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 = 100
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 -- 453 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= man 1772; young 910; good 339; fellow 194; woman 168; lady 156; great 146; honest 131; sort 129; heard 125; men 117; thing 113; people 107; major 107; friend 105; soldier 96; call 96; word 92; person 90; replied 79; master 74; true 74; talk 74; brave 71; called 69; deal 67; son 67; gentleman 66; told 65; high 60; spoke 60; youth 58; country 57; story 57; war 55; officer 54; strong 50; named 50; bold 50; mind 49; sergeant 48; truth 48; fool 48; women 47; times 47; words 47; doctor 46; born 46; speech 46; continued 45; fine 44; added 42; wise 42; courage 42; free 41; lived 40; big 39; kind 38; speaks 37; spoken 37; stranger 37; harm 37; met 36; mought 36; matter 34; northern 34; sense 34; impudent 34; understand 33; father 33; dare 33; modest 33; older 33; german 32; language 31; county 31; planter 31; quietly 30; nest 29; learned 29; tongue 29; admitted 28; sodger 28; service 27; mighty 27; age 27; lad 27; believes 27; world 26; served 26; speak 26; manners 26; southern 25; servant 25; tells 25; importance 24; naturally 24; king 24; parts 24; younger 24 0.73 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2586 "It's more than I meant to be," replied the sergeant. "Mayhap you mought have hearn of a man they call Bloody Spur?" 0.68 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 980 "No," said the wiser, older Marda. "She is not so ill as you think. She is young. It's the heart's gone out of her; that's all. I've been that way myself. People are, when they're young." 0.66 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2466 "Not if he be the man I take him to be, young lady," replied Horse Shoe. "The world says he is above doing a cowardly thing; and it isn't natural for one brave man to wish harm against another, except in open war." 0.63 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 435 "True again; and I am as tough a sodger, and may be I mought say, as old a sodger as yourself." 0.63 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 890 "If I had that woman's pluck I'd be a general before this thing is over," said Rodney, "I've always heard that a woman had more courage than a man and now I know it." 0.63 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2510 "I'm not much given to religious takings-on," said the sergeant, "but sometimes a notion comes into my head that looks a little that way, and that is, when God appoints a thing to be done, he gives them that's to do it all the wherewithals. Now, as Major Butler is a good man and a brave sodger -- God bless him! -- it does seem right that you, Mistress Lindsay, -- who, I take on me to understand enough of your consarns and his'n, without offence, to say has a leaning towards the major, -- I say it does seem right and natural that you should lend a hand to help him out of tribulation; and so you see the cause being a good cause, the Lord has given you both wisdom and strength to do what is right." 0.62 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2000 "Why, it's such a good story to tell," he expatiated; "and there must be a great deal in that. I never heard a better story for gaining sympathy -- that fine old Southern aristocrat standing by the Union in a red-hot secessionist town -- actually persecuted on account of it. He was persecuted, wasn't he?" he enquired of Rupert. 0.61 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1001 "The young man of whom I spoke to you this forenoon. He is a person of remarkable address, courage and skill; and is just the man you need." 0.61 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 349 "He must be a rich man," continued the hostess, "for he travels with two white servants, and always pays his way in gold. One of his men is now in the house; and, between you and me, major, this man is a very inquisitive sort of person, and would hardly be taken for a serving man; and he is a cautious fellow too, although there is a good deal of swagger and bullying about him, which might deceive one at first sight." 0.60 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 970 Maria spoke in a sort of sententious wisdom which did not satisfy me at all. I thought there was something behind. ============================================================================= TOPIC 1 -- 1598 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= door 2403; room 2384; house 689; open 651; opened 578; entered 527; window 510; hall 430; stairs 350; stood 335; table 320; floor 301; left 295; back 276; bed 266; front 257; closed 254; turned 223; sitting 215; heard 196; dining 196; light 194; windows 194; rooms 190; parlor 190; looked 185; apartment 185; steps 179; moment 179; sat 172; corner 168; reached 162; chamber 156; wall 151; kitchen 140; library 138; doors 136; called 132; cabin 130; walked 129; side 129; chair 128; passed 126; led 124; opening 120; shut 120; curtains 120; servant 119; glass 117; softly 117; rose 115; knock 114; seated 113; locked 112; small 110; chairs 109; enter 107; street 106; drawing 103; hand 102; hour 100; lighted 99; crossed 98; ran 96; dark 94; hastily 94; woman 93; waiting 93; knocked 93; key 92; leaving 90; returned 89; threshold 88; upstairs 88; evening 86; passage 84; middle 84; usual 84; closing 84; lamp 84; girl 83; entering 82; pushed 82; lock 82; wide 81; large 79; half 79; step 78; leading 78; inside 78; threw 77; walls 77; night 76; coming 74; standing 73; bell 73; opposite 69; furniture 68; brought 66; glanced 65 0.82 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2328 As they left the dining-room, which was in the basement, and ascended to the hall, Diggs glanced into the reception-rooms and nodded respectfully at the brocaded chairs. 0.76 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 813 Giles, whom I had never seen before, advanced to the table, took the flagon, and went toward the door, which he had shut behind him. I negligently turned in my seat, and so came in for a glimpse, as he slipped through the door, of a figure in black in the next room. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1583 They repaired to the rotunda, and Mrs. Murray beckoned to Edna to follow her. As they entered her apartment she carefully closed the door. 0.74 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2413 In the upper hall he passed Margeret, who was entering the room of Miss Loring with a pitcher of water. The hall was dark as they passed the corridor leading to the rooms of Madame Caron, Evilena, Miss Loring and Captain Monroe. Light showed above the doors of Miss Loring and Monroe. The other rooms were already dark. 0.73 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. 0.72 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. 0.72 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 960 Five minutes later she came from her own room, hooded and mantled, and with a packet of clothing in her hand. I extinguished the torches, then opened the door. As we crossed the threshold, we paused as by one impulse and looked back into the firelit warmth of the room; then I closed the door softly behind us, and we went out into the night. 0.71 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3274 She went to the library, cautiously opened the door, and crept softly across the floor to the end of the sofa. 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 849 In less than sixty seconds after, they knock against that of his sleeping chamber, demanding admission. 0.70 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1858 The door of the upper room was shut. When I raised the latch and pushed against it, it gave at the top and middle, but there was some pressure from within at the bottom. I pushed again, more strongly, and the door slowly opened, moving away whatever thing had lain before it. Another moment, and I was in the room, and had closed and barred the door behind me. ============================================================================= TOPIC 2 -- 1053 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= man 948; cried 579; dead 374; life 314; kill 289; die 250; poor 220; save 215; death 212; men 196; woman 185; blood 176; day 152; speak 152; back 150; exclaimed 147; voice 145; true 143; soul 141; devil 135; killed 132; alive 126; head 124; swear 124; sir 123; dare 121; black 120; good 118; word 117; hear 117; thee 117; make 114; stand 114; lie 114; heard 112; hold 112; white 110; give 109; ah 108; leave 107; people 106; shoot 105; cursed 104; mad 99; fool 97; thing 96; friend 94; oath 93; sake 92; fear 92; fight 91; mercy 91; afraid 90; live 89; truth 89; hate 85; curse 81; ca 80; saved 79; tongue 78; swore 77; told 76; lives 76; face 75; world 74; danger 74; worse 74; breath 74; yonder 74; surely 73; grave 71; murdered 70; lies 70; gentleman 69; shame 68; brave 67; pray 67; run 66; mine 65; minister 65; muttered 65; cry 63; brother 63; murderer 63; ay 63; hand 61; shot 60; remember 60; coward 60; turn 59; promise 59; drop 58; stop 58; broke 57; groaned 57; soldier 56; murder 55; fair 55; put 54; turned 54 0.76 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 840 "Why, confound it, Harry," he cried, "I tell thee, lad, do not look so. Hadst thou killed Rob Waller instead of wounding him, it would have been thy life instead of thy pride thou hadst forfeited." 0.69 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 94 "You are a coward and a blackguard, Andrew Jackson!" Vincent exclaimed, white with auger. "You are a disgrace to Virginia, you ruffian!" 0.69 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1246 "Lord help all poor souls this day!" ejaculated the minister in undertones; then aloud and more hopefully, "She hath not the look of a don; maybe she's buccaneer." 0.68 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 277 "If a man vowed to the service of God may make an oath," he said, "I swear that if the day ever dawns when we stand face to face, knowing each other, I will not spare him!" 0.67 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1062 "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! For mercy's sake don't shoot," cried Mrs. Burnap. 0.67 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 365 "It's England that fights!" I cried. "For very shame, hold thy tongue!" 0.67 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3448 "Oh save me, save me, Horse Shoe Robinson!" he exclaimed wildly. "Friend Horse Shoe, save me!" 0.66 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 895 "Hold your tongue! he shall be punished as he deserves," cried the old gentleman, furiously. "Here, sir," turning to the overseer, and pointing to Jim, "take the fellow out, and give him such a flogging as he will remember." 0.66 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 3080 "Then Deslow dies the death! He was sworn to us! He was sworn to Pomp; and Pomp had saved his life! The blood of Withers, my best friend -- -- " The farmer's voice was lost in a throe of rage and grief. 0.66 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?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 3 -- 2182 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= replied 2032; sir 1817; asked 1089; answered 900; added 773; captain 545; man 468; suppose 432; demanded 377; exclaimed 354; inquired 262; smile 226; laughing 211; continued 204; understand 191; ca 186; officer 175; call 160; hope 156; major 156; lieutenant 153; father 144; matter 139; reckon 136; turning 131; excuse 131; returned 130; pardon 130; afraid 129; lady 129; hear 127; cousin 126; give 125; boy 125; find 124; business 124; soldier 123; responded 119; uncle 115; told 114; friend 113; reply 113; smiling 113; expect 112; son 112; question 109; glad 109; brother 107; prisoner 106; intend 106; beg 105; sergeant 103; interposed 103; companion 98; commander 96; tone 94; ay 93; true 92; wo 92; ah 91; ready 90; rebel 89; reason 88; somers 87; send 83; thing 83; promptly 82; remarked 81; belong 80; colonel 77; guess 77; protested 75; idea 74; squire 74; sternly 72; angrily 71; speak 71; pause 70; thought 69; leave 68; cheerfully 66; house 65; satisfied 65; indignantly 65; marcy 65; heard 64; sharply 63; tones 62; bring 61; addressing 61; glancing 58; army 57; service 56; orders 56; stranger 56; bad 55; answer 55; pass 54; eh 53; board 52 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 745 "I must beg leave to decline answering that question, sir," replied Calhoun respectfully. 0.71 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. 0.69 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 890 "I will go with you, brother Allan Garland," said the rebel soldier facetiously; "I think between us we can readily decide which is the right man." 0.69 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." 0.68 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 205 "Ah!" exclaimed the judge. Then after a pause he added, "I hope she may do as well." 0.68 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3000 "I suppose by that, you are wishing to see the lady," replied the sergeant; "I'll let her know, sir." 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1509 "Well, youngster, I don't reckon I'll tell you any thing about it. I get my orders from Major Pierson," replied the engineer sourly. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 361 "The boy is well enough, though he is abominably overrated, as you will see before I have done with him," said Mr. Lillyworth contemptuously. "It is galling for one who has seen some service to touch his cap to this boy and call him captain." 0.66 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1523 "No, Captain Benson," interposed Tom, faintly. "Hapgood is an old soldier, and deserves it more than I do. Give it to him, and I shall be better satisfied than if you give it to me." 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1052 "Ay, ay, sir," responded the lieutenant. ============================================================================= TOPIC 4 -- 1607 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= man 307; trust 306; hope 305; give 295; sir 285; make 271; speak 262; friend 251; feel 237; father 236; gentleman 235; understand 228; replied 223; honor 222; suppose 210; good 205; pardon 202; word 199; dear 198; matter 178; permit 175; words 175; true 172; duty 171; truth 170; find 167; present 157; reason 156; kind 154; prove 153; added 152; thing 149; doubt 147; act 146; fear 142; wrong 142; promise 139; assure 134; expect 131; put 127; accept 127; circumstances 127; beg 126; care 124; confidence 123; mine 123; friends 122; remember 116; fair 113; meet 108; offer 108; hand 107; simply 106; intend 106; respect 106; opinion 105; question 104; regard 103; excuse 102; blame 101; fault 99; time 98; sake 98; show 98; position 96; conduct 96; brother 96; part 95; kindness 95; explain 93; regret 93; cousin 93; wishes 93; future 92; favor 92; affair 91; justice 90; express 90; things 89; remain 87; son 87; sense 87; people 86; claim 85; answer 83; glad 83; subject 80; proper 80; prefer 80; forget 79; lordship 79; feelings 78; told 77; person 75; desire 74; deny 74; judgment 72; life 71; owe 71; fact 70 0.84 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 861 "Indeed you can. I should spoil my own life more truly than yours if I were not true to my oath. Please remember this and have confidence. That is what you need most -- confidence. Believe in yourself as well as in me. Have you not been brave and true to yourself in the most painful of ordeals? Try to keep your self-control and you will make no serious mistakes, and never so misjudge me as to imagine I shall not recognize your good intentions." 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 732 "Well, brother, supposing your words are true, as I do not think they are in this instance, it is due to our dignity that we act like sincere people who are above even suspecting unworthy motives. We do not compromise ourselves in the matter. We only meet courtesy with courtesy, like well-bred people." 0.79 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?" 0.74 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 480 "Even if it should, Viva, I am not absolved from a duty I owe you. It is my conviction that you have been drawn into a correspondence with a man against whom it is my solemn right and duty to warn you at once. You have no brother. For Heaven's sake be guided by what I say. Whatever may have been his influence in the past, you can never in the future recognize Mr. Hollins. If not captured by this time, he is a disgraced exile and deserter." 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 365 "You don't fear them! Why, Louise, every word you speak makes it more imperative that I should act for one so utterly inexperienced and ignorant." 0.72 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 687 "I trust so, certainly, sir, but my duty requires brief explanation on your part and pledges that you will take no hostile action. We are not among friends, you know." 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2552 "For the honor of my worthy pedagogical countrymen, permit me to assure you that the aforesaid 'Squeers' is simply one of Dickens's inimitable caricatures." 0.72 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 888 "As I have said, your word is as good as your bond; and I am willing to accept the consequences of the step I propose to take, since the Confederacy will not suffer any loss or detriment on account of it." 0.71 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1657 "I beg your pardon, sir," said Gilbert, quietly, "but that statement I deny most positively. I have not the slightest doubt that that relationship exists; neither has Mr. Ferguson." 0.70 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 607 "My father hath many unmannerly servants," she said coldly and clearly, "who often provoke me. But I pardon them because they know no better. It seems that like allowance cannot be made for you. However," she smiled icily, "I shall not complain of you to my father, which assurance will doubtless content you." ============================================================================= TOPIC 5 -- 402 chunks >= 0.25 from 51 texts ============================================================================= trees 194; tree 179; house 158; green 155; stood 154; ground 124; grass 118; marble 118; leaves 117; white 115; long 106; beneath 102; front 99; side 96; wall 95; high 94; great 94; branches 93; walls 90; small 89; roof 85; windows 85; large 76; garden 73; stone 72; oak 71; hung 70; place 67; feet 67; brick 66; tall 65; vines 65; covered 64; low 63; wooden 60; wide 59; square 59; shade 57; laid 56; yellow 56; red 55; centre 53; sun 53; lawn 53; flowers 52; end 51; carved 51; fallen 50; grave 50; built 48; church 48; heads 47; glass 44; painted 43; surrounded 43; boughs 43; weeds 43; gray 43; head 42; broken 42; yard 41; stretched 41; grew 40; rested 40; spreading 40; row 39; building 39; vine 39; black 38; heavy 37; mound 37; oaks 37; dead 36; dark 36; brown 36; ancient 36; silver 35; fence 35; summer 35; cedar 35; blue 34; spot 34; sides 34; smooth 34; pine 34; stands 34; gold 33; broad 32; iron 32; trunk 32; slab 32; open 31; bearing 31; rows 31; cemetery 31; hidden 31; huge 30; beautiful 30; grown 30; amid 30 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2824 The house at the "Willows" was large and airy, the ceilings were high, windows wide, and a broad piazza, stretching across the front, was shaded by two aged and enormous willows, that stood on either side of the steps, and gave a name to the place. 0.75 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2171 It is a glade of circular shape, with a colossal tree standing in its centre, -- a live-oak with trunk full forty feet in girth, and branches spreading like a banyan. Though an evergreen, but little of its own foliage can be seen, only here and there a parcel of leaves at the extremity of a protruding twig; all the rest, great limbs and lesser branches, shrouded under Spanish moss, this in the moonlight showing white as flax. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1514 Four spacious lines of book shelves with glass doors bearing silver handles, girded the sides of the room, and the walls were painted in imitation of the Pompeian style; while the corners of the ceiling held lovely frescoes of the season, and in the centre was a zodiac. Bronze and marble busts shone here and there, and where the panels of the wall were divided by representations of columns, metal brackets and wooden consoles sustained delicate figures and groups of sculpture. 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 528 The place seemed always in half-shadow, with hedgerows of box, clumps of dark holly, darker firs half a century old, and aged, crape-like cedars. 0.74 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2804 Lying on the turf, close to the fort wall, were four bodies arranged in a row and covered with cloths. 0.72 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 2035 A few evenings later there was a grassy mound, covered with roses, under the apple-tree by the rustic seat; and at the head of the little grave there was placed a block of marble bearing the simple inscription: 0.72 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1701 "Fountains, statues, seats under shade trees, every luxury to be got out of a garden! What Sybarites the Holy Fathers must have been!" 0.71 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 521 The front of Dr. Green's spacious brick house, which occupied an ideally picturesque site, was overgrown by a network of clinging vines, contrasting most agreeably with the mellow red background. A low brick wall, also overrun with creepers, separated the premises from the street and shut in a well-kept flower garden, in which Tryon, who knew something of plants, noticed many rare and beautiful specimens. 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1813 Near by is an arbour of evergreens, thickly overgrown with a trellis of trailing plants. 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2375 "The entrance of the vault was walled up, and earth was heaped on the top until it resembled a large hillock. ============================================================================= TOPIC 6 -- 2599 chunks >= 0.25 from 44 texts ============================================================================= board 1095; captain 967; deck 882; officer 670; steamer 659; men 621; commander 598; lieutenant 592; ship 542; cabin 539; boat 387; vessel 373; officers 368; order 367; replied 354; added 331; crew 293; engineer 262; pilot 247; man 245; mate 234; time 216; engine 207; called 202; put 200; hands 191; duty 190; continued 189; quarter 180; regard 176; forward 175; steward 175; ready 174; found 169; make 159; command 157; position 157; room 157; side 147; berth 145; part 144; prize 144; report 143; master 141; appeared 140; made 140; ordered 138; reported 137; orders 136; wheel 136; owner 136; place 135; seamen 130; shore 129; left 127; directed 124; chief 117; executive 117; sailors 114; watch 114; situation 113; stateroom 112; present 111; company 108; shouted 106; companion 105; gave 102; ward 97; sailor 96; tug 96; prisoner 95; rail 95; bridge 94; charge 92; moment 92; forecastle 92; hastened 92; speed 90; minutes 88; person 88; quartermaster 87; couple 85; house 84; full 83; naval 81; major 81; cutter 81; work 80; enemy 80; flag 78; steam 77; looked 77; alongside 76; satisfied 76; bells 75; action 75; fort 75; young 74; party 74; gun 74 0.85 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 683 The captain could not tell whether the second lieutenant had spoken to the deaf mute or not, but the latter hastened to the engine hatch, and descended to the engine room. The Bronx was within less than a cable's length of the Scotian, whose name could now be read on her stern, when Mulgrum, apparently ordered by Lillyworth to do so, had hastened to the engine hatch. Even on the bridge the noise of a scuffle could be heard in the engine room, and the captain was sure that Sampson had been obedient to his orders. Another minute or two would determine in what manner the Scotian was to be captured, and Christy hastened down the ladder to the deck. 0.82 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. 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 522 The Bronx had but one officer on board who had been permanently appointed to her, and at least two others must be selected to serve on board of her. It would be an easy matter for Corny to procure the appointment of Mr. Galvinne, who was doubtless competent to handle the vessel as the impostor certainly was not. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 938 Captain Richfield was taken to his state room, and assisted into his berth. A steward was sent for the surgeon, and Christy and his first lieutenant retired from the cabin. The captured seamen of the Arran were all sent below, and everything was done that the occasion required. 0.80 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1770 Ensign McLinn, who had served on board of the little steamer, but had recently been on sick leave, was appointed second lieutenant of the Bronx, while Mr. Camden, outranked by the other officers, remained as third lieutenant. Christy and Mr. Pennant were transferred to the Sphinx, with a prize crew; and that same evening the Bronx sailed under her new commander, with sealed orders, to the eastward. 0.80 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 583 This man, who was the captain of the forecastle, one of the most important and best-paid of the petty officers, hastened aft to relieve the chief of the expedition, who went to work with his own hands when the exigency of the service required. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1736 As only one of the broadsides of the gunboat was available in the action with the fort, the starboard battery was transferred to the captured vessel. Men enough to handle them were put on board, and Mr. Camden was put in command of her. It was late in the afternoon when all this work had been done, and then the Bronx led the way through the Pass, her mission fully accomplished. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 210 Captain Breaker had formerly been a lieutenant in the navy, and the forms and discipline of a man-of-war prevailed on board of the steam-yacht. In a minute more the pipe of the boatswain rang through the vessel, and all hands were mustered on the forecastle. The tug was made fast on the quarter of the steamer, and no one from her had come on board. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1191 "You will call all hands, Mr. Flint," said the commander, as soon as the executive officer appeared on the deck; and the call of the boatswain's mate sounded through the vessel. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1470 Whether the captain of the Raven had ordered his men to scuttle the steamer, or to fire her in several places, Christy could not know; and he did not much care, for he was ready to meet either emergency. The St. Regis was bearing down on her victim with a reduced speed. The men forward and in the waist were all ready with the grappling irons to fasten to her, and the boarders were all prepared to leap upon her deck, though no fighting was expected. ============================================================================= TOPIC 7 -- 578 chunks >= 0.25 from 36 texts ============================================================================= time 163; man 161; sees 147; back 114; makes 113; stands 105; dead 78; turns 76; coming 74; speech 72; hunter 71; clancy 66; close 65; spot 63; plain 63; hound 63; tells 62; takes 59; hears 59; feels 59; body 56; dog 55; draws 55; horse 52; making 51; shadow 49; mulatto 49; make 48; side 48; animal 47; sets 46; master 45; shows 45; length 44; asks 44; finds 43; longer 41; tree 40; holds 40; appears 39; form 37; glances 36; colonel 34; shape 34; continues 34; contrary 34; starts 34; sight 33; quick 33; till 33; standing 33; blood 33; begins 33; passes 33; stand 32; corpse 32; light 31; strange 31; silent 31; scarce 31; taking 31; danger 31; attitude 31; speaks 30; moon 30; lays 30; place 29; feet 29; leaves 29; ground 29; knowing 28; robbers 28; thinks 28; comrade 28; carries 27; tent 27; rises 27; saddle 27; trail 27; part 26; direction 26; bottom 26; instant 26; note 26; reflection 26; brings 26; leaving 25; surely 25; inside 25; strikes 25; breaks 25; sweeps 25; short 24; starting 24; loses 24; opens 24; rides 24; throws 23; listens 23; showing 23 0.73 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3012 One is at length rewarded. He is facing the moon, whose disc almost touches the horizon, when alongside it he perceives something dark upon the plain, distinguishable as the figure of a horse. It is stationary with head to the ground, as if grazing, though by the uneven outline of its back it bears something like a saddle. Continuing to scrutinise, he sees it is this; and, moreover, makes out the form of a man, or what resembles one, lying along the earth near by. 0.71 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3050 Darke sees it approaching in the clear moonlight, can distinguish its markings, remembers them. Clancy's stag-hound! Surely Nemesis, with all hell's hosts, are let loose on him! 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2746 As they are about to commence their Homeric repast, Borlasse and the others ride up. Dismounting and striding in among the tents, the chief glances inquiringly around, his glance soon changing to disappointment. What he looks for is not there! "Quantrell and Bosley," he asks, "ain't they got here?" 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 533 "A horrid spectre rises to my sight, Close by my side, and plain, and palpable In all good seeming and close circumstance As man meets man." -- JOANNA BAILLIE. 0.69 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2195 Only an instant stays he in this attitude; then stooping till his head almost touches hers, he hisses into her ear: -- 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2694 For a while he speaks not, but in silence exults over his victim. Then, bending down and tossing back his plumed bonnet, he asks, "D'ye know me, Charley Clancy?" 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2575 Clancy, halting, sits dissatisfied in the saddle; Jupiter sharing his dissatisfaction. 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2527 For some time Clancy is silent, apparently absorbed in serious reflection. At length, he says to his follower: -- 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2276 There is reason in this, and Clancy perceives it. While he is cogitating what course to take, Woodley, resuming speech, points it out. 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1261 When at length clear of the woods, and within sight of the untenanted dwelling, he stops, and for a time remains contemplating it. That he is aware of its being unoccupied is evident, from the glance with which he regards it. ============================================================================= TOPIC 8 -- 955 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= eyes 794; hair 758; face 749; white 544; black 467; man 423; dark 312; figure 307; head 266; long 249; tall 246; looked 232; gray 218; red 206; large 194; young 191; features 191; light 189; blue 157; brown 150; back 147; stood 144; thin 143; shoulders 131; full 129; forehead 129; cheeks 126; broad 121; years 120; beautiful 119; handsome 116; countenance 116; mouth 114; color 112; appearance 111; neck 111; showed 107; blood 106; wore 105; short 100; hand 99; form 99; complexion 99; hands 97; youth 97; teeth 97; haired 96; bright 94; fine 93; fair 92; lips 92; hat 91; held 90; woman 88; small 88; straight 87; appeared 84; beauty 84; slender 84; beard 83; pale 83; expression 81; fell 81; cut 77; clear 76; feet 76; set 76; locks 75; made 74; dress 71; thick 70; picture 70; heavy 69; nose 69; yellow 68; low 67; skin 67; shining 67; eye 66; closely 66; smooth 66; height 65; soft 65; brow 64; rose 62; deep 61; bearing 60; eyed 60; sat 59; girl 59; bosom 57; cheek 57; mustache 56; frame 56; curls 56; rich 54; gave 54; hung 54; life 53; half 53 0.87 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. 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1449 It was a very beautiful babe; the complexion soft, smooth, and very fair, with a faint pink tinge; the little, finely formed head covered with rings of golden hair that would some day change to the darker shade of her mother's, whose regular features and large, soft brown eyes she inherited also. 0.79 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 486 The Judge was shaven, save for a shaggy fringe of gray beard around his chin, and the size of his nose was apparent even in the full face. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2864 Save the faint red on her thin, flexible lips, her face was as stainless as that of the Hebrew Mary, in a carved ivory "Descent from the Cross," which hung over the mantelpiece. 0.77 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 616 The condemned man was evidently under thirty years of age, of almost pure African blood, well built, and strong. The forehead was low, the lips heavy, the jaw firm. The brown-black face showed no cruelty; the eyes were not cunning. It was only a dull, inert face, like those of a dozen others about him. 0.75 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1072 Overhanging eyebrows of iron-gray were the first thing to arrest attention in Matthew Loring's face. They shadowed dark expressive eyes in a swarthy setting. His hair and mustache were of the same grey, and very bushy. He had the broad head and square jaw of the aggressive type. Not a large man, even in his prime, he looked almost frail as he settled back in his chair. He was probably sixty, but looked older. 0.74 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2270 Carrie floated up, a straight, fine figure in white organdie, her smooth hair shining like satin as it rolled from her brow. Her mouth and chin were too strong for beauty, but she was frank and clean and fresh to look at. 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 62 A Striking difference in personal appearance was presented by the cousins, as they stood together. Florence, though somewhat younger, was taller by several inches, and her noble and erect carriage, in connection with the haughty manner in which her head was thrown back, added in effect to her height. Her hair and eyes were brilliant black, the latter particularly thoughtful in their expression. The forehead was not remarkable for height, but was unusually prominent and white, and almost overhung the eyes. The mouth was perfect, the lips delicately chiseled, and curving beautifully toward the full dimpled chin. The face, though intellectual, and artistically beautiful, was not prepossessing. The expression was cold and haughty; and for this reason she had received the appellations of "Minerva" and "Juno," such being considered by her fellow-pupils as singularly appropriate. 0.73 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 470 There were no intermediate shades about him. Even his lips were black, or of so dark a purple as to fail to maintain an outline of color. They looked black, too. 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3133 The erect, graceful, manly figure at her side bent down, and the grizzled moustache touched her forehead. ============================================================================= TOPIC 9 -- 742 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= war 670; battle 515; men 375; fight 340; country 321; fought 286; army 230; day 228; victory 228; great 225; people 212; fighting 204; field 203; brave 198; soldier 198; soldiers 181; flag 172; history 120; battles 118; honor 115; times 113; days 113; struggle 110; courage 110; made 107; duty 101; enemy 99; news 99; death 98; armies 94; glory 93; thousands 92; side 92; glorious 92; end 91; nation 89; hero 88; defeat 86; rebellion 84; called 82; arms 79; southern 76; hard 76; city 76; peace 74; part 74; long 73; blood 72; northern 71; events 71; young 70; conflict 69; friends 68; months 67; boys 67; beginning 65; terrible 64; met 63; spirit 62; capital 62; gallant 61; patriotism 59; scenes 58; rebels 57; comrades 56; women 55; scene 55; stand 55; story 55; triumph 55; sword 54; year 54; wounded 52; high 51; coming 51; bloody 50; bravery 50; brothers 50; sons 49; daring 49; foe 49; patriotic 49; fallen 48; camp 48; noble 48; years 47; boy 47; streets 47; marching 47; stirring 47; victorious 46; lives 46; general 45; home 45; final 45; campaign 44; loyal 44; work 43; world 43; give 43 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 32 If all those who fought no battles are not honored like the leaders and commanders in the loyal cause, if they wear no laurels on their brows, if no monuments are erected to transmit their memory to posterity, if their names and deeds are not recorded in the Valhalla of the redeemed nation, they ought not to be disregarded and ignored. It was not on the field of strife alone in the South that the battle was fought and won. The army and the navy needed a moral, as well as a material support, which was cheerfully rendered by the great army of the people who never buckled on a sword, or shouldered a musket. Their work can not be summed up in deeds, for there was little or nothing that was brilliant and dazzling in their career. They need no monuments; but their work was necessary to the final and glorious result of the most terrible war of modern times. 0.74 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." 0.71 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. 0.68 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," -- 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 953 It goes without saying that the friends did their duty in camp and field. There were no more panics. The great organizer, McClellan, had made soldiers of the vast army; and had he been retained in the service as the creator of armies for other men to lead, his labors would have been invaluable. 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 722 From Shiloh to the close of the war, Beauregard's popularity was on the wane, and the Southern people lost confidence in him. I was at Island No. 10 when the battle was fought, but joined the army the week after. 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2990 Isaac was eager for the fray; he burned to fight the Yankees. Hence the consummation of the treason. 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3082 The soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth have proved their prowess on the field of battle; they have met the chivalry of South Carolina face to face, and shown their equality in courage and heroism, and on this ever-memorable day they make manifest to the world their superiority in honor and humanity. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 55 "But the battle of Solferino was fought on the 20th of June, and that of Magenta on the 4th of June. There were only twenty days between the battles." 0.66 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1607 It was far otherwise in the South, though Peace spread her mantle over the whole united nation. Her people had fought valiantly, and made sacrifices which no one beyond their borders can understand or appreciate. If the devotion and self- sacrifice of the South, the bravery and determination with which her sons fought, and the heroism with which they suffered and died, were the only considerations, they deserved success. But thirty years of peace have made the South more prosperous than ever before, and her people enjoy the benefits of the Victorious Union. ============================================================================= TOPIC 10 -- 948 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= young 405; made 247; good 245; received 222; gentleman 213; manner 210; lady 206; guest 194; met 191; evening 190; kind 177; friends 172; hand 150; company 150; ladies 150; time 144; pleased 138; found 138; guests 138; friend 137; called 134; house 132; family 128; invited 126; acquaintance 123; man 121; attention 120; visit 120; felt 119; stranger 119; presence 118; room 118; kindness 117; courtesy 114; gave 113; gentlemen 111; polite 108; glad 106; present 105; treated 103; invitation 102; introduced 100; kindly 100; party 98; accepted 94; host 94; offered 88; began 87; dinner 87; occasion 85; returned 84; spoke 84; paid 83; call 83; offer 82; brother 82; daughter 81; bowed 80; greeting 80; knew 79; visitor 79; hospitality 78; appeared 77; bow 76; greatly 76; receive 73; politely 73; home 72; slight 71; surprised 71; hostess 71; cordial 70; entered 70; friendly 69; table 69; making 67; seated 67; cousin 67; supper 66; reception 65; pleasure 65; general 64; delighted 64; presented 64; greeted 64; cordially 64; expected 63; brought 62; show 62; respect 61; son 60; word 59; speech 59; servant 59; opportunity 58; person 58; captain 57; gratitude 57; pay 56; surprise 56 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1300 Mr. Lilburn had no reason to complain of his reception: he was treated with the utmost hospitality, and his coming made the occasion of general rejoicing in the household. Refreshments were promptly set before him, a handsome suite of apartments appropriated to his use, and a man-servant directed to attend upon his person. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2197 An acquaintance took him to call upon a young lady friend of his, to whom Elsie Grayson was paying a visit, and the two were in the drawing-room together when the young men entered. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2900 "Yes, Sir Roger, and your cordial congratulations and flattering opinion were, I assure you, exceedingly gratifying, especially as you were among the first who found anything in it to praise." 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 759 The Colonel had been one of the first called upon, and, to the delight of his admirers, he responded at once with the utmost grace to the call. 0.69 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. 0.68 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 515 "Oh, yes, admirable," returned Mrs. Carrington, "almost as good taste as some of my acquaintance show in preferring her." 0.66 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 696 That evening Stanton and Raymond called. They found assembled in Mrs. Crane’s parlor, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Carrington and Julia. Kate instantly recognized the young gentlemen as old acquaintances, and presented them to her friends. When Stanton entered the room all observed the strong resemblance between him and Dr. Lacey. At last Mr. Miller spoke of it, and Stanton replied, "Yes, I’ve been told so before. Dr. Lacey is my cousin." 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 797 The latter complied, and, when he entered the parlor, was rather taken aback to find a dignified lady there. He saluted her courteously, and, without intending to do so, added to her fears at the same time that he explained his errand, by saying: 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 469 Mr. Dinsmore rode over to Roselands with his nephew, conversing all the way in a most entertaining manner, making no allusion to politics or to Boyd or Foster. 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 445 There were several guests present, and she waited patiently while they and the older members of the family were being helped. At length it was her turn. ============================================================================= TOPIC 11 -- 994 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= back 418; moment 386; feet 371; fell 303; cry 249; sprang 239; forward 231; instant 226; suddenly 219; arms 217; ran 211; man 205; ground 203; head 177; time 176; cried 174; hands 169; seized 167; turned 166; caught 160; rushed 159; terror 156; sudden 148; threw 147; dead 142; blood 136; began 131; struck 131; rage 131; half 128; wild 125; quick 119; sight 117; face 107; gave 106; floor 106; uttered 106; stood 103; body 102; springing 101; blow 99; breath 99; horror 96; fallen 93; side 91; made 90; started 89; frightened 86; instantly 85; knees 83; youth 83; recovered 82; astonishment 80; surprise 79; door 78; rushing 77; lay 76; alarm 75; exclaimed 75; sank 73; brought 72; rose 72; leaped 72; lost 71; air 69; fled 67; hastily 67; fall 66; dropped 66; loud 66; turn 65; gasped 65; fire 64; force 64; senses 64; form 63; fear 63; rush 62; earth 62; exclamation 60; calling 59; groan 59; flung 59; reached 58; death 57; scarcely 57; struggling 55; foot 55; stricken 55; act 54; sound 54; stop 53; arm 53; fright 53; dismay 53; landless 53; ears 52; panting 52; panic 51; scream 51 0.73 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. 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1554 With a yell of fury the hideous forms rushed forward to the attack. 0.68 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 571 "I'll flog you both!" he exclaimed hoarsely, and sprang forward with upraised stick. 0.67 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1959 "Where is Jack?" Dick asked, rushing among the men. No one had noticed him in the panic. He was not in the huddle that cowered in the reeds to escape the balls, still hurtling viciously over the open. With a cry of rage and despair, Dick flew into the road, and there, not a hundred yards from the bridge, he saw the well-known figure prone on the red earth motionless -- dead? Heedless of the warning cries of the others, Dick tore madly to the body, and with a wild cry fell upon the lifeless figure, weltering in blood. 0.67 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 926 The ranks of the Confederates wavered -- broke; the retreat began. Running backward, his gun poised, Ericson felt a numb, tingling sensation in his right side. He turned and started after his comrades, but each step he put down seemed to meet the ground as it fell from him. Then he felt dizzy. There was a roaring in his ears, and his legs weakened. As he fell his gun tripped the feet of Huckaby, and that individual went to earth, and then on hands and knees, to avoid being shot, crept to his friend's side. 0.67 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 154 With a wild outcry the horror-stricken matron sprang up, calling for John, who in some alarm came to her side, asking what she wanted. 0.66 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1566 These orders were scarcely issued and obeyed when the door fell in with a loud crash, and a hideous horned head appeared in the opening; but only to receive three ladles-full of the boiling soap full in its face, and fall back with a terrible, unearthly yell of agony and rage, into the arms of its companions, who quickly bore it shrieking away. 0.65 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 802 Under the influence of some freakish impulse, Pomp suddenly jumped to his feet and, whirling his arms aloft, uttered a wild whoop. Startled by the unexpected apparition, the horses gave a sudden start, and nearly succeeded in overturning the wagon. 0.65 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 519 Imagining how horrified the negroes were, and how they looked as they sat on the floor quaking with terror, Joe could not restrain himself. He fell into a fit of uncontrollable laughter that caused him to scatter the shucks all over the floor. This proceeding, wholly unaccountable, added to the terror of the negroes. Injun Bill, as it afterward appeared, made a wild leap for the door, but his foot caught in a crack in the floor and he fell headlong. On top of him fell Mink, and each thought he had been caught by the thing that had frightened him. They had a terrific scuffle on the floor, writhing over and under each other in their efforts to escape. Finally, Mink, who was the more powerful of the two, pinned Injun Bill to the floor. 0.65 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1994 Landless struck at him over the dead body between them, but the mulatto, springing back, avoided the blow. ============================================================================= TOPIC 12 -- 1117 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= men 534; rebel 396; escape 392; house 388; prisoners 383; prisoner 347; place 324; night 286; guard 279; found 260; soldiers 241; rebels 230; made 222; search 220; party 219; friends 196; prison 193; man 189; escaped 188; officer 187; time 184; left 182; find 180; make 179; safe 176; knew 172; lines 163; thought 156; discovered 154; capture 148; woods 146; chance 134; captain 128; soldier 128; danger 124; dark 121; camp 119; captured 115; returned 115; information 113; hands 113; attempt 112; pass 111; taking 110; safety 109; concealed 106; enemy 105; reached 102; heard 102; brought 101; passed 100; major 98; sergeant 97; retreat 96; hiding 96; doubt 95; watch 93; ordered 91; back 91; fear 89; cave 88; pursuit 84; report 83; spy 83; led 82; finding 82; swamp 81; run 81; set 80; shot 79; satisfied 79; determined 78; suspicion 78; somers 78; arrived 75; reach 75; learned 74; succeeded 73; object 72; difficulty 71; short 71; morning 71; hearing 71; order 70; return 68; band 68; fellow 67; remain 66; making 66; fugitive 66; disguise 66; supposed 65; bring 65; anxious 65; follow 64; put 63; continued 63; deserter 63; surrender 63; fugitives 63 0.72 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1116 "I have a pass from General M -- -- , which permits me to go in safety through these lines," persisted Somers. "The sergeant above just examined it, and passed me through." 0.71 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1022 The officer and his men returned in a few moments, having satisfied themselves that the proprietor of the place was not on the premises. 