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))
71
We're going to use spacy to identify proper nouns.
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
print(spacy.__version__)
2.2.3
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))
50 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) 47221 len(gensim_corpus) 140960 len(gensim_lda_corpus) 140960
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 -- 1771 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= back 530; man 524; fell 458; feet 441; hand 429; moment 396; head 391; cried 320; blood 297; ground 296; hands 289; made 280; dead 269; seized 253; blow 249; struck 249; instant 249; arm 247; arms 241; cry 238; face 236; eyes 230; time 229; turned 227; stood 227; sprang 219; threw 216; held 201; forward 201; wild 198; body 195; rushed 185; suddenly 183; half 179; rage 179; caught 177; sword 166; gave 166; breath 163; strength 159; terror 156; hold 149; ran 142; cut 142; left 139; foot 134; lay 133; knife 132; sudden 130; death 128; began 126; side 126; broke 124; teeth 120; effort 119; mad 113; falling 112; life 111; knees 111; air 108; fall 108; drew 108; fury 108; grasp 108; floor 107; throat 107; sight 105; raised 104; crowd 101; screamed 100; force 99; fallen 99; voice 99; dropped 99; dragged 96; quick 96; horror 95; flung 94; heavy 93; lost 93; men 92; fear 92; rushing 92; broken 91; desperate 91; fire 90; fierce 90; terrible 89; youth 89; breast 89; shouted 89; uttered 89; cries 88; leaped 87; helpless 86; brought 85; rose 85; instantly 85; black 84; pain 84 0.83 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 548 Suddenly his legs seemed to die. He sank writhing to the ground. He tried to arise. In his efforts against the numbing pain he was like a man wrestling with a creature of the air. 0.81 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. 0.79 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 543 The man screamed: "Let go me! Let go me!" His face was livid and his eyes were rolling uncontrolled. He was heaving and panting. He still grasped his rifle, perhaps having forgotten to release his hold upon it. He tugged frantically, and the youth being compelled to lean forward was dragged several paces. 0.79 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 309 Leaping from his horse, Mr. Murray strode up, and with a quick movement seized the heavy brass collar of the savage creature, hurled him back on his haunches, and held him thus, giving vent the while to a volley of oaths. 0.78 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1739 With an oath Roach brought down the club. Landless swerved, and the blow fell harmlessly; before the arm could be again raised, he caught it, held it with a grasp of steel, and shortened his sword. The miscreant saw his death, and screamed for mercy. "Remember Robert Godwyn!" said Landless, and drove the blade home. 0.78 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1871 I struck at him with the dagger in my right hand, and wounded him, but not deeply, in the side. He gave blow for blow, but his poniard scarce drew blood, so nerveless was the arm that would have driven it home. I struck again, and he stabbed weakly at the air, then let his arm drop to his side, as though the light and jeweled blade had weighed it down. 0.78 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 546 "Well, then!" bawled the man in a lurid rage. He adroitly and fiercely swung his rifle. It crushed upon the youth's head. The man ran on. 0.76 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1755 He gave a shrill and peculiar whistle which brought to him half a dozen Indians. He pointed to the body of Grey Wolf and then to Landless. A yell burst from the lips of the savages, and they rushed upon the latter. He met them, ran his sword through the heart of the first, of the second: Sir Charles moaned, stirred, and struggled to his knees. A third raised his knife; it would have descended, but Landless darted between the savage and the half-dazed, utterly helpless man at whom the blow was aimed, struck up the arm, and plunged his sword into the dark breast. A broken oar, snatched from the floor by the mulatto, descended upon his head, and with a woman's scream sounding in his ear, he fell heavily to the floor, and lay as one dead. 0.75 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 287 The Major advanced with the broken whip uplifted. Cornelius ran backward to the steps and rolled clear to the ground. The whip was tossed after him. With a gnashing curse he snatched it up and hurried off, moaning and writhing, into the darkness, down by the spring-house. 0.75 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 400 She started. A shiver ran through her frame, and her fingers clutched his convulsively. "What do you mean?" she gasped. "Oh, my Lord, what does the man mean?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 1 -- 501 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= music 352; voice 293; sing 272; song 259; singing 252; sang 199; dance 144; heard 130; church 119; sweet 118; songs 111; sung 110; hymn 104; voices 96; words 95; hear 91; played 87; chorus 87; choir 84; bird 82; play 79; notes 79; began 75; musical 74; playing 74; tune 74; piano 71; dancing 69; air 68; organ 61; soul 60; danced 58; called 56; solemn 55; sound 53; prayer 53; parson 53; note 52; time 51; melody 51; flute 50; ear 49; listened 48; hymns 44; ears 43; joined 42; band 42; laughter 41; birds 40; strains 40; tones 40; soft 39; happy 38; clear 38; gay 38; nets 38; full 37; school 37; strain 37; merry 37; spirit 36; instrument 36; book 36; widow 36; heart 35; sat 34; listen 34; praise 34; violin 34; listening 33; begun 33; melodious 33; mender 32; grand 31; ceased 31; silent 31; low 31; till 30; refrain 30; verse 30; rich 29; broke 29; evening 29; rest 29; delight 29; meeting 28; dancers 28; harp 28; singer 28; plaintive 28; home 27; love 27; repeated 27; bass 27; sweetly 27; end 26; struck 26; joy 26; airs 26; wild 25 0.75 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 554 Amid the fresh stir a tremulous female voice raised a hymn, another caught it up, and another -- voices strong and beautiful; alto voices soft as flute notes blended with the rich bass notes and triumphant tenors that welled from the choir, and floated in from the windows, until the body of the church itself seemed almost to sway with the rhythmic movement of the stirring hymn 0.75 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3117 He struck a few majestic chords, and began singing that grand old Latin piece, the "Dies Irae." 0.75 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 734 -- sang the flageolet and little fiddles, while the double bass and the bassoon grunted out their corroborative testimony with melodious unction. Presently the instruments changed their mood, the flageolet pretended to be a mocking-bird, all trills, the fiddles passionately declared they were dreaming now-ow of Hallie -- tr-r-r-ee! -- dear Hallie -- tr-r-r-ee! -- sweet Hallie -- tr-r-r-ee! and the bassoon and double bass responded from the depths of their emotions, "Hmmh! hmmh! hm-hm-hmmh!" 0.74 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1523 he sang in the loudest strain, trying the words on different keys, and introducing some variations in the tune -- 0.73 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1521 After the exercises of the religious meeting were concluded, the chairs were set aside, and they began a "praise meeting," or singing meeting. Most of their music is plaintive. The piece frequently commences with a recitative by one voice, and at the end of the first line the chorus joins. The words are often improvised to suit the occasion. 0.71 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?" 0.66 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 391 'Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub, thus strike their drums, 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 13 These words of the prophet upon Shigionoth were sung by a sweet, happy, childish voice, and to a strange, wild, anomalous tune -- solemn as the Hebrew chant of Deborah, and fully as triumphant. 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1566 "Thank you," she said again, as the last strain died away. "Hark! I hear sweeter, richer melody, the angels have come for me, Jesus is here. Lord Jesus receive my spirit." 0.62 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3205 "Along that dreary waste where lately rung The festal lay which smiling virgins sung, Where rapture echoed from the warbling lute, And the gay dance resounded, all was mute." ============================================================================= TOPIC 2 -- 319 chunks >= 0.25 from 48 texts ============================================================================= men 690; women 285; soldiers 168; children 164; crowd 127; faces 126; great 98; wagons 86; horses 85; camp 81; heads 79; red 71; boys 71; flag 71; blue 69; arms 67; negroes 67; streets 64; thousands 63; side 59; hats 58; white 57; regiment 55; bodies 54; long 53; line 50; sight 50; cheers 50; officers 49; young 48; made 47; filled 47; mothers 47; youth 46; groups 46; hundred 45; scene 43; gray 43; girls 42; began 41; comrades 41; boxes 40; waving 39; cheer 39; gathered 39; places 38; running 37; tents 37; ragged 37; coats 37; thrown 36; ladies 36; group 36; flags 35; ranks 35; fellows 33; shouting 33; backs 33; mules 33; caps 32; waved 32; thousand 31; moving 31; ground 31; carriages 30; hundreds 30; wives 30; presently 30; hearts 30; people 29; mud 29; food 29; excited 29; confusion 28; hands 28; wild 28; marched 28; loud 28; gay 28; marching 28; throng 28; stores 27; clothing 27; dirty 27; fro 27; barrels 26; standing 26; number 25; servants 25; train 25; excitement 25; prisoners 25; eager 25; crying 25; wagon 25; jackets 25; drivers 25; mass 24; hurrying 24; loaded 24 0.68 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 243 Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm of running men who were giving shrill yells. They came on, stooping and swinging their rifles at all angles. A flag, tilted forward, sped near the front. 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2765 Two negro women passed me, carrying great bundles on their heads. 0.66 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1452 And now ensued the usual turmoil of landing -- waiters running twenty ways at once -- men tugging trunks, carpet-bags, boxes -- women anxiously calling to their children, and everybody crowding in a dense mass to the plank towards the landing. 0.62 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2365 On Twelfth Street the sun is shining, drums are beating, and bands are playing, and bright aides dashing hither and thither on spirited chargers. One by one the companies are marching up, and taking place in line; the city companies in natty gray fatigue, the country companies often in their Sunday clothes. But they walk with heads erect and chests out, and the ladies wave their gay parasols and cheer them. Here are the aristocratic St. Louis Grays, Company A; there come the Washington Guards and Washington Blues, and Laclede Guards and Missouri Guards and Davis Guards. Yes, this is Secession Day, this Monday. And the colors are the Stars and Stripes and the Arms of Missouri crossed. 0.62 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 425 Gradually the men of the Seventh marched out of their armory. Hands had been wrung, adieus said, last fond embraces and farewells given. The regiment formed in the open square, the crowd about it so dense as to seem stifling, the windows of its building rilled with the sweetest and finest and fairest of faces, -- the mothers, wives, and sweethearts of these young splendid fellows just ready to march away. 0.62 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1016 "Cheer after cheer we sent them, As only armies can, -- Cheers for old Massachusetts, Cheers for young Michigan! 0.61 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3030 Four years pass, and Sumter is repossessed by the troops of the Union. How cheering the sight to behold once more the crimson folds and fadeless stars of our country's flag waving in the sunlight over the crumbled walls! 0.61 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3181 Around them gathered a dusky crowd of men, women, and children, dancing, shouting, mad with very joy. Mothers held up their little ones to see the men in blue, to catch a sight of the starry flag, with its crimson folds and tassels of gold. 0.57 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 831 They galloped together down the regimental front. The friend scrambled after them. In front of the colors the three men began to bawl: "Come on! come on!" They danced and gyrated like tortured savages. 0.57 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 260 "Halloo," shouted Captain Tabor, and two more men came running to the side, then more still, till it was overhung by a whole row of red English faces. ============================================================================= TOPIC 3 -- 944 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= man 438; girl 234; good 224; matter 203; make 199; father 190; feel 178; mind 175; made 155; respect 154; feelings 150; reason 149; question 139; feeling 136; friend 132; honest 131; people 129; wrong 127; give 124; words 121; cousin 120; son 114; regard 113; kindness 107; duty 106; natural 105; speak 105; confidence 104; present 104; truth 104; southern 102; heart 99; views 99; opinion 98; trust 98; fact 94; sympathy 92; understand 90; sense 90; felt 85; act 82; hard 82; treated 81; believed 81; admit 81; love 81; earnest 81; subject 79; fear 77; open 74; hope 74; whately 74; doubt 73; interests 72; belief 72; personal 71; led 71; northern 71; long 70; nature 70; courtesy 70; treat 70; kind 69; win 69; friends 69; express 69; word 68; knew 67; sincere 67; scarcely 67; trouble 66; simple 66; manner 66; true 66; men 65; prove 65; expressed 62; things 62; character 61; means 60; brother 60; effort 59; consideration 59; position 58; young 58; circumstances 58; conduct 58; care 57; interest 57; matters 57; due 56; hand 56; side 56; altogether 56; future 55; compelled 55; shown 55; capable 55; general 54; influence 54 0.78 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 141 "Mara, I am not mistaken. Will you be fair enough to listen to me? We agree that we differ. Can we not also agree that we differ conscientiously? You cannot think me false, even though you say I am mistaken. Hitherto you have opposed to me a dead wall of silence. Though you will not listen to me as a lover, you might both listen and speak to me as a friend. That word would be hollow indeed if estrangment could result from honest differences of opinion." 0.78 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." 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 352 "I only fear your misplaced sympathy may induce you to compromise your ministerial dignity and consistency, for it is quite evident to me that your judgment does not now acquit you in this matter -- whatever it may be." 0.74 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 801 "Yes," added Mr. Baron, "my sister has convinced me, somewhat against my will, I must in honesty admit, that such hospitality as we can offer under the circumstances is your due." 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1626 "I mean, that at present she prefers to keep you here, because it is best for your own interests; and in all that she does, I believe your future welfare is her chief aim. You understand me, do you not?" 0.71 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 651 "Ella," interrupted her father, firmly, "I do not often cross you, but you must let me decide this question. Mara is capable of any degree of self-sacrifice, of even something like a noble deception in this case. No, this cannot be. I would protect that girl even as I would you, and you both need protection against your own generous impulses more than all else." 0.71 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1615 "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Hunter, but I differ with you. While I cannot share in many of Mr. Clancy's views and affiliations, he has the reputation of being sincere and straightforward. Even his enemies must admit that he seeks to make his friendliness to the North conducive to Southern interests." 0.70 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2542 "Probably I should; yet I prefer that you should express your wishes, and afford me an opportunity of judging of their propriety." 0.70 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 469 "Why do you ask that? What possible difference can it make? They were shown me in strict confidence. I had long believed you cared more for another girl than you did for me, and these letters proved it." 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2751 "I am grateful for your kind intentions, but they result from some erroneous impression. My individual welfare is bound up with those whom you know not, and at all events I prefer not to discuss it." ============================================================================= TOPIC 4 -- 1425 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= money 1173; dollars 837; pay 563; hundred 534; thousand 377; paid 302; ten 272; buy 267; give 261; man 241; made 234; dollar 219; worth 215; good 212; twenty 211; bought 195; sold 194; day 189; sell 189; fifty 172; price 169; make 158; sum 155; business 151; property 149; land 148; half 148; gold 136; amount 130; year 128; stock 127; cents 124; cent 123; place 122; bill 121; week 111; sale 109; store 108; back 107; put 106; cost 101; pocket 99; wages 93; gave 92; month 92; times 91; market 90; offered 89; hands 89; mortgage 88; rich 86; cotton 85; estate 83; purchase 82; small 81; fifteen 81; claim 81; interest 79; thirty 74; work 73; bonds 73; years 72; share 72; bills 69; forty 68; left 67; large 64; free 64; bank 64; taxes 63; pounds 63; counted 63; farm 62; mother 61; loan 61; paying 60; fortune 60; paper 60; wanted 59; days 58; bring 58; earn 58; capital 57; clothes 57; gentlemen 57; debt 57; high 56; hard 56; hold 56; cash 56; spend 56; government 55; months 55; goods 55; possession 54; town 53; raise 53; living 53; cheap 51; lost 51 0.85 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." 0.79 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1926 "I suppose you will give me immediate notice, should it be necessary. We can pay four hundred dollars now. So, if you please, the new mortgage can be made out for half the present amount." 0.79 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 4363 "C -- -- . Full black; stolen from Africa; sold in New Orleans; been free fifteen years; paid for himself six hundred dollars; a farmer; owns several farms in Indiana; Presbyterian; probably worth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, all earned by himself. 0.76 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 330 Then I made my errand known. I had some fifty pounds saved up from the wreck of my fortunes; 'twas a third more than the goods were worth. Would he but take it, pay the London merchant who had furnished them, and have the remainder for his trouble? 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3089 The entire amount of the State loan of one million eight hundred thousand dollars issued under that act was taken by the banks of the State. Every bank with the exception of the Bank of Camden and the Commercial Bank of Columbia subscribed to the stock. The seven Charleston banks at this early stage of the war had loaned the State permanently eleven hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.[92] 0.74 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. 0.74 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. 0.73 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 613 "Wal," said Haley, "if I gives you the job, it's worth something, -- say ten per cent. on the profits, expenses paid." 0.73 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 434 Come, gentlemen, come, this here's a joke -- eight twenty-five. She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. -- Mr. -- you have the advantage of me, suh." 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1527 Hiram Still had become the largest property-holder in the county. “I don’t know so much about these here paper stocks,” he said to his son. “But I know good land, and when you’ve got land you’ve got it, and everybody knows you’ve got it.” ============================================================================= TOPIC 5 -- 729 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= love 1170; woman 723; wife 484; girl 384; loved 373; man 339; marry 329; married 317; husband 315; heart 302; mother 290; child 248; life 221; true 207; marriage 200; world 181; women 180; day 175; happy 172; young 171; sister 159; dear 158; knew 156; daughter 152; bride 141; poor 133; friend 126; thought 122; happiness 113; long 110; pretty 107; children 101; loves 98; years 97; time 97; told 96; proud 96; lover 93; father 89; lady 87; make 84; lived 83; eyes 82; live 74; care 73; widow 73; men 70; sake 70; thing 69; left 67; reason 65; worthy 65; wedding 65; bring 64; affection 64; baby 64; feel 63; choice 63; home 62; beautiful 62; beauty 59; engaged 57; girls 57; joy 57; cousin 57; fancy 57; mine 56; ah 56; night 55; sweetheart 55; lost 53; asked 52; handsome 52; mistress 52; lovers 52; creature 51; darling 50; son 49; part 48; weeks 48; die 48; kind 46; loving 46; rich 43; marrying 43; free 42; mere 42; lovely 42; fortune 41; mothers 41; passion 41; union 41; image 41; maid 41; death 40; eyed 40; jealous 39; affectionate 39; grace 38; promised 37 0.76 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 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 454 "Sir Humphrey," said I, "it is not what you would, nor what I would, nor what any other man would, but what be best for Mary Cavendish, and her true happiness of life, that is to consider, whether you love her, or I love her, or any other man love her." 0.69 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1624 "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. But because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you ." 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1590 "I have no sweetheart. I love my Hero, because he is truly noble and sagacious; because he loves me, and because he is mine -- all mine." 0.69 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 737 "Is the best in the world! Now, my dear old friend -- the best friend I ever had -- I want your consent and General Temple's -- I want it very much, but it isn't absolutely necessary. Jacqueline and I are to be married. We settled that last night." 0.68 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 502 "Yes, and why, and why? Oh, Harry, 'tis that which is breaking my heart. 'Tis because you love Mary, 'tis because, I verily believe, you have loved her from the first minute you set eyes on her, though she was but a baby in arms. At first I thought it was Catherine, in spite of her fault, but now I know it was for the sake of Mary that you sacrificed yourself -- for her sister, Harry, I know, I know, and I would to God that I could give you your heart's desire, for 'tis mine also!" 0.68 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 369 “Yes, my son, I know.” And the mother sighed, her heart breaking in spite of her resolve to be brave. 0.66 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 158 "Promise me -- promise me, Adam, until we are married, and -- yes, after we are married -- as long as I live, that you will never believe anything of me until you know that it is true!" 0.66 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 628 "If he could only forget her obscure birth -- if he could only consent to marry her -- what a splendid match it would be for her?" 0.66 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1099 She does not care -- no. It is not this that afflicts her. Could she but bring him to life again, she would laugh the world to scorn, brave the frowns of her father, to prove herself a true woman by becoming the wife of him her heart had chosen for a husband. ============================================================================= TOPIC 6 -- 408 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= time 437; night 406; found 382; house 352; day 330; place 319; left 305; home 300; back 261; long 260; search 259; returned 254; thought 190; made 175; heard 172; knew 168; set 139; reached 136; return 132; hour 127; late 112; party 112; hours 112; morning 111; passed 110; company 95; woods 94; returning 93; missing 93; dark 87; felt 84; learned 79; discovered 76; started 76; rest 75; met 73; walked 72; finding 71; meeting 70; leaving 70; half 67; swamp 64; thinking 64; missed 64; hurried 63; arrived 62; town 62; carried 61; began 61; happened 60; safe 59; plantation 58; accident 56; wrong 56; minutes 53; pass 53; coming 53; till 52; evening 52; storm 52; store 50; hiding 50; man 49; negroes 49; person 48; showed 48; carrying 47; short 47; fear 47; news 47; fact 46; stay 45; remained 44; absence 44; passing 44; absent 44; distance 43; turned 42; ten 42; afterward 42; meet 41; spot 41; bring 41; told 41; taking 40; trace 39; disappeared 39; turn 39; finally 39; point 38; usual 38; shortly 38; forgotten 38; dinner 38; stayed 38; determined 37; fields 37; pursued 37; starting 36; proved 35 0.73 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1027 "You did well," he said, "to turn off up the mountain; for I am not the only man that passed you there. You have been pursued. Three persons have gone on after you. I met them as I was going into town; they inquired of me if I had seen you, and when I got home I found they had passed here in search of you. They have not yet gone back." 0.72 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1776 Leffie knew her mother didn’t mean more than half what she said, but she chose to keep silent, hoping each morning that the close of the day would bring the long absent Rondeau. Thus, between scolding and fretting, cooking and sweating, Aunt Dilsey passed the time until the day arrived on which, as she said, "they’d come if they ever did." 0.70 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 60 XXXIV Second Voyage to the Wreck -- Fumigating Again -- More Minute Examination -- Return -- Accident -- Dangers of Helping A Drowning Person -- Recovering a Person Apparently Drowned 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1355 He thought it not prudent to go directly to the spot where he had left his horse, but reached it by a circuitous route, doffing his disguise and rolling it into a bundle again as he went. 0.68 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1917 "We are doing well," was Longstreet's report to Lee at seven o'clock in the evening, from the left.[49] Ewell himself rode down through the town, to report his success on the right. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2000 "How could he have found out my residence?" thought he. "Maurice Walton wouldn't tell him. He must be sharper than I supposed." 0.62 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 843 Twice she had met that one-time bondwoman, Kora, and the meeting left her thoughtful, and not entirely satisfied with herself. 0.61 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 997 "Is that a fact?" inquired Tom, who for the first time since Rodney met him began to show signs of uneasiness. 0.60 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1555 A little before ten the next morning, Maurice left his place in the store, and, going to Mr. Ferguson, asked permission to go home. 0.59 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1822 "Perhaps you had better direct to my boarding-place, and not to the store." ============================================================================= TOPIC 7 -- 541 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= thought 565; mind 398; looked 362; man 274; time 258; words 257; felt 233; eyes 225; thoughts 216; knew 213; strange 206; remembered 205; face 190; suddenly 182; things 165; thing 154; back 131; moment 131; thinking 128; made 121; times 119; youth 111; spoke 109; stood 107; sudden 106; sight 104; changed 103; dream 100; heart 99; feeling 97; sat 96; silent 92; wondered 88; sort 85; meaning 85; read 83; manner 82; question 80; caught 79; girl 79; met 78; speak 78; wondering 76; presence 75; young 72; memory 72; struck 71; kind 70; recalled 70; change 67; eye 65; suspicion 63; truth 63; sense 62; reason 61; forgotten 61; shame 61; strangely 61; found 59; remember 59; meant 58; brought 57; master 55; gave 54; wild 54; began 53; familiar 52; idea 51; past 50; astonishment 50; vague 50; vision 49; thrill 47; happened 46; speech 45; lost 44; smile 44; bewildered 44; courage 44; glances 44; fixed 43; word 42; walked 42; sentence 42; conscious 42; expression 41; joy 41; senses 41; doubt 40; imagination 40; understand 39; instant 39; recollection 39; wonderful 38; light 37; reality 37; recall 37; glance 37; mood 37; natural 36 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2469 Perplexed and confused, she had not fully comprehended his purpose until he uttered the closing sentence, and painful astonishment kept her silent, while as if spellbound her gaze met his. 0.74 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. 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 778 Of course it can be but a fancy? Clancy could not be there, either in the trees, or on the earth. She knows it is but a deception of her senses -- an illusive vision -- such as occur to clairvoyantes, at times deceiving themselves. 0.62 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2488 He thought this over. "You don't mean all of that. You'd not have spoke just that way about crowding and staring if you thought well of them that stare. Staring ain't courage; it's trashy curiosity. Now you did not have this thing -- " 0.61 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 387 The tattered man shrank back abashed. 0.61 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1087 "That accounts for John's sudden churlishness," thought 'Lena, wondering how Nellie could have deceived him so. 0.60 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3150 "I don't know what makes me think of my mother so much, tonight," he said. "I have a strange kind of feeling, as if she were near me. I keep thinking of things she used to say. Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!" 0.60 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 261 Then for the first time he seemed to become conscious of the child's presence. He turned and gave it a startled sidelong glance, as if he had suddenly been struck with a new fear. 0.57 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1478 She said the last words with a kind of unconscious consciousness. While she uttered them her mind had evidently turned back to other times -- not her own, but little Margery's. 0.57 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 916 She met the look helplessly. She could not have put her vague thought into words. ============================================================================= TOPIC 8 -- 213 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= time 376; long 231; day 198; end 139; wait 100; side 90; till 85; hear 82; work 80; coming 77; called 74; make 72; find 69; told 66; live 62; full 60; hour 59; lie 56; roll 56; beginning 54; waited 53; set 53; lay 51; beat 51; short 49; night 47; hold 46; things 45; ay 45; began 44; man 43; back 43; cross 43; round 41; longer 40; win 39; hungry 39; days 38; hours 38; stiff 37; heart 36; drop 33; dinner 33; step 32; stand 32; rest 32; sun 32; feel 30; pass 30; ago 30; watch 30; upper 30; guess 28; sight 27; ahead 27; dark 27; start 26; hard 26; story 26; sore 26; minutes 25; straight 25; turning 25; dry 24; length 24; turn 24; blood 24; talk 24; telling 23; keeping 23; easy 23; idle 23; yonder 23; working 22; ways 22; trap 22; foot 21; steady 21; lip 21; close 20; town 19; couple 19; tight 19; slow 19; kick 19; empty 18; worth 18; eye 17; thunder 17; die 17; takes 17; searching 17; painter 17; allowed 16; bones 16; scratch 16; muttered 16; cool 15; lazy 15; corner 15 0.70 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1181 "Come, haul up," said Mr. Middleton, "haul up; we didn’t expect so many to dinner, but the old table’ll stretch and you must set clus; but don’t none of you step on my corns, for thunder’s sake!" 0.68 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 2029 "Aunt Dinah greases her wool stiff, every day, to make it lie straight," said Jane. 0.62 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2156 "Daisy is never anything but cool;" he said, "unless when she gets hold of a principle, and somebody else gets hold of the other end. We'll look at these things after dinner, Daisy." 0.60 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3710 "I don't know why, -- no wickeder than things we live and do, day after day. But the sisters told me things, when I was in the convent, that make me afraid to die. If it would only be the end of us, why, then -- " 0.59 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 489 "Guess you'll have a squally time of it," said Charley, casting off the painter. "I'll drop in at old Newbury's" (Newbury was the parish undertaker) "and leave word, as I go along!" 0.59 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1942 "Till I ask you! Well, I never see the beat of it in my born days! I lay you'll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you -- or the likes of you." 0.55 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1324 "And while I'm idly biting my nails through the creeping years some level-headed Southerner will quietly woo and win her. I would deserve to lose her, should I take such a course." 0.55 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 731 "Of course it is. They just set around -- except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking -- just hawking and sp -- Sh! -- d' you hear a noise?" 0.55 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.] 0.54 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 766 "I will tell you, sir," said Tom, "if you have time to hear the story. I didn't know who I was myself till a little while ago." ============================================================================= TOPIC 9 -- 1076 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= men 690; officer 506; officers 470; regiment 453; colonel 409; company 406; camp 398; army 339; general 319; guard 299; soldiers 284; soldier 272; command 233; captain 217; military 209; service 193; sergeant 193; order 188; duty 184; war 174; place 170; day 158; quarters 156; party 154; boys 153; head 143; ranks 139; line 138; orderly 133; march 129; prisoners 123; uniform 122; troops 121; staff 120; lieutenant 118; orders 117; ordered 116; tent 116; young 114; found 111; drill 108; called 102; headquarters 102; lines 94; report 92; rank 92; rest 91; brigade 91; commanding 89; morning 86; charge 85; part 85; days 85; made 84; front 84; provost 83; cavalry 82; prisoner 82; marched 78; rode 78; left 77; make 77; corps 77; major 77; received 76; number 75; private 73; commander 72; arms 71; enemy 71; friend 70; body 69; field 69; commanded 69; rebel 69; night 68; boy 68; comrades 68; pass 66; battle 66; back 65; passed 64; regiments 64; reported 63; brought 62; commission 62; gave 61; returned 61; discipline 61; rear 60; friends 60; gallant 60; division 59; parade 59; marshal 59; escort 58; regular 57; companions 57; fellow 56; leader 55 0.76 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. 0.75 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 323 "A -- a -- what? " vociferated the general, now thoroughly aroused. He was a Mexican veteran, a thorough soldier as well as a martinet, and he had never learned to recognize any organizations outside of the regular service. 0.74 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1849 A peremptory order reached Sickles requiring his presence. He rode to the head- quarters of the army, but the conference was over, and he went back to his command followed by General Meade. 0.73 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 527 The orderly proceeded to the position occupied by the field and staff officers of the regiment; and, a few moments later, came an order for Lieutenant Somers, with twenty of his men, selected for special duty, to report at the division headquarters. 0.72 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 767 The regiment remained in line several hours before the order came to move. At daylight, while the men were still standing in the road, four soldiers, attended by a staff officer, conducted the two missing men of Company K into the presence of the regiment. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1916 Tom received "honorable mention" in the report of the colonel, and his recommendation, supported by that of the general of the division, brought to the hospital his commission as second lieutenant. 0.69 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1506 They were soon joined by a squad of men, and Fred Pemberton and the wounded rebel were conveyed to the hospital, while the four prisoners were conducted to a secure place. Hapgood and Tom then hastened to the parade, where the regiment was drawn up, and reported the events which had just transpired. It was unanimously voted by officers and privates that the picket guard had done "a big thing," and they were warmly and generously commended for their skill and bravery. 0.69 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3095 When Captain Brodrick rode up, the travellers were already on horseback and prepared to move. The aide-de-camp respectfully saluted Miss Lindsay and her brother, and after a short parley with the officer of the escort, tendered his services to the strangers to conduct them to head-quarters. 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 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1204 "Miss Coralie Rothvelt; yes, all right," said the officer, "the men that rode with you this morning told me all about you." He went with her as far as his videttes, and thence she rode alone to a picket of the Federal army and by her request was conducted under guard to the headquarters of a corps commander. To him and his chief-of-staff she told the fate of Jewett's scouts and delivered the messages of their dying leader; and then she tendered the hero's sword. ============================================================================= TOPIC 10 -- 1390 chunks >= 0.25 from 34 texts ============================================================================= natives 462; men 446; people 290; troops 282; country 265; cattle 255; large 242; station 240; arrived 208; immediately 167; attack 160; miles 155; camp 152; number 146; grass 146; great 141; native 140; high 139; started 136; soldiers 134; corn 133; yards 132; small 127; vessels 108; usual 107; force 106; twenty 102; arrival 100; river 97; party 95; forest 94; villages 93; received 91; accompanied 90; ordered 88; supply 86; length 86; cows 86; appeared 82; returned 82; order 80; quarters 80; carried 79; time 78; ground 78; village 78; attacked 76; numbers 76; sheik 76; arranged 75; herd 74; left 72; killed 72; march 72; quickly 72; declared 71; formed 68; distance 68; head 68; marched 68; return 67; ammunition 65; neighbourhood 64; women 63; carriers 63; occupied 62; position 62; fifty 62; guard 62; fine 62; hunters 60; numerous 60; orders 60; day 60; days 59; excellent 58; commenced 58; distant 57; officers 57; concealed 57; explained 57; thirty 56; general 55; journey 55; slave 54; open 54; gave 54; shot 54; exceedingly 54; government 53; generally 53; found 53; loads 53; season 52; collected 52; elephants 51; good 50; immense 49; present 48; named 48 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 335 "April 17. -- We steamed about thirty-seven miles and then halted at a good forest to fill up our supply of wood. The forest on the left bank is about thirty-seven miles in length, but it is merely a few hundred yards in width, beyond which the country is prairie. On the east bank, where there is no forest, we saw giraffes, buffaloes, and antelopes in considerable numbers during the day. 0.85 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2276 "April 22. -- More natives collected. I sent off 140 loads in charge of Morgian Agha, with an escort of twenty soldiers, and the herd of cattle. The latitude of Chorobeze was 1 degrees 57 minutes N. 0.85 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2069 "March 23, 1872. -- We marched three miles east, along the banks of the beautiful Victoria Nile, through fine open forest, until we halted on a high cliff exactly opposite, the last station of Abou Saood, commanded by a vakeel named Suleiman. 0.84 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 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. 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1666 My wife and I, with Lieutenant Baker and an advanced guard of five of "The Forty," followed old Lokko, who led the way; and Colonel Abd-el-Kader and Captain Mohammed Deii were with the rear-guard, which drove 1,000 cows and 500 sheep. The cattle were in the charge of the Bari interpreter, Morgian. 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 1686 We had thus marched fifty-seven miles from our vessels without the necessity of firing a shot, although we were accompanied by so tempting a prize as a large herd of cattle and sheep. 0.81 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3515 I was not present on that occasion, but I have frequently admired the pluck of the Shooli natives, who attack every animal with the simple hunting-spear, which of course necessitates a close approach. 0.81 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1394 On 1st December, Lieutenant Baker shot a fine bull elephant, with very large tusks; this was within four miles of head-quarters. At this season they were very numerous in the neighbourhood of Gondokoro. During my absence to the south of Regiaf, there had been a curious nocturnal alarm in the station. ============================================================================= TOPIC 11 -- 508 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= life 495; world 355; human 197; man 176; church 174; faith 158; soul 147; great 133; men 121; religion 116; nature 114; religious 101; peace 96; earth 94; history 89; things 87; race 85; work 75; living 73; women 71; years 70; order 70; knowledge 64; pious 60; truth 60; law 58; read 56; spiritual 55; souls 55; sacred 55; prayer 53; eternal 51; divine 51; system 50; ancient 50; century 50; passion 49; worship 49; time 48; made 48; true 48; call 48; body 47; wisdom 47; convent 47; lives 45; woman 44; believed 44; death 43; mind 43; day 43; conscience 43; sin 43; abbey 43; youth 42; sublime 42; ideals 42; simple 41; christian 41; amid 41; stand 40; cross 40; lay 39; perfect 39; holy 39; spirit 38; past 38; flesh 38; lived 38; monks 38; dust 37; rise 37; centuries 37; ideal 37; pure 36; blood 35; vows 35; times 34; place 34; find 34; hearts 34; monk 34; brought 33; age 33; character 33; universe 33; priest 33; eye 32; judge 32; drawn 32; higher 32; noble 32; strength 32; altar 32; preach 32; moral 31; vast 31; taught 31; desert 31; fall 31 0.86 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." 0.76 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 839 "Now," said David, straightening himself up, "I draw near to the root of the matter. A sixth book takes up what we call the civilization of this animal species, Man. It subdivides his civilization into different civilizations. It analyzes these civilizations, where it is possible, into their arts, governments, literatures, religions, and other elements. And the seventh," he resumed after a grave pause, scrutinizing her face most eagerly, "the seventh takes up just one part of his civilizations -- the religions of the globe -- and gives an account of these. It describes how they have grown and flourished, how some have passed as absolutely away as the civilizations that produced them. It teaches that those religions were as natural a part of those civilizations as their civil laws, their games, their wars, their philosophy; that the religious books of these races, which they themselves often thought inspired revelations, were no more inspired and no more revelations than their secular books; that Buddha's faith or Brahma's were no more direct from God than Buddhistic or Brahman temples were from God; that the Koran is no more inspired than Moorish architecture is inspired; that the ancient religion of the Jewish race stands on the same footing as the other great religions of the globe -- as to being Supernatural; that the second religion of the Hebrews, starting out of them, but rejected by them, the Christian religion, the greatest of all to us, takes its place with the others as a perfectly natural expression of the same human desire and effort to find God and to worship Him through all the best that we know in ourselves and of the universe outside us." 0.76 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 837 "The fifth takes up the subject of Man, as a single one of the myriads of forms of Life that have grown on the earth's crust, and gives the best of what we know of him viewed as a species of animal. Does this tire you?" 0.75 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 844 "And now," he said, turning to her sorrowfully, "that is the best or the worst of what I believe -- according as one may like it or not like it. I see all things as a growth, a sublime unfolding by the Laws of God. The race ever rises toward Him. The old things which were its best once die off from it as no longer good. Its charity grows, its justice grows. All the nobler, finer elements of its spirit come forth more and more -- a continuous advance along the paths of Law. And the better the world, the larger its knowledge, the easier its faith in Him who made it and who leads it on. The development of Man is itself the great Revelation of Him! But I have studied these things ignorantly, only a little while. I am at the beginning of my life, and hope to grow. Still I stand where I have placed myself. And now, are you like the others: do you give me up?" 0.75 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3124 "What a sublime conception is that of a last judgment!" said he, -- "a righting of all the wrongs of ages! -- a solving of all moral problems, by an unanswerable wisdom! It is, indeed, a wonderful image." 0.71 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 909 "So, none of the other animals was made for Man," resumed David, who seemed to have some ulterior purpose in all this. "I used to think the structure and nature of the ass were given him that he might be adapted to bear Man's burdens; they were given him that he might bear his own burdens. Horses were not made for cavalry. And a camel -- I never doubted that he was a wonderful contrivance to enable man to cross the desert; he is a wonderful contrivance in order that the contrivance itself may cross the desert." 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 641 "By extinguishing the fires of nature! Why should not faith and nature grow strong together? I have spent my life on the hill-side back yonder, as you know, and I have had leisure enough for studying these monks. I have tried to do them justice. At different times I have almost lived with St. Benedict at Subiaco, and St. Patrick on the mountain, and St. Anthony in the desert, and St. Thomas in the cell. I understand and value the elements of truth and beauty in the lives of the ancient solitaries. But they belong so inalienably to the past. We have outgrown the ideals of antiquity. How can a man now look upon his body as his evil tenement of flesh? How can he believe that he approaches sainthood by destroying his manhood? The highest type of personal holiness is said to be attained in the cloister. That is not true. The highest type of personal holiness is to be attained in the thick of the world's temptations. Then it becomes sublime. It seems to me that the heroisms worth speaking of nowadays are active, not meditative. But why should I say this to you, who as much as any one else have taught me to think thus -- I who myself am able to do nothing? But though I can do nothing, I can at least look upon the monastic ideal of life as an empty, dead, husk, into which no man with the largest ideas of duty will ever compress his powers. Even granting that it develops personal holiness, this itself is but one element in the perfect character, and not even the greatest one." 