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 = 50
gensim_dictionary = corpora.Dictionary(texts)
gensim_corpus = [gensim_dictionary.doc2bow(text) for text in texts]
print('len(gensim_dictionary)', len(gensim_dictionary))
print('len(gensim_corpus)', len(gensim_corpus))
lda_model = LdaMallet('/home/spenteco/0/mallet-2.0.8/bin/mallet',
corpus=gensim_corpus,
id2word=gensim_dictionary,
optimize_interval=10,
num_topics=N_TOPICS)
gensim_lda_corpus = lda_model[gensim_corpus]
print()
print('len(gensim_lda_corpus)', len(gensim_lda_corpus))
len(gensim_dictionary) 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 -- 1378 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= young 697; eyes 482; beauty 379; beautiful 361; woman 289; handsome 271; pretty 258; girl 248; hair 239; women 219; fair 202; white 201; picture 196; lady 189; fine 184; looked 171; made 163; ladies 162; face 157; lovely 153; girls 152; great 143; admiration 141; dance 138; black 137; gave 136; grace 128; dress 119; high 116; rich 113; world 110; graceful 110; proud 107; sweet 106; figure 102; gay 100; manner 97; dark 97; charming 97; hand 96; man 94; full 94; soft 94; brilliant 92; bright 92; perfect 91; large 90; delight 90; dancing 90; eyed 87; air 86; features 86; blue 84; light 79; fancy 76; complexion 75; fashion 72; side 72; elegant 72; show 71; youth 71; delicate 71; appearance 70; stood 70; gentleman 70; eye 69; age 67; dressed 67; sister 67; feminine 66; pride 65; flowers 65; gentle 65; years 63; held 63; form 63; glass 63; fond 63; love 63; appeared 62; danced 62; splendid 62; color 62; grand 61; head 61; met 61; making 61; charm 61; child 60; smile 60; ease 59; creature 59; things 58; room 58; tall 55; ah 55; bow 54; standing 54; golden 54; heart 53 0.89 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 100 It was the likeness of a young and blooming girl, not more than fifteen or sixteen years of age. She was very beautiful, with a sweet, gentle, winning countenance, the same soft hazel eyes and golden brown curls that the little Elsie possessed; the same regular features, pure complexion, and sweet smile. 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 2079 "My dear child," she said, "what lovely hair you have! so fine, and soft, and glossy; such a beautiful color, too, and curls so splendidly! Natural ringlets, I'm sure, are they not?" 0.83 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 505 While enjoying the fire in the reception-room two ladies entered, -- one middle- aged, medium stature, having an oval face, dark hair, dark hazel eyes; the other a young lady of nineteen or twenty years, sharp features, black hair, and flashing black eyes. They were boarders at the hotel, were well dressed, though not with remarkable taste, but evidently were accustomed to move in the best circle of Lexington society. A regiment was passing the hotel. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 306 "You have improved wonderfully since I saw you last: you were a pretty girl then, but now you are without exception the most superbly beautiful, graceful, accomplished, and intelligent woman I ever saw." 0.81 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1030 She was what the Countess Biron had likened her to when the photograph was shown -- a white lily, slender, blonde, with the peculiar and attractive combination of hazel eyes and hair of childish flaxen color. Her features were well formed and a trifle small for her height. She had the manner of a woman perfectly sure of herself, her position and her own importance. 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1365 "You are indeed," said Aunt Wealthy, "a lily or a rose couldn't look lovelier than Elsie does in that pure white, and with the beautiful flowers in her hair. I like her habit of wearing natural flowers in her hair." 0.79 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." 0.79 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1791 "It's very pretty!" she said; with, I saw, an increase of admiration; but St. Clair gave me another strange look. "How much prettier Paris things are than American!" Lansing went on. "I wish I could have all my dresses from Paris. Why, Daisy, you've grown handsome." 0.79 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." 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2718 Unusually tall, and proportionately developed, her size might safely have been pronounced heroic, and would by comparison have dwarfed a man of less commanding stature than Mr. Palma; yet so symmetrical was the outline of face and figure that the type seemed wellnigh faultless, and she might have served as a large- limbed rounded model for those majestic women whom Buonaroti painted for the admiration of all humanity, upon the walls of the Sistine. ============================================================================= TOPIC 1 -- 3608 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= officer 1197; captain 1015; board 845; commander 725; lieutenant 679; replied 623; man 519; men 470; orders 467; added 457; officers 448; cabin 437; duty 435; deck 424; ship 414; steamer 403; time 360; order 342; regard 307; service 303; command 286; make 265; vessel 261; information 253; young 252; prisoner 252; report 243; present 235; made 232; position 224; asked 224; continued 215; place 201; steward 200; part 192; called 189; room 181; capture 175; appeared 173; company 169; ordered 168; engineer 167; satisfied 163; owner 163; mate 160; matter 157; give 157; situation 155; returned 155; chief 150; major 149; put 146; executive 145; person 144; manner 140; suggested 139; wounded 139; found 138; surgeon 137; obey 136; prize 135; charge 133; prisoners 133; flag 131; doubt 130; companion 129; good 128; master 128; crew 128; gave 124; obtain 123; plan 121; fully 119; action 119; expedition 117; berth 115; obtained 113; naval 112; intended 109; idea 108; important 107; rebel 107; reported 105; case 104; purpose 104; proceeded 103; ward 103; seamen 103; war 102; condition 101; instructions 101; understand 101; brought 100; boat 100; desire 98; mission 97; demanded 97; decided 96; commission 96; stateroom 96 0.92 Optic_Oliver_Within_The_Enemy_s_Lines_PG_18264.txt 1161 Beeks was directed to arrest the men on duty, and the engine was handed over to Sampson, who had been brought for such a position if the expedition needed him in that capacity. But there was only an assistant engineer and several firemen on duty, and these were disposed of without any delay. They were all conducted to the wardroom, where they were disarmed and a guard placed over them. A couple of sailors were detailed to serve as firemen, and the work of taking possession was completed. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 126 Christy invited Graines to the ward room for a conference. There were several officers there, and they retired to the stateroom of the first lieutenant, which is the forward one on the starboard side. The plan, as it had been matured in the mind of the one appointed to carry it out, was fully explained, and the engineer was delighted to be chosen to take part in its execution. The selection of the seamen to compose the expedition was not an easy matter, though every sailor on board would have volunteered for such duty if the opportunity had been presented to him. 0.90 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. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 680 This passage between the authority of the steamer and his brother absolutely confounded the major, and for a couple of minutes he was unable to say any thing at all. But Captain Breaker, who was the only pilot on board, was obliged to leave the ship's guest in order to look out for the course of the steamer. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 991 "In regard to the present officers, Mr. Passford, excepting present company, of course, they are excellent," said Captain McKeon, the flag officer. "For the service in which the Bronx is to be engaged, its success will depend upon the officers, though it is hardly exceptional in this respect. I understand that you sailed from New York rather short-handed abaft the mainmast." 0.89 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 814 The messenger returned with the reply that the chief engineer would be happy to detail Mr. Graines for special duty at once. In five minutes more the assistant engineer appeared upon the quarter-deck in uniform, and touched his cap to the executive officer. 0.88 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." 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 522 The Bronx had but one officer on board who had been permanently appointed to her, and at least two others must be selected to serve on board of her. It would be an easy matter for Corny to procure the appointment of Mr. Galvinne, who was doubtless competent to handle the vessel as the impostor certainly was not. 0.87 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 583 This man, who was the captain of the forecastle, one of the most important and best-paid of the petty officers, hastened aft to relieve the chief of the expedition, who went to work with his own hands when the exigency of the service required. 