0.70 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 600 "I would rather attempt it alone, if you please. Two is one too many; it doubles our risk. If discovered by the Rebels, I couldn't help my comrade, neither could he help me. If we keep together, we shall have the same information. I think I shall succeed better alone," said Paul. 0.68 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 952 The Dutchman soon made his appearance, followed by the major. They had remained in their hiding-place, and heard all that was going on; but, so fearful were they of treachery, that they dared not come out. Frank briefly related to them the circumstances connected with the capture of the lieutenant, and the release of the two soldiers; after this a consultation was held, and it was decided that it would not be prudent to attempt to reach Red River for a day or two, at least. The major thought it best to remain concealed during the day, and at night boldly follow the road. 0.68 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 3175 Permitted to approach, he told his story. Since the escape of the arrested Unionists through his cellar, he had been an object of suspicion; and last night his house had been attacked by a mob. He had managed to escape, and was now hiding in the woods to save his life. 0.67 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 634 With the surrender of the rebels the object of the expedition had been accomplished -- the guerrilla chief was their prisoner! 0.65 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2452 Penn had come in for his musket. It was the same that had fallen from the hands of the man Griffin at the moment when that unhappy rebel was in the act of charging bayonet at his breast. Assuring Virginia -- who could not conceal her alarm at seeing him take it from its corner -- that he was merely going out to reconnoitre, he left the cave. 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 247 All thought of concealment was now out of the question. The rebels in the house had, of course, been alarmed, and Frank's only chance for escape with his prisoner and the mail was to reach the cutter as soon as possible, and pull off to the vessel. Hastily relieving the prisoner of his weapons, he directed him to pick up the mail and follow the course he pointed out. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 379 Somers was very much surprised to find that he was not molested, and made all possible haste to carry out the programme with which he had been intrusted by Captain de Banyan. Followed by the balance of his men, he crept carefully towards the house till he had reached the end of the grain-field. He could see about a dozen rebels skulking behind the building, all of them so intent upon getting a shot at the Union soldiers, that they paid no attention to the events transpiring in the rear of them; probably deeming it impossible for an enemy to approach in that direction. 0.64 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2744 "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside. She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers." ============================================================================= TOPIC 13 -- 442 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= men 382; crowd 303; laughter 153; great 125; faces 119; women 100; shouted 92; made 88; boys 87; negroes 85; cheers 85; shout 82; young 79; joy 79; hands 77; excited 77; began 76; loud 75; speech 74; throng 74; voices 72; amid 71; stood 69; people 66; gathered 66; air 65; audience 64; shouting 60; heads 59; excitement 58; group 58; man 56; applause 56; general 55; cheer 53; wild 52; delight 52; joined 51; scene 49; voice 49; rose 48; broke 48; arose 48; hats 48; high 47; waved 47; shouts 47; round 46; filled 44; groups 44; platform 44; appeared 43; red 43; burst 43; strange 42; streets 42; blue 41; ran 41; youth 41; company 40; midst 40; sat 39; laugh 39; street 39; gave 38; turned 38; ladies 38; mob 38; walked 37; crying 37; part 36; crowded 36; enthusiasm 36; cheered 35; flag 35; chorus 34; singing 34; stage 34; number 33; cried 33; fro 32; cries 32; finally 32; greeted 32; white 31; house 31; news 31; wave 31; ring 31; line 30; laughing 30; passed 29; dozen 29; delivered 29; swearing 29; oaths 29; led 28; standing 28; waving 28; dancing 28 0.84 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2976 "Gentlemen, hats off!" said the Mercury . "Then hip-hip-hip-hurrah! -- and hip- hip-hip-hurrah -- hurrah -- hurrah -- hurrah -- for the homes we love!"[83] 0.81 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2073 The chairman's gavel fell with a thud. In the uproar which ensued hats, fans, sticks filled the air. The tenth delegation rose to a man and surged forward, but it was howled down. "Go it, old man!" sang the boxes, where the fringe of feet was wildly swaying, and "He's all right!" screeched the galleries. To a man who may be made fun of a Virginia convention can be kind, but in the confusion Gary had sauntered out for a drink. 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2116 They ran hither and thither jumping, dancing, clapping their hands and calling to each other with shouts of glee. 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2279 And so it went on for a half-hour, without cessation, all dancing, clapping their hands, tossing their heads. It was the ecstasy of action. It was a joy not to be uttered, but demonstrated. The old house partook of their rejoicing. It rang with their jubilant shouts, and shook in all its joints. 0.72 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1404 A roar of laughter followed which shook the schoolhouse to the very rafters, and then a deafening clamor of applause. The proposer sat down in confusion. 0.67 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 874 The excited crowd surged forward, and a babel of voices arose. "Silence, all!" cried the Governor. "Let them play it out!" 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 247 Daphne Dare giggled aloud, and the laughter, like a train of powder, ran through the girls' seats over to the boys' side of the house, where it exploded in a loud haw! haw! Michael laughed with the others, but he did not know what for. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2787 "God bless General Sherman! Amen! That's so!" were the enthusiastic responses. They clapped their hands and gave expression to their joy in emphatic demonstrations. It was a strange sight, -- a sea of turbaned heads in the body of the house, occupied by the women, wearing brightest colored handkerchiefs, or bonnets with flaming ribbons; while above, in the galleries, were two sable clouds of faces. Every window was filled by a joyous, enthusiastic crowd. 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 73 Billings tried to answer, but his voice was drowned in the wild shouts that arose from the assembled students. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1519 All the boys turned their heads, and there was a noisy shuffling of feet. ============================================================================= TOPIC 14 -- 420 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= boy 677; ha 332; fellow 196; good 166; chap 166; ah 148; man 145; soldier 109; exclaimed 85; sir 78; yesterday 66; make 65; head 64; fat 62; war 59; play 57; devil 56; thought 55; brave 54; remember 51; eh 51; poor 50; general 47; turn 44; remarked 44; call 43; bless 43; horse 42; yonder 41; sort 40; lad 40; young 39; night 38; soul 38; day 36; sergeant 36; replied 36; thunder 34; gentleman 33; major 33; dog 32; cut 32; laughed 32; added 31; continued 31; big 30; country 29; laugh 29; piece 28; judge 28; stick 28; laughing 27; world 26; fight 26; eye 25; nice 25; fellows 25; noble 25; um 25; tut 25; put 24; fair 24; morning 24; ejaculated 24; wits 24; times 23; great 23; cross 23; thinking 23; rough 23; beast 23; forgot 23; mought 23; observed 22; tall 22; hit 22; mistake 22; bully 22; youth 21; hearted 21; chaps 21; give 20; battle 20; observation 20; fine 19; alive 19; nose 19; gracious 18; smiling 18; trifle 18; hearn 18; opinion 17; sword 17; named 17; pretty 17; takes 17; trick 17; surgeon 17; reflectively 17; black 16 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1280 "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, ah ha!" 0.70 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 314 "Dod bless pop-a," she sighed, dreamily; "an' Dod bless me, too, an' -- an' keep me f'om bein' a dood little dirl. -- Ma'am? -- Yes, ma'am. Amen." 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2010 "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, um h'm! and what will you say?" 0.67 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2078 "Why, eh -- why, I declah 'pon my soul, you -- you es peart es popcawn! You trebbles me to respond to you with sufficient talk-up-titude." 0.66 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2706 "Why don't ye take out your handkercher an' wipe it off. It's a pity to see such a handsome fellow wi' his face in that fashion. Ha! ha! ha!" 0.66 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 187 "This big fellow is abusing and devouring a poor little chap, eh? and the chap's black?" 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1429 "Colonel, you must remember the old saw -- 'He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day,'" said a timeworn ranger, settling his collar with perfect nonchalance. 0.65 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 324 "He's a queer fellow," said Tom, "a queer fellow! There's no denying that." 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 2084 "There's beings for you, my nice little boy! Here's veteran centurions for you." 0.64 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2903 “What! Oh, nonsense! You’re daft about the boy. Many another young fellow’s gone off and disappeared, to turn up with nothing worse than a splitting head and somewhat damaged morals. You yourself, for instance, when you were not much older than he——” ============================================================================= TOPIC 15 -- 1058 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= plan 462; time 418; made 370; great 343; make 278; service 264; part 243; means 223; success 222; present 212; purpose 203; information 202; good 200; country 199; work 197; position 154; case 152; view 142; carry 141; object 138; fact 138; enterprise 134; obtain 134; plans 130; scheme 127; difficulty 126; idea 121; obtained 116; important 115; long 115; intended 115; matter 114; fully 114; required 111; place 111; decided 109; power 107; impossible 106; assistance 106; opportunity 104; force 102; making 102; failure 102; result 101; business 101; attempt 100; determined 99; carried 99; suggested 99; order 98; failed 97; valuable 96; rendered 95; knew 95; advantage 95; felt 94; operations 94; difficult 94; feel 94; needed 94; small 93; point 92; regard 91; mind 90; occasion 90; successful 89; accomplish 88; give 88; manner 87; engaged 86; enemy 86; circumstances 86; deal 85; accomplished 84; considered 84; general 81; movements 81; full 80; capture 79; adopted 78; skill 77; prevent 77; render 76; proved 76; large 75; war 75; bring 75; confidence 74; risk 74; reason 74; action 74; benefit 74; succeeded 73; satisfied 73; possession 72; necessity 70; condition 69; effect 69; greater 69; desire 68 0.71 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 184 "You admit that you have a second object; and I cannot tell when you will decide to make it your principal purpose," added Captain Carboneer. "I am not satisfied with the situation. I have done everything I can to accomplish our patriotic object. You endanger it by your crusty manner to this young man, who seems to be willing to do his duty; and he is in a position to be of great service to our enterprise." 0.70 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 418 "Thank you, Captain Passford. Mulgrum is a very worthy man, patriotic in every fibre of his frame, and in every drop of his blood. I should be glad to obtain some permanent occupation for him in the service of his country, for nothing else will suit him in the present exciting times. Perhaps when you have tested his qualifications, this will make an opening for him." 0.70 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1476 I knew the risks and the responsibility; but if I remained passive, I should be beaten. I had often got through difficulties, and if risks are to be measured in Africa by ordinary calculations, there would be little hope of progress. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 312 "I have no doubt of it, Major Pierson; and for that reason you were sent on this mission; and I am confident that the success of the enterprise will restore you to your former command, or give you another quite as good," said Captain Carboneer, as consolation to the military arm of the expedition. 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1139 To leave just at this time would be a great pecuniary loss, and he had decided to remain; but had laid his plans carefully for either resistance or escape in case of an attack. 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1325 "You certainly would have to take that risk; but perhaps you will incur greater risks by too hasty action." 0.68 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 105 "I should say that it would be easy enough to obtain all the information you desire in regard to it," suggested Christy. 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 118 The success of an expedition depends mainly upon organization. From my former experience in Central Africa, I knew exactly the requirements of the natives, and all the material that would be necessary for the enterprise. I also knew that the old adage of "out of sight out of mind" might be adopted as the Egyptian motto, therefore it would be indispensable to supply myself with everything at the outset, so as to be independent of support hereafter. 0.67 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1119 Mr. Flint was disposed to object to this plan, on account of the time it would require; but he yielded the point when Christy informed him that it was only half past two, as he learned from the repeater he carried for its usefulness on just such duty as the present expedition. 0.67 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 753 Although he may be said to have failed most signally in his design, he felt considerably better than if he had succeeded. ============================================================================= TOPIC 16 -- 570 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= heard 293; sound 230; thunder 199; storm 164; roar 157; loud 150; air 144; lightning 120; wind 116; smoke 110; rain 109; suddenly 106; hear 102; sounded 100; voice 94; wild 93; cries 92; ears 91; drums 86; feet 82; sounds 80; flash 77; crash 76; ceased 74; instant 74; burst 73; voices 72; great 68; house 68; broke 68; coming 68; guns 65; cloud 65; battle 65; long 64; heavy 64; shouts 63; silence 62; fell 61; fury 61; cannon 60; din 59; horns 57; rattling 57; noise 56; began 55; rose 55; earth 55; swept 52; rolling 52; beating 52; moment 51; roll 51; blowing 50; beat 50; tremendous 49; rush 48; peal 48; men 47; quick 47; deep 47; bugle 47; louder 47; rang 47; iron 45; sharp 45; cry 45; signal 45; terror 45; call 44; heads 43; blew 43; startled 43; yells 43; oaths 43; ringing 43; close 42; boom 42; sides 41; ominous 41; shook 41; sudden 40; waves 40; presently 40; terrible 39; half 39; shot 39; struck 39; shots 39; shout 39; alarm 38; clouds 38; trees 38; thundering 38; flame 38; flying 38; stillness 38; rattle 37; clear 36; shrill 36 0.73 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2650 Almost immediately the huge war-drum sounded in the house of Kabba Rega, and the dull hollow notes continued to beat the alarm! 0.71 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3183 And now puffs of smoke arise over each, with jets of flame projected outward. Shots, at first dropping and single, then in thick rattling fusillade. Along with them cries of encouragement, mingled with shouts of defiance. Then a wild "hurrah," the charging cheers the colonists close upon the outlaws. 0.71 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 359 Then, upon this stillness, there suddenly broke a tremendous clangor of sounds. A crimson roar came from the distance. 0.71 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2480 Suddenly this extraordinary silence was broken by the deep notes of a nogara or drum. This sounded for a second or two, and ceased. Again all was still as death. 0.70 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 946 She imagined there was a lull, certainly the shrieking of the gale seemed to subside, but only for half a moment, and in the doubly fierce renewal of elemental strife, amid deafening peals if thunder and the unearthly glare that preceded each reverberation, there came other sounds more appalling, and as the church rocked and quivered some portion of the ancient edifice fell, adding its crash to the diapason of the storm. 0.68 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1094 There came a vivid flash, and a loud scream from Darkeih. "De lan'! de bressed, bressed, lan'!" 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2707 The mighty roar gradually deepened, and with it blended the cry of thousands; the earth quivered and swayed, then the thunder passed on, accompanied by sounds like the distant crash of falling buildings. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2757 There was another explosion, -- then a volley of shells, and large fragments came whirring through the air, striking the walls, or falling with a heavy plunge into the street. 0.66 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2361 At this moment came the ominous groan of the severe shock which occurred at about half-past two o'clock Wednesday morning. To the terrified people it was like the growl of some ravening beast rushing upon them, and a long wailing cry blended with the horrible roar as it swept under and over them, then died away in the northwest. 0.66 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2483 In the mean time the din of very many thousands continued, yelling and shrieking as though maniacs; I should imagine that at least a thousand drums were beating, innumerable horns were blowing, with whistles, fifes, and every instrument that would add to the horrible uproar. ============================================================================= TOPIC 17 -- 929 chunks >= 0.25 from 48 texts ============================================================================= men 850; regiment 520; camp 426; officers 404; company 374; soldiers 371; colonel 354; boys 318; guard 308; officer 297; army 288; soldier 264; general 190; line 190; command 185; captain 185; military 180; time 163; troops 159; duty 158; ranks 157; sergeant 149; service 148; tent 131; order 128; lieutenant 124; orderly 124; fellows 124; march 122; war 121; uniform 118; drill 117; marched 113; quarters 109; morning 104; orders 100; staff 98; head 97; found 96; ordered 96; fight 96; lines 94; pass 93; brigade 93; arms 92; regiments 92; flag 89; young 88; battle 87; place 86; cavalry 85; prisoners 84; marching 84; day 83; friends 83; called 82; squad 82; headquarters 79; rear 78; companies 77; tents 77; call 75; front 74; number 73; discipline 72; major 72; ready 69; received 69; boy 69; rode 68; parade 67; passed 66; field 66; shouted 65; gave 64; rank 63; comrades 62; commanded 61; rebel 61; left 60; rest 60; charge 59; heard 59; report 59; file 57; uniforms 57; column 57; advance 56; joined 56; party 56; horses 56; halt 56; corps 55; band 55; corporal 55; leader 54; long 53; private 53; work 52; join 52 0.77 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. 0.74 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2357 Some weeks later, five regiments were mustered into the service of the United States. The Leader was in command of one. And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. 0.72 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2288 "April 26.-I visited Kabba Rega officially, with the officers and troops in full uniform, and the band playing. 0.71 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1772 There was no danger now that we had passed the Bari tribe, therefore we could push on with an advance guard of five picked men of "The Forty," who always accompanied us, and leave the charge of the march and baggage to Colonel Abd-el- Kader and the various officers. 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2803 The bugle sounded the assembly, and the men mustered, and fell in for the roll- call. Four men were missing. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 768 "These men say they belong to your regiment," said the officer, saluting the little colonel. 0.68 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!" 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1862 The bugles now sounded the "advance," and we marched forward in admirable order, with the band playing. 0.67 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1824 "Bravo!" shouted General Hooker, whose attention had been drawn to the break in the line. "Bravo, sergeant! You shall have a commission! Forward, my brave boys! Massachusetts sees you!" 0.66 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1413 While at Bladensburg the -- th regiment with three others were formed into a brigade, the command of which was given to Hooker -- a name then unknown beyond the circle of his own friends. ============================================================================= TOPIC 18 -- 350 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= question 163; subject 143; matter 132; opinion 119; family 109; interest 107; claim 103; side 85; general 81; people 70; part 70; fact 69; business 68; called 61; decided 58; long 56; member 55; members 54; friends 52; argument 52; matters 52; large 51; engaged 51; small 51; political 51; affairs 49; attention 49; discuss 49; discussion 47; experience 46; special 46; manner 46; social 45; natural 44; case 44; view 42; public 41; personal 41; things 41; conversation 41; opinions 41; practical 39; full 39; person 39; evidence 39; importance 38; feeling 38; point 37; affair 37; reserved 37; formed 36; arguments 36; families 36; claims 36; position 35; admitted 35; views 35; place 34; brought 33; regard 33; wrong 33; decision 32; politics 32; expressed 31; effect 31; remarks 31; discussed 31; referred 31; mind 30; events 30; regarded 29; passage 29; times 29; declared 28; consequence 28; argue 28; world 27; persons 27; statement 27; attitude 27; society 26; distant 26; judge 26; set 26; refer 26; rights 25; admit 25; weight 25; account 25; remarkable 25; declares 25; notice 24; observed 24; character 24; questions 24; terms 24; singular 24; chief 23; relations 23; strangers 23 0.74 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2715 In Washington it had begun to be admitted even by the reluctant that the fortunes of the De Willoughby claim seemed to have taken a turn. Members of substantial position discussed it among themselves. It was a large claim, and therefore a serious one, but it had finally presented itself upon an apparently solid foundation. 0.69 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 62 CONCERNING THE CONTINUED INACTIVITY OF THE POTOMAC ARMY, AND SHOWING HOW IT WAS POETICALLY CONSTRUED BY A THOUGHTFUL RADICAL 184 0.66 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 723 "There's domestic eloquence for you! The Honorable Edward is liberal in his views," says he, enthusiastically, "and treats his subject with some latitude." 0.66 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2120 "Because I do not propose to admit his claim. While he is here, he will pass as a distant relative." 0.63 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 764 Tryon would not at first have admitted even to himself that Rena's presence in Patesville had any bearing whatever upon his projected visit. The matter about which Judge Straight had written might, it was clear, be viewed in several aspects. The judge had written him concerning the one of immediate importance. It would be much easier to discuss the subject in all its bearings, and clean up the whole matter, in one comprehensive personal interview. 0.63 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1046 CONCERNING THE CONTINUED INACTIVITY OF THE POTOMAC ARMY, AND SHOWING HOW IT WAS POETICALLY CONSTRUED BY A THOUGHTFUL RADICAL. 0.63 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 68 TREATING OF THE GREAT MILITARY ANACONDA, AND THE MODERN XANTIPPE 203 0.62 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 601 Tom's part in this discussion was that of a large-minded and strictly impartial listener. This was the position he invariably assumed when surrounded by political argument. He was not a politician. His comments upon political subjects being usually of a sarcastic nature, and likely to prove embarrassing to both parties. 0.62 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 7 Copyright, 1899 by Charles Scribner's Sons All rights reserved 0.60 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 21 Copyright, 1888, by Lee and Shepard All rights reserved. ============================================================================= TOPIC 19 -- 1642 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= love 1617; heart 828; life 742; man 527; dear 500; world 451; loved 428; woman 326; hope 309; true 299; live 269; forget 252; give 250; make 242; forgive 232; child 231; feel 230; poor 219; mine 215; happy 214; soul 213; pray 210; good 209; mother 209; wife 207; words 204; ah 203; thought 201; die 192; long 191; save 191; trust 179; happiness 174; friend 170; day 168; father 166; loves 165; bear 158; leave 156; sin 155; fear 153; duty 152; remember 148; sake 144; saved 134; knew 132; faith 131; care 130; marry 126; darling 123; precious 120; hate 119; noble 118; peace 117; time 115; thing 115; wrong 113; sins 112; sweet 110; pity 110; death 109; find 101; sister 100; kind 94; answer 93; loving 93; longer 91; earth 91; past 90; reason 89; affection 89; suffer 88; years 87; power 87; grace 87; end 85; things 85; miserable 85; pure 85; bless 85; faithful 84; hear 84; taught 83; tender 83; wicked 83; bring 82; cried 82; cruel 82; sorrow 82; husband 81; joy 81; pain 81; truth 80; mercy 79; brave 78; thee 78; proud 77; meet 76; put 76; died 76 0.85 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!" 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 121 "For its exceeding great and precious promises Adelaide; for its holy teachings; for its offers of peace and pardon and eternal life. I am a sinner, Adelaide, lost, ruined, helpless, hopeless, and the Bible brings me the glad news of salvation offered as a free, unmerited gift; it tells me that Jesus died to save sinners -- just such sinners as I. I find that I have a heart deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and the blessed Bible tells me how that heart can be renewed, and where I can obtain that holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. I find myself utterly unable to keep God's holy law, and it tells me of One who has kept it for me. I find that I deserve the wrath and curse of a justly offended God, and it tells me of Him who was made a curse for me. I find that all my righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and it offers me the beautiful, spotless robe of Christ's perfect righteousness. Yes, it tells me that God can be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus." 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2061 "Hush! You can, you shall! Do you think I will ever give you up? Have mercy on my lonely life! my wretched, darkened soul. Lean your dear head here on my heart, and say, 'St. Elmo, what a wife can do to save her erring, sinful husband, I will do for you.' If I am ever to be saved, you, you only can effect my redemption; for I trust, I reverence you. Edna, as you value my soul, my eternal welfare, give yourself to me! Give your pure, sinless life to purify mine." 0.77 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1510 "O, I do desire," said Mary, weeping. "I do, with all my heart. But I know I am not what I ought to be. I do not love God; I do not trust him; I do not feel troubled for sin, as I ought to be; and I have no reason to think that my sins are forgiven." 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4358 "Mother, I should never cease to love him. Life would not be so sweet as it looked this morning, when I first learned he had given me his heart; but duty is better than joy, and I owe more to my suffering mother than to him, or to myself. If it adds to the cup of your many sorrows to give me even to him, I will try to take the bitter for my portion, and then sweeten as best I may the life that hitherto you have devoted to me. Mother, do with your child as seems best to your dear heart." 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4152 "Minnie, your true heart forgives your unworthy husband. Tell me so, and it will enable me to bear all that the future may contain. Say, Cuthbert, I forgive you." 0.76 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.'" 0.76 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1647 "Say no more," she faltered. "If a shadow can live, I will. If a poor, heartless, hopeless creature can continue to breathe, I will. If I die, as I believe I must, I will die doing just what you ask. If it is possible for me to live, I shall disappoint you more bitterly than ever. Alford, believe me, the woman is dead within me. If I live I shall become I know not what -- a sort of unnatural creature, having little more than physical life." 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2356 "Sin always brings sorrow and suffering sooner or later, my little girl; remember that; and that it is because Jesus loves us that he would save us from our sins." 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 577 "But even that is not enough: the devils believe so much; they know it is all true. But beside this, we must believe on Christ Jesus. He offers to be our Saviour. 'Come unto Me ... and I will give you rest.' 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' And you must come, you must take the eternal life He offers you; you must rest on Him and Him only. ============================================================================= TOPIC 20 -- 362 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= fire 906; light 394; wood 218; smoke 202; burning 186; pipe 140; flames 137; hearth 137; lighted 127; flame 124; ashes 107; night 102; blaze 100; burn 88; sat 87; red 86; fires 86; burned 83; pine 79; torch 78; blazing 77; kindled 76; great 73; chimney 73; dark 72; candle 70; feet 68; room 68; lamp 60; put 59; air 58; set 56; smoking 56; cigar 54; candles 53; made 50; house 50; black 49; eyes 47; sticks 47; coals 46; glare 45; stove 45; burnt 44; filled 44; lit 44; bed 42; half 42; embers 42; part 41; dry 41; camp 41; extinguished 40; white 40; match 40; hot 39; low 39; cabin 39; coal 39; heat 39; logs 38; place 37; side 37; threw 37; torches 37; end 36; found 36; darkness 36; bright 36; flickering 36; smoked 35; lights 35; corner 34; pile 34; looked 33; houses 33; glow 33; hand 32; sitting 32; log 32; fireplace 32; lay 31; fell 31; lighting 31; spread 30; kindle 29; knot 29; small 28; cast 28; tobacco 28; knots 28; firelight 28; crackling 27; scattered 26; heap 26; kindling 26; rug 26; high 25; fat 25; pitch 25 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 101 "It is perfectly clear without," she resumed. "Perhaps the room has become a little cold. The evenings are still damp and chilly;" and she threw two or three billets of wood on the open fire, kindling a blaze that sprang cheerily up the chimney. 0.68 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1862 The resinous pine blazed up, the pungent odour filled the large room, and from the lightwood sticks tiny streams of resin oozed out and dripped into the embers, turning the red to gray. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 199 "She sat there like a log of wood, and let the flapjacks burn," snarled Mrs. Fishley. 0.62 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2130 Groping about he found a match and lighted a candle. 0.60 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 186 This is the way he told it, by the light of a pine-knot fire that threw a wavering and an uncertain light over the little room: 0.59 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 402 The Colonel presented a handful of half-burned cigar-stubs. 0.59 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 470 Judith picked up the lamp and went into the dark drawing-room. The fire still smoldered dimly in the great fireplace. Freke took up the tongs and made a vigorous attack on the fire, and in two minutes the flames were leaping around the brass firedogs. Then he settled himself comfortably in the corner of the sofa. 0.58 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 191 I heaped up a little pile of pigments on one corner of my palette and flattened them for a high light on a fold in the satin gown. 0.57 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1276 Impotent to comfort, Regina stood by the mantlepiece, gazing vacantly at the wood fire on the hearth, which supplied only a dim fitful and uncertain light in the bare chill room, once the most cosy and attractive in the whole cheerful house. 0.55 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 696 There, in the light of a wood-pile to which fire had been set, stood the old negro, naked to the waist, lashed fast to the trunk, writhing with pain and terror; his brutal tormentors grouped around him in the glare of the flames, preparing, with laughter, oaths, and much loose, leisurely swaggering, to flay his flesh with rods. ============================================================================= TOPIC 21 -- 1681 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= hand 2076; head 802; arm 625; arms 563; put 520; lips 515; hands 491; eyes 455; face 437; laid 375; kissed 360; held 354; shoulder 322; close 283; shook 277; drew 269; fingers 243; neck 242; cheek 233; touch 221; pressed 218; whispered 215; softly 215; gently 188; hair 181; kiss 180; heart 175; soft 169; mother 165; white 161; lifted 161; voice 152; touched 151; side 150; child 145; bent 141; taking 136; girl 136; turned 135; closer 135; laying 130; moment 128; tenderly 122; spoke 121; baby 121; finger 119; forehead 119; looked 117; round 115; cold 114; holding 113; clasped 111; smile 110; answered 109; bosom 105; brow 105; felt 103; pressing 99; breast 98; hold 98; warm 98; putting 98; raised 97; knee 96; laughed 94; sweet 92; stooped 88; leaned 87; drawing 85; folded 85; smiled 84; low 80; instant 80; exclaimed 79; clasping 79; friend 77; wife 76; stood 75; rose 74; grasped 73; bowed 72; gave 71; forward 70; cried 70; sister 70; clasp 70; mine 69; ear 68; lay 67; closed 67; asked 67; mouth 67; knelt 67; small 66; woman 65; opened 64; palm 64; threw 64; rested 64; waist 63 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3809 She raised the hand that held hers, suddenly kissed it with an overwhelming passionate fervour, and holding it against her cheek, murmured almost in a whisper: 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 842 He drew her closer as he spoke, and just touched his lips to the shining hair and the pure white forehead resting on his breast. 0.78 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 111 John smoothed his mother's hair with a comforting touch, patted her withered cheek soothingly, lifted her tenderly to her place by his side, and put his arm about her. 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1842 "You are very weary, little wife," he said tenderly, passing his hand caressingly over her hair and pressing his lips again and again to the heated brow. 0.77 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!" 0.76 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 122 "No, she isn't any relation -- just Ben Mulford's girl." He raised his other hand and pressed the child's head down upon the deerskin waistcoat, close into the fur, with infinite tenderness. The child reached up her small, chapped hand and laid it on his cheek, cuddling closer, a shy, satisfied smile overspreading her face. 0.76 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 1066 He walked in softly, reverently, and stood by her bedside. She turned her gentle eyes upon him and put out her slender hand, which he took in his own broad palm. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3808 Tenderly his low voice appealed to her heart, as he bent his head so close that his hair swept across her brow. 0.75 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 630 She put out her hands as he came close. But he knelt at her feet, kissing her hands, her wrists, the folds of her dress, then lifted his face glowing, ardent, to her own. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 27 She ran into his arms, crying, "Papa," in her sweet baby voice, and catching her up, he covered her face with kisses; then, holding her clasped fondly to his breast, walked on towards his wife and sister. ============================================================================= TOPIC 22 -- 1609 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= dear 1156; papa 999; girl 472; cried 419; mamma 396; love 391; good 380; father 368; child 366; glad 343; mother 341; ah 333; asked 305; answered 269; poor 258; exclaimed 247; replied 211; darling 211; daughter 205; boy 174; wo 174; home 172; arms 168; sweet 159; kind 156; happy 148; added 141; ca 141; afraid 128; kiss 128; hand 119; give 117; stay 115; tears 112; care 110; hope 109; tone 108; heart 105; children 104; taking 100; speak 100; forgive 96; nice 89; feel 88; half 87; naughty 85; sake 84; whispered 82; bless 82; loves 81; leave 80; pleaded 80; hurt 79; sobbed 78; tones 78; smiling 75; tender 74; mammy 74; precious 73; coming 72; make 71; sister 71; hear 70; face 69; day 69; gently 69; lady 68; sad 66; moment 65; murmured 64; remember 63; time 61; dearly 61; smile 60; mine 60; call 59; pleasure 59; brother 58; sit 57; neck 57; thinking 57; nurse 57; son 56; husband 55; baby 55; pretty 54; makes 53; thought 51; lovely 51; wrong 50; bear 50; horace 50; low 49; words 49; angry 49; kissing 49; trust 48; throwing 48; rest 48; delight 48 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1354 "Yes, my dear little brother," she said, giving Rosebud to her mammy, "you shall have as hard a hug as I can give, and as many kisses as you want. I love you dearly, dearly, and am as glad to see you as you could wish me to be." 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1752 "Papa, papa, my own dear, dear papa!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms around his neck, "I'm so happy, now that you have come home safe and well." 0.78 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 352 "Yes mamma; oh, mamma, I've been the wickedest boy! I disobeyed my father and shooted him; and oughtn't I to have a dreadful whipping? Shall grandpa do it?" 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 552 "Where am I? O mamma, papa, come and help your little Vi! I don't know how I got here. Oh, where are you, my own mamma?" A burst of sobs; then "Oh, I'm so 'fraid! and mamma can't hear me, nor papa; but Jesus can; I'll ask him to take care of me; and he will." 0.76 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." 0.76 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2192 "O grandpa, you could tell us more about her, and dear mamma too, when she was a little girl!" said little Elsie, seating herself upon his knee, twining her arms about his neck, and looking coaxingly into his face. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1751 "My darling, darling child," he cried, kissing her over and over again, and pressing her fondly to his heart, "how glad I am to have you in my arms again!" 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2450 "Mamma's dear baby must try and be patient; mamma is sure she will, and Jesus will help her if she asks Him, and forgive her, if she is sorry for being naughty," the mother said, with a tender caress. "Now let us sing, 'Jesus loves me.'" 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1440 "You must love Jesus better, my own precious papa," she replied, clasping her little arms around his neck, and returning his caresses. 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 122 "Mamma, it was so pretty, so pretty," little Elsie said, clasping her arms about her mother's neck, "and now I just feel as if I'd been to your wedding. Thank you, dear mamma and papa." ============================================================================= TOPIC 23 -- 562 chunks >= 0.25 from 42 texts ============================================================================= sergeant 186; present 184; party 156; whilst 149; journey 117; condition 103; day 98; brought 95; events 90; late 87; moment 86; time 83; soldier 82; short 80; character 75; immediately 74; interest 73; war 72; period 70; scene 70; occasion 70; state 68; purpose 68; country 67; family 67; prisoner 65; event 64; anxious 64; directed 64; british 63; mildred 57; service 55; night 54; sufficiently 54; rest 54; travellers 54; spot 53; history 53; companions 53; set 53; interval 52; reader 52; dwelling 52; safety 52; military 51; arrived 51; engaged 50; part 50; showed 50; notice 49; officer 49; incidents 48; small 48; parties 48; story 48; neighborhood 48; scarcely 48; thoughts 47; maiden 47; soldiers 46; circumstances 46; common 46; feelings 46; temper 46; narrative 45; army 45; received 45; active 45; companion 45; intelligence 44; post 44; camp 43; comfort 43; enterprise 42; succeeded 42; alarm 42; enemy 42; acquainted 42; furnished 42; occasional 42; occurred 41; province 41; mill 41; occupied 40; tidings 40; view 39; required 38; announced 38; possession 38; full 38; visit 38; frequent 38; painful 38; moments 38; bold 38; expedition 37; retreat 37; personal 37; preparations 37; friends 37 0.71 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3073 It was in the engrossment of the occupations and cares presented in this brief reference to the history of the time, that I have now to introduce my reader to Cornwallis. 0.70 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3392 These incidents scarcely occupied more time in their performance than I have taken in the narrative; and all reflection upon them, for the present, was lost in the uproar and commotion of the bloody scene that succeeded. 0.66 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1794 While partaking of our refreshment, General Howard narrated the operations of the preceding day. 0.65 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2024 The rest of the day was spent in anxious thought. The situation of the adventurers was one of great personal peril, as they were now immediately within the circle of operations of the enemy and likely to be observed and challenged the first moment they ventured upon the road. 0.63 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3413 A short time before the arrival of Suleiman, an extraordinary incident had occurred at the Fatiko camp. 0.62 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 730 The wide-spread disaffection of the region through which our adventurers were about to pass, inculcated the necessity of the utmost vigilance to avoid molestation from the numerous parties that were then abroad hastening to the seat of war. Under the almost entire guidance of Robinson, who was familiar with every path in this neighborhood, Butler's plan was to temporize with whatever difficulties might beset his way, and to rely upon his own and his comrade's address for escape. 0.62 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3441 Whilst he delayed here, he received the tidings that his daughter had abandoned her homeward journey, and turned aside in quest of Butler. This determined him to continue his pursuit. Tyrrel still accompanied him; and the two travellers having arrived at the moment of the attack upon King's mountain, Lindsay was persuaded by his companion to make the rash adventure which, we have already seen, had been the cause of his present misfortune. 0.61 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2661 These events still more contributed to fortify Mildred's resolution to remain another day under the shelter of Mrs. Markham's friendly roof, before she would venture forth in the further prosecution of her journey. 0.60 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1792 "I am not at liberty to answer that question," replied the prisoner. "Suffice it, sir, I was travelling through this region on a mission of duty. My purpose was to act against the enemy. So far the charge is true, and only to this extent. I came with no design to pry into the condition of the royal troops; I sought only a successful passage through a contested, though sadly overpowered country." 0.60 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3315 Allen Musgrove, Robinson, and Henry combated this resolve with joint expostulation, urging upon Mildred the propriety of her tarrying in the village, at least until the active operations of the army were terminated -- an event that might be expected in a few days. But it was not until Campbell himself remonstrated with her against the indiscretion of her purpose, and promised to afford her the means of repairing to the scene of action at any moment she might think her presence there useful, that she relinquished her determination to accompany the army on its present expedition. It was, in consequence, ultimately arranged that she should remain in the quarters provided for her in Gilbert- town, attended by the miller and his daughter, whilst a few soldiers were to be detailed as a guard for her person. With this train of attendants, she was to be left at liberty to draw as near to the centre of events as her considerate and faithful counsellor, Allen Musgrove, might deem safe. ============================================================================= TOPIC 24 -- 644 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= asked 1619; answer 622; question 532; doctor 352; questions 321; matter 254; answered 224; reply 192; replied 175; heard 172; told 163; repeated 150; inquired 142; put 104; father 100; friend 88; demanded 84; tone 78; surprise 75; wife 75; anxiously 75; left 74; aunt 72; inquiry 69; quickly 63; mother 63; explained 62; wanted 62; business 61; turning 60; exclaimed 59; captain 58; sick 57; marry 57; sister 56; hear 54; happened 53; moment 52; news 50; cousin 50; trouble 48; case 46; call 45; patient 45; speak 42; remark 42; eagerly 42; length 40; married 39; remarked 39; daughter 39; answers 38; curiosity 37; girl 37; spoken 37; kindly 36; inquiring 36; lawyer 36; beginning 35; inquire 35; brought 34; care 34; doubt 34; permission 33; expected 32; startled 32; room 32; meant 32; anxious 31; sharply 31; response 31; glance 31; understand 30; ill 30; plain 30; talk 30; errand 30; sternly 30; interest 29; hastily 28; questioned 27; story 27; surprised 27; uncle 27; die 26; inquiries 26; surely 26; rejoined 26; physician 25; feel 25; husband 25; mention 25; choose 25; waited 24; decided 24; negative 23; dryly 23; expect 22; astonishment 22; curiously 21 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1627 "An' then he wanted to know why I asked, an' I told him all about it; an' he asked me all sorts of questions, an' finally he says to me, -- 0.65 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1784 "Well, then," said the physician, "permit a plain, direct question. Will you marry her?" 0.62 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 2039 When, in reply to his questions in regard to Alessandro's wife, Felipe heard her spoken of as "Majella," his perplexity deepened. Finally he asked if no one had ever heard the name Ramona. 0.60 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1473 "Know whom?" I asked, startled by this direct question. 0.60 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2720 "What ails ye, Davie? Prithee, why sae doure, gude man?" he answered, fretfully: 0.56 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1025 "My daughter, what is the matter with you?" asked Mrs. Temple, anxiously. 0.56 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2284 "But you have not answered my question," said the doctor. "Aren't you going to answer it?" 0.56 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 121 "You seem rather fond of that little girl; is she any relation?" I asked, forgetting that I had asked almost that same question before. 0.56 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4348 "He put in a plea, a lawyer's plea, wholly unworthy of him, Miss Virginia. He asked me to let your cousin off on a technicality. What do you think of that?" 0.55 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2335 "So he undertook to trouble you, did he?" asked Mr. Grey, with curiosity. ============================================================================= TOPIC 25 -- 213 chunks >= 0.25 from 34 texts ============================================================================= men 453; women 398; children 228; village 129; great 126; white 121; indian 116; mothers 109; wives 108; young 88; red 71; savages 65; fathers 64; war 61; forest 58; made 55; chief 54; heads 51; dance 48; savage 47; blood 46; husbands 43; king 40; brother 40; peace 38; people 37; warriors 36; tribe 35; tobacco 35; hearts 34; lodge 33; land 32; smoke 31; paint 31; houses 30; brought 29; painted 28; brothers 28; hunting 27; black 27; back 27; pipe 27; sons 26; full 26; werowance 26; fields 25; river 25; daughters 25; palefaces 25; tribes 24; bodies 24; maize 24; babies 24; make 23; fall 23; wild 23; coming 23; alive 23; palisade 23; thousands 22; girls 22; smoked 22; power 21; servants 21; things 21; beneath 21; guns 21; backs 21; score 21; boats 20; man 20; fought 20; faces 20; trail 20; scalp 20; opechancanough 20; alike 19; knives 19; sun 19; midst 19; warrior 19; ago 18; words 18; singing 18; stake 18; sisters 18; fierce 18; birds 17; feathers 17; knife 17; plantations 17; pipes 17; babes 17; death 16; arms 16; half 16; bearing 16; wife 16; band 16; sat 16 0.81 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1773 "My white fathers are far from the salt water. Seldom do the Pamunkeys see their faces coming up the narrowing stream or through the forest. They are welcome. Let my fathers tarry and my women shall bring them chinquepin cakes and tuckahoe, pohickory and succotash, and my young men -- " 0.71 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1828 "Monakatocka has dreamt of the village on the pleasant river where he was born. The arm of the white men cannot reach him here, in these woods, far from their wigwams and warriors and guns; it cannot pluck him back to be beaten. He toils no more in their fields. He is a real man again, a warrior of the long house, a chief of the Conestogas. Let my white brother go with him, across the great rivers, through the forest, until they come to the Susquehanna and the village of the Conestogas. There will the maidens and the young men welcome Monakatocka with song and dance, and my brother shall be welcome also and shall become a great chief and shall take the warpath against the Algonquin and against the paleface at the side of Monakatocka. In the Blue Mountains is Death. Let us go to the pleasant river, to the hunting grounds of the Conestogas." 