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 35 XI. THE PROVOST CATCHES A TARTAR, AND CAPTAIN MIDDLETON SEEKS THE CONSOLATIONS OF RELIGION, 118 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 70 His closing words were solemn indeed; they related to the college of the Bible, where his own labors were to be performed. For this, he declared, he pleaded not in the name of the new State, the new nation, but in the name of the Father. The work of this college was to be the preparation of young men for the Christian ministry, that they might go into all the world and preach the Gospel. One truth he bade them bear in mind: that this training was to be given without sectarian theology; that his brethren themselves represented a revolution among believers, having cast aside the dogmas of modern teachers, and taken, as the one infallible guide of their faith and practice, the Bible simply; so making it their sole work to bring all modern believers together into one church, and that one church the church of the apostles. 0.68 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 12 -- 2465 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= boat 998; steamer 837; ship 592; vessel 586; board 513; captain 431; deck 338; run 334; water 311; schooner 309; blockade 308; men 297; sail 285; crew 282; shore 275; vessels 274; time 273; sea 260; pilot 238; make 234; port 233; flag 192; commander 182; replied 180; bay 174; boats 173; speed 171; half 170; made 168; side 168; coast 168; ahead 167; continued 161; added 158; officer 157; put 156; cotton 151; guns 151; wheel 151; wind 150; hour 146; point 143; fleet 137; fast 137; order 136; stern 136; ships 135; steamers 134; river 133; aboard 131; bow 128; shouted 128; island 124; prize 123; cargo 122; alongside 122; tug 120; miles 119; craft 119; steam 117; running 115; coming 115; fort 114; distance 113; long 111; cutter 109; lieutenant 108; headed 108; war 107; glass 107; wharf 107; ready 106; fog 104; brought 102; sails 102; capture 101; quarter 101; full 100; anchor 100; runner 99; gave 98; sight 98; chase 96; small 95; ordered 92; making 92; mate 92; harbor 92; discovered 91; sailed 91; approaching 91; place 90; sailing 90; oars 90; captured 87; minutes 87; gun 87; directed 86; light 85; channel 84 0.85 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. 0.84 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 594 Again the Bellevite went ahead; and she soon reached a point half way between the two forts, and her speed was reduced to not more than three knots. But the tug was approaching, and the worst part of the channel was still to be attempted. The two men in the chains reported the depth as rapidly as they could heave the lead, and it was soon evident that the steamer could not pass the extensive bar to the westward of the ship-channel. 0.83 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1090 "All you have to do is to pull around to the other side of the point into the bay, where the vessels are. I am confident there is no battery on that side, and there can hardly be any need of one, for this one commands the channel, the only approach to the place for a vessel larger than a cutter." 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 943 "Then the report of the light on the starboard bow places it directly to the eastward of us," added Christy. "That is about where the entrance to St. Andrew's Bay ought to be, if my calculations were correct. We have been running to the eastward since we left the blockaders' station off Pensacola Bay. My ruler on the chart gave me that course, and Mr. Galvinne followed it while he was in charge. We could not have got more than half a mile off the course in coming about twice. The shoaling of the water also indicates that we are all right." 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1601 As the Reindeer approached the Bellevite, the latter stopped her screw, and Christy directed the wheelman to run the steamer alongside, and within twenty or thirty feet of her. There was no sea in the bay, and there was no danger in doing so. As the Reindeer approached the position indicated, two bells were struck to stop her. The flags that had been hoisted on board, informed Captain Breaker of the capture of the steamer, so that no report was necessary. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1470 The firing was continued from the long gun, though only at intervals that would permit any signals to be seen on board of the enemy. When it looked as though there would soon be nothing left of her, she hauled down the Confederate flag at her fore, where she had hoisted it when the mainmast went over. The order to go ahead was given, and in a short time the Vixen was alongside of her. 0.81 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." 0.81 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?" 0.80 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 344 The first cutter, in charge of Mr. Birdwing, was the first to leave the ship. The sea was quite smooth, so that there was no difficulty in getting the boats off. The first lieutenant's boat went from the starboard side, and the second cutter was lowered on the port in charge of the third lieutenant. Christy went in the first boat, and Mr. Gilfleur in the second. The officers and crews of both boats were especially directed to see that nothing was thrown overboard from the Ionian; for if her captain found that he was in a "tight place," he would be likely to heave his papers into the sea. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 580 "They are both reliable men; but I wish you would stand by the helm, and see that the steamer is headed directly towards the eastern end of Dauphine Island. That will give us the deepest water till we get to the spit. Have a man in the port and starboard chains with directions to sound as fast as possible." ============================================================================= TOPIC 13 -- 812 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= night 1214; sleep 906; bed 768; asleep 449; lay 383; room 334; morning 271; slept 254; awake 236; sleeping 210; hours 193; sat 185; cold 176; hour 176; rest 170; dream 165; window 159; found 158; wake 152; till 149; sound 149; long 146; eyes 144; tired 138; light 136; midnight 128; side 125; open 124; fell 120; pillow 120; head 117; fire 114; slumber 113; watch 107; made 104; awoke 104; lie 103; lying 103; good 98; round 95; put 93; thinking 91; floor 91; blanket 89; heard 88; dreams 86; sleepy 85; quietly 84; fast 81; dawn 80; blankets 79; wide 79; find 78; sitting 74; weary 73; late 72; laid 72; half 72; nights 72; awakened 71; dreaming 69; left 68; softly 68; dreamed 68; waking 65; opened 64; stretched 64; darkness 63; quiet 63; supper 61; watched 60; pillows 60; past 59; began 59; dark 59; warm 59; watching 58; place 57; resting 57; noise 57; heavy 56; mind 55; listening 55; breathing 55; cabin 53; disturbed 53; clothes 52; door 52; spread 52; carried 51; knew 51; rain 51; told 51; wrapped 51; soundly 50; silence 49; mother 49; clock 49; roused 48; lamp 48 0.78 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2146 It was yet dark when Elsie awoke, but, hearing the clock strike five, she knew it was morning. She lay still a little while, and then, slipping softly out of bed, put her feet into her slippers, threw her warm dressing-gown around her, and feeling for a little package she had left on her toilet-table, she secured it and stole noiselessly from the room. 0.76 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3473 Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him. The floor was already strewn with weary sleepers, and the foul air of the place almost repelled him; but the heavy night-dews were chill, and his limbs weary, and, wrapping about him a tattered blanket, which formed his only bed- clothing, he stretched himself in the straw and fell asleep. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3478 She gave him a stimulating potion, and arranged his head comfortably. Ere long his heavy breathing told her that he slept, and, stealing from his side, she sat down in a large chair near the head of his bed, and watched him. 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. 0.66 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2315 But that night, while he lay quite fast asleep in his bed, she was keeping vigil in her room at Mrs. Taylor's. 0.66 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." 0.66 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 519 One black woman was there in the room, sitting in the shadow of the bed- curtains, fast asleep and making a strange purring noise like a cat as she slept. 0.64 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 812 At the close of this scene, the young people prepared for bed. It was past ten o’clock, and they were sadly in need of rest; but so strongly had their sympathies been excited for their black friend, that even little Frank kept wide awake, waiting his turn to be useful. When, however, their work was done, and they had lain down to rest, they needed no lullaby to hush them into slumber. Within twenty minutes after the light was extinguished, and during the livelong night, nothing was to be heard in that tent but the hard breathing of the wearied sleepers. Thanks to God for sleep! None but the weary know its blessedness. 0.63 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 476 They made the boat secure by drawing the anchor well upon the beach. They spread their cloaks and blankets upon the dry sand, and lay down to rest. Their dogs kept watch at the door of their tent; and they slept soundly, and without the least disturbance, during the whole of this their first night of exile. 0.61 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1573 She stole away exhausted and almost despairing. On reaching her little room she sank on her couch, moaning; "Oh, Warren, Warren, would that I were sleeping your dreamless sleep beside you!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 14 -- 500 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= master 515; plantation 333; slave 305; negroes 298; slaves 266; man 265; overseer 249; work 243; servants 241; house 236; place 206; hands 182; white 180; wife 164; children 158; negro 151; free 149; sold 142; mistress 135; freedom 130; brought 122; servant 122; black 121; woman 118; made 108; family 108; young 98; masters 97; people 96; knew 94; set 93; found 92; bought 92; estate 84; poor 79; women 79; fellow 79; day 78; plantations 78; field 76; whip 76; time 74; called 74; make 74; child 74; sell 74; great 71; quarters 71; hard 71; men 70; find 70; faithful 70; cabin 68; home 65; runaway 65; owner 62; husband 59; treated 58; colored 57; planter 57; niggers 52; whipped 52; property 51; told 50; sort 49; business 49; case 48; heard 47; buy 47; looked 45; nigger 44; kind 42; large 41; caught 41; cabins 41; put 40; ill 40; gentleman 40; whipping 39; lived 38; carried 37; morning 37; learned 37; trader 36; owned 36; years 35; war 35; belonging 34; lay 34; word 34; treatment 34; till 33; wanted 33; named 32; things 32; female 32; mulatto 32; ran 31; humble 31; finally 31 0.75 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 380 "I shall certainly not ask her that question, Mr. Sheriff. I have no doubt that, as the place from which he has escaped is only a few miles from here, he did come to see his wife. It would have been very strange if he did not. I hope that by this time the man is hundreds of miles away. He was brutally treated by a brutal master, who, I believe, deliberately set to work to make him run away, so that he could hunt him down and punish him. I presume, sir, you do not wish to search this house, and you do not suppose that the man is hidden here. As to the slave-huts and the plantation, you can, of course, search them thoroughly; but as it is now more than a fortnight since the man escaped, it is not likely you will find him hiding within a few miles of his master's plantation." 0.64 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 203 "Yes, I know, Dan; it is a very serious matter hiding a runaway slave, and even a white man would be very heavily punished, and perhaps lynched, if caught in the act. Well, make what inquiries you can among the slaves, and find out if you can whether any of those Jacksons have an idea which way Tony has gone. But do not go yourself on to Jackson's place; if you were caught there now it would be an awkward matter for both of us." 0.64 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 373 "Mrs. Wingfield," the sheriff said, "I am the holder of a warrant; to search your slave-huts and grounds for a runaway negro named Anthony Moore, the property of Mr. Jackson here." 0.63 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3215 It was hard to go back and tell Rosa that she could do nothing for her; and, shortly after, one of the man-servants came to say that her mistress had ordered him to take Rosa with him to the whipping-house, whither she was hurried, in spite of her tears and entreaties. 0.61 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 934 Joe was pleased, and the editor was pleased; and it happened that Mink became one of the tenants on the plantation, and after a while he bought a little farm of his own, and prospered and thrived. 0.61 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 405 "The Swintons have moved up from Drybone," said Mr. Taylor, always seriously. "They found it no place for young children. And there's Uncle Carmody with six, and Ben Dow. And Westfall has become a family man, and -- " 0.58 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 452 When female children are about five years old they are most esteemed by the slave-dealers, as they can be more easily taught, and they grow up with an attachment to their possessors, and in fact become members of the family. 0.57 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1466 About dusk the work of barricading was begun, all the able-bodied men on the plantation, both house-servants and field-hands, being set to work at it. The materials had been brought up to the near vicinity of the house during the day. The men's hearts were in the undertaking (not one of them but would have risked his own life freely in defense of their loved master and mistress), and many hands made light and speedy work. 0.57 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 133 "My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of -- what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is. I know more about business than he does; I am a better manager than he is; I can read better than he can; I can write a better hand, -- and I've learned it all myself, and no thanks to him, -- I've learned it in spite of him; and now what right has he to make a dray-horse of me? -- to take me from things I can do, and do better than he can, and put me to work that any horse can do? He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose!" 0.56 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 425 The next morning the necessary papers were drawn up, and the ownership of Dan was formally transferred to Vincent. Dan was wild with delight when he heard that Vincent was now his master, and that he was to accompany him to the war. It had been known two days before that Vincent was going, and it seemed quite shocking to the negroes that the young master should go as a private soldier, and have to do everything for himself -- "just," as they said, "like de poor white trash;" for the slaves were proud to belong to an old family, and looked down with almost contempt upon the poorer class of whites, regarding their own position as infinitely superior. ============================================================================= TOPIC 15 -- 827 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= give 264; offer 236; offered 205; accept 202; time 199; asked 196; request 193; present 189; father 180; leave 158; made 158; accepted 155; gave 154; told 148; refused 144; mother 144; promise 144; permission 142; invitation 138; answer 130; make 127; wished 126; hand 123; promised 121; kind 114; return 109; pleasure 108; pleased 107; consent 107; declined 104; terms 102; day 100; favor 97; word 94; good 90; hope 90; decided 89; finally 89; accompany 87; matter 85; pay 82; house 82; felt 81; meet 81; subject 81; daughter 81; friend 78; remain 78; refuse 77; opportunity 75; friends 72; desired 72; permit 69; wanted 69; understand 68; urged 65; join 64; requested 63; wait 63; meeting 62; begged 62; suit 61; received 60; wishes 60; immediately 59; services 59; company 59; consented 58; determined 57; night 57; brother 57; stay 57; granted 57; fully 56; proposed 56; declared 55; place 55; reply 55; money 55; condition 54; suggested 53; visit 52; interview 52; cousin 52; complied 52; rest 51; parole 50; allowed 49; receive 49; send 47; reason 47; aid 47; prefer 47; future 46; longer 46; returned 46; readily 46; evening 46; call 46; lady 46 0.75 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1638 Thanking them, the Doctor excused himself from accepting the invitation, but said that with Mrs. Rockfield’s permission he would call and pay his respects, and he did so that evening. 0.70 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2815 Such was his plan, -- indicating a foresight which gave promise of a prosperous future. 0.70 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." 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 447 She extended her invitation to Leland and Boyd, Mr. Travilla seconding it warmly, but it was courteously declined by both, and each went his way. 0.65 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 643 Ella was so overjoyed at her prospects when all had been explained to her, that she insisted on Mara's spending the evening at the Bodines' so that her father might understand the whole arrangement. 0.65 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2739 "Was it of your own free will, without advice or bias, that you refused the interview I asked you to grant me?" 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 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1045 Our new ally, old Jarda, with his diplomatic sister, came to visit us upon hearing of our success, and immediately asked for a calf, which I gave him. 0.64 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3042 Ruth said, as she took his hand, “Rupert, I am going to ask you to grant me that favor you once promised me you would grant.” 0.63 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 183 "This person, sir, refused to do a favor for your daughter. She told him, and I told him, to notify Mr. Hood that Miss Carvel was here, and he refused." ============================================================================= TOPIC 16 -- 1871 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= dear 1230; papa 1065; mother 520; love 509; good 461; girl 446; child 444; father 438; mamma 411; glad 409; cried 407; poor 382; ah 374; exclaimed 352; asked 296; answered 287; darling 226; arms 219; home 217; daughter 211; boy 200; hope 187; feel 187; sweet 162; give 161; kind 160; wo 151; added 150; heart 147; happy 146; care 145; afraid 135; kiss 128; ca 119; stay 119; forgive 118; baby 118; eyes 112; replied 111; sister 110; bless 108; hear 105; die 104; loves 99; speak 98; taking 96; whispered 94; leave 93; thought 93; sake 92; remember 91; sobbed 91; neck 89; naughty 89; night 88; tears 88; children 85; smiling 85; husband 84; cry 82; coming 82; thinking 82; make 78; hand 75; hurt 75; pleaded 74; beautiful 73; murmured 73; eva 71; half 69; fear 69; lady 69; lovely 69; mammy 68; nice 67; precious 66; pretty 64; forget 64; brother 63; putting 63; send 62; bear 61; nurse 61; dreadful 60; fond 59; smile 59; tone 58; dearly 57; day 56; sad 56; kissing 55; friend 54; gently 54; safe 53; things 53; sick 53; throwing 52; pet 52; rising 51; sit 51 0.82 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." 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 329 "O papa, papa!" she sobbed, "my own papa, you do not love me; me, your own little girl. Oh! my heart will break. O mamma, mamma! if I could only go to you; for there is no one here to love me, and I am so lonely, oh! so lonely and desolate." 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2338 "Yes, poor little pet! mother's heart aches for her too," Mrs. Travilla answered, her own eyes filling. "I am glad my little daughters love and sympathize with each other." 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1829 Again the little arms were round his neck, and hugging him close and closer, she whispered, "It was Jesus I meant, papa; you know He loves me even better than you do, and I must love Him best of all; but there is no one else that I love half so much as I love you, my own dear, dear precious father." 0.79 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_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!" 0.78 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." 0.78 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 335 "O Eddie," sobbed his sister, "don't talk so. Jesus does love you and will forgive you, if you ask him; and so will mamma and papa; for they both love you and I love you dearly, dearly." 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 389 "My poor little girl, my poor, dear little girl," he said, stroking her hair, "forgive me. I am very, very sorry for my thoughtless question. Do be comforted, my poor child, for whether your papa loves you now or not, I am quite sure he soon will." 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 94 "Will you love me? Oh! how glad I am," exclaimed the child joyfully; "I have nobody to love me but poor old mammy." ============================================================================= TOPIC 17 -- 2475 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= eyes 3018; face 2965; looked 1084; expression 600; smile 591; turned 509; lips 476; countenance 378; pale 373; dark 369; light 345; features 326; white 296; stood 287; girl 285; glance 277; hand 266; cheeks 266; eye 256; moment 247; blue 233; voice 219; met 216; color 214; bright 210; fixed 207; mouth 202; gaze 201; smiled 200; brow 192; black 190; flushed 190; full 188; hair 177; cheek 172; red 168; large 166; flush 163; beautiful 161; fair 157; heart 154; rose 154; deep 151; back 144; grew 144; gazed 135; tears 134; showed 131; brown 127; spoke 126; fell 124; lifted 121; calm 121; grave 120; instant 120; long 119; cold 118; suddenly 118; half 117; raised 115; gray 114; sweet 113; figure 111; glanced 110; brows 109; soft 108; slightly 107; teeth 107; keen 107; hands 106; slight 104; quick 104; strange 104; faces 102; held 101; sudden 101; closed 99; rested 99; blood 98; gleam 98; pride 97; sad 97; pleasure 97; lip 97; faint 96; handsome 95; opened 92; shadow 91; changed 89; thin 88; flashed 87; cast 86; strong 85; lines 85; open 84; clear 84; smiling 84; form 83; eagerly 82; gave 81 0.83 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. 0.81 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! 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2517 He looked down into the worn face gleaming under the gas-lamps of the chandelier, into the shadowy eloquent eyes, and noting the bloodless lips drawn sharply into curves of pain, his hand fell upon her shoulder. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3059 A strangely solemn expression drifted over her countenance, but at that moment a tall form darkened the doorway, and she smiled. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2546 His eyes fell beneath her timidly pleading gaze, and a deep flush of embarrassment passed over his face. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4306 She caught her breath, and a perplexed expression came into her wistful deep eyes, as she met those, fixed laughingly upon her. 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3222 Edna's eyes looked steadily into his, with an expression of grave, sorrowful reproof -- of expostulation; and the flush deepened on his face as his eyes fell before her rebuking gaze. 0.77 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 23 "Of a deep, soft, lucent hue, -- Eyes too expressive to be blue, Too lovely to be gray." 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. 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1413 A faint red showed itself on the girl's haggard cheeks, and she stared at her with indifferent blankness. ============================================================================= TOPIC 18 -- 789 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= laughed 652; laugh 496; looked 294; gave 266; made 224; laughing 214; smiled 176; face 157; began 149; laughter 148; thought 144; eyes 141; smile 134; boy 132; half 127; turned 126; eye 107; mouth 96; joke 95; general 94; cried 94; exclaimed 85; broke 83; speech 82; heard 81; burst 80; merry 79; fun 73; girl 70; glance 68; heartily 68; cousin 67; expression 66; bit 65; delight 64; merriment 63; show 56; stood 55; sister 55; grandmother 55; smiling 55; funny 55; amusement 53; remarked 52; boys 51; amazement 51; humor 51; picture 50; asked 49; great 48; stared 48; gravity 48; hearty 48; glanced 47; pretty 46; stopped 43; lady 43; gesture 43; ridiculous 42; put 41; remark 41; dismay 41; spite 40; amused 40; shoulders 40; loud 40; comical 40; gay 39; frowned 39; round 38; big 38; lip 38; changed 37; company 37; story 37; enjoying 37; catching 37; nodded 37; jokes 37; joined 36; judge 36; grinned 36; ludicrous 36; matter 35; thinking 35; reminded 34; angry 34; affair 33; danced 33; mirth 33; flashed 33; eyed 33; short 32; returned 32; play 32; outright 32; maid 32; sudden 31; shrugged 31; pleasantly 31 0.69 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 172 Virginia laughed outright. Her cousin did not deign to look at her. His temper was slipping its leash. 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 250 "Hey! a likely story!" cried the two tormentors, with an incredulous laugh. "Let's see it now?" 0.68 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1050 Wat laughed aloud with a coarse and almost fiendish laugh, as he cried out -- 0.67 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 2000 The general eyed the speaker with much severity of countenance, my boy, and says he: 0.67 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 200 "You have it, Brother March," said Major Garnet suavely, but he flashed a glance at the teamster that stopped his grin, though he only said, "Howdy, Cornelius." 0.64 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2500 She laughed at his little picture of nervousness, but returned to the subject. 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 919 "And I will take Travilla," Elsie said, low and mischievously, and with a merry twinkle in her eye. 0.62 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 625 The little boy laughed, and Uncle Remus looked up into the rafters to hide a responsive smile. 0.61 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 30 There was a general laugh, the two little prattlers joining in right merrily. 0.61 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 654 They laughed loudly at the blackguard picture which he drew; and the laugh stopped short, for the Virginian stood over Trampas. ============================================================================= TOPIC 19 -- 884 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= man 519; thee 353; love 319; life 285; soul 277; thy 256; death 240; heart 207; save 196; cried 176; blood 168; woman 145; fear 144; hate 138; sin 129; pray 116; mine 114; world 112; evil 105; true 99; die 97; wicked 97; worse 92; fate 91; pity 89; turn 86; hath 86; mercy 85; saved 84; shame 83; curse 82; live 81; bear 80; disgrace 78; cruel 78; men 75; poor 75; suffer 75; sake 74; leave 72; hated 71; sins 70; end 69; forgive 68; revenge 66; loved 63; power 61; word 60; sister 60; spirit 59; lost 58; conscience 58; scorn 58; cast 57; brave 56; ah 56; awful 56; fair 55; tis 55; speak 54; folly 54; thine 54; wrong 53; law 53; forever 53; bitter 52; murder 51; face 51; art 50; suffering 50; make 49; truth 49; knew 48; lie 48; sight 47; past 46; surely 46; crime 46; pride 45; hard 45; helpless 45; set 45; horror 44; vengeance 44; hour 43; punishment 43; faith 43; innocent 43; dare 43; cruelty 43; forget 42; judgment 42; peace 41; horrible 41; proud 41; answered 40; contempt 39; cold 39; secret 39; touch 39 0.80 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1749 "Mortal man cannot blame thee, George. Flesh and blood could not do otherwise," said Simeon. "Woe unto the world because of offences, but woe unto them through whom the offence cometh." 0.78 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3884 Stung to madness and despair by the crushing agonies of a life, Cassy had often resolved in her soul an hour of retribution, when her hand should avenge on her oppressor all the injustice and cruelty to which she had been witness, or which she had in her own person suffered. 0.76 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3335 "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?" -- HAB. 1: 13. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1611 "Ah! Mr. Travilla, you forget the anathema, maranatha; if I had not loved Jesus, and had my sins washed away in His blood, I could not have been saved." 0.74 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 225 "O God of sinners," he cried, "Thou who forgivest, Thou who hast died, forgive -- forgive in this hour of death!" 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_A_Story_PG_11532.txt 361 "If you doubt that a man is capable of sacrificing one thing that he loves to another that he loves more, tempt him, lie in wait for his weakness, ensnare him in the toils of his greater passion, and learn the truth. 0.73 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1602 "Because, Mr. Travilla, the Bible says, 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha,' accursed from God. Oh! sir, think how dreadful! You cannot be saved unless you love Jesus, and believe on Him. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' That is what God says in his word." 0.72 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 222 "No," he said, "they will never know, they who loved you -- who loved you -- will never know! God forgive me if I have done wrong. I have been false that they might be spared. God forgive me for the sin!" 0.71 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3049 "I cannot! I mean all I said. Offences against God's law, which you consider pardonable -- and which the world winks at and permits, and even defends -- I regard as grievous sins. I believe that every man who kills another in a duel deserves the curse of Cain, and should be shunned as a murderer. My conscience assures me that a man who can deliberately seek to gain a woman's heart merely to gratify his vanity, or to wreak his hate by holding her up to scorn, or trifling with the love which he has won, is unprincipled, and should be ostracized by every true woman. Were you the mother of Murray and Annie Hammond, do you think you could so easily forgive this murderer?" 0.70 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 702 "Lord, is it true that I cannot live to Thee alone? And Thou didst sacrifice Thyself to the utmost for me! Consider me, how I am made! Have mercy, have mercy! If I sin, be Thou my witness that I do not know it! -- Thou, too, didst love her well enough to die for her!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 20 -- 1178 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= voice 1433; words 857; tone 759; low 588; heard 574; spoke 494; word 379; man 341; speak 340; tones 327; hear 318; asked 293; speaking 257; whisper 227; spoken 221; answered 192; made 186; moment 172; silence 169; ear 169; uttered 158; turned 156; speech 147; whispered 145; reply 136; lips 127; added 122; called 120; talking 119; began 118; repeated 118; loud 113; gave 108; answer 106; sound 104; full 103; gentle 101; scarcely 97; quickly 95; manner 94; told 94; continued 93; quiet 92; cried 88; suddenly 86; angry 83; ears 79; hearing 79; listening 79; changed 78; deep 78; listened 78; strange 77; surprise 77; sounded 74; exclamation 73; command 72; breath 71; knew 70; speaker 70; language 69; paused 68; talk 68; woman 67; instant 67; laugh 66; conversation 65; clear 64; calm 64; gesture 64; effect 63; half 62; utterance 62; lower 61; catch 61; emotion 60; exclaimed 59; broke 58; quick 56; sentence 56; response 56; head 55; finished 55; earnest 55; listen 54; interrupted 54; emphasis 54; subdued 53; stern 53; silent 51; audible 51; quietly 50; voices 49; inquired 49; plainly 49; effort 48; note 48; calling 48; husky 48; mouth 47 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1667 The last clause was whispered so low that only St. Elmo heard it, and any other woman but Estelle Harding would have shrunk away in utter humiliation from the eye and the voice that answered: 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 113 Then from his lips come words, low-muttered -- words of menace, made emphatic by an oath. 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 765 He suddenly checked his passionate utterance, speaking slowly and with painful self-control: 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2210 Mr. Dinsmore's voice faltered. He paused a moment, then went on in tones husky with emotion. 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1453 Here Clancy's utterance becomes indistinct, as if his voice were stifled by strong emotion. 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1112 At the same moment Mr. Dinsmore's voice was heard calling in a stern, angry tone, "Elsie!" 0.68 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 400 Mrs. Shelby spoke the last words with a low voice, and strong emphasis. 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1849 His voice was very low and gentle, and yet she turned upon him a startled, inquiring look. "Marry you?" she repeated slowly. 0.67 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1665 The voice from within did not reply. It seemed as if the person to whom it belonged was also overcome by emotion; for soon after they heard her speak tremulously, 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 225 For an instant she could not command her voice, which faltered; but making a strong effort, she answered in a low tone: ============================================================================= TOPIC 21 -- 339 chunks >= 0.25 from 53 texts ============================================================================= family 175; society 129; social 121; good 110; people 85; city 79; fortune 76; small 74; world 72; made 71; high 70; public 69; position 68; brilliant 67; political 64; rich 63; great 63; class 61; proud 61; beauty 60; court 59; pride 58; circle 58; french 57; large 55; members 51; friends 51; honor 48; opinion 47; considered 45; regarded 44; ambition 44; ladies 44; school 42; belonged 41; parties 40; families 40; added 39; fortunate 38; member 38; point 37; higher 37; home 37; business 37; represented 36; person 36; wealth 36; title 36; distinction 36; poor 35; distinguished 35; born 35; career 35; general 34; simply 34; success 34; fact 34; capital 34; present 34; elegant 34; fashionable 34; party 33; match 33; popular 32; fellow 32; respect 32; college 32; haughty 31; aristocratic 31; year 30; fashion 30; judge 30; looked 30; highest 29; profession 29; highly 29; taste 29; privilege 29; ambitious 29; reputation 28; admiration 28; queen 28; portion 27; set 27; circumstance 27; held 26; age 26; daughters 26; younger 26; favor 26; received 25; house 25; entertainment 25; gentleman 25; guests 25; prominent 25; future 24; enter 24; exhibited 24; admitted 24 0.72 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 575 Just one year before she was to be presented to the world -- not the great metropolitan world, but a world that would have made her welcome and done her homage at its little dances and little dinners in Troy and Rutland and Burlington -- fortune had turned her back upon the Woods. Their possessions had never been great ones; but they had sufficed. From generation to generation the family had gone to school like gentlefolk, dressed like gentlefolk, used the speech and ways of gentlefolk, and as gentlefolk lived and died. And now the mills failed. 0.62 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1646 There was no lack of good society at their command; good both socially and intellectually. American, English, Italian, French, etc.; many former friends and acquaintances and others desiring to be introduced by these; but none of our party felt disposed at that time to mix much with the outside world. 0.60 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2006 "Absolute and supreme power" is a high-sounding title; but how was I to exert it? 0.60 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1855 Now, if there was a person in the world whom Toby detested, it was this roving Lysander, who had disgraced the Villars family by marrying into it. However, he concealed his contempt with a politic hypocrisy worthy of a whiter skin. 0.59 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2817 Her name was known in the world of letters, her reputation was already enviable; extravagant expectations were entertained concerning her future; and to maintain her hold on public esteem, to climb higher, had become necessary for her happiness. 0.58 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 439 "I know her only as Madame Odille Orphia Orme, an actress of very remarkable beauty and great talent." 0.58 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 664 Such was the orphan's initiation into the charmed circle of fashionable society; such her welcome to le beau monde. 0.58 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1562 She had exhibited such remarkable shrewdness and finesse in her exploits, and had rendered such valuable services to the department, that she was held in high esteem. 0.57 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1918 "I imagine nothing, sir; but I know that she frequents a distant portion of this city, where I should think young ladies of her social status would find no attraction." 0.57 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1029 Mrs. Stornaway was the head and front of all Willowfield's social efforts, and represented the button factory with a lofty grace and unbending dignity of demeanour which were the admiration and envy of all aspirants to social fame. It was said that Mrs. Stornaway had been a beauty in her youth, and there were those who placed confidence in the rumour. Mrs. Stornaway did so herself, and it had been intimated that it was this excellent lady who had vouched for the truth of the statement in the first instance; but this report having been traced to a pert young relative who detested and derided her, might have had its origin in youthful disrespect and malice. ============================================================================= TOPIC 22 -- 611 chunks >= 0.25 from 24 texts ============================================================================= slave 295; government 276; country 230; trade 190; people 170; expedition 169; slaves 122; vessels 100; traders 93; natives 89; great 88; governor 87; ivory 78; hunters 72; troops 72; general 65; king 65; established 63; force 61; determined 58; command 56; time 55; orders 52; communication 50; steamer 49; impossible 48; river 47; station 47; egyptian 46; steamers 46; cattle 44; countries 43; arrived 41; large 41; officers 41; received 41; stations 40; work 39; establish 39; arrival 38; return 38; protection 38; service 37; quickly 35; confidence 34; companies 34; authorities 33; south 33; suppress 31; direct 31; captured 31; degrees 31; power 31; contract 31; open 30; difficulty 30; attempt 29; territory 29; original 29; rendered 29; returned 29; vakeel 29; civilized 28; represented 28; soldiers 28; irregular 28; explained 28; future 27; reform 27; regular 27; simply 27; transport 27; trader 27; voyage 27; interior 27; savage 26; appeared 26; hunting 26; distant 26; camels 26; sections 26; tribes 26; goods 26; exchange 26; commerce 25; declared 25; result 24; purchased 24; supplies 24; tribe 24; required 24; learnt 24; military 23; months 23; employed 23; north 23; important 23; system 23; desert 23; authority 23 0.87 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1105 This was the argument of the military force, to which, had I yielded, the expedition would have quickly relapsed into the original slave-hunting of the White Nile, which I was bound to suppress. I have already described the direct disobedience of the officers in having purchased 126 slaves secretly from the slave-hunters' station during the voyage. A slave trade would quickly spring up between the Khedive's officers and the slave-hunters of Abou Saood, unless I enforced the strictest discipline. The expedition would represent a government slave market for the reception of slaves captured by the Khartoum companies. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2294 "I described to the young king and his chiefs that I was determined to suppress the slave trade, and that I had hitherto forborne to interfere in the release of the slaves at the various stations, as it would have been impossible to have returned them to their distant homes, neither could I have supplied them with food. I was now at Masindi, beyond the farthest station of Abou Saood, and I should certainly insist upon the return of every slave that had been kidnapped from this country. This would at once prove to the inhabitants of Unyoro the benefit of the Khedive's protection. (The subsequent attack made by the slave- traders upon the government troops and myself at Fatiko was due to this declaration that all slaves should be taken away from their captors and returned to their homes. It will be seen later that I sent orders to the commandant of my station at Fatiko to release all slaves, and this command was resisted by Abou Saood and his people.) 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3768 My personal interference has rendered the slave trade of the White Nile impossible so long as the government is determined that it shall be impossible. At the close of the expedition, the higher officials had been changed, and the country appeared to be in good hands. The governor of Fashoda, Jusef Effendi, had captured the slave vessels of Abou Saood according to my instructions. Ismail Ayoub Pacha had been appointed governor of Khartoum. Hussein Khalifah, the Arab desert sheik, was governor of Berber, and various important changes had been made among the higher authorities throughout the Soudan, which proved that the Khedive was determined upon reform. 0.82 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. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 503 My task was to suppress the slave trade, when the Khartoum authorities well knew that their tenants were slave-hunters; to establish legitimate commerce where the monopoly of trade had already been leased to traders; and to build up a government upon sound and just principles, that must of necessity ruin the slave-hunting and ivory-collecting parties of Khartoum. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 500 There was no actual bartering of merchandise for ivory, neither was any merchandise shipped from Khartoum, except that required as clothing for the people who belonged to the slave-hunters' companies. If an honest, legitimate trade were commenced by the government, and law and order thoroughly established, it would become impossible for the slave hunters to exist in the White Nile districts. Their so-called trade consisted in harrying one country to procure cattle and slaves, which they exchanged for ivory in other districts. If a government were established, such razzias must cease at once -- and the Khartoum traders would be without an occupation. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2118 "A radical change throughout the country is absolutely necessary. The companies have hitherto purchased ivory with slaves and cattle; thus all countries in which this custom has been established, must be abandoned until the natives will sell ivory in exchange for goods. 0.81 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 106 The slave trade was to be suppressed; legitimate commerce was to be introduced, and protection was to be afforded to the natives by the establishment of a government. 0.80 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1613 It would be impossible to convey the steamer, as I could not expect to provide 2,000 carriers; but I might be able to penetrate south, suppress the slave- hunters, establish the government, and open up a legitimate trade. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 816 This was the regular negro system which had originally introduced the slave trade throughout the White Nile. One tribe invariably requests the alliance of a superior force to attack some powerful neighbour: the prisoners of war become slaves. When trading adventurers first commenced on the White Nile, the natives sold ivory for beads and copper bracelets; and trade was fairly established. The armed companies of the traders were immediately invited to become allies, and attacks were made upon various tribes. The cattle and slaves became the property of the captors. The traders quickly discovered that it was far easier and more profitable to steal cattle and slaves to exchange for ivory, than to import goods from Khartoum. They commenced the system of cattle-lifting and slave- hunting, which rapidly increased until it arrived at the immense scale already described. ============================================================================= TOPIC 23 -- 769 chunks >= 0.25 from 50 texts ============================================================================= men 419; rebel 376; prisoners 308; prisoner 283; escape 262; guard 231; house 206; soldiers 199; rebels 192; man 187; revolver 163; prison 162; make 151; officer 145; escaped 143; made 141; hand 140; pistol 139; soldier 138; night 131; captain 124; capture 123; shot 120; time 117; dark 115; friends 114; lines 113; sergeant 112; put 109; hands 106; brought 100; left 99; found 97; attempt 96; knew 94; safe 93; major 93; shoot 90; pocket 88; woods 86; discovered 85; place 84; danger 84; lieutenant 80; chance 79; party 79; thought 77; somers 77; taking 76; musket 76; captured 75; determined 74; find 74; rifle 74; sword 71; gun 71; uniform 71; camp 69; run 68; sentinel 67; deserter 66; thing 66; cabin 65; sentry 65; corporal 64; watch 63; cave 58; hold 58; weapon 57; pass 56; spy 56; carried 55; heard 54; length 53; enemy 53; river 52; rescue 52; held 51; arms 51; rear 51; weapons 51; retreat 50; armed 50; opportunity 50; surrender 49; possession 48; darkness 48; moment 48; exclaimed 48; close 47; order 47; passed 47; secured 47; coat 47; guarded 47; ready 46; ordered 46; filled 46; companion 46; arrest 46 0.74 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2727 "The other end of the cave is attacked, and it is sure to be carried. I shall soon be in the hands of my own men. If I don't succeed in doing something for myself first, it'll be impossible for me to regain the position I've lost." 0.73 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 801 This man was an Egyptian belonging to the "Forty Thieves," and he now confessed his former delinquency. He was secured in irons and placed under a guard. The fellow had been a professional thief, and during the night he managed to slip off his irons and make his escape, no doubt with the connivance of the sentry. 