0.87 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 948 "Very well; then he shall retain his present position, and Bockburn shall be restored to the Ocklockonee. Of course the arrangements made after the capture of the first vessel were only temporary, and I propose to report to the flag officer with everything as nearly as possible in the condition in which we left New York," continued Christy. ============================================================================= TOPIC 2 -- 3653 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= thought 741; time 708; felt 708; made 613; mind 597; knew 568; man 567; manner 504; words 456; fact 418; girl 387; matter 384; father 363; feeling 321; began 316; reason 314; subject 311; young 300; truth 279; question 278; good 277; spoke 254; interest 253; make 252; part 241; conversation 223; speak 216; woman 212; gave 211; idea 201; presence 200; change 196; long 194; word 192; feelings 190; opinion 189; things 189; give 188; cousin 188; true 186; impression 186; regard 185; sense 185; thing 182; understand 180; feel 178; deeply 177; thoughts 177; nature 176; believed 173; aunt 173; appeared 168; doubt 166; people 164; looked 164; moment 160; tone 157; men 156; understood 155; case 155; affair 154; heart 153; told 153; great 151; present 151; led 151; evidently 149; questions 149; met 144; curiosity 142; thinking 142; trouble 140; greatly 140; wrong 139; point 136; friend 135; talk 135; attention 134; circumstances 134; interested 134; explained 133; general 132; effect 132; affairs 131; whately 130; conduct 129; remark 128; meant 128; knowledge 127; easily 125; making 125; natural 124; simple 124; day 123; chance 122; found 122; possessed 120; situation 119; mystery 119; view 119 0.88 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 103 'Lena, who was naturally quick-sighted, had partially divined the cause of her uncle's moodiness. The more she saw of him the better she liked him, and she began to think that she would willingly try to cure herself of the peculiarities which evidently annoyed him, if he would only notice her a little, which he was not likely to do. He seldom noticed any child, much less little 'Lena, who he fancied was ignorant as well as awkward; but he did not know her. 0.87 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 391 John Haynes perceived that he had failed in his benevolent purpose of disturbing Frank's tranquillity, and this, I am sorry to say, only increased the dislike he felt for him. Nothing is so unreasonable as anger, nothing so hard to appease. John even felt disposed to regard as an insult the disposition which Frank had made of his insulting query. 0.83 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 140 "I think," remarked her aunt, coldly, "that Louise should have recognized that she had given you just cause for displeasure by her tardiness, unless it were explained, and she should have explained at once. I have no patience with the spirit she is displaying." 0.83 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1512 "Undoubtedly, thank heaven! Whether she needed it or not she has evidently had the sense to take the wholesome medicine. The probabilities are, however, that she has laughed at the idea of receiving attentions so repugnant to her father and to me." 0.82 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 353 The day marked a change in Mara's policy and action, and these led to some very important experiences. A false pride had at first prompted, or at least induced her to acquiesce in secrecy; now an honest pride led her to openness in all her efforts to obtain a livelihood. She would volunteer no information, but would simply go on in an unhesitating manner, let the consequences be what they might. 0.81 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 164 As in the United States of America the opinion of the South upon the question of emancipation was opposed to that of the North, -- the opposition in Soudan was openly avowed to the reform believed to have been suggested to the Khedive by England. 0.81 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 772 But Mrs. Livingstone's insinuation that she was a heartless coquette, troubled him, and though he could not believe it without more proof than he had yet received, he determined to wait and watch, studying her character, the while, to see if there was in her aught of evil. In this state of affairs, it was hardly more than natural that his manner toward her should be rather more reserved than that which he assumed toward Carrie, for whom he cared nothing, and with whom he talked laughed, and rode, forgetting her the moment she was out of his sight, and never suspecting how much importance she attached to his every word and look, construing into tokens of admiration the most casual remark, such as he would utter to any one. This was of advantage to 'Lena, for, secure of their prize, both Mrs. Livingstone and Carrie, for a time, at least, ceased to persecute her, seldom speaking of her in Durward's presence, and, as a general thing, acting as though she were not in existence. 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 84 Mrs. Mayburn smiled complacently, for she had some natural desire that her nephew should make a favorable impression. In regard to Miss St. John she had long ceased to have any misgivings, and the approval that she saw in Graham's eyes was expected as a matter of course. This approval she soon developed into positive admiration by leading her favorite to speak of her own past. 0.81 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 342 "Why should I not take a philosophical view of the affair? In my policy, which I thought so safe and astute, I blundered. If from the first I had manifested the feeling" -- the young girl smiled slightly at the word -- "which you inspired, you would soon have taught me the wisdom of repressing its growth. Thus you see that you have not the slightest reason for self-censure; and I can go on my way, at least a wiser man." 0.79 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 724 Still’s attentions to Miss Delia Dove had not only quickened Andy’s jealousy, but had sharpened his suspicion generally, and he had followed his movements closely. ============================================================================= TOPIC 3 -- 817 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= master 484; slave 447; slaves 380; work 334; negroes 331; plantation 328; man 269; overseer 244; servants 232; white 231; free 222; hands 181; negro 178; place 175; freedom 169; children 156; black 154; people 146; mistress 143; sold 136; men 135; house 133; servant 133; masters 117; kind 115; family 114; wife 114; poor 105; fellow 97; set 94; brought 84; estate 84; plantations 83; make 81; field 80; made 78; good 77; quarters 77; great 75; slavery 74; case 74; bought 74; planter 71; treated 67; found 66; runaway 65; left 64; time 62; women 62; years 61; war 61; sell 59; human 58; faithful 57; colored 56; land 54; ill 54; buy 54; law 53; laws 52; hard 52; whites 52; business 51; woman 50; child 50; planters 50; knew 49; bad 49; owner 49; property 46; small 46; things 45; race 44; cabins 44; blacks 43; blood 42; lot 42; called 41; tobacco 40; nigger 40; worked 39; farm 39; labor 39; farmer 38; working 37; lived 37; money 37; niggers 37; whip 37; whipping 37; raised 36; put 36; named 36; cabin 36; dogs 36; home 35; general 34; class 34; large 34; carried 34 0.72 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 21 "The selling of slaves, that is to say, the breaking up of families and selling them separately, is horrible and abominable. If an estate were sold together with all the slaves upon it, there would be no more hardship in the matter than there is when an estate changes hands in England, and the laborers upon it work for the new master instead of the old. Were I to liberate all the slaves on this estate to-morrow and to send them North, I do not think that they would be in any way benefited by the change. They would still have to work for their living as they do now, and being naturally indolent and shiftless would probably fare much worse. But against the selling of families separately and the use of the lash I set my face strongly. 0.71 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 92 About a month after his rejection by Miss Armstrong, Richard Darke is out upon a chase; as usual along the edge of the cypress swamp, rather should it be called a search: since he has found no traces of the human game that has tempted him forth. This is a fugitive negro -- one of the best field-hands belonging to his father's plantation -- who has absented himself, and cannot be recalled. 0.71 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1959 Nor is there the body of any white man, or woman. The stricken victims are of every age, and both sexes. But all, male as female, are negroes or mulattoes -- the slaves of the establishment. Many of them he recognises; knows them to be the house-servants. 0.70 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1232 The master beckoned to the overseer. "Take him away," he said. "Take two or three men and carry him on to the gaol." 0.69 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 25 In Virginia the life of the large planters was almost a patriarchal one; the indoor slaves were treated with extreme indulgence, and were permitted a far higher degree of freedom of remark and familiarity than is the case with servants in an English household. They had been the nurses or companions of the owners when children, had grown up with them, and regarded themselves, and were regarded by them, as almost part of the family. There was, of course, less connection between the planters and their field hands; but these also had for the most part been born on the estate, had as children been taught to look up to their white masters and mistresses, and to receive many little kindnesses at their hands. 