0.69 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 663 "Five suns ago he was with the priests at Uttamussac," answered the Indian. "Yesterday, at the full sun power, he was in the lodge of the werowance of the Chickahominies. He feasts there still. The Chickahominies and the Powhatans have buried the hatchet." 0.65 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1678 "They are scattered and unwarned. The fighting men of the villages of the Powhatan and the Pamunkey and the great bay are many, and they have sharpened their hatchets and filled their quivers with arrows." 0.64 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 676 The werowance received us in due form, with presents of fish and venison, cakes of chinquapin meal and gourds of pohickory, an uncouth dance by twelve of his young men and a deal of hellish noise; then, at our command, led us into the village, and to the lodge which marked its centre. Around it were gathered Opechancanough's own warriors, men from Orapax and Uttamussac and Werowocomoco, chosen for their strength and cunning; while upon the grass beneath a blood-red gum tree sat his wives, painted and tattooed, with great strings of pearl and copper about their necks. Beyond them were the women and children of the Chickahominies, and around us all the red forest. 0.64 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 660 AN hour's ride brought us to the block house standing within the forest, midway between the white plantations at Paspahegh and the village of the tribe. We found it well garrisoned, spies out, and the men inclined to make light of the black paint and the seething village. 0.63 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1553 "The white men upon the Powhatan are many," he said in his own tongue, "but they build not their wigwams upon the banks of the Pamunkey. 1 The singing birds of the Pamunkey tell no tales. The pine splinters will burn as brightly there, and the white men will smell them not. We will build a fire at Uttamussac, between the red hills, before the temple and the graves of the kings." There was a murmur of assent from his braves. 0.61 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1350 "Black Wolf is a great chief. In his village in the Blue Mountains are fifty wigwams -- the largest is his. There are a hundred braves -- he leads the war parties. The Monacans run like deer, the hearts of the Tuscaroras become soft, they hide behind their squaws! Black Wolf is a great chief. Seven moons of cohonks have passed since the Ricahecrians sharpened their hatchets and came down from the mountains to where the waters of Powhatan fall over many rocks. There they met the palefaces. The One above all was angry with his Ricahecrians. They saw for the first time the guns of the palefaces. They thought they were gods who spat fire at them and slew them with thunder. Their hearts became soft, and they fled before the strange gods. Some the palefaces slew, and some they took prisoner. Black Wolf saw his brother, the great chief Grey Wolf, fall. The Ricahecrians went back to the Blue Mountains, and their women raised the death chant for those whom they left stretched out on the bank of the great river.... Seven times had the maize ripened, when Black Wolf led a war party against a tribe that dwelt on the banks of the Pamunkey where a fallen pine might span it. The waters ran red with blood. When there were no more Monacans to kill, when the fires had burnt low, Black Wolf looked down the waters of the Pamunkey. He had heard that it ran into a great water that was salt, whose further bank a man could not see. He had heard that the palefaces rode in canoes that had wings, great and white. He thought he would like to know if these things were true, or if they were but tales of the singing birds. To find out, Black Wolf and his young men dipped their oars into the water of the Pamunkey, and rowed towards the moonrise. In the morning they met twenty men of the Pamunkeys in three canoes. The Pamunkeys lie deep in the slime of the river; the eels eat them; their scalps shall hang before the wigwams of Black Wolf and his young men. In the afternoon, they drove their canoes into the reeds and went into the forest to find meat. Black Wolf's arrow brought down a buck and they feasted. Afterwards they caught a hunter who saw only the deer he was chasing. They tied him to a tree and made merry with him. When he was dead, they drew their boats from out the reeds, and rowed on down the broadening river. The next day, at the time of the full sun-power, they came to this village. Many years before the palefaces came, the Chickahominies were a great nation, reaching to the foot of the Blue Mountains, and then were they and the Ricahecrians friends and allies. When Black Wolf showed them the totem of his tribe upon his breast, they welcomed him and his young men. That was ten suns ago. Black Wolf and his young men have seen many things. When they go back to the Blue Mountains, the Ricahecrians will think they listen to singing birds. They will tell of the great salt water, of the boats with wings, of the palefaces, of their fields of maize and tobacco, of the black men who serve them, of their temples, werowances and women. They will tell of the great white father who rules, of his power, his wisdom, his open hand -- " 0.60 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1776 The Indian pointed to the crimson flood below. "There are my young men; there are my braves. Among them were a werowance and a sagamore. They two have strings of pearl thicker than the stem of the grape vine; they are painted with puccoon, and the feathers of the bluebird and the red-bird are upon them. They have hills of hatchets and of arrow heads, sharp and clean, and very much tobacco, and they sing and dance in the great wigwam of Okee, in the home of Kiwassa, in the land beyond the setting sun. But the rest -- they lie deep in the slime of the river; it is red with their blood; their wives wail for them; their village is left desolate.... When the time of the full sun power was past the smoking of three pipes, came up the Pamunkey, swift as the swallow that skims its waters, the Ricahecrian dogs who, passing down towards the salt water twelve suns ago, slew the young men of a village that lieth below us. My young men went out against them, but a cloud came up and Kiwassa hid his face behind it. They came not back, their boats were sunk, the Ricahecrians laughed and went their way, swift as swallows." 0.60 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1676 "Die by the arrow and the tomahawk," he answered, -- "yea, and by the guns you have given the red men. To-morrow's sun, and the next, and the next, -- three suns, -- and the tribes will fall upon the English. At the same hour, when the men are in the fields and the women and children are in the houses, they will strike, -- Kecoughtans, Paspaheghs, Chickahominies, Pamunkeys, Arrowhatocks, Chesapeakes, Nansemonds, Accomacs, -- as one man will they strike; and from where the Powhatan falls over the rocks to the salt water beyond Accomac, there will not be one white man left alive." ============================================================================= TOPIC 26 -- 1858 chunks >= 0.25 from 35 texts ============================================================================= natives 539; people 459; country 430; men 400; troops 327; slave 319; station 291; government 287; cattle 277; arrived 256; vessels 235; large 235; river 194; great 192; expedition 177; time 168; soldiers 167; slaves 163; trade 154; attack 152; immediately 152; arrival 151; native 151; force 148; miles 147; camp 145; corn 140; started 128; hunters 126; traders 119; number 117; orders 112; degrees 110; returned 110; ivory 109; work 105; officers 105; received 105; usual 104; small 103; general 97; days 96; quickly 94; declared 93; accompanied 93; sheik 93; appeared 91; return 91; impossible 91; carried 91; party 90; supply 89; high 85; king 85; order 84; villages 84; yards 83; grass 82; determined 81; position 80; arranged 78; south 77; cows 77; attacked 76; march 75; twenty 75; ordered 75; women 73; journey 73; explained 73; egyptian 72; governor 72; quarters 72; day 71; open 70; transport 70; generally 69; simply 69; village 69; protection 68; killed 67; carriers 66; distant 65; discovered 65; powerful 65; steamers 63; difficulty 63; addition 63; commenced 63; good 62; excellent 62; numbers 61; portion 60; ammunition 60; neighbourhood 60; stations 59; tribe 59; herd 59; numerous 58; detachment 58 0.87 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. 0.86 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. 0.86 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. 0.85 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1906 To capture in a razzia 3,000 cows, 1000 belong to the brigands as their perquisite; 300 are necessary to feed the native carriers and soldiers during the journey; 3,300 cows are required to deliver 1,000 loads of ivory a distance of 165 miles, from Fatiko to Ismailia (Gondokoro). 0.85 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." 0.84 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1268 Thus an expedition that should have comprised 1,645 men was reduced to so insignificant a force, that it appeared impossible to proceed into the interior. The Baris were at war with us; the slave-hunters' companies were treacherous; and yet I was to suppress the slave trade, and annex the equatorial districts with less than one-third of the force required. 0.84 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 832 Open war had commenced. The natives had deserted their villages on the portion of the island opposite to my camp. This was about seven miles in length, therefore, in return for the attacks made upon my people on our mainland, I determined to pay the Baris a visit. 0.82 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. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 130 Six steamers, varying from 40 to 80-horse power, were ordered to leave Cairo in June, together with fifteen sloops and fifteen diahbeeahs -- total, thirty-six vessels -- to ascend the cataracts of the Nile to Khartoum, a distance by river of about 1,450 miles. These vessels were to convey the whole of the merchandise. 0.82 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 27 -- 1257 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= looked 785; face 609; head 560; asked 414; smile 408; smiled 375; turned 341; words 307; tone 263; laughed 261; moment 241; eyes 233; made 233; gave 229; laugh 225; spoke 216; silence 193; voice 183; answered 179; nodded 178; man 175; shook 173; glanced 170; surprise 147; reply 147; changed 146; glance 141; back 138; expression 133; smiling 128; girl 127; speak 119; woman 108; young 105; repeated 104; manner 103; gentleman 92; low 90; flushed 90; rose 88; bowed 88; gesture 88; room 87; slightly 86; lips 85; question 84; suddenly 84; boy 84; broke 83; turning 83; word 82; quickly 77; lip 75; bit 74; answer 73; assent 73; paused 72; meaning 72; angry 71; pause 70; silent 68; speech 68; son 68; inquiringly 66; eye 65; lady 65; began 64; surprised 64; quiet 62; puzzled 62; uttered 62; remarked 61; anger 61; speaker 61; frowned 61; slight 60; continued 60; instant 60; regarded 59; bow 59; caught 59; lifted 57; stopped 56; indignation 56; stared 55; gravely 54; visitor 52; colored 52; remark 51; countenance 51; blushed 51; nod 51; evidently 50; pretty 50; hesitated 50; round 48; slowly 48; stammered 48; amazement 47; remembered 47 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2106 Annoyance instantaneously clouded his countenance, and Dr. Plymley gnawed his lower lip to hide a smile. 0.70 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. 0.70 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2323 He noticed the incredulous smile that flitted across her face, and, after a moment's pause, he continued: 0.67 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3668 “Well, what of this?” he asked, coldly. He looked at the Senator superciliously. His manner and the sneer on his face were like a blow. The Senator’s face flushed. 0.67 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2287 “Umhm!” She looked up and nodded brightly, then broke into a laugh. “And you think that’s curious?” 0.65 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2386 This speech made the Colonel glance around him: Then he smiled, -- in response to other smiles. 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 586 "U-r-n -- teapot." Elliot Carlton, whose seat was near, gave a suppressed giggle. Florence looked around inquiringly, then dropt her head again on her hand, bidding the boy "spell on." 0.65 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 671 The first speaker uttered an exclamation of annoyance, but the others laughed. 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1451 For a moment those left behind looked at each other in dumb surprise; then old Mr. Dinsmore broke the silence by a muttered exclamation, "Has the boy gone daft?" 0.64 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3853 “Find a good many changes since you went away, I guess?” His voice was full of insolence, and his face wore a provoking smile. Middleton was trying to control himself. Leech misinterpreted his silence. ============================================================================= TOPIC 28 -- 985 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= dress 476; white 428; black 342; coat 323; blue 319; wore 280; clothes 262; hat 255; red 240; dressed 225; wear 218; long 210; silk 203; pair 178; boots 175; hair 174; shoes 166; gown 140; uniform 138; suit 134; shirt 131; head 130; cloth 128; lace 127; large 121; gray 113; linen 112; cap 112; worn 112; pretty 105; cotton 102; yellow 102; round 102; green 101; bonnet 96; gold 95; buttons 95; great 94; wearing 94; looked 90; fine 88; garments 87; trousers 84; neck 80; handkerchief 78; woman 74; feet 74; collar 73; dresses 70; day 69; put 68; brass 68; velvet 68; sleeves 67; silver 65; set 65; brown 64; tied 64; shirts 62; covered 61; plain 61; lady 61; pink 61; high 60; work 60; rich 60; broad 60; skirt 60; small 59; cut 58; coats 58; shoulders 57; coarse 57; frock 57; handsome 56; bright 56; front 56; waist 56; boy 54; ball 54; garment 54; women 53; gave 53; heavy 53; hands 53; appearance 53; leather 53; colored 53; gloves 53; socks 52; scarlet 51; faded 51; eyes 50; clean 50; feather 50; style 50; cloak 49; costume 49; face 48; beautiful 48 0.81 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." 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 497 Mrs. Johnson, the only other person present, was seated before the sewing machine, stitching a seam in a long garment of coarse, white linen. 0.78 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. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2813 Her dress was a pearl white alpaca, with no trimming, save tulle ruchings at throat and wrists, and a few violets fastened in the cameo Psyche that constituted her brooch. 0.74 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2890 I shall wear a starry crown, I shall wear a starry crown, I shall wear -- I shall wear a starry crown. 0.74 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1140 She was all in white, and was blazing with brass buttons. They were her only ornaments, except a single old jewel consisting of a ruby surrounded by diamonds. She wore bracelets of the buttons on her arms, and a necklace of larger ones on a band around her white throat. A broad belt of them girdled her little waist. 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 106 She put on the grey cloak she had thrown aside, buttoned it about her throat, and tied her bonnet strings. 0.73 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 146 "Oh, yes she has. She has that long black dress, in which she looks so nice, and she is so clever at sewing she could cut it open at the neck and turn up the sleeves at the elbow." 0.72 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2267 "I gave him a blue blanket, a zinc mirror, a spoon, comb, and four red and yellow handkerchiefs. To Quonga I gave a tarboosh (fez), and four yards of turkey red cloth. 0.72 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3167 I had already sent him, from Foweera, a beautiful cloak of gold brocade, together with a new tarboosh and sky-blue turban. ============================================================================= TOPIC 29 -- 636 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= flowers 428; white 235; green 229; summer 212; sweet 210; spring 195; leaves 194; air 192; birds 179; garden 178; beautiful 162; roses 156; winter 148; morning 146; trees 136; flower 136; blossoms 135; rose 128; day 120; soft 118; fresh 116; bloom 112; blue 111; wild 107; bird 106; sun 95; beauty 93; year 92; days 92; golden 91; made 87; full 86; fragrant 85; earth 83; sunshine 83; young 82; autumn 82; lovely 81; bright 79; purple 79; delicate 76; yellow 75; grass 71; cool 70; early 70; woods 70; world 68; pink 67; snow 66; walk 65; lay 64; tree 63; bees 63; things 61; brown 59; nature 58; wind 57; fields 55; boughs 54; apple 54; gold 51; fragrance 51; season 49; song 49; honey 49; afternoon 48; filled 48; love 47; fruit 47; perfume 47; violets 47; rich 46; delicious 46; dew 46; leaf 46; light 45; faded 45; singing 45; smell 43; pleasant 43; petals 43; hot 42; wood 42; brilliant 41; scarlet 40; big 40; gorgeous 40; honeysuckle 40; grapes 40; fair 39; gathered 39; blooming 39; open 38; bed 38; forest 38; grow 38; lilies 38; walked 37; fell 37; gay 37 0.82 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 142 Mr. Dinsmore, like most men, was fond of light and air; through the wide open windows the morning breeze stole softly in, laden with sweets from garden and lawn, and the rich carpet of oak and green was flecked with gold where the sunbeams came shimmering down between the fluttering leaves of a beautiful vine that had festooned itself about the one looking to the east. 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2115 The children, one and all, were in an ecstasy of delight over the orange orchard with its wealth of golden fruit, glossy leaves, and delicate blossoms, the velvety lawn with its magnificent shade trees, the variety and profusion of beautiful flowers, and the spacious lordly mansion. 0.77 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1813 "You see," she said, "Uncle Tom and I plant new flowers for every month. Everything is always white. Sometimes it is all lilies of the valley or white hyacinths, and then it is white roses, and in the autumn white chrysanthemums. Uncle Tom thought of it when I was a little child, and we have done it together ever since. We think she knows." 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 435 This plant is blooming out now, and nightly as I wend homeward I pluck a handful of it, gathering along with its life the tranquil sunshine, the autumnal notes of the cardinal passing to better lands, and all the healthful influences of the fields. I shall make me a tribute of it to the memory of her undying sweetness. 0.74 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1053 Judith, without protesting, went and got it. She spread it out on the bed. It was rich and white and soft, and was beautiful with Judith's handiwork; but it was bloodstained in many places. 0.73 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4229 "This is all right, if the sun'll only come out and dry things up and let us see the green on those trees," he said, "Lordy, how I do love to see the spring green in the sunlight!" 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1693 It was a heavenly, warm spring morning, and Sheba, having made herself ready, wandered into the garden to wait among the flowers. The rapturous first scents of the year were there, drawn by the sun and blown by vagrant puffs of wind from hyacinths and jonquils, white narcissus and blue violets. Sheba walked among the beds, every few minutes kneeling down upon the grass to bury her face in pink and yellow and white clusters, inhaling the breath of flowers and the pungent freshness of the sweet brown earth at the same time. She had lived among leaves and growing things until she felt herself in some unexplainable way a part of the world they belonged to. The world beyond the mountains she knew nothing of; but this world, which was the brown earth springing forth into green blades and leaves and little streaked buds, warming into bloom and sun-drenched fragrance, setting the birds singing and nest-building, giving fruits and grain, and yellow and scarlet leaves, and folding itself later in snow and winter sleep -- this world she knew as well as she knew herself. The birds were singing and nest- building this morning, and, as she hung over a bed of purple and white hyacinths, kneeling on the grass and getting as close to them as she could, their perfume mounted to her brain and she began to kiss them. 0.71 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4269 The cool air was burdened with mysterious hints of acacias and roses, which the dew had stolen from drowsy gardens, and over the gently rippling waters floated the holy sound of the sweet-tongued bell, from 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2967 The springtime sunshine had been smiling upon Talbot's Cross-roads all the day. It was not hot, but warm, and its beauty was added to by the little soft winds which passed through the branches of the blossoming apple and pear trees and shook the fragrance from them. The brown earth was sweet and odorous, as it had been on the Sunday morning Sheba had knelt and kissed it, and the garden had covered itself, as then, with hyacinths and daffodils and white narcissus. 0.70 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 889 "Was there ever an Eden more perfect than this delicious place?" Kate cried, as the flaming sun sent banners of gold, mingled in a rainbow baldric with the blooming parterres of roses. ============================================================================= TOPIC 30 -- 1110 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= hand 819; man 412; head 345; arm 299; back 266; hands 263; knife 256; sword 238; held 221; hold 204; shoulder 195; feet 189; side 186; put 178; pistol 173; drew 171; revolver 161; cut 158; left 156; ground 151; seized 150; rope 147; arms 145; gun 145; tied 139; end 135; tree 130; coat 126; time 125; made 119; holding 117; pocket 116; weapon 115; foot 115; rifle 114; blow 109; struck 109; fell 108; pulled 108; bound 106; throat 106; brought 104; piece 104; breast 104; mouth 103; boy 100; teeth 100; raised 99; body 96; cried 96; grasp 96; handkerchief 95; musket 93; dropped 93; heavy 91; stand 90; legs 89; sharp 86; caught 82; thrust 82; string 82; collar 82; place 81; leg 81; laid 79; carried 79; eye 77; cap 77; neck 77; air 74; stick 74; threw 73; draw 72; fellow 72; broken 72; blade 72; whip 72; horse 69; fastened 68; belt 68; taking 67; round 66; eyes 64; shouted 62; tie 62; free 61; hit 60; straight 59; blood 59; exclaimed 59; hung 58; ball 58; ran 57; set 56; wrist 56; nose 56; strong 55; knocked 55; ear 55; quick 54 0.79 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 941 "I'll get you some, -- don't you know me? Let me have your canteen," said Frank, stooping and taking hold of the canteen. It was held by its strap; but the boy whipped out a knife and cut it loose. 0.74 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 721 "Not a word -- not a whisper!" said Jack, placing the muzzle of the heavy Colt close to the rebel's head. "Let go that gun. Stebbins, take off his cutlass and buckle it around your own waist." 0.74 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1777 "Keep me well covered, you lean devil," growled John to Enos, "or I'll shoot you without warning!" Working left-handed, he dropped the thumb-tack. With a curse between his teeth he stooped and picked it up, but could not press it firmly into place. He leaned his rifle against the door-post, drew the revolver and used its butt as a hammer. Champion saw an elbow bend back from behind a tree. The mountaineer's brother had recovered his gun and was aiming it. The captain fired and hit the tree. March whirled upon Enos with the revolver in his face, the drunkard flinched violently when not to have flinched would have saved both lives, and from the tree-trunk that Champion had struck a rifle puffed and cracked. March heard the spat of a bullet, and with a sudden horrid widening of the eyes Enos fell into his bosom. 0.73 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2099 On entering, they had placed their muskets in the corner. The speaker took them, and handed one to his comrade. And now the widow observed that out of the muzzle of each protruded the butt-end of a small cowhide. Each soldier held his gun at his side, and laying hold of the said butt-end, drew out the long taper belly and dangling lash of the whip, like a black snake by the neck. 0.72 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. 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 26 The boy faced his captor, who held a strap in one hand 129 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1073 "Hands down!" exclaimed Tom, pricking his arm with the bayonet attached to the musket. "Here, Joe Burnap!" 0.70 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 923 He brought it himself, in his hand, just as it was, holding the mouth end between the thumb and forefinger. 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 250 "What are you hammering at?" cried Peter, bringing his fist down on the table. "Hit the nail on the head." 0.69 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 31 -- 827 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= thought 619; felt 506; mind 501; words 302; heart 297; thoughts 255; knew 250; feeling 215; moment 206; time 189; strange 183; face 175; sense 169; eyes 168; passed 162; fear 162; presence 151; remembered 140; terrible 134; dream 134; day 131; life 128; sudden 125; began 123; suddenly 121; night 120; terror 120; vague 114; silence 111; scene 110; brought 106; long 104; things 102; power 97; dread 96; reality 95; lost 94; consciousness 93; memory 93; found 92; looked 91; thing 90; brain 88; place 87; wild 87; truth 87; recalled 86; painful 85; nature 83; danger 82; changed 80; voice 80; speak 79; moments 78; fears 78; pain 78; youth 77; scenes 77; filled 76; fact 75; longer 74; father 74; soul 74; strangely 74; conscious 73; nervous 71; imagination 71; feelings 70; heard 69; recollection 69; strong 68; shock 67; silent 66; horror 66; thinking 65; knowing 65; courage 65; vision 63; fancy 63; impression 62; question 60; mere 60; forgotten 60; spoken 60; meeting 59; thrill 59; awful 59; certainty 59; emotions 59; haunted 59; light 58; unknown 58; coming 58; dreadful 57; kind 56; spirit 56; instant 56; dreams 56; senses 55; idea 54 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2022 Miss Lou's over-taxed mind had given way, or rather was enchained by a spell of horror to the scenes presented all too vividly in Chunk's bald statement. Her nervous force had been too enfeebled and exhausted to endure the shock of an impression so tremendous in its tragic reality that her faculties had no power to go beyond it. Chunk's words had brought her to a darkening forest and her dead lover, and there she stayed. 0.69 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1988 The memory of these now recurring, with the reality itself, not strange that for a time their thoughts, as their senses, are almost paralysed. 0.66 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 422 I could hear the beatings of my own heart, and all the warmth of my nature went forth to meet this sublime embodiment of human majesty; yet I dared not speak. 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 224 The sudden transition of tone has in it something strange -- a contrast inexplicable. 0.64 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2004 The next moment he was gone, leaving Ruth with a sinking feeling about her heart. What could he mean? 0.62 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 871 Ercildoune had spoken with such impassioned feeling, with such fire in his eyes, such terrible earnestness in his voice, that Robert could not, if he would, interrupt him; and, in the silence, found no words for the instant at his command. Ere he summoned them they saw some one approaching. 0.61 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2402 With these solemn words the scene ends, only one other exchanged between them -- the wild "Farewell!" 0.61 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 50 A little panic-fear grew in his mind. As his imagination went forward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities. He contemplated the lurking menaces of the future, and failed in an effort to see himself standing stoutly in the midst of them. He recalled his visions of broken-bladed glory, but in the shadow of the impending tumult he suspected them to be impossible pictures. 0.61 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3544 She wished that she could die then and there, for the thought of Mr. Lindsay sickened her soul. But the memory of the ring appalled her, and she struggled to free herself. 0.61 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 114 Even when it was all over, he scarcely knew how he had been betrayed into the weakness he was guilty of. It was not like him to lose sight of his manifold imperfections; but for once they were swept out of his mind by a momentary madness. ============================================================================= TOPIC 32 -- 839 chunks >= 0.25 from 40 texts ============================================================================= 25 374; illustrated 286; 12mo 242; cloth 212; volume 196; colors 143; price 142; extra 139; printed 130; box 122; fully 107; 1.25 106; vols 103; 1.00 102; volumes 93; cents 92; 75 90; illustrations 74; 50 72; separately 55; 1.50 55; sold 54; series 47; bound 43; author 41; gilt 39; paper 38; 16mo 38; a. 38; pages 36; club 36; 00 32; library 32; p. 32; engravings 29; 8vo 28; cover 27; edges 27; girls 26; story 26; binding 25; neat 23; drawings 23; half 22; handsomely 22; 30 21; edition 21; elegantly 21; morocco 21; original 20; 1863 19; top 19; castlemon 19; cruise 19; set 18; 1864 18; recorded 18; size 17; twenty 16; excellent 16; adventures 16; harry 16; 10 15; receipt 15; emblematic 15; life 14; full 14; great 13; gold 13; beauty 13; issues 13; calf 13; romance 13; time 12; report 12; 20 12; camping 12; marked 11; successes 11; 58 11; literary 11; 52 10; 16 10; 1/2 10; beautifully 10; campaign 10; color 10; roughing 10; publishers 10; 5.00 10; 13 9; maps 9; 125 9; page 9; m. 9; marbled 9; yachting 9; inlay 9; 40 8; plate 8 0.93 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. 0.88 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 0.88 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. 0.87 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. 0.87 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1197 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. 0.87 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 0.86 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. 0.86 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1534 TATTERED TOM SERIES. (FIRST SERIES.) By Horatio Alger, Jr. 4 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box, 5 00 Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab 1 25 Paul, the Peddler; or, The Adventures of a Young Street Merchant 1 25 Phil, the Fiddler; or, The Young Street Musician 1 25 Slow and Sure; or, From the Sidewalk to the Shop 1 25 0.86 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. 0.86 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1251 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 33 -- 1919 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= face 2439; eyes 2235; looked 938; expression 574; turned 417; smile 403; lips 358; stood 343; voice 339; pale 326; countenance 319; moment 242; gaze 230; fixed 216; full 213; beautiful 212; hand 210; features 207; tears 203; cheeks 203; spoke 196; met 184; girl 178; glance 175; dark 169; watched 168; flush 165; strange 161; cheek 160; suddenly 159; gazed 157; color 156; deep 152; rose 151; brow 146; rested 139; hands 138; thought 138; sat 136; heart 130; flushed 129; eye 127; grew 125; fell 124; silent 116; sweet 116; grave 115; sad 114; calm 112; cold 111; faces 110; smiled 109; bright 108; stern 103; bent 103; white 101; slowly 101; change 100; blue 97; raised 97; large 95; passed 95; asked 94; tone 94; mouth 93; soft 93; form 91; words 91; felt 90; half 90; picture 89; gazing 88; faint 86; eagerly 85; closed 84; watching 84; pain 83; woman 82; fair 81; lifted 81; shadow 81; gentle 80; instant 79; handsome 78; joy 78; standing 76; feeling 76; lovely 76; glanced 76; changed 74; brought 73; tender 72; forward 72; sudden 71; crossed 71; noticed 69; proud 69; paused 69; anxious 68; pleasure 67 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4230 The wan Phidian face was turned toward them, and was breathless in its anxious eagerly questioning expression. Her brown eyes widened, searching theirs; and reading all, in her daughter's tearful pitying gaze, what a wild look crossed her face! 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2619 For some moments Olga was silent, and her mournful eyes were fixed on the wall, with a half vacant stare, as her thoughts wandered to her unfortunate lover. 0.81 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. 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2150 Pale as marble she coolly met the undisguised ardent admiration in his gaze, and bending forward he asked pleadingly: 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1838 He saw a faint smile lurking about the perfect curves of her rosy mouth, but her eyes remained fixed on the picture. 0.76 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1538 As if it had been the Gorgon's gaze, I was turned to stone. The filmy eyes, the smile that would have been mocking had it not been so very faint, the pallor, the malignance, -- I stared and stared, and my heart grew cold and sick. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 435 Coolly impassive, and without a vestige of curious interest, the lawyer quietly met his incisive gaze. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 963 Mr. Travilla drew near the two, still standing together, and regarded his bride with a countenance beaming with love and delight. The sweet eyes sought his questioningly, and meeting his ardent gaze the beautiful face sparkled all over with smiles and blushes. 0.75 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2917 She looked up at the portrait on the wall -- the portrait of the bright girl- face. Her own face lighted into a smile. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4410 Here he paused, took off his glasses, and looked proudly and tenderly down into the violet eyes that even now met his so shyly. ============================================================================= TOPIC 34 -- 642 chunks >= 0.25 from 51 texts ============================================================================= officer 567; orders 492; order 256; duty 234; command 228; general 204; captain 196; report 165; commander 158; officers 157; obey 155; lieutenant 119; service 112; received 109; made 96; give 96; obeyed 91; charge 89; commission 87; young 83; rank 83; promotion 82; letter 80; position 78; military 76; instructions 75; present 75; chief 73; authority 69; gave 68; ordered 67; important 66; company 66; added 64; men 63; superior 62; replied 62; immediately 60; flag 60; issued 58; duties 56; army 56; prisoner 55; official 54; government 53; called 53; returned 53; commanding 53; action 52; presented 52; brought 51; executive 51; staff 49; case 48; act 47; regard 45; head 45; expedition 44; appointment 44; special 44; soldier 43; sergeant 43; message 41; promoted 41; conduct 41; proper 40; quarters 39; commanded 39; account 39; rebel 39; send 38; information 38; board 38; court 38; naval 37; state 37; acting 37; obedience 37; proceed 36; discharge 36; obtained 35; proceeded 35; prisoners 35; major 35; capture 34; station 34; place 34; division 34; sealed 34; assigned 34; responsible 33; department 33; reported 32; deliver 32; leave 31; perform 31; appointed 30; colonel 30; evidence 30; honor 30 0.76 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1529 "Then you are the ranking officer, Captain Passford, for both of the other commanders are lieutenants," added the executive officer of the Muskegon. "We are ready to transmit your orders to our superiors." 0.71 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1004 "I know of no one at present who holds the rank to entitle him to such a position, and I shall appeal to Mr. Passford," replied the new commander. 0.69 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1442 "Chatterbox! If I am the general of your distinguished selection, I shall issue an order at once for your immediate retirement." 0.69 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 98 WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE FOLLOWED AN ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE, AND VETOED A PROCLAMATION. ALSO RECORDING A MILITARY EXPERIMENT WITH RELIABLE CONTRABANDS 322 0.68 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1915 WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE FOLLOWED AN ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE, AND VETOED A PROCLAMATION. ALSO RECORDING A MILITARY EXPERIMENT WITH RELIABLE CONTRABANDS. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1658 "Yes, Cap'n Somers," said Hapgood; "Tom was made a sergeant for gallant conduct on the river in December; and he deserved his promotion too." 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 116 "I am to attend to some special service on my voyage to the Gulf, and I am ordered to take my instructions from you," added Captain Chantor. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 926 Orders were issued to the colonels not to take any contrabands on board the boats, and most of them obeyed. Colonel Utley issued no orders. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1703 "Mr. Passford, by the lamentable accident to Mr. Blowitt, you become the ranking lieutenant in condition for service," said Captain Breaker, soon after the young officer had reported the capture of the Reindeer. "You therefore become the acting executive officer of the Bellevite." 0.66 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1501 "Perhaps it will please you quite as much when I inform you that the officers you recommended for appointment as masters have been promoted to that rank," added the captain. ============================================================================= TOPIC 35 -- 1007 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= hand 740; moment 581; back 510; turned 506; stood 466; man 450; looked 379; forward 372; slowly 270; step 255; arm 251; caught 245; side 245; stopped 233; face 228; sight 226; held 219; moved 218; drew 215; door 211; room 196; began 195; walked 194; figure 192; rose 183; standing 173; nearer 173; presently 172; stepped 171; breath 170; started 166; coming 166; heard 163; suddenly 160; shoulder 149; glance 147; instant 146; window 144; close 141; spoke 134; thought 132; voice 130; called 129; silence 129; quickly 128; eye 127; left 126; paused 123; long 121; steps 118; passed 117; gave 117; hurried 115; speaking 112; reached 106; drawing 100; quick 98; waiting 97; attention 96; pace 95; touched 93; dropped 92; glanced 92; soldier 90; hat 90; appeared 87; knew 87; catch 87; street 87; rapidly 85; half 85; waited 85; speak 83; entered 82; fell 82; hesitated 81; white 80; walking 79; approached 78; move 77; distance 76; gaze 76; feet 75; movement 74; ran 73; head 72; met 70; companion 70; whispered 68; seized 67; observed 66; air 65; raised 65; sprang 65; farther 65; advanced 64; boy 64; instantly 64; front 64; exclaimed 64 0.79 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3253 Gaze to gaze, one stood, and the other, with reluctant step, backed away; and at the last moment, with his foot leaving the threshold, lover and maiden said again, still gaze to gaze: 0.73 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 684 "Since you know who I am, Madame, I need not hesitate to tell you more," she said, though she did hesitate, and looked up, deprecatingly, to the Marquise, who stood a few paces away leaning against the window. 0.72 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3221 Presently they returned and passed again. She was still standing at the door. A few steps away the speaker looked over his shoulder and moaned: 0.71 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1480 Baker walked off, and Maurice Walton walked on by himself. He had taken but a few steps when Mr. Grey, quickening his pace, laid his hand upon his shoulder. 0.70 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3289 The deputy had his foot on the threshold. He caught sight of the face of Miss Carvel within, and stopped abruptly. 0.70 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 430 He ran forward presently and grasped the tall soldier by the arm. "Jim! Jim!" he coaxed, "come with me." 0.69 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 599 Mrs. Lettice approached the window, laid a hand upon the curtain, and started back with a scream. 0.68 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 82 SHE GAVE A STEP FORWARD AND WITH A QUICK MOVEMENT PULLED THE MASK FROM HIS FACE, 406 0.68 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 602 Patricia started up. Sir Charles, striding hastily towards the window, his hand upon his sword, was met by the emerging figure of Landless. 0.67 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 179 "Uncle Ish!" called the boy sharply. The old man lowered the bag from his shoulder and turned slowly round. ============================================================================= TOPIC 36 -- 883 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= table 392; eat 335; bread 295; coffee 288; supper 280; breakfast 240; dinner 223; meal 214; food 172; hungry 169; good 158; tea 152; corn 149; cook 143; kitchen 142; set 130; eating 121; plate 116; meat 114; brought 111; milk 109; found 106; hot 104; cold 100; ready 95; cup 95; ate 92; eggs 91; chickens 91; chicken 90; dish 87; basket 86; bacon 86; eaten 84; pie 83; cake 82; cakes 82; sugar 81; appetite 81; piece 75; butter 75; put 74; house 74; dishes 74; make 73; potatoes 73; things 72; hard 67; morning 66; full 65; water 62; sweet 60; nice 60; plenty 60; pot 60; fried 60; beef 59; prepared 58; boys 57; finished 56; cooked 56; large 54; cooking 54; flour 54; mess 54; fire 53; supply 53; provisions 51; wife 51; salt 51; pork 50; long 49; began 48; home 48; drink 48; spread 48; bowl 48; made 47; biscuit 47; fare 46; fresh 45; room 45; soup 45; bag 44; time 43; ham 42; place 41; pies 41; waiter 40; woman 39; slice 39; poor 38; children 38; small 38; rations 38; making 38; cream 38; bite 38; silver 37; baked 37 0.76 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. 0.75 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 666 "Yes, sir! That's just what he stole -- something to eat! He didn't have breakfast enough to keep his stomach from grumbling, and he stole a piece of boiled pork and some cold potatoes." 0.74 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1229 Vincent and Lucy were soon seated by the fire. Their hostess bustled about preparing supper for them, and the children, of whom the house seemed full, stared shyly at the newcomers. As soon as the meal was over, Chloe's wants were attended to, and a lunch of bread and bacon taken out by the farmer to Dan in the stables. The children were then packed off to bed, and the farmer and his wife joined Vincent and Lucy by the fire. 0.74 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. 0.73 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1625 "In the dining-room we found a plentiful meal spread, including hot coffee, hot corn bread, bacon, and other viands. We were not, however, destined to take our supper in peace. As I was drinking my second cup of coffee I thought I heard a noise outside, and remarked it to Mrs. Roberts. 0.72 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 138 "I know," answered Archie, as he saw Simpson dive into the cook's galley and reappear bearing the mess-kettle, filled with steaming coffee, in one hand, and a large pan, containing the salt beef, in the other -- "dinner is ready." 0.72 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. 0.71 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3200 The best fish (as I before mentioned in "The Albert N'yanza") is the Lepidosiren annectens, and this fat and delicate meat is excellent when smoked and dried. 0.71 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1071 The kettle was not long in boiling. Chloe produced some spoons and knives and forks from the basket. 0.70 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 577 And what a luncheon it was! The relays of fried chicken, baked sweet potatoes, corn-bread, and mango pickles -- a most extraordinary production, I maintain, is a mango pickle! -- and things baked on top and brown, and other things baked on the bottom and creamy white. ============================================================================= TOPIC 37 -- 843 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= wife 706; child 650; mother 631; years 590; woman 496; love 470; father 408; husband 403; married 386; daughter 358; girl 355; life 290; loved 283; young 281; poor 272; man 262; marriage 258; son 249; family 247; children 225; long 214; home 212; marry 201; heart 194; died 183; sister 173; made 170; day 168; world 166; left 161; knew 155; lived 147; year 143; ago 141; baby 139; proud 134; brother 132; lost 128; bride 125; age 124; time 123; happy 111; widow 109; months 106; born 104; live 98; fortune 97; care 95; women 94; death 93; early 88; handsome 87; house 86; grown 84; dear 83; rich 82; birth 81; weeks 79; parents 77; noble 75; happiness 74; affection 71; older 70; wedding 68; beautiful 67; pride 65; grandmother 65; orphan 63; beauty 61; mine 60; leaving 58; guardian 57; set 56; lady 55; face 54; pretty 54; friends 53; lovely 53; living 53; darling 53; marrying 53; future 52; making 51; youth 51; wealthy 51; wealth 50; claim 50; union 50; called 49; promised 49; night 48; girls 48; daughters 48; memory 48; estate 47; blood 46; mistress 46; beloved 46; image 46; respect 45 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3835 "No, darling; no. The little blue-eyed child has grown into a woman, of whom the haughtiest mother in the land might be proud. My darling is all I wish her." 0.70 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3162 "These marriages on the American plan, of which we are so vain, are they the only happy ones, and are they all happy? When they are, is it because love began as a passion, or has it not been because the choice was fortunate, and love, whether from a large or small beginning, has grown, like that of Isaac and Rebecca, out of a union made stronger than the ties of blood, by troth and oath? Barbara, do you not know in your heart of hearts that if you were the wife of a husband, wisely but dispassionately chosen, you would love him with a wife's full love as long as he loved you? You do. You would." 0.70 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1605 Sept. 5—"Mr. Wilmot is dead, and with him died my poor, poor heart. Had he lived, he possibly might have turned to me, for Julia knew how much I loved him. Dear, generous Julia, how I wish Dr. Lacey would love her, for she is more worthy of him than I am." 0.70 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1888 She was gone home, and I her husband, I who loved her, was left behind. How many years of pilgrimage... how long, how long, O Lord? 0.70 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 46 "Oh, I know more than that;" said another, eager to add to the knowledge of the group. "Between Fontainbleau and Moret is the Levigne chateau. Two years ago the dowager was there with a young beauty, Judithe Levigne, and that is the girl Alain married; the dowager was also a Levigne, and the girl an adopted daughter." 0.68 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. 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 197 "No, Manuel, but candid; for eight years I have known that I was destined to be your wife, but I never loved you, Manuel. I do not, and never can, otherwise than as a cousin." 