0.70 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. 0.69 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 853 But the soldier boy had no countersign to give. He had fallen upon a rebel picket post, and was made a prisoner. 0.69 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 534 Unfortunately my bedstead was the most horrible creaker, in which it was impossible to turn without producing a noise that would create an alarm, should a thief be on the alert. 0.69 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! 0.68 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 564 "In the first place," said he, "I must tell you what became of my comrade, Sam, as it was in endeavoring to assist him that I was captured. His career as a scout, although an exciting one, full of stirring adventures and hair-breadth escapes, was brought to a close soon after the capture of Vicksburg. 0.68 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 569 "Willy, keep your gun on him, while I search him for any weapons." Willy cocked the old musket and brought it to bear on the prisoner. 0.67 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1638 The officer delivered up his sword and a pair of pocket pistols. 0.65 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 803 He had given food and shelter to some of the prisoners who escaped from the horrible place, and had piloted them through the woods, and for this was arrested and thrown into the prison. ============================================================================= TOPIC 24 -- 559 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= good 2347; deal 549; great 425; man 211; bye 209; morning 171; boy 170; bad 156; fellow 155; hope 154; friend 152; glad 131; give 121; friends 116; time 112; day 112; kind 110; replied 109; gave 106; added 104; news 98; find 93; hand 92; bid 90; boys 87; natured 86; made 82; thought 80; pretty 75; answered 69; care 66; happy 61; luck 61; fine 58; naturedly 58; rough 56; continued 53; told 48; fortune 47; bring 45; bade 45; pleasure 44; pleasant 44; laughed 44; bidding 44; remember 43; mine 42; turn 41; trouble 40; assented 40; fellows 39; home 38; farewell 38; carry 37; taking 37; hear 37; cheerfully 37; meet 36; piece 36; life 35; feel 35; text 35; leave 34; set 34; remarked 34; responded 34; mischief 34; chance 33; observed 33; asked 33; reads 33; pains 32; courage 31; spite 30; long 30; promised 30; money 30; kindness 29; thinks 29; kindly 28; hearty 28; humored 28; fit 27; doctor 27; master 26; suit 26; shake 26; lucky 25; called 24; heartily 24; rich 23; humoredly 23; busy 22; grown 22; partly 22; helping 22; service 21; yesterday 21; wonderful 21; smart 21 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2113 "You are not strong now, but good nursing may do wonders for you," answered Harry cheerily. "Once within the Union lines, and you will feel like another man." 0.67 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." 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2186 "Thank you, Olga; but I would rather hear about the wonderful piece of good fortune, of which you promised to tell me." 0.65 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2723 "Bad luck will happen, you know. Once out of this scrape, you'll see what I'll do! Come, Sal, now be good to me." 0.65 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 474 "I'm commencin' t' feel pretty bad," said the tattered man, suddenly breaking one of his little silences. "I'm commencin' t' feel pretty damn' bad." 0.63 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1049 "Good morning, Miss Julia!" said Mr. Dunn; "glad to see you. Fine morning." 0.61 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1806 "Can I rely upon you not to communicate it to Gilbert Grey? It would do him a great deal of good." 0.60 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1565 "He says a good deal," observed Eugenia unsympathetically. 0.59 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 243 "What did I tell you?" he remarked to the man for whom he continued to deal, and who continued to lose money to him. 0.59 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3314 "Right smart of us suspicioned those two gentlemen were bidding faw you, John." ============================================================================= TOPIC 25 -- 835 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= day 350; heart 341; long 248; strength 208; thought 196; felt 193; pain 188; great 182; ill 173; weary 169; mind 169; rest 169; poor 161; days 159; death 154; fever 154; suffering 150; passed 144; sick 144; anxiety 142; night 137; father 134; home 128; relief 122; excitement 122; times 121; bear 119; found 116; care 115; feeling 115; danger 114; condition 112; body 112; brought 110; suffered 110; knew 109; hours 106; heavy 103; change 102; weak 102; quiet 99; worn 97; health 96; feel 95; life 92; fear 92; nervous 92; physical 90; hard 90; left 89; terrible 87; exhausted 86; lay 85; gave 84; place 83; burden 83; sigh 80; physician 79; work 78; patient 78; longer 76; effort 76; made 75; nerves 75; air 74; looked 74; endure 74; brain 72; began 71; grew 71; comfort 69; pale 69; return 68; face 68; growing 68; heat 68; worse 67; strong 66; feeble 66; strain 65; loss 64; spite 64; doctor 64; sorrow 64; state 62; broken 62; sad 61; fatigue 61; lost 60; watched 60; burning 60; scarcely 60; illness 59; anxious 58; relieve 58; tired 58; weeks 57; feared 56; save 56; morning 55 0.70 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2706 Had Toby forgotten the strain on his wrists, and the anguish of the thumbs, when this same cruel Lysander had him strung up? 0.70 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2393 Without thought the reproach escapes -- wrung from her in her agony. Soon as made, she regrets, and would recall it. For she sees the painful effect it has produced. 0.69 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1737 Such were the scenes which daily occurred in Julia’s sick room until at last, from utter exhaustion, she became still, and for many days she lay in a dreamy kind of sleep. 0.67 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 876 Throckmorton stayed late. In spite of Judith's quietness, he felt unhappy about her. She was too quiet, too deathly pale. He felt an intense pity for her, and he feared that she and her child would not much longer find a home under the roof of Barn Elms. 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. 0.64 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 648 When day broke he was unable to rise with its dawn. The effect of all this tension on his already overtaxed nerves was to induce a fever in the unhealed arm, which, though not painful, was yet sufficient to hold him close prisoner for several days; a delay which chafed him, and which filled his family at home with an intolerable anxiety, not that they knew its cause, -- that would have been a relief, -- but that they conjectured another, to them infinitely worse than sickness or suffering, bad and sorrowful as were these. 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 688 So it was with a light heart, though not without some lingering regrets for the sad ones and the loveliness left behind, that she and her father set out on their homeward way. 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2250 There Chloe found her, and wondered much what ailed her darling, what made her so silent, and yet so restless, and caused such a deep flush on her cheek. She feared she was feverish, her little hand was so hot and dry; but Elsie insisted that she was quite well, and so Chloe tried to think it was only fatigue. 0.63 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 1342 No, Lucy was not going to die. What she needed was country air and a place to run about in. She had been housed up too much; these long Northern winters were too severe for her, and that was what made her so pinched and thin and weak. She must have air, and she should have it. 0.62 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 26 -- 279 chunks >= 0.25 from 56 texts ============================================================================= work 434; cotton 164; hemp 97; field 88; iron 81; corn 80; wood 77; shop 74; day 71; fields 65; hard 64; hand 62; worked 61; set 58; long 56; cut 50; machine 50; hands 49; cutting 48; put 46; handle 46; cabin 40; grain 39; tools 37; piece 34; small 34; pile 34; seed 33; till 32; farm 32; factory 31; busy 30; engaged 29; soil 29; spade 29; laid 28; needle 28; stock 28; mill 28; knife 28; ax 28; crops 27; boxes 27; blacksmith 27; barn 27; metal 26; mills 26; tobacco 26; cleaning 26; hoe 26; plough 26; found 25; hours 25; watched 25; bales 25; sewing 25; women 24; press 23; carry 23; master 23; fence 23; paint 23; axe 23; nail 23; working 22; gave 22; wheat 22; fit 22; hole 22; begun 22; short 21; hooks 21; knives 21; crop 21; fibre 21; carpenter 21; axes 20; boys 20; plant 20; labor 20; task 19; accustomed 19; ground 19; shock 19; digging 19; staple 19; planting 19; corner 19; shoes 19; chest 19; packed 18; barrel 18; row 18; taking 18; baskets 18; keg 18; late 17; wheels 17; box 17; made 17 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 31 Throughout the winter and on into early spring, as days may be warm or the hemp dry, the breaking continues. At each nightfall, cleaned and baled, it is hauled on wagon-beds or slides to the barns or the hemphouses, where it is weighed for the work and wages of the day. 0.73 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 924 The camp of the "Forty Thieves" had been finished some time since: the gardens were flourishing, and I erected a "shadoof," or Egyptian double bucket and lever for irrigation. Two men could lift and throw out 3,600 gallons per hour. I made the calculation as nearly as possible: the iron buckets contained slightly more than four gallons each; thus, two men with the double shadoof lifted eight gallons every eight seconds (or one lift in eight seconds): a gallon per second gave 3,600 per hour. 0.66 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2352 "I haven't got a 'job' in hand," Tom answered; "your herds of stock and the Judge's coal mines and cotton fields are different matters." 0.63 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." 0.63 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1436 Aunt Dicey was overseeing the making of a huge kettle of soft soap. 0.63 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." 0.61 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1960 He went to the house, and was directed to the barn. There he found the farmer engaged in mending a hoe-handle, which had been broken, by splicing it. 0.61 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3449 "I say, Sambo, you go to spilin' the hands, I'll tell Mas'r o' you," said Quimbo, who was busy at the mill, from which he had viciously driven two or three tired women, who were waiting to grind their corn. 0.60 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3126 "Te daro cento scudi Fiduline. Sta borsa riccamá Por la bella sua barca Colla bella se ne vá Fidulilalo, Fiduline." 0.59 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 452 The acorns were tolerably plentiful around the roots of the big oaks, so the boys set to work to pick them up. It was an easier job than cutting the log, and it was not long before each had his hat full. ============================================================================= TOPIC 27 -- 310 chunks >= 0.25 from 25 texts ============================================================================= seh 76; vas 67; vill 65; jess 46; ai 43; aw 43; thass 42; wery 39; yo 38; faw 33; yit 29; cave 22; ah 21; fum 21; betteh 21; son 18; school 18; vat 18; fo 17; eveh 17; ole 16; sawt 16; till 15; neveh 15; make 14; ladies 14; eh 14; gentlemen 13; smiled 13; dass 13; evm 13; goot 12; pie 12; question 11; shell 11; sah 11; pring 11; mit 11; vote 11; jest 10; vun 10; vay 10; la 10; oveh 10; espress 10; wide 9; sweet 9; axe 9; cried 9; petter 9; ass 9; sole 8; wrong 8; ish 8; ef 8; vould 8; counties 8; riddle 8; fah 8; grime 8; motheh 8; jiss 8; otheh 8; pyo 8; bill 7; ant 7; surprised 7; ven 7; dea 7; dent 7; mo 7; haw 7; letteh 7; escuse 7; wheels 6; free 6; prisoner 6; tract 6; likewise 6; politics 6; paw 6; toe 6; vord 6; cusses 6; dollahs 6; caze 6; lan 6; movin 6; raace 6; frien 6; blay 6; laws 5; quick 5; town 5; junction 5; shoot 5; noise 5; mix 5; pad 5; shpeak 5 0.83 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1474 "Mr. Mahch, I'm impudize to espress to you in behalfs o' a vas' colo'ed constituency -- but speakin' th'oo a small ban' o' they magnates with me as they sawt o' janizary chairman -- that Gen'l Halliday seem to be ti-ud o' us an' done paass his bes' dotage, an' likewise the groun's an' debasements on an' faw which we be proud to help you depopulate yo' lan's, yass, seh, with all conceivable ligislation thereunto." 0.79 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." 0.79 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!" 0.78 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3879 Gezella dama. Lajooar. Nanotragus hemprichianus. Amoor. Cervicapra lencolis. Teel. Cervicapra ellipsiprymna. Apoolli. Cervicapra arundinaera. Oboor. Alcelaphus bubalis. Poora. Trageiaphus scriptus. Roda. Hippoacayus Bakeri Aboori. Camelopardalis giraffa. Ree. Phacochaerus AEtani (Rupp) (Wart-hog). Kool. Bos caffer. Joobi. Elephas Africanus. Leteb. Rhinoceeros bicornis. Oomooga. Felis leo. Lobohr. Felis leopardes. Quatch. Wild dog, probably (Lycaon pietus). Orara. Jackal. Roodi. Hyana crocata. Laluha. Manis Temminckii. Mooak. Hystrix ap. Cho. Viverra genetta. Gnonge. Felis caracal. Quorra. Herpsales striatus. Juang. Struthio cameles. Oodo. Leptoptilus crumenfirus. Kiaoom. Hyrax ap. Dooka. Aulacodus Swindernianus, or great reed-rat Neeri. Eupodoles sp. Apido. Nemida meleugris (?) Owino. Francolinus sp. (?) Aweri. 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." 0.74 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2094 "Ah!" said the smiling gallant, "you wants to know the secret o' my poweh, do you? Well, that interjuce the ezacly question I'm jess a-honin' to ass you. You ass me the secret o' my poweh. Don't you know thass the ve'y thing what Delijah ass Saampson?" 0.72 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2668 "You know the vay petter, and you vill take her safer as I can. But my eyes is wery wigorous, and I vill engage to vatch the cusses myself." 0.70 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." 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 239 "Virgo virginum prædara, Mihi jam non sis amara, Fac me tecum plangere." 0.68 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2102 "Lawd! I'll try! On'y ass it quick befo' my haht bus' wide opm. Ass it quick!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 28 -- 1773 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= eyes 1080; tears 1066; face 905; hands 628; heart 552; arms 491; mother 403; head 392; looked 309; voice 307; child 278; fell 269; hand 260; cry 245; lips 244; words 222; back 216; moment 212; turned 202; stood 196; cheeks 193; burst 192; girl 189; room 177; father 172; knees 156; kissed 156; wept 155; cried 151; white 140; grief 138; sat 135; breast 135; pale 135; clasped 135; tear 134; baby 134; woman 132; lay 131; thought 130; poor 127; side 126; weeping 125; long 124; bosom 120; began 119; husband 118; sobbing 118; knew 116; deep 114; wife 112; crying 110; tender 109; sobs 109; trembling 108; sob 108; cold 107; low 104; drew 104; threw 104; close 103; laid 103; felt 101; neck 101; sobbed 101; wiped 101; pressed 97; rose 96; dropped 95; ran 93; joy 93; emotion 91; suddenly 89; covered 89; hid 88; shook 88; brow 87; broke 85; groaned 85; silent 83; knelt 83; whispered 83; great 82; young 82; fingers 82; form 81; shed 81; full 80; sight 80; lifted 80; word 79; broken 79; agony 79; dead 78; fast 78; son 78; moments 77; wiping 77; rolled 76; arm 75 0.80 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. 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 836 She poured forth her love and grief and tender reproach on his breast with such innocent fervor that he could scarcely bear it. His eyes were wet too, and his furrowed, sunburnt cheeks, and his breath came short and fast while he held her close in his arms. 0.78 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. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3497 Mrs. Andrews wept aloud and wrung her hands, and Hattie cried passionately, as she stood in her long white nightgown at the side of her brother's bed; but there were no tears on Edna's cold, gray face. She had spent them all at the foot of God's throne; and now that He had seen fit to deny her petition, she silently looked with dry eyes at the heavy rod that smote her. 0.77 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 76 Eliza started. "O, missis!" she said, raising her eyes; then, bursting into tears, she sat down in a chair, and began sobbing. 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1815 "Mamma is here, darling," Elsie said, amid her fast-dropping tears, covering the little wan face with kisses, as she held it to her bosom. 0.76 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1654 Face to face he stood with Nellie Douglass, and between them lay his wife -- her rival -- the white hands folded meekly upon her bosom, and the pale lips just as they had breathed a prayer for him. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3052 The despairing agony in the orphan's voice touched Mrs. Murray's proud heart, and tears softened the indignant expression of her eyes, as she looked at the feeble form before her. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1150 She started, and turned round, pale and trembling, and lifting her eyes pleadingly to his face, silently placed the purse in his hand. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 611 She ended with a burst of frightened sobs and tears, hiding her face on the bosom of her mother who already held her closely clasped to her beating heart. ============================================================================= TOPIC 29 -- 473 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= man 328; told 191; crime 123; murder 121; punishment 111; story 109; heard 105; guilty 104; truth 103; men 95; lie 88; son 86; committed 81; word 72; true 68; prisoner 65; night 64; punished 62; cried 61; charge 59; traitor 59; call 57; justice 54; fellow 54; thief 54; innocent 51; put 49; evil 49; brother 49; treachery 48; worst 46; wicked 46; outrage 46; murderer 46; exclaimed 45; villain 45; act 44; woman 44; mercy 44; words 44; indignation 44; stealing 43; believed 42; treason 42; squire 42; death 40; court 40; swore 40; declared 39; doubt 39; made 39; intended 39; scoundrel 39; tales 39; angry 39; victim 39; arrested 38; murdered 37; offence 37; jail 37; knew 36; shoot 36; thought 36; spoken 36; oath 36; accused 35; sentence 35; money 35; blame 35; defend 35; falsehood 35; poor 34; wrong 34; telling 34; person 34; robbed 34; kill 34; prove 32; broke 32; tale 32; trick 32; sworn 32; disgrace 31; threatened 31; protest 31; robbery 31; war 30; speech 30; speaking 30; swear 30; indignantly 30; enemy 29; stolen 29; laws 28; hear 28; vengeance 28; insult 27; demanded 27; spy 27; sternly 27 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1345 "I protest agailst this brutal treatmelt!" stormed the prisoner, as he continued to writhe in his irons. "I am a woulded plisoler!" 0.77 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1525 "Not once, but twice. Do you think that now I believe that tale you told me that night, that fairy tale of persecuted innocence? When I think that I ever believed it I hate myself." 0.77 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 143 "No, my son. I do not think that you deserved so severe a punishment. I am rejoiced to know that you are truthful, and that you despise a mean act. Be always as you have been to-night in telling the truth, and I never shall be angry with you." 0.73 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 518 "You confounded, sneaking, underhanded little thief!" he thundered. "You damned little scoundrel! You -- you -- -- " 0.69 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2315 "From treachery, ambuscade, and privy murder -- I thank you, brother, for that word. Heaven shield us, and those we love! But these are fearful times." 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 685 While search is still being made for the body of the murdered man, and he suspected of the crime is threatened with a prison cell, she, the innocent cause of it, is being borne far away from the scene of its committal. 0.65 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." 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4054 "You deceived me! You told me she went with that villain to California to hide her disgrace!" 0.62 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1913 "Is it to commit murder, or robbery, or for any other dreadful reason?" 0.62 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 971 "I can't confess, for I am not guilty. I die an innocent man. I appeal to Heaven, before whose bar we must all appear, for the justice you deny me." ============================================================================= TOPIC 30 -- 619 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= character 194; nature 167; life 153; women 148; society 135; human 132; world 128; people 122; great 109; man 103; moral 96; mind 94; education 94; found 93; race 83; woman 82; fact 80; peculiar 75; type 73; strong 71; true 71; genius 71; superior 70; find 69; common 68; power 67; social 67; personal 66; knowledge 65; mere 64; age 61; long 60; learned 60; art 58; qualities 57; sense 57; mental 57; physical 56; discover 56; female 56; developed 55; early 55; religious 55; natural 54; feminine 54; intellect 53; virtues 53; manners 52; called 51; regard 51; development 51; thing 51; years 50; ideas 50; taste 50; circumstances 48; law 48; generally 47; family 47; degree 47; elements 46; science 46; modern 45; curious 45; person 45; household 44; instance 44; class 43; high 42; simply 42; indulge 42; fair 42; possessed 42; intellectual 42; possess 41; perfectly 41; study 41; intelligence 40; large 39; capacity 39; scientific 39; general 38; equal 38; ordinary 38; familiar 38; influence 37; easy 37; trained 37; rarely 37; talent 37; taught 36; faults 36; ignorant 35; distinguished 35; noble 35; makes 35; acquired 34; conditions 34; profound 34; domestic 34 0.72 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2806 "Olga is too astute not to discover the discrepancy between the theory of Scientists and the usages of civilized society, whose sanitary provisions thwart and neutralize your law in its operations upon the human race. 'Those whom it saves from dying prematurely, it preserves to propagate dismal and imperfect lives. In our complicated modern communities, a race is being run between moral and mental enlightenment, and the deterioration of the physical and moral constitution through the defeasance of the law of Natural Selection.'" 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 155 He insensibly adopted the habits of his neighbours; he dressed with their primitive regard for ease; he dropped now and then into their slurring speech, and adopted one by one their arcadian customs. 0.71 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1914 Such a housekeeper was Mrs. Shelby, whom we have already described; and such our readers may remember to have met with. If they are not common at the South, it is because they are not common in the world. They are to be found there as often as anywhere; and, when existing, find in that peculiar state of society a brilliant opportunity to exhibit their domestic talent. 0.70 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3709 Ismail Ayoub Pacha is a Circassian. I have observed that all those officers who are superior to the average in intellect and general capacity belong to this race. The Circassians are admirably represented in Cherif Pacha, who is well known and respected by all Europeans in Egypt for his probity and high intelligence; and Riaz Pacha, who was lately the Minister for Public Instruction, is a Circassian much beloved and respected. 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2976 Among philosophic minds she saw an inclination to ignore the principles of such systems as Sir William Hamilton's, and to embrace the modified and subtle materialism of Buckle and Mill, or the gross atheism of Buchner and Moleschott. Positivism in philosophy and pre-Raphaelitism in art, confronted her in the ranks of the literary, -- lofty idealism seemed trodden down -- pawed over by Carlyle's "Monster Utilitaria." 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2306 "But, Mr. Manning, do you not regard the writers of each age as the custodians of its tastes as well as its morals?" 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2692 Gradually and unconsciously she learned to lean upon his strong, clear mind, and to find in his society a quiet but very precious happiness. The antagonism of their characters was doubtless one cause of the attraction which each found in the other, and furnished the balance-wheel which both required. 0.67 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1910 And St. Clare did so, -- for gross sensualism, in any form, was not the peculiar temptation of his nature. 0.65 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." 0.63 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1919 Dinah was a character in her own way, and it would be injustice to her memory not to give the reader a little idea of her. She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe, -- cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race; but Chloe was a trained and methodical one, who moved in an orderly domestic harness, while Dinah was a self-taught genius, and, like geniuses in general, was positive, opinionated and erratic, to the last degree. ============================================================================= TOPIC 31 -- 664 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= time 584; day 581; days 577; life 478; long 456; home 418; year 316; happy 250; months 228; winter 225; summer 209; young 202; week 194; spent 181; weeks 178; years 176; passed 176; father 162; month 153; back 152; friends 152; country 148; spring 140; quiet 137; return 134; hours 132; work 127; mother 123; school 122; thought 119; found 117; great 115; pleasant 115; spend 114; place 110; early 109; rest 109; house 106; nights 106; health 105; ago 104; lived 104; people 101; hope 100; began 97; longer 91; end 90; brought 86; past 85; afternoon 85; change 84; visit 81; autumn 81; things 80; habit 80; part 79; college 79; coming 74; enjoyed 72; returned 70; delightful 67; talk 67; city 67; leave 66; town 66; journey 65; children 65; grew 65; cheerful 65; duties 64; live 64; missed 64; studies 63; future 62; short 62; sit 62; thoughts 62; present 61; land 60; morning 59; daily 59; busy 59; study 59; hard 57; grow 57; visits 57; gave 56; warm 55; close 54; neighborhood 54; lonely 53; learned 53; happiness 53; aunt 53; season 52; beginning 52; memory 52; left 51; scarcely 51; parents 48 0.77 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 690 The time came when Gabriella began to extend her knowledge to the country, as she drove out beside her grandmother in the balmy spring and early summer afternoons. 0.72 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 825 So the months went by, -- autumn to winter, winter to spring, and spring to summer. 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1891 "Yes, it's all very well for me ," he concluded more than once. "It's well enough for me to sit down and spend the rest of my life looking at the mountains and watching summer change into winter; but they are only beginning it all -- just beginning." 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1641 In this lovely spot they planned to remain for some months, perchance a year; little dreaming that five years would roll their weary round ere they should see home and dear native land again. 0.68 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3561 "The close of the year finds us, thank God, at peace in this country, with every prospect of prosperity." 0.68 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2554 Day after day passed, and the ammunition was only returned in driblets, after constant and most urgent demands. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 401 So the days went by, and the calm and peaceful nights, bringing him to October, -- the glorious harvest month. 0.67 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1065 In fact, so delightful did they find their life in that lovely country that they lingered week after week till nearly six had slipped away, and letters from home began to be urgent for their return. Mr. Dinsmore was wearying for his daughter, Mrs. Travilla for her son, and scarcely less for the daughter so long vainly hoped for. 0.66 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1213 "And in the meantime we can enjoy our tobacco; sit down. I've been so much interested in your stories of long ago that I want to ask you about one of the present time." 0.65 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 32 -- 333 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= years 1132; ago 531; twenty 342; ten 303; boy 245; age 220; man 212; day 199; long 195; hundred 158; thirty 154; days 150; thousand 147; year 142; months 133; forty 132; lived 117; remember 113; fifteen 108; fifty 101; died 84; minutes 83; eighteen 82; time 76; twelve 75; older 75; hours 74; sixty 63; times 62; young 60; lost 56; life 53; seventy 52; sixteen 49; youth 49; fourteen 45; nineteen 42; born 42; judge 40; live 40; younger 39; yesterday 38; lives 38; high 37; met 36; weeks 35; month 34; remembered 33; birthday 31; strange 30; week 30; thirteen 30; eighty 29; school 29; ninety 28; college 28; bought 27; grown 26; general 25; eleven 25; war 25; happened 25; hard 24; work 23; left 23; village 23; fever 23; memory 23; odd 23; aged 23; remaining 22; married 22; oldest 22; woman 21; counted 20; spirited 20; ages 20; senior 19; army 18; changed 18; difference 18; call 18; boys 18; count 18; served 17; seventeen 17; returned 15; unlike 15; appears 15; term 15; cough 15; wedding 15; equal 14; world 14; named 14; believed 14; possibly 14; living 14; score 14; record 14 0.68 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. 0.67 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1553 "Great God!" he exclaimed, "am I dreaming? am I delirious? How is it that I see before me the woman I loved forty-odd years ago? You cannot be Grace Brentford, for she died long years since." 0.67 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!" 0.65 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2908 "I have been doing sums. Figured in hours it sounds right short. Figured in minutes it boils up into quite a mess. Twenty by sixty is twelve hundred. Put that into seconds, and yu' get seventy-two thousand seconds. Seventy-two thousand. Seventy-two thousand seconds yet before we get married." 0.62 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2318 "The time has come -- it came long ago -- " his Shadow said, "when I could not live without it. My life has grown to yours." 0.61 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 659 "Yes, sir, I see you are advertising for clerks with preference given to the high school boys. Well, I am an old high school boy, but have been away for a few years at college." 0.59 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3871 Measles, whooping-cough, scarlatina, croup, diphtheria, are quite unknown. 0.59 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 710 The State of North Carolina, with a white population of five hundred and fifty- three thousand, had eighty thousand native whites, over twenty years of age, who had never attended school. In the State of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, five States having a population of two million six hundred and seventy thousand, there were two hundred and sixty-two thousand native-born Americans, over twenty years of age, unable to read or write! 0.59 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1573 "O, no, Frank," said Mary, "don’t be angry with your playmate. Remember who taught him to wrestle, and remember besides that this is your birthday." 0.57 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 33 -- 871 chunks >= 0.25 from 54 texts ============================================================================= shot 728; gun 566; fire 529; guns 407; fired 377; men 259; rifle 179; smoke 156; shell 155; shots 146; bullet 138; powder 137; firing 132; musket 128; enemy 127; fort 125; bullets 122; hit 122; ball 121; piece 115; cannon 113; rebels 111; aim 109; heavy 106; shells 103; pistol 98; ammunition 92; half 90; struck 90; battery 87; double 87; moment 87; rifles 84; loaded 84; barrel 83; ready 81; pieces 81; ran 80; shoot 80; quick 79; effect 78; killed 76; heard 75; range 75; time 74; muskets 74; charge 72; yards 72; shoulder 72; line 69; balls 69; load 68; close 66; hundred 65; fight 64; opened 63; boys 63; made 61; report 61; aimed 61; discharged 59; stood 57; rebel 57; solid 55; instant 55; wounded 55; sharp 53; head 52; shooting 52; fell 52; action 52; iron 51; long 51; mark 51; carried 50; great 47; air 46; body 46; hole 46; dropped 45; gave 44; exploded 44; burst 44; dozen 44; work 43; ordered 43; dead 43; forward 43; ten 42; high 41; explosion 41; shouted 41; soldiers 40; instantly 40; knocked 40; immediately 39; left 39; strike 39; tree 39; give 39 0.83 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. 0.79 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. 0.74 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. 0.72 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3911 Hollow bullets are quite useless for thick-skinned animals. I like No. 10 rifles, with chambers to contain a cartridge with ten drachms No. 6 powder. Such a rifle must weigh fifteen pounds to shoot accurately. 0.72 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. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1743 The flag of truce dropped, and the dastardly foe poured in a volley of musketry, before which a dozen of our brave boys fell, either killed or wounded. 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." 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1558 The scalding shower was descending there, also; Uncle Joe and his command were busy, and bullets were flying and doing some execution, though sent with less certain aim than from the front. 0.67 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1766 "Load up, and fire at will," said Tom, as he charged his musket. "Don't throw your lead away either." 0.67 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1790 "Hurrah!" shouted Tom, as the rebels quaked before the withering storm of shot belched forth by the guns of the battery. "They shake! Give it to them!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 34 -- 980 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= house 818; walked 494; steps 430; gate 407; back 356; stood 336; passed 332; walk 330; side 326; street 304; turned 298; door 283; carriage 275; front 271; garden 237; standing 228; sight 225; window 198; slowly 184; stopped 176; yard 171; reached 170; walking 170; open 162; road 159; man 154; corner 153; church 151; ran 147; left 144; hand 133; led 133; past 129; veranda 129; half 125; sat 117; looked 117; porch 117; coming 116; woman 111; direction 107; called 106; moment 106; found 103; waiting 103; path 102; drove 102; avenue 97; hat 97; fence 95; dark 91; stepped 91; end 89; disappeared 89; lawn 89; arm 86; light 85; seat 84; evening 83; long 81; paused 81; passing 80; started 78; turning 78; entered 77; distance 76; town 76; cabin 76; leaving 76; rear 75; trees 75; sitting 75; step 74; small 74; afternoon 74; approached 74; grounds 73; short 72; wide 71; leading 71; seated 71; close 69; rose 68; hour 68; foot 68; watched 68; drew 67; set 67; entrance 66; deserted 65; round 64; caught 63; quietly 63; tree 62; straight 62; brought 61; opposite 61; spot 60; crowd 60; group 60 0.75 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2848 He lay in the narrow path between the doorstep and the gate where roses bloomed. Some one had started for the nearest house, but the crowd stood motionless about him. "By God, it's Nick Burr!" repeated the man who had held him. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 573 Opening the latticed gate he walked toward the group, and lifting the basket, sat down on the steps. 0.72 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. 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 1039 The excellent woman stood on the porch when the buggy was brought up, and having tucked the girl's wraps round her, watched her driven away. 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 588 "It's all over! He's got her," groaned Johnson. As they passed out of sight, Mills rose and sauntered somewhat briskly (for him) in the direction of John Hall's. 0.70 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1521 As they emerged from the wood and passed the Burr farm they saw Amos leaning on his gate, looking moodily upon the morning. 0.70 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. 0.69 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. 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 137 He took his hat from the stand in the hall, and silently they walked down to the parsonage gate. The driver dismounted and opened the carriage door, but the draped figure lingered, with her hand upon the latch. 0.67 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 35 -- 349 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= house 464; place 196; building 185; houses 128; town 127; built 120; great 115; country 101; long 101; years 95; small 83; time 80; brick 80; stone 79; land 77; wooden 75; large 74; roof 74; home 70; square 69; mansion 69; walls 68; front 65; trees 62; dwelling 62; windows 62; ancient 59; part 57; wide 56; grounds 56; family 55; occupied 54; barn 53; streets 52; cabins 52; fields 51; garden 51; half 49; fair 49; build 48; broad 48; region 48; farm 47; estate 47; life 46; stock 46; high 45; laid 45; style 44; century 44; comfortable 43; buildings 42; ground 42; homes 41; past 41; rooms 41; frame 41; rude 40; surrounded 40; city 40; architecture 39; owner 39; doors 39; close 38; aspect 38; school 38; ruins 38; rural 38; early 37; church 37; fences 36; plantation 36; horses 35; grass 35; village 35; story 35; big 35; families 35; fashioned 34; places 34; beautiful 34; quarter 34; log 34; quarters 33; green 33; summer 33; stands 33; surrounding 32; picturesque 32; poverty 32; public 31; open 31; structure 31; weather 30; primitive 30; farmer 30; venerable 30; chimney 30; painted 29; neat 29 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 65 The old home of the Dinsmores, though shorn of the glory of its grand old trees, was again a beautiful place: the new house was in every respect a finer one than its predecessor, of a higher style of architecture, more conveniently arranged, more tastefully and handsomely furnished; lawns, gardens and fields had become neat and trim as in the days before the war, and a double row of young, thrifty trees bordered the avenue. 0.70 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. 0.70 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. 0.69 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 348 Near Lexington may be found a further notable example of early architecture in the Todd homestead, the oldest house in the region, built by the brother of John Todd, who was Governor of Kentucky Territory, including Illinois. It is a strong, spacious brick structure reared on a high foundation of stone, with a large, square hall and square rooms in suites, connected by double doors. To the last century also belongs the low, irregular pile that became the Wickliffe, and later the Preston, house in Lexington -- a striking example of the taste then prevalent for plain, or even commonplace, exteriors, if combined with interiors that touched the imagination with the suggestion of something stately and noble and courtly. 0.68 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1523 "Still, it is a magnificent estate," said Mrs. McVeigh, thoughtfully; "the associations of the past -- the history of your family -- is so intimately connected with it, I should think you would be sorry to part with it." 0.66 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 956 The house at which Tom applied for food evidently did not belong to one of the "first families," or, if it did, the owner's fortunes had become sadly dilapidated. It was built of rough boards, with a huge stone chimney, which was erected on the outside of the structure. The humblest fisherman in Pinchbrook Harbor would have thought himself poorly accommodated in such a rough and rickety mansion. 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1596 The ancient monastery, erst the abode of Spanish monks, now become the dwelling- place of the ci-devant Mississippi planter, calls for a word of description. 0.65 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 830 The house which Dr. Lacey occupied was situated on one of the pleasantest streets of New Orleans. It was a large, airy structure, which had formerly been owned by a wealthy French gentleman who had spared neither money nor pains to adorn it with every elegance which could minister to the luxurious habits common to a Southern clime. When it passed into the hands of Dr. Lacey’s father, he gratified his Northern taste, and fitted it up with every possible convenience, molding its somewhat ancient aspect into a more modern style. 0.65 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 344 But, as soon as might be, this compulsory village life broke eagerly asunder into private homes. The common building form was that of the log-house. It is needful to distinguish this from the log-house of the mountaineer, which is found throughout eastern Kentucky to-day. Encompassed by all difficulties, the pioneer yet reared himself a better, more enduring habitation. One of these, still intact after the lapse of more than a century, stands as a singularly interesting type of its kind, and brings us face to face with primitive architecture. "Mulberry Hill," a double house, two and a half stories high, with a central hall, was built in Jefferson County, near Louisville, in 1785, for John Clark, the father of General George Rogers Clark. 0.63 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 576 "I'll take a look at the woods first," said David; "and then I want to make a place in the stable for the sheep, father. They must come under shelter to-night I'll fix new stalls for the horses inside where we used to have the corn crib. The cows can go where the horses have been, and the sheep can have the shed of the cows: it's better than nothing. I've been wanting to do this ever since I came home from college." ============================================================================= TOPIC 36 -- 831 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= read 445; book 415; story 413; books 344; school 258; boy 218; young 199; boys 168; author 165; history 158; stories 157; reading 155; volume 153; written 136; great 123; reader 122; teacher 121; hero 116; interesting 115; interest 111; learned 104; life 103; series 102; work 96; lesson 96; write 88; pages 84; lessons 79; study 78; told 76; readers 76; writing 75; writer 75; volumes 74; names 72; adventures 70; page 69; good 68; present 67; make 67; tale 67; learn 66; class 65; people 64; romance 62; incidents 61; literary 60; world 59; library 59; girls 57; give 56; telling 56; narrative 55; adventure 52; favorite 52; found 51; find 51; love 51; style 51; fiction 51; full 50; making 50; knowledge 49; fine 48; original 47; title 47; description 46; information 46; works 46; entertaining 46; years 45; children 45; wonderful 45; pupil 45; country 44; frequently 44; finished 44; memory 43; scholar 43; public 42; american 41; account 41; language 41; end 40; character 40; beautiful 40; interested 40; literature 40; historical 40; task 39; pleasure 39; aloud 39; result 38; mind 38; letters 38; real 38; art 38; generally 37; lad 37; poem 37 0.96 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1950 The opening of a new series of books from the pen of Oliver Optic is bound to arouse the highest anticipation in the minds of boy and girl readers. There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. Adams, who under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct and entertain their younger years. The present volume opens "The Blue and the Gray Series," a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the series, of which the first volume is now presented, while the name of Oliver Optic is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. "Taken by the Enemy," the first book of the series, is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. Adams has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected, by entering Into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume. -- Boston Budget. 0.95 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1738 The opening of a new series of books from the pen of Oliver Optic is bound to arouse the highest anticipation in the minds of boy and girl readers. There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. Adams, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct and entertain their younger years. The present volume opens "The Blue and the Gray Series," a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the series, of which the first volume is now presented, while the name of Oliver Optic is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. "Taken by the Enemy," the first book of the series, is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. Adams has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected, by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume. -- Boston Budget. 0.95 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1658 "There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. ADAMS, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct, and entertain their younger years 'The Blue and the Gray' is a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the latest series, while the name of OLIVER OPTIC is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. This series is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. ADAMS has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume." -- Boston Budget. 0.92 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1757 "The story from its inception, and through the twelve volumes (see Second Series), is a bewitching one, while the information imparted concerning the countries of Europe and the isles of the sea is not only correct in every particular, but is told in a captivating style. OLIVER OPTIC will continue to be the boys' friend, and his pleasant books will continue to be read by thousands of American boys. What a fine holiday present either or both series of 'Young America Abroad' would be for a young friend! It would make a little library highly prized by the recipient, and would not be an expensive one." -- Providence Press . 0.92 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1524 "There never has been a more interesting writer in the field of juvenile literature than Mr. W. T. ADAMS, who, under his well-known pseudonym, is known and admired by every boy and girl in the country, and by thousands Who have long since passed the boundaries of youth, yet who remember with pleasure the genial, interesting pen that did so much to interest, instruct, and entertain their younger years. 