0.69 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 1424 "You buy and sell men, and women, and children of my race. If I am not like them, it is because circumstances have lifted me out of the wretched condition in which it is your constant policy and endeavor to keep us. By your laws -- the laws you make and uphold -- I am this day claimed as a slave; by your laws I am hunted as a slave; -- yes, some of you here have joined your neighbor in the hunt for me, as if I was no more than a wild beast to be hounded and shot down if I could not be caught. Now tell me what union or concord there can be between you and me!" 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2176 "Well, no matter for the name; will you help us? We're Federal soldiers just escaped from Andersonville, and they're after us with bloodhounds. Can you tell us of anything that will put the savage brutes off the scent?" 0.67 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 712 It had always been an unsavory spot in the county, and now, the negroes congregating there, it had come into greater ill repute than ever. It was dubbed with some derision, “Africa.” Here Jim Sherwood and Moses had built cabins, and shortly many others gathered about them. This, however, might not have amounted to much had not another matter come to light. 0.67 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 717 Contemporaneously with this, an unprecedented amount of lawlessness suddenly appeared: chicken-houses were robbed; sheep and pigs and even cattle were stolen, without there being any authority to take cognizance of the thefts or any power to punish. 0.67 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 907 "Allow me to say, Judge, that it does not become you to call us nigger-stealers. You talk about nigger-stealing, -- you who live on the sweat and blood of such creatures as Joe! Your dwellings, your churches, are built from the earnings of slaves, beaten out of them by brutal overseers. You hire little children out to brutes, -- you clothe them in rags, -- you hunt them with hounds, -- you chain them down to toil and suffering! You call us thieves because we have given your Joe food and protection! Sir, I would rather be in the place of Joe than in that of his oppressor!" was the indignant outburst of the Colonel. ============================================================================= TOPIC 4 -- 4505 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= ai 1522; reckon 702; good 672; time 654; wo 643; man 608; jest 493; make 470; ca 469; thing 448; back 439; give 437; things 399; thar 370; yer 342; pretty 341; nt 340; mighty 332; folks 325; till 318; kind 317; told 316; put 304; nigger 300; set 292; niggers 268; mind 265; wanted 253; big 249; ye 236; knowed 236; made 233; place 226; trouble 223; round 219; money 211; house 205; run 205; git 201; bad 199; thought 194; em 187; boys 185; talk 182; work 181; dead 180; home 175; night 173; head 172; find 172; king 171; minute 169; people 161; ef 160; show 159; sort 154; long 150; business 149; hev 147; heap 143; town 142; day 142; lot 141; sick 139; feller 138; duke 137; woman 133; stand 133; fur 133; hear 131; hold 131; fool 126; rest 124; glad 124; easy 122; exclaimed 121; smart 121; bet 119; bit 118; guess 118; fer 118; stay 115; sight 112; feel 112; poor 110; turn 108; reckoned 108; eat 106; awful 106; yore 106; fix 105; bed 103; hard 98; begun 97; kinder 97; clothes 95; agin 94; started 92; fetch 92; makes 92 0.94 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." 0.91 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." 0.90 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1558 "Don't you holler. Just set still and take it like a man. I got to tell the truth, and you want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it's a bad kind, and going to be hard to take, but there ain't no help for it. These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds -- regular dead-beats. There, now we're over the worst of it, you can stand the rest middling easy." 0.89 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 939 "Now, I tell ye what, Tom," said Haley, as he came up to the wagon, and threw in the handcuffs, "I mean to start fa'r with ye, as I gen'ally do with my niggers; and I'll tell ye now, to begin with, you treat me fa'r, and I'll treat you fa'r; I an't never hard on my niggers. Calculates to do the best for 'em I can. Now, ye see, you'd better jest settle down comfortable, and not be tryin' no tricks; because nigger's tricks of all sorts I'm up to, and it's no use. If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine." 0.89 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1206 Maybe Bill he gives him a chaw; maybe he lies and says he ain't got none. Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had" -- which is a lie pretty much everytime; it don't fool nobody but a stranger; but Jack ain't no stranger, so he says: 0.89 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 991 "Mighty inter-estin'," he said -- "mighty. He could just take little old o'rn'ry frawgs, and dandy 'em up to suit the bloods. Mighty inter-estin'. I expaict, though, his cookin' would give an outraiged stomach to a plain-raised man." 0.88 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 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." 0.87 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 162 "Heavings an' 'arth! Haven't I told it to ye already?" Kelsey almost shouted. "I think it is bad enough when you an' your maw are keepin', right here on the plantation, a man who is all the time waitin' an' watchin' fur a chance to do harm to both of ye. If you don't think so, all right. I was a fule fur comin' here, an' I reckon I'd best be lumberin'. If anything happens to ye, bear in mind that I give ye fair warnin'." 0.87 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 334 "Well, go git it. I 'll pack my satchel while yo' 're gone. I'm goin' to leave you fellers fer good, I reckon. I want to git back home. I wish you luck with the business, Webb. It's a good investment; we mought never have traded ef this hadn't 'a' come up." ============================================================================= TOPIC 5 -- 2555 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= house 1015; door 794; back 681; steps 591; walked 579; turned 535; stood 530; man 509; passed 472; window 468; gate 450; front 431; street 430; side 423; looked 378; reached 375; carriage 366; road 337; sight 320; stopped 303; slowly 301; moment 300; walk 297; standing 291; open 268; coming 264; left 249; ran 239; heard 227; time 225; forward 224; garden 216; hand 215; step 215; walking 211; half 201; cabin 198; place 197; dark 194; drew 186; stepped 183; entered 178; corner 178; direction 173; past 172; distance 170; figure 168; moved 164; fence 163; started 158; seat 156; yard 154; led 153; found 152; rear 152; approached 143; sat 143; light 142; close 140; suddenly 139; presently 138; porch 137; rapidly 135; long 135; turning 132; veranda 131; young 130; disappeared 129; waiting 129; round 129; room 125; called 124; short 124; driver 124; caught 122; hurried 120; night 118; woman 117; opposite 116; held 115; avenue 115; entrance 114; watching 114; hat 114; till 113; minutes 111; view 111; trees 111; hall 110; path 109; train 109; paused 109; drove 108; thought 106; group 106; horses 105; eyes 104; sitting 104; met 103; tree 102 0.86 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 579 As the hack drove down Front Street, Tryon noted idly the houses that lined the street. When he reached the sordid district in the lower part of the town, there was nothing to attract his attention until the carriage came abreast of a row of cedar-trees, beyond which could be seen the upper part of a large house with dormer windows. Before the gate stood a horse and buggy, which Tryon thought he recognized as Dr. Green's. He leaned forward and addressed the driver. 0.85 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 1115 The light, rapid step with which she had started soon brought her across the fields. As she drew near the house, Martha, who had caught sight of her figure through the window, made haste to the door and stood awaiting her. Sister Dolorosa merely approached and said: 0.84 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. 0.82 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1768 The sun was setting as they stepped out on the sidewalk. The mail hour had passed. The square and the streets around it were lonely. The saloons themselves were half deserted. In one near the Courier office there was some roystering, and before it three tipsy horsemen were just mounting and turning to leave town by the pike. They so nearly hid Major Garnet and Parson Tombs coming down the sidewalk on foot some distance beyond, that March did not recognize them. At Weed and Usher's Captain Champion joined the Major and the parson. But John's eye was on one lone man much nearer by, who came riding leisurely among the trees of the square, looking about as if in search of some one. He had a long, old-fashioned rifle. 