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 87 Mr. Smith went down to the mill and inquired. The miller heard a horse go over the bridge. The farmer on the other side heard a horse go up the hill. Mr. Smith looked at the tracks. They were old Whitey's, who had a broken shoe on his left hind foot. He followed on. "I never knew him to go away before," he said to himself, as he walked hour after hour, seeing the tracks all the way to Fairview. 0.83 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1287 March sauntered off lazily to a corner where the lane led westward like the pike, turned into it and ran at full speed. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 109 She had not gone half the distance ere the sound of horses' hoofs reached her ear -- distant at first but coming rapidly nearer, till a lady and gentleman drew rein at the gate, while the servant who had been riding in the rear dismounted and threw it open. 0.83 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1094 Ellerton rode off at a fast trot. Penn hastened to the woods, where Stackridge's horse was still concealed. The animal had been recently fed and watered, and was ready for a hard ride. The bridle was soon on his head, and Penn on his back, and he was making his way through the woods again towards home. 0.82 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 948 The ladies flew to the house and the rest of us to the stable. In its door Ferry stopped to look back upon the road while Gholson and I darted in, but now he, too, sprang to his horse's side. "How many, Lieutenant?" I cried, as the three of us saddled up. 0.82 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1155 AFTER they reached the highway, and had trotted briskly on for a mile, Alessandro suddenly put out his hand, and taking Baba by the rein, began turning him round and round in the road. 0.82 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1304 Quinn hustled the captives "down a lane," as the fiddler might have said, of Ferry's scouts, mounted them on their own horses at the door, and hurried them away. Charlotte had vanished but was back again in hat and riding-skirt. Ferry caught her hand and they ran to the front veranda steps just as the prisoners and guard rode swiftly from them. Kendall and I had the stirrup ready for her; the saddle was a man's, but she made a horn of its pommel, and in a flash the four of us were mounted. Nevertheless before we could move the grove resounded with shots, and Ferry, bidding us ride on after the fleeing guard, wheeled and galloped to where half our troop were holding back their assailants in the dark. But then, to our distraction, Charlotte would not fly. "Richard, I'm paroled!" -- "Charlotte Oliver, you're my prisoner!" I reached for her bridle, but she avoided me and with a cry of recollection wheeled and was on her way back. "I forgot something! I can get it, I left the room lighted!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 12 -- 8829 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= good 2505; ca 1664; make 1626; man 1556; wo 1253; time 1234; thing 1131; give 1102; back 1054; replied 1016; find 819; fellow 669; men 667; boy 652; things 626; talk 623; put 598; exclaimed 595; thought 587; afraid 584; answered 582; people 580; hear 577; run 575; ai 567; stay 558; added 550; day 549; home 531; sir 531; trouble 530; suppose 522; mind 517; bad 507; reckon 500; boys 499; stand 495; long 492; till 483; work 472; care 468; night 465; told 455; fight 447; place 435; leave 435; chance 411; pretty 386; send 379; word 378; business 378; glad 374; hope 373; show 373; call 370; feel 366; hold 358; hard 350; bring 345; money 337; house 336; fool 336; sort 333; stop 331; live 329; wait 327; kind 323; wanted 321; friend 314; poor 313; 311; cried 310; matter 306; world 298; remember 296; deal 288; life 286; turn 267; friends 263; makes 263; big 261; fellows 260; rest 259; expect 250; mother 248; continued 245; heard 240; understand 238; head 237; great 234; guess 234; folks 231; begin 228; morrow 227; young 225; set 224; minute 220; coming 218; half 211; ready 209 0.87 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 427 "Boys," he said, "I'll bring her out on one condition, and that is that there shall be no shines. I wouldn't have her scared or upset for a good deal. There's a joke in this sort of thing, I daresay; but it ain't all joke. If I bring her out and show her, there's to be no crowding and no row." 0.87 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 1292 That was enough for Turner to hear. "Look a-here," he said, "don't you get flip when you meet your father. He's come a long ways to see you, and I'm damned if he shan't see you right. Remember you're stoppin' at my house as long as the old man stays, and if you make a break while he's here I'll spoil your mug for you. Bring him along, boys." 0.84 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 835 "It's safer to try the bushwhacking game, and he has been shot at three times already. He doesn't expect to live to see the end of these troubles, but he is like your cousin Marcy Gray -- he doesn't haul in his shingle one inch. Burn that letter, I tell you." 0.83 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1144 "Well, I'm tired saving people's lives, but we won't count this one; you say you want to hear it -- I can't give you all of it but it begins: 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 1172 "Now listen at you," said the overseer angrily. "Wasn't you going to steal it? I ain't. I'm only going to hold fast to it a little while to see if you are going to do like I tell you. If you do, the Missus will get her pin back, and she won't never know who took it; but if you don't, I'll have you in the field where I can find you every time I retch for you. Now listen. I reckon you know that Mister Marcy is coming home from school one of those days, don't you? Well, when he comes, I want you to find out if he's Union or secesh. What's the Missus anyway?" 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1174 "Bet your life," said the captain, with another chuckle. "Do you reckon I'd let them miss that place? I sent them there, and they was gone long enough to give the house a good overhauling; but what I can't quite see through -- -- " 0.83 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1466 "It don't make no difference what he said -- that ain't the thing. The thing is for you to treat him kind , and not be saying things to make him remember he ain't in his own country and amongst his own folks." 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 1249 "Yes; but the great State of New York isn't foolish enough to try any such game as that. She'd be whipped so quick that it would make her head swim; and that's just what is going to happen to South Carolina. But you always was as obstinate as a mule, and. I don't care to get into any argument with you." 0.83 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2170 "Well, for the life of me I can't remember when I done it. I could show her now that I warn't to blame on account of the rats. But never mind -- let it go. I reckon it wouldn't do no good." 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1029 "I aint a paroled pris'ner neither," he shouted. "I took my oath that I wouldn't never fight agin the United States again, and I'm going to stick to it. I'm a free man now; I am going to stay free, and I won't shut up till I get ready. When I say that Lon Beardsley tried to get me to burn Mrs. Gray's house I say the truth, and Beardsley dassent come afore me and say different. But I told him plain that we uns who had fit and snuffed powder wouldn't do no dirty work like that. We don't care if Jack Gray is in the Yankee navy and Marcy was a pilot on a Yankee gunboat. If they was in that fight I done my level best to sink 'em; but they whopped us fair and square, and I've had enough of fighting to last me as long as I live. All the same I aint going to let no little whiffet like Tom Allison call me a coward." ============================================================================= TOPIC 13 -- 5443 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= board 1430; captain 1347; steamer 1259; deck 1037; ship 1006; officer 971; men 862; vessel 796; commander 793; boat 765; lieutenant 686; replied 559; crew 493; time 492; cabin 471; officers 438; added 434; order 431; flag 406; pilot 380; made 377; continued 348; orders 347; blockade 325; make 316; schooner 311; run 294; vessels 292; prize 292; mate 287; man 269; put 267; side 266; duty 265; shore 264; port 260; engineer 253; called 236; command 228; capture 225; engine 224; hour 219; ready 217; hands 214; captured 211; quarter 208; found 207; speed 204; ordered 202; regard 200; sea 196; wheel 195; part 191; directed 188; position 187; place 187; sail 183; cotton 182; bay 181; service 179; reported 177; appeared 176; report 176; gave 175; steward 170; information 169; watch 168; naval 167; present 166; war 165; enemy 165; fast 164; owner 164; brought 163; guns 163; shouted 163; left 162; steamers 160; point 156; executive 155; ahead 152; master 151; sailors 151; alongside 151; tug 151; boats 147; minutes 144; situation 142; forward 142; cutter 141; seamen 141; full 140; till 140; half 139; prisoner 139; aboard 137; work 136; sailor 132; doubt 131; room 131 0.91 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 641 The commander then instructed the first lieutenant to see that both divisions of boarders were armed with cutlass and revolver, in readiness for action. The second lieutenant was to attend to the working of the broadside guns, Mr. Baskirk was to lead the first division of boarders, and Mr. Giblock, the boatswain, the second. Flint went below to the deck to execute his orders, and the captain ordered the quartermaster to ring one bell. 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 520 Seated on the side of his berth he considered the situation very faithfully. The Bronx lay off St. Rosa's Island; she was on the blockade, evidently ready to trip her anchor, whenever occasion should require. In regard to her officers Christy only knew that Mr. Flint was in temporary command of her, in place of Mr. Blowitt, who had become the executive officer of the Bellevite. The other officers must have been appointed for temporary service. 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1002 The quartermaster obeyed the order, and four of the party were placed in the bow and stern sheets of the cutter. Six oarsmen were directed to take their places on the thwarts. The lieutenant retained his place in the stern sheets, which he had not left during the affray or the conference. Three seamen, with a pistol in one hand and a cutlass in the other, were directed to remain on board of the sloop; but the party had been disarmed, and their muskets were in the bottom of the cutter, and they were not likely to attempt any resistance. The painter of the sloop was made fast to the stern of the Bronx's boat, and Mr. Pennant gave the order for the crew to give way. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 813 Christy gave him the order to cast loose the launch, and have it in readiness to lower into the water at a moment's notice; and Mr. Walbrook proceeded to obey it without delay. The first lieutenant then called Mr. Walters, a midshipman, and directed him to give his compliments to Mr. Vapoor, and ask him if he could spare the third assistant engineer for special duty for a couple of hours, more or less. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 733 The first lieutenant had been busy on the deck of the vessel, but he had been able to accomplish but little in the absence of definite instructions from the captain. All the seamen were held in the forward part of the deck, and there were twenty-four of them, including the petty officers, but not the stokers, as the firemen were called. The engineers and all connected with their department remained below so far as could be learned. Two officers remained seated on the quarter deck; but they did not appear to be so thoroughly cast down as the captain, doubtless because they were not called upon to bear the responsibility of the capture. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 266 While Christy was planking the deck, four bells were struck on the ship's great bell on the top-gallant forecastle. It was the beginning of the second dog watch, or six o'clock in the afternoon, and the watch which had been on duty since four o'clock was relieved. Mr. Flint ascended the bridge, and took the place of Mr. Lillyworth, the second lieutenant. Under this bridge was the pilot- house, and in spite of her small size, the steamer was steered by steam. The ship had been at sea but a few hours, and the crew were not inclined to leave the deck. The number of men on board was nearly doubled by the addition of those sent down to fill vacancies in other vessels on the blockade. Christy went on the bridge soon after, more to take a survey inboard than for any other purpose. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1435 The course of the ship was changed, and Christy planked the deck from the quarter-deck to the forecastle in order to obtain the best view he could of the relative positions of the St. Regis, the chase, and the two steamers astern of her. The blockade-runner showed no colors; and no flag could have been of any service to her. She appeared still to be very confident that she was in no danger, evidently relying wholly upon her great speed to carry her through to her destination. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1129 "In New York they got up a plan to obtain a small steamer, about the size of the Bronx," continued Christy. "Galvinne had been in the navy, and he readily obtained an appointment as second lieutenant of the store-ship Vernon. Byron shipped as a seaman. Corny was appointed by the two officers to take the place of a regular officer, who came down in the Vernon. He looked something like the officer whom he personated, who was to command a small steamer in the gulf." 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 105 The captain of the steamer, who had also come out of the pilot-house, had stationed himself within call of the owner to receive the next order, which might throw some light on the reason for anchoring the steamer so near her destination on a full sea. He presented himself before the magnate of the yacht, and indicated that he was ready to take his further orders. 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 840 The Chateaugay was going ahead at full speed when the two gentlemen retired from the quarter-deck. She stopped her screw within hail of the Cadet. Her crew were clearing away the wreck of the pilot-house; but the destruction of her steering gear forward did not permit her to keep under way, though hands were at work on the quarter-deck putting her extra wheel in order for use. Of course it was plain enough to the captain of the Cadet that the Chateaugay, after the mischief she had done with a single shot, could knock the steamer all to pieces in a few minutes. ============================================================================= TOPIC 14 -- 1217 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= man 580; good 401; ha 337; day 179; great 175; play 153; cried 149; laughed 136; men 127; head 126; maid 124; hand 122; laugh 120; fair 116; thee 114; king 109; make 108; ah 107; tobacco 104; woman 101; fellow 101; game 101; time 99; devil 99; major 96; turn 92; hath 91; gentlemen 87; tongue 87; women 86; set 85; mine 85; sister 85; put 82; hold 78; ay 74; verily 74; things 73; pray 73; night 72; call 72; mind 71; friend 71; made 70; tis 69; goods 68; true 68; gentleman 68; give 67; knew 66; lad 65; poor 64; sir 64; faith 64; sort 63; truth 63; ill 60; played 60; worth 60; luck 60; black 59; drink 59; wise 58; gold 58; stand 58; fool 58; told 57; convict 57; honor 57; sword 56; word 56; naught 56; high 54; life 54; thy 54; wit 54; pretty 53; laughing 53; free 52; blood 52; fashion 51; red 51; governor 51; sergeant 51; mad 51; mought 51; honest 50; cut 50; doubt 49; parson 49; continued 48; lord 48; face 47; ship 47; spoke 47; sheep 46; fight 46; shame 45; pirate 45; case 44 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2276 "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, um h'm! so it is, bairnies, just Cousin Ronald at his old tricks again," laughed Mr. Lilburn. 0.79 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 603 "Not in the least. My foot swelled a little, and at first stung a great deal. But that was the end of it. I was careful to swallow none of the blood, and to wash my mouth well after the sucking." 0.78 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 511 But Madam Cavendish stared at me with unreasoning anger, not understanding, since she was a woman, and unreasoning as a woman will be in such matters. "If you love not my granddaughter, Harry Wingfield," she cried out, "'tis not her grandmother will fling her at your head. I will let you know, sir, that she could have her pick in the colony if she so chose, and it may be that she might not choose you, Master Harry Wingfield." 0.77 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 347 "Dick," laughed Captain Tabor, "governors be great men and you but a poor sailor, but when it comes to coin in wifely value, thy weight in the heart of thy good Bridget would send the governor of Virginia higher than thy masthead. None but my Lady Culpeper need have hint of the fever." 0.77 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 293 "That does he!" said Alessandro. "He swears the saints gave him over to the fiends to push him off the plank, and he'll have none of them from this out! I told him to beware, or they might bring him to worse things yet if he did not mend his speech of them." 0.77 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 224 "Locusts stand not against the wind in stiff sheets," said she. "'Tis the sail of the Golden Horn; but that matters not. Harry, Harry Wingfield, can you save my sister?" 0.76 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 363 "What sort of a game are you trying to play off on me? I am an innocent young fellow of sixteen, and I don't like to have others playing tricks on me. Who told you my name, if you please?" 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2059 "Ha, ha! man mit de proken nose, you vake up de wrong bassenger. Ha, ha! I dells you again you ish von pig sheat!" 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2021 "Ah ha! um h'm! ah ha! But surely those were rare cases?" 0.75 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1266 "When drinkers are dry, and liquor is low, A fray that takes off a good fellow or so, Why, what does it do, but help us to bear The loss of a comrade, in drinking his share? Then heave and ho, and trombelow, A fray and a feast are brothers, you know. ============================================================================= TOPIC 15 -- 778 chunks >= 0.25 from 56 texts ============================================================================= church 593; sing 215; music 201; prayer 164; singing 141; sang 140; voice 127; soul 112; song 111; hymn 105; heard 102; pulpit 101; day 100; congregation 99; pastor 94; faith 91; people 90; parson 89; religious 88; sermon 83; prayers 81; holy 80; choir 80; altar 78; minister 74; preach 74; sweet 71; songs 71; sung 71; solemn 69; preached 68; school 67; service 66; meeting 65; religion 65; play 65; organ 63; read 61; morning 61; lad 60; great 59; grave 59; book 57; voices 57; preacher 57; place 53; chapel 53; priest 51; members 50; hear 50; words 50; pew 50; flute 50; pious 49; worship 49; played 48; time 47; work 46; life 46; chorus 46; monk 46; ministers 45; sacred 43; hymns 43; peace 42; called 41; sat 41; convent 41; monks 41; body 40; musical 40; till 40; ancient 40; roll 40; abbey 40; held 38; side 38; churches 38; amen 37; college 37; young 36; led 36; notes 36; saints 36; round 35; cross 35; instrument 35; flock 35; spiritual 35; prayed 35; dead 34; brethren 34; seats 34; preaching 34; fathers 33; aisle 33; rich 32; meetings 32; good 32; hand 32 0.86 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 802 "O my Mary is sitting on the tree of life, To see the Jordan roll; O, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll! I will march the angel march, -- I will march the angel march. O my soul is rising heavenward, To see where the Jordan rolls." 0.86 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1524 Little children sitting on the tree of life. To hear the Jordan roll; O roll, Jordan roll, Jordan roll, Jordan roll. We march the angel march, O march the angel march, O my soul is rising heavenward To hear the Jordan roll.] 0.80 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 226 "Then, can you not compare the teachings of the Apostles, THEIR faith and THEIR practice, with the teachings of this church? ITS faith and ITS practice?" 0.78 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 1067 "O my soul arise in heaven, Lord, for to yearde when Jordan roll, Roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll," -- 0.77 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 996 "O march, de angel march! O march, de angel march! O my soul arise in heaven, Lord, for to yearde when Jordan roll! Roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll." 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3386 The ordination sermon was solemn and eloquent, and preached from the text in Romans: 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3474 "Sweetly it rests, and on dream-wings flies, To play with the angels in paradise!" 0.71 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2196 "Come, sing to me of heaven, When I'm about to die; Sing songs of holy ecstasy, To waft my soul on high." 0.71 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1521 After the exercises of the religious meeting were concluded, the chairs were set aside, and they began a "praise meeting," or singing meeting. Most of their music is plaintive. The piece frequently commences with a recitative by one voice, and at the end of the first line the chorus joins. The words are often improvised to suit the occasion. 0.70 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2680 The sermon was only so-so, but they enjoyed the singing; particularly their own. Both sang from one book, with much reserve, yet with such sweetly persuasive voices that those about them first listened and then added their own very best. The second tune was "Geer," and, with John's tenor going up every time Barbara's soprano came down, and vice versa , it was as lovely see-sawing as ever thrilled the heart of youth with pure and undefiled religion. They sang the last hymn to "Dennis." It was, ============================================================================= TOPIC 16 -- 2647 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= dear 1082; papa 879; good 684; child 544; mother 504; love 474; cried 474; girl 472; arms 449; mamma 396; ah 364; tears 361; hand 360; poor 356; glad 355; father 346; exclaimed 301; asked 297; eyes 283; answered 281; darling 267; sweet 247; baby 236; kiss 212; heart 211; face 191; daughter 182; arm 169; happy 168; boy 165; kissed 165; kind 164; ca 153; head 152; bless 152; neck 147; night 146; tender 136; home 133; cry 132; wo 132; whispered 130; hands 126; added 121; moment 121; care 120; give 119; taking 118; hope 117; sobbed 117; feel 113; smile 109; make 108; sister 108; room 107; husband 106; forgive 104; pretty 103; tone 102; replied 100; low 97; wife 94; tenderly 92; afraid 91; crying 91; laying 89; voice 88; put 87; friend 87; lovely 86; words 86; children 85; putting 84; naughty 84; joy 82; beautiful 80; half 79; pet 79; nurse 79; bye 76; murmured 75; softly 74; hear 73; smiling 73; precious 72; leave 71; cheek 71; mammy 71; fond 70; tones 70; young 69; loved 69; pleaded 68; speak 67; loving 67; stay 67; hurt 67; loves 67; laugh 66; burst 65 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 687 He encircled them all in his arms, soothing them with caresses and words of fatherly endearment. "There, there, my darlings, dry your tears; papa will take care of you; nothing shall hurt you." 