'The Blue and the Gray' is a title that is sufficiently indicative of the nature and spirit of the latest series, while the name of OLIVER OPTIC is sufficient warrant of the absorbing style of narrative. This series is as bright and entertaining as any work that Mr. ADAMS has yet put forth, and will be as eagerly perused as any that has borne his name. It would not be fair to the prospective reader to deprive him of the zest which comes from the unexpected by entering into a synopsis of the story. A word, however, should be said in regard to the beauty and appropriateness of the binding, which makes it a most attractive volume." -- Boston Budget . 0.92 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." 0.92 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." 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1696 "The story from its inception, and through the twelve volumes (see Second Series), is a bewitching one, while the information imparted concerning the countries of Europe and the isles of the sea is not only correct in every particular, but is told in a captivating style. OLIVER OPTIC will continue to be the boys' friend, and his pleasant books will continue to be read by thousands of American boys. What a fine holiday present either or both series of 'Young America Abroad' would be for a young friend! It would make a little library highly prized by the recipient, and would not be an expensive one." -- Providence Press. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1664 "Mr. ADAMS, the celebrated and popular writer, familiarly known as OLIVER OPTIC, seems to have inexhaustible funds for weaving together the virtues of life; and, notwithstanding he has written scores of books, the same freshness and novelty run through them all. Some people think the sensational element predominates. Perhaps it does. But a book for young people needs this, and so long as good sentiments are inculcated such books ought to be read." 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1667 "This series of six volumes recounts the adventures of two brothers, Tom and Jack Somers, one in the army, the other in the navy, in the great Civil War. The romantic narratives of the fortunes and exploits of the brothers are thrilling in the extreme. Historical accuracy in the recital of the great events of that period is strictly followed, and the result is, not only a library of entertaining volumes, but also the best history of the Civil War for young people ever written." ============================================================================= TOPIC 37 -- 2202 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= back 1107; looked 941; sat 935; face 918; chair 869; eyes 841; turned 798; head 769; stood 763; hand 637; hands 575; room 490; rose 404; man 384; seat 376; slowly 328; table 314; leaned 314; side 306; window 306; moment 301; silence 301; standing 300; walked 298; forward 277; hat 264; feet 260; drew 259; door 259; began 254; arm 234; floor 234; sitting 231; leaning 225; long 216; fell 206; spoke 204; bent 199; glanced 195; moved 193; left 183; arms 176; put 176; suddenly 174; length 172; dropped 165; raised 159; watched 158; held 156; stared 153; breath 152; laid 151; lay 145; watching 143; half 140; fixed 139; silent 135; bowed 134; seated 133; ground 130; stopped 130; corner 130; lap 127; air 126; entered 121; threw 121; round 120; front 120; turning 120; woman 119; gaze 117; low 116; folded 115; fire 113; passed 113; waited 110; figure 110; stepped 110; shoulder 108; gazing 107; eye 106; resting 104; closed 103; paused 103; softly 102; caught 101; knees 101; sank 99; full 98; quickly 98; gazed 98; glance 96; step 94; heavily 94; started 93; book 93; staring 91; knee 87; landless 87; close 86 0.80 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 790 He stopped suddenly, caught his breath quickly, and his hand fell from my knee. For a moment he sat leaning forward, breathing heavily. 0.79 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. 0.78 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3328 As his son slammed the door behind him, Hiram Still stood for a moment, turned unsteadily to his chair, threw up his hands, and, tottering, fell full length on the floor. 0.78 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1065 Steve was lying full length on his back at her feet, his face turned to her, and his clasped hands under his head. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2274 Mr. Chilton came up to the piano, and curiously scanned Edna's face; but taking her hat and veil, she rose and moved toward the door, saying: 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 881 He frowned, shook off her hands, and strode to the door; then reconsidered the matter, came back, and stood at the fireplace, leaning his elbow on the mantel, looking gloomily at the coals. 0.77 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 4312 Chloe turned, and was walking proudly out of the room. Mrs. Shelby followed her softly, and took one of her hands, drew her down into a chair, and sat down by her. 0.77 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. 0.76 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1537 As I spoke, I laid my hand upon the bowed and covered head. It was raised, the cloak was drawn aside, and there looked me in the eyes the Italian. 0.76 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 426 Tom did not rise from his seat. 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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. 0.87 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. 0.86 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2480 The woods were sparkling with the raindrops, and the sky was as if it had just been newly washed and burnished, and the earth was covered with water which shone in the light of the setting sun, like pools of crystal. 0.86 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1717 The day wore on to its lovely end, and lost itself in one of the sunsets which seem to flood the sky with a tide of ripples of melted gold, here and there tipped with flame. When this was over, a clear, fair moon hung lighted in the heavens, and, flooding with silver what had been flooded with gold, changed the flame-tips to pearl. 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2889 A glowing orange sky overarched an orange ocean, which slowly became in turn ruby, and rose, and violet, and pearly gray, powdered with a few dim stars. As the rising waves broke along the beach, the stiffening breeze bent the spray till it streamed like silvery plumes; and the low musical murmur swelled to a monotonous moan, that seemed to come over the darkening waters like wails of the lost from some far, far "isles of the sea." 0.85 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. 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1281 The sun had just gone down behind a fleecy cloud-mountain and kindled a volcano, from whose silver-rimmed crater fiery rays of scarlet shot up, almost to the clear blue zenith; while here and there, through clefts and vapory gorges, the lurid lava light streamed down toward the horizon. 0.84 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. 0.83 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2228 They left the town behind them. They took to the fields; they entered the shadow of the mountains, the western sky above whose tops was yet silvery bright with the shining wake of the sunset. A few faint stars were visible, and just a glimmer of moonlight was becoming apparent in the still twilight gloom. ============================================================================= TOPIC 39 -- 2516 chunks >= 0.25 from 50 texts ============================================================================= board 993; captain 973; officer 921; deck 755; commander 704; lieutenant 670; ship 524; steamer 509; cabin 496; men 485; replied 439; officers 432; added 357; vessel 326; duty 290; man 249; order 234; command 227; orders 224; engineer 218; crew 207; called 204; mate 192; room 189; regard 187; continued 183; report 180; time 178; service 177; steward 169; position 167; boat 165; engine 165; prize 163; pilot 160; made 158; executive 154; present 152; situation 149; make 149; quarter 148; chief 146; ready 138; owner 138; forward 132; appeared 127; flag 127; put 125; company 125; asked 123; master 121; part 119; capture 116; naval 114; berth 114; seamen 113; charge 112; stateroom 112; ordered 111; gave 106; companion 105; side 101; place 100; action 99; person 98; found 97; prisoner 97; watch 95; ward 95; call 94; looked 93; bridge 91; reported 89; information 88; expedition 87; suggested 87; shore 87; satisfied 86; hands 85; returned 81; acting 79; directed 79; presented 78; condition 77; sailor 77; left 74; understand 74; manner 74; sailors 74; wounded 74; rail 74; sea 73; wheel 73; fully 72; send 71; captured 71; seaman 71; sir 70; proceeded 70; forecastle 70 0.83 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 547 The late acting-commander did not leave the deck, as he would have been likely to do if he had been relieved and ordered to report on board of the flag-ship, though he might have been superseded as executive officer, -- a position which he was clearly entitled to hold. A little later, the draft of seamen were ordered to file on board of the Bronx. Then the observer saw Mr. Galvinne, with a rather pompous gesture point to the men who were coming on board, and say something he could not hear to Mr. Flint. He had evidently directed him to receive the seamen as they came on deck. This indicated that the late second lieutenant of the Vernon had been appointed executive officer of the Bronx. 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 177 Christy was a passenger on board of the Vernon, and he had nothing to do. The commanding officer appeared to be engaged in the details of his duty, though the steamer was in charge of a pilot. He could see from his shoulder straps that he was an ensign, and the officers in the waist and on the forecastle were of the same rank. If there were any other passengers on board of the vessel who were commissioned officers, they were not visible on the deck, though they might be in their staterooms, arranging their affairs for the voyage. 0.82 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. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 806 "Mr. Vapoor? But we cannot spare him from the engine room for a minute," protested the commander, who was well aware that the chief engineer was the lieutenant's especial crony. "That would not do at all." 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 1012 Ensigns Palmer Drake and Richard Leyton, who were serving on board of the steamer while waiting for positions, were sent to the Tallahatchie, the first named as prizemaster, and the other as his first officer, with a prize crew of twenty men, and the two steamers got under way. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1562 On his way he went into the engine-room, which opened from the main deck, where he had before seen the two engineers, the chief of whom had received him very politely. He suggested to the captain that he had made no arrangement with these officers, and he was not quite sure that they would be willing to do duty now that the steamer was a prize. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 545 Corny's first movement on board of the Vernon was to take the hand of Mr. Galvinne, whom he appeared to be congratulating on a promotion or appointment. The second lieutenant promptly handed his lists to the third lieutenant, Mr. Winter, who proceeded with the calling of the names. Corny and Mr. Galvinne immediately went below, and Christy concluded that the officer he had spotted as the traitor had been appointed to the little gunboat, either as first or second lieutenant, and that they were making their preparations to go on board of her. In a few minutes they appeared with the steward of the ward room carrying their baggage. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 597 This order was given to Giblock, the boatswain, and in a minute or two every man on board was in his station. The first lieutenant remained on the bridge, but the second took his place in the waist, and the third forward, though this arrangement of the officers was not sanctioned by ancient usage. Silence was commanded, and the engine, working at half speed, made hardly any noise. The captain had spoken to Sampson, the chief engineer, and he had done his best to avoid all noise in his department. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1195 "I came on board of the Bronx, and put myself in a place where you were least likely to look for me, -- under the berth in the captain's stateroom. I was at home there, for I had occupied the room while I was the acting commander of the vessel on her voyage to the Gulf. But you must excuse me now, for I am ordered to get under way at once; and the ship's company of the Floridian have reported on board." ============================================================================= TOPIC 40 -- 1688 chunks >= 0.25 from 51 texts ============================================================================= enemy 704; men 678; line 656; troops 576; army 507; battle 465; position 422; left 413; rebels 377; force 357; front 349; attack 333; fire 324; lines 322; road 318; division 294; advance 279; rear 277; guns 258; field 255; back 253; artillery 244; batteries 236; moved 228; brigade 226; ground 225; command 218; regiment 218; miles 214; river 209; movement 204; forward 198; morning 197; hundred 187; cavalry 180; thousand 179; made 171; woods 171; retreat 161; day 160; soldiers 155; flank 154; town 149; battery 144; fight 141; bridge 140; order 139; hill 138; column 138; marched 137; captured 135; march 134; forces 133; officers 131; wounded 131; great 130; held 127; night 126; corps 125; infantry 125; heavy 124; move 124; advanced 123; point 122; general 118; divisions 118; time 115; north 114; began 112; till 111; house 109; moving 109; south 105; crossed 105; reached 104; side 104; fell 103; fighting 103; regiments 102; formed 100; advancing 100; ordered 99; lost 98; works 97; prisoners 95; portion 94; thirty 92; brought 91; open 90; charge 90; past 90; fought 90; main 87; loss 87; firing 87; arrived 85; mile 85; east 85; driven 84; thrown 84 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 809 Hooker gave Meade, with the Pennsylvania Reserves, the right, Ricketts the left, and placed Doubleday in support in rear. Mansfield joined Hooker's left, but was an hour behind time. Sumner was slow to come into action. Hooker advanced, drove in the Rebel pickets, found a Rebel battery on his extreme right, which, as soon as he came within its range began to plough him with a flanking fire. Meade obliqued to the right, poured in a few volleys, and drove the enemy across the turnpike. This was the extreme left of the enemy's line. Hooker crossed the turnpike a few rods north of Poffenberg's, marched through the fields to the ridge by the cornfield. Having obtained possession of the ridge east of Poffenberg's, he planted his batteries and opened a fierce cannonade upon the Rebels. 0.92 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 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. 0.92 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. 0.91 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 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 1148 "The first brigade to the right advanced several hundred yards over cleared ground, driving the enemy's skirmishers before them till they reached the woods in front of the railroad, which they entered, driving the enemy out of them to the railroad, where they were found strongly posted in ditches and behind temporary defences. The brigade (First) drove them from there and up the heights in their front. Owing to a heavy fire being received on their right flank, they obliqued over to that side, but continued forcing the enemy back till they had crowned the crest of the hill, crossed a main road which runs along the crest, and reached open ground on the other side, where they were assailed by a very severe fire from a larger force in their front, and at the same time the enemy opened a battery which completely enfiladed them from the right flank. After holding their ground for some time, no support arriving, they were compelled to fall back to the railroad."[15] 0.90 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. 0.90 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 3263 "The enemy," says Sheridan, "were driven from their strong line of works, completely routed; the Fifth Corps doubling up their left flank in confusion, and the cavalry of General Merritt dashing on to the White Oak road, capturing their artillery, turning it upon them, and riding into their broken ranks, so demoralized them that they made no serious stand after their line was carried, but took flight in disorder."[96] 0.90 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 41 -- 156 chunks >= 0.25 from 46 texts ============================================================================= game 170; play 149; played 125; cow 92; man 76; playing 73; cards 67; boys 64; poker 44; foreman 42; art 39; point 33; trick 32; spite 31; taking 29; outfit 27; company 25; ranch 25; times 24; stories 24; trampas 23; high 22; win 22; full 21; fighting 21; whist 21; part 20; tricks 20; role 20; round 19; watch 19; games 19; fair 18; led 18; fun 18; holiday 18; virginian 18; world 17; fire 17; scarce 17; fellows 17; dealer 17; worked 16; day 16; easy 16; latest 16; wit 16; points 15; dealing 15; close 15; names 15; inclined 15; yu 15; happy 14; black 14; poetry 14; enjoyment 14; players 14; puncher 14; season 13; side 13; beginning 13; laughed 13; revenge 13; chess 13; thing 13; plays 13; silent 12; begin 12; missionary 12; parts 12; gathered 12; player 12; hyeh 12; natural 11; altogether 11; amusement 11; card 11; hawss 11; built 10; spirits 10; told 10; recreation 10; pursued 10; humour 10; meant 10; changing 10; absorbed 10; leader 9; success 9; teach 9; responsible 9; sorts 9; amused 9; wandering 9; trustworthy 9; clever 9; grew 9; empty 9; throw 9 0.67 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 709 "Yes, I will play cards, but I won't gamble; and there isn't many fellows in the company that will." 0.64 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 1665 He did not know how much he had already pleased him. He did not know that the Judge was humorously undecided which of his new foreman's first acts had the more delighted him: his performance with the missionary, or his magnanimity to Trampas. 0.64 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 659 "Wal, Missis, de Lord he persarves his own. Lizy's done gone over the river into 'Hio, as 'markably as if de Lord took her over in a charrit of fire and two hosses." 0.60 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 1141 "How about Rawhide, anyway?" said Scipio, skillfully deflecting this missionary work. "Are they taking much mineral out? Have yu' seen any of the rock?" 0.58 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 185 "Stud and draw," Steve told him. "Strangers playing." 0.54 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 1012 "And," said the Virginian, "if Essex's play got next her too near, I reckon she'd have stacked the cyards. Say, d' yu' remember Shakespeare's fat man?" 0.53 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1094 "Come and play a game of billiards, Mordaunt," he said. 0.53 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 522 "Don't the Sophomores play all sorts of tricks on the Freshmen?" 0.52 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2539 "Only one outfit of prospectors has ever been here, and they claimed there was no mineral-bearing rock in these parts." 0.51 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2472 "'My boys, you don't play cards on Sunday, do you?' ============================================================================= TOPIC 42 -- 1590 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= told 596; mother 581; home 538; thought 538; marcy 504; boys 467; boy 422; men 405; time 401; find 387; thing 349; house 343; knew 338; back 336; wanted 318; replied 314; flag 293; trouble 286; good 276; captain 262; heard 246; run 238; put 236; long 234; afraid 234; safe 229; answered 221; friends 209; brought 207; made 202; news 200; hear 188; word 183; money 182; things 180; hands 173; fight 173; stand 169; give 169; place 164; exclaimed 157; make 155; night 155; mind 151; man 149; overseer 148; story 146; bring 145; added 144; stay 141; coming 140; glad 136; work 133; talk 132; people 128; rebel 128; frightened 126; care 125; colonel 122; sort 121; rest 120; taking 118; business 118; inquired 110; talking 109; rebels 107; whipped 107; hope 105; company 105; settlement 103; show 103; happened 103; ca 103; fear 101; side 101; running 101; act 99; country 99; state 99; fellows 98; expected 97; truth 96; surprised 96; plantation 95; neighbors 95; chance 93; telling 90; matter 89; school 89; continued 87; folks 86; secret 85; asked 85; declared 82; worst 81; minute 80; hold 80; gave 79; left 78; badly 78 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 1339 "I know; but when it comes to the pinch you will find that she's got more pluck than you have. That money is what scares me. If the suspicions of the authorities become aroused, look out. But don't lisp a word of that where mother can hear it." 0.77 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1161 "Why, this is worse than Barrington," Marcy declared. "There you know who your enemies are; but here you've got to look out for everybody, or the first thing you know some sneak may get on the blind side of you. Now, mother, let's talk business. How are the darkies?" 0.76 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 212 But what was the object of the plot? That was what "banged" Marcy, and he told his mother so after he had given her a minute description of his brief interview with the overseer. Was it possible that there were some strong Union men in the neighborhood, and that Beardsley hoped Marcy would incur their enmity by discharging Hanson on account of his alleged principles? Marcy knew better than to believe that, and so did his mother. 0.76 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 1058 "And the reason our papers didn't speak of it is because we don't want the Yankees to be on the watch for him when he comes back," continued the citizen. "We can tell by the way they have acted since they captured the forts, that they know what is going on in the city as well as we do. They must get the papers regularly; and if we ever find out who is to blame for it, I wouldn't give much for his neck." 0.74 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 163 "Probably some of the house servants posted him," answered Tom. "You know that prying darkies sometimes find out a heap of things." 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 519 "Kase I don't want to get nobody in trouble with Cap'n Beardsley," replied the coachman; and he might as well have told the full particulars, for Marcy and his mother knew that they had one of the captain's own servants to thank for their rescue. 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 371 "That's just what I say," answered Rodney. "And I am going to help lick them for bringing on this trouble when we wanted peace. Good-by, one and all. I'll be back as soon as we have run the Yankees out of Missouri, and that will not take more than two or three months." 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1472 "I did," replied Marcy. "I said a good word for you while I was in Plymouth, and the Yankee colonel said that, if anybody bothered you paroled rebels, it would be your own men and not his. You have brought me good news." 0.73 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 1098 "I don't care what they set me down for, so long as they let you and mother alone while I am gone," replied Jack. "I have been here long enough to find out what is the matter with our neighbors. They are mad because we will not declare ourselves." 0.73 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2436 "And get myself in the guard-house for my trouble? No, thank you, miss. I wouldn't have spoken to you if it hadn't been for the sympathy you showed coming in, and to sort o' show you that you are not running so much danger as folks try to make you believe." ============================================================================= TOPIC 43 -- 1242 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= manner 461; young 434; made 382; felt 353; man 230; good 219; found 216; met 207; appeared 204; thought 202; gave 194; lady 194; pleasure 192; acquaintance 189; interest 181; stranger 181; conversation 177; kind 173; pleased 172; knew 165; received 164; subject 164; change 163; great 162; presence 153; spoke 148; make 146; friend 141; gentleman 141; talked 136; feeling 134; mind 133; surprised 132; fact 128; greatly 126; surprise 125; person 125; day 124; father 124; feel 120; called 117; looked 117; son 115; friendly 114; curiosity 110; making 110; cousin 110; agreeable 109; occasion 108; men 106; air 106; interested 106; friends 105; showed 105; noticed 103; pleasant 102; appearance 101; delighted 100; matter 99; admiration 98; evening 96; treated 95; part 95; attention 92; interesting 91; word 91; shown 89; opinion 88; visit 88; companion 88; remarked 88; supposed 87; kindly 87; expression 84; remark 82; regard 80; usual 80; idea 79; evident 78; sympathy 77; perfect 77; meeting 77; regarded 76; people 76; paid 76; evidently 76; secret 75; knowledge 74; changed 73; favorite 73; indifference 72; expressed 71; slight 70; cordial 70; respect 70; natural 69; character 69; exceedingly 69; ease 69; daughter 69 0.79 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3794 When Middleton mentioned to Mrs. Welch his meeting with Moses, to his surprise she spoke of him with unmitigated detestation, and, equally to his surprise, she spoke of Captain Allen with much less reprobation than from his knowledge of her views he had anticipated. 0.74 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 676 The latter felt immensely superior to his friend, but he inclined to condescension. He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor. 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2373 The difference in the attitude of their neighbors toward them was felt deeply by Major and Mrs. Welch. Even Dr. Cary’s wonted cordiality had given place, when he met Mrs. Welch, to grave and formal courtesy. Toward Major Welch the formality was less marked, while toward Ruth there was almost the same warmth and friendliness that had existed before Mrs. Welch’s letters were seen. Ruth received quite as many invitations as before, and when she met her neighbors they were as cordial to her as ever. She was conscious that this difference in her case was intentional, that the old warmth toward her was studied, and that they meant her to feel that the change in their attitude did not extend to her. Ruth, however, was far too loyal to her own to accept such attentions; so far from accepting, she resented the overtures made her, and was not slow in letting it be understood. There were one or two exceptions to this general attitude. For Blair Cary her liking deepened. Blair was sweeter than ever to her, and though Ruth felt that this was to make up to her for the coolness of others, there were a real warmth and a true sympathy in Blair, and a delicacy and charm about her manner of showing them that touched Ruth, and she was conscious that day by day she became drawn more and more closely to her. She felt that Blair understood her and sympathized with her, and that, if she ever chose to speak, she had in her a friend on whose bosom she could fling herself and find consolement. Such friendships are rare. The friend with whom one does not have to make explanations is God-given. 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 159 “My friends, Mr. Welch and young Mr. Middleton—my cousin and friend, Mr. Gray.” It was his customary formula in introducing. All men were his friends. And Mr. Welch shortly observed how his manner changed whenever he addressed a lady or a stranger: to one he was always a courtier, to the other always a host. 0.71 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. 0.71 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. 0.69 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2168 They talked on various subjects till the bell rang for dinner. No fault could be found with Jasper's manner, which was extremely cordial; yet Gilbert, he could not tell why, was not attracted to his cousin. 0.66 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." 0.66 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 776 "Thanks. Then I may infer you paid me the tribute of your presence last evening?" 0.65 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 738 "I wonder if you are as much pleased with Woodlawn as your cousin," said Durward, noticing that her mind seemed to be more intent on foreign subjects than the scenery around her. ============================================================================= TOPIC 44 -- 593 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= feet 439; ground 254; tree 220; long 192; end 181; side 130; large 129; made 127; water 117; wood 114; foot 105; cut 104; earth 103; beneath 102; roof 102; rope 101; high 99; wall 99; mud 99; top 97; hole 93; half 91; inches 89; iron 87; broken 86; heavy 85; tent 83; head 82; log 82; logs 79; small 77; fallen 77; laid 76; deep 74; place 72; covered 72; length 71; bottom 71; hung 70; lay 68; surface 68; body 67; ten 67; stone 67; rain 65; found 64; fastened 64; stones 64; height 63; strong 61; formed 60; thick 60; great 59; legs 59; size 59; twenty 58; sand 58; square 56; pieces 55; mass 55; inside 54; driven 53; yard 53; fence 53; removed 53; hard 52; clay 52; trees 51; bark 51; branches 50; heads 50; rock 50; edge 49; work 48; base 48; huge 48; roots 48; close 47; piece 47; leaves 47; lower 47; dropped 47; pile 47; easily 46; shape 46; spot 45; root 45; dug 45; stick 45; position 44; line 44; short 44; fall 44; sides 44; wide 43; secured 42; inch 42; upper 42; climbed 41; round 40 0.86 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. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3121 There was very little heavy timber that was adapted for a stockade. I therefore formed a protection by sinking deep in the ground, at intervals of three feet, two strong posts about seven feet above the surface. These upright timbers, standing opposite to each other at a distance of about ten inches, were filled with long poles laid one over the other horizontally. At two corners of the square fort were flanking works of the same construction, which would sweep each face of the defence. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3895 All tarpaulins should be 12 feet square, with large metal eyelet holes and strong lines. If larger, they are too heavy. 0.76 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. 0.74 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. 0.73 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1761 The man sat upon the ground. A stick of hard, unyielding wood was thrust through the ring beneath the ankle, so that each end of the stick rested on the earth. A man secured one end by standing upon it, while another placed a stone upon the stick thus secured, which he used as a fulcrum. The lever employed was a piece of abdnoos, which worked upon the stone, and pressed down the base of the ring at the same time that it opened the joint sufficiently to allow it to be passed over the thin portion of the leg. 0.71 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 628 I cut one of the lines in two, and carefully secured the frame to the trees on shore, using the other line to float the logs down to the structure. There was only one other stick in the heap that was thirty feet in length, and we pushed this under the cross slabs, and nailed it half way between the two. For the rest of the groundwork of the raft we were obliged to use shorter sticks; but we made a solid platform of large logs. 0.71 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2285 "I selected a position beneath a large banian-tree, from the base of which I cleared the herbage, and having pitched the tent, the natives tore up about an acre of the high grass, and we encamped upon the clean ground. 0.70 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 440 The rear of the entrenchment, being protected by the quarry, was left open. The walls were four feet high, and twenty-two inches thick, strengthened at the angles by stakes driven firmly into the ground. 0.69 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 45 -- 1809 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= door 2838; room 1685; house 733; open 717; opened 593; window 558; heard 485; entered 460; hall 435; stairs 423; back 411; stood 312; closed 299; moment 299; left 278; front 269; key 254; turned 239; steps 222; hand 210; bed 206; floor 197; light 193; reached 193; found 191; opening 184; step 183; locked 178; looked 176; man 175; head 172; sitting 171; doors 170; called 167; ran 163; put 159; sound 159; shut 156; cabin 153; walked 147; voice 141; softly 140; wide 138; passed 135; parlor 129; night 128; windows 128; coming 127; apartment 125; lock 123; half 121; chamber 120; threshold 119; street 118; standing 117; hastily 117; stepped 115; waiting 111; woman 110; knocked 110; inside 106; knock 105; pushed 101; dark 101; kitchen 98; thought 96; quickly 95; hear 95; passage 93; mother 93; servant 93; paused 92; started 91; appeared 90; crossed 90; entrance 90; returned 89; rose 89; threw 89; enter 88; hurried 88; stopped 87; led 87; suddenly 86; leading 85; minutes 84; foot 84; side 83; footsteps 82; quick 81; slowly 80; heavy 79; wall 79; caught 77; rooms 77; waited 75; girl 75; upstairs 75; corner 74; close 73 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. 0.80 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. 0.78 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 908 And then she heard heavy feet on the stairs and listened to them nervously until they reached her door and the door was pushed open unceremoniously. 0.78 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 315 Their mother sent the boys out. She went and locked herself in her room, but they heard her footsteps as she turned about within, and now and then they heard her opening and shutting drawers and moving chairs. 0.78 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2062 There was no response. She knocked again, with the same result. Then she pulled the latch-string -- for the door even of this well-to-do farmer had a latch- string. She entered. The house was deserted. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 761 Just then a timid tap upon the door of the reception-room was followed almost simultaneously by the entrance of Mrs. Waul, who held a card in her hand. 0.77 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3986 Steve, after a moment, left his cell and walked slowly through the corridor to the apartment adjoining the jailer’s quarters, which was dignified by the name of parlor. It was lighted by a small lamp, the rays of which hardly reached the walls. The room was empty. But Steve could hear from the voices that there were two persons in the next room. He walked to the open window and waited, with his head resting on his arm against the bars. The same reverie from which he had been aroused returned. 0.77 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1789 The Governor's door was open, and in the hall servingmen were moving to and fro. When I came in upon them, they cried out as it had been a ghost, and one fellow let a silver dish that he carried fall clattering to the floor. They shook and stood back, as I passed them without a word, and went on to the Governor's great room. The door was ajar, and I pushed it open and stood for a minute upon the threshold, unobserved by the occupants of the room. 0.76 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 804 Later, the Mother Superior, noiselessly entering her room, found her sitting at the open window, her hands crossed on the sill, her eyes turned outward into the darkness. 0.75 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2436 Latimer had not come in when he returned to their lodgings. He also had been out to spend the evening. But it was not many minutes before Baird heard his latch- key and the opening of the front door. He came upstairs rather slowly. ============================================================================= TOPIC 46 -- 474 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= room 582; table 229; house 171; floor 157; large 154; stood 145; rooms 136; furniture 134; box 130; walls 120; corner 114; chairs 107; glass 105; bed 103; wall 102; chair 101; windows 100; small 96; books 94; side 93; hung 93; made 90; curtains 88; filled 82; great 80; apartment 76; covered 67; looked 62; sat 60; carpet 58; door 57; hall 57; boxes 55; window 55; place 54; tables 53; handsome 52; cabin 52; silver 51; sitting 51; lay 50; articles 50; library 50; dining 47; high 46; opened 44; open 44; low 44; mahogany 44; opposite 43; paper 43; light 42; end 39; seated 39; marble 39; green 38; set 38; trunk 38; pictures 38; ceiling 38; held 37; pieces 37; beautiful 37; neat 36; square 36; drawing 36; wooden 36; shelves 36; opening 35; days 35; fashioned 35; contained 35; tin 34; big 34; polished 34; piece 33; case 33; piled 33; furnished 33; doors 33; parlor 33; chamber 33; white 32; arranged 32; carved 32; lamp 32; eye 31; lid 31; sofa 31; comfort 31; bedstead 31; cheerful 31; fire 30; tall 30; carpets 30; spread 30; mirror 30; lighted 30; pile 30; smaller 29 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1334 Taking the basket which contained her sewing utensils and a piece of light needlework, she went into the parlor and seated herself near the centre-table, over which hung the chandelier. 0.77 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2464 The furniture was simple enough: two angarebs, or Arab stretchers, which, during the day, were covered with Persian carpets and served as sofas, while at night they were arranged as beds. The tables were made of square metal boxes piled one upon the other and covered with bright blue cloths. These were arranged with all kinds of odd trinkets of gaudy appearance, but of little value, which were intended to be asked for, and given away. Two native stools curiously cut out of a solid block formed our chairs. The guns and rifles stood in a row against a rack covered with red Turkey cloth; and a large Geneva musical box lay upon a table beneath the Princess of Wales. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1520 An oval table immediately under the gas-globes held a china stand filled with cigars, and seeing several books lying near it, she took up one. 0.75 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 100 A wash-stand in the corner, a chest of carved mahogany drawers, a looking-glass in a filigreed frame, and a high-backed chair studded with brass nails like a coffin, constituted the furniture. Over the head of the bed were two oak shelves, holding perhaps a dozen books -- among which were Theodore, or The Peruvians; Robinson Crusoe; an odd volume of Tristram Shandy; Baxter's Saints' Rest, and a fine English edition of the Arabian Nights, with six hundred wood- cuts by Harvey. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1750 Involuntarily Elsie glanced about her, and a pang went to her heart as she noticed that every article of luxury, almost of comfort, had disappeared; the pictures were gone from the walls, the pretty ornaments from mantel and centre- table; coarse cheap matting covered the floor in lieu of the costly carpet of other days, and rosewood and damask had given place to cottage furniture of the simplest and most inexpensive kind. 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2642 I saw an unoccupied mansion, upon the floors of which were Brussels and tapestry carpeting, and mirrors of French plate-glass adorned the parlor. There was a library with well-filled shelves, and in the drawing-room a costly rosewood piano, -- all of which in an hour were licked up by the flames. 0.72 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 336 Stephen looked around him: at the dusty books on the shelves, and the still dustier books heaped on Mr. Richter's big table; at the cuspidors; at the engravings of Washington and Webster; at the window in the jog which looked out on the court-house square; and finally at another ground-glass door on which was printed: 0.71 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. 0.71 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1655 "Oh, how neat, how pleasant!" was her first exclamation, and truly the cheerless old room had undergone a great renovation. It had been thoroughly cleaned and repainted. The walls were hung with bright, cheerful-looking paper. A handsome carpet covered the floor, while curtains of corresponding beauty shaded the windows. The furniture, tastefully arranged, was nearly all new, and in the waxen flowers, which filled the vases on the mantelpiece, Julia recognized the handiwork of her sister. 0.70 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 597 The old tar had probably never been in so handsome an apartment in all his days, and nothing could induce him to take the inviting mahogany chair which the Captain wheeled out from the corner. ============================================================================= TOPIC 47 -- 271 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= attention 405; time 240; interest 226; made 210; began 119; attracted 114; listened 106; engaged 96; conversation 91; part 87; appeared 84; making 84; interested 83; subject 82; great 78; appearance 75; apparently 68; notice 67; movements 65; watched 61; point 60; observed 56; intense 56; peculiar 55; evidently 54; immediately 53; party 53; attract 53; paid 52; view 51; scarcely 50; case 47; busy 47; excitement 47; caused 46; watching 46; large 45; place 45; small 44; fact 43; object 41; effect 40; usual 40; remarks 40; long 38; greatly 38; closely 38; manner 37; absorbed 37; occupied 35; persons 35; end 35; mind 35; forgot 35; observe 34; incident 33; habit 32; deeply 32; observing 32; signs 31; occasional 31; singular 31; effort 30; importance 30; expected 30; passing 30; relieved 30; listening 30; finding 30; progress 29; frequent 29; movement 29; presented 29; directed 29; disturbed 29; glance 29; arrested 29; unpleasant 28; accustomed 28; escaped 28; discussion 28; occasionally 28; generally 27; driven 27; lively 27; excited 27; affair 27; boys 27; task 26; rapid 26; events 26; busied 26; gathered 26; scene 25; argument 25; busily 25; preparations 24; excite 24; proceeded 24; gaze 24 0.75 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2441 By this time those in the car began to manifest considerable interest in the conversation. Major Sherman paid them no attention, and the Judge, once launched in an argument, forgot his surroundings. 0.65 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 4175 And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally. 0.60 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 175 He remembered it afterwards as a curious coincidence that he should have busied his mind so actively with his subject in a manner so unusual with him. 0.60 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1515 "Now, boys," said Mr. Morton, "when I say 'attention!' you must all look at me and follow my directions implicitly. Attention and subordination are of the first importance to a soldier. Let me say, to begin with, that, with one exception, you are all standing wrong." 0.57 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3228 "Did your guardian tell you he has just won that great 'Migdol' case that created so much interest?" 0.54 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 272 The boys proceeded to describe their friend, impressed by the intense interest accorded them by the listeners. 0.54 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1542 It will not be necessary for us to follow the boys during the remainder of the lesson. Most of them made very creditable progress, and the line presented quite a different appearance at the end of the exercise from what it had at the commencement. 0.54 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 184 Mr. Hopper continued his occupation, which was absorbing. But he was listening. 0.53 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1587 These movements, apparently eccentric, are nevertheless of grave import. The man who makes them, with those to whom they are made, must be watching the travellers with the intention of waylaying them. 0.52 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 38 XII Results of the Cookery -- Voyage -- Appearance of the Country -- Orange Trees -- The Bitter Sweet -- Rattlesnake -- Usual Signs for Distinguishing a Fanged And Poisonous Serpent -- Various Methods of Treating a Snake Bite -- Return ============================================================================= TOPIC 48 -- 386 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= dead 834; man 252; grave 218; die 218; death 199; body 173; alive 167; killed 146; poor 145; died 139; living 134; live 128; life 121; buried 111; place 97; kill 87; back 72; bury 70; monument 68; funeral 63; thing 62; soul 56; murdered 55; bodies 55; coffin 55; shot 54; graves 54; soldier 52; spot 50; memory 49; fallen 48; told 48; laid 47; stone 47; corpse 47; burial 46; lies 45; till 44; dying 44; fellow 43; ground 43; pig 43; night 42; lost 42; lie 40; mourning 39; strange 38; long 36; brought 34; fall 34; hands 34; lying 34; friend 33; broken 31; people 30; terrible 30; friends 30; wounded 30; bring 29; wished 29; dig 29; cemetery 29; cold 28; day 28; rise 28; lived 28; surely 28; gee 28; hope 27; saved 27; beneath 27; made 27; cried 27; burying 27; end 26; ago 26; thought 25; common 24; bones 24; read 23; found 23; sight 23; touch 23; dreadful 23; blood 23; yonder 23; graveyard 23; departed 22; save 22; sooner 22; ah 22; solemn 22; prison 22; sick 21; earth 21; wife 21; loved 21; hung 19; ghost 19; oath 19 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! 0.69 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 284 Stee-wee! Killdee! Pig-goo! Pig-gee! 0.66 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 236 "I should think they would like to have something better," I said. "Poor people at the North have nicer monuments, I know. I never saw such monuments in my life." 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 937 "Pig-gee! Pig-gii! Pig-goo!" 0.64 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1281 "Oh, Madison, Madison!" Mrs. Whately moaned, "are YOU living, or are you dead? If you are dead it is little to me that I am spared." 0.62 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1565 "By Chivalry!" says Captain Munchausen, cholerically; "I swear, I never told a single lie in all my life." 0.61 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 545 "These are the trenches of the dead. Our dead are not here. They were all taken and sent to friends. There are five hundred of your dead here and near the stone bridge yonder. We lost three hundred killed in the fight." 