0.66 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 768 Seventeen years ago this woman's husband -- the father -- went away and never returned. The daughters are grown, and they are poor. The elder performs some clerical work up in Canal Street, and I love to watch her trig little figure come and go -- early and late. 0.66 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 2222 Sons and daughters came to bear his name. The daughters were all beautiful; but the most beautiful of them all, and, it was said, the most beloved by both father and mother, was the eldest one: the one who bore the mother's name, and was only step-daughter to the Senor, -- Ramona, -- Ramona, daughter of Alessandro the Indian. 0.64 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1521 "Wonderful!" he said. "It is so. I never saw it;" and he wondered in his heart what father it had been, who had given eyes like those to one born of an Indian mother. ============================================================================= TOPIC 38 -- 342 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= made 280; manner 123; words 120; understand 111; person 102; tone 100; time 99; reply 91; mind 90; word 89; conversation 84; subject 77; comprehend 76; stranger 72; heard 70; spoke 70; proceeded 67; remarks 66; language 64; change 62; evidently 60; present 59; remark 58; meant 58; understood 57; continued 54; strange 54; excited 54; showed 52; interest 50; impression 50; make 48; expressed 47; appearance 47; curiosity 46; meeting 46; speech 46; gave 44; occasion 44; perfectly 44; intended 43; intention 41; meaning 40; explain 39; satisfaction 39; question 38; repeated 38; situation 37; usual 37; account 37; mention 37; position 36; effect 36; observed 36; hear 36; spoken 36; changed 35; listened 35; speaking 35; suspected 34; reason 33; addressed 33; perfect 32; circumstances 32; describing 31; reader 31; explanation 31; part 30; related 30; unable 29; presence 29; mistake 29; point 28; mysterious 28; slightest 28; singular 28; tongue 28; squire 28; mystery 27; friend 27; character 27; curious 27; intense 27; final 27; comment 27; prepared 26; spite 26; apparently 26; surprise 26; making 26; hearing 26; bewildered 26; somers 25; possession 24; fully 24; acquaintance 24; beginning 24; minds 24; note 24; critical 24 0.81 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 198 It was simply a letter of introduction from Captain Passford, intended to assure him of the identity of the French detective. Mr. Gilfleur evidently prided himself on his knowledge of the English language, for he certainly spoke it fluently and correctly, though with a little of the accent of his native tongue. 0.73 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2830 Apparently Mr. Hopper found no suitable answer to this, for he made none. He continued to glance at her uneasily. There was an impudent tribute in his look which she resented strongly. 0.72 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1095 INTRODUCING A VERITABLE "MUDSILL," ILLUSTRATING YANKEE BUSINESS TACT, NOTING THE DETENTION OF A NEWSPAPER CHARTOGRAPHIST, AND SO ON. 0.71 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 30 GIVING AN ABSTRACT OF A GREAT ORATOR'S FLAGGING SPEECH, AND RECORDING A DEATHLESS EXPLOIT OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE 88 0.69 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 64 INTRODUCING A VERITABLE "MUDSILL," ILLUSTRATING YANKEE BUSINESS TACT, NOTING THE DETENTION OF A NEWSPAPER CHARTOGRAPHIST, AND SO ON 190 0.69 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 90 REVEALING A NEW BLOCKADING IDEA, INTRODUCING A GEOMETRICAL STEED, AND NARRATING THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF THE MACKEREL SHARPSHOOTER AT YORKTOWN 289 0.68 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 412 Judith suspected that Freke's peroration was made with the intention of provoking a reply. 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 542 GIVING AN ABSTRACT OF A GREAT ORATOR'S FLAGGING SPEECH, AND RECORDING A DEATHLESS EXPLOIT OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE. 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 106 REMARKING UPON A PECULIARITY OF VIRGINIA, AND DESCRIBING COMMODORE HEAD'S GREAT NAVAL EXPLOIT ON DUCK LAKE, ETC. 351 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 60 TOUCHING INCIDENTALLY UPON THE CHARACTER OF ARMY FOOD, AND CELEBRATING THE GREAT DIPLOMATIC EXPLOIT OF CAPTAIN VILLIAM BROWN AT ACCOMAC 177 ============================================================================= TOPIC 39 -- 917 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= shot 724; gun 536; fire 517; guns 437; fired 376; men 288; enemy 172; rifle 158; shots 155; smoke 143; firing 138; shell 134; fort 132; time 127; bullets 123; rebels 121; bullet 119; ammunition 110; made 109; cannon 109; piece 108; battery 108; powder 107; aim 106; ready 104; muskets 104; moment 103; loaded 101; shells 97; ball 97; heavy 95; rifles 94; struck 93; musket 89; great 88; yards 88; hit 88; soldiers 84; pieces 82; hundred 82; line 80; double 80; range 80; left 79; close 78; rebel 78; pistol 76; half 73; opened 71; ran 70; fight 70; distance 69; effect 68; side 67; report 67; load 64; stood 64; killed 62; long 62; discharged 61; quarter 59; mile 58; volley 58; heard 57; balls 56; gave 54; shooting 53; instantly 53; barrel 52; aimed 52; carried 51; twenty 51; solid 51; broadside 51; short 50; sharp 50; steady 50; fell 49; woods 49; minutes 48; front 48; work 47; forward 47; glass 47; position 46; action 46; dozen 46; boys 46; charge 45; give 45; point 44; direction 43; run 43; instant 43; signal 43; fifteen 42; batteries 42; mark 42; weapon 41; shoot 41 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3294 I now had to clear all these fellows out. The officers appeared to have quite lost their heads; and the natives had carried off all the guns and ammunition from the dead men, and had sacked and plundered the powder magazine. 0.81 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. 0.80 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 451 The Ticonderoga was a queer-looking craft. She was not exactly a Monitor; but she had a turret forward, and mounted two eleven-inch guns and four twelve- pounder howitzers. She had a heavy iron ram on her bow, and the turret was protected by three inches of iron, and the deck with two inches. It did not seem possible that a cannon-ball could make any impression on her thick armor. 0.79 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. 0.75 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 215 Frank had his gun, and Willy had the musket; and both carried a plentiful supply of powder and some tolerably round slugs made from cartridges. 0.72 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." 0.71 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1272 "Only two hundred; of course I mean heavy guns, -- sixty and eighty-four pounders. I think there must be small arms enough to supply all your men in the fort." 0.69 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 808 "You will have the midship gun charged with a solid shot, and have it ready for use at once." 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1334 I therefore took a few shots with Hale's rockets, one of which just grazed the rump of an elephant, and sent them off in great astonishment. We then tried a few shots with the fieldpiece, but the gun made bad practice, and the shells exploded very wildly and not according to the distances regulated by the fuses. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 897 The firing was done on both vessels with the heavy midship guns, and doubtless the calibre of the pieces was the same; but Flint was the more fortunate of the two, for his shot struck the smokestack of the enemy, or partly upset it. Christy thought it was time for him to take a hand in the game, and he ordered the midship gun to be fired, charged as it was with a solid shot. The gunner aimed the piece himself, and the shot was seen to tear up the water alongside of the enemy. He discharged the piece four times more with no better result. Evidently he had not got the hang of the gun, though he was improving at every trial. ============================================================================= TOPIC 40 -- 525 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= man 186; crime 173; punishment 119; guilty 119; murder 113; life 100; vengeance 92; son 91; death 89; committed 86; insult 75; revenge 74; innocent 68; made 67; victim 64; treachery 63; soul 63; wrong 60; save 60; doubt 58; justice 58; injustice 56; cruel 56; terrible 55; indignation 55; father 54; heart 52; disgrace 51; deed 51; poor 50; power 50; wicked 49; squire 49; brutal 48; blood 46; traitor 46; outrage 46; attempt 45; fear 45; law 44; villain 44; wrath 42; threatened 42; conscience 42; punished 41; character 41; worse 41; folly 41; sin 41; severe 40; dared 39; hands 39; secret 39; stealing 39; consequences 39; commit 39; accused 38; word 38; insulted 38; penalty 38; escape 37; proof 37; threat 37; savage 36; offence 36; blame 36; shameful 36; retribution 36; prove 35; crimes 35; bitter 35; guilt 35; wretch 35; outraged 35; blow 34; sentence 34; brother 34; threats 34; treason 34; mercy 33; cowardly 33; condemned 32; cold 32; wickedness 32; humiliation 32; treated 31; charge 31; horrible 31; nature 31; indignant 31; murderer 31; stain 31; sting 31; hour 30; account 30; measure 30; fraud 30; act 29; worst 29; prisoner 29 0.66 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!" 0.61 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2377 "Can it be that he meant to risk my life?" he said to himself. "I am in his way, I know, but is he capable of such a crime?" 0.59 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 176 As there has been no warning -- not a word -- he can have no doubt of the intent: some one meaning to murder him! 0.58 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 2101 "Do you mean to insult me?" exclaimed the squire, bold in the assurance that the sole evidence of his fraud was undiscovered. 0.58 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2235 "Arthur Butler scorns a falsehood, father, with the deepest scorn that belongs to a noble mind, and would resent the charge with the spirit of a valiant and virtuous man. If Mr. Tyrrel has such accusations to make, it would be fitter they should be made face to face with the man he would slander, than in my father's ear. But it is the nature of the serpent to sting in the grass, not openly to encounter his victim." 0.58 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2650 “Well, I don’t think he intended it as an insult, and without intention it cannot be an insult. I think if you had seen him you would have felt this.” 0.57 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1971 "Whatever your quarrel was," the general said hotly, "a man who would betray even an enemy to death in that way is a villain. However, he has gone to his account, and the country can forgive his treachery to her, as I have no doubt you have already done his conduct toward yourself." 0.56 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 23 "Oh! how dared you murder him? Do you think God will forgive you on the gallows?" 0.56 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3454 "The women of the South," reads the address, "have been insulted, imprisoned, flogged, violated, and outraged in a most inhuman and savage manner. Their homes and goods have been destroyed, their houses forcibly entered, the helpless and unresisting inmates murdered, the fleeing overtaken and cut down in cold blood by the savage soldiery of the North.... They are now glutting their hellish rage against the people they seek to destroy in inflicting every kind of torture, punishment, and misery that their fruitful minds can invent upon those that they would fain call fellow-citizens.... The atrocities, cruelties, crimes, and outrages committed against the South in this war are without a parallel in the history of the world.... 0.55 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2359 "Well, all your running about is useless. He will be sentenced to death and the family disgraced. Nothing can now prevent that." ============================================================================= TOPIC 41 -- 1222 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= chapter 1195; voice 409; illustration 360; tone 341; low 223; asked 88; tones 80; page 79; viii 72; lower 63; heard 61; answered 51; xviii 51; xxviii 48; loud 38; speaking 38; whisper 37; spoke 36; hear 36; reply 35; husky 32; subdued 30; stern 30; repeated 30; exclaimed 29; iii 28; lowered 28; 1862 27; faltered 25; i. 25; added 24; shouted 24; tremulous 23; command 22; warning 17; gentle 17; lowering 17; unsteady 17; reluctant 16; 1861 16; ahoy 16; xiii 15; remarked 14; demanded 14; angry 14; recognize 14; reproof 14; 15 13; pronounced 13; 48 13; solemnity 13; xxxii 13; cautious 13; charge 12; 81 11; 59 11; timid 11; surrender 11; xlii 11; hallo 11; sinking 10; changing 10; emotion 10; mild 10; surly 10; authoritative 10; sepulchral 10; firm 9; seventy 9; quiet 9; 18 9; 70 9; 92 9; hoarse 9; paused 9; apologetic 9; xxii 9; changed 8; hail 8; confidential 8; growled 8; softest 8; deliberation 8; lord 8; xxxvii 8; xxxviii 8; xxiii 8; suppressed 7; 24 7; unexpected 7; 66 7; contemptuous 7; quit 7; travellers 7; tremor 7; awed 7; aggrieved 7; mistaking 7; bid 7; spectator 7 0.91 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 0.74 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 0.72 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 12 I. WHAT BROUGHT BEARDSLEY HOME, 1 II. ALLISON IS SURPRISED, 23 III. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP, 42 IV. VISITORS IN PLENTY, 66 V. MARCY'S RASH WISH, 92 VI. THE WISH GRATIFIED, 116 VII. MARCY SPEAKS HIS MIND, 140 VIII. THE ARRIVAL OF THE FLEET, 164 IX. LOOKING FOR A PILOT, 190 X. BEARDSLEY IN TROUBLE, 214 XI. MARCY IN ACTION, 239 XII. HOME AGAIN, 264 XIII. A REBEL SOLDIER SPEAKS, 287 XIV. A YANKEE SCOUTING PARTY, 310 XV. MARCY SEES SOMEBODY, 340 XVI. A FRIEND IN GRAY, 361 XVII. MARCY TAKES TO THE SWAMP, 385 XVIII. CONCLUSION, 406 0.66 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. 0.62 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3178 "The woods are so per-fect-ly fas-ci-nat-ing I'm neg-lect-ing my cor-re-spond- ence." 0.60 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 36 Page CHAPTER I. The United States Steamer Bronx 15 0.60 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 35 CHAPTER XXIV UNCHRONICLED CONFLICTS 0.60 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 41 Page CHAPTER I. The Mission to Mobile Point 15 0.60 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 65 CHAPTER XXVIII. The Surrender of the Reindeer 313 0.60 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1756 [Illustration: Dave Receives his Appointment as Steward. -- Page 364.] ============================================================================= TOPIC 42 -- 777 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= thought 513; time 428; doubt 351; man 343; mind 262; make 260; matter 257; knew 248; felt 236; question 230; place 215; made 213; moment 199; point 188; idea 186; thing 161; fact 154; case 153; reason 143; purpose 133; end 131; hope 130; true 123; truth 120; secret 116; believed 114; present 107; resolved 104; difficulty 101; expected 101; trouble 100; opinion 98; brought 98; impossible 98; view 98; good 96; find 93; hoped 93; conclusion 92; settled 92; effort 91; power 91; problem 90; confidence 89; difficult 88; circumstances 88; lost 87; situation 82; danger 82; thinking 80; word 79; satisfied 79; knowledge 78; act 76; determined 74; young 74; change 73; turn 73; suggested 73; means 72; told 72; assured 70; give 70; simply 69; great 68; escape 68; mystery 68; longer 67; future 66; subject 66; rest 66; clear 65; attempt 64; led 64; prove 63; interest 63; leave 63; agreed 63; happened 63; failed 63; fear 62; father 62; possibly 62; position 61; concluded 61; wished 61; real 61; proper 61; discovered 60; follow 60; keeping 60; convinced 59; fears 59; worse 58; duty 57; doubts 57; things 56; light 56; action 56; considered 55 0.72 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3169 About the issue of such encounter he has no anxiety. He is only apprehensive it may not come off. Something may arise to warn the outlaws, and give them a chance to shun it. 0.70 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 179 I cast about in my mind what to say, being resolved not to betray Mary Cavendish, even did this man know what I could betray, and yet being resolved to have some understanding of what was afoot. 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 930 "Graham," said Hilland, slowly and deliberately, "there is no resisting the logic of events. You have convinced me of my error, and I shall follow your advice." 0.67 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 378 Dave knew nothing about the examination to which Mr. Flint had subjected the deaf mute. It is evident that Mulgrum took an entirely different view of the result of the test from that taken by the examiner and the captain; but both of the latter had taken extreme pains to conceal their opinion from the subject of the test. 0.66 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 555 "Perhaps she thinks me not worth the winning," thought he, and in spite of his principles, he erelong found himself exerting all his powers to please and interest her. 0.65 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2643 When James Grey reached the conclusion of this letter he realized that his plot had completely failed. His tool had turned against him, and he was in the power of his nephew. There was but one answer to make to this proposition. He dared not refuse it! 0.65 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. 0.65 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2193 "Are you -- is Mr. Jones, who came from the Georgetown Hospital, in your case?" Kate had thought out her course in advance, and had decided that the direct way was the best. Unless the man had been charged to conceal facts, an apparent knowledge of Jones's movements would be the surest way of eliciting his whereabouts. 0.65 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2039 He had as yet, however, scarcely made up his mind what to propose. A moment's reflection convinced him that only one thing could purchase Toby's reprieve; and perhaps even that would fail. Regardless of consequences to himself, he resolved to try it. 0.63 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1745 "Then what reason have you to think that he registered correctly? Why did he change his hotel? I may be wrong, but it strikes me that it was intended as a blind to deceive you. Your uncle is a shrewd man, and he would understand the importance of keeping his real residence concealed from one who had in his power to prosecute a claim against him involving nearly his whole fortune." ============================================================================= TOPIC 43 -- 335 chunks >= 0.25 from 51 texts ============================================================================= slave 382; master 366; slaves 342; negroes 244; free 217; man 202; white 195; freedom 194; work 181; servants 178; negro 163; plantation 163; overseer 129; servant 119; masters 110; children 105; people 96; black 96; sold 88; mistress 88; colored 84; slavery 80; war 70; planter 68; treated 64; kind 63; race 63; wife 62; estate 62; hands 57; family 57; plantations 56; owner 55; set 54; blacks 52; poor 51; fellow 50; days 49; place 47; made 47; women 46; great 45; land 44; field 44; whip 43; whites 43; young 42; labor 42; good 41; property 41; case 41; bought 41; treatment 40; runaway 40; rights 39; cabin 39; human 37; ill 35; born 35; planters 35; niggers 34; word 32; quarters 32; faithful 32; liberty 31; grown 31; owned 31; folks 30; class 29; household 29; escape 28; working 28; number 28; rise 28; law 28; sell 28; cabins 28; house 27; bondage 27; owners 26; body 26; system 26; wages 26; fear 24; called 23; condition 23; found 23; part 23; female 23; blood 23; domestic 23; families 23; overseers 23; employed 22; lot 22; brutal 22; lad 22; laborers 22; belonging 21; special 21 0.72 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 196 "Oh, to think that people of the very best blood in the State, who once had scores of slaves to work for them, should be so wronged, robbed and reduced!" 0.69 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 25 In Virginia the life of the large planters was almost a patriarchal one; the indoor slaves were treated with extreme indulgence, and were permitted a far higher degree of freedom of remark and familiarity than is the case with servants in an English household. They had been the nurses or companions of the owners when children, had grown up with them, and regarded themselves, and were regarded by them, as almost part of the family. There was, of course, less connection between the planters and their field hands; but these also had for the most part been born on the estate, had as children been taught to look up to their white masters and mistresses, and to receive many little kindnesses at their hands. 0.63 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." 0.62 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 112 "I did not interfere to prevent his flogging the slave, mother, but to prevent his flogging the slave's wife, which was pure wanton brutality. It is not a question of slavery one way or the other. Any one has a right to interfere to put a stop to brutality. If I saw a man brutally treating a horse or a dog I should certainly do so; and if it is right to interfere to save a dumb animal from brutal ill-treatment surely it must be justifiable to save a woman in the same case. I am not an Abolitionist. That is to say, I consider that slaves on a properly managed estate, like ours, for instance, are just as well off as are the laborers on an estate in Europe; but I should certainly like to see laws passed to protect them from ill-treatment. Why, in England there are laws against cruelty to animals; and a man who brutally flogged a dog or a horse would get a month's imprisonment with hard labor. I consider it a disgrace to us that a man may here ill-treat a human being worse than he might in England a dumb animal." 0.61 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. 0.58 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. 0.56 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1544 In the next cabin I found Peter, who had taken the name of Brown, that of his former master. Slavery gave its victims but one name. General Mitchell said that they were entitled to another name, and he ordered that they should take that of their former masters; hence there are Peter Beauregards, James Trenholms, Susan Rhetts, Julia Barnwells, on the plantations of the Sea Islands. 0.56 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1381 "They have actually never seen a white servant in their lives, and are eaten up with curiosity over the very superior maid of yours, her intelligence places her so high above their ideas of servitors." 0.55 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 229 Barber Jim was a colored man, who had demonstrated the ability of the African to take care of himself, by purchasing first his own freedom of his mistress, buying his wife and children afterwards, and then accumulating a property as much more valuable than all Silas Ropes and his poor white minions possessed, as his mind was superior to their combined intelligence. 0.55 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 239 "It is indeed a deserving case," Vincent said earnestly. "The poor fellow has the misfortune of belonging to one of the worst masters in the State. He has been cruelly flogged on many occasions, and was finally driven to run away by their selling his wife and child." ============================================================================= TOPIC 44 -- 1063 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= knew 1475; thought 1260; told 1024; time 859; made 668; mother 592; thing 577; things 492; day 453; man 426; heard 380; felt 355; wanted 352; home 321; people 316; meant 311; night 301; long 298; story 291; looked 286; speak 267; afraid 236; great 232; mind 231; began 226; found 224; boy 221; truth 216; feel 214; back 201; house 198; find 195; spoke 194; left 193; words 182; marcy 176; happened 172; brought 171; glad 164; believed 163; father 163; telling 162; put 160; secret 155; lived 155; coming 153; called 151; understand 150; frightened 150; wished 149; word 148; reason 148; wrong 147; woman 145; gave 144; simply 139; afterward 139; knowing 138; trouble 135; days 134; work 133; times 132; talked 132; heart 129; fear 128; bad 127; life 125; hard 124; talk 121; matter 118; strange 117; sort 116; cared 116; news 115; safe 114; fact 113; show 113; idea 111; set 110; answered 109; harm 108; learned 107; thinking 104; dared 99; showed 95; understood 94; face 93; speaking 93; partly 92; longer 89; remember 89; plantation 89; angry 88; remembered 87; overseer 87; supposed 86; deal 85; half 85; company 83; spoken 82 0.78 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 195 Marcy could read the overseer's face a great deal better than the overseer could read Marcy's; and it would have been clear to a third party that Hanson was disappointed, and that there was something he wanted to say and was afraid to speak about. That was the money that was supposed to be concealed in the house. 0.70 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4044 The General rode past without a word, but I heard him telling the story to Mower the next day. 0.69 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. 0.68 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 901 "I'm glad it come to-night," he said, in a grateful tone. "Lord! how glad I am it come to-night! S'posin' somethin' hed happened to ary one of us an' the other hed ben left not a-knowin' how it was. I'm glad it didn't last no longer, Louisianny." 0.67 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 127 The lad knew he was being guyed, but he didn't mind: what hurt him was that his Bible College should be treated with such levity. 0.67 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 86 "It's very strange that I never heard of it before," said Tom, who could not help telling himself that the recital made him feel very uncomfortable. "It's just awful that things like these can go on in the settlement and nobody be punished for them." 0.66 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1098 "She is a stupid woman," he found himself saying half aloud once; "the most stupid woman I think I ever met." 0.66 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 231 "Yes, for a woman did the work," answered Mark, who could not have spoken with more confidence if he had been in Mrs. Gray's company on the night the thirty thousand dollars were concealed. "You know Marcy was not at home when his mother made those trips about the country." 0.65 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 374 Ramona knew, but she would have never dared to say, that Felipe hated musk. Many times he had said to her how he hated the odor; but his mother was so fond of it, that it must always be that the veranda and the house would be full of it. Ramona hated it too. At times it made her faint, with a deadly faintness. But neither she nor Felipe would have confessed as much to the Senora; and if they had, she would have thought it all a fancy. 0.65 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 45 -- 570 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= wounded 558; dead 368; wound 359; blood 295; men 237; death 190; arm 190; surgeon 186; man 184; hospital 166; body 156; lay 144; battle 141; wounds 140; dying 134; broken 126; doctor 111; died 107; sick 103; poor 98; soldier 97; passed 96; left 94; shot 92; flesh 92; lying 92; time 90; field 86; killed 85; hurt 85; patient 83; made 82; badly 79; ball 77; pain 75; torn 74; bleeding 72; ground 71; leg 70; carried 67; head 67; bodies 67; bones 66; night 62; cut 62; helpless 60; water 59; suffering 59; found 56; nurse 56; fever 55; bore 55; injured 55; scene 52; fell 51; weak 50; fallen 49; side 49; limbs 49; lost 47; living 47; fellow 46; thrown 46; die 45; stood 44; hands 43; comrades 42; strength 42; condition 41; laid 41; bullet 41; surgeons 41; prison 41; charge 40; spot 40; aid 40; half 40; ghastly 40; clothing 39; hard 39; women 37; prisoners 37; disabled 37; faint 37; terrible 36; work 35; physician 35; foot 35; hospitals 35; carrying 34; war 34; fall 34; till 34; dressed 34; horror 34; breast 34; swollen 34; spectacle 34; loss 33; bloody 33 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1163 "Oh yes; neither the bone nor nerve has suffered injury; the ball has glanced from the bone, passed under the nerve, and cut the humeral artery. Your tourniquet has saved you from bleeding to death. 'Tis well you knew enough to apply it. The flesh is much torn where the ball passed out; but that will heal in time." 0.71 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 771 "My horse was shot and fell on me. I am more bruised, scratched and used up, than hurt;" and so it proved, though his escape had evidently been almost miraculous. One leg and foot had been badly crushed. There were two flesh wounds in his arm; and several bullets had cut his clothing, in some places drawing blood. All over his clothes, from head to foot, were traces of Virginia soil; and he had the general appearance of a man who had passed through a desperate melee. 0.70 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 761 But Paul was not dead. He was in the hands of the enemy. He had been taken up from the battle-field while unconscious, put into an ambulance, and carried with other wounded to a Rebel hospital. 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 654 "I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, And a cold sweat thrills down o'er all my limbs As if I were dissolving into water." -- DRYDEN. 0.68 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1553 "Dick Matheson is killed; he got two bullets in his body. The other man is badly wounded. There are no signs of old Porter." 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1991 A chaplain passing through the hospital, came to a cot where lay a young wounded soldier who had fought for the Union. 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3312 I dressed all the wounds with a weak solution of carbolic acid. After some trouble, I extracted the bullet from the broken thigh, and set the bone. (This man was one of "The Forty"; and about two months after the wound he was again on duty, and only slightly lame.) 0.67 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2122 "Oh, why didn't he tell me this at the time? It was not Jack's bullet that entered poor Wesley's body. Jack was at his right, at the side of the bed. Wesley's wound was on the left side, and the shot must have come from Jones's pistol!" 0.65 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 202 "One leg is broken, but we cannot yet tell whether he has received any internal injury. All depends upon that." 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 996 They had been left by their assailants in the woods, where one -- "Uncle Mose" -- dreadfully crippled by rheumatism, still lay on the ground half dead with bruises, cuts, and pistol shot wounds. ============================================================================= TOPIC 46 -- 520 chunks >= 0.25 from 56 texts ============================================================================= road 634; miles 573; mile 250; side 245; river 222; south 211; north 206; half 184; point 182; house 175; place 171; distance 157; country 151; left 142; distant 138; west 133; east 132; woods 128; direction 127; town 122; reached 118; cross 111; roads 98; twenty 88; crossed 86; hour 85; route 84; farther 84; spot 79; small 79; line 78; railroad 77; travel 75; path 75; hundred 75; hours 75; journey 72; short 70; bridge 70; morning 67; main 65; mountain 65; reach 65; lay 64; leading 64; opposite 63; turn 60; find 60; mountains 58; passed 56; make 53; walked 51; yards 50; turned 49; ten 49; coming 49; valley 49; compass 49; end 48; directly 48; creek 48; stream 47; land 45; region 45; follow 44; daylight 44; travelled 43; guide 42; runs 42; head 41; forest 41; eastward 41; part 40; fifty 40; made 40; led 40; village 40; track 40; southward 40; broad 39; early 39; called 38; passing 38; nearest 38; landing 38; crossing 38; day 37; quarter 37; strike 36; reaching 36; walk 36; westward 36; meet 35; long 35; wide 35; straight 35; ride 35; northward 35; hand 34; light 34 0.89 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3241 Hatcher's Run, an affluent of Rowanty Creek, has a general southeast course. It is crossed by three main highways, which lead out of Petersburg towards the southwest, -- the Vaughn road farthest east, Squirrel Level road next, and last the Boydtown plank-road. The Squirrel Level road forks seven miles out, one fork running to the Vaughn road and the other to the plank-road. It is nine miles from Petersburg to the toll gate on the plank-road, which is situated a few rods south of the run. The stream above this crossing of the plank-road tends west and southwest, so that if a fisherman with his rod and fly were to start at the head-waters of the creek he would travel northeast, then east, then at the bridge on the plank-road southeast, and after reaching the Vaughn road, south. 0.77 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2287 "This spot is in N. lat. 1 deg. 45 min., and is seventy-nine miles, by our route, from the river at Foweera. We are thus 322 miles by route from Ismailia (Gondokoro). 0.73 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1575 Once on the southern side, there is nothing to obstruct or further delay them. Some ten miles above is the abandoned mission-house, which they expect to reach that day, before going down of the sun. 0.73 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1073 The road from Fredericksburg to Port Royal runs parallel to the river, about half a mile distant from the stream. 0.71 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1780 Tying my horse and ascending the stairs to the top of the gateway building, I could look directly down upon the town. The houses were not forty rods distant. Northeast, three fourths of a mile, was Culp's Hill. 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1868 We were now distant from the junction of the Un-y-Ame river 48 miles, from Lobore 85 miles, and from Gondokoro 165 miles. 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2580 Now stiffer than ever, and leading in a straight line. He goes direct for the copse of timber, which is now only a very short distance off. 0.66 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 428 The Orangery was a mile from the village of Gaines, which lay to the northeast of Richmond, and was some twelve miles from Hanover Courthouse. 0.66 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1200 "The Yankees will be strong all round the great bend of the river to the west of Florence and along the line to the east, which would, of course, be your direct way. The passage, however, is your real difficulty, and I should say that instead of going in that direction you had better bear nearly due south. There is a road from Mount Pleasant that strikes into the main road from Columbia up to Camden. You can cross the river at that point without any question or suspicion, as you would be merely traveling to the west of the State. Once across you could work directly south, crossing into the State of Mississippi, and from there take train through Alabama to Georgia. 0.66 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1053 "The next town is Mount Pleasant; that is where the Williamsport road passes the railway. If we keep south we shall strike the railway, and that will take us to Mount Pleasant. After that the road goes on to Florence, on the Tennessee River. The only place that I know of on the road is Lawrenceburg. That is about forty miles from here, and I have heard that the Yankees are on the line from there right and left. I believe our troops are at Florence; but I am not sure about that, because both parties are constantly shifting their position, and I hear very little, as you may suppose, of what is being done. Anyhow, I think we cannot do better than go on until we strike the railway, keep along by that till we get within a short distance of Mount Pleasant, and then cross it. After that we can decide whether we will travel by the road or keep on through the woods. But we cannot find our way through the woods at night; we should lose ourselves before we had gone twenty yards." ============================================================================= TOPIC 47 -- 918 chunks >= 0.25 from 53 texts ============================================================================= time 333; ai 262; good 245; pretty 236; back 230; made 184; set 167; king 160; nigger 158; kind 155; wanted 151; give 146; told 146; long 145; till 143; things 142; put 139; thing 139; make 136; duke 136; town 132; big 131; knowed 130; minute 123; head 121; reckon 118; night 116; run 115; people 110; raft 106; place 104; bed 101; begun 100; reckoned 98; day 96; river 88; mighty 86; man 83; trouble 78; lot 78; work 77; found 75; dead 75; woods 74; easy 72; struck 71; judged 71; laid 70; body 69; foot 68; dark 66; find 65; hid 65; fetch 64; ca 62; lay 59; mile 59; looked 59; clothes 58; couple 57; niggers 56; widow 56; piece 54; show 53; luck 53; times 52; start 52; started 52; house 52; pap 52; fetched 51; mind 50; bad 50; canoe 50; middle 49; full 48; hear 48; scared 48; folks 47; yonder 47; low 46; hands 46; hole 46; allowed 45; half 44; home 44; talk 44; awful 44; heard 43; stuck 43; drunk 43; ways 42; shut 42; fix 42; laying 42; slow 42; jumped 41; comfortable 41; bit 41; makes 41 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. 0.85 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1344 Then he turns around, blubbering, and makes a lot of idiotic signs to the duke on his hands, and blamed if he didn't drop a carpet-bag and bust out a-crying. If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck. 0.84 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1832 So I left, and struck for the back country. I didn't look around, but I kinder felt like he was watching me. But I knowed I could tire him out at that. I went straight out in the country as much as a mile before I stopped; then I doubled back through the woods towards Phelps'. I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim's mouth till these fellows could get away. I didn't want no trouble with their kind. I'd seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them. 0.83 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1977 "My plan is this," I says. "We can easy find out if it's Jim in there. Then get up my canoe to-morrow night, and fetch my raft over from the island. Then the first dark night that comes steal the key out of the old man's britches after he goes to bed, and shove off down the river on the raft with Jim, hiding daytimes and running nights, the way me and Jim used to do before. Wouldn't that plan work?" 0.82 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1955 "No," says the old man, "I reckon there ain't going to be any; and you couldn't go if there was; because the runaway nigger told Burton and me all about that scandalous show, and Burton said he would tell the people; so I reckon they've drove the owdacious loafers out of town before this time." 0.82 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2215 It warn't no slouch of an idea; and it warn't no slouch of a grindstone nuther; but we allowed we'd tackle it. It warn't quite midnight yet, so we cleared out for the mill, leaving Jim at work. We smouched the grindstone, and set out to roll her home, but it was a most nation tough job. Sometimes, do what we could, we couldn't keep her from falling over, and she come mighty near mashing us every time. Tom said she was going to get one of us, sure, before we got through. We got her half way; and then we was plumb played out, and most drownded with sweat. We see it warn't no use; we got to go and fetch Jim. So he raised up his bed and slid the chain off of the bed-leg, and wrapt it round and round his neck, and we crawled out through our hole and down there, and Jim and me laid into that grindstone and walked her along like nothing; and Tom superintended. He could out-superintend any boy I ever see. He knowed how to do everything. 0.79 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1116 It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way. 0.77 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1476 They come in and shut the door; and the first thing the duke done was to get down and look under the bed. Then I was glad I hadn't found the bed when I wanted it. And yet, you know, it's kind of natural to hide under the bed when you are up to anything private. They sets down then, and the king says: 0.76 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. 0.76 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1493 But I knowed better. I had it out of there before they was half-way down stairs. I groped along up to my cubby, and hid it there till I could get a chance to do better. I judged I better hide it outside of the house somewheres, because if they missed it they would give the house a good ransacking: I knowed that very well. Then I turned in, with my clothes all on; but I couldn't a gone to sleep if I'd a wanted to, I was in such a sweat to get through with the business. By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen. But nothing did. ============================================================================= TOPIC 48 -- 1599 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= tears 1026; eyes 912; face 738; hands 504; heart 499; voice 360; mother 353; head 323; cry 265; arms 263; lips 260; fell 250; child 245; burst 228; back 224; turned 221; hand 216; words 210; cried 207; looked 201; room 186; girl 185; cheeks 181; moment 176; knees 162; long 159; low 157; grief 154; poor 152; wept 151; thought 146; weeping 142; dead 141; stood 135; broke 129; speak 128; word 127; pale 126; breast 125; crying 125; tear 119; emotion 119; trembling 116; sight 113; silent 112; great 110; cold 110; woman 109; side 109; sobbed 109; sob 108; baby 107; sad 104; aloud 102; sobs 102; threw 100; hard 97; full 96; began 96; spoke 96; sat 95; father 95; trembled 95; felt 94; knew 94; sobbing 93; white 92; made 92; clasped 92; kissed 90; gave 89; deep 89; bosom 89; rolled 88; broken 88; bitter 88; dropped 88; breath 88; wiped 88; anguish 88; prayer 86; suddenly 85; agony 85; husband 82; shook 81; pressed 80; buried 80; drew 79; bed 78; fast 78; grave 77; sank 77; joy 77; groaned 77; laughter 76; silence 75; wrung 72; laid 71; wife 71; dying 71 0.82 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1569 Even in her inexperience she saw that he was dying, and when his gasping utterance ceased she had so supported his head that it fell back on her bosom. For a few moments she just cried helplessly, blinded with tears. Then she felt the burden of his head removed and herself lifted gently. 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1801 The eyes closed, the hands dropped, and for a moment they thought he had passed away with that agonized cry for mercy and forgiveness; but a deep sigh heaved his breast, his lips moved, and his mother bent over him to catch the words. 0.79 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2733 Her hands fell, -- tears rolled down her cheeks. She bowed her head, and sat moaning, wailing, and sobbing. 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1108 The old lady, speechless with grief, fell upon her neck and wept there silently for a moment; then low and gaspingly, in a voice broken with sobs, "I -- have -- come to -- ask about -- George," she said, "can it, oh can it be that he has done this dreadful thing?" and shuddering she hid her face on Elsie's shoulder her slight frame shaken with the sobs she vainly strove to suppress. 0.77 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1640 With a faint cry Mabel started from her pillow, and burying her face on Nellie's neck, wept like a child. "You do not hate me," she said at last, "or you would not have come so soon." 0.77 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3779 “Good-by, my dear,” said Miss Thomasia. They were the words with which she always said her adieus. Her voice was feeble, and she spoke very low. There was something in her tone, something of resignation and forgiveness, that went to Ruth’s heart, and as she turned away—a deep sigh caught her ear. She turned back. Miss Thomasia’s thin hands were tightly clasped, her eyes were shut, and her lips were trembling. The next moment Ruth was down on her knees beside her, her head buried in her lap, pouring out her story. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4248 She kissed the girl's eyes and lips, held her off, gazing into her face through gathering mist, then drew her again to her bosom, and the long hoarded bitterness and agony found vent in a storm of sobs and tears. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 509 Silent tears rolled down Elsie's cheeks as she looked and listened; but her father drew her to his breast and kissed them away, his own eyes brimming, his heart too full for speech. 0.75 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2808 She uttered a low cry, and then something of strength seemed to come to her as she looked at it. Her eyes dilated, and she drew a long breath, as she turned and faced him again with both hands clasped over her bosom, and the open picture pressed there. All the tears and pleading were gone from her face and voice, as she answered: 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3324 She gave utterance to a low, distressing wail, and rocked herself, murmuring some incoherent words. ============================================================================= TOPIC 49 -- 3405 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= ca 1446; good 996; man 931; wo 892; make 877; give 863; replied 732; time 662; thing 627; exclaimed 570; trouble 541; back 524; find 522; fellow 481; added 472; reckon 469; talk 461; answered 444; men 439; run 428; hear 384; stand 378; ai 378; put 377; business 377; care 359; fight 342; boys 341; chance 337; afraid 335; thought 329; mind 322; suppose 319; stay 318; house 317; stop 314; show 307; boy 294; fool 292; things 289; home 288; word 283; call 276; money 276; bad 274; fellows 270; hold 268; place 261; people 251; captain 246; told 234; matter 231; cried 228; glad 228; work 225; night 224; heard 217; pretty 217; sort 210; talking 203; long 202; leave 199; bring 194; marcy 191; wanted 189; friend 188; rest 183; mother 179; continued 176; big 173; folks 173; till 170; kind 169; turn 168; begin 157; safe 156; friends 144; laugh 141; made 137; head 134; coming 134; nt 134; shoot 132; understand 131; expect 128; reason 127; lot 123; thinks 123; fast 121; hope 120; ready 120; hurt 120; hang 120; account 119; catch 117; guess 117; eat 115; makes 115; whipped 113; live 112 0.78 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1111 "'Business is business,' says Hopper. 'You "callate"!' bellowed the old man; 'I reckon you're a damned Yankee. I reckon I'll upset your "callations" for once. And if I catch you in here again, I'll wring your neck like a roostah's. Git!'" 0.75 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 362 "Can't stop so long," replied the captain. "Been over to Mrs. Gray's to see how my pilot was getting on, and tried to scare up a job for you at overseering, in the place of that chap who was took off in the night time." 0.75 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 48 "I don't care a picayune what he calls us," answered Gill, testily. "I reckon we won't start a new language on his account." 0.74 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3943 “Well, I say that man don’t pretend to nothin’. Whether he likes the Captain or whether he don’t, or whether you like him or whether you don’t, is one thing. But what he is, he is; and he don’t pretend to nothin’. If all Yankees was like him, I wouldn’t care how many they was—unless I had to fight ’em.” 0.74 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 462 "I'll kick them, and you too, for this trick!" muttered the man. "I'll learn ye to shut me out, and make a row, when I'm coming to see you at the risk of my -- -- " 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 136 "What's the odds whether you think so or not?" said the captain earnestly. "We can hint that she does, can't we? And can't we hint furder, that instead of turning that money over, like the law says she must do, she is keeping it hid for her own use!" 0.73 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 651 "The chances are few," he answered; "even to General Austin she laughs and says we must let the story work itself out; that she is the fool in it, but there is a chance for the fool to win if not too much burdened with help." 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 1104 "Why, the Confederates wouldn't fight for the Union boys, would they?" exclaimed the lieutenant. "That's a little the strangest thing I ever heard of. We don't do business that way in Missouri, and I could see that our boys didn't like it when you and Gray stuck up for those Yankee sympathizers back there in the house." 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 759 "Don't think of it," answered Mr. Westall, hastily. "You would be sure to lose your way and stand a fine chance of being bushwhacked besides. You will find that the boldest course is the best; and that's dangerous enough, goodness knows," he added, in an undertone. 