0.81 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1938 He waited to see if the sentry would heed the call. He knew that the men inside could not betray him, for, if they were not asleep, they could not be sure that the voice was not from among themselves. Sure enough, the sentry's step ceased. Was he near the door? Jack crept to the corner. Yes, he had halted at the aperture. Would he enter? Jack stepped back to his post, as the guard called out: 0.81 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 465 We turned and descended to the green lane and the deserted houses. When we were quite hidden from those we had left on the bank below the fort, she dropped my hand and moved to the other side of the lane; and thus, with never a word to spare, we walked sedately on until we reached the minister's house. 0.80 Harris_Joel_Chandler_On_the_Plantation_A_Story_of_a_Georgia_Boy_s_Adve_PG_50701.txt 809 By the time the stars had come out, Joe could see the lights of Hillsborough twinkling in the distance, and in a short time he had turned into the back street that led by the jail and made way across the town until he reached the square below the tavern. Then he turned to the left, and was soon in front of Mr. Deometari's room. Boy-like, he was secretly sorry that some sentinel had not challenged him on the way, so that he could give the countersign. A muffled figure, sitting on the edge of the veranda, roused itself as Joe rode up. 0.80 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1969 Instead of turning homeward, she hastened in an opposite direction, toward a small brick church whose bell was ringing, and whose afternoon service she had several times attended with Mrs. Mason. Walking more slowly as she approached the building, she had not yet reached it, when steps which she had heard behind her for several minutes, paused at her side. 0.80 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1346 One morning Susan was in Willowfield and met her walking in a quiet street. She was walking slowly and looking down as she went, as if some thought was abstracting her. When Susan stopped before her, she looked up with a start. It was a start which revealed that she had been brought back suddenly from a distance, as it were a great distance. 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1260 Another moment and the two gentlemen were galloping rapidly down the avenue side by side. 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He was right. The low, ominous murmur changed to a distant roar, grew louder yet, and yet louder, and was no longer distant. 0.81 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: 0.79 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1838 Ella could not help hearing his loud, harsh words, and her long, wailing cry was their echo. 0.78 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!" 0.78 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3490 A shrill whistle disturbed the silence. This signal was repeated at intervals to windward. 0.78 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 3139 Scarce had he spoken, when out of the darkness behind him came a voice, saying with solemn sweetness, as if an angel responded from the invisible profound, -- 0.77 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. 0.77 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. 0.77 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: 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 281 And now, once more a man's voice, his master's. It too changed in tone. No longer in angry exclaim, or quiet conversation, but as if earnestly entreating; the speech evidently not addressed to Clancy, but the hound. ============================================================================= TOPIC 7 -- 329 chunks >= 0.25 from 60 texts ============================================================================= ten 210; half 185; minutes 155; twenty 151; hour 124; years 100; day 92; hours 86; miles 85; time 81; ago 68; days 64; night 60; forty 57; clock 55; dozen 46; times 45; fifteen 44; watch 42; twelve 38; thirty 38; till 38; count 38; hundred 36; eleven 32; number 32; odd 32; passes 31; year 29; struck 29; live 28; past 27; round 26; striking 26; late 24; train 24; guess 24; finds 24; fifty 23; counted 23; sees 23; stands 23; continues 22; air 21; remembers 21; bell 21; cruise 21; length 19; watches 18; town 18; turns 18; wait 18; hunter 17; sight 17; midnight 17; walk 17; maker 17; makes 17; fly 16; work 15; leaves 15; morning 15; sleepy 15; oldest 15; adventures 15; start 14; solid 14; noticed 14; questions 14; begins 14; hears 14; nigh 14; numbers 13; young 13; pass 13; sun 13; takes 13; fortunes 13; starts 13; sweeps 13; passed 12; march 12; quarters 12; contrary 12; missing 12; birthday 12; mutually 12; long 11; sixty 11; begin 11; boys 11; empty 11; inhabitant 11; rests 11; darke 11; mission 10; meet 10; numbered 10; sixteen 10; inch 10 0.80 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1549 1. +Going West;+ or, The Perils of a Poor Boy. 2. +Out West;+ or, Roughing It on the Great Lakes. 3. +Lake Breezes;+ or, The Cruise of the Sylvania. 4. +Going South;+ or, Yachting on the Atlantic Coast. 5. +Down South;+ or, Yacht Adventures in Florida. 6. +Up the River;+ or, Yachting on the Mississippi. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1695 =1. Outward Bound=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. =2. Shamrock and Thistle=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. =3. Red Cross=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. =4. Dikes and Ditches=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. =5. Palace and Cottage=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. =6. Down the Rhine=; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY. 0.79 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. 0.79 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1679 =1. Going West=; OR, THE PERILS OF A POOR BOY. =2. Out West=; OR, ROUGHING IT ON THE GREAT LAKES. =3. Lake Breezes=; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE SYLVANIA. =4. Going South=; OR, YACHTING ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. =5. Down South=; OR, YACHT ADVENTURES IN FLORIDA. =6. Up the River=; OR, YACHTING ON THE MISSISSIPPI. 0.74 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. 0.73 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. 0.73 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1742 1. +Little Bobtail+; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot. 2. +The Yacht Club+; or, The Young Boat Builders. 3. +Money-Maker+; or, The Victory of the Basilisk. 4. +The Coming Wave+; or, The Treasure of High Rock. 5. +The Dorcas Club+; or, Our Girls Afloat. 6. +Ocean Born+; or, The Cruise of the Clubs. 0.72 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1739 1. +Going West+; or, The Perils of a Poor Boy. 2. +Out West+; or, Roughing it on the Great Lakes. 3. +Lake Breezes+; or, The cruise of the Sylvania. 4. +Going South+; or, Yachting on the Atlantic Coast. 5. +Down South+; or, Yacht Adventures in Florida. 6. +Up the River+; or, Yachting on the Mississippi. 0.71 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1297 Day after day went by; and our course continued past Vicksburg, Natchez, Grand Gulf, Baton Rouge, till, on the thirteenth day from Cairo, and on the twenty- third from Torrentville, we came in sight of the spires of New Orleans. 0.70 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1646 =1. A Missing Million=; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS BELGRADE. =2. A Millionaire at Sixteen=; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE "GUARDIAN MOTHER." =3. A Young Knight Errant=; OR, CRUISING IN THE WEST INDIES. =4. Strange Sights Abroad=; OR, ADVENTURES IN EUROPEAN WATERS. ============================================================================= TOPIC 8 -- 1726 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= black 455; white 446; hair 414; blue 379; dress 377; cloth 355; 25 295; red 295; illustrated 287; wore 277; coat 261; 12mo 242; box 217; long 214; man 212; hat 203; gray 197; dressed 195; volume 190; clothes 185; wear 185; pair 185; colors 181; head 161; silk 161; extra 160; gold 154; shirt 141; large 140; face 140; shoes 140; boots 140; neck 130; printed 129; suit 128; tall 123; fully 119; price 116; broad 113; yellow 113; uniform 113; small 111; brown 108; 1.25 106; wearing 105; cap 103; worn 103; vols 103; 1.00 102; linen 97; lace 97; shoulders 96; round 95; set 91; eyes 90; cents 90; thin 89; buttons 89; short 88; collar 87; 75 87; made 86; figure 86; fine 85; high 83; cotton 83; half 83; appearance 80; garments 80; gown 80; volumes 79; dark 77; plain 75; young 72; full 72; trousers 72; feet 71; heavy 70; gilt 69; velvet 69; sold 68; 50 67; colored 67; color 65; years 63; brass 63; sleeves 61; cut 59; covered 58; tied 58; coarse 58; scarlet 56; faded 56; waist 56; skin 55; green 55; neat 55; 1.50 55; thick 54; top 54 0.94 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 3001 SWEDEN AND THE SWEDES. By William Widgery Thomas, Jr. English edition: One volume, cloth, $3.75; two volumes, $5.00; one volume, half morocco, $5.00; two volumes, $7.00; one volume, full morocco, $7.50; two volumes, $10.00. Swedish edition: One volume, cloth, $3.75; one volume, half morocco, $5.00; one volume, full morocco, $7.50. Large 8vo; 750 pages; 328 illustrations. 