0.60 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 308 Pig-goo! Pig-gee! Gee-o-whee! 0.60 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 303 Pig! Pig! Pig-gee! Pig! Pig! Pig-goo! ============================================================================= TOPIC 49 -- 1334 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= water 462; table 377; coffee 340; eat 307; drink 305; bread 292; supper 279; dinner 243; meal 216; breakfast 204; put 192; cup 192; corn 191; brought 182; hot 182; good 180; wine 177; set 166; cold 161; kitchen 160; bottle 158; hungry 157; food 156; glass 152; sugar 141; milk 140; cook 140; tea 135; plate 134; made 130; drank 129; filled 122; basket 121; full 120; meat 114; eating 114; cake 114; chicken 113; found 105; cakes 101; things 99; eaten 98; poured 98; ate 97; appetite 95; eggs 94; salt 90; pie 90; large 88; fire 88; bacon 88; dishes 87; ready 86; sweet 86; piece 85; tin 84; day 84; butter 84; dish 84; drinking 83; whiskey 82; prepared 80; potatoes 80; chickens 80; bring 79; small 75; fresh 75; pot 75; flour 70; drop 69; cups 69; began 67; half 66; provisions 65; morning 65; boys 64; nice 64; pail 64; spring 63; plenty 63; fried 63; beef 62; empty 60; tobacco 60; mess 60; cool 59; bag 59; drunk 59; honey 59; ice 58; spirits 58; liquor 58; gave 57; hard 56; give 56; bucket 56; silver 55; taking 55; bed 54; fill 54 0.81 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3631 Legree was just mixing himself a tumbler of punch, pouring his hot water from a cracked and broken-nosed pitcher, grumbling, as he did so, 0.76 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1189 The tea-pot was on the stove, and I prepared a cup of tea for her. She drank it, and the effect was good. 0.75 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 56 It was one of those frying-pan feasts of eggs, bacon, and doughnuts, with canned corn in birds' bathtubs, plenty of green pickles, and dabs of home-made preserves in pressed glass saucers. It occupied a few moments only. When it was over, I resumed my chair by the stove. 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2209 "Yes; we'd plenty of that always. In addition to the corn-meal and meat, we had a half pint of peas full of bugs." 0.73 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1698 "Something in the way of drinks, I should say," Vincent said. "I saw a woman going among the camps. She had two tin cans and a little mug. I think she had lemonade or something of that sort." 0.73 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1708 Betsy brought in a slice of apple and one of pumpkin pie, and set them down before the old lady. In addition she brought a generous mug of cider. 0.73 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 450 "No," said he decidedly; "I don't approve of hot bread for children; you must eat the cold." Then to a servant who was setting down a cup of coffee beside the little girl's plate, "Take that away, Pomp, and bring Miss Elsie a tumbler of milk. Or would you prefer water, Elsie?" 0.72 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. 0.72 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 441 The lieutenant helped himself to a glass of water, after rinsing the tumbler, for that was what he wanted. Sopsy the cook immediately appeared, bearing a tray on which were several dishes of eatables, bread and ham being the principal. The bottle was in his way; and after he had drunk off half a tumblerful of its contents, he removed it to the pantry. He proceeded to set the table. 0.72 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 50 -- 989 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= time 678; plan 453; make 311; made 298; place 277; means 265; work 232; present 228; purpose 198; part 188; found 169; plans 169; difficulty 168; making 163; idea 152; success 146; difficult 145; intended 139; carry 138; position 136; great 134; view 134; find 129; decided 129; information 128; determined 124; order 124; long 123; object 121; case 120; give 119; impossible 116; matter 115; short 115; obtain 114; mind 113; thought 112; escape 111; opportunity 111; doubt 108; point 105; fact 104; young 104; circumstances 103; enterprise 102; hope 102; succeeded 99; suggested 99; return 98; service 97; scheme 96; ready 94; important 94; arranged 91; leave 89; returned 89; proposed 88; prevent 86; manner 85; set 85; carefully 83; considered 82; delay 82; knew 82; failure 82; bring 81; operations 79; obtained 79; enter 78; arrangements 78; proper 78; remain 77; required 76; accomplish 76; action 76; finding 76; business 75; desired 75; lost 73; afford 72; late 71; risk 71; direction 71; change 70; journey 70; small 70; reason 70; fully 69; obliged 69; reach 69; require 69; promised 69; failed 69; possession 67; complete 67; taking 67; suitable 67; needed 67; provided 66; prepared 65 0.71 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 2082 "I wished to ascertain whether your course was dictated by necessity or a desire to annoy and injure us. I can have no further doubt about it." 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 992 "I do not doubt it. I was impressed by your manner, and I have recommended you to the general for the service he has in view. I hope you will do credit to the selection I have made; for the most important duty which a commander has to perform is to select proper persons for the execution of special missions." 0.69 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 912 Tom thought for a while, and determined upon an attempt to escape. During the day, he carefully examined the premises, and decided upon his mode of operations. 0.69 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1304 HARD WORK -- LABOUR-SAVING DEVICE -- DISCOVERY AS TO THE TIME OF THE YEAR -- SCHEMES FOR AMUSEMENT -- TIDES ON THE FLORIDA COAST 0.67 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1841 "I wonder," he thought, "if there is any chance of his communicating my plans to Mr. Grey? It will be best for me to keep him in ignorance of my destination." 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3778 By a reference to that work also -- "The Albert N'yanza" -- it will be seen that in the present expedition I carried out the plans that I had proposed at the termination of my first journey. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 263 "The sooner we get at the main object of the expedition, the better will be our chances of success." 0.64 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1889 "Up to the present time, my arrangements have been able to overpower all opposition." 0.64 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 93 I was accordingly requested to draw up a plan for the proposed expedition to Central Africa. 0.64 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 51 -- 608 chunks >= 0.25 from 54 texts ============================================================================= present 171; sergeant 154; purpose 146; whilst 132; mind 115; moment 111; condition 108; journey 107; safety 100; events 99; mildred 98; make 95; soldier 90; danger 90; feelings 87; war 86; late 85; country 84; party 84; prisoner 83; temper 82; determined 75; daughter 73; interest 72; escape 71; character 71; ill 70; family 70; friends 69; thoughts 69; short 67; enemy 67; brought 66; difficulties 64; anxious 64; presence 63; house 62; hope 61; state 61; secret 60; nature 60; circumstances 59; travellers 59; means 57; fate 56; spirit 55; doubt 54; duty 54; maiden 54; bring 53; resolved 52; alarm 52; showed 52; neighborhood 52; enterprise 51; brave 50; led 50; leave 49; received 48; parties 47; trial 47; times 46; individual 46; full 46; post 46; succeeded 45; struggle 45; comfort 45; tidings 45; power 44; afforded 44; interval 43; object 43; natural 43; aid 43; fortune 43; degree 43; bold 43; attempt 42; military 42; required 42; scene 42; rough 42; arrived 41; prepared 41; aware 41; fallen 41; painful 41; personal 40; british 40; history 40; encounter 40; hands 40; passage 39; intelligence 39; guard 39; resolution 39; peril 39; peace 38; worst 38 0.79 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. 0.68 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3276 Henry eagerly sought out Stephen Foster, and, having brought him into the presence of Mildred, received from him a narrative of the course of events which had led to this fortunate meeting. 0.67 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1997 The vigilance with which these partisans were watched by their enemies, almost forbade the present hope of successful combination. From a consciousness of the hazard of attempting to concentrate their forces at this juncture, they had determined still to pursue their separate schemes of annoyance, until a more favorable moment for joint action should arise; and, in the interval, to hide themselves as much as possible in the forest. It was consequently in the hope of preserving his independence at least, if not of aiding Clarke, that Williams now moved with so much despatch to the mountains. 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1636 "Yes," says Samyule, metaphysically; "will you consent to be borne again, as we have borne with you heretofore?" 0.65 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1927 Meanwhile, the troopers, struck with the earnest haste of one whose dress bespoke a British officer, speeding across the field, did not doubt that they had afforded this timely opportunity for the escape of a prisoner from the hands of the Whigs. 0.64 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3210 As Mildred pondered over the new aspect which the tidings of this evening had given to her condition, her inclination and duty both prompted her to the resolve to make an effort to join Butler, instead of returning to the Dove Cote. She was apprised by Musgrove that the prisoner had been conducted to Ferguson, who, she was told, was at this time stationed in the neighborhood of Gilbert- town, not a hundred miles from her present position. She had ventured far in his services, and she could not, now that she had so nearly approached him, consent to abandon the effort of reaching the spot of his captivity. She thought with alarm over the dangers that might await him in consequence of his previous escape, and this alarm was increased by her remembrance of the tone of bitter resentment with which Cornwallis, in a moment of unguarded feeling, had referred to the event in her late conference with that officer. Above all, it was her duty -- such was her view of the matter -- and whatever might befal, he was the lord of her heart, and all dangers and difficulties, now as heretofore, should be cast aside in her determination to administer to his safety or comfort. Her decision was made, and she so announced it to her companions. 0.64 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. 0.64 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1354 Then, again, there was abundant cause of anxiety to the unfortunate officer in the question whether Robinson could be kept acquainted with his condition, or even of the place to which he might be removed -- and if acquainted with these particulars, whether, in the disturbed state of the country, he could render any service. These thoughts all contributed to sink his spirits. 0.63 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3165 As M'Alpine's purpose required despatch, he made but a short delay after sunrise at Drummond's cabin, and then pushed forward with his prisoners with all possible expedition. The route of his journey diverged, almost at the spot of the capture, from the roads leading towards Musgrove's Mill, and he consequently had but little chance to fall in with parties who might communicate to him the nature of the accident which threw the prisoners into his possession; whilst the prisoners themselves were sufficiently discreet to conceal from him everything that might afford a hint of Butler's previous condition. 0.63 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 649 When Lindsay had left the parlor Mildred besought her brother, in the most earnest terms, to be more guarded against giving expression to any sentiment which might bring their father's thoughts to the existing war. Her own observation had informed her of the nature of the struggle that agitated his mind, and her effort was continually directed to calm and soothe his feelings by the most unremitting affection, and thus to foster his resolution against taking any part in those schemes in which, she shrewdly guessed, it was the purpose of the emissaries of the royal party to involve him. ============================================================================= TOPIC 52 -- 2917 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= en 1889; de 1680; ter 1279; dey 990; er 929; ai 695; gwine 607; wid 406; wuz 395; ob 364; ef 362; den 352; long 350; time 345; man 315; hit 309; mighty 299; sah 275; um 274; ole 273; git 257; folks 249; back 248; dat 246; fer 245; honey 226; des 226; dem 220; fo 213; yer 205; big 198; make 193; suh 185; good 183; low 172; dis 171; fur 170; hab 168; jes 166; chile 159; put 142; yo 138; whar 132; run 126; ax 124; doan 121; mo 120; night 109; tink 108; dere 108; ca 107; talk 103; boy 100; free 98; year 97; kin 95; agin 95; day 93; yit 84; home 83; white 82; seed 81; atter 81; bery 80; heah 79; tole 77; reckon 76; young 75; fine 75; mus 75; gits 75; tuck 73; wo 72; der 72; mos 72; min 72; stay 69; trouble 68; nuffin 67; sot 67; dunno 67; huh 67; heap 66; eyes 65; dese 65; kaze 64; dar 63; fust 62; ez 61; till 60; arter 60; sence 60; neber 57; nigger 56; fin 56; feel 55; gib 55; eye 54; knowed 54; holler 54 0.94 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 647 “’T ain’t so mighty much of a tale, yit it ’ll do fer ter go ter bed on. One time dey wuz a nigger man w’at tuck ’n married a nigger ’oman, en dish yer nigger ’oman kep’ ’er h’ar wrop up wid a string night en day. Dey married, en dey went home ter housekeepin’. Dey got um some pots, en dey got um some kittles, en dey got um some pans, en dey got um some dishes, en dey start in, dey did, des like folks does w’en dey gwine ter stay at home. 0.93 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. 0.92 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 318 “Den de ’oman she ain’t say nuthin’. She des lay dar, she did, en pant en look skeered. De preacher man he study a little en den he say he speck he kin kyo’ dat han’, en he tuck de finger out ’n he pocket en tried it on de ’oman’s han’, en it fit! Yassar! it fit in de place right smick smack smoove. Den de preacher man he up en tell de miller man dat de ’oman wuz a witch, en wid dat de ’oman fetched a yell en kivvered ’er head wid de counterpin. 0.91 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 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 265 "Dey kep' on dis away, twel, twant long fo' dey done save up a right smart pile er fust one thing an' den anudder. De pile got so big dat dey 'gun ter git skeered dat some un ud come 'long whilst dey wus away an' he'p derse'f. Bimeby some er de mo' 'spicious 'mong um up an' say dat somebody bin stealin' fum de provision what dey savin' up ginst hard times. Mr. Jaybird, he coyspon' wid Mr. Crow, an' Mr. Crow he coyspon' wid Miss Chicken Hawk, and Miss Chicken Hawk she coyspon' wid Mr. Eagle, which he was de big buckra er all de birds. An' den dey all coyspon' wid one anudder, an' dey 'low dat dey bleeze ter lef' somebody dar fer ter watch der winter wittles whiles dey er off a-huntin' up mo'. Dey jowered an' jowered a long time, twel, bimeby, Mr. Eagle, he up an' say dat de bes' dey kin do is to 'pint Mr. Owl fer ter keep watch. Mr. Owl he sorter hoot at dis, but 'tain't do no good, kaze de yuthers, dey say dat all Mr. Owl got ter do is ter sleep mo' endurin' er de night an' stay 'wake endurin' er de day. 0.91 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 519 “Tooby sho’, honey! Dat ’zactly w’at she want. She want ter marry ’im, en eat ’im up. Well, den, w’en she git eve’ything good en ready, she des tuck ’n back ’er years, en bat ’er eyes, en smack ’er mouf, and dar she wuz—a likely young gal! She up en got ter de lookin’-glass, she did, en swinge ’er ha’r wid de curlin’-tongs, en tie ribbons on ’er cloze, en fix up ’er beau-ketchers. She look nice, fit ter kill, now. Den she tuck ’n pass by de man house, en look back en snicker, en hol’ ’er head on one side, en sorter shake out ’er cloze, en put ’er han’ up fer ter see ef de ha’rpins in der place. She pass by dis away lots er times, en bimeby de man kotch a glimp’ un ’er; en no sooner is he do dis dan she wave her hankcher. De man he watch ’er en watch er, en bimeby, atter she kep’ on whippin’ by, he come out en hail ’er. En den she tuck ’n stop, en nibble at ’er fan en fumble wid ’er hankcher, en dey tuck ’n stan’ dar, dey did, en pass de time er day. Atter dat de sun never riz en set widout she hol’ some confab wid de man; en ’t want long ’fo’ de man took a notion dat she de very gal fer a wife, w’at he bin a-huntin’ fer. Wid dat dey des got right down ter ole- fashion courtin’. Dey’d laugh, dey’d giggle, dey ’d’spute, dey’d pout. You ain’t never seen folks a-courtin’, is you, honey?” 0.91 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 611 “Goodness en de gracious, honey!” exclaimed Uncle Remus, “you don’t ’speckt er ole nigger like I is fer ter note all deze yer folks’ name in he head, does you? S’pose’n de folks w’at year um done gone and move off, w’at good it gwine do you fer ter git der name? S’pose’n dey wuz settin’ right yer ’long side er you, w’at good dat gwine do? De trufe’s de trufe, en folks’ name ain’t gwine make it no trufer. Yit w’en it come ter dat, I kin go ter de do’ dar, en fetch a whoop, en fin’ you lots er niggars w’at done bin year dat Owl famberly gwine on in de swamp dar. En you ne’en ter go no fudder dan Becky’s Bill, nudder. W’en dat niggar wuz growin’ up, he went frolickin’ ’roun’, en one night he come froo de Two-Mile Swamp. 0.91 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 537 “Time de man come out so flat-footed ’bout marryin’, de gal, she ’gun ter work wid ’er fan, en chaw at ’er hankcher. Den, atter w’ile, she up en ax ’im who he wan’ ter marry. Man ’low he ain’t no ways ’tickler, kase he des want somebody fer ter take keer er de house w’en he gone, en fer ter set down by de fier, en keep ’im comp’ny w’en he at home. Den he up en ax de gal kin she keep house. De gal she ’low, ‘Yasser!’ Den he ax ’er ef she kin cook. She ’low, ‘Yasser!’ Den he ax ’er ef she kin scour. She ’low, ‘Yasser!’ Den he ax ’er ef she kin wash cloze. She ’low, ‘Yasser!’ Den he ax ’er ef she kin milk de red cow. Wid dat she flung up ’er han’s, en fetched a squall dat make de man jump. 0.91 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 639 “W’en you see dese yer niggers w’at wrop de ha’r wid a string,” said Uncle Remus to the little boy one day, apropos of nothing in particular except his own prejudices, “you des keep yo’ eye on um. You des watch um, kaze ef you don’t dey’ll take en trip you up—dey will dat, dez ez sho’ ez de worl’. En ef you don’t b’lieve me, you kin des’ ax yo’ mammy. Many’s en many’s de time is Miss Sally driv niggers out ’n de big house yard kaze dey got der ha’r wrop up wid a string. I bin lookin’ en peepin’, en lis’nin’ en eavesdrappin’ in dese low groun’s a mighty long time, en I ain’t ne’er sot eyes on no nigger w’at wrop der ha’r wid a string but w’at dey wuz de meanes’ kind er nigger. En if you ax anybody w’at know ’bout niggers dey’ll tell you de same.” 0.91 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 347 “De furder he went de faster he walk. Dis make de quality ladies walk fas’, too, en ’t want so mighty long ’fo’ de little boy year um makin’ a mighty kuse fuss, en w’en he t’un ’roun’, bless gracious! dey wuz a-pantin’, kaze dey wuz so tired en hot. De little boy ’low ter hisse’f dat it mighty kuse how ladies kin pant same es a wil’ varment, but he say he speck dat de way de quality ladies does w’en dey gits hot en tired, en he make like he can’t year um, kaze he want ter be nice en perlite. ============================================================================= TOPIC 53 -- 448 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= head 860; shook 487; hands 411; shaking 146; shake 125; hand 102; cried 89; exclaimed 87; man 59; young 53; boy 52; nodded 50; cap 46; laughed 45; bless 45; clapping 44; added 40; replied 39; air 37; nodding 36; hold 35; sadly 34; word 33; delight 32; fist 31; heads 30; action 30; looked 30; shouted 30; back 29; foot 29; rubbing 28; toss 27; clapped 26; continued 25; fellow 25; big 25; farmer 25; general 23; pretty 23; grasped 23; ye 23; tongue 23; till 22; jumping 22; glad 22; judge 21; soul 21; blushed 21; patted 21; cordially 21; hung 20; smiled 20; scratched 20; dance 19; answered 19; pulling 19; rubbed 19; muttered 19; heartily 19; afraid 18; dancing 18; putting 18; doubt 17; stop 17; knees 17; flourishing 17; joy 17; blowing 17; suiting 17; considered 16; vigorously 16; demonstration 16; glory 16; gravely 16; scratching 16; woman 15; put 15; lifting 15; mate 15; grinning 15; collar 14; hearty 14; significantly 14; amid 14; tossing 14; amen 14; howdy 14; parting 13; shoulder 13; turning 13; violently 13; paw 13; bowing 13; furiously 13; waiter 13; bad 12; angrily 12; horns 12; pointed 12 0.72 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1578 "It isn't your tongue I'm so much afraid of as your propensity to combat. You must resist that delight of yours -- whacking stray heads and flourishing your big fists." 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2686 "His forbears wad hae scorned to do the like," she would exclaim, adding, with a mysterious shake of the head, "but gin the young laird had a' that belanged to him, he wad na need to dicker and delve like ane o' his ain sarvants, forsooth!" 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1754 "Bad, Tom, bad," said Hapgood, who was puffing and blowing like a porpoise, as he ominously shook his head. 0.68 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 914 "What a shame!" he exclaimed, lifting his hands. "I'll knock that old fellow down -- I will!" 0.67 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 415 "Bless me soul! and how do ye know that?" exclaimed Mr. Snelson, who came up puffing and blowing. 0.64 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 273 "Auld lang syne and Scots who ha'e; but gang awa' wi' Heeland laddie thegither o' John Anderson my Jo; and, moreover, we'll tak' a right gude willie wacht for muckle twa and braw chiel." 0.62 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." 0.58 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2799 “Oh! Jacquelin and Steve! They are nothing but old fogies,” laughed Rupert. “McRaffle, he’s the man!” With a toss of his head he broke into a snatch of Bonny Dundee. 0.55 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 366 The general's great head went back, and he shook with laughter. "Bless my soul! What did he mean by that? What boy was it, daughter?" 0.55 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!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 54 -- 1653 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= hand 2370; arm 701; head 625; put 547; laid 413; held 383; shoulder 372; lips 365; arms 323; back 320; drew 307; face 278; kissed 268; hands 261; fingers 231; neck 209; side 207; pressed 207; close 205; whispered 202; gently 183; touched 178; taking 170; hold 168; cheek 166; holding 166; moment 161; touch 158; felt 156; finger 152; lifted 151; heart 149; hair 149; softly 145; forward 144; shook 133; raised 132; voice 131; child 131; girl 128; turned 124; spoke 124; laying 123; laughed 122; white 121; answered 116; caught 113; putting 113; forehead 112; soft 111; leaned 111; drawing 110; ring 109; bent 108; passed 105; knee 103; kiss 102; rose 100; closer 96; grasp 95; grasped 94; moved 91; smile 89; stood 89; round 88; suddenly 87; bosom 87; gave 86; looked 86; ear 84; tenderly 83; breast 81; low 80; waist 80; nearer 79; instant 78; exclaimed 75; firmly 74; mouth 73; seized 73; smiled 73; murmured 73; pressing 72; cried 72; shoulders 71; cold 70; warm 70; clasped 70; closed 69; rested 69; trembling 68; mine 67; lightly 67; boy 66; small 65; place 63; stooped 63; extended 62; chair 62; slowly 61 0.80 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4151 He threw his arms around her as she leaned toward him, and drew the head to his shoulder. So in silence they rested, and he felt that one arm tightened around him, as he knelt holding her to his heart. 0.76 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2361 Edna put her arm around the boy's shoulder, and drew his head down on her lap, saying tenderly: 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1898 Gertrude stole one arm around her companion's neck and nestled her golden head against the orphan's shoulder. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 601 The ring was slipped on the slender finger, and as she released her hand, Mrs. Murray bent down and kissed her forehead. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2134 He did not answer, but tightened his arm, drew her head to his bosom, and leaned his face down on hers. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2144 He shook his head, but caught her hand and leaned his cheek against the soft palm, passing it gently and caressingly over his haggard face. 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1996 He laughed again, and put his lips close to her ear, saying softly, tenderly -- ah! how tenderly: 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3466 She knelt down, kissed him repeatedly, and laid her face close to his on the pillow; and he tried to turn and put his emaciated arm around her neck. 0.73 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 1070 In an instant he was kneeling on one knee at her side and had caught her hand and held it between both his own. 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3631 He put his hand under her chin, drew the lips to his, and kissed them repeatedly. ============================================================================= TOPIC 55 -- 703 chunks >= 0.25 from 34 texts ============================================================================= 25 318; illustrated 291; 12mo 242; cloth 213; volume 189; extra 145; colors 141; price 136; box 130; printed 129; fully 106; 1.25 106; vols 103; 1.00 102; cents 92; 75 86; volumes 80; illustrations 73; 50 72; sold 59; 1.50 55; separately 51; degrees 46; series 44; a. 41; gilt 40; bound 39; 16mo 38; paper 37; club 35; pages 34; 00 32; edges 31; author 30; 8vo 28; girls 27; cover 27; engravings 26; morocco 25; top 23; elegantly 23; edition 22; handsomely 21; story 21; drawings 21; binding 21; library 20; neat 19; castlemon 19; original 18; half 17; recorded 17; cruise 17; set 16; harry 16; emblematic 16; 10 15; full 15; size 15; beauty 15; noon 14; successes 14; receipt 14; 30 13; issues 13; p. 13; young 12; twenty 12; excellent 12; camping 12; great 11; life 11; maps 11; marked 11; calf 11; romance 11; literary 11; 40 10; gold 10; sale 10; color 10; roughing 10; frontispiece 10; 5.00 10; plate 9; 58 9; marbled 9; yachting 9; edited 9; dolly 9; inlay 9; wood 8; 1/2 8; finest 8; brown 8; beautifully 8; adventures 8; fancy 8; m. 8; 2.00 8 0.91 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 3001 SWEDEN AND THE SWEDES. 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In box $3 75 The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle 1 25 The Sportsman's Club Afloat 1 25 The Sportsman's Club among the Trappers 1 25 ============================================================================= TOPIC 56 -- 680 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= knew 968; thought 775; felt 416; made 405; time 325; father 258; man 241; idea 203; thing 194; meant 180; truth 172; began 166; fact 162; heard 155; reason 146; found 142; believed 141; great 138; mother 137; moment 135; mind 132; wrong 127; wanted 125; feel 113; show 113; spoke 113; things 111; wished 110; thinking 109; trouble 108; fear 108; doubt 107; expected 107; speak 106; matter 103; meet 102; supposed 99; find 98; words 98; feeling 97; wondered 96; secret 95; feared 94; called 92; people 88; true 88; case 85; dared 85; understand 84; hard 84; determined 83; simply 83; part 83; occurred 83; purpose 83; beginning 83; impression 81; deal 80; angry 78; glad 78; hoped 76; afterward 76; possibly 74; troubled 74; wife 72; convinced 72; blame 72; attempt 70; point 67; knowing 67; means 66; person 66; silence 66; plain 64; answered 64; hated 64; real 63; surprised 62; understood 61; declared 61; situation 60; quietly 60; mistake 60; happened 59; suspected 59; question 58; led 58; tone 58; knowledge 57; answer 57; prove 56; intended 55; satisfied 55; coming 55; deceived 55; needed 55; spite 54; strange 54; surprise 54; asked 54 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1286 Seeing that he was determined, Elsie obeyed him, though with evident reluctance, and striving to put Miss Day's conduct in as favorable a light as consistent with truth, while she by no means extenuated her own; yet her father listened with feelings of strong indignation. 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1359 “Why, it is incredible,” declared the Doctor. “Quite incredible! The man is crazy. You need give yourself no uneasiness whatever about it. I will see him and clear up the whole matter.” 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 917 "You torture my words into an interpretation of which I never dreamed, and look upon all things through the distorting lenses of your own moodiness. It is worse than useless for us to attempt an amicable discussion, for your bitterness never slumbers, your suspicions are ever on the qui vive." 0.66 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 961 To which she made no answer; and I was for some reason unwilling to press the matter. But things went on, not getting better but worse, until I could not bear it. I watched my opportunity and got Maria alone. 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. 0.65 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1649 Strange as it may seem, the old man’s remarks had no other effect on Dr. Lacey than to cause him to pity Julia, who he fancied was misunderstood and misused. He believed her reformation to be sincere, and could not help feeling that Mr. Middleton was mistaken in his opinion of both his daughters. 0.64 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2049 She wondered whether he meant Virginia, and whether he cared. Still further embarrassed, she said something which she regretted immediately. 0.63 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 809 "Always making matches, Mr. Ashton," said Mrs. Carrington, who for a moment rid herself of Raymond and now came near Ashton and Florence. She had heard them speak of Dr. Lacey and Fanny, and as she knew Florence was soon going to New Orleans, she wished to give her a little Frankfort gossip to take with her. 0.62 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1559 He now declared "that his people had taken the matter into consideration, and they were quite determined. They would not listen to him, or be persuaded to anything they disliked. They never had carried, and they never would." 0.62 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2407 "Naturally," said Steve. His tone in addressing the Virginian was so different, so curt, that I supposed he took the weakest point to mean himself. But the others now showed me that I was wrong in this explanation. ============================================================================= TOPIC 57 -- 2501 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= ai 1254; jest 556; yer 451; reckon 441; thar 427; wo 364; ef 307; nt 305; folks 305; mighty 290; man 289; git 263; ye 229; thing 222; ca 211; good 202; fur 191; time 190; back 190; things 189; make 182; give 182; fer 182; hev 172; round 171; set 171; niggers 169; feller 160; big 158; em 151; thet 143; heap 137; knowed 130; put 126; yore 124; wife 119; boys 116; whar 116; money 115; agin 115; mind 114; kinder 114; air 111; guess 110; sort 108; bad 101; woman 100; home 98; seed 97; till 95; gwine 93; nigger 92; day 91; nigh 90; goin 89; run 86; fellers 83; smart 79; rest 78; talkin 77; house 76; kin 76; arter 76; talk 75; thought 73; replied 72; bet 72; fust 72; gal 72; er 72; uns 72; business 71; thinkin 69; purty 69; lowed 69; find 68; exclaimed 68; mebbe 67; long 66; mornin 66; ses 66; powerful 65; answered 65; kind 63; ways 63; afore 63; sence 63; bit 62; trouble 61; sech 61; heer 60; critter 59; sight 58; fool 58; work 57; ter 57; honey 57; ther 57; sick 56; told 56 0.93 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." 0.88 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." 0.84 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'?" 0.83 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." 0.83 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 820 "I've ben talkin' to Jedge Powers," he said. "He's up yere from Howelsville, a-runnin' fer senator. He's sot his mind on makin' it, too, an' he was a-tellin' me what his principles was. He--he's got a heap o' principles. An' he told me his wife an' family was a-goin' to Europe. He was mighty sosherble--an' he said they was a-goin' to Europe." 0.80 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?" 0.80 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 513 "It mout be," he replied, "'n' then again it moughtent. It moughtent be if thar' wus nuthin' else to go 'long with it. They wus hidin' sumthin', ye know, 'n' they sot a heap on keepin' it hid. Ef a body know'd the whole thing from the start, thet'd be int'rustin', 'n' it 'ud be vallyable too." 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 670 "If--fur instants--it was me as was to be altered, Louisianny, I'm afeared--I'm afeared we couldn't do it. I'm afeared as I've been let run too long--jest to put it that way. We mought hev done it if we'd hev begun airlier--say forty or fifty year back--but I'm afeared we couldn't do it now. Not as I wouldn't be willin'--I wouldn't hev a thing agin it, an' I'd try my best--but it's late. Thar's whar it is. If it was me as hed to be altered--made more moderner, an' to know more, an' to hev more style--I'm afeared thar'd be a heap o' trouble. Style didn't never seem to come nat'ral to me, somehow. I'm one o' them things as cayn't be altered. Let's alter them as kin." 0.79 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 981 "Le's send for Leander's Jenny, Ca'line," she said. "Mebbe it'd help her some to hev a gal nigh her. Gals kinder onderstands each other, an' Jenny was allus powerful fond o' Lowizyanny." 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 58 -- 906 chunks >= 0.25 from 53 texts ============================================================================= time 354; good 259; pretty 250; made 243; back 221; ai 217; king 200; set 190; nigger 178; told 171; wanted 164; kind 163; put 154; reckon 147; thing 144; duke 137; night 136; make 133; give 133; big 133; till 131; town 129; people 128; head 126; long 123; things 119; knowed 116; place 115; run 115; day 111; raft 111; minute 105; begun 98; reckoned 95; bed 93; mighty 93; river 92; laid 89; house 87; dead 85; found 84; lot 79; foot 76; judged 73; man 72; fetch 72; trouble 69; home 65; hid 65; mind 64; body 63; woods 62; widow 62; easy 61; started 60; times 58; mile 57; struck 57; clothes 57; dark 56; show 55; couple 54; chance 52; pap 52; left 51; lay 50; bad 50; leg 50; find 49; bit 49; fetched 49; start 48; hands 48; ca 48; luck 48; middle 47; thinking 47; scared 47; shut 46; comfortable 46; niggers 46; awful 46; light 45; heard 44; cabin 44; steal 44; glad 44; full 43; rest 43; log 42; makes 42; free 41; canoe 41; laying 41; days 40; turned 40; hole 40; bag 40; looked 40; stay 40 0.87 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. 0.87 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. 0.87 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. 0.87 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1622 "Is it ketching ? Why, how you talk. Is a harrow catching -- in the dark? If you don't hitch on to one tooth, you're bound to on another, ain't you? And you can't get away with that tooth without fetching the whole harrow along, can you? Well, these kind of mumps is a kind of a harrow, as you may say -- and it ain't no slouch of a harrow, nuther, you come to get it hitched on good." 0.79 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 640 Jim he grumbled a little, but give in. He said we mustn't talk any more than we could help, and then talk mighty low. The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there. 0.78 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2459 THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? -- what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we. But I reckoned it was about as well the way it was. 0.77 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1504 Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his screw- driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. So there I was! I didn't know whether the money was in there or not. So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly? -- now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or not? S'pose she dug him up and didn't find nothing, what would she think of me? Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it, I've worsened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business! 0.77 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." 0.77 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 2291 "We can get along with it, too," he says; "just you slide down cellar and fetch it. And then mosey right down the lightning-rod and come along. I'll go and stuff the straw into Jim's clothes to represent his mother in disguise, and be ready to baa like a sheep and shove soon as you get there." 0.76 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?" ============================================================================= TOPIC 59 -- 1162 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= home 863; time 631; day 574; mother 526; father 491; told 450; letter 399; return 395; visit 325; house 301; morning 297; days 278; evening 277; left 274; news 274; leave 267; back 235; business 227; returned 222; meet 220; called 207; friends 204; city 200; wife 191; met 189; coming 189; friend 184; wrote 184; brought 183; room 182; brother 180; received 168; made 168; afternoon 167; family 165; daughter 165; arrived 164; son 160; make 158; weeks 152; find 150; word 148; call 145; expected 142; young 141; night 141; sick 140; place 138; office 136; hour 131; letters 130; knew 127; send 126; heard 123; note 122; party 116; good 114; hear 114; carriage 113; bring 112; arrival 110; doctor 109; happened 107; decided 107; aunt 107; months 103; anxious 103; surprised 103; glad 103; reached 102; written 101; write 99; learned 98; waiting 96; wished 96; start 92; started 91; absence 90; absent 90; telling 89; presence 89; sister 89; early 88; stay 88; immediately 87; found 87; morrow 87; story 87; lady 86; ago 84; meeting 84; post 82; engagement 81; town 81; departure 80; short 78; thought 78; school 77; promised 76; uncle 75 0.83 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1345 At last, about five o'clock, Mabel returned, bringing the intelligence that Mrs. Graham was in the city, at the Weisiger House, where she was going to remain until the morrow. She had met with an accident, which prevented her arrival in Frankfort until the train which she was desirous of taking had left. 0.80 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 434 "I have met her several times, though not often, for I have been away from home at school. But my brother, Major Lindley Pierson, I learn from my letters, is a frequent visitor at your brother's house: and they even say" -- 0.80 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 481 He said little of Julia; but told Kate that he would take her to Mr. Middleton’s the first fine day. He wished to go there in order to induce Mrs. Middleton to send her daughters back to school. The next Saturday was fixed upon for the visit, and at an early hour Mr. Miller and Kate were on their way to Mr. Middleton’s. 0.78 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2206 "Her guardian was away in a distant city and knew nothing about the matter. He was taken sick there and did not return for three months, and during that time Elsie and I lived together in a house she owned in New Orleans. 0.77 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1323 "I've been contemplating a visit there for some time and before Mr. Graham left home this morning, I had decided to go," said she, at the same time proposing that Durward should accompany her. 0.76 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 814 The next morning the dowager, Marquise de Caron, left her Paris home for the summer season. Her destination was indefinitely mentioned as Switzerland. Her daughter-in-law accompanied her. 0.75 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2274 "And you are to be bridesmaid! But I must go to-morrow. I wish my father and mother could reach here in time on their way home from New Orleans, but when they get this far your bridal party will have been two days married and gone." 0.75 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2468 Richard Allison had gone to Lansdale for his bride a fortnight ago; they were now taking their bridal trip and expected to reach Elmgrove a day or two before the wedding of May and Harry Duncan. The latter would bring Aunt Wealthy with him, and leave her for a short visit among her friends. 0.74 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1620 ON the first of April Frank received the following letter from his father. It was the more welcome because nearly a month had elapsed since anything had been received, and the whole family had become quite anxious: 0.74 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 41 "But yu' come so near, uncle! She was the one left yu' that letter explaining how she'd got married to a young cyard-player the very day before her ceremony with you was due, and -- " ============================================================================= TOPIC 60 -- 939 chunks >= 0.25 from 56 texts ============================================================================= river 989; water 786; boat 751; stream 401; bank 357; shore 352; raft 226; boats 214; current 198; channel 177; miles 167; mile 154; side 154; half 149; deep 142; made 132; landing 130; long 120; place 114; creek 111; sea 110; wind 110; small 109; reached 109; found 107; distance 106; floating 105; yards 103; island 103; feet 102; land 101; lake 98; high 96; work 96; banks 93; hour 89; sand 89; tide 88; steamer 87; bottom 87; passed 84; turned 82; left 81; point 80; great 79; fleet 75; close 72; running 72; oars 72; passage 71; cut 70; canoe 70; narrow 69; voyage 68; beach 68; ran 67; waters 67; ahead 67; bend 67; wharf 65; sail 64; round 63; short 62; fish 62; main 61; reach 61; ashore 60; fishing 59; clear 58; hundred 58; vessels 56; spot 56; hours 56; fast 56; stopped 56; shallow 55; open 54; edge 54; strong 53; night 53; carried 52; landed 52; mouth 51; rowed 51; oar 51; cutting 49; wide 47; arrived 46; dry 46; minutes 45; surface 45; craft 45; pushed 44; swim 44; stern 44; swamp 43; ten 43; dam 43; vegetation 42; paddle 42 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 636 "February 6.-I took the diahbeeah a mile and a quarter ahead to a sudd, passing over several shallows of only two feet eight inches, and three feet, which will again cause great delay and labour. I returned to the fleet and assisted in the tedious work of dragging the vessels over the shallows. In the evening I returned to the diahbeeah, and having dragged the dingy across the sudd, I explored the channel ahead for an hour, for about three miles; passed over distressing shallows for a space of a quarter of a mile ahead of the diahbeeah, after which I entered a deep, narrow channel with very rapid current. 0.85 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 51 Lazily, almost reluctantly as it seemed, the boat floated down the stream. At first, Lucien was inclined to use the broad oar, but it appeared that when he paddled on one side the clumsy boat tried to turn its head up stream on the other side, and so, after a while, he dropped the oar in the bottom of the boat. 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 607 "January 15. -- Made three-quarters of a mile, and having reached the lake Timsah (crocodile lake) we found the river blocked up; we therefore cut our way into an open but shallow channel which last year was impassable from want of depth. 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 624 "January 27.-We are thankful for a comparatively open ditch, deep, but covered with grass, through which the diahbeeah cut her path by sailing before a strong breeze, and we entered the lake at 11.20 a.m. There is no change here since last year. The steamer and fleet are close up, but there is a little deepening necessary at the mouth of the channel. The diahbeeah went ahead for six miles along the lake and broad river, and anchored for the night. 0.82 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 611 "January 19.-Sailed four miles, at which place we found a new channel coming from the south, while our channel of last year from south-east appeared to be closed at half a mile distance. Explored the new channel for about two miles; in appearance it was a river of 200 or 300 yards wide. At length we arrived at a sudd of small dimensions with open water beyond. We returned to the junction, and passed the night at a sudd half a mile up our old channel. 0.80 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 477 We steamed thirteen hours from Tewfikeeyah, with the tender and diahbeeah in tow, and reached the old sudd about twelve miles beyond the Bahr Giraffe junction. The water below the sudd was quite clear from floating vegetation, as it had been filtered through this extraordinary obstruction. 0.80 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1514 A sudden bend in the river had caused a small sand-bank. It was necessary to descend from the high shore to tow the vessel round the promontory. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 625 "January 28.-With a light breeze, the diahbeeah sailed four miles, and stopped at the three dubbas, whence we turned back last year. Even now there is only three feet and a half of water, and we shall have great trouble. Our fisherman, Howarti, caught a great haul of fine boulti with the casting-net. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 633 "Tayib Agha's boats are in sight, about four miles distance, bearing north. We cut through the small sudd, and in a quarter of a mile, we arrived at an open water, very shallow: in many places only three feet deep. Stopped for the fleet, and upon arrival of the steamer and others, I had marked out the channel to be cleared. The men set to work immediately. I then passed ahead with the diahbeeah for about a mile and a half, the depth of water, as usual, varying, but often as low as four feet. We were at length stopped at the confluence of two channels, each shallow. The sun was setting, therefore we halted for the night. A buffalo crossed the river about 200 yards ahead. 0.77 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2987 In about an hour and a half we arrived at a descent, towards a bottom in which there was a broad, open swamp, with a stream running through the centre. ============================================================================= TOPIC 61 -- 1326 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= life 748; heart 583; felt 507; nature 460; thought 457; love 400; mind 364; time 322; woman 298; made 269; sense 269; thoughts 269; strong 253; words 253; deep 249; spirit 234; girl 231; feeling 217; power 199; began 185; long 177; past 176; knew 168; effort 164; truth 160; world 159; hope 157; moment 154; believed 144; passed 141; feelings 138; future 136; sympathy 131; youth 129; father 125; human 120; passion 120; day 118; influence 113; young 112; aunt 108; soul 107; deeper 106; lost 105; fear 104; purpose 103; desire 103; deeply 100; hour 97; affection 97; part 96; grew 96; happiness 96; loved 96; reason 95; sought 94; experience 94; secret 94; growing 94; impulse 94; memory 92; wholly 92; things 91; lover 91; face 90; friend 90; control 86; calm 86; passionate 86; regard 85; scarcely 85; conscious 85; escape 83; sudden 83; force 82; impression 82; pride 81; touched 80; fate 80; end 79; place 79; years 78; led 78; existence 77; sort 77; seek 75; quick 74; child 74; hopes 73; mood 73; daily 71; grace 71; weakness 71; emotions 71; bitter 70; trouble 69; gave 69; terrible 68; mere 68; belief 68 0.74 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1667 She had far too much delicacy and maidenly pride to suggest consciously to Bodine the nature of her thoughts, but she was willing that he should see that she no longer shrank outwardly from his occasional manifestations of a tenderer regard than he bestowed upon Ella. That something in her woman's nature beyond her control did shrink and plead for escape, she knew well; but to conquer this instinctive aversion was a part of the task which she had set for herself. 