0.72 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 413 "Another time a man comes a-prowling round here you roust me out, you hear? That man warn't here for no good. I'd a shot him. Next time you roust me out, you hear?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 50 -- 918 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= life 505; nature 306; man 259; world 240; character 212; society 209; men 207; women 198; woman 188; people 181; mind 180; human 175; beauty 168; social 164; things 149; found 122; sense 118; fact 106; moral 104; high 104; power 103; wealth 99; great 98; age 95; find 95; genius 91; common 86; personal 85; natural 85; gave 85; mere 85; art 85; true 84; taste 84; feminine 83; youth 80; peculiar 77; race 77; good 76; history 74; form 74; qualities 73; simple 72; charm 72; possessed 70; position 69; perfect 69; early 67; beautiful 67; lived 67; education 66; easy 66; thing 65; lives 65; intellectual 64; perfection 64; knowledge 63; fine 63; intellect 63; day 62; sort 62; female 62; influence 61; type 61; grace 61; brilliant 60; class 58; delicate 58; manners 57; discover 56; young 56; simply 55; intelligence 55; strong 55; rare 54; mental 54; effect 53; large 52; contrast 52; atmosphere 52; virtues 52; point 51; conditions 51; born 51; pure 51; general 50; learned 50; ordinary 49; study 49; powers 48; physical 48; distinguished 48; show 48; ease 48; imagination 48; political 48; pride 47; wonderful 46; sex 46; living 46 0.83 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1816 "Mr. Trowbridge has a good perception of character, which he draws with skill; he has abundance of invention, which he never abuses; and he has, what so many American writers have not, an easy, graceful style, which can be humorous, or pathetic, or poetic." -- R. H. Stoddard in N.Y. Mail . 0.76 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 4088 “Mr. Page is the brightest star in our Southern literature. He belongs to the old Virginia ‘quality’; he knows the life of the people, he knows the negro and renders his dialect perfectly, he has an eye for the picturesque, the poetic, and the humorous, and his style shows exquisite artistic taste and skill.”—NASHVILLE American . 0.74 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.” 0.72 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1242 But Baird saw pathos in her. It was said that one of his most charming qualities was his readiness to discover the pathetic under any guise. 0.71 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1706 "The story contains a most attractive blending of vivid descriptions of local scenery, with admirable delineations of personal character." -- The Congregationalist . 0.68 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2086 "And education, Daisy; and refined manners; and cultivated tastes; what will you do without all these? In the society you speak of they are seldom found." 0.68 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 472 There is a certain homeliness of person, a combined result of type and degree, which undeniably possesses a peculiar charm, fascinating the eye more than confessed beauty of a lesser degree or more conventional form. 0.68 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 867 "After all," he said thoughtfully, "we needn't go abroad for beauty, when we can find so much of it at our own doors. Yet, perhaps the more we see of the beautiful, the better we are fitted to appreciate it in the wonderful variety of its numberless forms." 0.66 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 89 "But my temperament brings me an affinity with things that are great for all that," she would affirm. "One does not need to be a physical Colossus in order to see the stars." 0.65 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 350 "You do not then approve of the strong-minded woman, the female philosopher." ============================================================================= TOPIC 51 -- 703 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= make 583; 484; things 343; people 315; good 299; thing 275; great 259; world 232; suppose 211; feel 198; poor 188; time 173; deal 167; understand 166; give 155; mind 145; makes 145; thought 137; difference 136; aunt 127; hard 116; sort 116; kind 115; care 114; doctor 103; sense 100; matter 99; remember 99; trouble 98; hear 98; free 96; find 93; child 90; friends 88; pretty 88; glad 83; ca 82; thinks 77; life 74; real 74; set 72; uncle 72; meant 71; wrong 70; ah 70; man 68; teach 67; girls 67; study 67; chance 65; made 65; afraid 64; begin 64; send 63; thinking 63; sit 62; pleasure 62; remarked 62; notice 60; end 60; easy 58; put 57; place 57; live 57; replied 57; fancy 57; making 55; troubles 55; bad 53; comfortable 53; bit 53; wanted 53; living 53; talking 52; grow 51; money 50; bear 50; happy 49; hold 49; learn 49; ways 48; home 48; told 47; books 47; ashamed 47; worse 46; dear 46; reason 45; father 45; doubt 44; side 44; common 44; play 44; bring 43; woman 42; move 41; pooh 41; enjoy 40; takes 40; pleasant 39 0.77 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1395 "No, they won't; they will look common. I don't mean vulgar you could not buy anything in bad taste but they are just what anybody's child might wear." 0.76 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1707 "O! did he not?" It seemed a heavy disappointment; but the patient old man rallied straightway, saying, with his accustomed cheerfulness, "No doubt something hindered him; no doubt he would have come if he could. My poor, dear girl, how I wish I could have got word to her that I am safe! But I thank you all the same; it was kind in you to give yourself all that trouble." 0.73 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1464 "I don't care whether 'twas little or whether 'twas big; he's here in our house and a stranger, and it wasn't good of you to say it. If you was in his place it would make you feel ashamed; and so you oughtn't to say a thing to another person that will make them feel ashamed." 0.72 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 247 "It wasn't thought of," he said, reflectively. "Even she -- poor thing, poor thing -- " he ended, hurriedly, "there was no time." 0.72 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2767 "I am in a great puzzle," he said. "And very sorry. Aren't you going to be so good as to give me some clue to this mystery? Did you find the hops so dull?" 0.70 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 48 "What sort of a person?" said my aunt Gary; "why, a governess sort of person. What sort should she be?" 0.69 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 313 "Uncle Darry he does," said the girl; "and he do 'spoun some; but I don't make no count of his 'spoundations." 0.68 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 936 "Daisy," said my aunt, "you must be under a mistake; you must let me see what your father says. Why, to give all these hundreds an entertainment, it would cost have you any idea what it would cost?" 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1535 "Poor little thing!" said Eversham, sighing; "where in the world did she get such odd notions?" 0.67 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2424 "I don't know how much good it did to anybody but myself," he said. "It comforted me at the time. Afterwards, I remember thinking it was hardly worth while. But if a fellow should suffer an insult, as you say, and not take any notice of it, what do you suppose would become of him in the corps or in the world either?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 52 -- 1245 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= chair 902; sat 817; back 762; head 726; hands 551; hand 447; face 423; stood 354; eyes 353; seat 318; side 312; room 306; table 306; looked 287; rose 280; sitting 272; turned 248; feet 236; window 216; floor 207; leaning 198; leaned 191; standing 181; arms 168; arm 165; forward 154; seated 148; lay 146; began 143; walked 141; hat 139; slowly 137; put 133; silence 131; resting 126; dropped 125; sit 121; fell 121; lap 120; drew 118; knees 115; folded 115; long 114; length 114; corner 112; sank 111; threw 109; door 109; knee 109; laid 108; fire 105; watching 105; taking 104; rising 101; bent 99; foot 97; shook 91; ground 90; desk 86; silent 85; low 83; book 83; sofa 80; open 79; shoulder 79; fixed 78; rested 78; man 77; easy 76; left 75; lying 75; bowed 75; spoke 73; fingers 71; shaking 70; crossed 69; quietly 69; figure 69; elbow 69; drawn 68; moved 68; front 67; minutes 66; legs 66; pipe 65; picked 64; heavily 64; big 64; sigh 64; closed 63; thoughtfully 63; shoulders 62; holding 62; stared 62; clasped 62; raised 61; wall 61; resumed 61; sighed 61; end 60 0.79 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. 0.78 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2481 Lottie looked up with a nervous blinking of her eyes. She had paled slightly and she leaned over and drew an eiderdown quilt across her knees. 0.77 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 951 I turned to the King's ward. She had risen from the chair, and now stood in the centre of the room, one hand at her bosom, the other clenched at her side, her head thrown up. She looked as she had looked at Weyanoke, that first night. 0.75 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 579 A few minutes afterward they went out. Louisiana stood at the end of the porch, leaning against a wooden pillar and twisting an arm around it. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2939 He closed the door, and came forward, and, leaning back in the chair where she still sat, her hands closed tightly over each other. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1543 Mrs. Murray was resting in a corner of the sofa, fanning herself vigorously, and Mr. Allston smoked on the veranda, and talked to her through the open window. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1290 He stopped and kicked out of his way a stool upon which Edna's feet had been resting. She had risen, and they stood face to face. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 800 He came back, leaned his elbow on the carved top of the cushioned chair, and partly shading his eyes with his hand, looked down into the girl's face. 0.73 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 818 The Doctor, with hands deep in his pockets, began pacing the floor. Then he stopped, and, looking down at me, said slowly, pointing off his fingers one after the other to keep count as he talked: -- 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1605 Mrs. Murray leaned back in her large rocking-chair and fell into a reverie. Edna waited patiently for some time, and finally rose. ============================================================================= TOPIC 53 -- 406 chunks >= 0.25 from 50 texts ============================================================================= world 306; life 280; human 169; man 121; race 98; nature 97; great 96; women 87; faith 85; ancient 79; soul 79; earth 75; men 74; century 67; truth 65; living 65; system 64; woman 63; history 59; law 59; sacred 59; order 58; ages 57; dust 56; noble 54; years 53; work 53; part 52; laws 52; convent 52; set 51; universe 51; age 50; monks 50; light 49; worship 49; people 48; poor 48; wisdom 48; gods 48; divine 48; centuries 47; religion 46; higher 45; reverence 44; true 42; shrine 42; civilization 41; spirit 41; humanity 41; souls 41; holy 40; monk 40; lay 39; modern 39; saint 39; vast 38; things 38; find 38; ideal 38; ideals 38; power 37; common 37; pure 37; lives 37; amid 37; sublime 36; fall 35; evil 35; rise 35; cross 35; religious 34; immortal 34; knowledge 33; charity 33; idol 33; temple 32; abbey 32; greatest 31; borne 31; spiritual 31; eternal 31; worthy 31; science 31; influence 30; heroic 30; highest 29; iron 29; bow 29; blood 29; christian 29; fathers 29; days 28; imagination 28; nations 28; vows 28; land 27; clay 27; altar 27; cell 27 0.74 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 350 So thrones may fall; and from the dust of those, New thrones may rise, to totter like the last; But still our country's nobler planet glows While the eternal stars of Heaven are fast. 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1091 The contemplation of the starry heavens has ever exerted an elevating influence on my mind. In viewing its glories, I am borne far from the puerilities of earth, and my soul seeks a purer and more noble sphere." 0.71 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 343 Source immaterial of material naught, Focus of light infinitesimal, Sum of all things by sleepless Nature wrought, Of which abnormal man is decimal. 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1254 In all the wide universe of modern speculation there remains no unexplored nook or cranny, where an immortal human soul can find refuge or haven. Having hunted it down, trampled and buried it as one of the little "inspired legendary" foxes that nibble and bruise the promising sprouts of the Science Vineyard, what are we requested to accept in lieu of the doctrine of spiritual immortality? "Natural Evolution." 0.67 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." 0.66 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2800 "But, Miss Neville, I must be allowed to say that you do not in the least grasp the vastness of this wonderful law of 'Natural Selection,' of the 'Survival of the Fittest,' which is omnipotent in its influence." 0.65 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 704 "I say it because, if you study such questions earnestly, you will perceive how the opinion of those self-crowned judges will dwindle; they will no longer loom above you because of your race. My child, you are as royal as they by nature. It is the cultivation, the training, the intellect built up through generations, by which they are your superiors today. If your own life is commendable you need not be ashamed because of your race." 0.65 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2894 I had serious misgivings. Nothing can happen in Unyoro without the order of the king. The superstitious veneration for the possessor of the magic throne produces a profound obedience. 0.64 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 826 "The first of my books as I have arranged them, considers what we call the physical universe as a whole -- our heavens -- the stars -- and discusses the little that man knows about it. I used to think the earth was the centre of this universe, the most important world in it, on account of Man. That is what the ancient Hebrews thought. In this room float millions of dust-particles too small to be seen by us. To say that the universe is made for the sake of the earth would be something like saying that the earth was created for the sake of one of these particles of its own dust." 0.64 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2072 Both appear beings not of Earth, but creatures of some weird wonder-world -- existences not known to our planet, or only in ages past! ============================================================================= TOPIC 54 -- 1104 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= heart 873; life 816; love 392; death 359; long 357; peace 322; day 273; past 261; soul 259; years 257; world 256; future 237; hope 224; memory 214; time 213; sad 203; home 201; joy 200; grave 177; loved 172; happy 171; days 170; sorrow 169; thy 168; human 164; rest 158; lost 157; dead 154; spirit 149; beautiful 144; nature 139; hopes 137; hearts 125; hour 124; forever 124; calm 123; hours 121; blessed 121; earth 120; grief 120; deep 117; left 116; sweet 116; silent 115; passed 114; thoughts 114; ah 112; happiness 112; weary 110; things 106; young 105; back 105; youth 102; lay 101; light 100; quiet 99; dark 98; night 96; buried 96; tender 94; suffering 92; return 91; faith 91; words 91; prayer 91; live 89; eyes 84; dream 84; bright 83; lonely 83; felt 81; dear 80; great 79; blessing 79; side 78; vain 78; comfort 78; pain 78; bitter 77; memories 76; shadow 75; gentle 75; earthly 75; fair 74; thee 74; pure 74; filled 73; died 73; bear 73; turn 71; beauty 71; melancholy 71; dreams 71; broken 70; peaceful 70; land 69; work 68; laid 67; full 66; beloved 64 0.84 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. 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2584 "Do not dwell upon a past that is fraught only with bitterness to you, and from which you can draw no balm. Throw your painful memories behind you, and turn resolutely to a future which may be rendered noble and useful and holy. There is truth, precious truth in George Herbert's words: 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1119 "Mary, Mary! why touch a chord which ever vibrates with the keenest agony? There is no happiness for me on earth -- I have known that for long, and now I am striving to fix my thoughts, and all of hope that remains, on heaven." 0.77 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 183 "O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair, How welcome to the weary and the old! Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly cares! Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! Ah, why will man by his austerities Shut out the blessed sunshine and the light, And make of thee a dungeon of despair!" 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1524 Oh, Inez! thy short life has been dark and tempestuous; it is hard that a calm and peaceful end is denied to thee, thou suffering one, longing for rest, oblivion of the past, utter unconsciousness! Struggle on, proud maiden! but a few moments, and thy tones will vibrate no longer, thy firm step cease forever, and thy memory pass away like the shadows of night! 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 1184 "Miss Irving, without the benign and elevating influence of Hope, that great actuating principle from the opening to the close of life, what a dreary blank our existence would prove. In childhood it gorgeously gilds the future; the tints fade as maturity gains that future, and then it gently brightens the evening of life, while memory flings her mantle of witchery over the past, recalling, in hours of sadness, all of joy to cheer the heart, and banishing forever the phantoms of terror -- the seasons of gloom that once haunted us." 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1476 By comparison, how dear and sacred seemed the old life at the parsonage I how desolate and dreary the present! how inexpressibly lonely and hopeless the future! 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1955 "There is the peace of surrendered, as well as of fulfilled, hopes, -- the peace, not of satisfied, but of extinguished longings, -- the peace, not of the happy love and the secure fireside, but of unmurmuring and accepted loneliness, -- the peace, not of the heart which lives in joyful serenity afar from trouble and from strife, but of the heart whose conflicts are over, and whose hopes are buried, -- the peace of the passionless as well as the peace of the happy; -- not the peace which brooded over Eden, but that which crowned Gethsemane.'" 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 28 "Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now! Ev'n while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow." 0.72 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1632 "I know I disappoint you," she continued. "I've been your evil genius, I've saddened your whole life; and you have been so true and faithful! Promise me, Alford, that after I'm gone you will not let my blighted life cast its shadow over your future years. How strangely stern you look!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 55 -- 1216 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= money 1131; dollars 751; pay 561; hundred 453; give 267; thousand 265; paid 265; buy 260; ten 223; twenty 198; made 193; bought 192; dollar 181; worth 175; sold 170; sell 165; good 160; man 159; make 146; sum 146; price 143; year 142; place 135; fifty 132; amount 126; cents 124; land 123; property 121; stock 114; half 113; gold 113; bill 108; cent 108; offered 104; time 98; day 98; cost 97; business 92; wages 92; work 91; put 89; interest 88; gave 88; month 85; mortgage 85; store 84; purchase 83; sale 80; bonds 79; rich 75; large 75; market 75; small 73; estate 73; week 72; offer 71; loan 70; years 69; cotton 68; pocket 67; taxes 64; bank 64; paying 63; fifteen 61; share 61; debt 61; lands 60; claim 59; earn 58; found 57; expenses 57; due 56; raise 55; forty 54; town 54; thought 54; promised 54; thirty 53; hard 53; afford 53; possession 52; agent 51; buying 51; bills 51; house 50; bring 49; fortune 49; farm 49; paper 48; railroad 48; government 46; lost 46; spend 46; debts 45; cheap 45; counted 45; reward 44; twelve 44; part 44; goods 44 0.80 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2966 One-third Cash; balance in one and two years, secured by bond, and mortgage of the negroes, with approved personal security. Purchasers to pay us for papers. 0.76 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3494 The loan was put upon the market on the 19th of March. Fifteen per cent was to be paid at the time of subscribing. The stock was limited to three million pounds sterling ($15,000,000); but so desirous were Englishmen to take it, the applications were for L9,000,000 ($45,000,000). 0.75 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 444 "No, but undoubtedly Squire Haynes will be willing to renew it. I always pay the interest promptly, and he knows it is secured by the farm, and therefore a safe investment. By the way, I had nearly forgotten to say that there will be some interest due on the first of January. Of course, you are authorized to pay it just as if you were myself." 0.75 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1124 "That is, three thousand a year from our three counties' share of the scrip on public lands granted Dixie by the Federal Government." 0.74 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." 0.74 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." 0.71 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." 0.71 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2670 "We are not beggars. Your cousin leaves us ten thousand dollars, and assures us an annual income of two thousand dollars." 0.71 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 163 "Now, gentlemen," the auctioneer said, "surely you are not going to let this desirable piece of property go for seven fifty? She would be cheap at double the price. I have sold worse articles for three thousand." 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 353 Tom withdrew fifty dollars from the miser's hoard, then went to the hospital and left fifteen dollars to defray the expenses of Jacob's burial. ============================================================================= TOPIC 56 -- 184 chunks >= 0.25 from 54 texts ============================================================================= half 827; hour 442; dozen 220; time 132; ten 119; past 94; minutes 93; times 64; mile 61; clock 53; quarter 44; bell 39; high 31; twenty 30; late 29; eleven 29; continued 29; passed 28; make 27; fifteen 27; fast 26; end 25; ago 25; appearance 25; minute 24; boys 24; returned 23; striking 23; men 22; twelve 22; round 22; watch 22; reach 20; wait 19; beat 19; ready 18; knots 18; order 17; left 17; waiting 17; starved 17; live 17; laughing 17; gaining 17; counted 16; presently 16; distant 15; meet 15; call 15; signs 15; free 14; agreed 14; struck 14; voices 14; rang 14; public 13; sleepy 13; twos 13; village 12; making 12; circle 12; strokes 12; count 12; interval 11; slight 11; usual 11; sounded 11; waited 11; obliged 11; standing 11; women 10; effect 10; sixteen 10; finish 10; prefer 10; resumed 10; threes 10; hoping 9; big 9; knot 9; doleful 9; restoration 8; elapsed 8; silence 8; raise 8; responded 8; impatience 8; work 7; miles 7; arranged 7; reduced 7; midnight 7; knocked 7; signal 7; overtook 7; arrow 7; shouted 7; noted 7; stump 7; regretfully 7 0.74 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1529 1. +The Starry Flag;+ or, The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann. 2. +Breaking Away;+ or, The Fortunes of a Student. 3. +Seek and Find;+ or, The Adventures of a Smart Boy. 4. +Freaks of Fortune;+ or, Half Round the World. 5. +Make or Break;+ or, The Rich Man's Daughter. 6. +Down the River;+ or, Buck Bradford and the Tyrants. 0.73 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 51 The courtship must have been brief and to the point, for it was positively known that he and his fiancée had met but three times in the interval when the banns were published. 0.72 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1516 1. +Across India+; or, Live Boys in the Far East. 2. +Half Round the World+; or, Among the Uncivilized. 3. +Four Young Explorers+; or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics. 4. +Pacific Shores+; or, Adventures in Eastern Seas. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1695 =1. Outward Bound=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. =2. Shamrock and Thistle=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. =3. Red Cross=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. =4. Dikes and Ditches=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. =5. Palace and Cottage=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. =6. Down the Rhine=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1652 =1. Across India=; OR, LIVE BOYS IN THE FAR EAST. =2. Half Round the World=; OR, AMONG THE UNCIVILIZED. =3. Four Young Explorers=; OR, SIGHT-SEEING IN THE TROPICS. =4. Pacific Shores=; OR, ADVENTURES IN EASTERN SEAS. 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3124 "Che cosi vual que pesci Fiduline! L'anel que me cascá Nella bella mia barca Nella bella se ne vá. Fiduline." 0.63 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1719 1. +Across India+; or, Live Boys in the Far East. 2. +Half Round the World+; or, Among the Uncivilized. 3. +Four Young Explorers+; or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics. 4. +Pacific Shores+; or, Adventures in Eastern Seas. 0.62 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1498 A half-dozen responded "Yes," all agreeing that his deportment was correct. 0.62 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 886 "Quarter less ten!" shouted the leadsman, with even more vigor than before. 0.60 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 24 "She will reach the wharf in half an hour." ============================================================================= TOPIC 57 -- 589 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= day 232; days 227; long 206; ill 183; suffering 177; pain 175; poor 167; fever 165; time 152; doctor 145; heart 136; anxiety 136; sick 135; health 132; great 129; mind 116; strength 114; strong 110; death 105; weak 97; condition 96; danger 95; brought 93; physician 92; fear 91; patient 91; life 89; felt 88; weeks 88; weary 87; bear 86; physical 84; thought 83; change 80; die 79; suffered 79; passed 77; excitement 76; care 74; feeble 72; found 68; disease 67; heavy 65; began 65; exhausted 65; longer 64; nervous 64; rest 63; feel 62; spirits 61; knew 60; body 59; worse 59; sorrow 59; loss 58; food 57; severe 56; feeling 56; mental 56; illness 56; scarcely 56; terrible 55; relief 55; growing 55; constant 55; grief 54; sigh 53; air 52; sickness 52; hours 51; strain 51; heat 51; trial 51; endure 51; caused 49; head 49; feared 48; made 48; watched 48; weakness 48; months 47; fatigue 47; lay 45; deep 45; quiet 45; effort 44; week 44; burden 44; medicine 44; state 42; lost 42; hour 42; sore 42; added 41; greatly 41; patience 40; spite 40; bad 40; anxious 40; sad 40 0.73 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1733 Aunt Judy was right; Julia had accidently heard of Mr. Dunn’s death, and it added greatly to the nervous excitement which she was already suffering, and when Dr. Gordon came he was surprised to find the dangerous symptoms of his patient increased to an alarming extent. The fever had settled upon her brain, and for many days she lay at the very gates of death. 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2516 There was no recurrence of the physical agony; and after two days the feeling of prostration passed away, and only the memory of the attack remained. 0.66 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4354 "Virginia," said Mr. Lincoln, "I have not suffered by the South, I have suffered with the South. Your sorrow has been my sorrow, and your pain has been my pain. What you have lost, I have lost. And what you have gained," he added sublimely, "I have gained." 0.65 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1616 "Well, measles, and whooping-cough, and erysiplas, and consumption, and yaller janders, and brain-fever, and I don't know what all." 0.64 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1541 Then as he began to go about again, Rose took to her bed with what proved to be a far more severe and lasting attack of the same disease; for weeks her life was in great jeopardy, and even after the danger was past, the improvement was so very slow that her husband was filled with anxiety for her. 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3452 "Do you see much change? Is he really worse, or do my fears magnify every bad symptom?" 0.62 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 848 "It was not death, Mr. Murray, it was merely syncope and this is a healthful reaction from disease." 0.61 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1176 "That I cannot say. If all goes well, he ought in a month to be fairly cured; but before starting upon a journey which will tax his strength, I should say at least six weeks." 0.61 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 823 "No, no, papa! I am not ill; only my nerves have had a great, a terrible shock; they seem all unstrung, and my temples are throbbing with pain." 0.61 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1858 Her husband was almost constantly at her side, sharing the care, the grief and anxiety, and the nursing, so far as she would let him. Rose, too, and Mr. Dinsmore, were there every hour of the day, and often in the night, scarcely less anxious and grief-stricken than the parents, and Mr. Dinsmore especially, trembling for the life and health of the mother as well as the child. ============================================================================= TOPIC 58 -- 337 chunks >= 0.25 from 53 texts ============================================================================= train 348; carriage 277; car 195; station 187; wagon 144; driver 129; seat 122; cars 118; bag 113; young 108; hotel 107; drove 106; stage 90; stopped 89; back 85; passengers 77; railroad 74; platform 74; carpet 71; horses 70; trunk 70; wheels 68; street 66; gentleman 58; railway 57; morning 55; reached 54; cart 54; city 54; coach 54; journey 53; horse 50; road 45; vehicle 45; driven 43; heavy 43; started 42; crowded 42; conductor 42; drive 41; mail 41; town 40; carry 38; waiting 38; negro 37; ladies 37; ride 37; man 36; baggage 36; front 36; crowd 36; people 35; left 35; rear 35; lady 34; stopping 34; travel 32; coachman 32; carried 31; mud 31; end 30; boxes 30; box 30; drawn 30; met 30; afternoon 30; village 30; entered 30; load 29; stop 29; hours 28; fellow 27; carriages 27; rolled 27; sat 27; trunks 27; person 26; nearest 25; porter 25; brought 24; helped 24; track 24; late 23; dirty 23; hurried 23; filled 23; window 23; stepped 23; depot 23; arrived 22; buggy 22; alighted 22; small 21; assisted 21; express 21; packed 20; mounted 20; moved 20; loaded 20; wheel 20 0.74 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=. 0.72 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1831 The waiter helped Sam, and in a moment or two the carriage rumbled away, the waiter on the box with the coachman, and the clerk inside with the frenzied father. 0.71 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. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1688 =1. Through by Daylight=; OR, THE YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE LAKE SHORE RAILROAD. =2. Lightning Express=; OR, THE RIVAL ACADEMIES. =3. On Time=; OR, THE YOUNG CAPTAIN OF THE UCAYGA STEAMER. =4. Switch Off=; OR, THE WAR OF THE STUDENTS. =5. Brake Up=; OR, THE YOUNG PEACEMAKERS. =6. Bear and Forbear=; OR, THE YOUNG SKIPPER OF LAKE UCAYGA. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1674 =1. Little Merchant.= =2. Proud and Lazy.= =3. Young Voyagers.= =4. Careless Kate.= =5. Dolly and I.= =6. Robinson Crusoe, Jr.= 0.65 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1558 1. +Through by Daylight;+ or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad. 2. +Lightning Express;+ or, The Rival Academies. 3. +On Time;+ or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer. 4. +Switch Off;+ or, The War of the Students. 5. +Brake Up;+ or, The Young Peacemakers. 6. +Bear and Forbear;+ or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1540 1. +Little Merchant.+ 7. +Proud and Lazy.+ 2. +Young Voyagers.+ 8. +Careless Kate.+ 3. +Christmas Gift.+ 9. +Robinson Crusoe, Jr.+ 4. +Dolly and I.+ 10. +The Picnic Party.+ 5. +Uncle Ben.+ 11. +The Gold Thimble.+ 6. +Birthday Party.+ 12. +The Do-Somethings.+ 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1730 1. +Little Merchant.+ 7. +Proud and Lazy.+ 2. +Young Voyagers.+ 8. +Careless Kate.+ 3. +Christmas Gift.+ 9. +Robinson Crusoe, Jr.+ 4. +Dolly and I.+ 10. +The Picnic Party.+ 5. +Uncle Ben.+ 11. +The Gold Thimble.+ 6. +Birthday Party.+ 12. +The Do-Somethings.+ 0.63 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 200 He had traveled three hundred miles, slept on the hard seat of a jolting train, eaten railroad pies and peanuts, and was covered with the grime of a dusty journey, all to whip one disobedient negro. Still, he was not out of humor, and after the whipping and lecture to his old servant he would travel back over the tiresome route and resume his business where he had left it. 0.61 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1748 1. +Through by Daylight+; or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad. 2. +Lightning Express+; or, The Rival Academies. 3. +On Time+; or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer. 4. +Switch Off+; or, The War of the Students. 5. +Brake Up+; or, The Young Peacemakers. 6. +Bear and Forbear+; or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga. ============================================================================= TOPIC 59 -- 540 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= house 496; town 424; place 338; houses 304; people 284; city 265; streets 244; country 187; great 177; large 168; village 162; building 151; street 149; day 125; found 112; days 111; made 109; family 107; home 102; small 97; built 95; places 95; rooms 95; land 91; stores 88; lived 86; square 84; negroes 83; public 82; war 80; buildings 80; county 78; years 77; furniture 76; homes 75; school 72; windows 71; business 68; hotel 68; open 67; families 67; horses 64; doors 63; brick 62; set 61; comfortable 61; crowd 60; occupied 59; corner 59; plantation 59; estate 58; mansion 58; fine 57; roads 57; children 53; hundred 53; farmers 53; called 52; quarter 52; church 52; population 51; part 51; past 51; quiet 51; citizens 51; grand 50; scattered 50; court 50; white 49; scene 49; cabins 49; long 48; private 48; stock 47; wagons 47; crowded 46; inhabitants 46; broken 46; live 46; living 46; build 45; men 45; life 45; passed 45; work 44; number 44; wide 44; dozen 44; colored 44; high 43; summer 43; owner 42; store 42; market 41; surrounded 41; times 40; miles 40; capital 40; deserted 40; round 40 0.80 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. 0.75 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1556 The mission-houses were in the monasterial style, many of them on a grand scale -- mansions in fact, with roomy refectories, and kitchens to correspond; snug sitting and sleeping-chambers; well-paved courts and spacious gardens attached. Outside the main building, sometimes forming part of it, was a church, or capilla ; near by the presidio , or barrack for their military protectors; and beyond, the rancheria , or village of huts, the homes of the new-made neophytes. 0.72 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 404 There be inns in Holland -- not hotels, not pensions, nor stopping-places -- just inns. The Bellevue at Dort is one, and the Holland Arms is another, and the -- no, there are no others. Dort only boasts these two, and Dort to me is Holland. 0.69 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3341 In the morning I visited the Capitol building, which, like the Confederacy, had become exceedingly dilapidated, the windows broken, the carpets faded, the paint dingy. 0.68 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 281 Great were the bustle and confusion on the Square. By the way, I don't know why they called this large open space a square, unless because it was an oval -- an oval formed by the confluence of half a dozen streets, now thronged by crowds of smartly dressed towns-people and country folks; for Rivermouth on the Fourth was the centre of attraction to the inhabitants of the neighboring villages. 0.67 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 2011 For the next three or four years times were very hard in Virginia, and Mrs. Wingfield had to draw upon her savings to keep up the house in its former state; while the great majority of the planters were utterly ruined. 0.66 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3584 It was a day of jubilee to the colored people, who swarmed out from their cabins and appropriated the plunder. 0.66 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 625 The town of Dover is the county seat of Stewart, and a point where the farmers ship their produce. It is a straggling village on uneven ground, and contains perhaps five hundred inhabitants. There are a few buildings formerly used for stores, a doctor's office, a dilapidated church, a two-story square brick court- house, and a half-dozen decent dwellings. But the place had suffered greatly while occupied by the Secession forces. Nearly every building was a hospital. Trees had been cut down, fences burned, windows broken, and old buildings demolished for fuel. 0.66 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 897 Besides, some of these now around his house were present two days before upon Armstrong's plantation; saw his establishment broken up, his goods and chattels confiscated, his home made desolate. 0.66 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 937 It was a large square room, occupying the front eastern corner of the house. The furniture was neat and comfortable, though not pretentious. ============================================================================= TOPIC 60 -- 788 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= school 473; book 402; books 394; read 344; boys 226; story 211; teacher 180; work 170; study 167; boy 162; young 146; lesson 139; author 138; learned 138; great 134; reading 125; volume 119; lessons 118; written 114; children 113; stories 112; history 107; learn 105; teach 99; interest 98; education 93; class 92; day 91; reader 90; girls 88; good 87; people 86; taught 85; series 85; present 85; life 83; knowledge 81; long 79; learning 79; hero 73; years 72; write 72; literary 72; interesting 71; made 64; pupils 64; make 63; college 63; names 62; found 62; teaching 62; readers 61; library 61; scholar 56; page 55; end 54; full 54; fond 54; public 53; favorite 53; instruction 52; studies 51; writing 50; love 50; writer 50; pages 48; works 48; giving 48; tale 48; volumes 48; information 47; studying 46; title 45; style 45; schools 45; music 44; art 44; studied 44; pupil 44; english 43; memory 43; literature 43; spirit 42; master 42; character 42; entertaining 42; task 41; attention 41; letters 41; teachers 41; year 40; number 40; account 40; natural 39; put 39; educated 39; rare 39; remember 39; world 38; list 37 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1740 "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." 0.90 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." 0.90 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1511 No author has come before the public during the present generation who has achieved a larger and more deserving popularity among young people than "Oliver Optic." His stories have been very numerous, but they have been uniformly excellent in moral tone and literary quality. As indicated in the general title, it is the author's intention to conduct the readers of this entertaining series "around the world." As a means to this end, the hero of the story purchases a steamer which he names the "Guardian Mother," and with a number of guests she proceeds on her voyage. -- Christian Work, N. Y. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1680 "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." 0.89 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 . 0.89 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1621 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. 0.89 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. 0.88 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 1575 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. 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1647 No author has come before the public during the present generation who has achieved a larger and more deserving popularity among young people than "Oliver Optic." His stories have been very numerous, but they have been uniformly excellent in moral tone and literary quality. As indicated in the general title, it is the author's intention to conduct the readers of this entertaining series "around the world." As a means to this end, the hero of the story purchases a steamer which he names the "Guardian Mother," and with, a number of guests she proceeds on her voyage. -- Christian Work, N. Y. 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1683 "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 61 -- 370 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= feet 191; wood 153; work 147; made 145; long 139; roof 131; house 124; ground 105; stone 94; iron 92; rain 84; logs 82; log 82; walls 81; mud 79; earth 78; pile 77; building 75; place 72; hole 70; lay 67; high 64; boards 63; beneath 62; hard 60; cut 60; deep 60; laid 59; side 57; thrown 56; half 56; wall 56; cabin 56; pieces 55; wind 54; tent 54; floor 54; set 53; large 52; big 52; yard 51; foot 51; inside 51; broken 50; corn 49; great 47; boxes 46; tree 46; weather 46; holes 46; wide 46; buried 46; time 45; fence 45; heavy 44; winter 44; hung 43; wooden 42; clay 41; barn 41; raw 40; dug 40; driven 39; end 39; water 39; thick 39; rough 39; boys 39; built 38; window 38; piles 37; shed 37; wheels 36; shelter 36; small 35; surface 35; axe 35; covered 34; sticks 34; fallen 33; heap 33; dust 32; places 32; narrow 31; row 31; secured 31; stick 31; straw 31; found 30; dried 30; snow 30; stockade 30; chimney 30; short 29; days 29; inches 29; rails 29; build 28; hide 28; filled 28 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 719 After three days' hard work, we had the body of the raft completed. We had covered the long logs with short ones, and on the upper tier laid a flooring of slabs, which were more plentiful than boards, as they were thrown away by the saw-mills above. The platform was more than a foot above the surface of the water, and I was confident that it would carry us high and dry. 0.76 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 625 I selected two logs from the pile, thirty feet in length, attached one of the lines to each of them, and hauled them out of the pile of lumber, though not till after we had secured the boards, slabs, and other smaller pieces. We placed them side by side over the deep water. I then nailed each end of a couple of slabs to the inner log, at the two extremities of it. We next rolled the outer log away from the other until the two were ten feet apart, and the other end of the slab was nailed to it, thus forming the shape of the raft -- thirty feet long, and ten feet wide. 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 441 Understand the position of this natural fortress-line with regard to the area of Kentucky. That area has somewhat the shape of an enormous flat foot, with a disjointed big toe, a roughly hacked-off ankle, and a missing heel. The sole of this huge foot rests solidly on Tennessee, the Ohio River trickles across the ankle and over the top, the big toe is washed entirely off by the Tennessee River, and the long-missing heel is to be found in Virginia, never having been ceded by that State. Between the Kentucky foot and the Virginia heel is piled up this immense, bony, grisly mass of the Cumberland Mountain, extending some three hundred miles north-east and south-west. 0.66 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 457 First they laid a floor of rails; then they built a pen, five or six rails high, which they strengthened with "outriders." When the pen was finished, they pried up the side nearest the thicket, from the bottom rail, about a foot; that is, high enough for the animals to enter. This they did by means of two rails, using one as a fulcrum and one as a lever, having shortened them enough to enable the work to be done from inside the pen. 0.66 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2572 They found Cudjo and Virginia waiting for them at the entrance of a long and spacious hall, whose floor was heaped with fragments of rock, some of huge size, which had evidently fallen from the roof. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1418 "What is it, Hapgood?" demanded Fred, who was coiled up on the lee side of a tree, to protect him from the cold blast that swept down the creek. 0.64 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 705 “Freeze——? Freeze a snow-bank! That’s his climate. He’d freeze in ——!” The little Lieutenant named a very hot place. 0.64 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3036 Cheveaux-de-frise of pointed sticks protected the fort from a scaling party. At the base outside was a barrier of interlaced wire, supported by iron posts. There was also a submerged network of wire and chains, kept in place by floating buoys. 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 637 "You may cut up those small logs into pieces ten feet in length. They are to be placed crosswise on the raft, to keep us well up out of the water." 0.62 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 553 Among the articles put up by William were a spade and a hoe. With these Harold dug a hole in the dryest part of the beach; and, at his request, Robert took Mary and Frank to the tree above, and brought down a supply of small wood. The hole was two and a-half feet deep and long, and a foot and a-half wide, looking very much like a baby’s grave. Frank looked archly at his cousin, and asked if he was going to have a funeral , now that he had a grave. "Yes," replied Harold, "a merry one." The wood was cut quite short, and the hole was heaped full; and the pile being set to burning at the top, Harold said, ============================================================================= TOPIC 62 -- 1113 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= house 1037; walked 519; steps 503; gate 497; door 415; side 414; turned 400; back 376; passed 350; street 346; front 313; stood 309; road 302; walk 284; reached 266; ran 248; garden 235; window 220; standing 218; sight 211; fence 210; carriage 208; open 202; yard 195; walking 182; slowly 180; looked 179; left 177; led 173; stopped 172; path 163; entered 163; place 159; veranda 156; corner 155; found 154; hand 145; coming 141; trees 124; porch 123; past 115; half 115; direction 115; avenue 114; round 111; office 110; distance 108; end 102; disappeared 102; church 102; drew 101; full 99; leading 99; long 98; hurried 95; cabin 93; field 92; entrance 91; opposite 91; turning 91; light 90; dark 90; post 89; minutes 87; foot 87; hat 86; rear 84; view 84; town 83; waiting 83; sitting 83; stepped 83; close 80; moment 80; watched 80; returned 79; grounds 79; ground 78; sat 78; called 77; started 76; store 76; drove 76; opened 75; rapidly 75; passing 75; lawn 75; hill 74; paused 74; crowd 73; suddenly 72; running 71; woman 70; air 70; approached 70; straight 70; deserted 68; leaving 68; horses 67; moved 67 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2172 Then turning quickly, she closed the iron gate, and without trusting herself for another look, walked away. She passed the spring and the homestead ruins, and finally found herself in sight of the miller's house, which alone seemed unchanged. As she lifted the latch of the gate and entered the yard, it seemed but yesterday that she was driven away to the depot in the miller's covered cart. 0.78 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 449 Across the open square the vagrant was seen walking slowly along with his habitual air of quiet, unobtrusive preoccupation. A minute more and he had come over and passed into the court-house by a side door. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2696 She had walked only a short distance from the square, and was turning a corner, when she ran against a gentleman hurrying from the opposite direction. 0.74 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 456 The children passed the spring, crossed the meadow, and followed the grapevine trellis to the back steps, when Eugenia rushed through the wide hall with an impetuous flutter of short skirts. 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 563 Marcy ran on in the direction of the gate, and, as soon as he was out of sight, Julius whirled around and seated himself on the lower step. He sat there about five minutes, and then rose and sauntered off toward the road. 0.71 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1316 Nicholas and Eugenia followed the highway and turned into the avenue of cedars. When the house was in sight, he stopped and held out his hand. 0.71 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1463 The garden gate closed behind them with a click, and they crossed the lane to the lawn. 0.70 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 472 After accompanying Mrs. Mayburn to her cottage door, the friends strolled away together, the sultry evening rendering them reluctant to enter the house. When they reached the rustic seat under the apple-tree, Hilland remarked: "Here's a good place for our -- " 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1008 Walking off quickly across the field towards Mrs. Sprowl's house, he turned suddenly aside from the path and plunged into the woods. 