0.90 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1518 FRANK NELSON SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 3 vols. 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $3 75 Snowed Up; or, The Sportsman's Club in the Mts. 1 25 Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; or, The Sportsman's Club among the Whalers 1 25 The Boy Traders; or, The Sportsman's Club among the Boers 1 25 0.90 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1563 CAMPING OUT SERIES. By C. A. Stephens. 6 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $7 50 Camping Out. As recorded by "Kit" 1 25 Left on Labrador; or The Cruise of the Schooner Yacht "Curfew." As recorded by "Wash" 1 25 Off to the Geysers; or, The Young Yachters in Iceland. As recorded by "Wade" 1 25 Lynx Hunting. From Notes by the author of "Camping Out" 1 25 Fox Hunting. As recorded by "Raed" 1 25 On the Amazon; or, The Cruise of the "Rambler." As recorded by "Wash" 1 25 0.90 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2995 SHOOTING ON UPLAND, MARSH, AND STREAM. Edited by William Bruce Leffingwell, author of "Wild Fowl Shooting." Profusely illustrated; 8vo; 473 pages. Cloth, $3.50; half morocco, gilt edges, $4.50; full morocco, gilt edges, $6.50. 0.89 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1517 SPORTSMAN'S CLUB SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 3 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. 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 0.88 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1671 =Riverdale Story Books.= By OLIVER OPTIC. Twelve volumes. Illustrated. Illuminated covers. Price: cloth, per set, $3.60; per volume, 30 cents; paper, per set, $2.00. 0.88 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1514 GUNBOAT SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 6 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $7 50 Frank, the Young Naturalist 1 25 Frank in the Woods 1 25 Frank on the Prairie 1 25 Frank on a Gunboat 1 25 Frank before Vicksburg 1 25 Frank on the Lower Mississippi 1 25 0.87 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1539 +Riverdale Story Books.+ By OLIVER OPTIC. Twelve volumes. Illustrated. Illuminated covers. Price: cloth, per set, $3.60; per volume, 30 cents; paper, per set, $2.00. 0.87 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1557 LOG CABIN SERIES. By Edward S. Ellis. 3 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $3 75 Lost Trail 1 25 Camp-Fire and Wigwam 1 25 Footprints in the Forest 1 25 0.86 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 1520 ROUGHING IT SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 3 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box $3 75 George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains 1 25 George at the Wheel; or, Life in a Pilot House 1 25 George at the Fort; or, Life Among the Soldiers 1 25 ============================================================================= TOPIC 9 -- 1715 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= chapter 1191; thee 285; illustration 260; thy 166; hath 95; page 82; cried 80; tis 75; pray 74; maid 74; viii 72; goods 64; king 64; tobacco 64; verily 60; sister 56; xviii 51; xxviii 49; convict 47; fair 46; love 45; 25 44; governor 43; nets 43; woman 42; tongue 42; cat 42; thine 42; 1862 41; naught 39; p. 38; art 36; pirate 36; black 35; parson 35; mine 34; ay 34; turn 33; plot 33; mender 33; colony 32; gentlemen 31; tut 31; fear 30; iii 30; aught 30; cicely 30; ring 28; faith 27; lady 26; shame 26; trow 26; 1864 25; ship 24; laugh 24; great 23; ball 23; drink 23; grandmother 23; doubt 22; fashion 22; laughed 21; slaves 20; gold 20; 20 20; honour 19; plants 19; treasure 19; granddaughter 19; sweetheart 19; 13 18; yea 18; perchance 18; lord 18; landless 18; wise 17; 15 17; damned 17; stocks 17; wit 17; tutor 17; turned 16; 1863 16; 18 16; mad 16; song 16; harm 16; honor 16; wind 15; list 15; knowing 15; ye 15; thyself 15; xiii 15; seek 14; 24 14; tomb 14; xxxii 14; loves 14; doth 14 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2964 NAMES. AGES. Jimmy, driver, 30 Flora, seamstress, 24 James, 5 Charles, ($125,) 1 August, 52 Mathias, ($1,220,) 18 Sandy, 16 John, 13 Tom, 70 Jack, 38 James, 6 Leah, 5 Flora, 2 Andrew, 42 Binah, 40 Phillis, 20 Mary, 15 Lymus, 10 Abram, ($275,) 2 Binah, 2 mos. Andrew, 29 Hagar, 25 Dayman, 4 Cuffy, 21 Hagar, ($1,320,) 20 Margaret, 85 Lucy, cripple, 60 John, 22 Ellick, ($1,160,) 18 Libby, 19 Carter, 36 Taffy, 13 Rachel, ($720,) 8 Jannett, 18 Phebe, ($860,) 40 Judy, 8 Major, 40 Lavinia, 30 Billy, ($550,) 10 Tamor, 6 Jimmy, 52 Kate, 46 Susan, 25 Thomas, ($380,) 6 Kate, 1 Edward, coachman, 49 Amey, 22 Teneh, washer, 30 Josephine, 9 Sam, 11 Isaac, 5 William, 1 Amey, 27 Louisa, ($750,) 8 Joe, 3 Sam, ruptured, 65 Andrew, dropsical, 61 Daniel, 70 Lymus, 30 Lucy, nurse, 58 0.93 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 3 Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI 0.84 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!" 0.83 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. 0.82 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 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." 0.78 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= 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. 0.77 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 0.77 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 19 I. A SLOOP COMES IN 1 II. ITS CARGO 15 III. A COLONIAL DINNER PARTY 27 IV. THE BREAKING HEART 40 V. IN THE THREE-MILE FIELD 50 VI. THE HUT ON THE MARSH 60 VII. A MENDER OF NETS 71 VIII. THE NEW SECRETARY 86 IX. AN INTERRUPTED WOOING 91 X. LANDLESS PAYS THE PIPER 100 XI. LANDLESS BECOMES A CONSPIRATOR 108 XII. A DARK DEED 117 XIII. IN THE TOBACCO HOUSE 129 XIV. A MIDNIGHT EXPEDITION 137 XV. THE WATERS OF CHESAPEAKE 150 XVI. THE FACE IN THE DARK 162 XVII. LANDLESS AND PATRICIA 173 XVIII. A CAPTURE 185 XIX. THE LIBRARY OF THE SURVEYOR-GENERAL 193 XX. WHEREIN THE PEACE PIPE IS SMOKED 205 XXI. THE DUEL 219 XXII. THE TOBACCO HOUSE AGAIN 226 XXIII. THE QUESTION 239 XXIV. A MESSAGE 247 XXV. THE ROAD TO PARADISE 252 XXVI. NIGHT 267 XXVII. MORNING 273 XXVIII. BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS 282 XXIX. THE BRIDGE OF ROCK 295 XXX. THE BACKWARD TRACK 306 XXXI. THE HUT IN THE CLEARING 315 XXXII. ATTACK 326 XXXIII. THE FALL OF THE LEAF 335 XXXIV. AN ACCIDENT 343 XXXV. THE BOAT THAT WAS NOT 349 XXXVI. THE LAST FIGHT 357 XXXVII. VALE 369 ============================================================================= TOPIC 10 -- 2112 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= horse 2041; horses 964; road 841; back 582; rode 520; saddle 486; ride 358; riding 344; side 291; mounted 272; men 263; turned 255; left 245; stable 232; woods 227; sight 202; half 195; made 181; speed 180; animal 179; fence 173; boys 173; bridle 172; wagon 165; ahead 164; field 153; ground 148; head 146; rider 144; pace 142; whip 139; distance 138; house 137; turn 135; party 134; reached 134; direction 126; mile 126; led 125; time 124; passed 123; galloped 123; full 122; good 120; brought 120; miles 118; horsemen 118; hour 117; started 116; camp 116; coming 115; heard 114; pony 110; gallop 109; trail 109; reins 107; close 106; stopped 106; front 106; found 105; path 102; short 101; forward 99; cow 99; hand 97; dismounted 97; walk 97; rein 97; hard 96; steed 96; straight 94; knew 93; mule 93; beast 91; presently 90; put 89; hill 89; ridden 89; gave 88; horseman 88; boy 87; horseback 85; round 84; wood 84; moment 84; gate 84; suddenly 82; tied 82; leading 81; troop 81; minutes 80; saddles 80; wild 80; yard 78; hoofs 78; caught 77; set 77; fast 76; master 75; holding 75 0.91 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 970 Presently he heard the sound of horses' feet in the forest behind him, and he made his way back to a road which ran along a hundred yards from the edge of the wood. He reached it before the horsemen came up, and lay down in the underwood a few yards back. In a short time two horsemen came along at a walking pace. 0.86 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 87 Mr. Smith went down to the mill and inquired. The miller heard a horse go over the bridge. The farmer on the other side heard a horse go up the hill. Mr. Smith looked at the tracks. They were old Whitey's, who had a broken shoe on his left hind foot. He followed on. "I never knew him to go away before," he said to himself, as he walked hour after hour, seeing the tracks all the way to Fairview. 0.86 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1832 They were on the road now, and ran at full speed until they approached Union. They left the track as they neared the village, and as they did so they heard the sound of a horse at full gallop behind them. 0.85 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2535 They spur out into the moonlight, and off over the open plain, the hound no longer in the lead. His nose is not needed now. The slot of Darke's galloping horse is so conspicuous they can clearly see it, though going fast as did he. 0.84 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. 