0.71 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. 0.71 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 995 For behind everything else there was one thing more -- deeper than anything else, dearer, more sacred; the feeling she would never surrender that for a while at least he had cared more for her than he had ever realized. 0.70 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 314 Judith heard it with a strange feeling of repulsion, which she at first imagined was that infinite disapproval she felt for Freke; but, if he came, all of that terrible story about Beverley would have to be told over. Judith had not yet come to a clear understanding of herself, but she had begun to shrink from that dwelling on Beverley which seemed to give Mrs. Temple such exquisite comfort. 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1913 He drew her close to his breast, but at this touch of her sacred person, something deep in her woman's nature shrunk and protested. Even at that moment she was compelled to learn that the heart is more potent than the mind, even though it be kindled by the strongest and most unselfish enthusiasm. Only the deep and subtle principle of love could have given to that embrace unalloyed repose. Nevertheless she had said what she believed true, "Life had nothing better for her." 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1781 From that hour he steadily gained, banishing the look of anxiety from his mother's face. Mrs. Whately sighed as she saw how her niece's heart warmed toward the stranger, and how strong an attachment was growing between them. "Louise is drifting away from us all," she thought, "yet I cannot see that she encourages Captain Maynard." 0.68 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1805 There was nothing morbid or unhealthful in Ella's nature. With returning reason came also the influence of conscience and the sustaining power of a brave, unselfish spirit. Her father had put himself in accord with her feelings, and her heart began to go out toward him in tenderness and consideration, and she said brokenly: "Papa, I will rally. I will live for your sake, since you will let me love his memory." 0.68 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 803 Fight it out here, he felt that he never could. He could neither live near her and not see her, nor see her and not betray the truth. His whole life had been a protest against the concealment either of his genuine dislikes or his genuine affections. How closely he had come to the tragedy of a confession, she to the tragedy of an understanding, the day before! Her deathly pallor had haunted him ever since -- that look of having suffered a terrible wound. Perhaps she understood already. 0.67 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 948 Her eloquent look of sympathy so soon after they met began to take the form of prophecy. At first it led him to believe that she would receive a paternal, loving regard, much the same as he gave to Ella; but, as time passed, he began to dwell upon the possibility of a closer tie. She appeared to have no especial friends among young men, nor indeed to care for any. Might not a strong, quiet affection grow in each heart until they could become one in the closest sense, even as they were now one in so many of their thoughts and views? 0.67 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 62 -- 794 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= time 388; moment 326; forward 273; heard 228; distance 219; direction 214; suddenly 204; turned 200; began 194; made 192; reached 189; side 184; nearer 169; rapidly 160; short 157; pace 154; moved 152; road 149; sight 147; step 144; coming 144; appeared 133; ran 130; hour 129; eye 128; started 126; slowly 126; passed 121; thought 119; place 116; stopped 115; darkness 113; presently 112; moving 108; sudden 107; party 107; view 106; run 104; discovered 103; steps 103; half 103; point 101; approaching 101; rapid 100; instant 99; close 98; farther 98; long 97; pursuit 97; surprise 96; sound 93; appearance 90; back 90; danger 90; quickly 89; movement 89; sprang 89; distant 88; ground 88; stop 88; opposite 88; spot 87; knew 87; quick 87; disappeared 87; object 86; speed 85; retreat 84; approached 84; figure 84; bushes 83; path 82; wait 82; looked 82; noise 81; evidently 79; waited 78; scarcely 78; approach 77; escape 74; light 74; observed 74; move 73; feet 72; perceived 72; making 72; halt 72; woods 71; commenced 70; advanced 70; walked 70; quarter 70; turn 69; person 69; haste 68; returned 67; running 67; proceeded 67; till 66; caution 66 0.73 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1842 One of the most courageous of the party followed Tom, and, the way being thus made, the whole party began pushing up the rock, -- the hindermost pushing the front ones faster than they would have gone of themselves. On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm. 0.72 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 227 Mistress Catherine and I returned together to Drake Hill, she bearing herself with a sharp and anxious conciliation, and I with little to say in response, and walking behind her, though she moved more and more slowly that I might gain her side. 0.71 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2881 The fugitives were pursued by numbers of the hostile party, and in a few moments were dragged back to the lights. 0.69 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 718 A half-exclamation of surprise and dismay escaped him. This called the attention of Frank, who till that moment was unsuspicious of Dick's presence. 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2317 They were advancing cautiously towards the summit of a bushy ridge. Suddenly Carl stopped. 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2171 Duncan again gave him the support of his arm, and for the next half-hour they pressed on quite rapidly; yet their pursuers were gaining on them, for the bay of the hounds, though still distant, could now be distinctly heard, and Allison's strength again gave away. 0.69 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1166 Hearing a step he started up hastily, and saw Hilland approaching from the opposite side of his fire. 0.68 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1463 Thus encouraged, the negro set out a second time. Virginia followed him at a distance. She saw, as she anticipated, the figure start up again, and move off in the direction he was going. Toby accordingly commenced making a large detour through the fields, and both he and the shadow dogging him were soon out of sight. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 603 He walked cautiously along the winding path, noticing all the objects; looking up to the north star at every turn of the road, keeping tally of his steps that he might know the distance travelled. He walked stealthily, expecting every moment to hear the challenge of the Rebel pickets. He was startled by the cry, "Who! Who! Who!" He came to a sudden halt, and then laughed to think that he had been challenged by an owl. 0.66 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 926 None appeared, however; Ion was reached in safety, they tarried there an hour or more, then returned without perceiving any traces of the foe. ============================================================================= TOPIC 63 -- 1536 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= heart 1095; love 814; life 768; world 429; hope 426; dear 401; mother 353; long 320; soul 313; loved 312; happy 303; day 258; child 240; words 234; years 231; poor 229; sweet 225; joy 225; peace 223; ah 212; time 208; home 204; happiness 200; pray 190; tender 185; future 174; wife 170; woman 169; thought 169; faith 167; past 161; make 159; live 157; feel 155; noble 152; children 150; forget 149; hearts 145; give 143; loving 140; earth 138; sorrow 138; blessed 136; prayer 133; grave 131; good 129; great 129; affection 129; knew 126; bitter 125; darling 124; pure 122; bear 120; death 119; precious 119; sad 119; memory 117; eyes 116; hour 116; night 115; young 114; felt 112; friend 112; lost 109; true 109; trust 108; prayed 107; weary 106; hopes 106; rest 103; comfort 103; holy 103; hands 102; duty 101; face 99; mine 98; pain 98; glory 98; patient 96; suffering 95; bless 93; leave 92; die 91; human 89; angel 89; find 88; beautiful 88; lonely 88; lips 88; tears 86; grace 86; care 84; days 84; hard 84; save 83; hearted 83; full 82; strength 82; gentle 79; bring 76 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 6 "Sweet is the image of the brooding dove! Holy as heaven a mother's tender love! The love of many prayers and many tears, Which changes not with dim declining years -- The only love which, on this teeming earth, Asks no return for passion's wayward birth." 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1499 "Sweet is the image of the brooding dove! Holy as heaven a mother's tender love! The love of many prayers, and many tears Which changes not with dim, declining years -- The only love which, on this teeming earth, Asks no return for passion's wayward birth." -- MRS. NORTON'S DREAM. 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3536 "Saved -- purified -- consecrated henceforth to God's holy work? A minister of Christ? O most merciful God! I thank Thee! My prayers are answered with a blessing I never dared to hope for, or even to dream of! Can I ever, ever be grateful enough? A pastor, holding up pure hands! Thank God! my sorrows are all ended now; there is no more grief for me. Ah! what a glory breaks upon the future! What though I never see his face in this world? I can be patient indeed; for now I know, oh! I know that I shall surely see it yonder!" 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 681 "My proud little Regina! my pure sensitive darling! How much longer must we be separated? Will the time ever come when the only earthly rest that remains for me can be taken in her soft clinging arms? Patience -- patience. If it were not for her -- for my baby -- I might falter even now, -- but she must, she shall be righted -- at any sacrifice, at every cost; and may the widow's and the orphan's God be pitiful -- be pitiful -- at last." 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1247 "No, Graham, no. Don't leave me. Life is ebbing again. Ah, ah! farewell -- true friend. Un -- bounded love -- Grace. Commit -- her -- your care!" 0.80 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1225 Patience! patience! ye whose hearts swell indignant at wrongs like these. Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. In his patient, generous bosom he bears the anguish of a world. Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as he is God, "the year of his redeemed shall come." 0.79 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.'" 0.79 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 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2170 "Pray God to pardon him, Grandpa! Pray Christ to comfort and save his precious soul! Oh, Grandpa! pray the Holy Spirit to melt and sanctify his suffering heart!" 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1520 "Dear daughter," said the calm, sweet voice, "do not grieve that I have got my summons home; for dearly, dearly as I love you all, I am often longing to see the face of my Beloved; of Him who hath redeemed me and washed me from my sins in His own precious blood." ============================================================================= TOPIC 64 -- 1086 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= people 665; men 512; slavery 318; country 314; man 308; free 281; war 247; state 226; great 213; race 212; slave 204; law 200; slaves 198; land 170; white 167; freedom 150; rights 148; government 144; political 143; laws 139; negroes 130; nation 127; southern 125; blood 120; party 116; poor 114; children 111; power 110; part 106; born 105; make 104; public 103; citizens 96; colored 92; vote 92; true 91; history 89; northern 89; order 88; election 88; property 87; states 87; life 86; american 86; system 86; institution 84; women 82; black 80; question 77; liberty 77; majority 77; speech 72; made 69; thousands 68; day 68; world 67; negro 67; human 67; high 65; sons 65; families 64; influence 63; mothers 63; put 60; homes 60; business 60; kind 59; lived 59; city 59; class 58; whites 57; society 56; times 56; leaders 56; county 56; years 55; held 55; things 55; national 55; justice 54; section 54; neighbors 54; native 53; social 53; half 52; judge 51; side 51; set 51; feeling 51; opinion 50; masters 50; convention 50; institutions 49; work 48; friends 48; subject 48; christian 48; holding 48; republican 48; equal 47 0.81 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 2585 "Because," said Alfred, "we can see plainly enough that all men are not born free, nor born equal; they are born anything else. For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug. It is the educated, the intelligent, the wealthy, the refined, who ought to have equal rights and not the canaille." 0.81 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 266 "He thinks we're all wrong," said a bigoted pro-slavery man named Deslow. "He says slavery's the cause of the war, and it's absurd in us to go in for the Union and slavery too!" For these men, though loyal to the government, and bitterly opposed to secession, were nearly all slaveholders or believers in slavery. 0.78 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 538 "I would show their opposition to colonization. Show its humane, religious, and patriotic aims, that they are to separate those whom God has separated. Why do the Abolitionists oppose colonization? To keep and amalgamate together the two races in violation of God's will, and to keep the blacks here, that they may interfere with, degrade, and debase the laboring whites. Show that the British nation is co-operating with the Abolitionists, for the purpose of dissolving the Union."[5] 0.77 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. 0.75 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?" 0.74 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. 0.74 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?" 0.74 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 4374 For what is this mighty influence thus rousing in all nations and languages those groanings that cannot be uttered, for man's freedom and equality? 0.73 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1679 "Else why propose to do through a private commercial corporation what is everywhere else done through public government -- by legislation, taxation, education, and courts? Cannot -- or will not -- your lawmakers and taxpayers give you their co-operation? 0.73 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1242 * Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) and William Wilberforce (1759- 1833), English philanthropists and anti-slavery agitators who helped to secure passage of the Emancipation Bill by Parliament in 1833. ============================================================================= TOPIC 65 -- 666 chunks >= 0.25 from 28 texts ============================================================================= sees 176; time 157; makes 116; back 111; man 109; stands 96; hound 85; turns 81; master 79; hunter 77; horse 75; spot 73; close 71; longer 69; late 68; make 67; clancy 66; coming 64; hears 64; fear 62; finds 61; plain 60; length 59; dog 58; scarce 56; danger 55; making 53; mulatto 53; tells 52; speech 51; draws 51; trail 51; sign 50; strange 48; tree 46; animal 46; appears 45; stand 44; blood 44; takes 44; shows 43; feels 42; safe 41; taking 41; showing 41; clear 40; eyes 39; leaving 38; begins 38; kind 37; chance 37; knowing 37; body 36; doubt 36; robbers 36; continues 35; thinks 35; holds 35; starts 35; reason 34; giving 34; sets 34; speaks 34; reflection 34; side 33; shadow 33; alike 32; till 32; tent 32; drawing 32; chances 31; direction 31; moon 31; glances 31; comrade 31; change 30; contrary 30; carries 29; keeping 29; saddle 29; glance 29; men 28; feet 28; form 28; observed 28; remain 28; earth 28; surely 28; apprehension 28; brings 28; passes 28; attitude 28; assassin 28; enters 28; trace 27; bears 27; colonel 27; shape 27; returning 27; turning 27 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2522 At length, arriving on its edge, they make stop; Clancy drawing back the dog. Looking across the plain he sees that, which tells him the instinct of the animal will be no longer needed -- at least for a time. 0.69 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?" 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 371 Drawing her cloak closer around, she commences moving off from the tree. 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2723 His painful reflections are interrupted by that which but intensifies their painfulness: a shadow he sees flitting across the plain. 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2259 "Come, Brasfort!" says Clancy, apostrophising the hound, while lengthening the leash, and setting the animal on the slot. "You tell us where the redskin riders have gone." 0.67 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2234 Quick parting from his captive, and gliding up to the trunk, he looks cautiously around it. 0.66 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. 0.66 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2192 At the close of his exultant speech, he dives into the dark path, and gliding along it, soon re-enters the glade. 0.65 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! 0.65 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3157 Continuing to scan the dust-cloud, he perceives inside it a darker nucleus, evidently horses and men, though he is unable to trace the individual forms, or make out their number. No mattes for that; there is enough to identify them without. They are coming from the side of the Colorado -- from Coyote Creek. Beyond doubt the desperadoes! ============================================================================= TOPIC 66 -- 700 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= flowers 431; green 293; white 246; leaves 231; garden 223; trees 200; grass 193; roses 164; sweet 158; tree 151; spring 146; morning 135; birds 133; air 130; blue 129; blossoms 128; rose 121; flower 121; summer 119; wild 116; day 108; fields 95; bloom 95; yellow 93; vines 90; purple 85; winter 85; fruit 82; earth 80; golden 79; soft 78; fresh 77; bird 77; red 75; fragrant 75; full 74; great 73; sun 73; beautiful 72; snow 70; year 68; sunshine 66; bees 66; apple 65; bright 63; silver 62; yard 62; plants 62; season 59; vine 59; ripe 58; marble 58; autumn 58; pink 57; leaf 57; rich 56; fall 56; beneath 56; brown 56; violets 56; hot 55; woods 55; cool 54; walk 54; young 53; hung 52; gold 51; covered 51; gather 50; gathered 50; fragrance 50; scarlet 49; world 48; afternoon 48; stood 48; delicate 48; orange 48; honeysuckle 48; lay 47; heavy 47; wings 45; seed 45; shade 45; beauty 44; grow 44; small 43; peach 43; windows 43; days 42; fine 42; corn 42; fell 42; weeds 42; back 41; filled 41; dew 41; plant 41; perfume 41; petals 41; things 40 0.79 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1044 Its porticoes, entwined with parasites, here and there show stretches of trellis, along which meander the cord-like tendrils of bignonias, aristolochias, and orchids, the flowers of which, drooping over windows and doorways, shut out the too garish sunlight, while filling the air with fragrance. Among these whirr tiny humming birds, buzz humble bees almost as big, while butterflies bigger than either lazily flout and flap about on soft, silent wing. 0.73 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 920 "Honey" trailed her fingers in the waters, amber-tinted from the roots of the cypress trees. 0.72 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 366 It was the fall of the year. There was rich fruit in the orchards and gardens of New Hope, russet and crimson-cheeked apples, golden-hued pears, luscious grapes purpling in the October sun, and juicy melons. The bee-hives were heavy with honey, and the bees were still at work, gathering new sweets from the late blooming flowers. Many baskets of ripe apples and choicest pears, many a bunch of grapes, with melons, found their way up the narrow stairs to the room of the Night-Hawks. There was a pleasing excitement in gathering the apples and pears under the windows of the unsuspecting people fast asleep, or in plucking the grapes from garden trellises at midnight. But people began to keep watch. 0.72 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 367 The little brown squirrel hops in the corn, The cricket quaintly sings; The emerald pigeon nods his head, And the shad in the river springs, The dainty sunflower hangs its head On the shore of the summer sea; And better far that I were dead, If Maud did not love me. 0.71 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 47 The grass-grown walk beside the low brick wall of the churchyard led on to the judge's own garden, a square enclosure, laid out in straight vegetable rows, marked off by variegated borders of flowering plants -- heartsease, foxglove, and the red-lidded eyes of scarlet poppies. Beyond the feathery green of the asparagus bed there was a bush of flowering syringa, another at the beginning of the grass-trimmed walk, and yet another brushing the large white pillars of the square front porch -- their slender sprays blown from sun to shade like fluttering streamers of cream-coloured ribbons. On the other side there were lilacs, stately and leafy and bare of bloom, save for a few ashen-hued bunches lingering late amid the heavy foliage. At the foot of the garden the wall was hidden in raspberry vines, weighty with ripening fruit. 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2133 "What I've been wanting to see," said Tom, "is young love come up like a flower and be given its dew and sun and rain -- and bloom and bloom its best." 0.70 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. 0.69 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 1258 "Is it not enough for you to have scattered your handful of good broadcast, to ripen as endlessly as the grass? What if they that gather know naught of him that sowed?" 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4260 To-day, while filling her basket with blossoms, some stray waft of perfume, or perhaps the rich scarlet lips of a geranium glowing against the grey stone of the wall, prattled of Fifth Avenue, and recalled a gay boutonnière she once saw Mrs. Carew fasten in Mr. Palma's coat. 0.69 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 67 -- 993 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= room 1141; table 310; entered 272; young 257; ladies 243; found 233; time 226; left 226; returned 213; lady 212; parlor 210; evening 209; dinner 202; gentlemen 196; house 194; seated 185; party 174; drawing 165; conversation 150; guests 148; asked 146; company 146; supper 146; sat 143; side 142; sitting 139; family 138; moment 137; girl 137; breakfast 134; ready 131; servant 126; uncle 118; mother 116; guest 115; gave 112; tea 109; seat 106; door 104; talking 103; gentleman 102; dining 101; servants 99; met 98; began 93; taking 90; kitchen 88; leaving 87; chair 87; bowed 82; moments 81; cousin 81; waiting 80; hostess 80; appeared 75; engaged 75; library 75; general 74; joined 74; present 74; leave 72; host 72; wife 71; talk 71; invited 69; rose 69; hall 69; presence 68; introduced 67; mistress 66; children 65; immediately 64; inquired 64; niece 64; announced 63; manner 63; husband 63; meal 62; morning 61; led 61; walked 59; remark 59; father 59; veranda 57; coming 56; sister 56; afternoon 55; dress 55; prepared 54; part 54; reception 53; passed 53; sofa 53; retired 53; hotel 52; exchanged 50; politely 50; glance 50; piazza 50; made 49 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1867 Arrived there, Mr. Travilla joined the gentlemen in the library, while Elsie sought her aunts in the pretty parlor usually occupied by them when not entertaining company. 0.73 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 888 Edna had risen to leave the room when the master of the house entered, but at his request resumed her seat and continued reading. 0.71 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1273 Dinner was ready for the table when the guests came from their rooms. Davis excused his lack of ceremonial dress, saying pleasantly: 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1754 He set her down, and leaving the servant to attend lo his baggage, led her into the hall. 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1903 Finishing his breakfast leisurely, Squire Haynes went into the room where Frank was sitting patiently awaiting him. 0.69 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 578 Visiting the "first class" hotel of the place, we sat down in the parlor or reception-room, or whatever room it was, while the cook prepared breakfast. It was also the landlord's bed-room, occupied by himself and wife. 0.69 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 475 "Here's one, uncle," said the young lady, indicating the seat of which our hero occupied half. 0.69 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 748 The children had been sent to bed. Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore sat by the centre table, the one busy with the evening paper, the other sewing, but now and then casting a furtive glance at a distant sofa, where Mr. Travilla and Elsie were seated side by side, conversing in an undertone. 0.67 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1930 They found Mr. Dinsmore in the drawing-room, where most of the guests and the older members of the family were assembled. He was conversing with a strange gentleman, and his little girl stood quietly at his side, patiently waiting until he should be ready to give her his attention. She had to wait some moments, for the gentlemen were discussing some political question, and were too much engaged to notice her. 0.67 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1854 "Some time," he said, "but not now, for there is the tea-bell;" and taking her hand, he led her down to the dining-room. ============================================================================= TOPIC 68 -- 442 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= duty 227; present 153; felt 143; part 134; great 115; war 92; case 91; fact 85; position 85; confidence 85; occasion 85; make 84; state 83; circumstances 78; country 75; order 75; responsibility 73; act 68; resist 68; considered 67; authority 67; necessity 67; life 64; attempt 62; force 62; influence 61; duties 61; feel 59; made 53; action 53; proper 53; decision 50; held 49; degree 49; charge 47; manner 47; mind 47; power 46; assured 45; wise 44; greater 44; deemed 44; service 43; affairs 43; received 43; useless 43; discharge 43; prudent 43; generally 42; point 42; conduct 42; temptation 42; failure 42; event 41; advantage 41; regarded 40; result 40; compelled 40; taking 40; military 39; success 39; desire 39; feeling 38; law 38; submit 38; due 37; reason 37; painful 37; require 36; perform 36; skill 35; importance 35; found 35; respect 35; turn 34; reach 34; lack 34; believed 33; save 33; extent 32; permit 32; enemies 32; future 31; laws 31; advice 31; character 31; ordinary 31; judgment 31; authorities 30; resolved 30; fully 30; ceremony 30; exact 30; relieved 30; assume 30; risks 30; highest 29; responsible 29; regret 28; sense 28 0.71 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1494 "Thank you," he said, haughtily, "but I prefer convincing you that that inability lies wholly in your own imagination; and I am quite at a loss to understand upon what you found your opinion, as Elsie has never yet made the very slightest resistance to my authority." 0.70 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 850 Mr. Birdsall was made to feel that it was his duty to accede, but he already felt sorry for Aun' Sheba and the Watsons, and had misgivings as to the result. 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 375 "I regret it more keenly than you possibly can; and, Elise, if I could have seen the mother before it was too late, I should have declined this painful responsibility." 0.63 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2844 The next issue of the paper announced the appointment of “the able counsellor, Colonel McRaffle,” to the office of Commissioner of the Court, in which position, it stated, his experience and skill would prove of inestimable benefit to the country! 0.63 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 127 He measured the feelings of others by his own; and if all had felt as he felt, war would have been an impossibility, however critical and momentous the relations between the two sections. 0.63 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 808 TREATING OF VILLIAM'S OCCUPATION OF ACCOMAC, AND HIS WISE DECISION IN A CONTRABAND CASE. 0.63 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 50 TREATING OF VILLIAM'S OCCUPATION OF ACCOMAC, AND HIS WISE DECISION IN A CONTRABAND CASE 144 0.62 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 168 Resolved: That the excitement at present existing among the people renders it prudent for us to appoint a committee of the citizens of Barrington to recommend what measures (if any) should be adopted for the purpose of suppressing any unlawful or riotous outbreak in the town; and that the following named are hereby appointed a " Committee of Safety " who are respectfully requested to adopt such measures, or to recommend any measures for adoption by the citizens generally, as may seem to them proper and necessary for the preservation of good order. 0.61 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 96 EXEMPLIFYING THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT, AND SETTING FORTH THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY CAPTAIN VILLIAM BROWN IN HIS MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF PARIS 314 0.61 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1871 EXEMPLIFYING THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT, AND SETTING FORTH THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY CAPTAIN VILLIAM BROWN IN HIS MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF PARIS. ============================================================================= TOPIC 69 -- 961 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= case 324; made 226; matter 225; information 217; man 208; fact 207; evidence 194; court 185; doubt 155; account 139; time 137; facts 133; statement 133; story 127; regard 123; opinion 122; trial 120; called 113; lawyer 112; give 105; part 101; affair 101; report 99; brought 98; state 96; possession 91; witness 88; true 88; father 87; prove 85; witnesses 85; question 84; secret 81; conclusion 79; charge 79; manner 79; mystery 78; subject 78; testimony 78; counsel 78; present 77; explain 75; proof 75; judge 73; affairs 72; stated 71; knowledge 71; interest 71; suspected 71; conversation 70; papers 69; received 67; character 67; idea 66; mind 66; law 65; interview 65; result 64; examination 64; truth 63; claim 63; suit 63; details 61; explained 61; obtained 60; intended 60; person 60; arrest 60; obtain 59; personal 58; order 58; visit 58; prisoner 58; morning 57; agent 56; supposed 56; son 56; hear 56; property 55; suspicions 55; important 54; evidently 54; declared 53; reason 53; reasons 53; concerned 53; point 52; letter 52; circumstances 52; suspicion 52; government 51; attempt 51; informed 51; clear 50; discovered 50; justice 50; held 49; public 49; occasion 49; connection 49 0.71 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. 0.70 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2575 Major Welch alone was calm and unmoved. It was, after all, expressly stated that no actual fraud was attributed to him, and though, of course, he felt keenly having his name mixed up with such a matter, he had no anxiety as to the result. He could readily prove that he had had no knowledge whatever of anything to arouse the slightest suspicion. He should, of course, have to employ counsel. He began to canvass their names. 0.70 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1132 "Such is certainly my intention; but I am at a loss to conjecture how Miss Harding obtained her information, as the matter has not been alluded to since her arrival." 0.70 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1798 Briefly Mrs. Livingstone explained to him Lena's agency in the matter, omitting, this time, to impute to her the same motive which she had done when stating the case to Durward. 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1099 Already Mr. Travilla had procured his arrest, and had him imprisoned for trial, in the county jail. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1775 Tom stated again, more explicitly than before, the subject matter of his startling communication. 0.69 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2355 "There is some extraordinary error in all this. If Sprague can be produced before the term fixed by the regulations, he can vindicate himself by establishing the facts you have told me. If not, we have no alternative but to condemn him to death as a spy and deserter. The testimony on these specifications is uncontradicted. The murder we may not be able to establish, though we have witnesses of the shooting." 0.69 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 2346 "Madame, you must know this is highly disorderly and indecorous. The court can take no cognizance of this sort of testimony. Do you desire to be heard by counsel? If you do, the judge-advocate will give you all lawful assistance." 0.69 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2580 Leech declared that he had seen the copy, and corroborated his client in his statement that Captain Allen had inspired the suit. 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1307 "Peyton never admitted to me that he suspected her, though some circumstances seemed to connect the disappearance of the papers with her visit here the night they were carried off. He accused no one." ============================================================================= TOPIC 70 -- 572 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= wounded 494; wound 360; doctor 261; blood 206; surgeon 203; arm 202; hospital 188; man 162; patient 158; sick 143; wounds 133; left 130; death 114; time 109; men 106; poor 100; broken 100; found 92; leg 86; water 84; lay 83; hurt 83; pain 83; nurse 83; dead 82; killed 75; ball 74; brought 71; fever 71; battle 71; side 70; physician 68; badly 68; lying 67; dying 63; weak 62; bed 61; care 59; cut 59; shoulder 59; bleeding 59; passed 58; lost 58; injured 58; medicine 58; charge 57; body 56; soldier 55; received 54; hard 54; suffering 54; flesh 52; bullet 52; hands 50; strength 50; died 48; carried 47; field 46; dressed 44; leave 43; patients 43; bone 42; loss 41; days 41; condition 40; long 40; small 40; shot 39; examined 39; slight 38; life 38; fellow 37; faint 36; hot 35; disabled 35; sufferer 35; laid 34; finding 34; torn 34; women 33; gave 33; night 33; entered 33; removed 33; consciousness 33; ward 33; place 32; bad 32; weeks 32; slightly 32; limb 32; pox 32; nursing 32; injury 32; assistance 31; recovered 31; surgeons 31; hospitals 31; permit 30; foot 30 0.88 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 807 On examination, Robert learned that the arm was broken between the elbow and shoulder, and that the leg was fractured between the knee and ankle. "The leg," said he, "is safe enough. Below the knee are two bones, and only one of these is broken. Would you like to have the bandage and splints put on your arm tonight?" 0.85 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." 0.76 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!" 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1335 "No; Dr. Balis told me the ball glanced from the bone, passed under the nerve and severed the humeral artery." 0.72 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. 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1258 Dr. Barton found the wound not dangerous, extracted the ball with little difficulty, and left the patient doing well. 0.71 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.) 0.70 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 91 "She is hurt, but I think not very badly. Her left arm is broken, and her head is slightly cut." 0.69 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3775 Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison. 0.67 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1156 Then to the stranger, and taking gentle hold of the wounded limb: "But you need this flow of blood stanched more than anything else. You came to me for surgical aid, of course. Pistol-shot wound, eh? and a bad one at that." ============================================================================= TOPIC 71 -- 384 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= town 445; office 318; people 309; street 233; crowd 229; day 210; streets 209; city 209; place 192; men 148; houses 138; court 130; post 118; county 111; village 108; public 102; business 101; house 94; bar 89; hotel 85; square 84; law 76; young 75; crowded 75; store 75; country 71; citizens 69; morning 67; negroes 67; full 66; passed 64; meeting 64; tavern 62; market 61; found 60; jail 60; sign 58; front 58; met 57; private 49; days 48; church 48; called 47; sheriff 47; leech 46; number 43; buildings 43; quiet 43; standing 43; open 42; group 42; high 40; round 40; held 39; walked 39; saloon 39; small 38; filled 38; broken 38; doors 38; offices 38; gathered 37; rooms 36; keeper 36; corner 35; groups 35; editor 35; pavement 35; company 34; customers 34; stores 33; gentlemen 33; roads 33; appeared 32; walking 32; clerk 32; half 31; places 31; curious 31; assembled 31; seat 31; ladies 31; corners 31; citizen 31; reached 30; afternoon 30; brick 30; sidewalk 30; persons 29; night 29; faces 29; wholly 29; rough 28; hotels 28; officers 27; past 27; principal 27; scene 27; busy 27; news 27 0.79 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. 0.72 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1554 When Leech’s new companies drilled, the roadsides were lined with their admirers. They filled the streets and took possession of the sidewalks, yelling, and hustling out of their way any who might be on them. Ladies walking on the street were met and shoved off into the mud. In a little while, whenever the militia were out, the whites disappeared almost wholly from the streets. But the men were to be found gathered together at some central place, quiet, and apparently without any object, but grim and earnest. Steve Allen was likely to be among them. 0.67 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. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 933 "All right; we have two that were vacated this morning," replied the clerk, as he led the way to the office, where the Frenchman registered his name, and his residence as in Paris. 0.62 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1027 Trade had spread into side-streets. Drinking-houses were gayly bedight and busy. 0.60 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 501 The streets were alive that morning with patriotic groups discussing the victory of the French troops at Magenta. The first telegrams were posted and crowds were gathered about them. 0.59 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2780 To Glencoe? It is three in the afternoon, and Jackson explains that, with the load, they would not reach there until midnight, if at all. To Kirkwood or Webster? Yes; many of the first families live there, and would take them in for the night. Equipages of all sorts are passing, -- private carriages and public, and corner-stand hacks. The black drivers are cracking whips over galloping horses. 0.57 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2373 "They don't want me," he had said when he came home. "They don't want me anywhere, it seems -- either in lawyers' offices or dry-goods stores. I have not been particular." 0.56 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 733 The town was waking up. Windows were thrown open here and there and people called to each other across the streets asking what that firing was for. 0.55 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1456 After riding back to Richmond and putting up his horse, Vincent went to the hotel there. Although but a secondary hotel it was well filled, for people from all parts of the Confederacy resorted to Richmond, and however much trade suffered, the hotels of the town did a good business. He first went up to the clerk in a little office at the entrance. ============================================================================= TOPIC 72 -- 398 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= boy 257; hand 182; chap 115; mouth 111; pocket 100; knife 100; head 96; man 85; hat 83; eye 81; put 80; handkerchief 76; nose 70; thumb 65; finger 64; soldier 64; back 59; blood 59; tobacco 57; cut 55; black 53; end 50; eyes 49; air 48; cap 48; youth 48; drop 47; big 47; piece 46; shoulders 46; pipe 46; shut 44; throat 44; drew 42; red 41; muttered 39; hole 37; shoulder 37; looked 37; fingers 37; left 36; side 35; made 34; began 34; hold 34; tall 33; fat 32; pull 32; water 31; point 31; teeth 31; handle 31; sword 30; make 30; picked 30; string 29; coat 28; stick 28; felt 27; swallowed 27; wiped 27; bit 26; jacket 26; boot 26; dropped 25; pulled 25; elbow 25; stooped 25; bow 24; taking 24; hair 24; leaf 24; hit 23; blade 23; tight 23; rubbed 22; fellow 21; handed 21; touch 21; rolled 21; broom 21; forefinger 21; held 20; steel 20; bottle 20; tied 20; strings 20; whipped 20; knot 20; jack 20; white 19; shirt 19; hastily 19; straw 19; umbrella 19; nail 19; heels 19; tip 19; twist 19; palm 18 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. 0.71 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1954 Invisible punctuation -- chiefly quotation marks -- has been silently supplied. 0.70 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 910 The surgeon just took a seat, my boy, rubbed his shins half a second, took four boxes of pills, and then began to cuss! Marshal Rynders can cuss some , my boy, but that fat surgeon could beat him and all the Custom-House together. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1679 Invisible punctuation -- chiefly quotation marks -- has been silently supplied. 0.67 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. 0.65 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 185 The tall one, red-faced, swallowed another sandwich as if taking poison in despair. 0.64 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1106 He drew his rapier from its sheath, and presented the hilt to me. I took it with a bow, and handed it to Sparrow. 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1764 Invisible punctuation has been silently supplied, and superfluous quotation marks removed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. 0.64 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 34 "The handle of my sword, I should have said, and snapped it off like a pipe- stem." 0.64 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1090 "Pull the coat down as far as the elbow, Dan, and bathe it for a bit." ============================================================================= TOPIC 73 -- 1024 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= man 744; good 523; fellow 354; ha 326; poor 209; make 209; boy 208; thing 196; exclaimed 193; bad 191; devil 183; fool 181; fight 180; ah 173; major 160; sort 144; fellows 137; set 135; pretty 135; added 126; turn 121; give 121; cried 117; call 114; replied 113; hold 109; head 108; sergeant 106; fair 103; luck 102; play 101; hard 100; hand 99; ca 98; war 95; made 94; care 90; business 89; put 81; worse 81; honest 80; run 78; sir 75; night 71; find 71; cut 69; trick 68; swear 67; laugh 67; soldier 66; big 66; laughing 66; horse 65; worth 65; muttered 65; mad 63; ai 62; stand 61; world 60; back 60; mought 60; country 59; mind 59; joke 59; makes 59; trouble 57; hear 57; show 56; chance 55; risk 55; account 54; coward 53; continued 52; wo 52; end 51; brave 51; reckon 51; work 49; easy 49; chap 48; ill 47; money 47; fools 47; matter 45; ugly 45; worst 44; young 43; fly 43; safe 42; free 42; making 42; people 41; piece 41; teeth 41; quarrel 41; warrant 41; mighty 40; catch 40; suppose 40; damned 40 0.78 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 377 "The devil take this impertinent ox-driver!" muttered the man to himself, after the sergeant had left him; "I have half a mind to take his carcase in hand, just to give it the benefit of a good, wholesome manipulation. A queer fellow, too -- a joker! A civil, peaceable man! -- the hyperbolical rogue! Well, I'll see him out, and, laugh or fight, he shan't want a man to stand up to him!" 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 2276 "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, um h'm! so it is, bairnies, just Cousin Ronald at his old tricks again," laughed Mr. Lilburn. 0.73 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 789 "Good God, Major," he cried; "how becomin' 'tis, how damned becomin'. Harem an' all. Only trouble is you're too fat -- too fat; if you weren't so fat wouldn't look such a damned fool." 0.72 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1280 "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, ah ha!" 0.71 Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_of_Courage_An_Episode_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_73.txt 692 He reflected, with condescending pity: "Too bad! Too bad! The poor devil, it makes him feel tough!" 0.70 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 949 "There is some 'caper' going on to give these cut-throats a chance to get booty or something of the sort." 0.70 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 1289 "Helloa!" cried Jim, "that's a dilapidated-looking leg," -- his head out, looking at it. "Stop a bit!" -- body half after the head, -- "you just stop that, and come here and catch hold of a fellow; now put me up there. I reckon I'll bear hoisting better'n he will, anyway. Ugh! ah! um! owh! here we are! bully!" 0.70 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 463 "You must be a little sleepy, major: however, this fellow, they say, was cotched cheating with cards one day, when he was playing a game of five shilling loo with the King or the Queen, or some of the dukes or colonels in the guards -- for he wa'n't above any thing rascally. So, it was buzzed about, as you may suppose when a man goes to cheating one of them big fish -- and the King gave him his choice to enlist, or go to the hulks; and he, being no fool, listed, as a matter of course. In that way he got over here; and, as I tell you, was a sort of sarvent to that young Earl. He sometimes came about our quarters to list prisoners and make Tories of 'em, for his own people kept him to do all that sort of dirty work, upon account of the glibness of his tongue. He was a remarkable saucy fellow and got nothing but ill-will from the prisoners -- though, I make no doubt, the man is a tolerable sodger on sarvice. Now, after telling you all this, major, you must know that the identical, same, particular man that we saw looking through the porch window at us to-night" -- 0.70 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 749 "They allow that all's fair in war, I believe. But it don't signify, a man is a good while before he gets used to this flat lying, for I can't call it by any other name." 0.69 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 917 "No, you will not, you have no right; our poor little rank, it doesn't belong to us, Harry, 'tis we belong to it. 