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1587 "Oh they have come! they have come!" cried Rosie, clapping her hands and dancing up and down with delight. "Now our troubles are over and there will be no more of these dreadful raids." And in the exuberance of her joy she embraced first her mother, then her sister, and lastly threw herself into her father's arms. 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1724 "Oh! yes, dear mammy, thank you for remembering it," exclaimed the little girl, lifting her head and smiling through her tears. "I won't cry any more now, but will just try to keep thinking how glad I will be when papa comes home again." 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1831 "What! mamma ky? Mamma don't want Elsie to go see Jesus? Den Elsie will stay wis mamma and papa. Don't ky, Elsie's mamma;" and feebly the little hand tried to wipe away her mother's tears. 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1975 "Oh yes, yes mamma, I know you do, and I love you too: indeed I do dearly, dearly!" he burst out, throwing his arms about her neck. "And I know you just want to make me good and happy and that your way's always best. So I won't be naughty any more." 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1607 "Baby!" cried the little girl, with a joyous shout, clapping her chubby hands, "pretty baby Elsie take"; and the small arms were held out entreatingly. 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1829 Again the little arms were round his neck, and hugging him close and closer, she whispered, "It was Jesus I meant, papa; you know He loves me even better than you do, and I must love Him best of all; but there is no one else that I love half so much as I love you, my own dear, dear precious father." 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 289 "No, no," burst out the half distracted child, "I wouldn't hurt my dear papa one bit for all the world! but it was 'cause I disobeyed him. He told me never to touch firearms when he wasn't by to help me do it right. Oh, oh, oh, I didn't think I'd ever be such a wicked boy! I've killed my father, oh! oh!" 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2163 "Oh! it is papa," cried the little girl, catching it in her hand, "my own dear, darling papa! oh! how good of him to give it to me!" and she danced about the room in her delight. "It is just himself, so exactly like him! Isn't it a good likeness, mammy?" she asked, drawing near the light to examine it more closely. "Dear, dear, darling papa!" and she kissed it again and again. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1278 "Dear papa, you thought I deserved it," she said, with a burst of tears and sobs, throwing her arms around his neck, and laying her head on his breast. ============================================================================= TOPIC 17 -- 2023 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= water 494; table 437; coffee 321; eat 288; bread 278; supper 268; drink 241; brought 229; made 225; hot 222; corn 219; meal 218; good 214; dinner 207; fire 204; breakfast 201; food 197; cup 188; work 184; set 174; filled 173; bottle 169; day 167; glass 165; put 160; small 160; large 155; cold 154; hungry 154; found 148; wood 148; basket 145; wine 144; kitchen 142; plate 139; milk 138; tea 136; sugar 132; meat 124; cook 124; long 121; piece 120; full 116; drank 111; tobacco 111; eating 110; things 108; salt 108; began 103; fresh 101; box 99; sweet 97; chickens 97; half 94; eaten 94; make 92; appetite 92; fish 91; chicken 91; morning 90; supply 89; cut 88; ate 88; tin 87; bring 87; fruit 86; boys 85; dish 85; whiskey 85; hard 83; potatoes 83; eggs 83; cakes 83; ready 81; drinking 81; drop 81; ice 81; pipe 81; pot 80; cake 80; butter 78; pie 76; bacon 76; flour 75; dishes 75; provisions 73; stove 73; silver 72; poured 72; taking 72; boy 71; spirits 71; give 70; bed 69; empty 68; pile 68; room 67; pig 67; honey 67; cooking 66 0.89 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1161 Upon going into the supper-room, my boy, I beheld a paradise of eatables that made me wish myself a knife and pork, with nothing but a bottle of mustard to keep me company. There were oysters a la fundum ; turkeys a la ruffles ; chickens a la Methusaleh ; beef a la Bull Run ; fruit a la stumikake ; jellies a la Kallararmorbus ; and ices a la aguefitz . 0.86 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1344 But Jupe has never been driven to diet on alligator meat too much of musky flavour. His usual fare is roast pork, with now and then broiled ham and chicken; failing which, a fricassee of 'coon or a barbecue of 'possum. No lack of bread besides -- maize bread -- in its various bakings of "pone", "hoe cake," and "dodger." Sometimes, too, he indulges in "Virginia biscuit," of sweetest and whitest flour. 0.85 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 363 The pork was cold, pone ditto, potatoes also. Pone is unraised corn-cake baked in the ashes, and said to be good for indigestion. It is a favorite cake in the South. 0.85 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 533 We used to laugh at Fred Langdon for always carrying in his pocket a small vial of essence of peppermint or sassafras, a few drops of which, sprinkled on a lump of loaf-sugar, he seemed to consider a great luxury. I don't know what would have become of us at this crisis, if it hadn't been for that omnipresent bottle of hot stuff. We poured the stinging liquid over our sugar, which had kept dry in a sardine-box, and warmed ourselves with frequent doses. 0.85 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 637 In a few moments the nicely-cooked spare-rib was smoking on the table, together with hot coffee, boiled turnips and egg bread, which Southern cooks know so well how to make. Besides this there was the golden-colored butter, white flaky honeycomb, and the Sunday pitcher overflowing with rich creamy milk. "Come, boys, set by and have some fodder!" said Mr. Middleton. 0.84 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1496 The washing up after dinner was not a very long operation, as half a dozen plates and the same number of knives and forks, with a couple of dishes, were divided among six servants. 0.84 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 189 At last supper was ready, -- a great dish of spiced beef and cabbage in the centre of the table; a tureen of thick soup, with force-meat balls and red peppers in it; two red earthen platters heaped, one with the boiled rice and onions, the other with the delicious frijoles (beans) so dear to all Mexican hearts; cut-glass dishes filled with hot stewed pears, or preserved quinces, or grape jelly; plates of frosted cakes of various sorts; and a steaming silver teakettle, from which went up an aroma of tea such as had never been bought or sold in all California, the Senora's one extravagance and passion. 0.82 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1009 Bridget entered with a waiter, on which were a coffee-pot, some cups and saucers, sugar, etc., beside a plate of sandwiches. 0.81 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 369 "Such as I have is at your service, gentlemen," said our host. But he had no hay, no oats, no corn, nothing but shucks for our horses. Our supper consisted of fried pork, fried salt shad, pone, wheat-cakes, pea-coffee, strawberry-leaf tea, sweetened with damp brown sugar! 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 913 Aunt Chloe, always making herself useful wherever she went, was passing around the room with a pile of plates, Phillis following with cakes and confections, while Simon brought in a waiter with saucers and spoons, and two large moulds of ice cream. ============================================================================= TOPIC 18 -- 996 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= men 441; crowd 394; young 358; people 253; women 232; street 226; ladies 205; dance 190; passed 184; girls 163; great 161; group 151; faces 147; court 136; man 135; stood 127; children 124; gathered 124; house 116; village 113; standing 111; side 106; sat 104; place 101; gentlemen 100; open 98; dancing 95; laughter 95; town 94; front 94; streets 92; crowded 91; walked 89; church 89; heads 84; negroes 84; boys 83; throng 81; day 79; music 79; groups 79; filled 78; gay 77; high 76; round 76; end 74; sight 71; room 71; laughing 70; city 69; white 67; houses 66; danced 66; laughed 66; attention 64; party 64; hats 64; air 63; excited 63; scene 62; began 62; cheers 61; windows 60; spectators 58; hall 57; turned 56; held 55; midst 55; seat 55; dressed 54; watched 54; corner 54; platform 54; part 52; company 52; dozen 52; bar 52; gentleman 51; passing 50; looked 50; joined 49; coming 49; seats 49; assembled 48; doors 48; strange 47; shouting 46; carriage 45; middle 45; walking 45; talking 44; square 44; appeared 43; past 43; cheer 43; line 42; stopped 42; rest 42; presently 42; voices 42 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 462 The children were romping with each other and Bruno on the veranda without; the merry shouts, the silvery laughter coming pleasantly in through the open windows. 0.80 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2069 As an unwieldy gentleman, in an alpaca coat, made his appearance upon the platform, there was an outburst of emotion from where the tenth delegation was seated. The unwieldy gentleman was the Honourable Cumberland Crutchfield, a popular aspirant to the governorship. 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2461 There were seats which were secluded enough, though people passed and repassed within sight of them. People often chose such spots to sit and talk together. One saw pairs of lovers, pairs of politicians, couples of sightseers. 0.74 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1027 Trade had spread into side-streets. Drinking-houses were gayly bedight and busy. 0.73 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 495 And in the fair city of elms we again open the scene. It was commencement at Yale, and the crowd which filled the old Center church were listening breathlessly to the tide of eloquence poured forth by the young valedictorian. 0.72 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2239 We were on the parade ground, among a crowd of spectators, for the hotels were very full, and the Point very gay now. I said I saw him. 0.71 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1554 When Leech’s new companies drilled, the roadsides were lined with their admirers. They filled the streets and took possession of the sidewalks, yelling, and hustling out of their way any who might be on them. Ladies walking on the street were met and shoved off into the mud. In a little while, whenever the militia were out, the whites disappeared almost wholly from the streets. But the men were to be found gathered together at some central place, quiet, and apparently without any object, but grim and earnest. Steve Allen was likely to be among them. 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 904 Lively, cordial greetings followed, especially on the part of the two young girls. Mrs. Travilla was introduced, and all settled themselves for a chat; Lottie and Elsie, of course, managing to find seats side by side. 0.70 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 471 This sally evoked a wave of laughter from the crowd, and Rastus joined in with as much enjoyment as if he had caused it. Herbert Putnam drew Sill aside. 0.69 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2192 While she waited, she passed her time watching the negroes who were congregated about a small building which seemed to be part store, part bar-room, though from her observation the latter was its principal office. ============================================================================= TOPIC 19 -- 797 chunks >= 0.25 from 42 texts ============================================================================= 25 321; illustrated 284; 12mo 242; cloth 214; volume 186; colors 147; extra 138; box 133; printed 129; price 128; 1.25 106; vols 103; fully 102; 1.00 102; cents 86; 75 86; volumes 81; illustrations 69; 50 66; sold 57; separately 56; 1.50 55; series 41; bound 41; paper 41; gilt 38; 16mo 38; club 35; pages 34; author 32; 00 32; a. 30; edges 29; 8vo 28; story 27; cover 27; engravings 27; original 26; morocco 25; binding 24; elegantly 24; drawings 23; edition 22; top 21; girls 21; library 21; beauty 20; half 19; handsomely 19; neat 19; set 18; castlemon 18; full 17; twenty 17; adventures 16; harry 16; cruise 16; great 15; young 15; recorded 14; emblematic 14; gold 13; receipt 13; literary 13; excellent 12; marked 12; successes 12; color 12; camping 12; life 11; 30 11; maps 11; size 11; issues 11; calf 11; romance 11; time 10; roughing 10; marbled 10; 5.00 10; wood 9; beautifully 9; sale 9; treasure 9; fancy 9; frontispiece 9; inlay 9; finest 8; stories 8; yachting 8; edited 8; 2.00 8; brown 7; ornamental 7; bold 7; publishers 7; boxed 7; booksellers 7; large 6; popular 6 0.95 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 3001 SWEDEN AND THE SWEDES. By William Widgery Thomas, Jr. English edition: One volume, cloth, $3.75; two volumes, $5.00; one volume, half morocco, $5.00; two volumes, $7.00; one volume, full morocco, $7.50; two volumes, $10.00. Swedish edition: One volume, cloth, $3.75; one volume, half morocco, $5.00; one volume, full morocco, $7.50. Large 8vo; 750 pages; 328 illustrations. 0.90 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1262 Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper -- most of them with illustrations of marked beauty -- and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid. 0.90 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1173 Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper -- most of them with illustrations of marked beauty -- and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid. 0.90 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1563 CAMPING OUT SERIES. By C. A. Stephens. 6 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $7 50 Camping Out. As recorded by "Kit" 1 25 Left on Labrador; or The Cruise of the Schooner Yacht "Curfew." As recorded by "Wash" 1 25 Off to the Geysers; or, The Young Yachters in Iceland. As recorded by "Wade" 1 25 Lynx Hunting. From Notes by the author of "Camping Out" 1 25 Fox Hunting. As recorded by "Raed" 1 25 On the Amazon; or, The Cruise of the "Rambler." As recorded by "Wash" 1 25 0.89 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2995 SHOOTING ON UPLAND, MARSH, AND STREAM. Edited by William Bruce Leffingwell, author of "Wild Fowl Shooting." Profusely illustrated; 8vo; 473 pages. Cloth, $3.50; half morocco, gilt edges, $4.50; full morocco, gilt edges, $6.50. 0.89 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1518 FRANK NELSON SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 3 vols. 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $3 75 Snowed Up; or, The Sportsman's Club in the Mts. 1 25 Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; or, The Sportsman's Club among the Whalers 1 25 The Boy Traders; or, The Sportsman's Club among the Boers 1 25 0.89 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1275 Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper -- most of them with illustrations of marked beauty -- and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid. 0.89 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1184 Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper -- most of them with illustrations of marked beauty -- and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid. 0.89 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1157 Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. 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In box $5 00 Try and Trust; or, The Story of a Bound Boy 1 25 Bound to Rise; or Harry Walton's Motto 1 25 Risen from the Ranks; or, Harry Walton's Success 1 25 Herbert Carter's Legacy; or, The Inventor's Son 1 25 ============================================================================= TOPIC 20 -- 1192 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= night 1450; sleep 871; bed 687; asleep 435; morning 397; lay 344; day 326; hour 285; slept 273; time 271; room 251; fire 239; light 233; awake 225; long 218; till 215; hours 214; rest 195; watch 185; cold 178; sleeping 177; sound 167; midnight 163; sat 154; window 132; lie 128; dream 124; heard 121; fell 121; rain 119; slumber 115; found 113; wake 112; darkness 110; tired 110; began 109; pillow 109; side 106; heavy 102; weary 100; late 98; dark 97; thought 97; blanket 97; awoke 95; dawn 94; half 93; air 92; head 92; made 90; eyes 87; told 84; thinking 83; sun 82; sleepy 82; tent 80; lying 78; floor 78; place 77; blankets 77; laid 76; put 76; clock 76; morrow 73; wide 73; quietly 72; past 71; early 70; warm 69; felt 68; left 68; nights 68; dreams 68; quiet 66; daylight 66; passed 63; find 63; awakened 62; open 61; good 61; fast 61; evening 60; retired 60; watching 58; mind 57; struck 57; exhausted 57; stretched 57; softly 57; dreaming 57; closed 56; minutes 56; clothes 56; listening 56; rose 55; sitting 55; watched 55; spread 53; hot 52; keeping 52 0.82 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1108 It was long before the Senora went to her room; and long after that before Felipe's breathing had become so deep and regular that Ramona dared feel sure that he was asleep. At last she ventured out. All was dark; it was past midnight. 0.81 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 379 At twilight of this day Felipe was restless and feverish again. He had dozed at intervals all day long, but had had no refreshing sleep. 0.77 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 474 Why I did not make myself immediately ill, with my night's vigils and sorrow, I cannot tell; unless it were that great excitement kept off the effects of chill air and damp. However, the excitement had its own effects; and my eyes were sadly heavy when they I opened the next morning to look at Margaret lighting my fire. 0.73 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2809 By midnight there is not a man of them awake, and the camp is silent, save here and there a drunken snore disturbing its stillness. 0.73 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 838 On the last Richard Darke lies; since this night he sleeps not at all. From the hour of retiring to his chamber, till morning's dawn comes creeping through the window, he has never closed eye; or, if so, not in the sweet oblivion of slumber. 0.73 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1399 Then they said good night; she acknowledged she did feel sleepy -- a little -- though she had forgotten it until the clock struck. 0.72 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1065 "I think you will be snug in there," Vincent said when he had finished. "The heat of the fire will keep you dry and warm, and if you lie with your heads the other way I think your things will be dry by the morning. Dan and I will lie down by the other side of the fire. We are both accustomed to sleep in the open air, and have done so for months." 0.71 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 968 "I believe you could sleep three-quarters of your time, Dan. However, you may as well sleep now if you can, for there will be nothing to do till night." 0.71 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1198 Alessandro laughed. "I need no bed," he said. "We think it is on our mother's lap we lie, when we lie on the ground. It is not hard, Majella. It is soft, and rests one better than beds. But to-night I shall not sleep. I will sit by this tree and watch." 0.71 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1263 "But this was soon over, and orders came that we should bivouac for the night. You will not wonder that I lay awake nearly the whole night. A night attack was possible, and the confusion and darkness would have made it fearful. As I lay awake I could not help thinking how anxious you would feel if you had known where I was. ============================================================================= TOPIC 21 -- 2876 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= heart 1502; life 1026; love 705; thought 652; long 588; day 582; felt 487; time 429; face 416; death 415; words 370; eyes 366; soul 359; years 355; loved 345; nature 335; thoughts 328; future 320; mind 319; knew 317; world 314; days 313; past 311; joy 293; sad 289; memory 289; night 276; hope 271; woman 269; happy 265; hour 256; passed 252; sorrow 251; deep 250; beautiful 243; feeling 241; child 236; mother 233; young 232; hours 229; happiness 226; human 225; made 216; grief 212; strange 210; tears 204; dream 203; things 199; peace 195; sweet 195; pain 193; back 182; filled 176; strong 174; tender 174; spirit 173; lost 172; left 171; light 168; moment 168; grew 168; bitter 162; times 157; full 157; grave 155; dead 150; sense 148; found 145; hearts 145; remembered 143; place 142; affection 142; youth 140; passion 138; brought 135; calm 133; forever 132; man 131; scene 131; great 130; memories 128; hopes 127; girl 125; feel 124; side 124; sympathy 122; silent 122; quiet 122; wife 122; looked 122; dreams 122; lover 121; sight 119; terrible 118; sadness 117; broken 116; presence 115; stood 114; beauty 113; lonely 113 0.91 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2887 During the last three days, left to the companionship of her own sad thoughts, and unable to see Olga alone for even a moment, more than one painful and unutterably bitter discovery had been made. She felt that indeed her childhood had flown for ever, that the sacred mysterious chrism of womanhood had been poured upon her young heart. 0.90 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 1162 Mournful as was this last sight of her, and touched with remorse, he could yet bear it away in his heart for long remembrance not untempered by consolation. He saw her well; he saw her faithful; he saw her bearing the sorrows of her lot with angelic sweetness. Through years to come the beauty of this scene might abide with him, lifted above the realm of mortal changes by the serenitude of her immovable devotion. 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 744 "My father! oh, my father!" and tears, which she had not shed before, fell fast, and somewhat eased the desolate, aching heart. Florence had not wept before in many years; and now that the fountain was unsealed, she strove not to repress the tears which seemed to lift and bear away the heavy weight which had so long crushed her spirits. 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 423 The idols of her youth were neglected and forgotten; one image filled Inez's heart, and before it she poured out all the passionate love of her ardent nature; hence her aversion to a union with Manuel Nevarro. 0.84 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1406 Since his return from Kentucky he had thoughts of little else save Fanny Middleton. Waking or sleeping, she was constantly in his mind, and still with a happy thought of her there ever came a sadder feeling, a fear that his love for her would be in vain. But since the morning when he bade her adieu, her name had never once passed his lips. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 671 "It was a groundless fear, that when the long-sought opportunity came my weak womanish nature would betray me, and I should fail, break down utterly under the crushing weight of tender memories, sacred associations. What are they? 0.83 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 496 He was happy in imagining the happiness that might be, forgetful of another lover, one among the poets, who avowed that the happiness of the future was the only real happiness of the world. 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1913 What a keen probe that question was to the wife as she sat watching through the long, weary night! In an agony of self-reproach she recalled all that he had done for her and hers in all the years, and now in her turn she entreated him to live; but he was as unconscious as she had been in the blank past. No wooing, no pleading, could have been so potent as his unconscious form, his strength broken at last in her service. 0.81 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2007 She watched him until he slept again. Then, her soul filled with thankfulness and peace, she closed her eyes once more, and happy thoughts became happy dreams. 0.81 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 104 One more long lingering look into each other's faces, and the two lovers, so strangely parted, still more strangely met, had parted again, forever. The quarter of a century which had lain between them had been bridged in both their hearts as if it were but a day. In the heart of the man it was the old passionate adoring love reawakening; a resurrection of the buried dead, to full life, with lineaments unchanged. In the woman it was not that; there was no buried love to come to such resurrection in her heart, for she had never loved Angus Phail. But, long unloved, ill-treated, heartbroken, she woke at that moment to the realization of what manner of love it had been which she had thrown away in her youth; her whole being yearned for it now, and Angus was avenged. ============================================================================= TOPIC 22 -- 2271 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= father 1854; mother 1741; home 825; son 797; asked 624; brother 602; told 595; sister 559; daughter 502; wife 466; thought 393; family 371; knew 366; house 345; dear 329; poor 302; husband 297; heard 288; boy 288; left 271; girl 265; replied 253; child 241; cousin 236; good 230; glad 230; returned 218; leave 214; young 207; lady 202; dead 200; room 198; answered 192; time 185; sick 181; matter 180; aunt 176; hear 173; great 166; return 162; care 162; feel 159; letter 159; uncle 157; back 156; friends 150; friend 146; word 142; looked 142; thing 139; day 138; speak 138; coming 135; ill 134; story 132; suppose 131; anxious 128; hope 126; visit 126; married 126; live 125; stay 125; called 124; continued 123; met 122; woman 121; happened 121; children 119; exclaimed 109; added 107; sisters 107; make 105; late 102; place 101; gentleman 99; news 97; marry 96; talk 96; meet 95; understand 95; bring 95; felt 91; find 88; morning 88; side 88; comfort 88; kindly 86; wished 86; charge 84; feeling 84; grandmother 84; brought 83; rest 83; promised 82; days 81; afraid 81; moment 81; remember 81; grandfather 80; war 78 0.85 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 496 "No, my dear, no indeed. You need no formal introduction to any guest or relative of mine. Besides, he knows you well and all about you, although he has never seen you since you were a child. It would please him greatly to have you go down and speak to him at once, for he would know that I would tell you about his being here, and he might think you cold or formal if you delayed seeing him. I'm glad you feel so, my dear, but you must come back and sit with me awhile before you go home. I'll ring for Hannah and have a nice little feast while you are downstairs." 0.81 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 401 "As I've told you, I was on the way to your father's house to take leave of the family. If you're not going immediately home, perhaps I may be the bearer of a message for you?" 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1010 "St. Elmo, your cousin Estelle's letter contains bad news. Her father is dead; the estate is wretchedly insolvent; and she is coming to reside with us." 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1012 "Remember she is my sister's child; she has no other home, and I am sure it is very natural that she should come to me, her nearest relative, for sympathy and protection." 0.79 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 360 "I have no doubt of it, my dear boy," said the old lady kindly. "You can do a great deal, too. You can help your mother by looking out for your brothers and sisters, as well as supplying your father's place on the farm." 0.78 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1346 "Leave swearing?" said Fanny. "Oh, I’m so glad. I hope you will. Now promise that you will, dear father, and say again that you will not mention Dr. Lacey’s conduct either to him or to any one else." 0.77 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2014 "No, no; I have been so uncertain, so agitated, so constantly in attendance upon our members, that I have had no time to read or even talk. But, pray tell me! Your manner indicates that something has happened. O Mr. President, think of my anxiety! My only son!" 0.76 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1238 "I am, father," replied Christy, for he was about the same as a younger brother in his relations with him. "But I have not heard a word from her, any more than from you, since I left home." 0.75 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1505 "We do sincerely thank God, on your account, cousin," said Harold, as soon as they were left alone that Sabbath morning. "It is so seldom a person meets with such an accident, without being seriously injured." 0.75 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 522 "I don't like to do any thing to make my poor father unhappy. I am afraid my absence now, without his knowing where I am, or whether I am dead or alive, will bring on a fit of sickness." ============================================================================= TOPIC 23 -- 771 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= master 421; work 414; slave 389; slaves 388; white 349; negroes 329; people 262; free 256; plantation 248; man 233; negro 207; servants 188; children 186; house 185; freedom 170; black 169; men 155; place 151; overseer 147; poor 141; wife 136; colored 132; hands 126; masters 125; women 119; made 115; sold 112; mistress 109; servant 105; good 101; great 99; family 97; slavery 90; years 87; cabin 85; young 83; whites 81; woman 79; war 78; estate 77; race 75; field 75; days 72; set 71; quarters 70; land 69; school 67; plantations 66; planter 64; labor 63; found 61; bought 61; farm 58; left 57; owner 57; cabins 57; large 55; blood 55; time 54; blacks 54; faithful 54; fellow 53; household 49; husband 48; treated 47; property 47; lived 47; runaway 46; planters 46; called 45; hard 45; brought 44; working 44; domestic 43; lot 43; class 42; fields 42; southern 42; present 42; make 42; case 42; wages 41; ill 40; day 40; knew 39; worked 39; home 39; call 39; folks 39; treatment 38; head 38; human 38; taught 37; named 37; homes 37; laws 37; bondage 37; kind 36; part 36; owned 36 0.80 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1959 Nor is there the body of any white man, or woman. The stricken victims are of every age, and both sexes. But all, male as female, are negroes or mulattoes -- the slaves of the establishment. Many of them he recognises; knows them to be the house-servants. 0.80 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2221 "I have kept the great majority of my hands by conciliation and promising them a share in the crops. Indeed, I had virtually to treat them as if free. It was either that or ruin." 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 554 "The number to be clothed, papa? I know how many house-servants, how many babies and older children at the quarter, but not the number of field hands." 0.75 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2245 "Now don't go to imagining mysteries here. This is a man who has been on my hands a good many years. He is an irreclaimable spendthrift. He was in other days a man of repute and station. I am interested in him, through old ties, since the days we were boys." 0.75 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 238 "Oh, it’s lonesome now on the old plantation, It’s lonesome now on the old plantation, It’s lonesome now on the old plantation, Case Sunshine’s gone away." 0.74 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 452 When female children are about five years old they are most esteemed by the slave-dealers, as they can be more easily taught, and they grow up with an attachment to their possessors, and in fact become members of the family. 0.73 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 21 "The selling of slaves, that is to say, the breaking up of families and selling them separately, is horrible and abominable. If an estate were sold together with all the slaves upon it, there would be no more hardship in the matter than there is when an estate changes hands in England, and the laborers upon it work for the new master instead of the old. Were I to liberate all the slaves on this estate to-morrow and to send them North, I do not think that they would be in any way benefited by the change. They would still have to work for their living as they do now, and being naturally indolent and shiftless would probably fare much worse. But against the selling of families separately and the use of the lash I set my face strongly. 0.71 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 347 “And, Jacquelin,” he said, “keep the old place. Make any sacrifice to do that. Landholding is one of the safeguards of a gentry. Our people, for six generations, have never sold an acre, and I never knew a man who sold land that throve.” 0.70 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1286 "Doesn't the Bible say that the wife shall cleave to the husband; that his people shall be her people, his God her God, where he goes she goes?" 0.69 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2838 We talked upon the prospects of the colored people now that they were free. ============================================================================= TOPIC 24 -- 1242 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= years 1244; young 446; ago 444; father 430; mother 430; man 407; wife 382; child 372; married 333; died 308; year 298; boy 298; son 291; age 277; day 255; twenty 250; family 249; woman 244; daughter 236; lived 220; home 214; girl 213; long 207; husband 194; ten 191; children 189; great 169; poor 167; born 166; left 163; marriage 161; brother 152; older 138; house 132; months 130; days 124; handsome 124; lady 122; remember 122; younger 121; death 109; marry 106; widow 102; named 96; live 93; called 90; fortune 90; heard 88; war 86; lost 86; beautiful 85; parents 85; story 85; made 84; grown 84; living 83; forty 80; life 79; grandmother 79; baby 77; college 77; women 76; eighteen 76; small 74; thirty 74; met 74; dead 72; daughters 72; fifteen 71; boys 71; school 71; rich 70; fellow 70; mothers 69; aged 69; time 68; world 68; good 68; gentleman 68; vill 66; sixteen 65; vas 64; proud 63; weeks 61; loved 61; mine 60; girls 59; youth 59; sons 58; village 57; love 57; estate 57; times 56; knew 55; bride 54; high 53; pretty 53; happy 52; past 52; early 52 0.85 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 17 One of them, Kenneth McVeigh, he was only Lieutenant McVeigh then! -- saw her first in Paris -- heard of her first at a musicale in the salon of Madame Choudey. Madame Choudey was the dear friend of the Countess Helene Biron, who still lives and delights in recitals of gossip belonging to the days of the Second Empire. The Countess Helene and Mrs. McVeigh had been school friends in Paris. Mrs. McVeigh had been Claire Villanenne, of New Orleans, in those days. At seventeen she had married a Col. McVeigh, of Carolina. At forty she had been a widow ten years. Was the mother of a daughter aged twelve, and a six-foot son of twenty-two, who looked twenty-five, and had just graduated from West Point. 0.83 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 112 But his family had grown larger and more expensive. Besides Frank, who was the oldest, there were now three younger children -- Alice, twelve years of age; Maggie, ten; and Charlie, seven. 0.79 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 114 Judge not by appearances, my boy; for appearances are very deceptive, as the old lady cholerically remarked when one, who was really a virgin on to forty, blushingly informed her that she was "just twenty-five this month." 0.79 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 443 "I don't know whether you've seen the daughter or not -- I'm sure you haven't for the past year or so, for she's been away. But she's in town now, and, by Jove, the girl is really beautiful. And I'm a judge of beauty. Do you remember my wife thirty years ago, judge?" 0.77 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 497 He was pleased that his god-mother had confided to him these little facts of family history. He remembered how intensely eager the dowager had been for Alain's marriage, years before, that there might be an heir; and he remembered, in part, the cause -- her detestation of a female relative whose son would inherit the Marquisate should a son be born to her, and Alain die without children. He could see how eagerly the dowager would have consented to a marriage with even the poorest of poor relations if both the Marquisate and Alain might be saved by it. 0.77 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2673 "They are wery happy together! And I susphect the time vill come ven he vill marry her; and then they vill neither of 'em care much for me. Veil, I shall love 'em, and wish 'em happy all the same!" 0.77 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 328 "Sixteen; just as old as Anna was when she died, and just as old as my mother was when she was married; so it seems you are not too young to die, or to be married either, if you are too young to go out with me," said Dr. Lacey. 0.76 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1479 "Vy not? Pecause maybe you vas looking for somepody else. Mishter Hapgoot came part vay mit me, but he vas so used up I made him shtop till I came to pring Toby up vere he is." 0.76 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1553 "Great God!" he exclaimed, "am I dreaming? am I delirious? How is it that I see before me the woman I loved forty-odd years ago? You cannot be Grace Brentford, for she died long years since." 0.75 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 124 "Pless me!" said he, staring innocently, "I tought it vas all for shport!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 25 -- 2663 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= light 691; sun 673; white 573; sky 529; air 520; trees 485; blue 461; wind 435; green 408; night 404; dark 357; leaves 352; day 344; long 340; flowers 327; rose 310; clouds 307; earth 297; forest 293; morning 289; moon 279; stars 268; birds 263; red 260; summer 257; cloud 251; gray 242; rain 239; great 237; beneath 228; black 224; low 223; smoke 216; bright 212; grass 206; sea 205; tree 202; beautiful 199; looked 198; sunshine 196; snow 194; soft 192; window 186; stood 186; lay 184; shadows 184; fire 182; fields 181; water 179; wild 178; world 177; golden 177; fell 176; storm 176; deep 174; spring 173; winter 171; garden 170; woods 166; wood 164; full 163; sweet 162; bird 161; eyes 160; cold 160; shone 158; distant 155; hills 155; shining 155; clear 154; evening 154; yellow 151; beauty 149; silver 148; breeze 148; roses 147; shadow 146; darkness 143; sat 140; purple 138; sound 134; blossoms 133; gold 130; heavy 129; rising 128; cool 127; dead 127; mist 126; high 124; branches 124; feet 122; hung 121; days 120; brown 120; warm 120; horizon 118; filled 117; falling 117; afternoon 116; dust 113 0.94 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 167 On the other side swept the long, colourless grasses, rippling in faint waves like a still lake that reflects the sunshine and swaying lightly beneath myriads of gauzy-winged bees that flashed with a droning noise from blade to blade, to find rest in the yellow hearts of the damask roses. Across the white vaults and the low-lying marble slabs innumerable shadows chased, and from above the gnarled old locust trees swept a fringe of vivid green, the slender blossoms hanging in tassels from the branches' ends, and filling the air with a soft and ceaseless rain of fragrant petals. Pale as the ghosts of dead leaves, they fell always, fluttering night and day from the twisted boughs, settling in creamy flakes upon the bending grasses, and outlining in delicate tracery the epitaphs upon the discoloured marbles. 0.94 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 144 It was with thoughts such as these that Father Salvierderra drew near the home of the Senora Moreno late in the afternoon of one of those midsummer days of which Southern California has so many in spring. The almonds had bloomed and the blossoms fallen; the apricots also, and the peaches and pears; on all the orchards of these fruits had come a filmy tint of green, so light it was hardly more than a shadow on the gray. The willows were vivid light green, and the orange groves dark and glossy like laurel. The billowy hills on either side the valley were covered with verdure and bloom, -- myriads of low blossoming plants, so close to the earth that their tints lapped and overlapped on each other, and on the green of the grass, as feathers in fine plumage overlap each other and blend into a changeful color. 0.94 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1357 Penn never forgot that scene. How fresh, and beautiful, and still the morning was! The sunlight flushed the craggy and wooded slopes. Far off, dim with early mist, lay the lovely hills and valleys of East Tennessee. On the north the peaks of the mountain range soared away, purple, rosy, glorious, in soft suffusing light. In the south-west other peaks receded, billowy and blue. And God's pure, deep sky was over all. 0.93 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 420 Over all bends the ever-changing sky, one hour close-drawn, gray-lined with slanting slashes of blinding rain, the next piled high with great domes of silver-white clouds inlaid with turquoise blue or hemmed in by low-lying ranges of purple peaks capped with gold. 0.93 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3488 She walked to the window, rested her forehead against the stone facing, and looked out; and the wonderful witchery of the solemn night wove its spell around her. Great, golden stars clustered in the clear heavens, and were reflected in the calm, blue pavement of the Mediterranean, where not a ripple shivered their shining images. A waning crescent moon swung high over the eastern crest of the Apennines, and threw a weird light along the Doria's marble palace, and down on the silver gray olives, on the glistening orange-groves, snow-powdered with fragrant bloom, and in that wan, mysterious, and most melancholy light -- 0.92 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2502 The outer world was chill and dreary, the leafless limbs of the trees in the park looked ghostly and weird against the dense dun clouds which seemed to stretch like a smoke mantle just above the sea of roofs; and, dimly seen through the white mist, Brooklyn's heights and Staten's hills were huge outlines monstrous as Echidna. 0.92 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2441 Up the quiet street the leafless trees made a gray vista that melted into transparent mist. The sunshine stretched in pale gold bars from sidewalk to sidewalk, and overhead the sky was of a rare Italian blue. But for the frost in the air and the naked boughs, it might have been a day in April. 0.92 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 254 Presently the gray light was shot with gold and a streak of orange fluttered like a ribbon in the east. In a moment a violet cloud floated above the distant hill, and as its ends curled up from the quickening heat it showed the splendour of a crimson lining. A single ray of sunshine, pale as a spectral finger, pointed past the woodlands to the brook beneath the willows, and the vague blur of the mixed forest warmed into vivid tints, changing through variations from the clear emerald of young maples to the olive dusk of evergreens. 0.91 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 809 One by one the cabins disappeared in the darkness. One by one the stars bloomed out yellow in their still meadows. Over the vast green sea of the eastern wilderness the moon swung her silvery lamp, and up the valley floated a wide veil of mist bedashed with silvery light. 0.91 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1739 It had been a bright, warm day, but at evening the sea breeze came in cool and fresh; thin clouds were scudding across the sky, hiding the stars and giving but a faint and fitful view of the young moon that hung, a bright crescent, amid their murky folds. ============================================================================= TOPIC 26 -- 2061 chunks >= 0.25 from 45 texts ============================================================================= natives 543; men 500; country 463; people 455; troops 358; slave 306; cattle 297; government 293; large 273; station 258; great 229; arrived 219; vessels 200; expedition 188; soldiers 172; camp 165; trade 159; time 157; native 155; general 151; force 151; slaves 150; attack 149; corn 141; orders 138; immediately 136; small 136; officers 130; river 128; hunters 121; traders 121; miles 119; arrival 118; received 118; number 113; ordered 113; usual 113; appeared 111; quickly 111; order 110; ivory 108; party 107; started 106; villages 101; grass 99; high 97; return 96; work 95; impossible 95; governor 95; sheik 93; supply 91; twenty 91; returned 90; good 89; gave 89; arranged 88; accompanied 87; king 87; explained 87; formed 86; carried 83; ammunition 81; cows 81; days 80; determined 79; left 78; women 77; carry 77; declared 75; distant 74; journey 74; egyptian 72; simply 72; march 72; protection 71; position 70; numbers 70; attacked 69; herd 68; tribe 67; quarters 67; carriers 67; established 66; generally 66; considered 66; south 65; excellent 65; transport 64; fifty 64; command 63; open 63; yards 63; made 62; companies 61; neighbourhood 60; addition 58; discovered 58; present 58; powerful 58 0.91 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1096 The soldiers and sailors, including all the women of the camp, were employed for some days in conveying the corn to head-quarters. If our people had worked well, we should have had a supply for twelve months. Instead of which, a force of 650 men had actually delivered in the magazine only 150 urdeps, or about 670 bushels. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 500 There was no actual bartering of merchandise for ivory, neither was any merchandise shipped from Khartoum, except that required as clothing for the people who belonged to the slave-hunters' companies. If an honest, legitimate trade were commenced by the government, and law and order thoroughly established, it would become impossible for the slave hunters to exist in the White Nile districts. Their so-called trade consisted in harrying one country to procure cattle and slaves, which they exchanged for ivory in other districts. If a government were established, such razzias must cease at once -- and the Khartoum traders would be without an occupation. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2079 "Each company, commanded by its independent vakeel, arrived in Unyoro, and supported the cause of each antagonistic pretender to the throne, and treacherously worked for the ruin of all, excepting him who would be able to supply the largest amount of ivory and slaves. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1941 It appeared that when Abou Saood had first arrived at Fatiko from Gondokoro, the vakeels of his different stations were all prepared for the journey to deliver the ivory. They had given the cattle obtained in the first attack upon Umiro to the native carriers of Madi and Shooli, and the tusks had been arranged in about 2,000 loads for transport. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2118 "A radical change throughout the country is absolutely necessary. The companies have hitherto purchased ivory with slaves and cattle; thus all countries in which this custom has been established, must be abandoned until the natives will sell ivory in exchange for goods. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1907 A station of 350 men consumes daily . . . . 700 lbs. In addition, they require to exchange for flour . . . . 350 lbs. -- -- - Daily consumption of flesh . . 1,050 lbs. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1645 I had arranged that twenty-two boatmen should accompany me to Lobore, carrying such loads as were absolutely necessary for our party. They would then return together with the fifty soldiers who would escort the native carriers to the vessels. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2294 "I described to the young king and his chiefs that I was determined to suppress the slave trade, and that I had hitherto forborne to interfere in the release of the slaves at the various stations, as it would have been impossible to have returned them to their distant homes, neither could I have supplied them with food. I was now at Masindi, beyond the farthest station of Abou Saood, and I should certainly insist upon the return of every slave that had been kidnapped from this country. This would at once prove to the inhabitants of Unyoro the benefit of the Khedive's protection. (The subsequent attack made by the slave- traders upon the government troops and myself at Fatiko was due to this declaration that all slaves should be taken away from their captors and returned to their homes. It will be seen later that I sent orders to the commandant of my station at Fatiko to release all slaves, and this command was resisted by Abou Saood and his people.) 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1060 Of course I had no intention of attacking Lokko, as I had no complaint against him; and although a Bari, he was a chief who had always behaved well to the Austrian missionaries. This portion of the Bari tribe, instead of being sixteen miles, was at least thirty from the north of Belinian, and was situated on the White Nile, where the sheik, Lokko, was known to the traders as "Oom Nickla." 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 715 "I sent for the chief, Allorron, who, upon arrival with some other natives, explained that his country had been destroyed by the attacks of the people of Loquia at the instigation of the traders. I promised him protection if he and his people would return to the mainland and become true subjects to the Khedive. At the same time I informed him that, in return for protection, his people must cultivate corn, and build the huts required for the troops upon arrival. This he promised to do, and I arranged that he should summon a general meeting of the headmen and their people to-morrow, or as soon as possible. ============================================================================= TOPIC 27 -- 2188 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= man 483; question 382; case 338; fact 313; matter 309; made 292; doubt 266; time 258; truth 230; true 221; mind 218; reason 212; evidence 201; knew 195; subject 193; opinion 192; felt 181; regard 178; understand 176; present 174; prove 172; make 166; father 162; secret 160; point 157; person 147; give 143; facts 136; character 134; told 132; wrong 130; mystery 129; explain 128; thought 127; believed 126; words 125; idea 124; position 120; admit 117; interest 115; part 113; statement 113; explanation 112; story 111; confidence 110; suspicion 104; affair 101; information 99; claim 99; convinced 94; called 93; conduct 93; word 92; court 92; result 91; declared 91; circumstances 90; state 88; false 88; act 87; affairs 87; fully 87; son 87; manner 86; knowledge 85; things 83; proof 83; view 83; account 82; thinking 82; confess 82; attempt 81; simple 81; proved 81; real 81; trust 80; answer 80; interview 80; considered 79; charge 79; thing 79; trial 79; found 78; duty 77; feel 76; impossible 75; clear 74; feeling 74; hoped 73; respect 73; counsel 73; correct 72; sense 72; admitted 72; means 71; plain 71; decided 71; purpose 70; proper 70; personal 69 0.83 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 482 "You are utterly mistaken, Viva. What I tell you is the solemn truth. For your name's sake I implore you tell me what has been his influence in the past. I well know he can be nothing to you in the future, Viva. You are not in communication with him now, are you?" 0.83 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 626 It was an odd thing, how identical were Margarita's and the Senora's view and interpretation of the situation. The Senora looking at it from above, and Margarita looking at it from below, each was sure, and they were both equally sure, that it could be nothing more nor less than a disgraceful intrigue. Mistress and maid were alike incapable either of conjecturing or of believing the truth. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1591 "Truly satisfactory and sufficient reasons. I might ask how he came into your possession; but probably you shrink from divulging your little secret, and I am unwilling to force your confidence." 0.80 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1448 "At first, your claim appeared to me preposterous, and I pronounced it to be so. Upon reflection, though I strongly doubt its genuineness, I am willing to take time to consider it." 0.79 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2355 "There is some extraordinary error in all this. If Sprague can be produced before the term fixed by the regulations, he can vindicate himself by establishing the facts you have told me. If not, we have no alternative but to condemn him to death as a spy and deserter. The testimony on these specifications is uncontradicted. The murder we may not be able to establish, though we have witnesses of the shooting." 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3387 "She was deceived in his character, and refused to listen to a statement of facts. When she knows him as he really is, she will despise him." 0.77 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 553 Borrowing or making change was now the order of the moment, as every individual present who had not already contributed felt called upon thus to exonerate himself from so grave a charge. 0.77 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1719 He had consulted General Legaie and Steve on the subject, and they both had thought that the burying-ground had not been conveyed in the deed to Still, though Leech, to whom, as counsel for Still, they had broached the matter, asserted that it had been included. 0.76 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3068 The Rebellion was inaugurated through deception, and had been sustained by an utter disregard of truth. 0.75 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 270 "Yes, and intimated that I urged the matter from interested motives. He said he presumed I intended to enlist." ============================================================================= TOPIC 28 -- 2167 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= time 590; day 590; morning 430; house 413; found 404; left 374; made 332; returned 329; return 308; received 306; party 285; place 277; evening 271; night 261; days 258; business 240; called 236; arrived 233; visit 228; gave 223; news 221; family 216; home 215; brought 205; order 204; present 204; arrival 199; told 190; immediately 179; office 178; city 175; heard 172; week 171; friends 161; room 160; meeting 158; young 157; men 150; informed 135; affairs 134; reached 134; quarters 133; late 132; appeared 132; interview 131; account 129; officer 124; hour 124; presence 124; part 123; company 123; charge 121; state 120; entered 120; announced 118; letter 116; set 116; hospital 116; appointed 115; leave 114; report 113; attention 112; town 111; afternoon 111; court 111; departure 108; conversation 107; met 106; occasion 104; engaged 103; absence 101; search 101; invited 100; make 100; weeks 100; doctor 100; request 100; fact 99; meet 99; matter 99; information 99; county 98; officers 97; early 97; story 97; general 96; note 96; accompanied 95; hours 95; case 94; head 94; short 93; learned 93; wished 92; ceremony 92; long 90; affair 89; offered 88; wounded 88; leaving 87 0.86 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 816 Mrs. Temple had at last got interested in the wedding preparations, and everything was going on famously until about two weeks before the wedding, when one day General Temple got a letter. There was to be a reunion of Beverley's old command at Richmond, and it was desired that the Temple family should attend. 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 932 It was not for want of a cordial invitation to both the Oaks and Ion that Harry was left behind; but business required his presence at home, and he could only promise himself a week's holiday at the time of the wedding. 0.83 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 774 At last all was in readiness at Woodlawn for the reception of Mrs. Graham, who came up early in October, bringing with her a larger train of house servants than was often seen in Woodford county. About three weeks after her arrival, invitations were issued for a party or "house warming," as the negroes termed it. Nero, Durward's valet, brought the tiny notes to Mr. Livingstone's, giving them into the care of Carrie, who took them immediately to her mother's room. 0.83 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 779 An order came to Middleton from head-quarters a day or two later to go to the upper end of the county and investigate certain “mysterious meetings” which, it was reported, were being held in that section. 0.82 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1766 In a short time the necessary arrangements were completed. A large number of men were hired and matters progressed so rapidly that there was every probability of the house being completed early in June, should the winter season prove favorable. 0.82 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 740 A few days after the Provost’s arrival Dr. Cary received a summons to appear before him at the court-house next day. It was issued on the complaint of “the Rev. James Sherwood,” and was signed, “Jonadab Leech, Provost commanding,” etc. 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2830 Mrs. Carew had arrived on Tuesday morning, and announced that a previous engagement would limit her visit to Saturday, at which time she had promised to become the guest of a friend on Murray Hill. 0.80 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 90 I had received certain intimations from the Foreign Minister, Nubar Pacha, concerning the Khedive's intentions, a short time previous to an invitation with which I was honoured by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to accompany their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess during their tour in Egypt. 0.80 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1291 The little company of men Waverley had seen were a few who had gathered together on hearing of the raid that was taking place in the neighborhood that day. They too had heard of the contemplated visit to Red Rock and the Stamper place; for Jerry had got from someone that morning a hint that a descent was to be made on these places. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 309 The trio at the table began the discussion of the subject before them without delay; but it is not necessary to enter into its details, since, whatever plans were made, they must still be subject to whatever contingencies were presented when the time for action came. ============================================================================= TOPIC 29 -- 985 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= country 365; house 327; land 290; town 280; place 247; houses 225; great 222; fields 164; people 159; years 157; building 144; built 139; grass 133; large 126; walls 125; streets 122; long 120; soil 119; days 119; village 119; rich 112; small 112; city 111; iron 110; time 109; hundred 107; region 99; year 97; trees 94; brick 92; cotton 91; stock 91; summer 91; corn 88; ground 85; home 85; beautiful 85; stone 84; roads 83; wilderness 82; blue 81; valley 79; green 76; mountains 74; build 73; miles 73; lands 71; side 70; life 68; mountain 68; ago 68; family 68; farm 68; century 68; fair 67; places 67; spring 66; square 66; part 65; families 65; broad 64; early 64; wooden 63; court 62; hemp 62; homes 61; wheat 61; landscape 61; towns 60; wealth 59; garden 59; mansion 59; made 58; day 58; roof 58; found 57; buildings 57; acres 57; rooms 57; grounds 57; vast 56; history 56; population 56; cattle 56; seed 56; coal 56; south 55; cultivated 53; wall 53; picturesque 53; civilization 52; indian 52; ancient 52; winter 52; english 51; close 50; estate 50; county 50; lay 48; wild 48 0.93 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3335 Granite columns, iron pillars, marble facades, broken into thousands of pieces, blocked the streets. The Bank of Richmond, Bank of the Commonwealth, Traders' Bank, Bank of Virginia, Farmers' Bank, a score of private banking-houses, the American Hotel, the Columbian Hotel, the Enquirer and the Dispatch printing- offices, the Confederate Post-Office Department, the State Court-House, the Mechanics' Institute, all the insurance offices, the Confederate War Department, the Confederate Arsenal, the Laboratory, Dr. Reed's church, several founderies and machine-shops, the Henrico County Court-House, the Danville and the Petersburg depots, the three bridges across the James, the great flouring-mills, and all the best stores of the city, were destroyed. 0.81 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 920 In a few days, however, it was well known for at least fifteen miles around the Cross-roads that Tom D'Willerby was going to build a new house, and that it was going to be fitted up with great splendour with furniture purchased at Brownsboro. 0.81 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 448 Suppose, now, that you turn and look from this same crest of the Cumberland Mountain southward, or towards the Atlantic seaboard. In that direction there lie some two hundred and fifty thousand square miles of country which is practically coalless; but practically coalless, it is incalculably rich in iron ores for the manufacture of iron and steel. You look out upon the new industrial empire of the United States, with vast and ever-growing needs of manufactures, fuel, and railroads. That is, for a hundred miles you stand on the dividing line of two distinct geological formations: to the north, the Appalachian coal- fields; to the south, mountains of iron ores; rearing itself between these, this immense barrier wall, which creates an unapproachable wilderness not only in southeastern Kentucky, but in East Tennessee, western Virginia, and western North Carolina -- the largest extent of country in the United States remaining undeveloped. 0.81 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 497 Only consider that the entire 20,000 acres owned by the Big Creek Gap Company are underlain by coal, and that the high mountains between the Pine and Cumberland contain vertical sections of greater thickness of coal-measure rocks than are to be found anywhere else in the vast Appalachian field; that Walnut Mountain, on the land of the company -- the western continuation of the Black Mountain and the Log Mountain of Kentucky -- is 3300 feet above sea, and has 2000 feet of coal-measures above drainage; and that already there has been developed the existence of six coals of workable thickness above drainage level, five of them underlying the entire 20,000 acres, except where small portions have been cut away by the streams. 0.81 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 483 About two years after the birth of Mildred, he had purchased a tract of land in the then new and frontier country lying upon the Rockfish river. Many families of note in the low country had possessed themselves of estates at the foot of the Blue Ridge, in this neighborhood, and were already making establishments there. Mr. Lindsay, attracted by the romantic character of the scenery, the freshness of the soil, and the healthfulness of the climate, following the example of others, had laid off the grounds of his new estate with great taste, and had soon built, upon a beautiful site, a neat and comfortable rustic dwelling, with such accommodation as might render it a convenient and pleasant retreat during the hot months of the summer. 0.79 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 481 Remember well this valley, lying along the base of the mountain wall. It has long been known as the granary of south-west Virginia and east Tennessee; but in time, in the development of civilization throughout the Appalachian region, it is expected to become the seat of a dense pastoral population, supplying the dense industrial population of new mining and manufacturing towns with milk, butter, eggs, and fruit and vegetables. But for the contiguity of such agricultural districts to the centres of ores and coals, it would perhaps be impossible to establish in these remote spots the cities necessary to develop and transport their wealth. 0.78 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 262 " First. The quantity of land taken possession of for the several field-works, and the kind and value of the crops growing thereon, if any. Second. The quantity of land used for the several encampments, and the kind and value of the growing crops, if any. Third. The number, size, and character of the buildings appropriated to public purposes. Fourth. The quantity and value of trees cut down. Fifth. The kind and extent of fencing destroyed. These statements will, as far as possible, give the value of the property taken, or of the damage sustained, and the name or names of the owners."[1] 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3217 It is some years since then, and changes have taken place in the colony. As yet none to be regretted, but the reverse. A Court-House town has sprung up on the site of the ancient Mission, the centre of a district of plantations -- the largest of them belonging to Luis Dupre; while one almost as extensive, and equally as flourishing, has Charles Clancy for owner. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1367 "Oh, bah! the scenery is quite as grand in fifty other places. Its peculiar attraction consists in something far more precious." 0.76 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 973 Late that autumn the house was finished -- one of those early country-places yet to be seen here and there on the landscape of Kentucky, marking the building era of the aristocratic Virginians and renewing in the wilderness the architecture of the James. ============================================================================= TOPIC 30 -- 1797 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= letter 1437; read 1039; paper 785; letters 615; written 419; wrote 390; papers 380; book 374; write 367; pocket 341; hand 335; writing 280; note 278; reading 237; put 219; handed 213; desk 204; envelope 197; found 188; time 187; office 180; brought 165; contents 156; opened 156; copy 149; send 147; table 141; open 138; received 135; lines 131; mail 130; day 123; taking 115; pen 115; lay 111; news 110; addressed 108; gave 105; looked 99; finished 97; contained 93; sheet 93; father 92; give 91; turned 90; carefully 90; laid 88; eye 88; piece 88; drew 87; line 86; glanced 85; post 84; held 81; answer 77; word 73; account 73; small 72; back 72; box 71; package 71; page 70; words 68; photograph 68; signed 67; mother 67; handwriting 67; books 67; case 66; pencil 66; address 65; seal 65; long 64; hands 63; marked 63; reads 63; document 61; drawer 61; message 60; sealed 59; asked 59; picture 59; work 58; sat 58; official 57; morning 57; report 55; opening 54; ink 54; list 52; made 51; returned 51; picked 50; boy 50; documents 50; aloud 50; reply 48; pages 47; date 47; text 47 0.83 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2352 "Humph," said the Judge. Then he began what seemed a never-ending search among the papers on his desk. At length he drew out a letter, put on his spectacles and read it, and finally put it down again. 0.82 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1751 "Margeret tells me you brought back the boy," she said, glancing up, after peering in the envelope and ascertaining its contents, "and, Pluto, you paid me for Zekal when you brought this letter to me -- so the balance is even." 0.82 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 1403 Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected, and hyphenation has been standardised. Variations in spelling and punctuation have been retained. 0.82 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1275 He drew a note-book from his breast-pocket and, having written a few words on a leaf of it, tore it out and handed it to her. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1764 Invisible punctuation has been silently supplied, and superfluous quotation marks removed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3372 When the map was laid on the table, the General drew a pencil from his pocket and pointed to the state of Kentucky. Then he drew a line from Columbus to Bowling Green, through Forts Donelson and Henry. 0.80 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2093 When these papers were finished they were folded up into a small compass, and in the course of the evening put into Mary's hands, with a request that she would herself read the instructions intended for the sergeant, and apprise him of their contents when she delivered the papers to him. 0.80 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 461 Calling upon him the next day, I found him at leisure, having despatched the business of the forenoon. There was a Bible on his table and a hymn-book, and in one corner of the office a large package of books, just received from the Sunday-School Union, directed to "Captain A. H. Foote, U. S. N." 0.79 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 386 Tryon went on opening his letters. There were several bills and circulars, and then a letter from his mother, of which he broke the seal: -- 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1965 It was just the same with Mr. Dinsmore; in a trice he had unlocked the bag and emptied its contents -- magazines, papers, letters -- upon a table. ============================================================================= TOPIC 31 -- 1756 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= money 1099; dollars 793; hundred 620; pay 532; thousand 433; ten 313; paid 264; give 262; buy 252; twenty 237; good 220; dollar 214; made 198; man 197; fifty 193; make 189; sell 187; worth 182; bought 173; day 165; sold 155; sum 151; price 150; year 146; business 145; gold 139; half 137; amount 135; cents 134; father 126; put 124; place 122; land 117; property 117; stock 116; years 115; offered 106; cent 104; cost 104; bill 102; pocket 102; fifteen 101; store 101; week 100; sale 99; cotton 96; small 94; boy 94; time 92; forty 92; twelve 91; gave 89; thirty 88; rich 87; days 87; mortgage 87; work 86; law 86; wages 86; long 85; month 83; times 82; large 76; interest 75; bonds 73; purchase 73; paper 71; months 70; market 68; loan 68; wanted 67; pounds 66; bills 65; hand 64; farm 64; war 63; lay 62; taxes 62; purse 62; part 61; lands 60; estate 60; capital 59; back 58; son 58; expenses 58; counted 57; poor 56; hands 56; sixty 56; gentlemen 56; lost 55; fortune 55; earn 55; high 54; present 54; thought 54; town 53; expense 53; bargain 53 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1471 "The gold piece is an English sovereign, worth about four dollars and eighty- five cents; and the silver coin is a shilling, worth very nearly a quarter of a dollar; so that I have paid you over five dollars." 