0.81 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1039 They had not journeyed half a mile before they reached a point in the woods at which Adair called a halt. 0.81 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 224 He saw Henry hitch his mule to a chestnut-tree in the field and Cobb turn to make his way back to the farm-house. Then he watched Henry approaching till the bushes which skirted the field hid him from view. There was no sound for several minutes except the rustling of the fallen leaves in the woods behind him, and then Uncle Henry's head and shoulders appeared above the broom-sedge near by. 0.80 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1863 As the party neared the fence, they discovered in the distance, along the road, their own wagon coming back, accompanied by some men on horseback. 0.79 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Two_Little_Confederates_PG_26725.txt 829 "You men dismount. Stubbs, hold the horses." He himself dismounted, and three others did the same, giving their horses to a fourth. 0.79 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 11 -- 3982 chunks >= 0.25 from 63 texts ============================================================================= en 1893; de 1705; ter 1336; er 1001; dey 990; ai 942; gwine 702; ef 517; wuz 431; time 409; wid 407; mighty 392; long 388; man 369; ob 364; den 359; git 319; hit 314; yer 314; fer 310; ole 304; folks 300; sah 284; back 282; um 277; honey 252; dat 245; fo 235; make 233; good 232; fur 229; des 227; big 220; dem 220; yo 212; low 200; suh 198; whar 186; jes 185; dis 179; chile 168; hab 168; put 164; run 163; night 159; ca 152; ax 152; young 144; reckon 139; mo 138; kin 137; boy 130; day 125; jest 125; wo 124; agin 121; yit 121; doan 121; year 118; seed 113; talk 111; dere 108; tink 107; fine 99; heap 98; ez 97; white 96; heah 95; free 93; sot 93; home 89; sence 85; der 84; gits 84; till 83; set 83; atter 81; eyes 80; arter 80; bery 80; dunno 79; mos 78; tole 77; fust 76; knowed 75; nigh 75; mus 75; tuck 75; fetch 74; fool 73; trouble 72; stay 72; min 72; seh 71; huh 71; place 70; lay 69; head 69; nuffin 67; talkin 67 0.96 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 736 “W’iles dish yer wuz gwine on Brer Rabbit wuz in de crowd, en he wuz des ez big a man ez any er um, en I dunner ef he want de bigges’. Well, Brer Rabbit he move en secondary[2] dat bein’ ez how Brer Polecat wuz sech a nice king dey oughter pass a law dat eve’y time de yuther creeturs meet um in de road dey mus’ shet der eyes en hol’ der nose. Some er um say dey don’t min’ holdin’ der nose, but dey don’t like dish yer way er shettin’ der eyes, kaze dey mout run up agin a tree, er stick a brier in der foot; but Brer Rabbit, he up en ’low, he did, dat ’t wuz des ’bout ez little ez dey kin do ter shet der eye en hol’ der nose w’en dey git war sech a nice king is, en so dey all hatter come ’roun’. 0.96 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. 0.95 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. 0.95 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. 0.95 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 192 "All dose I seed, honey -- des' es slue-footed. En dar wuz Miss Chris' en ole Miss Grissel a-makin' up ter 'em, en a-layin' out er demselves fer 'em en a-spreadin' uv de table, des' de same es ef dey went straight on dey toes. Dar wan't much sense in dat ar war, nohow, an' I ain' never knowed yit what 'twuz dey fit about. Hit wuz des' a-hidin' en a-teckin' ter de bushes, en a-hidin' agin, en den a-feastin', en a-curtsin' ter de Yankees. Dar wan't no sense in it, no ways hits put, but Ise heered Marse Tom 'low hit wuz a civil war, en dat's what it wuz. When de Yankees come a-ridin' up en a-reinin' in dere hosses befo' de front po'ch, en Miss Chris come out a-smilin' en a-axin' howdy, en den dey stan' dar a-bowin' en a-scrapin', hit wuz des' es civil es ef dey'd come a-co'tin'. But Ole Miss wuz dead en buried, she wuz." 0.95 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 731 “Now, I des tell you w’at, honey,” said Uncle Remus to the little boy, “if you wan’ ter year dish yer tale right straight thro’, widout any balkin’ er stallin’, you’ll des hatter quit makin’ any fuss. Kaze w’en der’s any fuss gwine on hit mos’ allers inginner’lly gits me mixt up, en w’en I gits mixt up I ain’t wuth nuthin’ ’t all skacely fer tellin’ a tale, en ef you don’t b’lieve me, you may des ax some er my blood kin. Now, den, you des set right whar you is en stop you behavishness. Kaze de fus’ time you wink loud, you got ter git right up on de bed-pos’ dar en ride straddle. 0.95 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 390 “But Brer Rabbit, he ’low, he did, dat de bes’ way fer ter git ’long wuz ter fin’ out whar’bouts de reptules hed der smoke-’house en go in dar en git some er de vittles w’at by good rights b’long’d ter de creeturs. Brer Wolf say maybe dis de bes’ way, kaze ef de reptules git word dat de patter-rollers is a-comin’ dey ’ll take en hide de gingercakes, en der simmon beer, en der w’atzis-names, so dat de creeturs can’t git um. By dis time dey come ter de forks er de road, en Brer Rabbit he went one way, en Brer Wolf he went de yuther. 0.95 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 373 “So he went up en ax er w’at ’er name is, en she say she dunner w’at ’er name is, kaze she so skeerd she done fergit. Den he ax ’er w’at de name er goodness she cryin’ ’bout, en she say she cryin’ kaze she hatter work so hard. Den he ax ’er who de house belong ter, en she ’low it b’long ter a great big ole black B’ar, en dis old B’ar make ’er tote wood en water all de time. She say de water is ter go in de big wash-pot, en de wood is fer ter make de pot bile, en de pot wuz ter cook folks w’at de great big ole B’ar brung home ter he chilluns. 0.95 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 536 “Man, he ’low, he did, dat he mighty much erbleege ter ole Jedge Rabbit, en wid dat he make he bow en tuck he leaf. He went home, he did, en w’en he git dar, sho’ ’nuff dar wuz dish yer nice-lookin’ gal a pommynadin’ up en down de road, en shakin’ ’er hankcher. Man, he hail ’er, he did, en ax ’er how she come on. She ’low she purty well, en how do he do. Man say he feelin’ sort er po’ly. Den she up en ax ’im w’at de matter. Man say he ’speck he feel po’ly kaze he so powerful lonesome. Den dish yer nice-lookin’ gal, she ax ’im w’at make he so powerful lonesome. Man he say he ’speck he so powerful lonesome kase he want ter marry. 0.94 Harris_Joel_Chandler_Daddy_Jake_PG_60804-0.txt 512 “Dat same ole tale,” he would say. “Well! well! well! W’en is we gwine ter year de las’ un it? I done tole you dat tale so much dat it make my flesh crawl, kaze I des know dat some er deze yer lonesome nights I’ll be a-settin’ up yer by de fier atter you done gone. I’ll be a-settin’ up yer dreamin’ ’bout gwine ter bed, en sumpin’ ’n’er ’ll come a-clawin’ at de do’, en I’ll up en ax, ‘Who dat?’ En dey’ll up en ’spon’, ‘Lemme in.’ En I’ll ondo de do’, en dat ole creetur’ll walk in, en dat’ll be de las’ er po’ ole Remus’ En den w’en dat come ter pass, who gwine take time fer ter tell you tales? Dat w’at I like ter know.” ============================================================================= TOPIC 12 -- 8464 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= replied 2603; asked 2565; sir 1935; answered 1343; added 1133; man 1111; exclaimed 758; suppose 710; captain 696; question 617; father 606; answer 605; ca 597; matter 489; hope 486; friend 477; give 453; young 451; speak 444; demanded 432; inquired 402; thought 389; hear 384; understand 373; brother 370; make 365; tone 361; call 349; cried 349; told 335; word 332; find 328; wo 328; lady 319; remember 304; thing 298; glad 298; continued 297; reply 294; gentleman 289; business 277; good 268; repeated 267; laughing 266; put 264; afraid 259; girl 258; boy 256; turning 253; smile 252; cousin 247; son 243; pardon 241; doctor 239; beg 236; heard 228; moment 227; trouble 223; ah 220; true 212; officer 203; mother 197; talk 197; uncle 196; reckon 195; fellow 193; mine 191; remarked 187; dear 185; care 183; soldier 179; excuse 176; smiling 174; questions 173; expect 171; major 171; interrupted 170; reason 169; hurt 165; guess 161; house 158; speaking 157; feel 156; dare 154; prisoner 153; forget 153; quietly 151; papa 151; leave 149; happened 148; wrong 146; sternly 144; sergeant 143; judge 138; meant 138; intend 137; eh 135; interposed 135; words 134; wanted 133 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1057 "Well, Edward, I will try to obey; and if I use the wrong word through forgetfulness you must please excuse it. But ah, I remember papa would say that was no excuse." 0.81 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. 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1256 "I must inquire into this business," he said, rising, "and if it is not your fault you shall not be punished; but if I find you have been telling me a falsehood, Elsie, I shall punish you much more severely than if you had not denied your fault." 