0.69 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 478 With these words he passed through the yard-gate, walked slowly up the broad pavement, and entered the house. ============================================================================= TOPIC 63 -- 162 chunks >= 0.25 from 27 texts ============================================================================= vill 67; vas 65; wery 39; cave 32; vat 21; make 12; lead 12; ladies 12; goot 12; till 11; pring 11; mit 11; vun 10; petter 10; vay 10; prisoner 9; pad 9; ish 9; surprised 8; vould 8; fascinated 8; captain 7; making 7; pig 7; breathless 7; ven 7; pelieve 7; haw 7; orders 6; rock 6; asks 6; tought 6; aw 6; fess 6; reception 5; show 5; noise 5; promise 5; bows 5; vivacity 5; shpeak 5; willains 5; shtop 5; leetle 5; vake 5; somepody 5; trow 5; vasser 5; sushpect 5; gran 5; nicht 5; wohl 5; meet 4; greater 4; rise 4; ant 4; nose 4; hearty 4; tar 4; unter 4; vell 4; pe 4; notting 4; vord 4; plow 4; mishtake 4; preak 4; prains 4; villing 4; naturalness 4; shoots 4; galls 4; wi 4; dot 4; gintleman 4; vor 4; pocket 3; dutch 3; rebels 3; pecause 3; fedders 3; vinder 3; comin 3; shows 3; shust 3; vy 3; complacently 3; vere 3; nopody 3; vos 3; haf 3; opey 3; peg 3; shmart 3; vair 3; waluable 3; handkersheaf 3; pie 3; 173 3; 247 3 0.79 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1945 "Lebe wohl, Carl! Lebe wohl! Salamander, salamander, salamander! Ein ist ein, zwei ist zwei, drei ist drei! Lebe wohl!" 0.77 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1935 "Fahrt wohl, ihr Strassen grad and krumm Ich zieh' nicht mehr in euch herum, Durchton euch nicht mehr mit Gesang, Mit Larm nicht mehr and Sporenklang." 0.76 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2196 "I don't know just vat you mean by villingly. Ven vun of them fellows puts his muzzle to my head and says, 'You come mit us, and make no noise or I plow out your prains,' I vas prewailed upon to go. I vas more villing to go as I vas to have my prains spilt. If that is vat you mean by villing, I vas villing." 0.74 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2148 "Captain, you hear. Last night vas de house afire. You say, 'Pring vasser.' We pring a little. Den you say to us, 'Tarn you! why in hell you shtop?' And you say, 'Von I tell you pring vasser, pring till I say shtop.' Vun time more to-day you say, 'Pring vasser,' and you never say shtop. You say, 'Trow on.' We trow on. Vat you say we do. You not say vat you mean, dat is mishtake for you." 0.73 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. 0.73 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2423 "This is their waliant captain! I am wery sorry, ladies, but I have given him a leetle nose-pleed. Some vater, Toby! Your handkersheaf, ma'am, and wery much obliged." 0.72 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2728 "And so ye might be, gin I were a feckless laddie, like Rob Ainslee, or Tam o' the Glen; but I hae riches, ye ken. Ye'll never need to fash yoursel' wi' wark, but just sing like the lane-rock, fra morn till e'en." 0.72 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 259 "Yes, mein golonel, I hof cabbage und sauerkraut und" -- looking about circumspectly -- " etwas schnapps aus Antwerpen gebracht?" 0.72 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2144 "Captain, dat was your orders. You say, 'Pring vasser and trow on.' We pring vasser and trow on. Dat is all." 0.72 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1499 "Vun of them vellows just says to me, he says, 'Shpeak vun vord, or make vun noise, and I vill plow your prains out!' I vasn't wery much in favor to have my prains plowed out, so I complied mit his wery urgent request. That's the vay they took me prisoner." ============================================================================= TOPIC 64 -- 278 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= strength 210; made 114; courage 105; life 104; felt 102; strong 101; effort 94; force 86; began 85; moment 85; hold 80; danger 79; gave 76; struggle 70; efforts 69; part 66; time 64; end 64; blow 63; escape 63; power 63; battle 63; grasp 60; lost 57; desperate 57; firm 56; rest 54; body 53; shock 52; back 50; struck 49; resist 47; yielded 46; great 45; cool 45; excitement 45; temptation 45; hope 44; hand 44; found 44; making 44; result 43; safety 43; utmost 43; order 42; step 42; length 42; quiet 42; struggling 40; lay 39; task 39; energy 38; weak 38; hard 38; fight 38; exhausted 38; break 37; determination 37; nature 37; appeared 36; sudden 36; pressure 36; point 36; resisted 36; heavy 35; pressed 35; steady 35; remained 34; forces 34; powerful 34; single 34; weight 34; burden 34; advantage 33; forward 33; fell 33; begun 33; utterly 32; raised 32; ground 32; feeling 32; longer 31; nerves 31; equal 30; charge 30; resistance 30; hands 30; recovered 30; endurance 30; secure 29; fled 29; stand 29; growing 29; refused 29; tremendous 29; yielding 29; prevailed 29; peril 29; possession 28; side 28 0.70 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 732 I rested but an instant while these thoughts rushed through my brain. I felt myself going down. It was useless to do so, I felt; but I could not help making one more struggle for the boon of life. It would have been useless if a kind Providence had not come to my aid, for my strength was nearly exhausted, and I was utterly inadequate to the task of bearing up the heavy burden of my companion. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 581 Again he threw himself upon Frank; but again coolness and practice prevailed against blind fury and untaught strength, and again he lay prostrate. 0.60 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1154 Sam’s wounded limbs were rapidly regaining strength, and he insisted that they were well enough to be used; but Robert refused to indulge him. 0.57 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 581 He had not gone far before his strength began to fail. He was forced to sit down and rest. It was near sundown when he reached the clearing. 0.55 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2603 Then in a sudden illumination he had seen the betrayal of his sophistry, and he had stood his ground -- for the strong man is not he who is impervious to weaknesses, but he who, scorning his failures, towers over them. He had felt the temptation and he had wavered, but not for long. In all his periods of storm and stress he had found that his nature rebounded in the end. Disquietude might waste his ardour; but give him time to reorganise his forces, and his moral energy would triumph at the last. 0.55 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 841 "Then the result of the fight at Bull Run didn't frighten or discourage them?" 0.54 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1270 Soon he cried, "It will be their supreme effort. We must strike a stunning blow in order to get away in safety," and he sprang on his horse and started the charge himself. 0.54 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1484 But at length even Carl began to sweat with something besides the physical exertion required in making the ascent. His mind had grown exceedingly perturbed, and Virginia perceived that his course was wavering and uncertain. 0.54 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 733 "It would have been a desperate fight, if he had seized you," remarked Harold; "you would have borne the marks to the end of your life." 0.54 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 826 But it was no use to plead with him, for exhausted nature refused to support him, and he dropped upon the ground like a log. ============================================================================= TOPIC 65 -- 241 chunks >= 0.25 from 46 texts ============================================================================= great 273; time 265; life 243; day 188; long 147; things 146; happy 128; pleasure 128; times 125; thought 117; days 113; place 109; began 104; made 95; world 84; found 80; good 77; remember 76; gave 70; pleasant 70; rest 69; grew 66; people 63; sort 62; thoughts 62; mind 61; looked 61; strange 55; lost 55; ease 55; heart 54; busy 54; happiness 54; felt 53; feeling 52; accustomed 50; round 50; enjoyed 50; forget 50; 50; short 49; joy 49; talk 49; deal 47; enjoyment 47; forgot 47; interest 46; sat 46; past 45; quiet 45; rooms 45; missed 45; read 44; wonderful 44; comfort 44; delight 43; content 43; winter 42; hours 41; dull 40; air 39; care 39; part 39; knew 39; filled 39; aunt 39; friends 38; gay 38; sit 37; weary 36; memory 36; years 35; spite 35; youth 35; scarcely 35; change 34; year 34; cheerful 32; fancy 32; evening 31; beauty 31; gradually 31; freedom 31; strength 31; breath 31; passed 30; usual 30; sight 29; spirits 29; grow 29; school 29; months 28; intervals 28; altogether 28; talked 28; places 27; books 27; kind 26; natural 26; attention 26 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2175 "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?" 0.59 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2714 "I have not felt as strong as usual, and it is a great treat to get away from the schoolroom and out into the open air, which is bracing and delightful. I believe I have enjoyed this outing more than any I have taken since I came North; and you must allow me to tell you how earnestly I thank you for your considerate remembrance of me." 0.57 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 491 In spite of the war, it was a happy time, and Joe Maxwell was as happy as any of the rest. 0.57 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 866 Then she dashed past him, and a whirl of dust filled the solitary air. 0.57 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1503 "She has had time to forget," she said, rather as if she was out of breath -- "forget and grow quiet. She is dust by now -- peaceful dust. Let us -- my good girl -- let us remember that happy story of how she died." 0.57 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2488 I had always liked dancing at school. Here the music was far better and the scene infinitely prettier; it was very pleasant, I thought. That is, when Captain Percival did not talk; for he talked nothings. I did not know how to answer him. Of course it had been very hot to-day; and the rooms were very full; and there were a good many people at the hotel. I had nothing but an insipid affirmative to give to these propositions. Then said Captain Percival insinuatingly 0.56 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2456 "And the old vaults under here I saw them as we passed by, were they prisons, places for prisoners?" 0.55 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 697 "Some of the people who were there did not think it was gay," Louisiana said, a little listlessly. "They were used to gayer places and they often called it dull, but it seemed very gay to me." 0.55 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1041 "Yes, Graham; you looked like one possessed. You reminded me of the few occasions when, in old college days, you got into a fury." 0.53 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 66 -- 1390 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= light 693; sun 632; sky 537; night 406; dark 390; wind 366; blue 344; moon 337; clouds 303; air 291; long 289; white 274; cloud 267; trees 257; darkness 252; stars 243; day 233; forest 232; black 229; gray 207; sea 206; rain 202; shadows 198; earth 197; shadow 187; looked 174; rose 171; low 164; bright 164; rising 163; great 161; eyes 158; deep 156; fell 155; cold 153; beneath 152; storm 151; evening 146; red 144; shone 142; green 138; horizon 136; water 130; smoke 130; distant 128; mist 128; high 125; snow 120; fire 118; clear 115; sunshine 114; world 113; breeze 113; lay 112; hills 111; morning 110; faint 109; pale 108; leaves 106; slowly 105; river 104; distance 101; gloom 101; star 100; twilight 99; passed 98; heavy 98; shining 98; window 97; woods 97; dust 96; falling 96; silver 95; silence 95; face 94; sunset 94; rays 94; stood 93; dead 92; hung 89; figure 87; lights 87; thick 86; pines 86; vast 85; mountain 85; hour 84; dawn 83; tree 81; set 80; tops 79; sudden 77; grass 77; golden 77; gold 76; dim 76; scene 75; soft 75; waves 74; tall 73 0.90 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. 0.88 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1679 Above the level of marsh and water appeared a thin line of silver. It thickened, rounded, became a glorious orb. The marshes blanched from black to gray, and across the water, from the dim land to the great silver globe, stretched a long, bright, shimmering path. 0.85 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. 0.85 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 2083 Above them gleamed the blue sky; through the gaps between the rocks they looked down upon the shining river and the parti-colored woods, and behind them towered the cliffs. A strong wind was blowing and it sent red leaves from the vines that draped the rock whirling down upon them. 0.83 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 904 Without, the world was bathed in the glow of a magnificent sunset. Clouds, dark purple and dark crimson, reared themselves in the west to dizzy heights, and hung threateningly over the darkening land beneath. In the east loomed more pallid masses, and from the bastions of the east to the bastions of the west went hurrying, wind-driven cloudless, dark in the east, red in the west. There was a high wind, and the river, where it was not reddened by the sunset, was lividly green. "A storm, too!" I muttered. 0.83 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 33 On a Texan prairie twilight is short. There are no mountains, or high hills intervening, no obliquity in the sun's diurnal course, to lengthen out the day. When the golden orb sinks below the horizon, a brief crepusculous light succeeds; then darkness, sudden as though a curtain of crape were dropped over the earth. 0.82 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 1344 The sun had just set. The ethereal white shape of the monument stood outlined against a soft background of rose-colored sky. To his transfiguring imagination it seemed lifted far into the cloud-based heavens, and the evening star, resting above its apex, was a celestial lamp lowered to guide the eye to it through the darkness of the descending night. 0.81 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 424 More than two months had passed. Twilight of closing February was falling over the frozen fields. The last crow had flapped low and straight toward the black wood beyond the southern horizon. No sunset radiance streamed across the wide land, for all day a solitude of cloud had stretched around the earth, bringing on the darkness now before its time. 0.81 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 2249 The breeze freshened, and the sound of the surf became the sound of breakers. In the east the pale light strengthened. The figure below them stood up and beckoned. 0.80 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 1096 The sun had gone down. The hush of twilight was descending from the clear sky, in the depths of which the brightest stars began to appear as points of silvery flame. The air had the balm of early summer, the ground was dry and warm. ============================================================================= TOPIC 67 -- 1889 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= ai 1000; jest 536; thar 414; yer 348; ef 346; git 287; reckon 259; fur 224; nt 220; thet 219; folks 218; mighty 195; wo 194; fer 191; man 189; ter 189; er 189; hev 184; back 155; wuz 154; good 152; ye 145; things 143; air 139; thing 139; give 135; ca 131; put 130; feller 125; set 123; yore 121; knowed 118; whar 107; agin 105; make 102; round 99; seed 96; heap 92; goin 91; niggers 90; em 88; wife 87; big 87; nigh 86; fust 84; ther 84; mind 81; kin 81; sort 78; woman 76; sence 75; fellers 75; till 74; afore 73; kinder 73; guess 71; arter 71; gwine 70; lowed 70; talkin 69; seh 69; run 66; sech 66; bad 65; dead 65; purty 65; mornin 64; day 63; nigger 63; ses 63; powerful 59; heer 59; kind 58; bet 57; thinkin 57; sez 57; boys 55; call 54; sick 53; fool 53; yit 53; sot 53; honey 52; yo 51; settin 50; jess 50; ez 50; cow 49; money 49; gal 49; rest 48; fore 48; fix 48; mought 47; tuk 46; uns 46; fetch 45; smart 45; keer 45; live 44 0.89 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1773 "Naow, ain't thet queer, Jos," said Aunt Ri, "aout here 'n thes wilderness to ketch sumbody sayin' thet, -- jest what they all say ter hum? I donno's I'm enny kinder'n ennybody else. I don't want ter see ennybody put upon, nor noways sufferin', ef so be's I kin help; but thet ain't ennythin' stronary, ez I know. I donno how ennybody could feel enny different." 0.88 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 880 "Ye're fond o' laughin' at me round yere at the store, Tom," he remarked, "an' I ain't agin it. A man don't make nothin' much by bein' laughed at, I rekin, but he don't lose nothin' nuther, an' that's what I am agin. I rekin ye laugh 'cos I kinder look like a fool -- an' I hain't nothin' agin thet, nuther, Lord! not by a heap. A man ain't a-gwine to lose nothin' by lookin' like a fool. I hain't never, not a cent, Tom. But I ain't es big a fool es I look, an' I don't 'low ye air, uther. Thar's whar I argy from. Ye ain't es big a fool as ye look, an' ye'd be in a bad fix ef ye was." 0.87 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 2154 "Wall, thet's what I heern; thet's what yeow sed afore, 'n' thet's why Alessandro, the Injun thet wuz murdered, -- thet's why he put his name down 'n yeour books, though 't went agin him orful ter do it. He wuz high-spereted, 'n' 'd allers took keer er hisself; but he'd ben druv out er fust one place 'n' then another, tell he'd got clar down, 'n' pore; 'n' he jest begged thet doctor er yourn to go to see his little gal, 'n' the docter wouldn't; 'n' more'n thet, he laughed at him fur askin.' 'N' they set the little thing on the hoss ter bring her here, 'n' she died afore they'd come a mile with her; 'n' 't wuz thet, on top er all the rest druv Alessandro crazy. He never hed none er them wandrin' spells till arter thet. Naow I allow thet wa'n't right eh thet docter. I wouldn't hev no sech docter's thet raound my Agency, ef I wuz yeow. Pr'aps yer never heered uv thet. I told Ramony I didn't bleeve yer knowed it, or ye'd hev made him go." 0.87 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 850 "Thet's so," he said. "Thet's so. Things changes in gin'ral, an' feelin's, now, they're cur'us. Thar's things as kin be altered an' things as cayn't--an' feelin's they cayn't. They're cur'us. Ef ye hurt 'em, now, thar's money; it aint nowhar--it don't do no good. Thar aint nothin' ye kin buy as 'll set 'em straight. Ef--fer instants--money could buy back them feelin's of yourn--them as ye'd like to hev back--how ready an' willin' I'd be to trade fer' em! Lord! how ready an' willin'! But it wont do it. Thar's whar it is. When they're gone a body hez to larn to git along without 'em." 0.84 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 2143 "Wall, I did hent ter her thet p'raps yer could dew something, ef she wuz ter tell yer all abaout it; but she allowed thar wa'n't enny use in talkin'. Ther jedge, he sed her witnessin' wouldn't be wuth nuthin' to no jury; 'n' thet wuz what I wuz a wantin' to ask yeow, ef thet wuz so." 0.84 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 1016 "I never knowed her to do nothin' notionate but thet," remarked Mrs. Nance, in speaking of it afterwards. "She's mighty still, an' sits an' grieves a heap, but she aint never notionate. Thet was kinder notionate fer a gal to do. She sets store on 'em 'cos they was her pappy's an' her ma's, I reckon. It cayn't be nothin' else, fur they aint to say stylish, though they was allers good solid- appearin' things. The picters was the on'y things es was showy." 0.80 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 1005 "Ye're takin' it powerful hard, Louisianny," said Mrs. Nance, "an' I don't blame ye. I aint gwine to pester ye a-talkin'. I jest come to say I 'lowed to do my plum best by ye, an' ax ye whether ye liked hop yeast or salt risin'?" 0.80 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1904 "'Pears like 'twas next door to heaven, up there, Jos," Aunt Ri would say. "I can't tell yer the feelin' 't comes over me, to look up 't it, ever sence I knowed she wuz there. 'T shines enuf to put yer eyes aout, sometimes; I allow 'tain't so light's thet when you air into 't; 't can't be; ther couldn't nobody stan' it, ef 't wuz. I allow 't must be like bein' dead, Jos, don't yer think so, to be livin' thar? He sed ther couldn't nobody git to 'em. Nobody ever seed the place but hisself. He found it a huntin'. Thar's water thar, 'n' thet's abaout all thar is, fur's I cud make aout; I allow we shan't never see her agin." 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 737 "Ye aint in the notion o' hevin' the cupoly," he said. "We kin hev it as soon as not--'n' seems ter me thar's a heap o' style to 'em." 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 287 "Look a yere, Tom," he drawled, "this ain't a-gwine to do. You a-gittin' up 'fore daybreak like the rest of us folks and ridin' off Goddlemighty knows whar. It ain't a-gwine to do now. Whar air ye from?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 68 -- 807 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= young 1152; girl 424; lady 411; man 242; woman 228; pretty 225; handsome 218; ladies 213; girls 210; picture 195; beautiful 190; eyes 174; beauty 163; fine 148; love 147; smiled 121; fair 119; gentleman 113; charming 113; fellow 111; admiration 111; women 110; made 110; world 105; great 104; cousin 93; remarked 87; make 84; fond 80; side 79; mother 76; eye 74; pleasant 74; attention 73; dance 73; sweet 73; gentlemen 73; pleased 71; looked 67; sister 67; daughter 65; happy 64; gay 63; laughed 63; creature 63; proud 63; fancy 61; heart 60; thought 60; pleasure 60; society 59; air 59; forgotten 59; felt 58; poor 58; boy 58; dress 58; splendid 57; portrait 57; appeared 56; perfect 55; innocent 55; talk 55; age 54; met 54; true 54; lovely 54; interesting 53; southern 52; delightful 52; brilliant 51; story 51; manner 50; sight 50; compliment 49; marry 49; dancing 48; likeness 48; father 47; idea 46; gallant 46; smile 45; laughing 45; show 44; altogether 44; bright 44; proper 44; grand 43; admired 43; younger 43; favor 43; times 42; declared 42; pictures 42; people 41; making 41; child 41; pride 40; heard 40; perfectly 40 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 446 He was one of his cousin's ardent admirers, thinking her the most beautiful, intelligent, fascinating woman he had ever seen. 0.67 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2242 "What a charming young man he is," remarked their hostess, "and exceedingly skillful in his profession for so young a physician. Don't you consider him very bright, Judge?" 0.67 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 565 "You've no idea, mother," said she, "how much he detests anything like coquetry. Nellie Douglass thinks it's a kind of monomania with him, and I am inclined to believe it is so." 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 71 He wonders why, too. He knows that Helen Armstrong has many admirers. It could not be otherwise with one so splendidly beautiful, so gracefully gifted. But among them there is none for whom she has shown partiality. 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1809 "For an uncultivated young rustic, I must say your appreciation of fine painting is rather surprising. Few city girls would have paid such a tearful tribute of heartfelt admiration to my pretty 'Mona Lisa.'" 0.65 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 4111 “Mr. Page’s heroines are so delightfully sweet and attractive that no one can help falling in love with them.”—CHICAGO Herald . 0.64 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 777 "P.S.—It is just possible that the young lady and myself may not become engaged, but if we do not, after what has passed, it will be best for you and me to try to forget each other. Give my compliments to your sister Julia. By the way, do you know that I always admired her very much? What a sensation she would make in the fashionable world of New Orleans. But pshaw! What nonsense I’m writing." 0.64 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2018 "Girl," suggested Barbara, with pretty condescension; but Fannie covertly trod on her toe and said, "lady," with a twinkle at the dowdy maiden. 0.63 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 25 The tall young fellow glanced across the chattering groups to where the handsomest woman was amusing herself. 0.63 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1749 An artist, who had found opportunity to watch the poor unconscious woman furtively -- not so furtively either but that any belle in the hostelry would know all about it in half a minute -- raved about the combination of charms he had discovered. ============================================================================= TOPIC 69 -- 1077 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= river 453; water 441; stream 393; trees 354; feet 300; forest 297; side 286; ground 273; bank 255; high 253; tree 242; hill 206; deep 202; grass 201; found 186; place 182; edge 178; narrow 173; path 172; road 167; mountain 161; rock 159; thick 157; woods 157; yards 156; rocks 153; bushes 151; open 150; spot 144; view 144; distance 143; long 128; clear 126; low 124; miles 121; lay 118; large 118; mile 117; level 116; reached 116; plain 112; made 111; bottom 111; dry 110; country 109; covered 109; line 108; small 107; half 107; left 106; foot 105; channel 104; ravine 102; banks 101; wild 101; hills 100; beneath 99; base 96; point 93; hundred 92; top 91; brook 87; land 86; steep 85; valley 84; wood 83; green 81; bed 80; sides 80; rocky 79; summit 79; swamp 78; branches 77; wide 76; pine 76; led 75; surface 75; ran 74; slope 73; reach 72; lake 71; opposite 71; beautiful 71; suddenly 70; concealed 69; timber 69; thicket 69; growth 67; crossed 67; close 66; twenty 66; dense 66; direction 66; farther 65; halted 64; climbed 64; distant 63; wall 63; mud 63; paces 63 0.88 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2029 After proceeding thus for some fifty yards, they reach a spot where the path widens, debouching upon an open space -- a sort of terrace that overhangs the channel of the stream, separated from it by a fringe of low trees and bushes. 0.87 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. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3473 Having crossed the beautiful Un-y-Ame river, we entered the game country. Extensive prairies, devoid of forest, now stretched before us in graceful undulations to the base of distant mountains. The country was watered by numerous clear streams, all of which drained into the main channel of the Un-y- Ame river, that became a roaring torrent during the wet season. 0.84 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1727 Crossing it, they continue on to the bluffs rising beyond, and ascend these through a lateral ravine, the channel of a watercourse -- which affords a practicable pass to the plain. On reaching its summit they behold a steppe to all appearance; illimitable, almost as sterile as Saara itself. Treeless save a skirting of dwarf cedars along the cliff's edge, with here and there a motte of black-jack oaks, a cluster of cactus plants, or a solitary yucca of the arborescent species -- the palmilla of the Mexicans. 0.81 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: 0.78 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2834 It was the height of the rainy season, and the grass was about nine or ten feet high, throughout a country of dense and tangled forest. 0.77 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1355 Pomp took the lead, guiding Penn through hollows and among thickets to a ledge crowned with shrubs of savin, whose summit commanded a view of all that mountain-side. 0.77 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1874 They came to a rivulet that emptied itself into the larger stream, and the Susquehannock led the way up its bed. Presently they reached a gently sloping mass of bare stone, a low hill running some distance back from the margin of the stream. 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1809 They wandered on together until they reached a hollow in the road, on one side of which a pine wood sloped up a hillside, looking dark and cool. 0.76 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1818 Our course lay towards the S.S.E., beneath a wall-like range of precipitous rocky hills upon our left, in no place higher than 200 feet. The guides were at fault, and no water could be found upon the road. ============================================================================= TOPIC 70 -- 1212 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= letter 1498; read 1110; letters 692; paper 617; wrote 464; written 449; write 403; book 297; papers 282; hand 279; note 259; reading 256; writing 254; office 230; received 196; time 187; handed 185; mail 169; brought 163; found 159; envelope 159; father 154; copy 146; lines 138; put 135; post 132; news 129; contents 124; send 124; word 122; opened 120; addressed 119; pocket 116; open 98; find 96; line 95; contained 95; finished 93; page 90; gave 88; day 82; taking 82; pen 82; desk 81; account 79; turned 74; answer 74; days 73; hands 70; boy 68; address 68; handwriting 68; returned 67; message 67; reads 67; morning 66; give 66; sheet 66; reached 63; mother 63; aloud 63; list 62; words 62; original 61; photograph 61; glanced 61; eye 60; newspaper 60; editor 60; looked 59; signed 59; seal 57; books 55; held 54; messenger 53; fact 52; writes 52; document 52; pencil 52; home 51; newspapers 50; effect 49; ink 49; author 48; week 48; hear 48; notes 48; history 47; official 46; names 46; evening 46; telling 46; story 46; table 46; lay 45; arrived 45; full 45; reply 45; telegram 45; text 45 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2793 Having glanced at the lines, he turned the sheet of paper over, and with a pencil wrote a few words; then handed it to Terry, requesting him to direct the bearer to have the answer promptly telegraphed. 0.79 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. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1679 Invisible punctuation -- chiefly quotation marks -- has been silently supplied. 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3571 There was no news of Livingstone; but, according to my request from Masindi, M'tese had sent everywhere in search of him, and he had forwarded my two letters addressed to him in different directions. 0.69 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 119 A hand came out and took in the note, then the pencil; then note and pencil were put back. On the former was written, "Yes." 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1229 Then, laying it aside, she opened her copy-book and turned over the leaves with unalloyed pleasure, for not one of its pages was defaced by a single blot, and from beginning to end it gave evidence of painstaking carefulness and decided improvement. 0.68 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 1061 Original spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, and punctuation have been retained except for the following changes: 0.68 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. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1954 Invisible punctuation -- chiefly quotation marks -- has been silently supplied. 0.68 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2062 "I may need to go to Alton, to consult my lawyer. After examining this paper, which, I suppose, is an exact copy of the original?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 71 -- 1081 chunks >= 0.25 from 53 texts ============================================================================= boat 1280; water 704; river 671; shore 482; bank 298; boats 255; raft 241; stream 222; sea 192; half 153; made 151; landing 150; oars 147; vessel 143; stern 142; sail 141; steamer 140; current 137; men 135; wind 134; side 131; island 126; distance 124; time 121; board 116; small 114; mile 114; tide 113; hour 112; wharf 107; place 106; head 105; land 103; reached 102; point 99; bow 99; ashore 99; miles 98; ahead 96; passed 94; beach 93; found 92; night 92; left 87; craft 84; feet 83; sight 82; ran 81; sand 81; close 80; landed 80; till 80; floating 78; set 78; pulled 78; voyage 77; full 76; turned 76; creek 76; fast 71; bottom 71; dark 71; mouth 68; alongside 68; ship 68; wreck 67; oar 67; channel 65; lay 64; short 64; began 63; brought 62; deep 62; cutter 62; end 60; hauled 60; canoe 60; minutes 58; line 58; run 58; bend 57; fishing 57; waters 55; round 54; yards 53; light 53; direction 53; running 53; coming 53; great 52; sails 52; rowed 52; put 51; opposite 51; high 50; large 50; hold 50; pushed 49; making 49; paddle 48 0.84 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. 0.80 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1010 With the board I had torn from my raft I paddled with all my might; but it seemed like an hour to me, in my deep solicitude for the fate of my companions, before I reached the bend. At this point the stream made a sharp turn, and I had the intense satisfaction of seeing the light on the raft, on the right bank of the stream. The current set my craft directly towards it, and I had only to use my paddle in keeping it from whirling round. 0.80 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1905 Vincent directed his course so that while the boat's head was still pointing up the stream, and she was apparently moving in the same direction as the ships, she was gradually getting out to the middle of the river. Had he tried to row straight across suspicion might at once have been excited. In half an hour they were in the middle of the stream. A vessel passing under full sail swept along at a distance of a hundred yards, and they were hailed. Vincent merely waved his hand and continued his course. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1516 As the diahbeeah turned the sharp point, I noticed that the water was exceedingly deep close to the sand-bank, and the stream was running like a mill race. 0.75 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1115 Letting go the steering oar, I hastened to Sim's assistance, while the raft whirled in the current as she went down the mighty river. We hoisted the sail, hauled in the braces, and I took my place on the platform again. After no little labor at the steering oar, I succeeded in putting the raft before the wind, thus heading her up the river. 0.74 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 372 The gang-planks were quickly hauled in; the line with which she was made fast to the wharf-boat was cast off, and the Milwaukee was soon steaming down the river, and Cairo was rapidly receding from view. 0.74 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1727 1. +All Adrift+; or, The Goldwing Club. 2. +Snug Harbor+; or, The Champlain Mechanics. 3. +Square and Compasses+; or, Building the House. 4. +Stem to Stern+; or, Building the Boat. 5. +All Taut+; or, Rigging the Boat. 6. +Ready About+; or, Sailing the Boat. 0.73 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1537 1. +All Adrift+; or, The Goldwing Club. 2. +Snug Harbor+; or, The Champlain Mechanics. 3. +Square and Compasses+; or, Building the House. 4. +Stem to Stern+; or, Building the Boat. 5. +All Taut+; or, Rigging the Boat. 6. +Ready About+; or, Sailing the Boat. 0.73 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1264 The Havana continued to back till the guns would bear on the boats, and then Flint delivered his fire. The headmost of the boats was smashed, and was a wreck on the bay. The other hastened to pick up the crew, and then pulled for the shore with all possible speed, though not till two other boats, apparently filled with soldiers, were discovered approaching the retreating boat. 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1769 "Be ready, every one, to jump the moment I lay alongside," Houghton shouted. Then he luffed sharply to the wind, dropped his sail; his light craft lost headway, and glided alongside of the sinking boat. ============================================================================= TOPIC 72 -- 495 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= voice 383; music 331; sing 288; song 238; singing 225; heard 190; sang 169; hear 144; sweet 131; voices 129; notes 119; night 103; sound 99; musical 96; songs 96; ear 92; words 89; sung 89; play 85; played 79; hymn 72; tune 70; tones 70; note 66; chorus 66; clear 65; playing 65; time 64; piano 64; choir 62; soft 60; solemn 60; soul 59; began 58; roll 58; air 57; bird 57; ears 55; listen 54; melody 54; sounds 51; flute 51; church 50; laugh 50; low 48; repeated 48; listened 47; organ 47; full 46; evening 46; laughter 46; band 45; strains 43; ringing 42; merry 42; instrument 41; listening 41; strain 41; beat 38; broke 37; ring 37; melodious 37; joined 36; rest 36; sounding 34; calling 34; refrain 34; bells 33; box 33; birds 33; sweetness 33; violin 33; rang 32; piece 31; louder 31; harp 30; sweetly 30; hymns 30; called 29; dancing 29; singer 29; mellow 29; plaintive 29; opera 29; happy 28; dance 28; ceased 27; rich 26; heart 26; floated 26; pleasant 26; stairs 26; parson 26; loud 25; gay 25; bass 25; silvery 25; bell 25; round 24; wings 24 0.80 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1287 "And on the night before he died, Mr. Hargrove repeated them, asking me afterward to select some sweet solemn sacred tune with an organ accompaniment, and sing them for him. But what music is there that would suit a poem, which henceforth will seem as holy as a psalm to me?" 0.79 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.] 0.76 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." 0.72 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," -- 0.72 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1213 "Sing not so loud, my Majel," whispered Alessandro, as her voice went carolling like a lark's in the pure ether. "There might be hunters near who would hear;" and he joined in with low and muffled tones. 0.72 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1337 Hushed be the song and the love-notes of gladness That broke with the morn from the cottager's door -- Muffle the tread in the soft stealth of sadness, For one who returneth, whose chamber-lamp burneth No more. 0.72 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2114 They both broke into happy laughter and he toyed innocently with one of her pinchbeck ear-rings. 0.71 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." 0.70 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1330 Hushed be the song and the love-notes of gladness That broke with the morn from the cottager's door -- Muffle the tread in the soft stealth of sadness, For one who returneth, whose chamber-lamp burneth No more. 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1731 And a voice which had once epitomized for Minnie Merle the "music of the spheres," answered in mellow tones: ============================================================================= TOPIC 73 -- 745 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= heard 888; sound 538; voice 502; hear 322; words 278; low 242; door 201; moment 200; listened 193; ear 187; silence 171; noise 171; ears 163; night 160; listening 157; voices 148; sounds 143; man 140; room 139; attention 137; dark 135; window 130; thought 123; word 122; light 122; coming 120; darkness 119; footsteps 119; whispered 113; whisper 109; time 108; deep 103; nearer 102; tones 101; reached 100; men 99; sat 99; spoken 98; made 97; loud 97; tone 93; feet 91; waited 83; passed 82; talking 82; knew 79; hearing 79; suddenly 78; called 77; crept 77; instant 75; faint 75; silent 73; conversation 73; speak 72; step 71; cautiously 71; moved 70; long 69; sounded 69; steps 68; distinctly 68; presently 68; softly 67; fell 66; house 65; grew 65; close 63; back 63; cry 63; approached 61; speaking 61; slowly 60; approaching 59; audible 59; entered 57; attracted 57; scarcely 57; listen 56; breathing 56; hour 55; strange 53; tramp 53; minutes 51; half 51; hall 51; stopped 50; watched 50; floor 50; louder 50; intently 48; stillness 47; clock 46; closed 45; front 45; shadow 45; stairs 45; distant 44; aroused 44; uttered 44 0.78 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 531 Joe was about to say something, but suddenly he heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The negroes by a noiseless movement stepped close against the wall. Joe lay still. The new-comers entered the door without hesitation. They had evidently been there before. 0.73 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 698 The little group, flat on the floor against the wall in their dark retreat, could now hear her voice distinctly. She was speaking in a confidential undertone, as if afraid of being overheard. 0.71 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. 0.71 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. 0.70 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2313 The words of the one in the room were quite indistinguishable, but those from the other on the outside, though uttered in a half whisper, were clear enough. 0.70 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3078 We heard distant voices; they were coming nearer. A sharp clicking of locks might be heard, as the men got ready. 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2440 He was feeling about for matches, when hearing approaching footsteps he stepped behind the curtain and waited to see who the intruder was. 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1124 He started at his own voice, which sounded, in the hollow apartment, like the whisper of a ghost. 0.69 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 431 Just then there was a noise without, and the sound of horses’ feet was heard coming up the graveled walk. Some one in the room whispered, "It must be Miss Middleton." The sound caught the dying man’s ear and he wildly exclaimed, "Has she come? Oh! Has she come?" Fanny was now heard speaking in the hall. We have said that her voice was strangely like her sister’s, so it was no wonder that Mr. Wilmot, in his feverish delirium, mistook it. Clasping his hands together, he exclaimed, "Thank God she has come! She has come!" 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3508 The monotonous sounds in the neighboring room swelled louder for a few seconds, and now she heard very distinctly the words: ============================================================================= TOPIC 74 -- 311 chunks >= 0.25 from 44 texts ============================================================================= great 182; dance 106; game 104; tobacco 103; fair 101; maid 97; king 79; laughed 79; played 74; knew 73; high 71; goods 69; thee 69; hath 67; verily 66; black 65; play 65; held 64; set 58; sister 58; tis 57; mine 56; governor 55; court 55; dancing 55; convict 55; gentlemen 54; night 53; ball 53; danced 51; cried 51; laughter 49; pray 45; grandmother 44; company 43; playing 43; thy 43; cards 41; full 39; gold 39; cut 39; plantation 39; young 38; small 38; morning 38; music 38; naught 38; fashion 37; sat 37; hall 37; colony 36; ring 35; gave 34; slaves 30; cicely 30; turn 29; delight 29; laugh 29; wit 29; hold 28; parson 28; spanish 28; brother 27; love 27; art 27; daring 27; aught 27; coloured 26; foot 26; maids 26; favorite 26; show 25; tongue 25; plot 24; lad 24; harm 24; english 23; beauty 23; folk 23; spirit 22; knowing 22; mad 22; dancers 22; thither 22; wondered 22; spite 21; servants 21; bow 21; presently 21; faces 21; ready 20; end 20; part 20; half 20; pass 20; royal 20; queen 20; granddaughter 20; brought 19; honour 19 0.67 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 248 "La," said she, "when they come a-trundling in a powder-cask and I courtesy and say, 'Madam, here is my furbelowed and gold-flowered sacque,' I wonder what will come to pass." Then she laughed. 0.67 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 210 Such quickness of wit I had often heard ascribed to women, but never saw I aught like that, and I trow it seemed witchcraft. "'Tis something about the young tobacco plants," quoth she. "The king would not pass the measure to cease the planting, and the assembly of this spring broke up with no decision. Major Beverly, who is clerk of the assembly, hath turned against the government since Bacon died, and all the burgesses are with him, and Governor Culpeper sails for England soon, and what, is the lieutenant-governor to hold the reins? There is a plot hatching to cut down the young tobacco plants." I could but stare at her. "There is a plot to cut down the young tobacco plants as soon as the governor hath sailed," she said, "and my sister Mary hath sent to England for arms, knowing that the militia will arise and there will be fighting." 0.66 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." 0.62 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 797 "Hush," said Catherine. "Our grandmother hath but locked her in her chamber, since she hath discovered her love for thee, and frowns upon it, not since thou art a convict, but since thou hast turned against the King. She says that no granddaughter of hers shall wed a rebel, be he convict or prince. But she is safe, Harry, and there will no harm come to her, and indeed I think that if they in authority have heard aught of what she hath done, they are minded to keep it quiet, and -- and -- " 0.60 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 831 'Twas from him I knew the sad penalty which they fixed upon for me, for the 29th of May, that being Royal Oak Day, when they celebrated the Restoration in England, and more or less in the colonies, and on which a great junketing had been arranged, with races, and wrestling, and various sports. 0.60 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 325 "Seek to know no more than this. The goods came on the Golden Horn but now, and 'tis the list you gave this morning." 0.56 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 279 "The plot for the cutting down of the young tobacco plants, Captain Tabor," said I. 0.54 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 879 "Your Honor," he cried to the Governor, who had paused beside Mistress Percy, "is not the Due Return high-pooped? Doth she not carry a blue pennant, and hath she not a gilt siren for figurehead?" 0.54 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 821 "Why, of course I do," said Nelly, scattering her revery with a merry laugh. "I love Uncle Nutter, and Aunt Nutter, and you -- and Towser." 0.53 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 455 "Faith, and a score do," he said, gloomily. "There be my Lord Estes and her cousin Ralph, and I know not how many more. Faith, I would not have her less fair, but sometimes I would that a few were colour-blind. But 'tis different when it comes to thee, Harry. If she -- " ============================================================================= TOPIC 75 -- 395 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= work 712; time 318; day 292; men 271; make 266; hard 250; place 217; hands 207; made 157; set 157; put 150; back 134; find 133; man 126; ready 125; rest 121; good 114; boys 111; give 105; worked 103; thing 101; sheep 98; send 97; hand 94; wanted 94; stand 87; end 85; mind 85; call 85; things 82; week 78; working 75; watch 75; finish 75; run 70; hold 70; easy 69; boy 68; making 66; left 65; longer 64; trouble 64; easily 60; play 60; carry 59; knew 59; fast 57; needed 57; hot 55; business 55; life 54; bring 54; busy 54; begin 54; full 53; field 52; bad 51; told 51; month 49; order 48; head 46; case 45; night 45; taking 45; fall 44; pull 44; till 42; asked 42; beginning 42; job 42; overseer 42; sort 41; bringing 41; days 40; drive 40; throw 40; shearing 40; care 39; strong 39; follow 38; fit 38; master 37; stop 37; chance 36; doubt 36; piece 36; shop 36; pretty 36; store 36; money 36; short 35; game 35; worth 35; matter 34; turn 34; directions 34; carrying 33; tools 33; box 33; double 33 0.68 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2066 "That's what I wanted to make sure of," he said. "I'm going to work at this thing, and I want a man to help me who knows the ropes. Lord, how I should like to go back to Hamlin and tell Jenny and the boys that I'd put Tom through." 0.68 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1221 "I can do that. The storeroom's chuck full; and it was only a few days ago I said to David it was time we set about getting them off. I will fill your cart, sir; and not overcharge you neither. It will save us the trouble of taking it over to Columbia or Camden, for there's plenty of garden truck round Mount Pleasant, and one cannot get enough to pay for the trouble of taking them there." 0.64 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 628 "No doubt. But anything I should take would be hard. It's just like this, Mr. Featherton," he went on, "I am willing to work and to work hard, and I am not looking for any snap." 0.62 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1529 "In the meantime I'd finish that piece of ploughing, if I were you," suggested Nicholas. "The more work in the fall the less in the spring -- that's a proverb for you." 0.61 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 1012 "Do you know where any graves is? -- Yankee graves?" asked the driver, cutting matters short. 