0.86 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3089 The entire amount of the State loan of one million eight hundred thousand dollars issued under that act was taken by the banks of the State. Every bank with the exception of the Bank of Camden and the Commercial Bank of Columbia subscribed to the stock. The seven Charleston banks at this early stage of the war had loaned the State permanently eleven hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.[92] 0.85 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 434 Come, gentlemen, come, this here's a joke -- eight twenty-five. She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. -- Mr. -- you have the advantage of me, suh." 0.82 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1714 "Twenty pounds of Confederate bonds make one shilling, twenty shillings make one penny, six pennies one drink." 0.81 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 330 Then I made my errand known. I had some fifty pounds saved up from the wreck of my fortunes; 'twas a third more than the goods were worth. Would he but take it, pay the London merchant who had furnished them, and have the remainder for his trouble? 0.80 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1029 "I only get five dollars a week for my valuable services," said Tom. "I pay that for board, and get my clothes with the balance. If I hadn't a fortune of ten dollars to fall back upon, I'd have to go without." 0.80 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 934 "Do you see this fifty-cent piece?" Tryon displayed a small piece of paper money, crisp and green in its newness. 0.80 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1926 "I suppose you will give me immediate notice, should it be necessary. We can pay four hundred dollars now. So, if you please, the new mortgage can be made out for half the present amount." 0.80 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 100 Mr. Wilmot handed him the paper, and he went on: "Thar’s ten scholars at eight dollars—that makes eighty; then thar’s five at eleven dollars, and fifty-five and eighty makes a hundred and thirty-five; then thar’s five more at fifteen dollars; five times fifteen; five times five is twenty-five—seventy-five dollars;—seventy-five and a hundred and thirty-five;—five and five is ten, one to seven is eight, eight and three is eleven—two hundred and ten dollars! Why, quite a heap! Of course you’ve got clothes enough to last a spell, so you can put two hundred out at interest. I’ll take it and give you ten per cent." 0.78 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 446 "Twenty-four dollars -- that is, six months' interest at six per cent. on eight hundred dollars." ============================================================================= TOPIC 32 -- 4837 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= de 1405; ai 1344; ter 1131; en 926; dey 722; er 667; ef 643; gwine 591; jest 558; yer 486; git 470; time 409; thar 393; fer 387; man 378; fur 374; folks 372; wid 365; ob 364; mighty 359; wuz 352; reckon 337; long 334; back 322; good 305; sah 281; hit 274; ole 269; den 264; honey 237; dat 219; thet 219; fo 214; wo 213; whar 213; ca 212; put 210; big 210; suh 202; yo 195; dem 187; hev 184; agin 182; jes 180; young 174; kin 169; hab 168; nt 166; chile 166; heap 163; run 161; des 161; knowed 159; seed 158; night 157; dis 153; day 149; woman 145; make 142; fust 140; talk 139; till 133; arter 130; home 128; set 127; um 126; ye 125; mo 125; yore 122; white 121; doan 121; things 115; sence 115; em 113; free 111; air 109; nigh 109; wife 108; tink 106; dere 106; thing 105; fool 105; yit 105; talkin 103; niggers 101; feller 101; goin 99; ax 98; heah 95; ez 95; dead 94; low 92; trouble 91; sech 91; keer 91; dunno 90; word 88; gits 88; fetch 86; sot 86 0.95 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2028 "Oh, it's de dad-blame' witches, sah, en I wisht I was dead, I do. Dey's awluz at it, sah, en dey do mos' kill me, dey sk'yers me so. Please to don't tell nobody 'bout it sah, er ole Mars Silas he'll scole me; 'kase he say dey ain't no witches. I jis' wish to goodness he was heah now -- den what would he say! I jis' bet he couldn' fine no way to git aroun' it dis time. But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's sot , stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when you fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you." 0.95 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 941 "Now, Missy Mara, no mo' ob dat ar talk. I knows my inard feelin's bes' ob any one. What Vilet say chirk me up po'fully, kase she see me ebery day. I tell you what I'se gwine ter do; I'se gwine ter put myself on 'bation, and den see wot come ob it. Now, honeys, I'se 'feered long nuff wid business. You'se dun me good, honey lam's, an' de Lawd bress you bofe. I'se tote de basket a heap pearter fer dis yere talk. I feels a monst'us sight betteh. Wish I could see you, honey, lookin' as plump as Missy Ella. Dat do me mos' as much good as feelin' 'ligious." 0.95 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 614 "Hit 'pears ter me a orfully mux-up question. Yere yo' gyardins, ole mars'r en ole miss. Dey's des had dere gay on dis plantashon sence I wuz a gyurl. You wuz trus' ter dem ter be took keer on en you tole me how he manage yo' prop'ty. He call you he ward. I des dunno w'at po'r dat ward business gib 'im. I'se yeared en my day ob young gyurls mar'ed yere en mar'ed dar en dey aim' sayin' much 'bout who dey mar'y. Folks say dat wuz de way wid ole miss. I reckermember dem days en I year ole mars'r's fader talk'n wid her fader 'bout w'at dey call set'l'ments en po'tions. Den ole miss's mammy tole me how her young miss wuz cool ez a cowcumber, en how she say her folks know bes' en she sat'sfied; en den how she gib her min' ter w'at she call her trosso. Why honey, I des doin' up tings ob dat ar trosso yit." 0.95 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2145 "Dar now, Marse Perkins, you des been 'posed on 'bout dat silber business. Ole Unc' Sampson w'at libed on de Simcoe place nigh on er hun'erd yeahs, dey say, tole me lots 'bout a spook dat boddered um w'en he a boy. Way back ole Marse Simcoe shot at de man dat hanker fer he darter. De man put out en get drownded, but dat doan make no dif'rence, Unc' Sampson say, kaze ole Marse Simcoe do he bes' ter kill der man. He sorter hab kill in he heart en Unc' Sampson low a spook know w'at gwine on in er man's in'erds, en dey des goes fer de man dat wanter kill um on de sly, en not dose dat kill in fa'r fight. Ole Unc' Sampson po'ful on spooks. He libed so long he get ter be sorter spook hesef, en dey say he talk ter um haf de time 'fo' he kiner des snuf out'n lak a can'l." 0.94 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 592 I ain't gwine pay no 'tention ter none o' y' all no mo' now tell I git yo' supper ready. Po' little Brindle! Stan' so still, an' ain't say a word. I'm a-fixin' yo' feed now, honey -- yas, I is! I allus mixes yo's fust, caze I know you nuver gits in till de las' one an' some o' de rest o' de greedies mos' gin'ally eats it up fo' you gits it. 0.94 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 588 "Dey stayed in dar I dunner how long, an' bimeby dey got tired er stayin' in dar, an' dey want ter come out. Some un um went off fer hunt fer de hole whar dey come in at, but dey can't fine it, an' den dey say dey skeered dey ain't never gwine ter git out. But de big Injun say dey plenty time, kaze fo' dey go out dey got ter know whedder de rain done stop. He say ef de smoke kin git out dey kin git out. Den dey ax 'im how he gwine fine out 'bout de rain, an' he say he gwine sen' some er de creeturs fer fine de hole whar de smoke go out, an' see 'bout de rain. 0.93 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 264 "Well, suh," said Harbert, "hit run sorter like dis: One time way back yander, fo' ole man Remus wuz born'd, I speck, all de birds wuz in cahoots; dem what fly in de air, an' dem what walk on de groun', an' dem what swim on de water -- all un um. Dey all live in one settlement, an' whatsomever dey mought pick up endurin' er de day, dey'd fetch it ter der place wharbouts dey live at, an' put it wid de rest what de yuther ones bin a-ketchin' an' a-fetchin'. 0.93 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 265 "Dey kep' on dis away, twel, twant long fo' dey done save up a right smart pile er fust one thing an' den anudder. De pile got so big dat dey 'gun ter git skeered dat some un ud come 'long whilst dey wus away an' he'p derse'f. Bimeby some er de mo' 'spicious 'mong um up an' say dat somebody bin stealin' fum de provision what dey savin' up ginst hard times. Mr. Jaybird, he coyspon' wid Mr. Crow, an' Mr. Crow he coyspon' wid Miss Chicken Hawk, and Miss Chicken Hawk she coyspon' wid Mr. Eagle, which he was de big buckra er all de birds. An' den dey all coyspon' wid one anudder, an' dey 'low dat dey bleeze ter lef' somebody dar fer ter watch der winter wittles whiles dey er off a-huntin' up mo'. Dey jowered an' jowered a long time, twel, bimeby, Mr. Eagle, he up an' say dat de bes' dey kin do is to 'pint Mr. Owl fer ter keep watch. Mr. Owl he sorter hoot at dis, but 'tain't do no good, kaze de yuthers, dey say dat all Mr. Owl got ter do is ter sleep mo' endurin' er de night an' stay 'wake endurin' er de day. 0.92 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2461 "Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you? -- what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan'? I tole you I got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I tole you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich agin ; en it's come true; en heah she is! dah , now! doan' talk to me -- signs is signs , mine I tell you; en I knowed jis' 's well 'at I 'uz gwineter be rich agin as I's a-stannin' heah dis minute!" 0.92 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 749 "Well, he doan tink me a fool. Whose 'pinion's wuth de mos'? Who took keer on 'im? Who got 'im off safe right un'er de nose ob one ob Mad Whately's sogers? Who brung 'im back des in time ter stop dat ar mar'age en gib we uns freedom? You mighty peart, but you got a heap ter larn 'fo' you cut yo' eye-tooths." ============================================================================= TOPIC 33 -- 1235 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= read 437; book 403; books 394; story 384; boy 235; school 217; great 212; history 189; boys 173; stories 166; reading 162; author 158; interest 148; life 143; volume 140; young 139; written 128; interesting 119; reader 111; teacher 110; series 108; write 106; work 105; study 104; picture 103; hero 92; learned 89; things 87; lessons 87; years 86; day 85; found 83; beautiful 80; good 79; tale 79; readers 77; page 76; wonderful 75; knowledge 74; learn 72; full 71; class 70; volumes 69; world 68; pages 67; told 67; people 66; names 66; writer 65; pictures 64; literary 64; find 61; letters 61; learning 60; present 59; works 59; american 58; art 58; style 57; adventures 57; scenes 57; library 57; wrote 56; public 55; lesson 55; character 55; incidents 53; studied 52; makes 52; fiction 52; children 51; information 50; pleasure 50; love 50; romance 50; literature 50; description 49; fine 49; favorite 49; make 48; girls 48; nature 46; giving 46; play 46; english 45; entertaining 45; high 44; list 44; poetry 44; memory 44; famous 44; country 43; account 43; narrative 42; success 42; popular 42; deal 42; made 42; delightful 42; poems 42 0.97 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1738 The opening of a new series of books from the pen of Oliver Optic is bound to arouse the highest anticipation in the minds of boy and girl readers. There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. Adams, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct and entertain their younger years. The present volume opens "The Blue and the Gray Series," a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the series, of which the first volume is now presented, while the name of Oliver Optic is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. "Taken by the Enemy," the first book of the series, is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. Adams has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected, by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume. -- Boston Budget. 0.97 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1950 The opening of a new series of books from the pen of Oliver Optic is bound to arouse the highest anticipation in the minds of boy and girl readers. There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. Adams, who under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct and entertain their younger years. The present volume opens "The Blue and the Gray Series," a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the series, of which the first volume is now presented, while the name of Oliver Optic is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. "Taken by the Enemy," the first book of the series, is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. Adams has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected, by entering Into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume. -- Boston Budget. 0.95 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1524 "There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. ADAMS, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands Who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct, and entertain their younger years. 'The Blue and the Gray' is a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the latest series, while the name of OLIVER OPTIC is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. This series is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. ADAMS has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume." -- Boston Budget . 0.94 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1658 "There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. ADAMS, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct, and entertain their younger years 'The Blue and the Gray' is a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the latest series, while the name of OLIVER OPTIC is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. This series is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. ADAMS has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume." -- Boston Budget. 0.93 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1550 "This is the latest series of books issued by this popular writer, and deals with life on the Great Lakes, for which a careful study was made by the author in a summer tour of the immense water sources of America. The story, which carries the same hero through the six books of the series, is always entertaining, novel scenes and varied incidents giving a constantly changing yet always attractive aspect to the narrative. OLIVER OPTIC has written nothing better." 0.93 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1757 "The story from its inception, and through the twelve volumes (see Second Series), is a bewitching one, while the information imparted concerning the countries of Europe and the isles of the sea is not only correct in every particular, but is told in a captivating style. OLIVER OPTIC will continue to be the boys' friend, and his pleasant books will continue to be read by thousands of American boys. What a fine holiday present either or both series of 'Young America Abroad' would be for a young friend! It would make a little library highly prized by the recipient, and would not be an expensive one." -- Providence Press . 0.93 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 1427 No author of the present day has become a greater favorite with boys than "Harry Castlemon;" every book by him is sure to meet with hearty reception by young readers generally. His naturalness and vivacity lead his readers from page to page with breathless interest, and when one volume is finished the fascinated reader, like Oliver Twist, asks "for more." 0.92 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1696 "The story from its inception, and through the twelve volumes (see Second Series), is a bewitching one, while the information imparted concerning the countries of Europe and the isles of the sea is not only correct in every particular, but is told in a captivating style. OLIVER OPTIC will continue to be the boys' friend, and his pleasant books will continue to be read by thousands of American boys. What a fine holiday present either or both series of 'Young America Abroad' would be for a young friend! It would make a little library highly prized by the recipient, and would not be an expensive one." -- Providence Press. 0.92 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1562 Rare books for boys bright, breezy, wholesome and instructive; full of adventure and incident, and information upon natural history. They blend instruction with amusement contain much useful and valuable information upon the habits of animals, and plenty of adventure, fun and jollity. 0.92 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1553 "The series has this peculiarity, that all of its constituent volumes are independent of one another, and therefore each story is complete in itself. OLIVER OPTIC is, perhaps, the favorite author of the boys and girls of this country, and he seems destined to enjoy an endless popularity. He deserves his success, for he makes very interesting stories, and inculcates none but the best sentiments, and the 'Yacht Club' is no exception to this rule." -- New Haven Journal and Courier . ============================================================================= TOPIC 34 -- 2034 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= dead 584; men 535; blood 481; fell 423; back 351; man 334; feet 330; wounded 327; death 319; body 312; cry 289; ground 282; hands 264; moment 230; lay 227; arms 222; made 221; broken 212; head 207; wild 194; terror 194; wound 181; half 175; poor 172; battle 169; stood 168; eyes 164; struck 157; face 156; rushed 152; sight 151; forward 149; instant 145; cries 145; women 144; terrible 142; youth 140; awful 140; horror 139; seized 139; fire 136; blow 133; fallen 133; brought 132; time 131; scene 130; strength 130; sprang 128; torn 127; heard 125; earth 124; flesh 123; dying 122; cried 121; arm 120; hand 119; ran 119; heart 116; died 114; began 111; threw 111; turned 110; shot 110; die 110; stricken 109; air 107; pain 106; wounds 105; bodies 104; great 102; fled 101; killed 99; cut 99; suddenly 98; rage 98; sudden 97; caught 97; lying 97; breath 93; side 92; human 91; fierce 91; agony 90; lost 89; despair 88; fury 87; life 86; shock 86; silence 85; groan 85; burst 83; helpless 82; soldier 82; crowd 82; floor 82; fall 81; carried 80; broke 79; sound 79; mad 79 0.83 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1137 Mangled horses, mangled men, some dead, some dying, and others almost rejoicing in wounds that would secure for them such gentle nurses, strewed the streets that had been the scene of merry festivity. 0.81 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 932 Others fell down about the feet of their companions. Some of the wounded crawled out and away, but many lay still, their bodies twisted into impossible shapes. 0.80 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 784 Before she can repeat the piercing cry, the thing grasping her relaxes its hold, letting her go altogether, and she feels herself falling, as from a great height. The sensation of giddiness is succeeded by a shock, which almost deprives her of consciousness. It is but the fall, broken by a plunge into water. Then there is a drumming in her ears, a choking in the throat; in short, the sensation that precedes drowning. 0.80 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 548 Suddenly his legs seemed to die. He sank writhing to the ground. He tried to arise. In his efforts against the numbing pain he was like a man wrestling with a creature of the air. 0.80 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 442 A roar of musketry -- it seemed at their very feet. Then an outbreak of yells, so sharp, so piercing, so devilish the sound, that the marrow froze in their veins, arose, as if from the whole thicket about them. 0.79 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 952 The youth's friend went over the obstruction in a tumbling heap and sprang at the flag as a panther at prey. He pulled at it and, wrenching it free, swung up its red brilliancy with a mad cry of exultation even as the color bearer, gasping, lurched over in a final throe and, stiffening convulsively, turned his dead face to the ground. There was much blood upon the grass blades. 0.78 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2092 A man came staggering towards them, gesticulating wildly and swearing horrible oaths. 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1896 Their shrieks, and piteous appeals, are alike disregarded. One after another they are struck, or hewn down, like saplings by the machete . A scene of red carnage, resembling a saturnalia of demons, doing murder! 0.77 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 868 The back of the deformed was stripped bare. Penn uttered a groan of horror at the sight. 0.77 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 255 Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere -- a blistering sweat, a sensation that his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones. A burning roar filled his ears. ============================================================================= TOPIC 35 -- 2562 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= voice 1688; heard 1255; words 776; low 578; tone 556; sound 537; hear 505; silence 353; word 322; loud 322; tones 310; moment 297; began 296; ear 296; made 295; spoke 286; ears 265; suddenly 250; voices 250; listened 247; asked 232; laugh 220; time 209; cry 208; man 207; speak 203; speech 194; uttered 192; repeated 190; sounded 189; broke 184; sounds 180; whisper 172; reply 167; cried 167; listening 163; speaking 159; turned 154; spoken 153; answered 146; called 142; whispered 141; call 138; hearing 138; gave 136; silent 136; half 132; laughter 131; deep 130; answer 129; long 128; room 126; noise 123; breath 123; wild 119; thought 119; angry 119; stopped 118; lips 116; coming 114; looked 114; ceased 113; note 111; listen 111; quick 106; strange 103; scarcely 102; startled 101; burst 101; whistle 101; nearer 101; song 101; heart 99; instant 99; presently 98; exclaimed 98; clear 97; talking 97; rose 96; night 95; louder 91; reached 89; question 89; attention 88; rang 88; broken 87; waited 86; exclamation 86; men 85; full 82; surprise 82; shouted 82; short 81; moved 80; interrupted 80; ringing 79; fell 78; paused 78; conversation 77; air 76 0.86 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1021 We listened with straining ears. He was right. The low, ominous murmur changed to a distant roar, grew louder yet, and yet louder, and was no longer distant. 