0.80 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 135 "You are right, my dear fellow; excuse me," replied Captain de Banyan, looking very much disappointed. "I dare say, if I should show him the autograph of the Emperor of France, he would be very glad to know me." 0.80 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 637 "I hope not," said he gravely, but not unkindly; "and I hope that you will always, after this, believe that your father has some good reason for his commands, even although he may not choose to explain it to you." 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 745 "I must beg leave to decline answering that question, sir," replied Calhoun respectfully. 0.77 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 980 "My dear young lady, I'm a blundering idiot. I beg your pardon most humbly. I thought it was that Raquel, and I -- " 0.77 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1282 If he expected the man to hesitate or raise objections he was disappointed, for Hanson answered readily: 0.77 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 283 "But I mean -- you see -- any money?" inquired the captain cautiously -- so very cautiously that he thought it necessary to whisper the words. 0.76 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 48 "I don't care a picayune what he calls us," answered Gill, testily. "I reckon we won't start a new language on his account." ============================================================================= TOPIC 13 -- 1787 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= night 1200; sleep 796; bed 671; day 605; morning 438; time 412; lay 359; asleep 351; long 319; hours 287; slept 272; hour 267; rest 261; room 260; doctor 247; cold 242; sick 242; fever 212; found 211; wound 201; sleeping 194; days 191; awake 190; weary 186; passed 186; left 175; mind 169; patient 169; tired 153; pain 151; work 150; till 145; air 144; sat 143; lying 142; began 138; home 136; half 133; made 132; strength 130; late 129; place 129; quiet 128; felt 123; fell 121; physician 119; weak 118; dream 118; thought 116; ill 115; wounded 115; lie 114; hot 110; wounds 109; midnight 108; slumber 106; head 105; pillow 105; hospital 103; body 102; awoke 101; suffering 100; hard 98; side 98; death 97; early 97; told 97; poor 96; wake 96; care 95; excitement 95; brought 93; sound 93; feel 92; knew 90; watch 89; blankets 88; surgeon 88; nights 86; back 84; dark 84; mother 83; condition 82; exhausted 82; blanket 82; gave 81; child 80; worn 80; nurse 80; heavy 79; nervous 79; laid 76; fatigue 76; sleepy 76; health 74; quietly 74; watching 73; dreams 72; soldiers 71; thinking 71 0.82 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 3569 Stiff with wounds and bruises, Tom was a long time in accomplishing this movement; but, when done, he felt a sensible relief from the cooling application to his wounds. 0.79 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. 0.78 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. 0.78 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2707 The strain upon her nerves was beginning to relax; her head ached, her eyes smarted, and she felt sick and faint. Like one in a perplexing dream, she was whirled along the streets, and at last reached home. 0.77 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2009 The night passed, and morning dawned, and they who had slept awoke, and they who had not slept watched bitterly the quickening light which brought to them, not joy and refreshment, but only another phase of weariness and misery. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1199 "Because the weather was getting very hot in the Gulf of Mexico, and it was believed that he would do better at home. He has been somewhat feverish; but he is improving every day, and in a couple of weeks he will be as well as ever." 0.77 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 868 During all the perils he had encountered that day, he had been buoyed up by the thought that he had food sufficient to last him for a day or two, and that he was in no danger of suffering the pangs of hunger. But now his spirits fell again to zero. 0.76 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 838 On the last Richard Darke lies; since this night he sleeps not at all. From the hour of retiring to his chamber, till morning's dawn comes creeping through the window, he has never closed eye; or, if so, not in the sweet oblivion of slumber. 0.76 Twain_Mark_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_PG_76.txt 1691 "I've thought of something. Is there anybody here that helped to lay out my br -- helped to lay out the late Peter Wilks for burying?" 0.76 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3871 Measles, whooping-cough, scarlatina, croup, diphtheria, are quite unknown. ============================================================================= TOPIC 14 -- 3057 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= room 2742; door 2543; house 813; open 723; opened 595; window 534; table 516; floor 514; entered 509; sat 484; stood 452; chair 449; bed 433; back 432; hall 410; stairs 365; left 332; sitting 323; found 315; light 306; corner 282; front 281; cabin 278; closed 275; side 263; heard 243; fire 242; turned 240; made 240; key 238; looked 237; moment 219; wall 218; rooms 214; small 210; put 207; windows 204; lay 201; locked 197; seated 193; apartment 186; doors 184; opening 177; place 176; hand 175; night 173; lighted 173; parlor 167; steps 165; rose 160; half 158; dining 156; library 155; walked 154; great 152; chairs 152; chamber 151; candle 150; large 149; end 145; box 145; hour 144; softly 142; head 141; kitchen 140; shut 139; glass 138; desk 136; standing 133; mother 131; heavy 127; led 125; wide 125; walls 125; lamp 124; curtains 123; reached 120; brought 117; feet 117; lock 116; hung 115; seat 115; returned 114; drawing 112; hastily 112; ran 111; evening 110; books 110; step 109; hands 109; furniture 109; middle 107; sound 107; carefully 106; filled 106; chimney 106; passed 105; laid 102; minutes 102; opposite 102 0.89 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. 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4092 When they reached the hotel, they were ushered into the salon already brilliantly lighted as if in expectation of their arrival. Cuthbert paced the floor; his father sank into a chair, resting his hands on the top of his cane. 0.85 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. 0.85 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1175 So, having taken him into the room, she went, leaving him alone. When she was gone, Baird stood for a moment listening to her footsteps upon the stairs. Then he crossed the room and stood before the hearth looking up at a picture which hung over the mantel. 0.84 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 1673 Sir Charles, followed by Landless, the Muggletonian and some three or four others, entered the great room, which, with the master's room, occupied that side of the house allotted to the baronet. The wax candles still burned upon the spinet, and upon the high mantel, and in the middle of the floor lay the overturned chess table. Three of the four windows were closely shuttered, but the fourth was open, and before it stood a graceful figure, looking out into the darkness. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1085 But another sound startled her. Surely she heard some stealthy step on the veranda upon which the windows of the room opened (long windows reaching from the floor almost to the ceiling), and then a hand at work with the fastenings of the shutters of the one farthest from the bed. 0.83 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 246 Once within the hall Madame Blanc dropped into the chair nearest the door, while the Marquise swept into the reception room and hastily to a window fronting on the street. 0.83 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 385 As he stepped upon the porch, piled against the wall beside the door were fagots as he used to see them. When he reached the door itself, he stopped, gazing foolishly at those fagots, at the little gray lichens on them: he could not knock, he could not turn the knob without knocking. But his step had been heard. His mother opened the door and peered curiously out. 0.82 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. 0.82 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 15 -- 2163 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= river 1000; water 925; stream 660; side 540; bank 472; feet 375; trees 357; place 353; miles 343; forest 317; mile 299; ground 298; half 297; deep 297; boat 290; distance 283; high 265; tree 256; road 252; made 250; long 243; found 217; woods 214; spot 212; left 207; edge 206; narrow 202; reached 200; shore 199; yards 198; path 193; rock 192; small 187; point 187; mountain 179; hill 175; grass 171; lay 170; thick 168; rocks 168; land 159; bushes 157; hundred 154; swamp 153; bottom 152; sand 150; banks 147; great 146; open 145; line 145; channel 145; dark 145; crossed 139; dry 135; current 133; creek 131; clear 130; low 127; foot 127; large 126; beneath 126; level 125; ran 121; ten 120; surface 120; opposite 120; island 119; short 118; close 117; wood 117; twenty 115; head 115; view 115; covered 115; raft 110; reach 109; distant 108; country 107; waters 106; running 105; wide 105; north 104; broad 103; direction 103; length 101; farther 101; back 100; mud 100; hour 98; set 98; led 97; ravine 97; sun 96; boats 95; pine 94; slowly 93; plain 93; earth 93; wild 92; timber 92 0.94 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 573 For a mile and a half the water over which they sailed, lay in a straight reach, due east and west, then turned rapidly round to the north, where its course could be traced for many a mile by the breaks among the mangroves. Just where the river made its turn to the north, a small creek opened into it from the south. The course of this creek was very serpentine; for a considerable distance hugging the shore in a close embrace, then running off for a quarter or half a mile, and after enclosing many hundred acres of marsh, returning to the land, within a stone’s throw of the place which it had left. 0.89 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. 