0.60 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 390 "Cooper ding, cooper ding, cooper ding, ding, ding! Cooper ding, cooper ding, cooper ding, ding, ding! Cooper ding, job, job, Cooper ding, bob, bob, Heigh ho, -- ding, ding, ding!" 0.60 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 657 Stamper, with Delia Dove “for overseer,” as he said, was already beginning to make an impression on his little place. As he had “kept her from having an overseer,” he said, the best thing he could do was to “let her be one.” 0.59 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 6 Juan Canito wanted the shearing to begin, even though Senor Felipe were ill in bed, and though that lazy shepherd Luigo had not yet got back with the flock that had been driven up the coast for pasture. "There were plenty of sheep on the place to begin with," he said one morning, -- "at least a thousand;" and by the time they were done, Luigo would surely be back with the rest; and as for Senor Felipe's being in bed, had not he, Juan Canito, stood at the packing-bag, and handled the wool, when Senor Felipe was a boy? Why could he not do it again? The Senora did not realize how time was going; there would be no shearers to be hired presently, since the Senora was determined to have none but Indians. Of course, if she would employ Mexicans, as all the other ranches in the valley did, it would be different; but she was resolved upon having Indians, -- "God knows why," he interpolated surlily, under his breath. 0.58 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 591 "O boys, boys, boys ! If you don't work faster you won't finish the field to- day. Look how low the sun is!... I am going to the house. They can't finish the field to-day. Let them do what they can, but don't let them work late. I want Peter to go to the house with me. Tell him to come on."... 0.57 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 550 "What a capital planner you are, papa," she said brightly; "I never thought of getting a machine or setting Uncle Joe to running it; but I am sure it's just the thing to do. Mammy can cut and the girls baste, and among them the machine can easily be kept going from morning to night. I'll make out my orders and send for the things at once." ============================================================================= TOPIC 76 -- 821 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= night 1270; sleep 945; bed 745; asleep 456; morning 378; lay 370; room 319; slept 279; day 269; awake 238; long 218; hours 209; till 208; rest 203; hour 197; sleeping 183; found 177; time 173; cold 164; sat 154; eyes 153; tired 146; wake 140; light 134; watch 128; pillow 128; window 127; sound 124; dream 124; thought 120; head 117; lie 117; slumber 116; put 113; fell 113; fire 110; made 106; midnight 106; open 105; late 102; laid 98; thinking 98; weary 93; lying 93; blanket 93; awoke 88; watching 87; wide 85; half 84; warm 84; quiet 83; child 83; side 81; mother 79; opened 78; mind 75; sleepy 74; nights 74; dawn 73; find 72; early 71; back 71; darkness 70; past 70; good 69; place 69; sun 69; told 69; dreamed 69; felt 67; quietly 66; waked 65; floor 64; blankets 62; heavy 62; sitting 62; left 61; watched 60; dreams 60; dreaming 58; sit 57; air 56; fallen 56; rose 56; fast 56; struck 53; breakfast 53; soundly 53; called 52; feel 52; close 51; turn 51; gave 50; worn 50; awakened 49; crept 49; stretched 49; softly 49; couch 49; closed 48 0.75 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. 0.70 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1691 "I've thought of something. Is there anybody here that helped to lay out my br -- helped to lay out the late Peter Wilks for burying?" 0.69 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. 0.66 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. 0.66 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 995 For a time Fanny slept on sweetly and quietly; then she moved uneasily in her slumber, and finally awoke. 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1124 It was some time before Elsie could compose herself to sleep, but near daybreak she fell into a deep slumber that lasted until long past the usual breakfast hour. Mr. Travilla slept late also, while the vigilant Aunts Chloe and Phillis and Uncle Joe took care that no noise should be made, no intruder allowed access to their vicinity to disturb them. 0.64 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1356 "Oh, no, mamma, we have traveled but little at night, and last night I had nine hours of sound, refreshing sleep." 0.64 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1553 "Let her sleep; it will do her good," said 'Lena, adjusting the bed-clothes, and dropping the curtain so that the sunlight should not disturb her, she left the chamber. 0.64 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1164 "Now you have waked up, Miss Daisy?" said Margaret when I opened my eyes. "That poundin' noise has done waked you!" 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 522 "I must have slept six hours," said Christy, rubbing his eyes as he crawled out of the cuddy. ============================================================================= TOPIC 77 -- 986 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= father 2017; mother 1609; son 965; home 820; brother 608; told 437; boy 420; family 402; sister 370; left 322; daughter 320; house 295; asked 262; place 256; heard 242; thought 242; young 236; good 234; poor 206; brought 200; husband 188; wife 181; friends 179; dear 158; friend 151; war 142; back 141; children 137; dead 135; care 132; make 131; knew 131; girl 131; leave 127; country 124; remember 124; died 123; years 122; hope 122; sisters 122; child 117; uncle 115; cousin 112; story 109; brothers 108; great 106; continued 105; returned 99; send 97; school 97; live 95; coming 93; thing 93; comfort 90; give 87; met 84; gentleman 84; return 83; news 81; older 81; grandfather 81; gave 80; visit 80; taking 80; married 80; boys 77; plantation 76; killed 75; word 75; ill 75; called 74; bring 74; account 74; anxious 73; parents 73; find 72; death 71; hear 71; lived 71; lady 70; added 69; duty 69; replied 69; age 67; grandmother 67; days 66; hard 65; speak 65; born 65; charge 64; late 63; year 63; room 63; glad 63; living 63; farm 61; lad 61; happened 59; younger 59; property 58 0.76 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1302 "Yes. From it I learned that I was born in Cincinnati, and I expected to find you here. But I looked in vain. After awhile I found my father's place of business. I introduced myself to Mr. Ferguson, and he gave me a place in his employ." 0.72 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." 0.71 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." 0.70 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 109 "Old uncle Lot!" my aunt repeated. "What uncle Lot? I did not know you had been enough at Magnolia to get the servants' names. But I don't remember any uncle Lot." 0.69 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." 0.69 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 713 "I am glad he has served his country so faithfully," said Mrs Parker, pleased and gratified, and proud of her son. 0.69 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1156 "My son," said he, "I am delighted to see you here. Now that we are such near neighbors, we must be nearer friends. You must know my wife, and my son Jack, and my daughter Anne." 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 536 "Go, my son, -- your country calls you, and God will take care of you," said his mother in the morning, when he told her that he thought it his duty to enlist. 0.67 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 505 "O Mr. Lincoln, my father is farther away than that. My father was Senator Sprague -- you served with him in Congress -- I -- I -- thought that perhaps you might take pity on his widow, his daughter, his son, if the poor boy is still living, and -- and -- " 0.67 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1798 "I am Mary Musgrove, the miller's daughter," said the damsel, with great earnestness of manner, "and Watty Adair is my uncle, by my mother's side -- he married my aunt Peggy; and I was at his house when Major Butler and Mr. Horse Shoe Robinson came there." ============================================================================= TOPIC 78 -- 1102 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= people 597; men 584; war 479; country 369; government 363; state 319; slavery 208; southern 204; free 204; friends 150; party 139; citizens 128; northern 125; public 120; property 117; political 115; land 114; great 113; rights 110; order 110; secession 109; true 105; question 103; peace 102; side 101; nation 100; election 100; slave 99; flag 99; power 98; made 98; rebellion 96; vote 95; city 94; loyal 94; act 90; laws 90; negroes 85; law 84; speech 79; called 77; race 76; american 73; hands 73; rule 72; leaders 72; part 72; declared 71; aid 70; influence 69; affairs 69; civil 69; held 68; authorities 68; slaves 67; general 67; means 67; end 66; institution 65; sides 65; believed 65; opinion 63; freedom 63; opinions 63; treason 63; strong 62; states 62; foreign 61; town 61; arms 59; enemies 58; regarded 57; white 57; stand 56; sir 56; women 55; measures 55; sentiment 54; put 54; protect 54; show 54; received 53; school 53; allegiance 53; support 52; force 52; fighting 52; high 51; class 51; control 51; colored 51; native 50; make 50; wise 49; majority 49; years 48; hatred 48; principles 48; blood 48; county 48 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 143 But a clear distinction must be made between the mild view entertained by the Kentucky slave-holders regarding the system itself and their dislike of the agitators of forcible and immediate emancipation. A community of masters, themselves humane to their negroes and probably intending to liberate them in the end, would yet combine into a mob to put down individual or organized antislavery efforts, because they resented what they regarded an interference of the abolitionist with their own affairs, and believed his measures inexpedient for the peace of society. Therefore, the history of the antislavery movement in Kentucky, at times so turbulent, must not be used to show the sentiment of the people regarding slavery itself. 0.74 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?" 0.73 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." 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1677 "The accursed lust of power on the part of a few selfish, unprincipled men, may invent a cause, and for the carrying out of their own ambitious schemes, they may lead the people to believe and act upon it. No one proposes to interfere with our institution where it already exists -- even the Republican party has emphatically denied any such intention -- yet the hue and cry has been raised that slavery will be abolished by the incoming administration, arms put into the hands of the blacks, and a servile insurrection will bring untold horrors to the hearths and homes of the South." 0.72 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 1213 Following the proclamation for a draft in the city of New York, there had been heard on all sides from the newspaper press which sympathized with and aided the rebellion, premonitions of the coming storm; denunciations of the war, the government, the soldiers, of the harmless and inoffensive negroes; angry incitings of the poor man to hatred against the rich, since the rich man could save himself from the necessity of serving in the ranks by the payment of three hundred dollars of commutation money; incendiary appeals to the worst passions of the most ignorant portion of the community; and open calls to insurrection and arms to resist the peaceable enforcement of a law enacted in furtherance of the defence of the nation's life. 0.72 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?" 0.72 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." 0.71 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 221 "That's very fine, sir. Do you expect the laws to protect you while you are aiding and abetting those who are trying to destroy them? Is there any law to protect a traitor in his treason? But we waste time, Squire Pemberton. Will you display the American flag?" 0.71 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. 0.71 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1369 "I think as you do, only I go a little farther. The Constitution says: 'Treason against the United States shall consist in levying war against them.' Did you fellows levy war against them when you fired upon Sumter? If you did, you are traitors the last one of you." ============================================================================= TOPIC 79 -- 1524 chunks >= 0.25 from 43 texts ============================================================================= steamer 622; ship 474; vessel 423; captain 341; flag 330; blockade 328; board 308; vessels 283; run 281; schooner 275; sea 225; port 205; time 200; crew 182; fleet 180; coast 179; sail 176; replied 167; pilot 164; steamers 155; water 153; ships 151; prize 148; deck 147; boat 146; running 141; bay 140; cotton 137; war 135; aboard 135; continued 133; guns 133; marcy 133; commander 132; captured 131; cargo 126; make 126; put 116; brought 115; made 114; added 107; speed 107; sailed 106; bound 103; privateer 103; capture 100; point 100; fast 100; runner 99; chase 96; shore 94; wind 94; officer 93; long 92; coming 88; channel 85; side 84; sailor 80; forts 77; fog 76; distance 71; sight 71; fort 71; runners 71; island 70; navy 70; craft 69; sailing 68; sails 68; harbor 68; information 66; ahead 66; glass 66; boats 65; waters 64; voyage 63; men 62; called 62; hour 62; intended 61; enemy 61; loaded 61; heavy 60; ashore 58; steam 57; wheel 57; headed 56; mate 56; business 55; small 54; breeze 54; screw 53; watch 53; miles 52; tons 51; hands 51; mission 50; looked 50; send 49; naval 49 0.84 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1602 "I have to report the capture of the Reindeer, loaded with cotton, and ready to sail for Nassau," said Christy, mounting one of the high piles of cotton bales, and saluting the commander of the Bellevite, who had taken his place on the rail to see the prize. 0.83 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 681 It seemed to be useless to attempt to get over the bar where he had tried to do so; and he directed the vessel towards the main ship-channel, finding plenty of water to enable him to reach it. But he would have to run the gauntlet of Fort Morgan, and the chances of a shot were against him. 0.83 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1436 The commander read his orders through. It was believed that vessels were loading with cotton there, towed down in flatboats by small steamers, and that a steamer of four hundred tons was fitting out in the bay as a privateer. It might not be practicable for the Bronx to go into the bay; but she was to do what she could to capture the cotton vessels and the steamer when they came out. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1156 When the commander went on deck, the fog had disappeared, and the shore was to be seen at the distance of about six miles from the steamer. At eight bells, or noon, a steamer was discovered coming out of the bay by a channel between two islands. She carried the American flag over the Confederate, and no one doubted that she was the Floridian. In half an hour she was alongside, and she looked like a fine vessel, for she had come from the other side of the ocean as a blockade-runner. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1431 "The rakish steamer seems to be headed to the west south-west, and she is exactly south-east of us. We can see that she is sailing very fast; but how fast has not yet been demonstrated. How high should you rate her speed, Mr. Makepeace?" 0.78 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1514 "I did not believe there was a ship in the Federal navy that could outsail the Raven, for she was built more for speed than for cargo," continued the captain of the prize. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 626 "The fog does not seem to be very dense, and I should think the vessel might be made out from aloft," added the second lieutenant, evidently very anxious to know more about the sail ahead. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 718 The steamer to the eastward soon came in sight; she and the Chateaugay were headed for the same point, and by noon they were in plain sight of each other. In another hour they were within hailing distance. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 130 "Now to the point: I have information that a fast steamer, intended to carry eight guns, called the Ovidio, sailed from the other side of the ocean some time since, and she is to be a vessel in the Confederate navy. Her first port will be Nassau, New Providence." 0.76 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 797 The government had received information which indicated the approach to our shores of a considerable fleet of blockade runners, and the Bellevite, on account of her reputed fast sailing, was to cruise for a given time off the coast in search of these blockade runners. ============================================================================= TOPIC 80 -- 329 chunks >= 0.25 from 46 texts ============================================================================= church 558; prayer 127; man 103; people 101; pulpit 100; pastor 97; congregation 94; day 90; sermon 90; religion 86; religious 85; prayers 83; minister 79; faith 78; parson 76; preach 73; service 72; lad 69; meeting 68; read 67; preached 67; morning 66; preacher 59; altar 58; soul 52; pew 51; college 50; prayed 45; pious 44; good 42; holy 42; held 41; christian 41; hymn 40; young 39; churches 39; members 38; services 38; blessed 37; ministers 36; priest 36; preaching 36; students 36; men 35; doubt 35; aisle 35; simple 34; worship 34; brethren 33; begun 32; sermons 32; book 31; sat 30; professors 30; chapel 30; chaplain 30; meetings 29; praying 29; years 28; found 28; spiritual 28; kneeling 28; saints 28; school 27; standing 26; words 26; seats 26; sin 26; choir 26; offered 25; months 25; saved 25; knelt 25; voice 25; flock 25; member 25; text 25; things 24; funeral 24; professor 24; singing 23; intercession 23; week 22; grave 22; beautiful 22; summer 22; solemn 22; doctrine 22; doctrines 22; statue 22; devout 22; high 21; body 21; missionary 21; grace 21; scripture 21; student 21; pews 21; preachers 21; theology 21 0.74 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?" 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1713 1. +A Missing Million+; or, The Adventures of Louis Belgrade. 2. +A Millionaire at Sixteen+; or, The Cruise of the "Guardian Mother." 3. +A Young Knight Errant+; or, Cruising in the West Indies. 4. +Strange Sights Abroad+; or, Adventures in European Waters. 0.68 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: 0.66 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 653 "The holy Fathers of our church have been in the habit of praying for the intercession of saints from the earliest periods, and none have questioned their fervent piety, or doubted the orthodoxy of their faith," replied Florence. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1510 1. +A Missing Million+; or, The Adventures of Louis Belgrade. 2. +A Millionaire at Sixteen+; or, The cruise of the "Guardian Mother." 3. +A Young Knight Errant+; or, Cruising in the West Indies. 4. +Strange Sights Abroad+; or, Adventures in European Waters. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1716 1. +American Boys Afloat+; or, Cruising in the Orient. 2. +The Young Navigator+; or, The Foreign Cruise of the "Maud." 3. +Up and Down the Nile+; or, Young Adventurers in Africa. 4. +Asiatic Breeze+; or, Students on the Wing. 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Inez_A_Tale_of_the_Alamo_PG_15470.txt 674 "The passages to which you allude are these: 'And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censor; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it, with the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.' No word of intercession occurs here; and are we not as free to suppose that the prayers so offered were in their own behalf as that of their friends? Had it been as the Padre tells you, would not St. John have said intercession or prayers in behalf of others?" 0.62 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 191 "My great-grandfather," he said, "once built a church simply to God, not to any man's opinions of Him." 0.61 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1585 "When I preaches, I has jest one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'WHEN I FOUND JESUS.'" 0.60 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 1046 One summer afternoon they held an important meeting. Abner Calihan, a member of the church and a good, industrious citizen, was to be tried for heresy. ============================================================================= TOPIC 81 -- 243 chunks >= 0.25 from 45 texts ============================================================================= fields 178; corn 161; field 117; land 108; cotton 106; ground 88; soil 77; hemp 77; wheat 75; seed 72; garden 65; harvest 62; farm 61; tobacco 61; work 58; country 53; seeds 50; crops 49; small 49; spring 45; grain 44; acres 43; grass 42; crop 42; green 41; fruit 40; planted 39; cultivation 38; cut 37; nets 37; patch 37; lands 36; vegetables 36; landscape 35; woods 35; sown 34; cattle 33; days 33; stock 33; ripe 33; mender 33; plant 31; winter 31; fall 30; forest 30; good 29; stalks 29; cultivated 28; gardens 28; long 27; year 26; red 26; tree 26; rich 25; season 25; trees 25; pasture 25; large 24; growing 24; plough 24; passed 23; wood 23; grow 23; apples 23; barn 23; kind 22; roots 22; rise 22; weeds 22; autumn 22; great 21; sheep 21; raising 21; orchards 21; people 20; rice 20; heavy 20; afternoon 20; cabin 20; fence 20; fruits 20; cleared 19; plants 19; rows 19; furrows 19; log 19; hot 18; root 18; hands 18; gather 18; raise 18; herds 17; wild 17; melons 17; orchard 17; clover 17; pastures 17; scattered 16; acre 16; planting 16 0.71 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2583 English cucumbers, varieties of melons, pumpkins, tomatoes, Egyptian radishes, onions, Egyptian cotton, &c., were all flourishing. Also a small quantity of wheat. 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2622 They had lived on the products of the orchard and grapery, and by cultivating a small patch of ground and keeping a few fowls. 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1392 The dry season had been very unfavourable for cotton; nevertheless, the quality was good, and proved that it would thrive in the locality. The species that was indigenous grew to a great size, and seemed to defy the drought. This bore a red blossom, and the pod was small. The native cotton was of short staple, and adhered strongly to the seed. 0.65 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 624 "Certainly. There would not be anything for any of us if they didn't. Here, at Magnolia, they raise rice crops and corn, as well as cotton; at our place we grow nothing but cotton and corn." 0.61 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 19 Who apparently could number the acres of these in the days gone by? A land of hemp, ready for the cutting! The oats heavy-headed, rustling, have turned to gold and been stacked in the stubble or stored in the lofts of white, bursting barns. The heavy-headed, rustling wheat has turned to gold and been stacked in the stubble or sent through the whirling thresher. The barley and the rye are garnered and gone, the landscape has many bare and open spaces. But separating these everywhere, rise the fields of Indian corn now in blade and tassel; and -- more valuable than all else that has been sown and harvested or remains to be -- everywhere the impenetrable thickets of the hemp. 0.59 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 632 "Bim-bim! bim-bim! bim! 0.59 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 9 I was happily at work this morning among my butterbeans -- a vegetable of solid merit and of a far greater suitableness to my palate than such bovine watery growths as the squash and the beet. Georgiana came to her garden window and stood watching me. 0.58 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 735 In a few days my men had made a large garden, in which I sowed onions, radishes, beans, spinach, four varieties of water melons, sweet melons, cucumbers, oranges, custard apples, Indian corn, garlic, barmian, tobacco, cabbages, tomatoes, chilis, long capsicums, carrots, parsley, celery. I arranged the daily labour so that the soldiers and sailors should work at the cultivation from 6 A.M. till 11; after which they might have the day to themselves, to construct their own huts. 0.56 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1397 "We're ploughing for oats now, sir," responded Nicholas diffidently, "and we're going to seed a little rye with clover -- if the clover's killed, the rye'll last." 0.56 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1831 "There was enough corn in the field beyant to keep a still at work for a winter," Barney lamented with a sigh, recalling fields of grain they had passed near Williamsburg, which he vaguely alluded to as "beyant." ============================================================================= TOPIC 82 -- 603 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= pocket 433; paper 231; put 227; hand 203; key 184; box 182; found 172; drew 150; book 136; papers 132; table 129; left 121; small 120; carefully 113; handed 103; desk 103; gold 97; room 97; door 96; held 90; piece 90; taking 89; watch 85; back 84; case 80; silver 77; coat 77; lay 75; drawer 75; opened 73; money 73; chain 72; locked 72; open 68; picked 67; laid 65; thrust 65; bag 61; returned 57; ring 55; breast 54; pieces 52; looked 52; lock 52; putting 51; handkerchief 50; bit 50; letter 49; contents 48; fingers 48; began 47; trunk 47; floor 46; inside 46; store 44; carried 43; set 43; bundle 43; removed 42; dropped 42; opening 41; large 41; contained 41; finally 41; light 37; hat 37; pockets 37; purse 37; examined 36; filled 36; finished 36; hastily 34; match 33; picture 33; package 33; cabin 32; drawing 32; treasure 32; carry 31; careful 31; spectacles 30; pile 30; finger 29; asked 29; lying 29; slip 29; wrapped 29; corner 29; tobacco 29; reading 29; pen 29; roll 29; bureau 29; read 28; writing 28; placing 28; cigar 28; basket 27; empty 27; slipped 27 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3050 Upon the writing desk lay a MS . in morocco cover, and secured by heavy bronze clasps, into which the owner put a small key attached to her watch chain, carefully locking and laying it away in a drawer of the desk. 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 828 She took from her pocket a small ivory box, and opening it drew out the little key and handed it to him. 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 99 And as she spoke she drew from her bosom a miniature set in gold and diamonds, which she wore suspended by a gold chain around her neck, and put it in Rose's hand. 0.68 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 842 Henry Morton drew a card from his card-case and handed it with a bow to Mrs. Payson. 0.68 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1982 Eugenia picked them up, wiped them on his silk handkerchief, and put them on his nose. 0.68 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 3067 Mechanically and briefly Bythewood drew up a paper, signed his name, and shoved it across the table. 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2955 He was regarding her very sternly, and as his eyes caught and held hers he put his fingers in his vest pocket, drawing therefrom a narrow strip of paper, folded carefully. Holding it out, he asked: 0.65 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2084 “You’re so particular about your old papers,” he said, as he held up one of the slips, “I wonder you don’t keep ’em a little better. You got a whole lot o’ red ink smeared on this bond.” 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1231 Then, putting it carefully in its place, she closed and locked the desk, and carrying the key to her room, laid it on the mantel, where she was in the habit of keeping it. 0.65 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1572 The locksmith picked out eight keys, of various sizes, and handed them to Maurice. ============================================================================= TOPIC 83 -- 732 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= time 217; request 208; leave 189; home 180; return 165; refused 158; remain 156; give 155; mother 155; promise 155; promised 144; accept 133; made 133; offered 125; offer 125; wished 120; present 116; told 116; decided 110; accompany 103; make 99; pleasure 97; daughter 96; called 94; accepted 93; visit 93; immediately 88; invitation 88; permission 88; received 87; proposed 85; allowed 85; knew 84; wishes 83; begged 82; declined 81; intention 80; wrote 80; finally 80; declared 78; interview 78; urged 78; part 77; gave 77; agreed 77; matter 76; requested 76; consented 76; desire 76; wife 73; reasons 73; act 71; purpose 69; morning 69; refuse 69; readily 68; future 66; subject 66; order 65; plan 65; join 63; determined 62; advice 62; husband 62; desired 62; account 61; marriage 61; asked 60; permit 60; announced 59; understand 59; business 59; meet 58; assured 58; case 58; stay 58; left 57; fully 56; ceremony 56; prepared 55; granted 54; consent 54; favor 54; leaving 53; duty 52; wait 52; explained 52; insisted 52; enter 51; terms 51; wanted 51; days 50; anxious 50; decision 49; city 49; compelled 48; bring 47; satisfied 47; company 47; preferred 47 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2757 Dr. Devoe advised Mr. Houghton to leave the city, but he said, "No, I shall remain with my children; I shall share in the fortunes of the city which is henceforth to be my home." 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3037 In this state of the case, Ruth began to plead with him on his brother’s account, and Blair, as her argument, took Steve. They said he was bound in honor to go, if they wished it. Ruth deftly put in a word about Thurston, and the opportunity the trip would give Rupert to see the world. He could join in the campaigns against the Indians out there, if he wished; and, finally, she begged him to go and join Thurston, as a favor to her. 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1912 "I offered to accompany her as escort, but she rather curtly declined my attendance." 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3447 "At least give me your promise to wait two years, to follow my advice, to accede to my plan for your future." 0.64 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 414 "So we think, sir," returned Travilla coolly, "though we do not accept the epithets you so generously bestow upon us." 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1196 "I may yet be called upon to serve under you some time in the future; and I did not wish to have any prejudice against me on account of my decision, in which my officers concurred." 0.62 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." 0.62 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2678 He expressed his unfeigned appreciation of the honor done, but gave him to understand that after conference with Mrs. Welch they felt it their duty to state to him that his suit for their daughter would not be acceptable to them, and he requested him to consider the matter closed. 0.62 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1483 In reply to the letter announcing this, Dr. Cary received a letter from Mr. Ledger, informing him that he had just had an offer from someone to take up the Doctor’s notes, and he had felt it his duty to notify him before he assigned them. The person who had made the offer had insisted that his name should not be known at present, but he had intimated that it was with friendly intentions toward Dr. Cary, though Mr. Ledger stated, he would not like the Doctor to rely too much on this intimation. He would much prefer that Dr. Cary should take up the notes himself, and he would not for a moment urge him if it were not that he himself was absolutely obliged to have the money to meet his obligations. 0.62 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2774 When Butler now made known his purpose to set out immediately for the habitation of David Ramsay, Winter asked permission to accompany him, but the woodman interposed, and recommended that he alone should be permitted to perform that errand, leaving the others to remain with the corpse until his return. ============================================================================= TOPIC 84 -- 1977 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= day 1533; morning 1040; time 966; home 881; room 783; evening 781; night 707; hour 580; days 554; found 544; left 494; afternoon 490; early 474; return 447; returned 439; house 409; father 369; long 352; place 336; spent 328; passed 311; hours 306; late 292; party 280; usual 261; visit 257; week 255; arrived 253; leave 251; breakfast 245; family 244; mother 239; reached 227; half 220; called 219; back 218; met 216; young 215; made 214; weeks 206; town 200; meet 187; spend 185; set 182; city 179; good 160; brought 159; pleasant 158; part 154; summer 154; news 153; dinner 153; rest 152; wife 152; meeting 151; ride 150; friends 146; quiet 144; arrival 140; remained 140; company 140; carriage 137; started 137; aunt 137; returning 135; absence 134; departure 134; leaving 134; ladies 134; sitting 128; winter 127; start 126; taking 123; told 120; months 117; ready 115; waiting 115; table 115; gave 114; sat 112; month 111; began 110; duties 109; parlor 108; engaged 107; expected 106; entered 104; conversation 104; absent 104; journey 103; servants 103; school 103; work 102; pleasure 102; business 101; times 100; previous 100; wedding 99; short 97; walk 96 0.79 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. 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 934 According to the usage of the time the marriage ceremony was to take place early in the forenoon, in order that the guests, gathered in from distant settlements of the wilderness, might have a day for festivity and still reach home before night. Late in the afternoon the bridal couple, escorted by many friends, were to ride into town to Joseph's house, and in the evening there was to be a house- warming. 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 352 But the next morning Chloe told her the children were to breakfast with the family, as all the visitors had left excepting one or two gentlemen. So Elsie went down to the breakfast-room, where, to her surprise, she found her papa sitting alone, reading the morning paper. 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1920 The first day in fact was spent at Ion; the next he rode over to the Oaks. Mrs. Murray always made him very comfortable, and was delighted to have the opportunity; for the place was lonely for her in the absence of the family. She was on the veranda as he rode up that morning attended by his servant. 0.73 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1193 At the last of these visits the doctor told Vincent that he considered he was nearly sufficiently restored in health to be able to start on their journey. 0.73 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. 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 795 The Carringtons were not to leave until the afternoon, and the little girls spent nearly the whole morning in the garden, coming into the drawing-room a few moments before the dinner-bell rang. 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2362 But, however this was, Jacquelin did not alter his course. The negroes had become so unruly, that, as Rupert was often away from home, and his aunt was left alone, he came home every night, though it was often late before he arrived; but early in the morning he returned to the Court-house and spent the day there in his office, rarely accepting an invitation or taking any holiday. 0.72 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. 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 930 The two weeks allotted to Lansdale of course passed very rapidly; especially to Harry, to whom the society of these new-found relatives was a great pleasure, and who on their departure would be left behind, with only Phillis for his housekeeper. ============================================================================= TOPIC 85 -- 423 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= office 366; man 347; court 253; law 228; case 172; day 172; lawyer 133; trial 114; judge 111; county 111; put 110; evidence 106; business 103; clerk 99; young 96; post 90; jail 82; witness 81; bar 80; men 78; called 76; found 76; papers 68; town 67; witnesses 66; suit 66; brought 65; sheriff 64; jury 61; held 59; charge 58; testimony 56; leech 56; arrest 55; counsel 53; private 50; time 49; matter 48; made 47; arrested 47; justice 46; told 46; prisoner 45; morning 44; stand 44; notice 43; prove 43; meeting 43; fact 42; days 42; fellow 41; night 41; bill 40; seat 40; lawyers 40; week 39; examination 39; legal 39; present 38; proof 38; wanted 38; state 37; public 36; village 36; gentlemen 36; citizen 36; knew 35; crowd 35; tavern 35; make 34; governor 34; facts 33; account 32; title 32; gentleman 32; interest 31; police 31; summoned 31; arrival 30; order 30; martial 30; appointed 29; place 29; affair 29; signed 29; story 28; sentence 27; room 27; attorney 27; verdict 26; client 26; keeper 26; property 25; party 25; occasion 25; question 25; bench 25; agent 24; courts 24; reasons 24 0.77 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2345 So the very next day a suit was docketed and a lis pendens filed, giving notice that the title to the lands was in question. 0.74 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3034 "You are a business man, Mr. Hopper," said he, "And as a business man you must know that these notes will not legally hold. It is martial law. The courts are abolished, and all transactions here in St. Louis are invalid." 0.66 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2065 Just as they came out of the bar, they saw young Gray cross the court-green and go over to his office. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1611 The justice immediately organized his court for the examination of the new culprit, and Captain Fishley was called as the first witness. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1674 "I happen to be acquainted with one lawyer that will. In fact, I have mentioned the matter to him, and I am acting by his advice now." 0.62 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 941 The captain departed and began his preparations. But now came the sheriff of Jefferson County with a writ. He wanted the bodies of George, Abraham, John, and Dick, who were still with the Twenty-Second. They were the runaway property of a fellow named Hogan, who a few days before had figured in a convention held at Frankfort, in which he introduced a series of Secession resolutions. 0.62 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3371 The Doctor was held “on his own confession,” the commissioner said. Old Mr. Langstaff was sent on in the same way; and by nightfall the entire party were in jail, sent on to the next term of the court to be held at the capital. 0.60 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2303 Steve Allen and Jacquelin Gray held sundry conferences in the clerk’s office, with the papers in Still’s old suit before them, and it got abroad that they were not going to permit the sale. 0.60 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1686 CITING A NOTABLE CASE OF VOLUNTEER SURGERY, AND GIVING AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF "COTTON SEMINARY." 0.59 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2252 "They signed a declaration as witnesses of the murder of the native by Suleiman. This paper was formally witnessed and signed by Lieutenant Baker, Colonel Abd- el-Kader, and Captain Mohammed Deii. ============================================================================= TOPIC 86 -- 1324 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= heart 561; girl 515; love 400; nature 375; life 316; made 311; felt 310; friend 262; mind 259; feeling 253; father 243; spirit 239; words 238; young 235; thought 227; woman 213; affection 209; thoughts 200; sympathy 192; strong 185; feelings 177; deep 176; manner 175; sense 175; truth 169; interest 168; knew 168; reason 167; regard 164; past 154; believed 145; true 144; effort 141; led 140; scarcely 139; aunt 139; feel 132; respect 131; belief 129; power 128; character 125; found 121; natural 116; grace 116; influence 114; pride 113; wholly 112; kind 111; impression 111; began 109; passion 108; quiet 104; hope 103; sought 101; happiness 101; part 100; simple 98; give 98; future 96; moment 92; action 91; proved 90; generous 90; deeply 89; whately 89; cold 86; experience 85; gentle 85; possessed 84; learned 83; mood 83; major 82; friendship 81; control 81; sort 81; touched 81; brave 80; sincere 80; make 79; son 79; bitter 78; confidence 77; lover 77; personal 76; trouble 76; warm 76; object 75; understood 75; devotion 73; impulse 73; daily 72; grew 72; compelled 71; kindly 71; common 71; loved 70; chance 69; degree 69; earnest 69; kindness 68 0.78 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 255 Graham witnessed this culminating happiness, and it would have been well for him had he known its source. Her joyousness had seemed to him a characteristic trait, and so it was, but he could not know how greatly it was enhanced by a cause that would have led to very different action on his part. 0.78 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 952 He was satisfied that his impressions in regard to Bodine were correct, and was impelled by his love to make an effort to save her from drifting into relations which he believed must inevitably destroy her chance for happiness. His strong, keen mind had analyzed her every word, tone, and varying expression, and he had become quite sure that her bearing toward him was not the result of indifference, but was rather due to pride, and a resolute purpose not to yield to him unless he adopted her views. He also understood her sufficiently well to dread lest a morbid sense of loyalty to her father's memory might lead her to accept his friend and old companion in arms. 0.76 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2241 For Mrs. Whately the girl now had a genuine and strong affection, chilled only by her belief that the plan in regard to the son was ever in the mother's mind. So indeed it was. The sagacious woman watched Miss Lou closely and with feelings of growing hope as well as of tenderness. The girl was showing a patience, a strength of mind, and, above all, a spirit of self-sacrifice which satisfied Mrs. Whately that she was the one of all the world for her son. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2634 "His opposition must arise from an erroneous view of what would best promote your happiness. He cannot be actuated by merely vindictive motives, and I am sure he would sympathize with you if he realized the intensity of your feelings." 0.74 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 750 Landless acquiesced, scarcely convinced, but willing to believe that the other knew whereof he spoke, and conscious, too, that his own impatience of the yoke which galled his spirit almost past endurance might incline him to a reckless and disastrous haste. 0.73 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 413 So she believed during the unhappy hours of the afternoon which were robbed of all power to bring rest. She determined, if it were possible, to hear the truth from his own lips. She would subdue her heart by giving it proof positive that he had either drifted or had been lured far away. If this were true -- and she would not be influenced by her aunt's bitter prejudice -- then it was all over between them. If once so completely convinced that he did not love her sufficiently to give up his Northern affiliations for her sake, her very pride would cast out her own stubborn love. 0.71 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1638 Struggling, then yielding to the impulse, Virginia let herself be led on into the years. Sanity was the word that best described him. She saw him trusted of men, honored of women, feared by the false. She saw him in high places, simple, reserved, poised evenly as he was now. 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 107 Father and son were in a congenial mood that evening, and a common hatred drew them more closely together than mutual affection had ever done. They were very much alike -- both cold, calculating, and selfish. The squire was indeed ambitious for his son, but could hardly be said to love him, since he was incapable of feeling a hearty love for any one except himself. 0.70 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1850 She maintained an affectionate manner toward her niece and never discussed the hope she entertained and expectation of calling her daughter. In truth, she had won the girl's respect and goodwill in a very high degree. She had been a kind and successful nurse among the wounded, confining her efforts chiefly to the Confederates. She had also been a dignified lady in all the scenes they had passed through. Her weakness was her son, yet the girl was compelled to admit that it was the weakness of love. In seeking to bring about the detested union a motherly heart and feeling toward her had ever been apparent. 0.70 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1158 Ella had not been mistaken in thinking that she detected a trace of recklessness in Clancy's manner. He had been compelled to believe that Mara was in truth lost to him; that her will and pride would prove stronger than her heart. Indeed, he went so far as to believe that her heart, as far as he was concerned, was not giving her very much trouble. ============================================================================= TOPIC 87 -- 2535 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= de 1395; ter 942; en 919; dey 722; ai 530; gwine 521; er 478; wid 365; ob 364; ef 297; sah 286; hit 261; den 261; time 252; ole 235; dat 220; long 219; git 210; back 202; wuz 198; mighty 196; fer 196; fo 192; suh 191; folks 189; dem 187; honey 186; man 173; jes 169; hab 168; good 167; des 162; chile 158; dis 152; fur 151; yo 144; yer 138; big 135; um 122; doan 121; mo 111; young 109; ca 109; reckon 107; whar 106; tink 106; dere 106; free 100; night 100; agin 98; heah 95; put 94; run 92; talk 83; kin 79; dunno 77; fine 75; bery 75; white 74; ax 73; heap 71; make 70; till 70; day 68; woman 67; nuffin 67; huh 65; tole 64; low 61; mus 61; min 61; seed 60; dese 60; gits 60; trouble 59; arter 58; neber 58; mos 57; home 56; jest 56; fust 56; nigger 55; wo 54; gib 54; tings 53; yit 53; fool 52; bress 52; fetch 51; times 50; eyes 50; replied 50; stay 50; dar 50; freedom 49; knowed 49; keer 49; black 46; sence 46; berry 46 0.92 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 2183 "Hit may be de Lawd's doin's ter set He people free," he muttered, "but somehow I kyant brung mysef ter lebe dat po' sick chile. Ole mars'r en ole miss kyant see en woan see, en dat lil chile w'at stan' up fer us in de 'stremity ob triberlation be lef wid no one ter do fer her. I berry ole en stiff in my jints en I cud die peaceful ef I know I free; but hit 'pears that de Lawd say ter me, 'Uncle Lusthah, stay right yere en look arter dat lil sick lam'. Den I mek you free w'en de right time come.'" 0.92 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." 0.91 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." 0.91 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. 0.91 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 620 "Hit's yo' feelin's, honey, w'at des riles up my in'erds so I kyant hardly wuk. Dat's whar my projeckin' gins out, en I'se kin'er stump'd 'bout hit. Dey's gwine right 'long wid dere prep'rations des ez ef dey cud do ez dey pleased. Dunno w'at de law is 'bout hit ef dere is any law in dese mux-up times. I'se des took clar off my foots wid all de goin's on. De fiel'-han's at de quarters is bilin' ober wid 'citement, en dey's sayin' de Linkum men's comin' ter upset ebryting. Whar dey get de news fum I dunno. Dey sez ole mars'r is 'stracted en ole miss des put her thin lips tergedder ez ef she gwine ter hab her way ter de las' minit. Ez fer Marse Whately, you knows he al'ays hab his way, en ef dere isn't eny way he mek it. You sez de min'ster en folks is comin'? Hit des stumps me fer dem ter go on so ef dey hasn't de po'r." 0.89 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 629 "I mean des dis, mistis. Ef you tinks Miss Lou ole anuff ter mar'y you know she ain' a chile. Ef she ain' a chile she a woman. Does you tink you kin tromple on a woman? You kin tromple on me en I am' sayin' not'n, but you kyant tromple on a wi'te woman like yosef. I tells you you gittin' on scarey groun' wid Miss Lou." 0.89 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 425 "I don't 'grudge you mine, Aunt Milly," said Aunt Winnie, feelingly. "My goodness, you is hat ernough trouble, wid yo' marster bein' so po' en Une' Rastus so sickly en y'all gwine be put up on de auction-block ter-morrer en no idee whar you gwine nex'. How much y' reckin you gwine ter fetch, Aunt Milly?" 