0.82 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 113 Then from his lips come words, low-muttered -- words of menace, made emphatic by an oath. 0.78 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 650 In the deep stillness that followed, Father Palemon heard the sound of a low sob and a groan. 0.78 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1289 Low as she tried to speak, the words reached Loring, who listened, and Delaven, glancing across, perceived that he listened. 0.77 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1838 Ella could not help hearing his loud, harsh words, and her long, wailing cry was their echo. 0.76 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 192 The two exclamations betrayed how intent her listeners were, and how full of horror the suggestion. There was even incredulity in the tones, an initiative protest against such possibilities. But the Marquise looked from one to the other with unruffled earnestness. 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1112 At the same moment Mr. Dinsmore's voice was heard calling in a stern, angry tone, "Elsie!" 0.76 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3490 A shrill whistle disturbed the silence. This signal was repeated at intervals to windward. 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1654 "We've baffled 'em, I think," panted Bill, "I don't hear no more of that -- tramp, tramp, and the bugle's stopped too." 0.76 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2728 Judithe replied at random, scarcely hearing her chatter, and listening, listening each instant for his step or voice on the stair. ============================================================================= TOPIC 36 -- 3439 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= face 2274; eyes 2028; looked 1381; man 990; turned 956; stood 603; moment 542; expression 489; back 451; glance 437; smile 415; eye 389; light 382; head 382; hand 365; figure 333; sat 310; dark 301; countenance 292; forward 278; young 273; suddenly 264; glanced 245; walked 239; fixed 234; spoke 229; standing 226; gave 225; gaze 225; slowly 214; silence 212; met 210; rose 202; held 201; mouth 201; girl 199; seat 198; door 197; features 196; side 193; thought 193; smiled 191; white 189; half 184; full 183; asked 177; voice 171; stopped 169; tall 169; faces 169; window 164; blue 161; chair 161; fire 156; began 155; drew 155; staring 155; instant 154; stared 154; woman 151; showed 151; step 149; watched 147; passed 145; black 145; raised 143; red 139; watching 139; moved 137; shadow 137; pale 137; sight 136; lips 130; surprise 126; changed 122; cast 119; turning 119; quick 118; picture 118; left 117; gazed 117; flushed 117; sudden 116; caught 116; grave 115; lighted 115; faced 114; form 110; nodded 110; glances 110; silent 108; open 107; change 107; attention 107; deep 105; companion 105; bright 105; stepped 105; fell 104; bent 104 0.89 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1592 She looked curiously into his face, but the handsome mouth and chin might have been chiselled in stone for any visible alteration in their fixed stern expression, and his piercing black eyes seemed diving into hers through microscopic glasses. 0.87 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2788 She glanced up at Kenneth McVeigh, and saw his face suddenly grow white, and stern; then the door closed on her, and those two were left alone together. She stood outside the door for a full minute, amazed at the strange look in his eyes, and in hers, as they faced each other, and as she moved away she wondered at the silence there -- neither of them had spoken. 0.84 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3102 To the man who listened and watched with breathless anxiety her hardening, whitening features, she merely recalled the memory of her own tragic "Medea" confronting "Jason" at Athens. 0.83 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 14 During this brief and almost unprecedented outburst of Juan's the Senora's countenance had been slowly growing stern. Juan had not seen it. His eyes had been turned away from her, looking down into the upturned eager face of his favorite collie, who was leaping and gambolling and barking at his feet. 0.83 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1888 As she passed the mirror she caught sight of her anxious face in it, and halted, staring at the reflection critically. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1142 The blue eyes closed, she tottered, and as Hannah caught and bore her up, a swift heavy step on the gravel caused her to glance over her shoulder. 0.82 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2506 He smiled again, that quick illuminating smile which seemed to sparkle in his hazel eyes; and nodded his head a little. 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 150 She had listened quietly with her face turned from him, and now met his eyes with an inscrutable expression in hers. "Have I not listened?" she asked. 0.81 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3094 “Get out,” he said, quietly, with a sudden paling of his face. Still’s jaw dropped. Jacquelin rose to his feet, a gleam in his eyes. 0.80 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1897 He smiled as he spoke -- a smile of amusement, coolly careless of the amazement of Masterson, and the inquiry in the glance of McVeigh. ============================================================================= TOPIC 37 -- 1305 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= time 398; good 306; back 269; ai 268; made 243; pretty 235; set 218; man 208; told 203; thing 199; things 192; nigger 192; kind 190; till 187; king 183; night 182; put 174; give 157; wanted 157; big 152; reckon 147; make 145; minute 137; duke 137; knowed 135; run 132; town 131; place 129; long 128; head 120; people 119; house 119; raft 117; river 115; mighty 113; begun 106; fetch 96; woods 92; reckoned 91; lot 88; bed 87; half 87; day 86; dead 85; laid 82; found 82; started 80; find 80; hear 80; mile 79; hid 78; niggers 78; mind 76; dark 76; thought 76; work 71; lay 70; foot 70; clothes 70; struck 68; sick 67; times 66; heard 66; ca 66; widow 66; round 65; looked 65; body 64; bit 64; straight 63; easy 61; judged 61; trouble 59; rest 59; folks 59; couple 58; coming 58; awful 58; scared 57; ways 56; luck 56; piece 54; hands 54; stuck 54; hole 53; steal 53; money 52; fetched 52; full 51; pap 51; bad 50; show 50; door 50; canoe 50; stand 49; home 49; leg 49; men 48; eat 48; yonder 48 0.90 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1061 I never felt easy till the raft was two mile below there and out in the middle of the Mississippi. Then we hung up our signal lantern, and judged that we was free and safe once more. I hadn't had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens -- there ain't nothing in the world so good when it's cooked right -- and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 0.89 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2216 Our hole was pretty big, but it warn't big enough to get the grindstone through; but Jim he took the pick and soon made it big enough. Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it. Then we helped him fix his chain back on the bed-leg, and was ready for bed ourselves. But Tom thought of something, and says: 0.89 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 542 "Now you think it's bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake- skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've raked in all this truck and eight dollars besides. I wish we could have some bad luck like this every day, Jim." 0.88 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2367 "People to help him, Brother Marples! Well, I reckon you'd think so if you'd a been in this house for a while back. Why, they've stole everything they could lay their hands on -- and we a-watching all the time, mind you. They stole that shirt right off o' the line! and as for that sheet they made the rag ladder out of, ther' ain't no telling how many times they didn't steal that; and flour, and candles, and candlesticks, and spoons, and the old warming-pan, and most a thousand things that I disremember now, and my new calico dress; and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day and night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and not only fools us but the Injun Territory robbers too, and actuly gets away with that nigger safe and sound, and that with sixteen men and twenty-two dogs right on their very heels at that very time! I tell you, it just bangs anything I ever heard of. Why, sperits couldn't a done better and been no smarter. And I reckon they must a been sperits -- because, you know our dogs, and ther' ain't no better; well, them dogs never even got on the track of 'm once! You explain that to me if you can! -- any of you!" 0.88 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2030 "I wonder if Uncle Silas is going to hang this nigger. If I was to catch a nigger that was ungrateful enough to run away, I wouldn't give him up, I'd hang him." And whilst the nigger stepped to the door to look at the dime and bite it to see if it was good, he whispers to Jim and says: 0.87 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 719 I struck for the light, but as soon as he turned the corner I went back and got into my skiff and bailed her out, and then pulled up shore in the easy water about six hundred yards, and tucked myself in among some woodboats; for I couldn't rest easy till I could see the ferryboat start. But take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable on accounts of taking all this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. 0.87 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1072 They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting. We heard them come along towards the crick, but couldn't see them; they seemed to stop and fool around a while; then, as we got further and further away all the time, we couldn't hardly hear them at all; by the time we had left a mile of woods behind us and struck the river, everything was quiet, and we paddled over to the towhead and hid in the cottonwoods and was safe. 0.86 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1504 Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his screw- driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. So there I was! I didn't know whether the money was in there or not. So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly? -- now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or not? S'pose she dug him up and didn't find nothing, what would she think of me? Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it, I've worsened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business! 0.86 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1492 "Your head's level agin, duke," says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the curtain two or three foot from where I was. I stuck tight to the wall and kept mighty still, though quivery; and I wondered what them fellows would say to me if they catched me; and I tried to think what I'd better do if they did catch me. But the king he got the bag before I could think more than about a half a thought, and he never suspicioned I was around. They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the straw tick that was under the feather-bed, and crammed it in a foot or two amongst the straw and said it was all right now, because a nigger only makes up the feather-bed, and don't turn over the straw tick only about twice a year, and so it warn't in no danger of getting stole now. 0.86 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2332 I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say -- so it was all right now, and I told Tom I was a-going for a doctor. He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn't budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn't let him. Then he give us a piece of his mind, but it didn't do no good. ============================================================================= TOPIC 38 -- 5771 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= asked 2516; replied 2088; sir 1487; answered 1098; added 1010; man 977; captain 750; young 567; exclaimed 555; question 468; suppose 457; demanded 457; answer 452; inquired 395; smile 361; officer 350; tone 342; good 341; told 328; matter 298; hear 296; gentleman 289; understand 282; doctor 276; speak 267; laughing 262; lady 252; friend 251; call 248; word 243; major 227; continued 224; laughed 213; lieutenant 212; business 210; father 208; reply 200; find 197; questions 196; repeated 195; give 193; brother 191; remarked 189; sergeant 186; ca 185; ah 184; turning 181; pardon 179; cried 161; smiled 161; trouble 156; hope 155; soldier 153; orders 152; responded 152; son 150; ready 149; prisoner 147; smiling 147; general 146; commander 144; true 143; thought 143; uncle 141; moment 136; afraid 129; beg 127; words 127; addressing 127; cousin 127; boy 126; remember 124; sternly 124; interposed 123; gentlemen 120; send 117; fellow 117; glad 117; rebel 117; excuse 115; quickly 110; surprise 110; gravely 109; pause 106; quietly 105; stranger 105; heard 104; colonel 104; sharply 103; reckon 103; interrupted 101; judge 99; somers 99; put 97; obey 96; house 95; master 94; men 93; angrily 93; surgeon 91 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 330 "Pray how old are you, my friend?" asked the stranger, who thought his companion was stupid enough to answer any question he might put to him. 0.79 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4340 "The officer who happened to see Colonel Colfax captured is now in Washington. When your name was given to me, I sent for him. Perhaps he is in the anteroom now. I should like to tell you, first of all, that this officer defended your cousin and asked me to pardon him." 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 608 "I reckon I do, sir; your cousin Corny is an impostor," replied the steward promptly. 0.76 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 665 "Do you expect me to obey your orders?" demanded the executive officer in a sneering tone. 0.76 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 729 "Certainly, sir," said the steward, in his politest tones; and the command was promptly obeyed. 0.76 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 976 "I shall obey my superior officer, and not presume to advise him unless he asks me to do so." 0.76 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1184 "Eh? 'Pon my conscience! Were you asked to drink by a rebel major-general?" demanded the officer, greatly surprised at the statement of the scout 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 331 "Let us go on to Viamede at once then, papa," replied Elsie, promptly. "I have been regretting that we sent notice of our coming. I doubt if it would not have been wiser to take them by surprise." 0.75 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1985 "Bring him out? I beg your pardon, sir; but I don't know who you are. I can't give up a prisoner without orders." 0.75 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 498 "Young gentlemen, what is the meaning of this new outrage?" demanded the colonel angrily. ============================================================================= TOPIC 39 -- 1632 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= shot 741; fire 657; gun 603; guns 439; fired 433; men 412; smoke 283; heard 212; rifle 212; time 206; shots 194; rebels 188; enemy 179; firing 173; line 153; cannon 151; shell 146; ran 142; musket 140; half 139; bullet 137; moment 136; rebel 136; heavy 133; bullets 132; pistol 131; side 130; shells 129; ready 128; forward 126; fort 125; ball 118; struck 117; ground 114; woods 114; suddenly 113; close 112; powder 111; left 108; muskets 108; instant 108; hit 106; made 105; aim 104; piece 103; rifles 102; boys 97; battery 96; fell 96; signal 96; effect 95; pieces 92; long 88; quick 88; run 86; loaded 86; great 85; ammunition 85; double 85; immediately 83; shoot 82; soldiers 80; ordered 80; report 78; direction 77; fight 77; minutes 76; loud 76; range 76; killed 75; sound 75; charge 74; distance 74; yards 74; barrel 74; wounded 74; body 73; dozen 73; rushed 71; volley 70; position 68; air 68; load 68; heads 66; give 66; rush 66; mile 66; aimed 66; battle 66; weapon 65; sounded 65; sharp 65; advance 64; balls 64; instantly 64; feet 63; ten 63; began 63; noise 63; crack 63 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1743 The gunner had loaded the piece himself, and it made a tremendous report when Christy pulled the lock-string. The Leopard shook under the concussion of the discharge, and she was completely enveloped in smoke; so that they could not see whether the Belle had been hit or not. But in the distance they could hear hoarse shouts in the direction of the Belle, and they concluded that something had happened in that quarter. 0.89 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3006 Suddenly the advance-guard opened fire! then the rear-guard was closed upon by a sudden rush of the enemy, and the whole line commenced file-firing into the thick covert. 0.88 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1770 John levelled his rifle just in time. "Halt! Drop that gun! Drop it to the ground or I'll drop you!" The rifle fell to the earth. "Now get away! Move!" The horseman wheeled and hurried off under cover of the tree-trunks. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1253 A puff of smoke and the sharp crack of a rifle startled the enemy, as the red sheik rolled over. The yells increased on all sides, the whistles of the antelopes' horns now sounded a shrill alarm, during which the leading Baris shot off their arrows, but they fell short. 0.85 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2655 Crack! went a gun, immediately succeeded by an irregular volley, like a string of exploding fire-crackers. Penn, expecting death, saw first the rapid flashes, then the soldiers half concealed by the smoke of their own guns. The smoke cleared, and there he still stood, smiling -- for Virginia was unhurt. 0.83 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 496 "I only pulled you down to keep that rifle-ball from going through your head. I saw a rebel picket through the trees, ready to fire at us. The ball struck the tree before we struck the ground." 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 961 In about half an hour the native yells grew fainter, the noise of their horns and drums was reduced, and the heavy firing dwindled to dropping shots. I heard the bugles sound "cease firing." I then heard "the advance." Again firing commenced, this time in volleys; then I heard once more "cease firing," and then "the retreat:" the attack was repulsed. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1239 I ordered my men to cease firing, as they were wasting their ammunition uselessly, and destroying the prestige of the rifles by missing at long ranges. 0.81 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2838 While the patriots, preparing for their second volley, were getting positions among the rocks on the left, Carl had crept up the embankment in front, and brought away two muskets from two dead rebels. These were they who had fallen at the first fire. Both guns had bayonets. Pomp took one; Carl kept the other. Cudjo with his sword accompanied the charging party; Grudd and the rest remaining at their post, ready to pick off any rebel that should appear on the cliff. 0.80 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 761 Just then the thought struck him that he would take the rebel's gun; his own was worse than useless, for his cartridges had all been expended. So, throwing down his heavy musket, he picked up the rifle his enemy had carried, and, slinging the powder-horn and bullet-pouch over his shoulder, he started off through the woods. ============================================================================= TOPIC 40 -- 1918 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= war 900; people 782; men 705; country 580; government 379; state 335; great 244; flag 231; southern 210; day 207; slavery 187; northern 186; made 180; peace 173; city 172; fight 170; side 170; battle 170; friends 168; land 166; nation 166; free 156; citizens 156; rebellion 148; soldiers 145; years 144; fought 137; political 136; army 135; party 132; public 129; called 127; order 126; property 124; end 121; man 120; fighting 120; rights 119; law 119; part 117; secession 114; arms 113; women 111; history 109; vote 108; loyal 104; thousands 102; election 98; power 97; civil 97; county 95; blood 94; general 92; armies 92; victory 91; laws 90; speech 89; american 88; leaders 88; make 88; military 87; true 86; treason 85; held 84; world 84; negroes 84; high 83; sons 83; time 81; gentlemen 81; homes 80; town 79; act 78; liberty 77; freedom 75; brothers 75; capital 74; times 73; life 73; rule 72; force 70; believed 70; patriotism 70; authorities 69; fire 68; spirit 68; enemies 68; states 68; beginning 67; honor 67; question 66; slaves 65; read 65; means 65; traitors 65; rebels 64; brought 63; passed 63; families 63; citizen 63 0.91 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2951 It was the fire of 1832 flaming anew. No rights had been invaded. That Secession was inaugurated without cause must ever be the verdict of history. And history will forever hold John C. Calhoun, R. Barnwell Rhett, Right Rev. Bishop Elliott, Rev. Dr. Thornwell, and other statesmen, editors, ministers, -- members of the slaveholding forum, bar, and pulpit, -- responsible for all the suffering, bloodshed, and desolation which have come to the country. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1688 State after State was seceding and seizing upon United States property within its limits -- forts, arsenals, navy-yards, custom-houses, mints, ships, armories, and military stores -- while the government at Washington remained inactive, doubtless fearing to precipitate the civil strife. 0.85 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1090 "I pronounce here before the civilized world that your independence is baptized in blood; your independence is won upon a glorious battle-field, and you are free now and forever, in defiance of the world in arms." 0.83 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 792 "Friends here? Union men have no friends here. There are men here with, whom I have done business for years, men that owe prosperity to me, but when I called on them they almost insulted me. If you have friends, you must have sympathies that they appreciate." 0.81 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2923 It is claimed that Sherman did not regard private property, but destroyed it indiscriminately with that belonging to the Confederate government. Was there any respect shown by the Rebel authorities? Cotton, resin, turpentine, stores owned by private individuals, were remorselessly given to the flames by the Rebels themselves, and their acts were applauded by the people of the South as evincing heroic self-sacrifice. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 188 "Not at all, sir. I was only expressing my honest conviction. Instead of placing yourself on the side of your government, on the side of law and order, you are going about Pinchbrook Harbor denouncing the legitimate government of your country, and pleading the cause of rebels and traitors." 