'If he wants to fight!' -- Do you take him for a rabbit? He is a brave man, you know that, old fellow. Of course he wants to fight. But he cannot! For the court-martial he would not care so much; I would not, you would not; 'tis his religion forbids him." ============================================================================= TOPIC 74 -- 1076 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= war 918; men 622; battle 594; country 482; fight 423; army 332; fought 294; soldiers 278; great 271; people 253; fighting 251; field 239; day 236; flag 232; victory 227; soldier 224; brave 195; made 176; arms 163; end 150; side 150; rebellion 138; government 136; friends 133; southern 132; battles 131; times 126; armies 125; troops 124; peace 122; city 122; called 119; struggle 119; enemy 118; part 117; history 112; days 112; northern 105; boy 104; nation 102; military 101; glorious 98; glory 97; general 96; courage 96; duty 95; honor 94; rebels 93; service 88; defeat 88; state 87; loyal 87; rebel 86; patriotism 85; news 84; blood 84; conflict 84; thousands 83; forces 82; boys 82; sides 81; sword 80; women 79; months 78; work 76; campaign 74; terrible 73; home 73; surrender 72; thousand 71; gallant 71; stand 70; events 68; land 67; capital 67; beginning 65; death 63; success 63; passed 62; spirit 61; high 60; triumph 60; hero 60; long 59; lives 59; world 58; year 58; enemies 58; patriotic 58; traitors 58; years 57; destruction 57; invasion 57; treason 57; heart 56; action 56; eager 56; enlisted 56; scenes 55; generals 55 0.75 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2190 The whole country had been desolated by civil war, in which the companions of Abou Saood had taken a prominent part, and had carried off a great number of the women. 0.74 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1597 Shall treason triumph in our land, my boy, while there's a sword to wave? I think not, my boy, I think not. Though Columbia did not rule the wave, her champions would see to it that she never waived the rule. 0.70 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. 0.70 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. 0.70 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. 0.66 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2973 "We'll unfurl the Lone-Star banner, And we'll keep it waving high; For Secession we are pledged, For Secession we will die." 0.66 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2117 He recalled the day of his first decisive victory -- the day when he had stood alone and the people -- the great, free people, the beginning and the end of all democracies -- had rallied to his standard. He had won the people on that day, and he had never lost them. 0.66 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 732 At the expiration of their three months' leave, Frank and Archie received their honorable discharges from the service, the sight of which recalled vividly to their minds many a thrilling scene through which they had passed. How changed the scene now from that when they had first bid adieu to their homes, to join the ranks of their country's defenders! "Then a gigantic rebellion was in progress; armed men sentineled each other from Virginia to the Rio Grande; and the land was filled with the crash of contending armies. Now, the rebel forces are vanquished, their banner in the dust; the slave empire that was to rise upon the ruins of the Republic is itself in ruins; and the soldiers and sailors of the Union, returning their weapons to the arsenals, have exchanged their honored blue for the citizen's garb, and resumed their peaceful avocations, as modest and unassuming as though they had never performed the deeds of valor that have filled the whole civilized world with wonder." 0.65 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3967 "Be vigilant. Serve your city, serve your state, but above all serve your country." 0.64 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 75 -- 1962 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= ca 982; man 960; make 941; wo 608; talk 569; word 462; thing 450; hear 448; told 439; suppose 429; time 382; good 370; replied 354; thought 353; people 345; speak 342; give 334; things 325; sir 305; exclaimed 294; fool 289; afraid 275; understand 274; cried 272; feel 267; stop 240; long 237; trouble 232; place 232; boy 225; reason 223; live 222; young 220; heard 220; father 217; bad 216; mother 216; hope 211; reckon 207; asked 206; wanted 202; kind 198; call 198; matter 194; ai 193; makes 189; glad 186; talking 183; stand 176; happened 175; remember 173; chance 172; sort 172; fellow 171; mind 167; answered 167; true 165; continued 157; woman 154; put 153; show 152; girl 144; men 140; free 132; meant 132; hold 131; story 129; thinking 127; listen 125; hurt 124; nonsense 123; sake 122; care 121; business 121; sit 120; mine 120; guess 119; kill 116; forget 114; expect 112; life 111; worse 111; coming 110; ashamed 109; difference 108; world 107; times 107; idea 107; leave 107; send 106; dare 106; hang 104; brother 102; cousin 102; stay 100; truth 97; move 95; telling 95; wrong 94; manage 93 0.79 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1466 "It don't make no difference what he said -- that ain't the thing. The thing is for you to treat him kind , and not be saying things to make him remember he ain't in his own country and amongst his own folks." 0.75 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 166 "I will tell you one thing confidentially," said Mark. "If that part of the story isn't true, a few wags of Mrs. Brown's tongue will make it true. There are dozens of men right here in this country, and you and I are acquainted with some of them, who would jump down on that house this very night if they were sure they could make anything by it." 0.74 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1250 "Well," she answered judicially, "I don't see how a girl can help it if a man thinks more of her than she of him, but it does make all the difference in the world whether a man tries to grab, as you say, or waits respectfully for what should be a free gift, to be worth anything. How strange it seems to be talking quietly of such things! Think of what has happened, what might have happened, and what may take place before night!" 0.70 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2510 "You are mixing things," I interrupted. "I never heard you mix things before. And it was not Shorty's mistake." 0.69 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1522 "Many would think so, I reckon," replied Ackley laconically. "He believes in a heaven and that he's going there. That's the only queer thing I ever discovered in Waldo. He's worth a lot of trouble, Miss Baron." 0.68 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_Louisiana_PG_35300_8.txt 589 "Don't laugh again!" she cried. "Don't dare to laugh! I wont bear it! He is my father!" 0.68 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 236 "Don't talk! why not?" said Mrs. Nichols, rather sharply. "This is a free country I suppose." Then bethinking herself, she added quickly, "Oh, I forgot, 'taint free here !" 0.68 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 689 "I suppose I shouldn't speak of him to a -- a lady who can't understand people who live in a different sort of world. But you mean to be kind, and I suppose have some reason for asking?" and she glanced at the lady in the window. "So -- " 0.67 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1107 "As I am a living man," replied Horse Shoe, "he wanted to deny it; and then he pretended it was a fancy of his own." 0.67 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 368 "Thank you for telling me about your brother Mrs. Chester," he said. "It makes me feel more as if things would turn out well. Won't you come over soon and see us? Mother is always glad to see you." ============================================================================= TOPIC 76 -- 239 chunks >= 0.25 from 48 texts ============================================================================= death 116; silence 109; silent 108; face 85; scene 83; dead 83; awful 83; day 76; hour 70; solemn 66; light 63; thoughts 62; heart 58; presence 57; sad 56; horror 54; moments 53; shadow 51; grave 50; faces 49; stood 48; long 47; filled 45; fearful 44; dim 42; darkness 41; cold 39; dread 39; terror 39; spectacle 39; imagination 37; future 35; remained 35; midnight 35; watched 35; strange 34; ghostly 34; suddenly 33; looked 33; hideous 33; appeared 32; chill 32; spirit 31; mystery 31; form 31; forms 31; human 31; figure 31; aspect 30; passed 30; moment 30; superstitious 30; quiet 29; vague 29; frame 28; painful 27; presented 27; grim 27; sudden 26; shock 26; dark 26; stricken 26; gloom 26; thought 25; nearer 25; terrible 24; bent 24; tomb 24; weird 24; full 23; head 23; broken 23; countenance 23; stillness 23; sounds 23; image 23; visible 22; memory 22; vision 22; awe 22; struggling 21; subdued 21; sight 21; motionless 21; sighed 21; hopelessness 21; nervous 20; profound 20; despair 20; sullen 20; whispered 20; repose 20; breathe 20; fierce 20; chamber 20; solitude 20; shudder 20; memories 20; dumb 20; expression 19 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1584 Elsie was very quiet for some moments, and the little face was almost sad in its deep thoughtfulness. 0.64 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2239 As the years had passed, more than once he had been haunted by a dread that some day he might come upon some tragic truth long hidden. Here he was face to face with it. But what imagination could have painted it like this? 0.64 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1459 Moments of oppressive silence followed this announcement, and the old man's face grew stern and rigid. 0.64 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 72 LXVII. PROBLEM: IS AN UNCONFIRMED DISTRUST NECESSARILY A DEAD ASSET? 0.61 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3014 PROBLEM: IS AN UNCONFIRMED DISTRUST NECESSARILY A DEAD ASSET? 0.60 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1461 Virginia saw what serious cause there was to dread such a catastrophe. But her resolution was unshaken. 0.58 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 3173 And the procession went its way; only Penn and Carl remained gazing after it long, with hearts too full for words. 0.58 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1467 "Oh, what if he should look and talk so to me!" thought Mabel, shuddering as a dim foreboding of her sad future came over her. 0.57 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 257 "Yas'm," said Aun' Sheba, suddenly becoming stolid as a graven image. 0.55 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 37 In truth, a perplexing spectacle -- full of wild, weird mystery. ============================================================================= TOPIC 77 -- 725 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= day 1137; morning 1100; night 797; evening 469; early 442; hour 434; afternoon 307; time 301; hours 290; breakfast 250; long 241; late 234; good 224; home 205; room 199; usual 191; half 181; days 175; work 169; left 165; morrow 165; found 148; spent 145; ready 129; ride 126; rest 124; called 117; house 113; week 111; brought 107; till 99; part 95; passed 94; arrival 91; company 87; dinner 83; walk 82; town 79; began 78; yesterday 78; table 78; arrived 76; meet 76; journey 76; meeting 76; busy 75; bed 73; noon 73; scarcely 72; start 70; finished 70; absent 69; return 67; met 66; supper 66; past 65; watch 65; pleasant 65; place 63; family 63; sat 63; set 61; dark 60; talked 60; visit 59; taking 59; preceding 58; leave 57; previous 56; made 56; earlier 55; preparations 54; sleep 54; tent 53; shortly 51; church 51; spend 51; entered 50; remarked 50; weather 49; rising 49; school 49; meal 49; ten 48; sun 48; bright 48; dawn 48; office 46; occasion 46; rose 46; slept 46; times 45; promised 45; departure 44; village 44; store 44; talk 44; prepare 43; coming 43; talking 43 0.73 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 63 XXXVII Launching the Boats -- More Work, and Yet More -- Eclipse of Feb. 12th, 1831 -- Healing By "First Intention" -- Frank’s Birthday -- Preparing for a Voyage -- Rain, Rain 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3643 Since the memorable day of Regina's visit to Central Park many weeks had elapsed, and one wild stormy evening in March she sat at the library table writing her translation of a portion of "Egmont." 0.69 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 362 Warwick and Tryon were to set out in the cool of the morning, after an early breakfast. Rena was up at daybreak that she might preside at the breakfast-table and bid the travelers good-by. 0.68 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3201 We slept in our old camp, and early on the following morning we prepared to cross the river. 0.68 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1051 Meanwhile, the day that was to have been the wedding-day had come and gone. Jacqueline had not noticed it -- she seemed to notice nothing in those days -- but toward noon she said to Judith: 0.67 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 1550 LAUNCHING THE BOATS -- MORE WORK, AND YET MORE -- ECLIPSE OF FEB. 12TH, 1831 -- HEALING BY "FIRST INTENTION" -- FRANK’S BIRTHDAY -- PREPARING FOR A VOYAGE -- RAIN, RAIN 0.63 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2852 The morning of the 9th of June arrived -- the night had passed in perfect quiet. 0.61 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 524 The next day Tom went to Barnesville. He left the Cross-roads on horseback early in the morning, and reached his journey's end at noon. He found on arriving at the town that the story of his undertaking had preceded him. 0.60 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3226 This incident occurred a few days after that of Rosa, while Miss Ophelia was busied in preparations to return north. 0.60 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 1440 "Good-morning, we'll talk about the wedding after the convention." ============================================================================= TOPIC 78 -- 1000 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= man 371; sir 366; pardon 302; friend 298; good 288; give 259; trust 250; dear 248; honor 243; beg 241; hope 236; father 191; promise 186; life 184; true 177; word 171; speak 150; remember 146; make 137; mine 136; understand 129; gentleman 124; thing 116; duty 115; save 115; find 110; put 108; forget 107; expect 97; assure 95; fellow 95; words 94; care 93; hand 92; brave 90; added 88; sake 84; owe 84; wishes 84; kind 83; service 82; permit 81; faithful 80; prove 79; confidence 79; dare 79; brother 78; fear 77; child 75; accept 73; doubt 70; call 69; show 67; pay 66; secret 66; trouble 65; master 65; wrong 64; longer 63; offer 63; feel 63; friends 63; replied 63; respect 62; serve 60; desire 60; humble 60; future 59; remain 59; son 59; refuse 59; power 58; protection 58; forgive 58; pledge 58; excuse 57; worthy 56; intend 53; servant 53; stand 52; act 51; protect 51; judge 51; sense 51; deserve 51; trusted 50; truth 50; heart 49; reward 48; warn 48; gratitude 48; pray 48; obey 47; judgment 47; present 46; afraid 46; confess 46; utterly 45; regret 45; perfectly 45 0.76 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1666 "I do not understand you, sir. If my life is threatened to accomplish an unrighteous purpose, it is my duty to tell you at once, that that life belongs to my king; and if his interests are to suffer by any forced act of mine, I am willing to resign it at once." 0.74 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2159 "You must see the Provost Marshal, sir. If you are a loyal man, and will take the oath of allegiance, doubtless you will get your pay when we have put down the Rebellion." 0.73 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2535 "Why -- why, I -- I -- I'm overwhelmed. Gracious me! I owe you an humble apology, Miss Garnet. Yes, I do. I've thrust a confidence on you without your permission. I -- I beg your pardon! I didn't mean to, I declare I didn't, Miss Garnet." 0.71 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2236 "The first duty of a trusty friend is to give warning of the approach of an enemy -- and that has Tyrrel done. For this act of service does he deserve your rebuke? Could you expect aught else of an honorable gentleman? Shame on you, daughter!" 0.71 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1358 "I see; and I will remember that, Captain Somers. By the way, it would be well for you to write to Senator Guilford, just to inform him of your promotion. He has done good service for you, though I have no hesitation in saying your promotion would have been certain without his aid." 0.70 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 600 "I think, Gordon, that she did exactly right; but I also think that now, with my approval and advice, she need not hesitate to wear it henceforth, as a token of your friendship. Edna, hold out your hand, my dear." 0.69 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 858 "You risked your life to save mine; and you risked it when I did not deserve so much as your respect." 0.69 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1456 "Major Havisham, you are a wise and a brave man. I will gladly listen to any counsel you may have to give anent this matter." 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3380 "All that was communicated to me on the subject was under the seal of confidence, and I hope you will excuse me if I decline to betray the trust reposed in me." 0.67 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1345 Graham drew a seal ring from his finger and said: "Dear Pearl, take this as a pledge that I will serve him in any way in my power and at any cost to myself. I hope the day will come when he will honor me with his friendship, and I would as soon strike the friend I have lost as your brother." ============================================================================= TOPIC 79 -- 243 chunks >= 0.25 from 57 texts ============================================================================= time 411; knew 130; partly 119; part 98; continued 91; made 91; affairs 90; make 87; hope 85; perfectly 84; longer 83; matters 81; business 80; present 79; end 75; order 70; satisfied 67; decided 64; things 62; remain 62; settled 62; doubt 57; change 56; impossible 55; account 54; situation 53; declared 53; thought 53; condition 51; fully 49; affair 49; difficulty 48; case 48; presence 48; continue 47; means 47; idea 44; expected 44; opportunity 43; quietly 43; knowledge 42; settle 42; occasion 41; attempted 39; satisfaction 39; desired 38; explain 37; desire 37; act 36; result 36; loss 36; short 36; companion 34; intention 34; hoped 34; proposed 33; party 33; avoid 32; plan 32; prevent 32; watching 32; matter 31; place 31; began 31; interfere 31; discover 30; question 30; pass 30; subject 30; confident 30; leaving 30; aware 29; find 29; advantage 29; obliged 29; thinking 29; statement 29; accomplished 28; assistance 28; disappointed 28; equally 28; studied 28; learn 27; discussed 27; believed 26; keeping 26; due 25; general 25; utterly 25; hoping 25; conversation 25; possessed 25; confounded 25; doubtless 25; resolved 24; concluded 24; purpose 24; true 24; turn 24; giving 24 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 365 "At present I cannot; after I have had an opportunity for reflection I may be able to do so," replied Christy, from whom a more decided demonstration than he made was expected. 0.63 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2173 It will now be necessary to explain the true position of affairs, which at that time I did not suspect. 0.62 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 414 "But I see that you are sailing away from Nassau as fast as you can, and I think I had better explain my business as soon as possible," continued Percy, who seemed to be as confident as though he had already accomplished his purpose as hinted at in his conversation with Christy. 0.60 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 2357 Somers improved this opportunity to repeat the injunction of the general. 0.57 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1314 "Undoubtedly it would," said Captain Breaker, his brow knitting under his earnest thought. "What do you propose to do? Explain your plan fully, Mr. Passford." 0.57 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1409 "I think you are mistaken about our business being settled," said Gilbert, quietly. 0.53 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 730 "What rule were you provin' at the time, Lin?" 0.53 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 829 "I will go below and see what can be done with them. I desire to make them as comfortable as possible, though I do not believe they will be satisfied with any location to which I may assign them." 0.52 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 433 Nevertheless, his course had simplified her action; it had decided her that all was over between them. The case was hopeless now; for neither could yield without becoming untrue to themselves, and there could be no happy union in such radical diversity. The less often they met the better, as he only made her course the harder to maintain and the separation more painful than it had been before. 0.51 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1822 "No, sir; it does not concern me, and I presume neither to criticise nor to advise. Please be so good as to detain me no longer, and believe me when I repeat that I have no intention whatever of meddling with any of your affairs, or reporting your actions." ============================================================================= TOPIC 80 -- 1292 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= asked 2257; question 799; answer 651; answered 482; replied 446; man 376; questions 346; matter 284; inquired 272; moment 261; reply 258; looked 258; tone 226; demanded 224; father 191; repeated 166; boy 161; surprise 154; exclaimed 152; told 132; captain 123; speak 116; doctor 114; added 104; turning 104; surprised 100; heard 97; remarked 97; glance 97; suppose 94; woman 93; stranger 93; understand 92; put 91; smiled 88; sternly 88; nodded 88; young 87; lady 86; continued 85; friend 83; smile 83; meaning 83; suddenly 82; anxiously 81; gentleman 77; words 77; subject 76; inquiry 76; laughed 76; quickly 75; sharply 75; excited 74; silence 71; eagerly 70; thing 70; kindly 69; spoke 68; business 68; reason 67; son 67; interested 66; answers 65; tones 65; hesitated 64; mind 63; returned 63; turned 61; officer 58; interest 58; explained 58; pause 58; brother 56; hesitation 55; judge 55; give 55; alarm 53; meant 53; daughter 53; curiosity 52; astonishment 51; smiling 51; minute 50; interrupted 50; companion 49; speaking 48; puzzled 48; anxious 47; plain 47; evidently 47; mine 47; met 46; angrily 46; remark 46; calmly 45; spoken 45; afraid 44; thinking 44; understood 43; forgotten 43 0.68 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1022 Mrs. Murray looked puzzled, and said: "Edna, do you know what he meant? He often amuses himself by mystifying me, and I will not gratify him by asking an explanation." 0.68 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1215 "Now, in the first place, if there is any objection to answering my question, I expect you to tell me so; you understand?" Nelse nodded solemnly, and Delaven continued: 0.67 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 330 "Pray how old are you, my friend?" asked the stranger, who thought his companion was stupid enough to answer any question he might put to him. 0.65 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_the_Lower_Mississippi_PG_6958.txt 511 "Is that your brother?" asked the captain in surprise, as he turned toward Mrs. Le Dell for an explanation. 0.65 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 74 "He will be here presently," he replied to the anxious question of the fair stranger. 0.64 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 520 No answer for a moment, and the question is gently repeated. 0.64 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 442 "I am a plain man, my lord," replied the Governor bluntly. "An it please you, give me plain words." 0.63 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 577 "Surely, Louise, you cannot expect any more trouble, after my son has said there would not be any," said Mrs. Whately, in a somewhat aggrieved tone. 0.63 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 256 "Is he really sick, doctor?" asked Christy, with a smile which meant something. 0.63 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3207 The Sheriff was mystified, and looked first around him and then at the judge, in a puzzled way, to see whom he referred to. ============================================================================= TOPIC 81 -- 341 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= orders 448; order 305; obey 183; officer 137; obeyed 132; command 111; general 94; men 91; ordered 85; authority 79; obedience 75; gave 74; immediately 67; issued 67; letter 58; duty 57; ready 56; report 56; received 52; prisoners 50; charge 48; free 47; put 46; promptly 45; lordship 44; send 43; receive 41; work 40; attention 40; giving 40; follow 39; officers 36; knew 36; instructions 35; quarters 34; negroes 34; bring 33; head 33; whately 33; young 32; prisoner 32; return 31; permit 31; arrest 31; soldiers 30; purpose 30; hands 30; instantly 30; prepare 29; show 29; arrival 28; sword 28; commanding 28; deliver 28; threat 28; act 26; warning 26; perkins 26; leech 26; direct 25; chief 25; law 25; carried 24; soldier 24; business 24; effect 23; case 23; addressed 23; government 22; special 22; guard 22; inform 22; attend 22; commands 22; military 21; important 21; advice 21; complete 21; responsibility 21; force 20; measures 20; quickly 20; positive 20; quietly 20; note 20; threatened 20; overseer 20; heed 20; called 19; proceed 19; affairs 19; line 19; summons 19; disobey 19; catalogue 19; remained 18; transport 18; state 18; resistance 18; superior 18 0.73 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2943 The officers and men received their instructions, merely declaring that wherever I should lead them, they would follow and obey. 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. 0.65 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1343 "Right! his case shall receive prompt attention!" said the chief. 0.64 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 0.63 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1926 "Leiutent Ropes Send me with the bearrer of This 2 strappin felloes capble of doin a touhgh Job." 0.60 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 2055 Obtain our latest complete catalogue. 0.59 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2264 "McVeigh received official notification of promotion today. Important instructions were included as to the movements of his brigade. These instructions must be received by us tonight in order to learn their plans for this wing of the army." 0.58 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 2037 Ask for our complete catalogue. Mailed upon request. 0.58 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1721 LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON, SEND THEIR COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE. 0.58 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1560 LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON, SEND THEIR COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE. ============================================================================= TOPIC 82 -- 363 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= train 376; carriage 206; station 174; car 170; wagon 141; driver 125; hotel 122; cars 122; seat 119; bag 116; stage 112; drove 106; back 93; town 89; railroad 89; passengers 79; platform 75; stopped 72; left 70; road 70; morning 70; wheels 69; trunk 69; journey 67; horses 66; carpet 63; miles 58; horse 57; baggage 56; railway 53; reached 52; cart 52; small 51; drive 51; mail 49; city 47; coach 46; vehicle 46; driven 43; night 43; carry 42; conductor 42; ten 39; hours 39; late 38; box 38; afternoon 37; minutes 36; started 36; porter 35; travel 34; telegraph 34; carried 33; ride 33; caboose 32; front 31; brought 30; heavy 30; entered 30; door 30; street 30; start 29; rear 29; sat 29; freight 29; told 28; buggy 28; packed 27; made 27; waiting 27; coachman 27; passenger 27; trains 27; valise 27; people 26; rolled 26; inside 26; depot 26; found 25; sight 25; crowded 25; village 25; noticed 24; child 24; wheel 24; ladies 24; trunks 24; locomotive 24; load 23; stop 23; trip 23; arrived 22; ready 22; twenty 22; engine 22; moved 22; reach 22; express 22; stepped 22; track 22 0.73 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1273 When they arrived at the gate, therefore, Vincent helped Lucy and Chloe to alight, and then jumping into the buggy again told the driver to take him to the inn. 0.72 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1460 "Well, at any rate, I'll carry this, and this, and this," said Miss Ophelia, singling out three boxes and a small carpet-bag. 0.68 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. 0.65 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1793 And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road. 0.65 Aldrich_Thomas_Bailey_The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy_PG_1948.txt 70 The first train for Rivermouth left at noon. After a late breakfast on board the Typhoon, our trunks were piled upon a baggage-wagon, and ourselves stowed away in a coach, which must have turned at least one hundred corners before it set us down at the railway station. 0.63 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1874 The next morning Mr. Morton was a passenger by the early stage for Webbington, where he took the train for Boston. Thence he was to proceed to New York by the steamboat train. 0.62 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1385 "'It's one of them doctor's flyers as I'd rather ride in it than in Queen Victory's bang-up, A, No. 1, stage-coach. It's a scrouger.' 0.61 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 405 "I think so; there is a carriage at the gate, and I noticed a trunk beside the driver." 0.60 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 264 "Go ahead!" said he, leaping into the rear of the wagon, behind the seat, where I had thrown the mail-bag. 0.60 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 307 "Lively, now, cabby; I haven't a minute," and I handed my driver a trunk check. ============================================================================= TOPIC 83 -- 136 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= half 654; hour 361; dozen 167; ten 109; minutes 107; clock 78; past 72; mile 68; struck 42; times 40; ago 40; quarter 38; watch 36; knots 35; striking 31; twelve 29; returned 29; boys 29; twenty 27; fifteen 26; round 22; eleven 21; minute 20; heard 20; fast 20; hoping 19; looked 19; counted 18; midnight 18; live 17; number 16; voices 16; eighteen 15; sound 15; resumed 14; strokes 14; miles 13; usual 13; miss 13; punctual 12; agreed 11; making 11; breaking 11; satisfactory 11; score 11; continued 10; raise 10; breakfast 10; signal 10; exclaimed 10; stroke 10; offense 10; drag 9; starved 9; sixteen 9; expecting 9; troublesome 9; amused 8; accusing 8; movements 8; pairs 8; gaining 8; spanish 8; bedtime 8; offered 7; months 7; hours 7; forcibly 7; sighing 7; responded 7; unlucky 7; log 7; hang 7; lynching 7; detain 7; cure 7; dial 7; steeple 7; bum 7; distant 6; unpleasant 6; numbered 6; quarters 6; waited 6; stomach 6; restrain 6; shake 6; study 6; freaks 6; thinks 6; bell 6; broadest 6; jestingly 6; savage 5; challenge 5; sit 5; pound 5; reports 5; couples 5; comparison 5 0.71 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. 0.71 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. 0.65 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. 0.63 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1552 "We are gaining on her," said Christy, half an hour later. "That steamer is making sixteen knots at least." 0.62 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 237 "Sancta Mater! istud agas, Crucifixi fige plagas," 0.61 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. 0.60 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2439 He brooded over his watch. "Twelve minutes to seven." 0.58 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1206 "It has struck ten times, and it is only four o' clock." 0.55 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1356 "Frank Frost!" exclaimed half a dozen voices. 0.55 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1413 "Horse Shoe, Horse Shoe, to be sure!" responded half a dozen voices. ============================================================================= TOPIC 84 -- 864 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= good 546; 534; things 529; people 387; great 331; thing 331; thought 307; time 290; knew 258; world 252; make 230; day 224; poor 212; care 201; made 191; school 173; suppose 170; dear 162; aunt 159; put 157; child 155; mind 147; deal 138; wanted 135; pleasure 128; kind 127; life 123; find 123; read 121; teach 121; pretty 119; learn 119; sort 114; books 112; heart 108; hard 105; matter 104; remember 104; talk 102; wrong 99; give 97; study 97; girls 95; pleasant 95; fancy 94; work 90; children 89; rest 82; afraid 82; head 81; ways 79; difference 79; mother 79; forget 78; glad 77; began 76; taught 75; understand 74; feeling 73; doubt 71; learned 71; place 70; comfort 70; doctor 69; bear 69; makes 68; feel 67; found 64; friends 63; real 63; lesson 62; bit 62; dress 61; ashamed 61; comfortable 60; nice 60; talked 60; till 59; fault 58; words 58; women 57; simple 57; meant 57; left 55; laughed 54; learning 54; wear 53; governess 53; full 52; proper 52; tea 52; evening 51; bad 50; home 50; book 50; minute 48; manage 48; end 46; stupid 46; wise 45 0.78 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1424 I remember looking at him and smiling. It was so curious a thing, both that he should, in his philosophy, be puzzled by a child like me, and that he should care about undoing the puzzle. 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1535 "Poor little thing!" said Eversham, sighing; "where in the world did she get such odd notions?" 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 818 "Yes, never felt so mean in my life. To think of that little Ed sending us these splendid whips, and the little girls these pretty books. I 'most wish they hadn't." 0.68 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 3022 "You do study too persevering, m'amie," she said. "Go, and stop to study for a little while. You are pale. I am afraid your doctor ce bon Monsieur le docteur will scold us all by and by. Go, and do not study." 0.67 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1879 "No, I am not in want of a governess. Would you like to have Anna give lessons to your girls in music and drawing?" 0.66 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2055 "Now, Daisy," said the doctor, "you have studied the matter, and I do not doubt have formed a philosophy of your own by this time. Pray make me the wiser." 0.66 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2904 "Oh, no!" I said, laughing, "there are a great many more, there are a great many more, only you do not happen to see them." 0.66 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2134 "Only don't take the child among the rattlesnakes," said Mrs. Sandford. " They are wonderful, I suppose, but not pleasant. You will get her all tanned, Grant!" 0.65 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2380 "Amusement, dear, amusement. Something a great deal better than Grant's 'elegies and 'ologies. Now this would never have happened if he had been at home." 0.65 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 60 "You are no such thing," said Preston. "Your head is full this minute. I think you have about as much knowledge as is good for you. I mean to take care that you do not get too much." ============================================================================= TOPIC 85 -- 631 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= young 1900; man 1701; lady 417; fellow 362; gentleman 268; good 255; woman 249; girl 182; fine 171; men 167; handsome 162; pretty 145; ladies 136; girls 122; looked 119; high 115; face 113; person 111; soldier 106; great 99; tall 97; met 95; brave 94; father 91; heard 90; friend 84; make 83; white 82; dear 80; women 79; black 77; told 77; people 76; gentlemen 75; remarked 74; southern 66; strong 66; age 66; sort 66; call 66; eye 65; true 63; proud 60; air 58; pleasant 58; younger 58; born 54; sister 54; thing 53; appearance 52; big 52; eyes 51; master 51; smiled 51; colored 51; suit 50; dressed 49; spoke 48; fair 47; noble 47; son 46; fellows 46; older 46; kind 45; show 45; standing 45; elderly 44; smiling 43; named 42; courage 42; speaking 42; full 41; asked 41; doctor 40; choice 40; charming 40; hero 40; manner 39; evidently 39; stand 39; nice 39; talk 39; honest 38; modest 38; daughter 37; beautiful 36; decidedly 36; clothes 35; hair 35; glass 34; stout 33; story 32; addressing 32; years 31; bow 31; street 31; knight 31; called 30; dignified 30; gallant 30 0.73 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 673 "Conductor!" spoke up a well-dressed man, with the air and manner of a gentleman, "what does that card say?" 0.71 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2414 "The man is a sort of Colossus," he said, "and he looked all the heavier and bigger because my last visitor had been the smallest and most insignificant of the hoosier type." 0.68 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 223 "Who is the lady, Tryon?" asked one of the young men, addressing the knight who had taken the handkerchief. 0.66 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 811 "Here day are, sah. One is a rough suit, like a workingman's; another is a black-and-white sort of suit -- a check-suit; de oder one is for you -- a clargy's suit, sir. You make very nice young minister, for sure." 0.65 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1625 “‘The Athenians praise hospitality, the Lacedemonians practise it,’” he said in a distinct voice that went through the car, and with a bow to the young fellow which brought a blush of pride to his pleasant face. 0.63 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1637 “Let us show you that some of the Athenians practise as well as praise hospitality,” she said, smiling. 0.63 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 470 "And I have heard her say that she liked a young man, a man no older than she." 0.62 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3953 “What a pity that he could not have married that nice young lady, Miss Welch—such a nice young lady!” proceeded Mr. Bagby, half in soliloquy. 0.61 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 845 "Glad on’t," said Leffie. "Hope he won’t have any your foreigners. Allus did wish he’d have Miss Mortimer. Next to old marster and young marster Lacey, her father’s the toppinest man in New Orleans. And it’s a pity for young marster to stoop." 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 86 -- 1545 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= black 755; white 738; hair 737; dress 518; head 438; blue 425; coat 424; long 392; wore 367; red 362; face 317; hat 294; eyes 268; gray 261; dressed 247; clothes 238; pair 233; made 230; silk 211; boots 201; tall 198; neck 191; figure 181; large 177; yellow 176; looked 170; shirt 170; shoes 170; wear 165; gold 164; dark 160; shoulders 159; great 149; feet 148; brown 145; round 144; gown 143; small 138; thin 134; lace 132; fine 129; cloth 128; put 126; handkerchief 126; worn 123; broad 122; suit 121; appearance 119; uniform 119; woman 117; short 117; cap 115; hands 114; cut 113; skin 110; pretty 107; collar 107; wearing 107; linen 106; handsome 104; bright 104; high 102; arms 100; set 97; pink 95; tied 92; bonnet 92; lady 91; fingers 91; buttons 91; thick 90; soft 87; trousers 87; colored 87; young 85; silver 84; green 84; straight 84; garments 84; ball 83; gentleman 83; heavy 82; sat 82; throat 82; full 80; air 79; hung 79; shawl 79; plain 78; complexion 78; cotton 77; scarlet 77; light 77; faded 77; covered 77; clean 77; slender 77; held 76; pocket 76; gave 75 0.91 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 537 She was dressed in white of medieval cut. Heavy white silk cord was knotted about the slender waist and touched the embroidered hem. The square neck had also the simple finish of cord and above it was the one bit of color; a flat necklace of etruscan gold fitted closely about the white throat, holding alternate rubies and pearls in their curiously wrought settings. On one arm was a bracelet of the same design; and the linked fillet above her dark hair gleamed, also, with the red of rubies. 0.81 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 981 Bob was the oldest and Tom next -- tall, beautiful men with very broad shoulders and brown faces, and long black hair and black eyes. They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats. 0.81 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. 0.81 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 617 As he turned again, I saw that his hair was cut short, revealing lighter-colored scars on the scalp -- records of a not too peaceful life, perhaps. His dress was ragged and dingy, patched trousers, and shabby shoes, and a worn flannel shirt open at the throat, the skin darker than the flannel. On a chair beside him lay a crumpled slouch hat, grimed with dirt, the crown frayed and torn. 0.80 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 668 The dress was faded almost white in parts, and patched with different colors, but looked fresh and clean. It was held together over her flat bust by big bone buttons. There was neither collar nor belt. The sleeves were rolled up above the elbows, showing her strong, muscular arms, tough as rawhide. The hands were large and bony, with big knuckles, the mark of the hoe in the palms. 0.80 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. 0.80 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 163 The first was a tall, gaunt woodman, of a sallow complexion, jet black eyes, and round head of smooth black hair. His dress was simply a coarse linen shirt and trowsers, the heat of the day being such as to allow him to dispense with coat and waistcoat. He carried, in one hand, a battered straw hat, and in the other, trailed a long rifle. His feet were covered with a pair of moccasins of brown leather, and the ordinary hunting equipments were suspended about his person. 0.79 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1137 He was a small, black man, quite old, but with a curious attempt at jauntiness, as he made his three bows with his one hand on his breast, the other holding his cane and a jockey cap of ancient fashion. It contrasted oddly with the swallow- tailed coat he wore, which had evidently been made for a much larger man; the sleeves came to his finger tips, and the tails touched his heels. The cloth of which it was made was very fine dark blue, with buttons of brass. His waistcoat of maroon brocade came half way to his knees. Warm as the day was he wore a broad tie of plaid silk arranged in a bow, above which a white muslin collar rose to his ears. He was evidently an ancient beau of the plantations in court dress. 0.79 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 331 She was dressed with perfect neatness. A red and yellow Madras kerchief was bound about her head in a high coil, and another was crossed over the bosom of her stiffly starched and smoothly ironed blue cottonade dress. Rivulets of perspiration ran down over her nose, her temples, and around her ears, and disappeared mysteriously in the creases of her brown neck. A single drop accidentally hung glistening like a diamond on the circlet of one of her large brass ear-rings. 0.79 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1454 She was dressed in a French robe of white tarlatan, embroidered in boquets of lilies of the valley in silver. A single japonica rested among the curls of her bright hair, while her neck was encircled by a necklace of pearls, and costly bracelets of the same clasped her white, slender wrists. ============================================================================= TOPIC 87 -- 1373 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= horse 1978; horses 875; road 774; back 552; saddle 485; rode 482; riding 374; ride 347; side 334; man 302; mounted 265; turned 227; men 219; left 195; stable 186; bridle 167; fence 154; rider 150; head 149; ground 147; half 146; animal 144; woods 143; sight 140; ahead 127; speed 127; galloped 125; mile 123; boys 123; round 122; made 121; wagon 118; short 117; full 117; house 117; miles 116; started 114; whip 114; stopped 113; moment 113; good 112; turn 111; dismounted 110; gallop 110; front 108; reins 107; pony 107; gave 106; distance 105; put 105; brought 104; rein 99; foot 98; reached 96; ridden 96; steed 96; hill 95; straight 95; passed 91; party 90; walk 89; hand 88; set 88; forward 87; tied 87; gate 87; horsemen 85; boy 83; field 80; led 79; small 77; stables 75; horseback 75; carriage 73; leading 73; drew 72; stood 72; galloping 71; coming 70; horseman 70; bridge 69; body 68; knew 67; cross 67; neck 67; beast 67; country 66; sprang 66; mule 66; caught 65; run 65; animals 64; camp 64; hoofs 64; hard 63; close 62; halt 62; trot 62; wheeled 62; hat 62 0.79 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: 0.78 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. 0.73 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 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1319 "There they are!" said the corporal and I at the same moment, when we had been but a few minutes on the Plank-road. Two men were ahead of us riding abreast, and a few rods in front of them was a third horseman, apparently alone. Two others had pushed on, one to the house, the other for surgical aid. The two in the rear knew us and let us come up unchallenged; the corporal stayed with them, and I rode on to my leader's side. 0.71 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2430 Mr. Thorold laughed, and catching my hand as we came to a turn in the road where the woods fell away right and left, brought me quick round the angle, without letting me go to the edge of the bank to get the view. 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 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 3078 With a hundred or so of small stones rattling at his horse's heels John reached the foot of "Zigzag Hill," turned with the forest road once or twice more, noticed, by the tracks, that Johanna's horse was walking, and at another angle saw her just ahead timorously working her animal sidewise to the edge of the way. 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1092 It was sunset when they reached his house. There they unharnessed his horse and saddled him. The old man mounted. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 986 A march of a short distance farther across the field brought them to a road, which they followed till they came to a wagon drawn by two horses. The animals were hitched at the side of the road, and no one seemed to be in charge of the team. But the sergeant halted his party at this point; and, leaving the prisoners in charge of his men, he went to the wagon. 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2405 Jupiter and Harkness have brought up the horses, and are holding them in readiness. Soon they are mounted, Heywood taking Jessie on his croup, Helen having a horse to herself -- that late belonging to Bosley -- while the latter is compelled to share the saddle with Harkness. ============================================================================= TOPIC 88 -- 802 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= father 1398; mother 1080; son 791; family 492; brother 480; boy 457; daughter 415; home 381; wife 373; child 342; years 322; sister 314; children 266; young 239; died 237; told 225; poor 197; husband 189; house 183; left 177; married 161; war 145; story 143; girl 142; heard 130; younger 130; age 127; great 126; year 124; grandfather 121; called 116; sisters 115; death 114; born 113; grandmother 111; brought 110; brothers 108; live 107; older 106; lost 103; uncle 102; grown 100; thought 98; parents 98; lady 96; days 92; remember 90; man 85; dear 85; good 83; property 83; elder 80; boys 78; cousin 78; law 76; care 73; late 70; time 70; servants 70; lived 69; widow 68; living 66; daughters 65; lad 64; proud 63; sons 62; eldest 61; country 59; named 59; pride 56; plantation 56; youngest 55; place 52; college 52; friends 51; loved 50; estate 50; handsome 49; aunt 49; gentleman 48; killed 47; gave 47; returned 47; asked 47; dead 47; families 47; world 46; farm 46; day 45; household 44; presence 44; fine 43; side 43; wealthy 43; ill 42; fond 42; pleased 41; saved 41; inherited 41; loss 40 0.76 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2046 "You probably know nothing of my family," continued James Grey, "though as a possible relation, you should do so. My wife is dead, and I have but one child, a boy of about your own age. Jasper is seventeen." 0.72 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 152 "Well, it belongs to your mother, and so you may say it belongs to your father; but it is yours for all that. The arrangement was, as I know," my aunt went on, addressing Miss Pinshon, "the arrangement in the marriage settlements was, that the sons should have the father's property, and the daughters the mother's. There is one son and one daughter; so they will each have enough." 0.70 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1232 "Does it not give your mother a right, that the mother of this girl and probably her grandmother were the property of your ancestors?" 0.70 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 2189 "I have very few relations -- none that I know. I believe there is a brother of my mother living somewhere in New Mexico, but with that exception, I know of no relations except you. Where do you live?" 0.70 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 69 Her grandfather had grown very fond of her and her children, was often at Ion, and for his sake she occasionally visited Roselands. Adelaide's presence had drawn her there more frequently of late. The invitation Mr. Travilla carried was to the grandfather, three aunts and all their children. 0.70 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 2010 Happily Antioch had escaped the ravages of war, and there was nothing to mar the happiness of the wedding. Lucy's father had returned, having lost a leg in one of the battles of the Wilderness a year before, and her brother had also escaped. After the wedding they returned to their farm in Tennessee, and Mrs. Wingfield, Annie, Vincent, and Lucy went back to the Orangery. 0.69 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 -- " 0.69 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 89 And then he told me about himself. He was a graduate of West Point, the only one on the brigade staff; was a widower, with a widowed brother, a maiden sister, two daughters, and a niece, all of one New Orleans household. The brothers and sister were Charlestonians, but the two men had married in New Orleans, twin sisters in a noted Creole family. The brother's daughter, I was told, spoke French better than English; the Major's elder daughter spoke English as perfectly as her father; and the younger, left in her aunt's care from infancy, knew no French at all. I wondered if they were as handsome as their white-haired father, and when I asked their names I learned that the niece, Cecile, was a year the junior of Estelle and as much the senior of Camille; but of the days of the years of the pilgrimage of any of the three "children" he gave me no slightest hint; they might be seven years older, or seven years younger, than his new clerk. 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1701 "You have heard the particulars then?" said Sophie, addressing the housekeeper. "And my brother and sister were there?" 0.68 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1032 "Agnes is very like what I was at her age," said her mother, with dignity; and perhaps she was, though no one had been able to trace any resemblance which had defied the ravages of time. ============================================================================= TOPIC 89 -- 1385 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= chapter 1277; illustration 380; page 86; 25 73; viii 72; 1862 67; xviii 51; xxviii 49; 1861 37; iii 29; 15 25; p. 24; report 22; reserved 22; 1863 21; 1864 21; 18 19; copyright 19; 10 18; rights 17; 16 17; 24 16; 13 16; 14 16; 20 16; 1865 15; xiii 15; 22 14; xxxii 14; 11 13; 21 13; forty 12; xlii 12; 17 11; 37 11; 19 11; 29 11; 20th 11; 70 10; 48 10; 30 9; 52 9; lines 9; finish 9; 92 9; 1860 9; xxxviii 9; xxii 9; 1st 8; 18th 8; seventy 8; 27 8; 28 8; 81 8; arrest 8; 30th 8; xxiii 8; wh 8; 8th 7; address 7; warning 7; describing 7; 63 7; 62 7; 31st 7; i. 7; 2d 7; 49 7; 136 7; narrated 7; 42 7; xxxvii 7; john 7; published 6; thirty 6; 103 6; 25th 6; 86 6; 85 6; 35 6; 28th 6; 1900 6; 46 6; fourteenth 6; quest 6; volume 5; rejected 5; sons 5; unexpected 5; 15th 5; 6th 5; 31 5; 24th 5; surrender 5; xlvi 5; toby 5; 1890 5; 1898 5; 91 5; xxiv 5 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 0.85 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 127 The First Subscription 1 Capitol at Washington 4 Pro Patria 7 Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore 8 Guarding Long Bridge 12 Aid Society's Store-Room 16 The Ideal Freedman 16 Ladies Working for the Army 22 Forwarded Free 29 Ellsworth Zouave Drill 46 General Grant -- General Sherman 54 Hauling Cotton 62 Baltimore in 1861 75 East Tennessee Refugees 92 A Mississippi School- House 96 Gunboats in Line 102 With Dispatch 109 General Mcclellan at Williamsburg 110 General Mcclellan at the Battle of Antietam 114 The Sunken Road 118 Battle of Antietam 120 For the Boys in Blue 121 Slaves Fleeing to the Army for Protection 128 A Silent Spectator 136 Fredericksburg 140 Franklin's Attack 155 Tattoo 173 The Magic Lantern in the Hospital 174 The Christian Commission in the Field 176 Busy Fingers 178 Chancellorsville 188 Battery at Chancellorsville 194 Sedgwick's Attack 201 Leading a Charge 204 Salem Church 208 "Keep Out of the Draft" 211 Night March of Cavalry 214 Kearny Cross 223 The Nation's Ward 234 A Bird's-Nest Bank 247 Cavalry Charge 258 Advance to Gettysburg 263 The Color- Bearer 272 Gettysburg Battle-field 280 With a "Hurrah" They Rush On 296 A Regiment at Dinner 305 Wilderness 317 Spottsylvania 323 The Sanitary Commission in the Hospital 326 North Anna 331 Bayonet Charge 332 Cold Harbor 334 Negroes Coming into the Lines 344 Foraging 348 One Day's Labor, One Day's Income 362 Petersburg, July 17, 1864 365 Petersburg, July 30, 1864 368 Army Corps Chapel Near Petersburg 368 Ruins of Chambersburg 388 A Lay Delegate in the Hospital 390 Edward Everett -- Mt Vernon -- Savannah -- The Capitol 401 Sherman's Bummers 420 Fort Sumter 435 Mississippi River Hospital Steamer 443 Battle Of Fort Sumter 444 Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon 453 Defence of Fort Sumter 456 For Our Flag 461 "John Brown" in Charleston 480 Citizens' Volunteer Hospital 484 Troops Destroying A Railroad 486 Fire Ambulance 498 Humiliation Of Richmond 506 Farragut at Mobile 510 President Lincoln in Richmond 512 Abraham Lincoln 514 U. S. Christian Commission 522 Captain Winslow and the Kearsarge -- Admiral Farragut 528 Patriot Orphan Home, Flushing, L. I. 542 Surrender of General Lee 544 General Lee's Farewell 554 Study for a Statue of Lincoln 555 Assassination of Lincoln 556 With a Lavish Hand 558 0.82 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. 0.81 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2964 NAMES. AGES. Jimmy, driver, 30 Flora, seamstress, 24 James, 5 Charles, ($125,) 1 August, 52 Mathias, ($1,220,) 18 Sandy, 16 John, 13 Tom, 70 Jack, 38 James, 6 Leah, 5 Flora, 2 Andrew, 42 Binah, 40 Phillis, 20 Mary, 15 Lymus, 10 Abram, ($275,) 2 Binah, 2 mos. Andrew, 29 Hagar, 25 Dayman, 4 Cuffy, 21 Hagar, ($1,320,) 20 Margaret, 85 Lucy, cripple, 60 John, 22 Ellick, ($1,160,) 18 Libby, 19 Carter, 36 Taffy, 13 Rachel, ($720,) 8 Jannett, 18 Phebe, ($860,) 40 Judy, 8 Major, 40 Lavinia, 30 Billy, ($550,) 10 Tamor, 6 Jimmy, 52 Kate, 46 Susan, 25 Thomas, ($380,) 6 Kate, 1 Edward, coachman, 49 Amey, 22 Teneh, washer, 30 Josephine, 9 Sam, 11 Isaac, 5 William, 1 Amey, 27 Louisa, ($750,) 8 Joe, 3 Sam, ruptured, 65 Andrew, dropsical, 61 Daniel, 70 Lymus, 30 Lucy, nurse, 58 0.77 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1023 4. Sturgis's " } 13. Sickles's " } 5. Getty's " } 9th Corps. 14. Birney's " } 3d Corps. 6. Burns's " } 15. Cavalry. 7. Brooks's " } 16. Union Batteries. 8. Howe's " } 6th Corps. 17. Bernard's House. 9. Newton's " } 18. Pontoon Bridge. 19. Hamilton's House. 20. Maryee's House. 0.73 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 0.65 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 1062 Page 20: oe in Coeur was originally a ligature (C[oe]ur de Lion.) 0.65 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 9 BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY ESTES AND LAURIAT, 301-305 WASHINGTON STREET. 1886. 0.62 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1750 =The Search for Andrew Field= =The Boy Soldiers of 1812= =The Boy Officers of 1812= =Tecumseh's Young Braves= =Guarding the Border= =The Boys with Old Hickory= ============================================================================= TOPIC 90 -- 394 chunks >= 0.25 from 52 texts ============================================================================= miles 374; country 222; south 176; road 150; mountain 141; land 139; side 134; point 132; hundred 130; river 118; mountains 115; north 114; region 104; place 93; great 87; town 86; distance 76; twenty 73; wilderness 72; western 72; travel 64; line 64; west 64; years 63; railroad 63; small 61; roads 60; part 58; east 58; iron 57; distant 55; water 55; soil 55; route 55; mile 53; journey 51; thousand 51; streams 51; rivers 49; coal 49; grass 48; valley 48; called 45; vast 43; southern 42; eastern 42; pass 42; map 42; population 41; rich 40; feet 40; lands 40; lay 39; find 38; world 37; climate 37; blue 36; houses 36; situated 35; traveller 35; regions 34; main 34; stream 34; level 34; fifty 34; passes 34; county 34; found 33; villages 33; days 33; view 33; points 32; sea 32; forty 31; inhabitants 31; frontier 31; ago 31; acres 31; principal 30; railway 30; ten 30; travelled 30; farther 30; limestone 30; series 29; wall 29; nearest 29; runs 29; forests 29; large 28; spot 28; extent 28; thirty 28; village 28; lies 28; border 28; westward 28; present 27; district 27; head 27 0.95 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. 0.90 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 444 But now consider this wall of the Cumberland Mountain from another point of view. If you should stand on the crest at any point where it forms the boundary of Kentucky; or south of it, where it extends into Tennessee; or north of it, where it extends into Virginia -- if you should stand thus and look northward, you would look out upon a vast area of coal. For many years now it has been known that the coal-measure rocks of eastern Kentucky comprise about a fourth of the area of the State, and are not exceeded in value by those of any other State. It has been known that this buried solar force exceeds that of Great Britain. Later it has become known that the Kentucky portion of the great Appalachian coal-field contains the largest area of rich cannel-coals yet discovered, these having been traced in sixteen counties, and some of them excelling by test the famous cannel-coal of Great Britain; later it has become known that here is to be found the largest area of coking-coal yet discovered, the main coal -- discovered a few years ago, and named the "Elkhorn" -- having been traced over sixteen hundred square miles, and equalling American standard coke in excellence. 0.90 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 494 It is necessary once more to define topographical bearings. Running north-east and south-west is this Cumberland Mountain, having an elevation of from twenty- five hundred to three thousand feet. Almost parallel with it, from ten to twenty miles away, and having an elevation of about two thousand feet, lies Pine Mountain, in Kentucky. In the outer or Cumberland Mountain it has now been seen that there are three remarkable gaps: Big Stone Gap on the east, where Powell's River cuts through Stone Mountain; Cumberland Gap intermediate, which is not a water-gap, but a depression in the mountain; and Big Creek Gap in the west, where Big Creek cuts through Walden's Mountain -- the last being about forty miles distant from the second, about ninety from the first. Now observe that in Pine Mountain there are three water-gaps having a striking relation to the gaps in the Cumberland -- that is, behind Cumberland Gap is the pass at Pineville; behind Big Stone Gap and beyond it at the end of the mountain are the Breaks of Sandy; and behind Big Creek Gap are the Narrows, a natural water-gap connecting Tennessee with Kentucky. 0.88 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. 0.85 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. 0.84 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 493 Suppose once more that you stand outside the Cumberland or Stone Mountain at the gap. Now turn and follow down the beautiful Powell's Valley, retracing your course to Cumberland Gap. Pass this, continuing down the same valley, and keeping on your right the same parallel mountain wall. Mark once more how inaccessible it is at every point. Mark once more the rich land and prosperous tillage. Having gone about thirty miles beyond Cumberland Gap, pause again. You have come to another pass -- another remarkable gateway. You have travelled out of Kentucky into Tennessee, and the Cumberland Mountain has changed its name and become Walden's Mountain, distant some fifteen miles from the Kentucky State line. 0.83 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. 0.79 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2274 "I ascended a small hill near the village, and sighted the waters of the Albert N'yanza, due west, about twenty miles distant. 0.78 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 487 From every imaginable point of view a place like this is subject to unsparing test before it is finally fixed upon as a town site and enters upon a process of development. Nothing would better illustrate the tremendous power with which the new South, hand in hand with a new North, works with brains and capital and science. A few years ago this place was seventy miles from the nearest railroad. That road has since been built to it from the south; a second is approaching it from a distance of a hundred and twenty miles on the west; a third from the east; and when the last two come together this point will be on a great east and west trunk line, connecting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys with the Atlantic seaboard. Moreover, the Legislature of Kentucky has just passed an act incorporating the Inter-State Tunnel Railroad Company, and empowering it to build an inter-State double-track highway from the head-waters of the Cumberland and Kentucky rivers to Big Stone Gap, tunnelling both the Black and Cumberland Mountains, and affording a passway north and south for the several railways of eastern Kentucky already heading towards this point. The plan embraces two double-track toll tunnels, with double-track approaches between and on each side of the tunnel, to be owned and controlled by a stock company which shall allow all railroads to pass on the payment of toll. If this enterprise, involving the cost of over two million dollars, is carried out, the railroad problem at Big Stone Gap, and with it the problem of developing the mineral wealth of southwest Virginia and south-east Kentucky, would seem to be practically solved. 0.76 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). ============================================================================= TOPIC 91 -- 2068 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= back 1181; time 1143; give 964; find 759; good 748; night 718; till 672; leave 666; make 655; ca 613; day 546; stay 521; ready 516; wait 505; home 499; wo 476; long 458; morrow 441; bring 393; work 340; thing 337; run 335; send 331; replied 329; place 311; put 306; call 291; mind 275; afraid 274; men 270; house 270; hope 265; rest 255; thought 252; answered 248; added 241; stand 241; chance 240; things 240; start 239; morning 235; meet 226; sir 218; ride 218; hear 214; show 212; trouble 210; suppose 210; coming 207; follow 205; care 199; stop 199; lose 198; expect 193; hard 193; remember 192; longer 188; turn 185; friend 184; hurry 176; told 175; carry 169; business 168; fight 165; walk 165; week 152; begin 148; safe 147; matter 144; watch 141; hold 141; end 139; eat 139; reckon 138; answer 135; continued 134; talk 134; feel 130; trust 127; fast 126; boys 126; lie 125; ah 123; left 121; fear 119; yonder 114; minute 112; pretty 109; fall 107; intend 107; tired 105; lead 103; money 103; hand 102; case 102; die 102; country 100; reach 100; life 94; spare 94 0.74 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1039 "It's no matter now. Perhaps it will be a good lesson for him and me to learn at the start. Now we will push off and try again. It is lucky I thought of the money when I did, for we could do nothing without that. Come, Sim, bear a hand!" 0.74 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1121 "Ah, my good friend, they who have little to lose, need not have much to do with fear," she answered. "That was what I told Sophie who would have had me defer my call till to-morrow." 0.70 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 4023 "Only the hunt coming back," said Cassy, coolly; "never fear. Look out of this knot-hole. Don't you see 'em all down there? Simon has to give up, for this night. Look, how muddy his horse is, flouncing about in the swamp; the dogs, too, look rather crestfallen. Ah, my good sir, you'll have to try the race again and again, -- the game isn't there." 0.69 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2198 “Me?—No’m; don’t never give me trouble,” he answered, negligently. “Don’ give nobody as much trouble as they did.” 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2345 "Corporal," said he, "hurry back and tell Ropes to bring up his men. I'll wait here." 0.69 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2776 "No," said John, "you go and eat; I shan't leave her till she's well. She mustn't lie down, and I can't trust anyone to keep her from doing it." 0.68 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1722 "Ah! Jack! Jack! To start so well and end so miserably, I can't bear it -- I can't stay here. You stay and let me go." 0.68 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 940 "We may meet again, and sooner than you suppose," said Pomp. "If you find escape too difficult, be sure and come back to us. Ah, I seem to foresee that you will come back!" 0.67 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 149 "Don't you think you will get dreadfully homesick in about a month, and write to me to come and fetch you back?" 0.67 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3599 "You'll see," said Cassy; "what'll you do? Tomorrow they'll be at you again. I know 'em; I've seen all their doings; I can't bear to think of all they'll bring you to; -- and they'll make you give out, at last!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 92 -- 561 chunks >= 0.25 from 58 texts ============================================================================= beautiful 376; beauty 361; picture 276; eyes 201; young 148; woman 138; lovely 138; life 127; grace 126; full 120; perfect 119; fair 115; women 109; nature 106; sweet 104; love 97; fine 95; taste 82; fancy 81; handsome 80; golden 78; world 74; delicate 74; figure 73; splendid 73; form 71; soft 71; brilliant 70; pretty 70; light 67; scene 66; exquisite 65; child 64; graceful 63; heart 62; eye 60; girl 60; admiration 60; memory 59; delight 58; artist 58; rich 57; pure 57; sense 56; real 55; found 54; youth 54; pictures 54; gentle 54; charm 54; rare 53; magnificent 53; color 53; perfection 52; innocent 51; things 50; simplicity 50; likeness 50; turn 48; charming 47; loveliness 47; peculiar 46; feminine 46; face 45; strange 45; show 45; imagination 45; clear 44; gave 44; dark 44; art 44; contrast 44; portrait 44; natural 43; times 43; grand 43; touch 43; hair 43; easy 43; gay 43; hand 42; delightful 42; presented 42; flowers 42; sight 41; painted 41; figures 41; scenery 41; passing 40; effect 39; creature 39; human 38; wonderful 38; ease 38; year 37; age 37; features 37; ideal 37; days 36; looked 36 0.66 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 379 "Very pretty," she decided, "an English type. If she were a Parisian, a modiste and hairdresser would do wonders towards developing her into a beauty of the very rare, very fair order. She suggests a slender white lily." 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3952 "I expect within a few days to present to you as my wife the loveliest woman in all Europe, one as noble, refined, modest, and delicate as she is everywhere conceded to be beautiful, -- the celebrated Madame Odille Orme." 0.63 Allen_James_Lane_Aftermath_Part_second_of_A_Kentucky_Cardinal_PG_13554.txt 44 "On the whole it is a very plain plant, Makes no conspicuous show, But the internal appearance is lovely Of the unostentatious Potato. 0.63 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. 0.63 Stuart_Ruth_McEnery_Moriah_s_Mourning_and_Other_Half_Hour_Sketches_PG_20438_8.txt 196 Two other delightful young women were presented at intervals during the afternoon in about the same fashion, and but for a certain pink Juno who flitted about ever in sight, Ezra would have confessed only an embarrassment of riches. 0.61 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 1255 A story of love and mystery, full of color, charm, and vivacity, dealing with a South American mine, rich beyond dreams, and of a New York maiden, beyond dreams beautiful -- both known as the Silver Butterfly. Well named is The Silver Butterfly ! There could not be a better symbol of the darting swiftness, the eager love plot, the elusive mystery and the flashing wit. 0.60 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 3042 "Between the eyes and mouth," said Thorold, "there is sense, and dignity, and delicacy, and refinement to a fastidious point; and a world of strength of character in the little delicate chin." 0.60 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2627 "The stalagmites are very beautiful," said Virginia; "but the stalactites are still more beautiful." 0.59 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 536 Catherine Cavendish was dancing as the others, but seemingly with no heart in it, whereas her sister was all glowing with delight in the merriment of it, and her sense of her own beauty, and the admiration of all about her, and smiling as if the whole world, and at life itself, with the innocent radiance of a child. 0.59 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 41 "And then you will have your treasures. But, madam, when you have assumed all the panoply your sex relies on to increase its charms 'twill be but to 'gild refined gold or paint the lily.' The Aphrodite of this western ocean needs no adornment." ============================================================================= TOPIC 93 -- 1366 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= letter 1354; read 1073; paper 798; letters 619; papers 406; written 382; write 371; wrote 360; book 358; pocket 357; hand 320; writing 265; found 259; reading 240; note 224; put 201; handed 196; envelope 192; desk 183; contents 181; time 173; opened 166; brought 155; office 155; table 146; open 145; mail 141; copy 139; addressed 126; pen 126; lines 120; taking 106; carefully 105; post 104; gave 103; send 102; word 101; received 100; lay 99; held 97; looked 94; glanced 93; drew 91; sheet 91; eye 90; news 90; words 90; page 86; contained 85; turned 82; finished 80; signed 78; address 77; line 76; laid 74; piece 74; pencil 74; small 73; document 73; morning 71; account 69; handwriting 69; aloud 69; ran 67; give 66; photograph 66; returned 65; picked 64; hands 62; sat 61; package 61; private 60; newspaper 60; thought 59; date 58; sealed 57; notes 57; drawer 56; carried 55; box 55; ink 55; seal 55; reply 54; official 53; boy 51; message 51; left 50; reached 50; list 49; marked 48; books 48; bag 47; week 46; delivered 46; opening 45; began 45; picture 45; called 44; lost 44; signature 44 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2352 "Humph," said the Judge. Then he began what seemed a never-ending search among the papers on his desk. At length he drew out a letter, put on his spectacles and read it, and finally put it down again. 0.78 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. 0.77 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1275 He drew a note-book from his breast-pocket and, having written a few words on a leaf of it, tore it out and handed it to her. 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2497 As she refolded it she saw a slip of paper which had fallen unnoticed on the carpet, and picking it up she read these words: 0.70 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. 0.69 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 386 Tryon went on opening his letters. There were several bills and circulars, and then a letter from his mother, of which he broke the seal: -- 0.69 King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooing_A_Story_PG_22906.txt 414 "Major Abbot, here is a packet of letters in a lady's hand, addressed to you. They were found on Doctor Warren, in the very pocket where he placed the package that was given him at Frederick. Have you lost such, or can you account for them?" 0.69 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2250 She hurried in, sat down before the desk where a number of papers were loosely scattered, and took up a pen lying near a handsome bronze inkstand. 0.68 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 494 "There is an error in the copy of the letter you gave me -- in the extract. If you will give me the original letter from Mr. Warnock, I will correct the mistake," Christy read on the tablet. It was not impossible that he had made a mistake in copying his letter; but the object of Mulgrum in desiring to see the original of the letter from England was sufficiently apparent. "Bring me my copy of the letter," he wrote on the tablet, and handed it back to the owner. 0.67 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2118 "Correct," and McVeigh glanced at the paper on which the name was written. "Will you also write the name of Madame Caron's yacht, Mr. Pierson?" and he handed him a book and pencil. "Pardon me," and he smiled reassuringly at Judithe, "this is not the request of suspicion, but faith." He took the book from Pierson and glanced at the open page and then at her -- "the name of your yacht is? -- " ============================================================================= TOPIC 94 -- 294 chunks >= 0.25 from 39 texts ============================================================================= men 282; church 251; great 200; women 133; white 124; tobacco 108; village 95; young 92; king 92; sat 87; congregation 87; man 82; sermon 80; pulpit 77; minister 75; black 71; pastor 69; preached 65; indian 58; brother 57; chief 56; parson 54; people 53; red 53; children 52; lad 51; verily 51; high 50; made 49; pew 48; peace 46; dead 46; stood 46; prayer 46; day 45; dance 45; hath 45; held 44; brought 43; preacher 43; gentlemen 41; year 40; forest 40; land 38; governor 38; preach 38; lodge 36; fields 35; faces 35; maid 35; war 34; head 34; gold 34; painted 33; heard 33; colony 33; tongue 33; back 32; midst 32; service 31; singing 31; good 30; presently 30; warriors 30; years 29; soul 29; devil 29; power 28; speech 28; savages 28; aisle 28; ministers 27; heads 27; green 27; spoke 27; maids 27; slaves 25; hand 25; goods 25; things 25; pipe 25; altar 25; palefaces 25; fashion 24; beneath 24; strange 24; call 24; court 24; tales 24; text 24; flock 23; warrior 23; naught 23; hundred 22; arose 22; preaching 22; folk 22; hunting 21; tribe 21; fair 21 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 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3296 "O, where are Paul and Silas? O, where are Paul and Silas? Gone to the goodly land. They are dead and gone to Heaven; They are dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land." 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 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1513 1. +American Boys Afloat+; or, Cruising in the Orient. 2. +The Young Navigators+; or, The Foreign Cruise of the "Maud." 3. +Up and Down the Nile+; or, Young Adventurers in Africa. 4. +Asiatic Breezes+; or, Students on the Wing. 0.62 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1617 "Singing birds have lied to Captain Percy," he said, and his voice was like his eyes. "Opechancanough thinks that Captain Percy will never listen to them again. The chief of the Powhatans is a lover of the white men, of the English, and of other white men, -- if there are others. He would call the Englishmen his brothers, and be taught of them how to rule, and who to pray to" -- 0.61 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." 0.61 Freeman_Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_The_Heart_s_Highway_A_Romance_of_Virginia_PG_4528.txt 237 I question if a dozen there grasped her meaning, but, after a second's gaping stare, such a shout went up that it seemed to make the marshes quiver. I know not what mad scheme was in the maid's head, but I verily believe that throng would have followed her wherever she led, and the tobacco plants might have been that morning cut had she so willed. 0.60 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 -- " 0.59 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." 0.58 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3294 "O, where is weeping Mary? O, where is weeping Mary? 'Rived in the goodly land. She is dead and gone to Heaven; She is dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land." ============================================================================= TOPIC 95 -- 572 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= dog 372; dogs 298; wild 212; hunting 155; game 153; tree 138; fish 130; deer 129; tail 118; boys 116; cat 107; caught 106; animal 100; shot 100; ran 99; birds 97; young 95; bird 94; gun 91; bear 89; hunt 82; panther 73; large 72; water 71; hounds 71; trail 71; woods 69; made 68; hunter 61; heard 61; called 60; track 60; fire 59; squirrel 57; hen 57; legs 56; turkeys 56; sheep 55; animals 55; sight 54; chickens 54; brought 53; big 52; killed 51; kill 51; fox 50; hound 50; hunters 49; rifle 49; coon 48; wolf 47; barking 47; scent 46; squirrels 46; hogs 45; skin 44; ground 44; catch 44; buck 42; creature 42; red 41; shoot 41; fishing 41; brute 41; forest 40; running 40; tent 40; bite 40; human 39; nose 39; pigs 39; shooting 38; wings 38; wolves 38; hunted 38; bark 38; great 37; flock 37; chase 37; follow 36; neck 36; sport 36; beast 36; rabbit 36; swamp 35; net 34; barked 34; small 33; ducks 33; beasts 33; yard 33; cats 33; bait 33; eye 32; fowl 32; trap 32; meat 32; keeping 32; pole 32; hungry 32 0.74 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 572 "I shot two small antelopes, also some guinea-fowl, francolin partridge, and five pelicans. 0.67 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 520 "But I doubt," said Harold, "whether dogs ever eat raccoons. They will hunt and worry them as they do cats and other animals, which they never eat, at least never except in extremity." 0.67 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 625 He loosed the hooks from the floundering fishes, and tried for more. But they now seemed slow to bite. He took only two others, and they were small. Mary, however, caught nine crabs, and Frank two. Becoming weary of the sport, they heard afar off the sharp crack of a rifle. 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. 0.66 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 382 When the hunters arrived the hounds were alternately baying and gnawing at the foot of the tree. 0.64 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 261 As Darke's gun is empty, he endeavours to entice the dog within reach of his knife. Despite his coaxing, it will not come! 0.63 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?" 0.63 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 1165 "An antelope knows a snake is his enemy," said another to me. "Ever seen a buck circling round and round a rattler?" 0.62 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3693 "I'd be willing to live in the swamps, and gnaw the bark from trees. I an't afraid of snakes! I'd rather have one near me than him," said Emmeline, eagerly. 0.62 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 346 "Oh, I learnt it from cousin Harold," said he. "We got a rabbit into a hollow tree, and caught him there. I caught him, father, with my own hand; I know exactly how to catch a rabbit." ============================================================================= TOPIC 96 -- 748 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= heard 706; sound 486; hear 255; voice 235; voices 222; ears 220; loud 199; sounds 194; noise 167; long 160; men 157; time 155; cry 154; sounded 150; air 144; silence 144; ear 140; laughter 127; roar 121; feet 120; suddenly 110; shouts 103; cries 103; thunder 98; coming 98; listened 98; call 97; broke 92; wild 88; began 87; whistle 87; great 85; short 85; louder 83; shouted 81; stillness 81; words 79; shout 79; horses 78; ceased 76; night 75; presently 73; fell 72; drums 71; burst 70; notes 69; quick 67; deep 67; ringing 65; startled 64; heavy 63; moment 63; listening 63; made 62; faint 62; distance 61; direction 61; shouting 61; tramp 60; distant 59; sharp 59; nearer 59; sudden 57; signal 56; din 56; close 55; died 55; bugle 55; shrill 54; attention 53; half 53; rang 53; amid 52; rush 51; beat 51; drum 51; woods 51; arose 51; minutes 49; broken 49; crash 49; rattling 49; clear 48; grew 48; peal 48; guns 47; crowd 47; roll 47; alarm 46; hour 46; blew 45; wind 45; hearing 45; confused 45; reached 44; quiet 43; making 43; rose 42; waited 42; horns 42 0.71 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 249 Suddenly a horn began to blow, "toot -- toot -- toot," as if all the "Millindys" in the world were being summoned. It was so near the boys that it quite startled them. 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. 0.70 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 983 A deep silence, which lasted for several seconds, followed his words. Then came the ominous click of half a dozen gun-locks, which, in the stillness of the night, could be heard a long distance. 0.70 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1198 In place of the profound stillness of a moment before, there were a thousand discordant sounds -- the trampling of feet, the jingling of sabres, the champing of bits by aroused, restless horses that understood the bugle call as well as the men, hoarse, rapid orders of officers, above all which in the distance could be heard Hilland's clarion voice. 0.68 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1021 We listened with straining ears. He was right. The low, ominous murmur changed to a distant roar, grew louder yet, and yet louder, and was no longer distant. 0.68 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 368 No footstep -- no sound to break the solemn stillness -- only the chirrup of tree-crickets, and the shrieking of owls. 0.67 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 984 "Now, cousin," said Harold, when Mary had succeeded in bringing out the notes with sufficient clearness, "if ever you wish to call us home when we are within a mile of you at night, or half a mile during the day, you have only to use this trumpet. For an ordinary call, sound a long loud blast, but for an alarm , if there should be such a thing, sound two long blasts, with the interval of a second. When you wish to call for Frank, sound a short blast, for Robert two, and for me three. 0.67 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3490 A shrill whistle disturbed the silence. This signal was repeated at intervals to windward. 0.66 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1241 My little company marched forward in quick time. This was a signal for a chorus of yells upon all sides; the big drums sounded louder than before, and the horns of the Baris bellowed in every direction. 0.66 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 97 -- 1028 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= trees 526; forest 381; woods 336; road 331; side 318; stream 300; ground 271; tree 239; river 224; water 223; hill 223; path 194; edge 189; green 186; long 168; place 167; stood 167; beneath 164; grass 164; high 161; field 161; thick 161; mountain 154; bank 153; narrow 151; lay 150; open 148; spot 148; deep 147; rock 145; low 144; wood 144; bushes 143; left 142; pine 141; rocks 138; hills 136; view 133; distance 130; branches 123; wild 121; foot 116; dark 116; pines 116; plain 114; crossed 111; sun 110; farther 109; reached 108; shade 108; great 107; wide 107; mile 106; led 105; feet 104; half 101; found 100; line 99; grove 96; earth 94; valley 94; ravine 93; brook 88; steep 88; tall 87; distant 85; summit 85; oak 85; fields 84; broad 84; looked 84; land 83; leaves 82; sides 81; turned 80; thicket 79; scattered 77; ran 76; standing 76; passed 75; banks 74; slope 74; level 73; covered 72; timber 72; hidden 72; trail 72; clear 71; rocky 71; sight 70; top 70; country 69; bottom 69; coming 69; growth 68; spread 68; mountains 68; spring 67; wall 67; black 66 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. 0.83 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. 0.83 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1397 A furlong or two farther on the well-known ravine opened, -- dark, silent, profound, with its shaggy sides, one in shadow and the other in the sun, and its little embowered brook trickling far down there amid mossy stones; -- as lonesome, wild, and solitary as if no human eye had ever beheld it before. 0.80 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. 0.79 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. 0.79 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. 0.78 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 2030 The sun was gone from the peaks when at length the other side of the stream opened into a long wide meadow. The trail they followed, after crossing a flat willow thicket by the water, ran into dense pines, that here for the first time reached all the way down to the water's edge. The two men came out of the willows, and saw ahead the capricious runaways leave the bottom and go up the hill and enter the wood. 0.78 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2649 The tree stands solitary, beside a tiny spring, which bubbles out between its roots. This, trickling off, soon sinks into the desert sand, disappearing within a few yards of the spot where it has burst forth. 0.76 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2635 He took the torch from Carl, and advancing towards the right wall of the cavern, showed, flowing out of it, through a black, arched opening, a river of inky blackness. It rolled, with scarce a ripple, slow, and solemn, and still, out of that impenetrable mystery, and swept along between the wall on one side and a rocky bank on the other. By this bank they followed it, until they came to a natural bridge, formed by a limestone cliff, through which it had worn its channel, and under which it disappeared. On this bridge they found Cudjo perched above the water with his torch. 0.76 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2186 Though several hundred yards from the ford, the bank is close by; for the path by which they approached the glade has been parallel to the trend of the stream. The live-oak overlooks it, with only a bordering of bushes between. ============================================================================= TOPIC 98 -- 370 chunks >= 0.25 from 64 texts ============================================================================= fire 839; light 344; wood 217; smoke 202; burning 171; pipe 134; flames 132; lighted 130; night 127; flame 124; hearth 113; ashes 105; sat 102; burned 99; chimney 91; red 89; burn 84; blaze 83; pine 76; torch 73; fires 72; candle 69; kindled 69; blazing 68; cigar 61; match 60; dark 59; smoking 59; stove 59; feet 56; room 55; air 54; set 53; candles 53; great 52; glare 52; lit 51; extinguished 47; dry 47; filled 46; hot 45; houses 45; coals 45; darkness 43; sitting 43; sticks 43; cabin 41; embers 41; heat 41; pile 40; logs 39; side 38; lay 37; eyes 37; bright 37; small 36; fireplace 36; end 35; coal 35; corner 34; tobacco 34; lighting 34; lamp 33; torches 33; place 31; began 31; threw 31; smoked 31; log 31; glow 31; kindle 31; made 30; half 30; fresh 30; rising 30; crackling 30; furnace 30; picked 29; flickering 29; floor 28; grate 28; built 27; wind 26; heap 26; store 25; warmth 25; burnt 24; pitch 24; lights 24; close 23; ready 23; pieces 23; camp 23; white 22; knots 22; smouldering 22; black 21; struck 21; drew 21; sprang 21 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. 0.67 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1087 "'The rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air -- '" 0.64 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 894 He drew a chair close to the hearth and lighted his cigar. 0.63 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: 0.63 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 2477 "The -- the old feeling -- went out -- right there -- like a candle in the wind. No, not that way, quite, but like a lamp drinking the last of its oil. Where he lodged that night -- -- " 0.61 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 460 David hurried to the woodpile and carried the sticks for his own grate upstairs, making two trips of it. The stairway was dark; his room dark and damp, and filled with the smell of farm boots and working clothes left wet in the closets. Groping his way to the mantelpiece, he struck a sulphur match, lighted a half- burned candle, and kneeling down, began to kindle his fire. 0.61 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1702 At first nothing was visible but a few smouldering embers, winking their sleepy eyes in the dark. Out of these Cudjo soon blew a little blaze, which he fed with sticks and bits of bark until it lighted up fitfully the dim interior and shadowy walls of his abode. 0.58 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 647 As these draw near to the porch, where a tallow dip dimly burns, its light is reflected from the features of Simeon Woodley and Edward Heywood. 0.58 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. 0.58 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 2250 The adjacent flames now lighted up the entire scene, throwing their baleful light on such an assemblage as had never before gathered in this New World. ============================================================================= TOPIC 99 -- 1683 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= replied 1750; sir 1499; added 841; answered 732; asked 728; captain 587; suppose 397; exclaimed 347; smile 235; demanded 232; major 229; glad 219; call 199; laughing 197; find 194; ca 166; good 162; friend 147; turning 143; brother 134; excuse 134; responded 133; understand 132; ah 128; uncle 127; remarked 122; house 119; inquired 119; reckon 118; son 117; soldier 116; business 115; continued 111; cousin 110; officer 106; doctor 105; somers 102; dear 101; reply 99; thought 99; hear 95; gentleman 94; doubt 92; repeated 92; rebel 92; smiling 91; matter 90; boy 89; protested 89; sergeant 86; thing 86; prisoner 85; lady 84; lieutenant 83; returned 81; guess 81; remember 81; bring 77; ay 77; tone 76; army 75; interposed 75; gravely 74; expect 73; commander 73; belong 72; presume 70; wo 69; idea 68; pointing 68; quietly 66; eh 62; present 61; satisfied 59; promptly 59; heartily 59; judge 58; give 57; general 56; intend 55; indignantly 54; companion 53; dignity 53; agree 51; afraid 51; calls 51; addressing 51; dryly 51; reason 50; fault 49; colonel 48; steward 48; squire 48; means 47; mistake 47; persisted 47; command 46; opinion 46; pass 46; account 46 0.73 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 902 "I shall cheerfully explain, Captain Carboneer," replied Christy, recognizing the captain, and bowing politely. 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. 0.66 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 298 "Who? Me, sir?" exclaimed Dick. "I don't fight, sir. I'm neutral, sir. You see Missouri -- " 0.66 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 864 "Yes, sir, I belong to the army," added the prisoner. 0.65 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1999 "Plums! plums!" says Colonel Wobinson, thoughtfully. "Ah! I see," says the colonel, pleasantly, "your sons are damsons." 0.64 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1052 "Ay, ay, sir," responded the lieutenant. 0.64 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 758 "No, sir; that was a mistake. Can you tell me where my Uncle James lives? I don't find his name in the directory." 0.64 Optic_Oliver_The_Soldier_Boy_or_Tom_Somers_in_the_Army_A_Story_of_the_Great_Rebellion_PG_14595_8.txt 1853 "Do you think I'm afraid, uncle?" demanded the sergeant with a grim smile. 0.63 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." 0.63 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1010 "Thank you; I shall be very glad to do so. I suppose you are a Yankee still, engaged in the business of subjugating the free South, as I am still a rebel to the backbone," replied Percy, laughing very pleasantly. len(cells_accounted_for) 85282
. . . so I can do more with them later.
import json
def serialize_object(obj, file_name):
f = open(file_name, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
f.write(json.dumps(obj))
f.close()
serialize_object(labels, 'PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.labels.json')
serialize_object(texts, 'PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.texts.json')
serialize_object(raw_texts, 'PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.raw_texts.json')
gensim_dictionary.save('PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.gensim_dictionary.dict')
corpora.MmCorpus.serialize('PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.gensim_corpus.mm', gensim_corpus)
corpora.MmCorpus.serialize('PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.gensim_lda_corpus.mm', gensim_lda_corpus)
lda_model.save('PG.' + str(N_TOPICS) + '.lda_model.model')