0.88 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 49 "In all my projeckin' dat chile's wuss'n old mars'r en miss, en de wah, en de preachin'. I kin kin' ob see troo dem, en w'at dey dribin' at, but dat chile grow mo' quare en on'countable eb'y day. Long as she wus took up wid her doll en tame rabbits en pony dar wa'n't no circum'cutions 'bout her, en now she am all circum'cution. Not'n gwine 'long plain wid her. She like de run down dar -- but win' en win' ez ef hit had ter go on, en hit couldn't mek up hits min' which way ter go. Sometime hit larfin' in de sun en den hit steal away whar you kyant mos' fin' hit. Dat de way wid Miss Lou. She seem right hyar wid us -- she only lil gyurl toder day -- en now she 'clinin' to notions ob her own, en she steal away to whar she tink no one see her en tink on heaps ob tings. Won'er ef eber, like de run, she wanter go way off fum us? 0.88 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1305 "I darsn't come in," he said. "I got ter be whar I kin run en hide. Now granny, lis'n wid all yo' ears. Marse Scoville killed, woun'ed or took. I'se gwine ter fin' out which. Wen dey gits mo' settle down lak anuff dey be lookin' fer me yere, en I kyant come yere no mo', but I kin git ter Miss Lou's winder ef she hab no light in her room. I safest whar dey ain' lookin' fer me. Tell her ter put no light sho! Mebbe she hafter hep me git Marse Scoville off, ef he took en ef he woun'ed she de one ter 'tect en keer fer 'im. Dat ar Perkins kill 'im sho, ef he git de charnce. Now ef you years me toot twice lak a squinch-owl, you knows dat you got ter go en tell Miss Lou dat I need her hep en dat I gwine ter creep 'long de pazzer roof ter her winder. Ef I doan toot you keeps quiet till you sees me agin," and he disappeared. 0.87 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 268 "Well, suh, dey went dar, an' dar dey foun' 'im. Yasser! Mr. Owl sholy wuz dar. He wuz settin' up on a lim' wid his head flung under his wing, an' 'twuz all dey kin do fer ter wake 'im up. Dey hollered at 'im des loud ez dey kin, an' bimeby he woke up an' tuck his head out from under his wing an' look at um des ez solium ez a camp-meetin' preacher. Dey 'buze 'im -- dey quoiled -- dey call 'im out'n his name -- dey jowered at 'im -- but tain't do no good. He des sot dar, he did, an' look at um, an' he ain't say nuthin' 'tall. Dis make Mr. Crow an' Mr. Jaybird mighty mad, kaze when folks quoil an' can't git nobody for ter quoil back at um, it make um wusser mad dan what dey wuz at fust. Dat night when de yuther birds come home, Mr. Crow an' Mr. Jaybird, dey had a mighty tale ter tell. Some b'lieved um an' some didn't b'lieve um. Miss Jenny Wren, an' Mr. Jack Sparrow, an' Miss Cat Bird, dey b'lieved um, an' dey went on so twel de yuther birds can't hear der own years, skacely. But de big birds, dey sorter helt off, an' say dey gwine ter give Mr. Owl anudder chance. ============================================================================= TOPIC 88 -- 1063 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= horse 1814; horses 820; road 581; rode 453; back 434; saddle 414; riding 341; ride 331; side 269; mounted 254; turned 220; men 197; left 175; stable 171; man 163; speed 160; time 154; bridle 151; sight 146; fence 138; rider 138; animal 134; head 131; ahead 130; galloped 129; woods 122; pace 112; house 110; moment 109; gallop 109; wagon 108; front 105; distance 104; full 104; rein 102; dismounted 100; pony 99; steed 98; reins 94; horsemen 91; heard 90; ground 89; short 86; party 85; half 85; boys 85; field 83; mule 83; set 82; whip 81; stopped 80; horseback 80; ridden 80; put 79; made 79; foot 79; presently 79; turn 77; direction 76; hour 73; mile 73; hoofs 73; forward 72; brought 71; leaving 71; knew 69; leading 69; started 68; walk 68; tied 66; hard 65; hill 64; trot 64; miles 63; reached 63; fast 63; beast 63; horseman 63; gave 62; led 62; yard 62; straight 62; galloping 62; run 61; stop 61; wood 60; halt 60; mount 60; riders 60; dashed 59; passed 58; bushes 58; troop 58; caught 57; colt 57; animals 56; saddles 56; bound 56; coming 55; cried 53 0.79 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. 0.72 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. 0.72 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2428 At that moment the orderly came running back to say that the man had got away; a horse had been tied over in the pines, they could hear the beat of its hoofs now on the big road. 0.71 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3901 The next moment there was the clatter of horses’ feet outside, and a man riding one horse and leading another dashed up in the yard at a gallop and gave a shout: 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2508 They are mounted, Clancy on his horse -- a splendid animal -- the mulatto astride the mule. 0.70 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1022 Dan at once rode off with the two horses, and the others walked across to the edge of the clearing and waited until he rejoined them. 0.69 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 333 The men ate fast and greedily, and it was not, after all, much more than an hour, when, full fed and happy, they were mounting their horses to set off. At the last moment Alessandro drew one of them aside. "Jose," he said, "whose horse is the faster, yours or Antonio's?" 0.68 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1038 It was not more than half past six when the party set forth on their journey. Our two travellers rode along at an easy gait, and Wat Adair, throwing his rifle carelessly across his shoulder, stepped out with a long swinging step that kept him, without difficulty, abreast of the horsemen, as they pursued their way over hill and dale. 0.68 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2840 Just then there was the sound of horses galloping at top speed, and in a second Rupert Gray and Andy Stamper dashed up breathless. 0.67 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1091 "You are right! you are right!" he said. "We must get word to Stackridge, somehow!" And turning his wagon about, he drove back over the road as fast as his horse could carry them. ============================================================================= TOPIC 89 -- 370 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= years 1013; ago 479; twenty 429; ten 361; thousand 350; hundred 330; thirty 218; day 212; days 197; long 179; forty 171; man 170; fifty 168; year 160; fifteen 145; age 132; men 131; minutes 127; time 123; boy 115; twelve 114; miles 113; hours 111; times 109; months 99; remember 96; called 93; eighteen 87; sixty 81; seventy 72; back 71; lived 68; war 63; lost 62; made 61; left 60; fourteen 58; died 58; born 58; sixteen 55; month 47; live 46; younger 46; eighty 43; ninety 41; birthday 40; lives 40; dollars 38; army 37; thirteen 36; seventeen 35; met 34; weeks 34; number 33; older 33; nineteen 31; yesterday 31; week 30; remaining 30; counted 30; eleven 29; judge 29; find 29; odd 29; aged 28; fourth 27; ages 27; pounds 26; general 25; couple 25; married 25; memory 25; feet 24; numbers 24; past 24; scarcely 24; reached 23; killed 22; stranger 22; happened 21; grown 21; count 21; supposed 20; senior 19; chapter 19; oldest 19; carried 18; wrote 18; fold 18; living 18; trip 18; named 17; served 17; bought 17; fleet 16; parted 16; leaf 16; longer 15; habit 15; term 15 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 765 There was a difference of two years in the ages of Dick Percival and Walter Conly, but they were born on the same day of the same month, and their birthday would occur in less than a week. 0.66 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 482 Though scarcely sixteen years of age, Your bowie's tickled more Than many Southerners I know At fifty and three score. 0.66 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2485 "Not with seventy-five thousand men, nor with ten times that number." 0.65 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 1008 "Everything has happened to me since the day it was first a leaf," she said. "I have lived just as long as a leaf. That isn't long." 0.63 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 54 "So will you," said Tom, though, to the boy of fifteen, sixty-five appeared a very advanced age, and but little younger than eighty. 0.62 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 2314 "Captain Somers!" exclaimed the general. "I had given you up for lost. Why, you have grown ten years older in five days!" 0.62 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1464 "Do you remember, about a month ago, a man named Pearson being here?" 0.62 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1080 "I remember, sir, that he was so promising that they made him provisional captain the next trip, and he was not yet twenty-four years of age." 0.60 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 518 "No indeed, sir. The Federals numbered over sixty thousand, while Beauregard had less than thirty thousand. He did not have more than twelve thousand in the fight." 0.60 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1518 "I think it was when I was six or seven years old. That would be about twelve or thirteen years ago; but, of course, he may not have come direct to us after leaving here." ============================================================================= TOPIC 90 -- 538 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= good 2217; deal 329; fellow 191; bye 190; bad 185; man 177; laughed 166; friend 146; boys 146; friends 130; make 128; morning 125; night 124; great 117; ill 117; day 116; joke 114; natured 109; hand 100; luck 98; made 95; added 89; pretty 89; boy 88; thing 88; laugh 85; glad 82; find 81; hope 75; humor 74; turn 72; bid 70; replied 69; bade 69; kind 68; naturedly 61; gave 60; fellows 60; major 60; sir 57; heartily 57; company 54; happy 53; meet 52; hard 52; thought 52; responded 51; put 49; poor 48; kindly 48; fortune 45; general 44; spite 44; cried 44; mind 43; fine 43; feel 41; suppose 41; bidding 41; hear 40; ah 40; fun 39; carry 38; dear 38; bless 38; started 37; laughing 37; set 36; trick 36; pleasant 34; play 34; spirit 32; practical 32; mischief 32; things 31; played 31; temper 29; hearty 29; care 28; doubt 28; ugly 28; farewell 28; weather 27; rate 27; playing 27; altogether 26; satisfied 26; blamed 26; humored 26; ladies 25; merry 25; work 24; chance 24; smile 24; gentleman 24; lucky 24; eh 24; news 23; mine 23; big 23 0.68 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 866 "To be sure I ha'n't. That fellow was about as superfluous a piece of wicked flesh as I say -- as a man would meet on a summer's day journey. But for all that, Horse Shoe, he wa'n't going to supererogate me, without getting as good as he sent. When I come across one of your merry fellows that's for playing cantraps on a man, it's my rule to make them pay the piper; and that's a pretty good rule, Horse Shoe, all the world through. But come, here is supper; draw up, Mr. Butler." 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 490 "Good-bye, sir. I hope you will enjoy your travels." 0.63 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 865 "No -- no -- but it made me feel better. There, good-bye, dear, dear Nick Burr, good-bye!" 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 638 "Indeed! if you are so hard to please, I fear there will be nothing for you but old bachelorhood," laughed Elsie. "I have picked her out for you, and I believe you could win her if you tried, Harold; but I shall not try to become a match- maker." 0.62 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1447 "They naturally go together," responded Robert. "I suspect the poor fellows needed the liquor to fit them for their wicked works." 0.62 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 255 "Oh, is he? Well, only the other day I heard him say that he thought a good deal more of your shoes than he did of you," cried O'Bannon, laughing sarcastically. 0.61 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3697 "I don't see why you say that, Aunt Lillian," she replied. "Bad news travels faster than good." 0.61 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 28 "Good-bye, Smith." I have never liked my last name, but at that moment the boys contrived to put a kindness of tone into it which made it almost pleasing. "Good-bye, Smith, remember your failings." 0.59 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1417 "Bless you," replied the lieutenant, "I never suspicioned him, more than I did you. The fellow laughed so naturally that I would never have thought him a runaway." 0.58 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 873 "That's so, my boy -- good-bye, good-bye. If you see any runaway niggers you get help and nab them, and you can make some money by it." ============================================================================= TOPIC 91 -- 539 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= eyes 800; looked 269; face 242; eye 209; glance 178; mouth 176; turned 159; wide 148; laughed 144; half 135; head 133; teeth 128; open 123; exclaimed 108; set 96; blue 91; shoulders 91; great 87; fixed 87; opened 86; gave 86; boy 85; laugh 85; began 76; shut 76; asked 74; made 72; glances 72; quick 70; staring 67; red 65; hands 65; thought 60; opening 59; cried 59; breath 59; twinkle 58; stared 56; astonishment 54; suddenly 53; amazement 53; keen 53; spoke 50; turning 50; stood 50; lip 48; word 47; dark 47; knew 45; cast 45; smiled 45; flashed 45; raised 44; caught 44; stare 44; flash 43; shrugged 41; black 40; ears 40; dropped 40; muttered 40; nose 38; expression 37; faced 37; faces 37; sight 36; drew 36; casting 35; whispered 35; air 34; minute 34; round 34; moved 34; light 33; started 33; fist 32; laughing 32; angrily 31; sharply 31; pair 31; read 30; contempt 30; clenched 30; dismay 29; gaze 29; stopped 28; movement 28; dance 28; anger 28; general 27; judge 27; steadily 27; calmly 27; angry 27; gleam 27; fire 26; nervous 26; catching 26; flashing 26; returned 25 0.69 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1056 Tom was very red in the face, so was Nicholas. They looked at the judge, and the judge looked back at them with a humorous twinkle in his eyes. 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1504 Rosie was near screaming again, but catching sight of Mr. Lilburn's face, laughed instead; a little hysterical nervous laugh. 0.65 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 213 As his stepmother caught sight of him she stopped on her way to the stove and surveyed him with sharp but not unkindly eyes. 0.65 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1657 "'Sert you? Cudjo no 'sert you." But the negro spoke sullenly, and there was still a sparkle of malignancy in his look. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 405 "Will my little Charlie miss me when I am gone?" asked Mr. Frost of the chubby- faced boy who sat with great, round eyes peering into the fire, as if he were deeply engaged in thought. 0.64 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 162 Then, catching the glance of the Marquise bright with laughter, she laughed also without knowing well at what. 0.63 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 937 Plato's eyes opened wide as saucers. "Me, Mars Geo'ge?" he asked in amazement. 0.62 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 239 Aunt Chloe's hands were now waving above her head, her mouth wide open in her merriment, every tooth shining. 0.62 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 377 Her eyes flashed round upon me like stars themselves. "Not -- Venus?" she whispered, snatched in her breath, bit her lip, and half averting her face, shot me through with both "twinklers" at once. Then she took a long look at the planets and suddenly exclaimed with a scandalized air -- 0.61 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1411 "But its head's off!" said Eddie, gazing into the dish in wide-eyed astonishment. ============================================================================= TOPIC 92 -- 222 chunks >= 0.25 from 35 texts ============================================================================= country 153; land 117; great 101; years 88; mountain 88; region 75; mountains 75; wilderness 74; iron 70; grass 69; blue 64; history 63; civilization 57; soil 55; coal 55; century 48; rich 47; water 46; town 46; beautiful 45; race 44; agricultural 41; english 40; long 39; wealth 38; western 38; part 37; development 37; world 36; hundred 36; early 36; ago 35; landscape 35; vast 34; local 34; climate 33; wall 33; rural 33; towns 32; population 31; fair 31; forests 31; time 30; life 29; state 29; finest 29; found 28; mills 28; streams 28; side 28; limestone 28; level 27; scenery 27; entire 26; stock 26; pass 26; beginning 26; ancient 26; called 25; natural 25; present 24; type 24; valley 24; gap 24; native 23; times 23; site 23; grounds 23; french 22; american 22; developed 22; industry 22; valleys 22; pioneer 22; close 21; features 21; low 21; rivers 21; picturesque 21; railroads 21; future 20; eastern 20; growth 20; sea 20; settlement 20; thousand 20; city 20; pioneers 20; cities 20; idea 19; homes 19; acres 19; company 19; indian 19; agriculture 19; passes 19; coals 19; ores 19; human 18; taste 18 0.82 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. 0.75 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. 0.73 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 508 Attention is thus briefly directed to that line of towns which are springing up, or will in time spring up, in the mountain passes of the Cumberland, and are making the backwoods of Kentucky the fore-front of a new civilization. Through these three passes in the outer wall of Cumberland Mountain, and through that pass at Pineville in the inner wall behind Cumberland Gap -- through these four it is believed that there must stream the railroads carrying to the South its timbers and coals; to the North its timbers, coal, and iron; and carrying to both from these towns, as independent centres of manufacture, all those products the crude materials of which exist in economic combinations on the spot. 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 486 It was not enough to know that at Big Stone Gap there is a water-gap admitting the passage of a railway on each side at water-level, and connecting contiguous workable coals with ores; not enough repeatedly to test the abundance, variety, and purity of both of these; not enough to know that a short distance off a single vertical section of coal-measure rocks has a thickness above drainage level of 2500 feet, the thickest in the entire Appalachian coalfield from Pennsylvania to Alabama; not enough that from this point, by available railroad to the Bessemer steel ores in the Cranberry district of North Carolina, it is the shortest distance in the known world separating such coke and such ores; not enough that there are here superabundant limestone and water, the south fork of Powell's River winding about the valley, a full, bold current, and a few miles from the town the head-waters of this same river having a fall of 700 feet; not enough that near by is a rich agricultural region to supply needed markets, and that the valley itself has a natural drainage, delightful climate, and ideal beauty -- all this was not enough. It had to be known that the great water-gap through the mountain at this point, by virtue of its position and by virtue of its relation to other passes and valleys leading to it, necessitated, sooner or later, a concentration here of railroad lines for the gathering, the development, and the distribution of its resources. 0.69 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 462 The explanation of this change is not far to seek. By virtue of its commanding position as the only inner gateway to the North, this pass was the central point of distribution for south-eastern Kentucky. Flowing into the Cumberland, on the north side of the mountain, is Clear Creek, and on the south side is Strait Creek, the two principal streams of this region, and supplying water-power and drainage. Tributary to these streams are, say, half a million acres of noble timber land; in the mountains around, the best coals, coking and domestic; elsewhere, iron ores, pure brown, hematite, and carbonates; inexhaustible quantities of limestone, blue-gray sandstone, brick clays; gushing from the mountains, abundant streams of healthful freestone water; on the northern hill- sides, a deep loam suitable for grass and gardens and fruits. Add to this that through this water-gap, following the path of the Wilderness Road, as the Wilderness Road had followed the path of the Indian and the buffalo -- through this water-gap would have to pass all railroads that should connect the North and South by means of that historic and ancient highway of traffic and travel. 0.68 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 503 Parallel and near to the red fossiliferous, there has been developed along the base of Cumberland Mountain a superior brown ore, the Limonite -- the same as that used in the Low Moor, Longdale, and other furnaces of the Clifton Forge district. This -- the Oriskany -- has been traced to within ten miles of the company's lands, and there is every reason to believe that it will be developed on them. At the beginning of this article it was stated that iron of superior quality was formerly made at Big Creek Gap, and found a ready market throughout central Kentucky. 0.68 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. 0.66 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 514 Within a few years the commonwealth of Kentucky will be a hundred years old. All in all, it would seem that with the close of its first century the old Kentucky passes away; and that the second century will bring in a new Kentucky -- new in many ways, but new most of all on account of the civilization of the Cumberland. 0.65 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 476 It should be understood that the company owns property on the Tennessee side of the gap, and that at the foot of the valley, where a magnificent spring gushes out, with various other mineral springs near by -- chalybeate and sulphur -- it is proposed to establish a hotel, sanitarium, and casino which shall equal in sumptuousness the most noted European spas. 0.65 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 505 Situated in one of the most beautiful of valleys, 1200 feet above sea-level, surrounded by park-like forests and fertile valley lands, having an abundance of pure water and perfect drainage, with iron ore only a mile from coke, and a double water-gap giving easy passage for railroads, Big Creek Gap develops peculiar strength and possibilities of importance, when its relation is shown to those cities which will be its natural markets, and to the systems of railroads of which it will be the inevitable outlet. Within twenty miles of it lie three of the greatest railroad systems of the South. It is but thirty-eight miles from Knoxville, and eight miles of low-grade road, through a fertile blue-grass valley, peopled by intelligent, prosperous farmers, will put it in connection with magnetic and specular ores for the making of steel, or with the mountain of Bessemer ore at Cranberry. Its coke is about three hundred miles nearer to the Sheffield and Decatur furnaces than the Pocahontas coke which is now being shipped to them. It is nearer St. Louis and Chicago than their present sources of supply. It is the nearest point to the great coaling station for steamships now building at Brunswick. And it is one of the nearest bases of supply for Pensacola, which in turn is the nearest port of supply for Central and South America. ============================================================================= TOPIC 93 -- 255 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= water 246; fish 126; blood 79; skin 71; wet 70; hot 66; hole 63; great 60; net 52; red 51; long 48; foot 46; rain 46; small 44; fine 44; dry 43; caught 43; salt 43; cold 42; made 42; open 41; fresh 40; feathers 40; nose 39; end 38; flesh 38; body 36; clothes 35; sun 34; touch 33; sand 33; eye 32; feet 32; cut 32; bone 32; rolled 31; bull 28; size 28; drink 28; mouth 27; takes 26; air 25; hair 25; top 25; fishing 25; found 24; pounds 24; day 24; neck 24; fur 24; rubbed 24; rub 23; animal 23; surface 23; shell 23; dried 23; wash 23; cool 22; tail 22; pipe 22; horn 22; crabs 22; black 21; fat 21; bottom 21; shower 21; coat 21; catch 21; grease 21; boot 21; pieces 20; enormous 20; clean 20; heat 20; bath 20; spring 19; iron 19; blew 19; boy 19; paint 19; bed 18; edge 18; shape 18; bit 18; big 18; bucket 18; tip 18; high 17; immediately 17; soil 17; swallowed 17; basket 17; inside 17; shells 16; hippopotamus 16; weight 16; meat 16; pound 16; smell 16; feather 16 0.73 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 514 "Ohdy! dody! Look here! There is a big, black cat’s foot in this oyster’s mouth. I wonder if the cat bit off his own foot!" 0.64 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 262 "Yes, he would have rumpled its plume, so as to reverse the direction of the feathery part, and would have thrust that down the throat, below the pin or bone. On withdrawing the feather, the substance would be either found adhering to its wet sides, or raised on end, so that it could be easily swallowed." 0.63 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1335 The specific gravity of the elephant differs considerably from that of the hippopotamus. The latter animal invariably sinks when killed, and the body rises to the surface in about two hours, when the gas has distended the stomach. The body of an elephant floats on the surface immediately that it is killed, and is capable of supporting one or more persons. The cavity of the carcase is much larger in the elephant than in the hippopotamus; the latter is a dense mass of flesh, covered by an exceedingly thick and heavy skin, the specific gravity of which is considerably greater than water. 0.62 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1444 It is well known that in all countries the same species of fish differs in flavour and quality according to the water in which it is caught; thus the boulti and baggera are almost worthless in the lower Nile, compared with the same fish of the upper river. 0.62 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 94 SHOWING HOW THE GREAT BATTLE OF PARIS WAS FOUGHT AND WON BY THE MACKEREL BRIGADE, AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE IRON-PLATED FLEET OF COMMODORE HEAD 306 0.62 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 656 "Do you see that hole in the bull's eye, just the size of a bullet?" 0.62 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1442 The greater number of these fish were boulti and baggera, both of which are species of perch, and are delicious eating. I have never caught a boulti larger than five pounds, but the baggera grows to an immense size, and I have seen them about 150 lbs. or more. I once weighed a baggera upwards of 130 lbs., but they are said to attain a weight of several hundreds. 0.62 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 631 "If you have not anything, we have ," boasted Frank. "See what a big fish I caught! Isn’t it a bouncer for a little fellow like me to catch? Why, sir, he nearly pulled me into the water; but I pulled and pulled, and brother Robert came to help me, and we both pulled, and got him in. See, too, what brother Robert caught -- a big trout; and sister Mary, she caught a parcel of crabs; I caught two crabs myself. And you haven’t anything! Why, cousin Harold, are you not ashamed of yourself?" 0.61 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 117 There he scrambled, and kicked, with his heels in the air, and rolled over the topmost man, who rolled over Mr. Pepperill, who rolled over the feather-bed, which rolled again over Mr. Ropes, in a most lively and edifying manner. 0.61 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3874 The teeth are remarkable throughout Central Africa. I have examined great numbers of skulls, and I never found a decayed tooth. Many tribes extract the four front teeth of the lower jaw. The bone then closes, and forms a sharp edge like the jaw of a turtle. ============================================================================= TOPIC 94 -- 401 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= water 334; drink 221; glass 177; bottle 157; wine 149; drank 106; filled 99; drinking 95; whiskey 95; cup 86; box 82; liquor 78; table 74; tin 66; drunk 63; brandy 63; bottles 61; half 59; brought 56; large 55; poured 55; made 51; full 50; boxes 50; taking 48; strong 44; tobacco 43; bucket 42; empty 41; emptied 41; glasses 40; canteen 40; pail 40; day 39; silver 39; drop 39; spirits 39; contents 37; case 37; sugar 36; lips 36; hot 35; gourd 34; small 33; cool 32; tent 32; cider 32; contained 31; saloon 31; drinks 30; pitcher 30; spring 29; coffee 29; basket 29; taste 29; wash 29; dipped 29; goblet 29; bar 28; put 27; fill 27; rum 27; work 26; bring 26; barrel 26; handed 26; stuff 26; cups 26; ice 25; draught 25; set 25; milk 25; medicine 25; air 24; gentlemen 24; tables 24; basin 23; oil 23; soap 23; whisky 23; found 22; bottom 22; mixed 22; pocket 22; portion 21; wet 21; sorts 20; shop 20; powder 20; flour 20; bowl 20; jug 20; laugh 20; called 19; gave 19; shape 19; dozen 19; flask 19; thirst 19; drunken 19 0.71 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 541 There was yet wine upon the table. I filled a cup and brought it to her. "Drink!" I commanded. 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 688 Oft have the young "bloods" of the "City of the Bluffs," while quaffing their sherry cobblers, or champagne, toasted Helen Armstrong, with this appellation added. 0.65 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 138 I had taken extra precautions in the packing of ammunition and all perishable goods. The teak boxes for snider ammunition, also the boxes of Hale's rockets, were lined and hermetically sealed with soldered tin. The light Manchester goods and smaller articles were packed in strong, useful, painted tin boxes, with locks and hinges, &c. Each box was numbered, and when the lid was opened, a tin plate was soldered over the open face, so that the lid, when closed, locked above an hermetically sealed case. Each tin box was packed in a deal case, with a number to correspond with the box within. 0.62 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3896 Bottles. -- All wine or liquor bottles should have the necks dipped in bottle- wax thickly. Metallic capsules will be bitten through and the corks destroyed by cockroaches. 0.60 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2752 "What can it mean, Luke?" he asks, pouring out a glass of brandy, and gulping it down. 0.60 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 141 All medicines and drugs were procured from Apothecaries' Hall, and were accordingly of the best quality. 0.59 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 46 XX Speculations and Resolves -- Fishing -- Inventory of Goods and Chattels -- Roasted Fish -- Palmetto Cabbage -- Tour -- Sea-Shells, Their Uses -- The Pelican -- Nature of the Country -- Still Hunting -- Wild Turkeys Again -- Work on the Tent 0.59 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3906 A tankard with a very strong hinge to the lid is invaluable to keep out flies, but the servants will probably wrench the lid off. 0.58 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 782 "I could 'a' served it in a glass, gentlemen, but we Southe'ne's think it's sweeteh drank fum a gode." 0.58 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2775 Thus blasphemously delivering himself, he clutches at the bottle of brandy, pours out a fresh glass, and drinking it at a gulp, sits down to reflect on the next step to be taken. ============================================================================= TOPIC 95 -- 630 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= time 435; felt 307; thought 253; knew 182; uncle 161; return 158; cousin 152; part 146; long 145; change 139; fact 137; greatly 135; appeared 133; mind 123; returned 120; manner 119; presence 116; found 109; feeling 105; appearance 104; gave 99; surprised 99; opportunity 96; state 93; purpose 90; occurred 86; feared 83; affairs 83; absence 82; possibly 82; expected 81; relieved 81; caused 80; hope 79; reason 77; hoped 77; day 76; coming 73; whately 72; observed 71; brother 70; resolved 69; make 69; fears 69; idea 68; assured 68; absent 68; watched 67; surprise 66; fear 66; watch 66; immediately 63; thinking 62; condition 61; declared 61; making 61; circumstances 61; danger 61; suspicion 61; matters 60; usual 59; object 58; left 58; entered 58; rival 57; case 57; waited 57; happened 57; anxiety 57; promised 57; disturbed 57; anxious 56; silence 56; eye 55; leave 55; find 55; necessity 55; evident 54; pleased 54; supposed 54; evidently 54; excitement 53; considered 52; present 52; improved 52; assumed 51; proved 51; weeks 51; suspicions 51; determined 50; result 50; deeply 50; wondering 50; remained 49; readily 49; wife 49; sudden 48; confusion 48; great 47; doubt 47 0.71 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 226 Several earthquakes have lately been felt in this part of the globe. Coming events cast their shocks before. 0.69 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1645 As there seemed no clew to the mystery, and as, moreover, Gilbert had no suspicion that the visitor was on an unlawful errand, he dismissed it from his mind. 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2746 "Are you not too hasty? Will you not take more time for reflection? Is your decision mature and final?" 0.65 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 425 With regard to the false report of Quat Kare's death, there could be no doubt that the firman for his rival Jangy had been obtained from the Khedive under false pretences. 0.64 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2184 "I got leave of absence, to come and see you, Daisy. And you have grown, and improved. You're wonderfully improved. Are you the very same Daisy? and what are you going to do here?" 0.62 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1296 Two weeks from this time Durward again went down to Frankfort, determining, if a favorable opportunity presented itself, to offer 'Lena his heart and fortune. 0.61 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 634 She was not asleep when he entered her presence, which was so unusual a state of affairs that he found it a little alarming. 0.61 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2156 The lady who caused all this suppressed anxiety was, apparently, care-free herself, or only disturbed slightly over the report concerning Louise. She knew the girl was in no real danger, but she knew, also, that at any hint of suspicion Louise would be in terror until joined by her mistress. 0.61 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1239 "I have not that pleasure, but report prepares me to find him extremely agreeable. I am rejoiced at the prospect of meeting him. Some time ago, just before I left Paris, I received a message from him, challenging me to a flirtation at sight so soon as an opportunity presented itself." 0.60 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1779 Then the idea occurs, he may be coming to seek them, sent with some message from the house, and if so, they can excuse him. Concluding his errand to be this, they await it, in silence. ============================================================================= TOPIC 96 -- 1759 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= time 1278; night 1009; day 1009; good 988; back 983; home 855; long 837; till 707; morrow 606; morning 558; wait 546; give 518; stay 498; leave 483; find 462; make 407; send 391; thought 381; told 343; bring 331; hear 325; ready 323; place 297; house 292; hope 287; ago 275; talk 269; longer 259; asked 242; meet 238; coming 237; week 228; answered 222; business 220; call 219; ride 208; start 204; word 201; expect 196; glad 191; suppose 190; afraid 187; hour 186; wo 186; mother 185; safe 182; replied 179; work 173; live 171; tired 168; remember 161; days 159; evening 158; rest 155; mind 152; news 149; sit 147; return 144; turn 144; write 143; friends 141; forget 141; late 140; things 139; afternoon 139; friend 138; waiting 136; town 134; wanted 132; added 130; lose 130; miss 130; remain 125; show 125; chance 124; weeks 123; hours 121; run 121; yesterday 119; put 118; feel 118; trust 117; care 114; minutes 113; stop 111; minute 110; promised 110; father 109; hurry 108; ah 108; walk 106; sleep 104; end 103; doubt 101; watch 99; horse 97; remarked 96; pass 93; short 92; wife 92 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 11 "But, Hannah, it is very uncertain when he will return, and the night is so stormy he may remain in town until to-morrow. Advise her to call again in the morning." 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 25 "Clinton, you had better be off; you have barely time to catch the Knoxville train, which leaves Chattanooga in half an hour. I would advise you to make a long stay in New York, for there will be trouble when Dent's brother hears of this morning's work." 0.73 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1198 "Mr. Ferguson advises me to stay here for the present. He says I am as likely to hear of my uncle, if I stay in Cincinnati, as if I travel round the country after him." 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1759 "I dare say your mother thinks I have run away with you; and as I have an engagement, I must either bid you good-bye and leave you here with Mr. Murray, or go back at once with you to the house." 0.71 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1687 "I'd be glad to go to work to-morrow, too," said Ella. "I'd be glad of anything to make the time pass." 0.71 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 479 They wanted Jacquelin to stay with them and let them take care of him until his mother could send for him. Captain Allen had been down to see about him, and Andy Stamper had been there several times, and had said that if he didn’t hear anything from him next time, he was going North to see about him, if he had to ride his old horse there. 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 635 "No, he won't be home till supper time. But, of course, you'll stay to supper?" 0.70 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2260 "I believe you, and trust you. I shall be here to-morrow morning early, and shall hope to hear something from you. Good-by." 0.70 Jackson_Helen_Hunt_Ramona_PG_2802.txt 1240 "We must ride all night, Majella," said Alessandro, "and lose no time. It is a long way to the place where we shall stay to-morrow." 0.70 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3176 "Virginia," said Mrs. Colfax, the next morning on coming downstairs, "I am going back to Bellegarde today. I really cannot put up with such a person as Comyn had here to tea last night." ============================================================================= TOPIC 97 -- 1621 chunks >= 0.25 from 51 texts ============================================================================= enemy 718; men 693; troops 632; line 619; army 513; position 437; battle 423; left 372; rebels 367; force 362; attack 339; front 327; fire 315; advance 306; division 294; lines 290; rear 269; back 249; batteries 231; brigade 230; road 228; field 224; moved 221; artillery 218; guns 213; morning 213; command 211; forward 203; movement 203; ground 193; cavalry 191; retreat 188; river 186; regiment 184; made 184; day 160; flank 157; town 152; march 150; officers 143; night 143; bridge 142; fight 140; woods 137; move 136; forces 134; marched 134; soldiers 133; hundred 133; column 132; held 131; hill 131; corps 130; fighting 128; advanced 127; thousand 126; battery 124; ordered 124; order 123; heavy 123; general 120; miles 118; divisions 118; regiments 117; great 116; infantry 116; reached 116; captured 115; point 114; moving 114; advancing 114; fell 110; wounded 110; prisoners 106; time 105; loss 102; formed 99; thirty 94; part 93; crossed 92; driven 91; charge 91; past 91; afternoon 91; lost 89; ranks 89; arrived 88; firing 88; began 87; fought 87; works 86; strong 86; opened 85; main 85; found 85; city 85; pickets 85; brought 84; south 83; commanded 83 0.93 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 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. 0.91 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. 0.91 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1933 Through the forenoon it was evident that Lee was preparing for another attack. He had reconnoitred the ground with Longstreet in the morning, and decided to assault Meade's line between the cemetery and Weed's Hill with a strong force. He could form the attacking column out of sight, in the woods west of Codori's house. In advancing the troops would be sheltered till they reached the Emmettsburg road. Howard's guns in the cemetery would trouble them most by enfilading the lines. Howard must be silenced by a concentrated artillery fire. The cemetery could be seen from every part of the line occupied by the Rebels, and all the available batteries were brought into position to play upon it, and upon the position occupied by the Second Corps. 0.90 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. 0.90 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2182 On the afternoon of the 19th Ewell gained the rear of Grant's right flank, and came suddenly upon Tyler's division of heavy artillery, armed as infantry, just arrived upon the field. Though surprised, they held the enemy in check, forced him back, and with aid from the Second Corps compelled him to retreat with great loss. This attack was made to cover Lee's withdrawal to the North Anna. His troops were already on the march. 0.90 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 670 The battle was known as Cedar Run, and it completely checked Pope's advance upon Richmond. The troops were too much exhausted to follow up their victory, but Jackson urged them to press forward. They moved a mile and a half in advance, and then found themselves so strongly opposed that Jackson, believing that the enemy must have received reinforcements, halted his men. Colonel Jones was sent forward to reconnoiter, and discovered that a large force had joined the enemy. 0.90 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3576 It was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon before the Sixth Corps came up with the Rebels. This corps had been marching southwest; but when the skirmishers discovered the enemy, Wright halted Seymour's division, which was in advance, faced it west, while Wheaton's division filed past Seymour's and took position on the left. The third division was in reserve. The cavalry was on the left of Wheaton. Sheridan found himself confronted by Ewell's and Kershaw's divisions, which were strongly intrenched. 0.89 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1159 Unable to withstand the onset of the whole of Jackson's force (with the exception of a portion of Taliferro's reserves), Meade was obliged to fall back, and give up the position won by such heroic valor. As his troops went to the rear, they met Ward's brigade of Birney's division advancing. The Rebels were in full pursuit. Birney wheeled his batteries into position, and opened with canister, and the Rebels fled to the shelter of the woods. 0.89 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2902 General Howard, commanding the right wing, took transports with the Seventeenth Corps, Blair's, for Beaufort, whence he pushed into the interior, striking the Charleston and Savannah Railroad at Pocatoligo, and establishing there a depot of supplies. The Fifteenth Corps, Logan's, followed, except Corse's division, which, being prevented by freshets from marching direct to Pocatoligo, moved with the left wing, commanded by Williams, joining the Twentieth Corps, and crossing the Savannah marched to Hardeeville, on the Charleston Railroad, and opened communication with Howard. ============================================================================= TOPIC 98 -- 549 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= story 338; conversation 283; told 267; laughed 234; asked 223; talk 216; listened 203; heard 199; interested 179; hear 167; interest 151; words 137; talking 116; subject 113; deeply 110; laughing 106; talked 104; began 103; thought 100; general 93; finished 90; laugh 90; remark 76; related 75; stories 75; knew 74; questions 74; listening 73; interrupted 72; greatly 71; amused 71; word 69; strange 67; father 66; listen 65; fact 64; affair 64; spoke 63; telling 62; ears 57; narrative 56; beginning 56; part 55; excited 55; earnest 55; manner 54; gave 54; true 54; silence 54; inquired 54; friend 51; full 50; stopped 50; matter 49; sentence 49; speech 47; pig 47; answered 46; speaking 46; heartily 46; end 44; mind 44; point 44; intense 44; appeared 43; interesting 43; engaged 43; giving 43; table 43; forgot 43; description 42; silent 42; tale 42; unusual 42; funny 42; met 41; astonished 41; adventure 41; moment 41; made 40; rest 40; briefly 40; conclusion 38; changed 38; commenced 38; looked 38; reminded 38; repeated 38; supposed 37; party 37; thinking 37; time 36; effect 36; suspicion 36; joke 36; companion 35; added 33; names 33; curious 33; ended 33 0.73 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 409 He paused and thought the matter over carefully before finishing his sentence. He ended it at last in a singular manner. 0.69 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 298 Pig! Pig! Pig-goo! Pig! Pig! Pig-gee! 0.69 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 285 Pig! Pig! Pig-goo! Pig! Pig! Pig-gee! 0.66 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 4150 I told him "Uncle Billy." And, thinking the story of the white socks might amuse him, I told him that. It did amuse him. 0.66 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1849 Florry spoke as though she intended this remark to be the end of the conversation on that subject, and Christy felt quite sure that she was not deeply interested in the commander of Fort Gaines. 0.65 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 768 Tom told the story with which we are already familiar. Mr. Ferguson listened with strong intent. When it was finished, he said: 0.65 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 739 He stopped in a part of the room where two Northerners were laughing at a keen skirmish of words between Garnet and Halliday. These two had gotten upon politics, and others were drawing near, full of eager but unplayful smiles. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 231 "Where is the West Wind now?" inquired Christy, deeply interested in the subject at this point. 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 937 "Pig-gee! Pig-gii! Pig-goo!" 0.64 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2174 "You'd better begin at the beginning of this story, if it has one," suggested Monroe, who could see the man was intensely in earnest, "and I should like to know why you are mixing Madame Caron in the affair." ============================================================================= TOPIC 99 -- 595 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= dog 362; dogs 283; wild 240; game 153; tree 146; boys 119; deer 118; animal 117; woods 114; tail 113; shot 101; hunting 99; trail 95; bear 94; hounds 93; heard 89; gun 86; birds 85; hunt 84; panther 84; ran 82; cat 80; bird 79; large 75; sheep 74; long 68; wolf 68; made 67; caught 67; hound 66; coon 64; human 63; horses 62; hunter 61; blood 61; track 61; killed 59; brute 58; cow 57; hunters 56; squirrel 55; turkeys 55; water 54; skin 54; creature 54; young 53; beasts 53; running 53; shoot 53; beast 53; called 52; master 52; rifle 52; run 51; head 50; bull 50; cows 50; bark 50; barking 50; black 48; wolves 48; hogs 48; fire 47; lost 47; legs 47; grass 47; pen 47; scent 47; fox 46; pigs 45; squirrels 45; kill 44; swamp 43; ears 43; savage 42; trees 42; trap 42; heels 42; growl 42; sight 41; pack 40; hungry 40; chickens 40; animals 39; ground 39; creatures 39; pursuit 39; catch 38; tent 38; farther 38; rabbit 38; big 37; chase 37; hunted 37; spot 36; lion 35; keeping 35; show 34; meat 34; cats 34 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 489 Sure enough! There they were, fast in the pen, fighting and snorting to get out, and tearing around with the bristles high on their round backs, the old sow and seven large young hogs; while a litter of eight little pigs, as the boys ran up, squeezed through the rails, and, squealing, dashed away into the grass. 0.66 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3333 Of course they ought to have been shot in a batch; but I could not afford to shoot them. I had to catch and tame my wild beasts instead of destroying them. 0.63 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3105 They scatter in search of him, by twos and threes, rushing from tent to tent. Some proceed to the corral, there to see that the bars are down, and the horses out. 0.63 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. 0.60 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." 0.60 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 765 "Why, he isn't following the track of the fox," exclaimed Miss Carter. "I thought hounds trailed foxes by the scent." 0.60 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 464 "Wild!" said Preston. "About as wild as a tame sloth." 0.59 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2764 At about 3 A.M. the lowing of cattle was heard, as though Kabba Rega's cows were being driven off. 0.59 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1002 "O, do let me go with you," begged Frank. "I am so tired of being cooped up here under this oak tree, and running for ever to the spring and to the oyster bank. I want to go either hunting or fishing." 0.56 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 592 "Harold," said Robert, "do you know how to distinguish a poisonous snake from a harmless one?" len(cells_accounted_for) 81820
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import json
def serialize_object(obj, file_name):
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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)
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