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1466 "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1404 "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" 0.79 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 514 "The question is, whether a sovereign State has not a right to secede if she chooses," said Mr. Funk, -- for he and Philip were the only persons in New Hope who were not sorrowful over the intelligence. Mr. Funk was a native of Virginia, and had much to say about the superiority of Southern gentlemen over all other men, -- how noble and chivalric they were. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 213 "Consider, squire, what you say. The people have made up their minds not to tolerate a traitor within the corporate limits of the town of Pinchbrook." ============================================================================= TOPIC 41 -- 3693 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= young 1200; made 657; good 611; felt 586; manner 580; girl 570; man 550; thought 508; lady 451; time 400; woman 388; gave 346; great 311; looked 301; pleasure 294; knew 285; found 284; met 279; friend 266; father 260; began 258; kind 249; pretty 248; make 246; interest 242; eyes 233; pleased 225; appeared 223; people 222; laughed 219; gentleman 210; feeling 209; conversation 206; spoke 204; heart 201; smile 200; things 199; pleasant 192; fine 187; cousin 187; presence 180; received 179; fact 176; acquaintance 176; ladies 175; handsome 174; mind 167; love 166; subject 164; society 162; admiration 161; half 160; southern 158; show 157; smiled 157; sister 154; glance 153; girls 151; talk 146; friends 143; aunt 142; called 141; beauty 141; evening 140; interested 139; part 137; times 136; attention 134; world 133; day 133; speech 133; talked 130; life 129; remarked 129; laugh 129; family 128; slight 127; feel 127; remark 127; stranger 127; deal 125; respect 125; treated 124; happy 123; idea 123; kindness 123; ease 123; scarcely 123; humor 123; delight 122; gentle 122; shown 120; making 120; person 118; proud 118; women 117; agreeable 117; fellow 116; understood 115; pride 115 0.85 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1551 When first she arrived Dr. Lacey felt exceedingly uncomfortable, for her presence constantly reminded him of the past, and his reminiscences of Julia were not particularly pleasant. Gradually this feeling wore away, for she appeared greatly changed. There was a softness, a gentleness, in her manner, which seemed to Dr. Lacey like Fanny, and then her voice, too, was so like her sister’s that ere long she ceased to be disagreeable to him, and instead of avoiding her society, as at first he had done, he now sought it. 0.84 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2513 Mrs. Bodine, Mrs. Willoughby, and the captain had several whispered conferences with those who felt surprise at associations with Mr. Houghton, and there was a quick, generous response to the old man's kindness. Some who would not have looked at him the day before now went and spoke to him gratefully and sympathetically, while for George only cordiality and admiration were manifested. He was not a little uneasy over the profuse attentions and offers of help which Ella received from several young men. To his jealous eyes she appeared unnecessarily gracious, and more ready to talk with them than with him; but he could not discover that she had an especial favorite among them. Indeed, she managed in their case as in his that Mrs. Willoughby, Miss Ainsley, or some one else should share in the conversation. 0.82 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2373 The difference in the attitude of their neighbors toward them was felt deeply by Major and Mrs. Welch. Even Dr. Cary’s wonted cordiality had given place, when he met Mrs. Welch, to grave and formal courtesy. Toward Major Welch the formality was less marked, while toward Ruth there was almost the same warmth and friendliness that had existed before Mrs. Welch’s letters were seen. Ruth received quite as many invitations as before, and when she met her neighbors they were as cordial to her as ever. She was conscious that this difference in her case was intentional, that the old warmth toward her was studied, and that they meant her to feel that the change in their attitude did not extend to her. Ruth, however, was far too loyal to her own to accept such attentions; so far from accepting, she resented the overtures made her, and was not slow in letting it be understood. There were one or two exceptions to this general attitude. For Blair Cary her liking deepened. Blair was sweeter than ever to her, and though Ruth felt that this was to make up to her for the coolness of others, there were a real warmth and a true sympathy in Blair, and a delicacy and charm about her manner of showing them that touched Ruth, and she was conscious that day by day she became drawn more and more closely to her. She felt that Blair understood her and sympathized with her, and that, if she ever chose to speak, she had in her a friend on whose bosom she could fling herself and find consolement. Such friendships are rare. The friend with whom one does not have to make explanations is God-given. 0.82 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3787 His arrival at Brutusville was regarded very differently by different people. The Welches were delighted to see him, and so was Reely Thurston. Leech met him with a show of much cordiality—extended his hand, and greeted him with warmth which somehow cooled Middleton. Middleton could not for his life help having that old feeling of repulsion. He was conscious of a change in Leech. Instead of his former half-apologetic manner that was almost obsequious, Leech now was lively and assertive. His air was that of an equal—indeed, almost of a superior. 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 161 "Indeed! Am I such a very undesirable party?" said Graham, laughing, for he heartily enjoyed his aunt's brusque way of talking, having learned already the kindliness it masked. 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2236 The lady was disappointed, and Elsie herself only half satisfied; but the two gentlemen, who thoroughly understood Miss Stevens and saw through all her manoeuvres, exchanged glances of amusement and satisfaction. 0.80 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2236 During the drive, Mrs. Palma was unusually cheerful, almost loquacious, and her companion attributed the agreeable change in her generally reticent manner to maternal pride and pleasure in the contemplated alliance of her only child. 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 736 There was no woman in the hotel so little prone to enthusiasm as this one. She was old enough and clever enough to have few illusions. It was thought singular that though she admitted she had known the Colonel from his youth, she showed very little partiality for his society, and, indeed, treated him with marked reserve. She never joined in the choruses of praise which were chanted daily around her. 0.78 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 676 The latter felt immensely superior to his friend, but he inclined to condescension. He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor. 0.78 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1791 "It's very pretty!" she said; with, I saw, an increase of admiration; but St. Clair gave me another strange look. "How much prettier Paris things are than American!" Lansing went on. "I wish I could have all my dresses from Paris. Why, Daisy, you've grown handsome." ============================================================================= TOPIC 42 -- 1403 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= soldier 590; men 579; man 457; officer 435; regiment 426; boy 391; officers 370; young 336; war 328; army 319; company 312; soldiers 298; colonel 296; camp 261; duty 256; general 253; captain 252; service 245; battle 232; boys 223; command 194; guard 187; fight 184; military 176; uniform 169; fellow 166; rebel 164; brave 163; sergeant 154; good 152; lieutenant 152; made 140; field 137; major 137; fellows 136; ranks 132; rank 126; country 121; called 116; arms 109; flag 109; time 103; received 100; wounded 100; orders 95; day 95; line 94; friends 94; comrades 94; fighting 92; staff 91; sword 88; drill 87; fought 85; call 84; left 83; gallant 82; heard 81; home 80; hospital 80; order 79; tent 79; orderly 78; commission 76; prisoner 73; courage 73; ordered 71; surgeon 70; hero 70; honor 70; prisoners 68; ready 67; year 67; pass 67; promoted 66; headquarters 64; days 63; enemy 62; shouted 62; night 59; promotion 59; private 59; commanding 57; commander 57; parade 56; brigade 56; member 56; enlisted 56; glory 56; work 55; make 55; big 55; friend 54; commanded 54; report 54; post 54; regiments 52; stand 52; side 52; front 52 0.82 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1916 Tom received "honorable mention" in the report of the colonel, and his recommendation, supported by that of the general of the division, brought to the hospital his commission as second lieutenant. 0.80 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 46 The boys became soldiers, and drilled punctiliously with guns which they got Uncle Balla to make for them. Frank was the captain, Willy the first lieutenant, and a dozen or more little negroes composed the rank and file, Peter and Cole being trusted file-closers. 0.79 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 25 "Then mounte! then mounte, brave gallants, all, And don your helmes amaine; Death's couriers, Fame and Honor, call Us to the field againe." 0.78 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2883 I'll fight for Lib-er-ty, I'll fight for Lib-er- ty, I'll fight -- I'll fight for Lib-er-ty. 0.78 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 67 "Then mounte! then mounte, brave gallants, all, And don your helmes amaine; Death's couriers, Fame and Honor, call Us to the field againe," -- 0.78 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 853 But the soldier boy had no countersign to give. He had fallen upon a rebel picket post, and was made a prisoner. 0.76 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1889 He was warmly received by his companions, and the veteran of the company had nearly hugged him in his joy and admiration. 0.76 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 978 "Those are the coolest fellows that ever came near my lines," said the sergeant. "Men without a pass looking out for one who has a pass!" 0.75 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1402 "I know it. I shall probably be dismissed from the service. If so, colonel, I will enlist as a private in your regiment. Then you can shoot me if I disobey again." 0.74 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 196 And when the corporal reappears it is with a file of men, armed with their Springfields. Between them Rix is marched away, a scared and haggard-looking man. ============================================================================= TOPIC 43 -- 2293 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= thought 1489; knew 1345; time 940; told 866; made 703; thing 509; mother 500; man 479; find 476; house 455; heard 422; place 420; things 416; home 400; back 397; men 372; night 367; marcy 342; found 340; mind 340; wanted 318; story 316; looked 307; long 292; boy 290; make 283; good 282; safe 270; trouble 268; word 259; afraid 259; felt 257; meant 236; fear 226; hear 220; left 219; boys 218; matter 212; happened 198; coming 195; give 193; put 192; work 191; friends 190; idea 189; speak 189; people 183; talk 176; expected 173; truth 172; believed 167; gave 166; bring 166; chance 162; telling 161; secret 160; surprised 157; began 152; learned 151; asked 150; words 150; glad 150; frightened 149; doubt 147; moment 147; fact 146; hoped 145; brought 142; true 135; danger 132; reason 131; overseer 130; making 129; part 128; hard 126; plantation 126; answered 125; afterward 122; news 120; thinking 119; money 119; ready 118; held 117; understand 117; talked 116; wished 115; case 114; sight 113; satisfied 113; rebel 113; dared 112; show 112; spoke 112; supposed 111; plans 111; act 110; hope 109; strange 105; sort 104; lived 104 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 578 "Those who had just gone by might at any moment return and enter the house; and besides, it occurred to me that if I was so well known to the rebel spy, I was not safe except in our own camp. I might, at any time, run into a trap he had laid for me. At any rate, we thought it best to get within our lines as soon as possible; so, without waiting to hear the woman's description of Bob Cole, we bid her good night. 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 172 "There are but two things about it that are plain to me," answered Marcy, "perhaps three. One is that the house is watched by somebody, and that the neighbors knew I was at home almost as soon as you knew it yourself. Another is that the suspicions aroused in the minds of some of our watchful neighbors are so strong that they amount to positive conviction. They are as certain that there is money in this house as they would be if they had caught you in the act of hiding it." 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 212 But what was the object of the plot? That was what "banged" Marcy, and he told his mother so after he had given her a minute description of his brief interview with the overseer. Was it possible that there were some strong Union men in the neighborhood, and that Beardsley hoped Marcy would incur their enmity by discharging Hanson on account of his alleged principles? Marcy knew better than to believe that, and so did his mother. 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 345 Marcy assured him that he would bear it in mind. If Beardsley hoped to hear him declare that his mother had more money in the house than she was likely to need, he was disappointed. 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 523 When Marcy heard this he did not know whether to laugh again or get angry over it. As time was precious he did neither, but began questioning Toby, who told a story that made the boy open his eyes. When it was concluded the fact was plain to Marcy that somebody had been trying to get him and Dick Graham into trouble; but who could it be? He knew that he had been airing his Union sentiments rather freely, but he wasn't aware that he had made any enemies by it. He wished the hour for his relief would hasten its coming, so that he might compare notes with Dick. 0.80 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 381 "Let them keep on thinking so if they want to. And another reason Beardsley didn't say all he meant to was because I was foolish enough to give him something else to think about. I was frightened when he mentioned Kelsey's name, for I knew in an instant what he wanted the man on the place for, and I showed that I was frightened." 0.80 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 114 Jacquelin looked at her long and seriously, and that moment a new idea seemed to him to enter his mind: that, after all, it might be as brave to do a dangerous thing which you are afraid to do, as if you are not at all afraid. 0.78 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 268 Marcy was suspicious of everything Beardsley said and did, and wondered if this was a new move on the man's part to bring him and his mother into trouble with the Confederate authorities. If it was a trap Marcy did not fall into it. 0.78 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 654 Marcy Gray had passed through the ordeal he so much dreaded, and was as well satisfied with the way he had come out of it as he had hoped to be. Of one thing he was certain: every person to whom he had spoken that morning was suspicious of him, but that was no more than he expected. Some people in Nashville believed that he had not only instigated but ordered the destruction of Beardsley's house and Shelby's, and that he could in like manner command the burning of any house in the settlement if he felt like it, and that was what he thought they would believe. He knew it wasn't so, and it troubled and vexed him to have such things laid to his charge; but how could he help it, and what single thing had he done to bring it about? 0.77 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 361 But he had no sooner found himself in the presence of long-confessed superior powers than he knew that he would never do any of these things. ============================================================================= TOPIC 44 -- 1654 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= man 681; life 255; death 201; men 179; blood 177; soul 176; crime 169; poor 166; made 166; save 165; murder 155; punishment 155; son 151; cried 151; fear 144; guilty 143; thought 138; hate 127; mercy 120; power 117; worse 117; vengeance 114; father 113; innocent 113; cruel 113; heart 112; justice 108; fate 106; dead 100; kill 99; hands 96; wicked 93; shot 92; escape 91; thing 91; law 90; revenge 90; murdered 89; die 87; knew 86; committed 85; conscience 84; devil 81; shame 81; fellow 80; wrong 80; punished 78; disgrace 78; prisoner 77; hated 77; dare 76; house 75; victim 75; evil 73; true 73; bitter 73; traitor 73; escaped 72; curse 72; times 71; insult 71; brave 71; bear 71; murderer 71; killed 70; night 70; broke 70; ah 70; terrible 68; rage 68; outrage 67; worst 66; wretch 66; family 65; brutal 64; doubt 63; face 61; anger 61; cursed 61; angry 60; sin 60; ruin 59; horrible 59; thief 59; indignation 59; oath 58; cold 57; brother 57; injustice 57; act 56; treated 56; put 56; word 56; broken 56; meant 56; stand 55; suffer 55; stealing 55; folly 55; blame 55 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1835 "Curse your ill-omened face! Such men as you are worse than a pestilence. As a rebel was there not enough blood on your hands? He saved you, why couldn't you do something to save him?" 0.80 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 813 "What a wretch that rebel was!" exclaimed Tom, who seemed to breathe freer now that retribution had overtaken the viper. 0.80 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2332 "Then shall she have proof of it, which she cannot doubt. She shall have it in the recorded judgment of a court-martial, which has condemned him as a traitor and a spy; she shall have it in the doom of his death, and the sequestration of his estate," exclaimed Tyrrel with a bitter malignity, "proud girl!" 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2063 "Look yonder to Jesus, bleeding! Only his blood can wash away your guilt. Mr. Murray, I can never be your wife. I have no confidence in you. Knowing how systematically you have deceived others, how devoid of conscientious scruples you are, I should never be sure that I too was not the victim of your heartless cynicism. Beside, I -- " 0.78 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1816 "Oh, stop! stop! How dare you!" she cried; "for he tried to shield you -- he tried to shield you -- he would shield you if he could." 0.78 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 958 'What would the Captain say? and Mr. Grimshaw, what would he do about it? Then I thought of Pepper Whitcomb. Dire was the vengeance I meant to wreak on Pepper, for who but he had betrayed me? Pepper alone had been the repository of my secret -- perfidious Pepper! 0.76 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 388 Disappointment were far too weak a word to express the pang that shoots through the heart of Helen Armstrong, on discovering the mistake she has made. It is bitter vexation, commingled with a sense of shame. I or her speeches, in feigned reproach, have terribly compromised her. 0.76 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 628 "There wasn't any fair fight at all," cried the old man passionately. "It was an atrocious, wicked, causeless rebellion." 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2060 "Oh, Mr. Murray! You can not atone! You can not call your victims from their tombs. You can not undo what you have done! What amends can you make to Mr. Hammond, and to my poor little confiding Gertrude? I can not help you! I can not save you!" 0.75 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 389 "I protest against this outrage! I will not submit to it!" howled Captain Sawlock, carried away by his wrath. ============================================================================= TOPIC 45 -- 1813 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= chapter 1190; illustration 359; page 94; degrees 82; viii 72; 1862 60; 25 58; xviii 51; xxviii 48; 1861 41; p. 38; iii 28; 15 25; 10 23; 1863 23; 11 21; 1864 21; young 20; reserved 20; rights 19; 20 19; 16 18; 18 18; showing 18; copyright 18; 24 17; 14 16; noon 16; describing 16; thirty 15; forty 15; 13 15; 21 15; 1865 15; xiii 15; villiam 15; 22 14; correspondent 14; 37 13; i. 13; xxxii 13; introducing 13; 17 12; report 12; 19 12; 70 12; 48 12; axe 12; noting 12; 30 11; 40 11; 8th 11; 81 11; hip 11; xlii 11; m. 11; a. 11; 1860 11; 52 10; seventy 10; 1/2 10; 59 10; 63 10; cruise 10; leech 10; a.m. 9; 29 9; 92 9; 20th 9; fourteenth 9; grime 9; ly 9; altitude 8; converted 8; 1st 8; 86 8; thermometer 8; 35 8; 66 8; 82 8; wing 8; birthday 8; 2d 8; xxxvii 8; xxxviii 8; xxii 8; dolly 8; press 7; 50 7; south 7; 27 7; 28 7; warning 7; 71 7; section 7; 69 7; 28th 7; rescue 7; veritable 7; 49 7 0.96 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2964 NAMES. AGES. Jimmy, driver, 30 Flora, seamstress, 24 James, 5 Charles, ($125,) 1 August, 52 Mathias, ($1,220,) 18 Sandy, 16 John, 13 Tom, 70 Jack, 38 James, 6 Leah, 5 Flora, 2 Andrew, 42 Binah, 40 Phillis, 20 Mary, 15 Lymus, 10 Abram, ($275,) 2 Binah, 2 mos. Andrew, 29 Hagar, 25 Dayman, 4 Cuffy, 21 Hagar, ($1,320,) 20 Margaret, 85 Lucy, cripple, 60 John, 22 Ellick, ($1,160,) 18 Libby, 19 Carter, 36 Taffy, 13 Rachel, ($720,) 8 Jannett, 18 Phebe, ($860,) 40 Judy, 8 Major, 40 Lavinia, 30 Billy, ($550,) 10 Tamor, 6 Jimmy, 52 Kate, 46 Susan, 25 Thomas, ($380,) 6 Kate, 1 Edward, coachman, 49 Amey, 22 Teneh, washer, 30 Josephine, 9 Sam, 11 Isaac, 5 William, 1 Amey, 27 Louisa, ($750,) 8 Joe, 3 Sam, ruptured, 65 Andrew, dropsical, 61 Daniel, 70 Lymus, 30 Lucy, nurse, 58 0.93 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 3 Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI 0.84 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 127 The First Subscription 1 Capitol at Washington 4 Pro Patria 7 Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore 8 Guarding Long Bridge 12 Aid Society's Store-Room 16 The Ideal Freedman 16 Ladies Working for the Army 22 Forwarded Free 29 Ellsworth Zouave Drill 46 General Grant -- General Sherman 54 Hauling Cotton 62 Baltimore in 1861 75 East Tennessee Refugees 92 A Mississippi School- House 96 Gunboats in Line 102 With Dispatch 109 General Mcclellan at Williamsburg 110 General Mcclellan at the Battle of Antietam 114 The Sunken Road 118 Battle of Antietam 120 For the Boys in Blue 121 Slaves Fleeing to the Army for Protection 128 A Silent Spectator 136 Fredericksburg 140 Franklin's Attack 155 Tattoo 173 The Magic Lantern in the Hospital 174 The Christian Commission in the Field 176 Busy Fingers 178 Chancellorsville 188 Battery at Chancellorsville 194 Sedgwick's Attack 201 Leading a Charge 204 Salem Church 208 "Keep Out of the Draft" 211 Night March of Cavalry 214 Kearny Cross 223 The Nation's Ward 234 A Bird's-Nest Bank 247 Cavalry Charge 258 Advance to Gettysburg 263 The Color- Bearer 272 Gettysburg Battle-field 280 With a "Hurrah" They Rush On 296 A Regiment at Dinner 305 Wilderness 317 Spottsylvania 323 The Sanitary Commission in the Hospital 326 North Anna 331 Bayonet Charge 332 Cold Harbor 334 Negroes Coming into the Lines 344 Foraging 348 One Day's Labor, One Day's Income 362 Petersburg, July 17, 1864 365 Petersburg, July 30, 1864 368 Army Corps Chapel Near Petersburg 368 Ruins of Chambersburg 388 A Lay Delegate in the Hospital 390 Edward Everett -- Mt Vernon -- Savannah -- The Capitol 401 Sherman's Bummers 420 Fort Sumter 435 Mississippi River Hospital Steamer 443 Battle Of Fort Sumter 444 Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon 453 Defence of Fort Sumter 456 For Our Flag 461 "John Brown" in Charleston 480 Citizens' Volunteer Hospital 484 Troops Destroying A Railroad 486 Fire Ambulance 498 Humiliation Of Richmond 506 Farragut at Mobile 510 President Lincoln in Richmond 512 Abraham Lincoln 514 U. S. Christian Commission 522 Captain Winslow and the Kearsarge -- Admiral Farragut 528 Patriot Orphan Home, Flushing, L. I. 542 Surrender of General Lee 544 General Lee's Farewell 554 Study for a Statue of Lincoln 555 Assassination of Lincoln 556 With a Lavish Hand 558 0.84 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 8 Chapter 1. A Virginian Plantation. Chapter 2. Buying a Slave. Chapter 3. Aiding a Runaway. Chapter 4. Safely Back. Chapter 5. Secession. Chapter 6. Bull Run. Chapter 7. The Merrimac and the Monitor. Chapter 8. McClellan's Advance. Chapter 9. A Prisoner. Chapter 10. The Escape. Chapter 11. Fugitives. Chapter 12. The Bush-Whackers. Chapter 13. Laid Up. Chapter 14. Across the Border. Chapter 15. Fredericksburg. Chapter 16. The Search for Dinah. Chapter 17. Chancellorsville. Chapter 18. A Perilous Undertaking. Chapter 19. Free. Chapter 20. The End of the Struggle. 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 469 In the month of May, at 6 a.m. 73 degrees Fahrenheit " at Noon 92 degrees " " June, at 6 a.m. 72 degrees " " at Noon 86 degrees " " July, at 6 a.m. 71 degrees " " at Noon 81 degrees " 0.82 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1023 4. Sturgis's " } 13. Sickles's " } 5. Getty's " } 9th Corps. 14. Birney's " } 3d Corps. 6. Burns's " } 15. Cavalry. 7. Brooks's " } 16. Union Batteries. 8. Howe's " } 6th Corps. 17. Bernard's House. 9. Newton's " } 18. Pontoon Bridge. 19. Hamilton's House. 20. Maryee's House. 0.81 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 254 INTRODUCING THE MACKEREL BRIGADE, DILATING ON HAVELOCKS AS FIRST MADE BY THE WOMEN OF AMERICA, ILLUSTRATING THE STRENGTH OF HABIT AND WEAKNESS OF "SHODDY," AND SHOWING HOW OUR CORRESPONDENT INDULGED IN A HUGE CANARD, AFTER THE MANNER OF AN ENLIGHTENED DAILY PRESS. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1672 =1. Little Merchant.= =2. Young Voyagers.= =3. Christmas Gift.= =4. Dolly and I.= =5. Uncle Ben.= =6. Birthday Party.= =7. Proud and Lazy.= =8. Careless Kate.= =9. Robinson Crusoe, Jr.= =10. The Picnic Party.= =11. The Gold Thimble.= =12. The Do-Somethings=. 0.78 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 6 CHAPTER I MARY WALLINGFORD CHAPTER II LOVE'S AGONY CHAPTER III UNCLE SHEBA'S EXPERIENCE CHAPTER IV MARA CHAPTER V PAST AND FUTURE CHAPTER VI "PAHNASHIP" CHAPTER VII MARA'S PURPOSE CHAPTER VIII NEVER FORGET; NEVER FORGIVE CHAPTER IX A NEW SOLACE CHAPTER X MISS AINSLEY CHAPTER XI TWO QUESTIONS CHAPTER XII A "FABULATION" CHAPTER XIII CAPTAIN BODINE CHAPTER XIV "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER" CHAPTER XV TWO LITTLE BAKERS CHAPTER XVI HONEST FOES CHAPTER XVII FIRESIDE DRAMAS CHAPTER XVIII A FAIR DUELLIST CHAPTER XIX A CHIVALROUS SURPRISE CHAPTER XX THE STRANGER EXPLAINS CHAPTER XXI UNCLE SHEBA SAT UPON CHAPTER XXII YOUNG HOUGHTON IS DISCUSSED CHAPTER XXIII THE WARNING CHAPTER XXIV "THE IDEA!" CHAPTER XXV FEMININE FRIENDS CHAPTER XXVI ELLA'S CRUMB OF COMFORT CHAPTER XXVII RECOGNIZED AS LOVER CHAPTER XXVIII "HEAVEN SPEED YOU THEN" CHAPTER XXIX CONSTERNATION CHAPTER XXX TEMPESTS CHAPTER XXXI "I ABSOLVE YOU" CHAPTER XXXII FALSE SELF-SACRIFICE CHAPTER XXXIII A SURE TEST CHAPTER XXXIV "BITTERNESS MUST BE CHERISHED" CHAPTER XXXV NOBLE REVENGE CHAPTER XXXVI A FATHER'S FRENZY CHAPTER XXXVII CLOUDS LIFTING CHAPTER XXXVIII "YES, VILET" CHAPTER XXXIX THE EARTHQUAKE CHAPTER XL "GOD" CHAPTER XLI SCENES NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN CHAPTER XLII A HOMELESS CITY CHAPTER XLIII "THE TERROR BY NIGHT" CHAPTER XLIV HOPE TURNED INTO DREAD CHAPTER XLV A CITY ENCAMPING CHAPTER XLVI "ON JORDAN'S BANKS WE STAN'" CHAPTER XLVII LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF A NIGHT CHAPTER XLVIII GOOD BROUGHT OUT OF EVIL 0.78 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3879 Gezella dama. Lajooar. Nanotragus hemprichianus. Amoor. Cervicapra lencolis. Teel. Cervicapra ellipsiprymna. Apoolli. Cervicapra arundinaera. Oboor. Alcelaphus bubalis. Poora. Trageiaphus scriptus. Roda. Hippoacayus Bakeri Aboori. Camelopardalis giraffa. Ree. Phacochaerus AEtani (Rupp) (Wart-hog). Kool. Bos caffer. Joobi. Elephas Africanus. Leteb. Rhinoceeros bicornis. Oomooga. Felis leo. Lobohr. Felis leopardes. Quatch. Wild dog, probably (Lycaon pietus). Orara. Jackal. Roodi. Hyana crocata. Laluha. Manis Temminckii. Mooak. Hystrix ap. Cho. Viverra genetta. Gnonge. Felis caracal. Quorra. Herpsales striatus. Juang. Struthio cameles. Oodo. Leptoptilus crumenfirus. Kiaoom. Hyrax ap. Dooka. Aulacodus Swindernianus, or great reed-rat Neeri. Eupodoles sp. Apido. Nemida meleugris (?) Owino. Francolinus sp. (?) Aweri. ============================================================================= TOPIC 46 -- 1700 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= mind 417; felt 402; time 380; began 284; thought 281; effort 262; moment 231; made 218; excitement 215; strong 200; feeling 199; words 177; fear 174; father 174; knew 173; part 169; gave 162; girl 158; deep 156; sense 156; thoughts 152; long 151; whately 148; great 147; heart 146; quiet 145; passed 139; scarcely 137; presence 133; spirit 124; danger 124; fact 123; appeared 122; terrible 117; ill 117; sudden 116; moments 115; spite 114; deeply 113; pain 113; power 111; feelings 111; lost 110; shock 108; force 107; brought 106; control 106; relief 105; trouble 100; strength 100; efforts 98; nervous 98; anxiety 97; face 96; feel 96; hope 95; reason 95; truth 94; effect 93; nature 92; silence 92; aunt 92; anger 90; recovered 89; patient 89; condition 88; change 86; consciousness 86; nerves 86; weak 85; sort 84; making 82; manner 81; hard 81; physician 80; purpose 80; fears 80; calm 78; feared 77; physical 77; life 77; giving 77; bear 77; painful 76; situation 75; action 75; suffering 75; speak 74; wound 74; increased 73; severe 72; evident 71; natural 71; mood 71; looked 70; escape 69; compelled 68; attention 68; doctor 68; courage 68 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4184 For Mrs. Laurance, nepenthe was indeed a fable, and while she abstained from even an indirect allusion to the subject that absorbed her, the nameless anxiety that seemed consuming her, Regina and her uncle watched her with increasing apprehension. 0.83 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2084 The object of this solicitude was docile and quiet, taking what was given her, but evidently exhausted beyond the power of thought or voluntary action. 0.83 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1490 Grace did rally faster than had been expected. Her system had received a terrible shock, but it had not been enfeebled by disease. With returning strength came an insatiate craving for action -- an almost desperate effort to occupy her hands and mind. Before it was prudent for Graham to go out or exert himself -- for his wound had developed some bad symptoms -- she came to see him, bringing delicacies made with her own hands. 0.80 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2013 The captain meantime was solacing himself with thoughts of Mara -- thoughts not wholly devoid of anxiety, for she appeared to be growing thin and losing strength in spite of her assurances to the contrary. 0.79 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 115 The change of subject restored in some degree Mis' Molly's equanimity, and with returning calmness came a sense of other responsibilities. 0.78 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2390 Clancy also was confronted by possible results of his action, the fear of which enabled his cool, resolute nature to rise above all other fear. He resolved to go at once to Aun' Sheba, and caution her against speaking of the scenes in which she, with Mara, and himself had taken part. 0.77 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1740 This frank interchange of thought appeared at first to have a good effect on Grace, and brought something of the rest which comes from submission to the inevitable. She found that Graham's purpose was as immovable as the hills, and at the same time was more absolutely convinced that he was not looking forward to what seemed an impossible future. Nor did he ask that her effort should be one of feeble struggles to manifest an interest before him which she did not feel. She yielded to her listlessness and apathy to a degree that alarmed her father and Mrs. Mayburn, but Graham said: "It's the course of nature. After such prolonged suffering, both body and mind need this lethargy. Reaction from one extreme to another might be expected." 0.77 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1432 His terrible anxiety was only partially relieved, for his aunt said that Grace's swoon was obstinate, and would not yield to the remedies she was using. "Come in," she cried. "This is no time for ceremony. Take brandy and chafe her wrists." 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 143 Here, it must be confessed, Miss Ferrol forgot herself for the moment, and expressed her indignation with undue fervor. 0.74 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 370 "Oh, this is dreadful!" cried the girl, bewildered and almost paralyzed by the old man's inexorable words and manner. So unsophisticated was she, so accustomed to be governed, that the impression was strong that she could be controlled even in this supreme crisis. ============================================================================= TOPIC 47 -- 1961 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= side 566; trees 526; road 508; ground 481; tree 454; feet 376; river 345; forest 333; stream 322; water 321; woods 316; place 304; path 269; half 261; distance 253; high 251; miles 251; mountain 245; hill 244; long 235; spot 226; grass 225; bushes 221; point 217; bank 214; edge 213; beneath 210; found 209; mile 207; wood 204; thick 195; reached 194; deep 192; left 189; lay 183; small 182; view 180; narrow 178; open 176; house 173; wall 164; led 164; direction 159; large 156; foot 155; low 154; line 153; rock 152; top 149; fence 146; country 145; yards 142; green 142; branches 139; made 138; wide 137; rocks 136; field 135; covered 135; dark 135; opposite 135; hundred 133; end 131; great 129; farther 123; oak 122; distant 117; ravine 116; pine 116; land 112; stood 111; short 108; earth 108; hills 107; valley 105; ran 104; reach 101; shade 101; cut 100; passed 99; wild 98; making 98; grove 97; swamp 96; slowly 95; plain 95; thicket 95; close 94; turned 94; bottom 94; sides 93; sight 93; crossed 93; level 92; timber 92; base 91; garden 91; summit 90; sun 87; concealed 86 0.91 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 869 A large river bed, now almost dry, with very abrupt banks, lay on our left. The wood became thinner, and we suddenly emerged upon a broad, open valley or plain, which was bounded on our right by the high mountain of Belinian, about a mile and a half distant. 0.90 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 832 The road to Sampson County lay for the most part over the pine-clad sandhills, -- an alternation of gentle rises and gradual descents, with now and then a swamp of greater or less extent. Long stretches of the highway led through the virgin forest, for miles unbroken by a clearing or sign of human habitation. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1684 February 12. -- We started at 5.25, and marched straight to Lobore, a distance of fourteen miles. The road was through forest, intersected at right-angles with deep watercourses from the mountain, called Forke, about a mile distant upon our left. This fine, rocky, and almost perpendicular hill is 2,000 feet high. 0.90 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 32 Soon he had to make his way through a thicket of cane some twelve feet high; then through a jungle of wild rye, buffalo grass and briars; beyond which he struck a narrow deertrace and followed that in its westward winding through thinner undergrowth under the dark trees. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2283 "This large town is situated on high undulating land with an extensive view, bounded on the west by the range of mountains bordering the Albert N'yanza, about fifty miles distant. The country is open, but covered with high grass. A succession of knolls, all more or less ornamented with park-like trees, characterize the landscape, which slopes gradually down towards the west, and drains into the Albert N'yanza, which is about twenty miles distant. 0.87 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1756 Having crossed the river at its lower ford, where so far the hunters saw their tracks, there losing them, the savages continued on. Not by the main road leading to the mission, but along a path which deflects from it soon after leaving the river's bank. A narrower trace, indeed the continuation of that they had been following all along -- the transverse route across the bottom-land from bluff to bluff, on both sides ascending to the steppe. 0.87 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1026 I followed a half a mile; then he struck out over the swamp, and waded ankle deep as much as another half-mile. We come to a little flat piece of land which was dry and very thick with trees and bushes and vines, and he says: 0.85 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 222 In ten seconds after, he is snugly ensconced in a crotch of the sycamore; screened from observation of any one who may pass underneath, by the profuse foliage of the parasite. 0.85 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 890 Behind the house, at the foot of the sloping hill, there was a spring such as every pioneer sought to have near his home; and a little lower down, in one corner of the yard, the water from this had broadened out into a small pond. Dark-green sedgy cane grew thick around half the margin. 0.85 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 431 "Let's try and get out here," said Frank, and he turned from the wall of brambles. They crept along, springing from hummock to hummock. Presently they came to a spot where the oozy mud extended at least eight or ten feet before the next tuft of grass. ============================================================================= TOPIC 48 -- 3482 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= hand 2186; head 1211; arm 884; hands 819; back 728; put 557; man 543; shoulder 459; side 406; shook 406; feet 392; held 382; drew 375; hold 359; cried 290; laid 289; turned 280; stood 278; pocket 277; left 271; arms 268; began 260; chair 246; seized 242; forward 241; looked 240; hat 235; moment 234; exclaimed 232; shaking 221; foot 219; threw 208; ground 207; coat 205; dropped 201; caught 198; fingers 198; rose 194; face 193; gave 189; shoulders 189; taking 187; boy 185; holding 185; made 181; cap 174; eyes 173; knife 172; seat 165; raised 164; mouth 163; revolver 163; suddenly 159; sprang 159; felt 157; rope 154; fell 152; thrust 150; sword 149; handkerchief 149; spoke 144; grasp 144; touched 142; pulled 141; standing 139; grasped 139; leaned 139; stepped 136; legs 131; ran 131; tied 131; knee 131; neck 129; end 128; set 128; knees 127; bent 127; round 126; picked 126; shake 125; length 122; finger 120; nose 120; putting 120; sat 119; pistol 119; cut 118; air 116; eye 116; word 116; breast 116; table 111; lifted 110; laughed 109; teeth 109; piece 108; quickly 106; floor 105; pockets 105; close 102 0.84 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 578 John rushed forward, and attempted to throw Frank by the strength of his arms alone. Frank eluded his grasp, and, getting one of his legs around John's, with a quick movement tripped him up. He fell heavily upon his back. 0.83 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 426 Tom did not rise from his seat. He tilted his chair back and balanced himself on his heels, his hands thrust into his pockets. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2817 The fingers of the hand that hung at his side clenched suddenly, but adjusting his glasses more firmly he said very quietly: 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 979 He unbuttoned and removed her shoe, and as he firmly pressed the foot and ankle, she flinched and sighed. 0.82 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 840 The boy shut his mouth close, and looked straight at the corporal. The man laid down his pistol, and, seizing Frank, drew his hands behind him, and tied them. 0.82 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2760 There lay the rope about the base of it, still firmly tied on the side opposite the prisoner. And there crouched he, in the same posture of durance as before, except that now he had his legs well under him. His handcuffed hands lay on the rope. 0.81 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 185 He picked up his bag, slung it over his shoulder and went on his way, the boy trotting beside him. For a time the old man muttered angrily beneath his breath, and then, becoming mollified by the boy's silence, he looked kindly down on the small red head at his elbow. 0.81 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1158 Taking a knife from the case, the doctor cut open the shirt from the neck to the elbow. The shoulder was terribly swollen and inflamed, and a little exclamation of pain broke from Lucy. 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3418 She tried to put her arms up around his neck and to rest her head on his shoulder; but he resisted and put her at arm's length from him. 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 219 Stiles struggled desperately to free himself from the strong grasp that held him, until Frank pulled one of his revolvers from the pocket of his pea-jacket and presented it at his head. ============================================================================= TOPIC 49 -- 2014 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= life 793; world 498; man 494; nature 413; men 311; women 308; human 278; great 270; character 257; woman 254; people 252; mind 249; race 222; society 214; social 194; age 192; power 176; things 172; true 170; sense 169; found 155; common 142; love 142; knowledge 141; moral 139; young 135; fact 133; beauty 133; thing 132; made 125; law 122; years 120; history 115; type 108; mere 108; high 107; influence 107; find 105; sort 104; personal 103; work 102; education 102; lived 102; view 99; simple 98; truth 97; spirit 95; wisdom 95; reason 95; taught 94; higher 94; study 94; strong 93; future 92; ambition 92; make 90; faith 90; lives 90; early 89; wealth 89; natural 88; blood 87; noble 87; believed 86; youth 86; pure 86; class 85; good 83; mental 83; experience 82; learned 82; part 81; physical 79; heart 79; qualities 78; ideas 77; regarded 77; laws 77; religion 77; intellect 76; simply 75; position 75; religious 75; virtue 75; superior 74; born 73; light 72; point 72; interest 70; earth 70; political 70; genius 70; present 69; system 69; ancient 69; large 68; sex 68; order 67; science 67; public 66 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2806 "Olga is too astute not to discover the discrepancy between the theory of Scientists and the usages of civilized society, whose sanitary provisions thwart and neutralize your law in its operations upon the human race. 'Those whom it saves from dying prematurely, it preserves to propagate dismal and imperfect lives. In our complicated modern communities, a race is being run between moral and mental enlightenment, and the deterioration of the physical and moral constitution through the defeasance of the law of Natural Selection.'" 0.80 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 367 "Heaven! what a mockery! Even the lichen, the insect, lives a complete life, while we, with all our reason, so often blunder, fail, and miss that which is essential to existence." 0.77 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1646 "Our women of the South," said the Judge, who listened, "are more of an inspiration because they are never associated in our minds with any life but that of the home circle and its refining influences. When our women enter the arena, it is only in the heart and memory of some man whose ideals, Madame, are higher, whose ambitions are nobler, because she exists untouched by the notoriety attaching itself to the court intrigues you mention, the notoriety too often miscalled fame." 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 789 "Yet remember, Mary, that the sect in question is proverbial for charitable institutions. One vital principle is preserved. Surely this is a redeeming virtue. Catholics are untiring in schemes of benevolence and philanthropy." 0.76 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2675 “And you always will misunderstand, my dear. Your sex always will misunderstand until they learn that woman is a more complex and finer organism that their clumsy, primary machine, moved by more delicate and complicated motives.” 0.75 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 783 "'Here shall the Press the People's rights maintain, Unawed by affluence and inspired by gain.' 0.75 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 1141 "Oh, Gabriella!" he cried, "if you had failed me in that, I do not know what I should have done! Science! Science! There is the fresh path for the faith of the race! For the race henceforth must get its idea of God, and build its religion to Him, from its knowledge of the laws of His universe. A million years from now! Where will our dark theological dogmas be in that radiant time? The Creator of all life, in all life He must be studied! And in the study of science there is least wrangling, least tyranny, least bigotry, no persecution. It teaches charity, it teaches a well-ordered life, it teaches the world to be more kind. It is the great new path of knowledge into the future. All things must follow whither it leads. Our religion will more and more be what our science is, and some day they will be the same." 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2976 Among philosophic minds she saw an inclination to ignore the principles of such systems as Sir William Hamilton's, and to embrace the modified and subtle materialism of Buckle and Mill, or the gross atheism of Buchner and Moleschott. Positivism in philosophy and pre-Raphaelitism in art, confronted her in the ranks of the literary, -- lofty idealism seemed trodden down -- pawed over by Carlyle's "Monster Utilitaria." 0.74 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1243 Now, as he swung on vigorously in the October light, there was about him a joyousness of purpose which belonged to his age and his aspirations. It was an atmosphere, an emanation thrown off by respiring vitality. 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 145 From these general considerations it is possible to enter more closely upon a study of the domestic life and relations of Uncle Tom and the Shelbys. len(cells_accounted_for) 102390
. . . so I can do more with them later.
import json
def serialize_object(obj, file_name):
f = open(file_name, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
f.write(json.dumps(obj))
f.close()
serialize_object(labels, 'PG.labels.json')
serialize_object(texts, 'PG.texts.json')
serialize_object(raw_texts, 'PG.raw_texts.json')
gensim_dictionary.save('PG.gensim_dictionary.dict')
corpora.MmCorpus.serialize('PG.gensim_corpus.mm', gensim_corpus)
corpora.MmCorpus.serialize('PG.gensim_lda_corpus.mm', gensim_lda_corpus)
lda_model.save('PG.lda_model.model')