0.89 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2724 They had not gone far before they found themselves upon a road which led through a piece of thin wood that covered a small tract of marshy ground, the nature of which brought the party into a more compact body as they approached the narrowest point of the defile. At a short distance beyond this impediment the track became broader, where it ascended a hill thickly covered with an undergrowth of bushes. 0.88 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1756 Having crossed the river at its lower ford, where so far the hunters saw their tracks, there losing them, the savages continued on. Not by the main road leading to the mission, but along a path which deflects from it soon after leaving the river's bank. A narrower trace, indeed the continuation of that they had been following all along -- the transverse route across the bottom-land from bluff to bluff, on both sides ascending to the steppe. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1710 "We had passed over several miles and had only seen a few small antelopes, when upon ascending some rising ground in the very open forest, we caught sight of a herd of tetel bounding along through some high grass towards some low, rocky hills, a few hundred yards distant. There were many large trees growing out of the clefts of the rocks, and I proposed that Lieutenant Baker should go round the hill on my right, while I should creep quietly over the summit of the rocks, as I expected we should find the antelopes standing in some sheltered glade. 0.88 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2029 After proceeding thus for some fifty yards, they reach a spot where the path widens, debouching upon an open space -- a sort of terrace that overhangs the channel of the stream, separated from it by a fringe of low trees and bushes. 0.87 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3473 Having crossed the beautiful Un-y-Ame river, we entered the game country. Extensive prairies, devoid of forest, now stretched before us in graceful undulations to the base of distant mountains. The country was watered by numerous clear streams, all of which drained into the main channel of the Un-y- Ame river, that became a roaring torrent during the wet season. 0.86 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1818 Our course lay towards the S.S.E., beneath a wall-like range of precipitous rocky hills upon our left, in no place higher than 200 feet. The guides were at fault, and no water could be found upon the road. 0.86 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 2642 The river, whose former course had evidently been stopped by the falling in of the forest, here made a curve to the right around the banks, and half disappeared in a channel it had hollowed for itself under the cliff. Here they left it, and climbed to the open day. 0.86 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1039 Dan made his way through the bushes, and soon found the oars. Then uniting their strength they pushed the boat through the high rushes that screened it from the river. ============================================================================= TOPIC 16 -- 2402 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= thought 1372; knew 1111; time 913; made 652; felt 512; told 446; fear 434; thing 410; mind 404; mother 372; place 371; moment 341; found 332; find 317; danger 307; house 300; escape 298; make 279; home 266; heard 261; things 257; father 250; back 248; man 245; night 225; doubt 215; trouble 213; afraid 206; life 204; secret 204; long 200; safe 196; lost 196; boy 196; fact 193; marcy 183; began 182; hope 181; idea 178; great 177; reason 173; left 172; part 172; expected 171; coming 168; happened 167; longer 166; knowing 165; believed 162; end 158; courage 157; chance 155; wanted 155; attempt 152; thinking 152; feared 150; heart 148; dared 148; looked 148; put 147; true 144; feel 143; fears 142; story 141; hoped 141; truth 140; terrible 138; leave 138; determined 136; brought 134; strange 129; frightened 128; safety 126; return 125; matter 125; surprised 125; word 123; anxious 123; feeling 123; save 123; act 122; death 120; purpose 120; men 118; hands 118; question 116; situation 115; scarcely 115; hear 114; learned 114; anxiety 113; friends 112; means 111; making 111; meet 110; plan 110; reach 110; case 109; meant 109; happen 108 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_True_To_His_Colors_PG_28391.txt 523 When Marcy heard this he did not know whether to laugh again or get angry over it. As time was precious he did neither, but began questioning Toby, who told a story that made the boy open his eyes. When it was concluded the fact was plain to Marcy that somebody had been trying to get him and Dick Graham into trouble; but who could it be? He knew that he had been airing his Union sentiments rather freely, but he wasn't aware that he had made any enemies by it. He wished the hour for his relief would hasten its coming, so that he might compare notes with Dick. 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 172 "There are but two things about it that are plain to me," answered Marcy, "perhaps three. One is that the house is watched by somebody, and that the neighbors knew I was at home almost as soon as you knew it yourself. Another is that the suspicions aroused in the minds of some of our watchful neighbors are so strong that they amount to positive conviction. They are as certain that there is money in this house as they would be if they had caught you in the act of hiding it." 0.82 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2748 "Neither am I," said Rupert. He drew nearer to Sheba. "It would be a strange thing to waken and find ourselves owners of a fortune," he said. "We may waken to find it so -- in a few days. But there is always a chance that things may fail one. I was thinking of what we should do if -- we lose everything." 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 782 Arthur, on his part, thought that fear of the terrors he had held up before him would cause Jackson -- whom he knew to be an arrant coward -- to refrain from adventuring himself again in the neighborhood. 0.80 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 364 He thought of removing permanently to cosmopolitan New York more than once during his absence North. If he should be fully convinced after his return that Mara was lost to him, unless he became a part of her implacable and reactionary coterie, it might be better for his peace of mind that he were far away. 0.80 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1975 Frank tried to feel that he was foolish in apprehending trouble from Squire Haynes, but he found it impossible to rid himself of a vague feeling of uneasiness. 0.80 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2642 At first Eugenia had been tortured by a fear that the little life would go out as the other had done; but, as the weeks went on and he lived and fed and fattened, her fear was lost in the wondering rapture of possession. Nothing so perfectly alive could cease to be. 0.79 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1658 "You have succeeded in duping Mr. Ferguson. You will find it a harder task to dupe me. If you knew me better, you would have hesitated before you attempted to humbug me in that barefaced way." 0.78 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 345 Marcy assured him that he would bear it in mind. If Beardsley hoped to hear him declare that his mother had more money in the house than she was likely to need, he was disappointed. 0.77 Roe_Edward_Payson_Miss_Lou_PG_5309.txt 1042 "I am glad indeed, Louise, that you prevented such a thing from happening," said Mrs. Whately. "The result might have been very disastrous, and in any event would have been horrible. It was a brave, sensible thing to do, and you will find that Madison will think so, too." ============================================================================= TOPIC 17 -- 1843 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= letter 1100; day 594; time 552; letters 551; office 514; home 441; news 380; morning 378; days 352; wrote 334; received 319; left 304; return 299; told 286; post 286; mail 253; long 249; found 246; business 245; brought 244; written 242; read 240; train 239; mother 233; write 219; reached 214; note 209; father 206; papers 205; send 204; town 204; week 201; returned 195; arrived 185; back 182; city 179; night 166; station 161; leave 156; evening 150; waiting 148; hour 143; heard 141; hours 140; afternoon 138; find 135; called 130; give 128; answer 128; asked 121; information 112; good 111; arrival 110; hotel 109; hand 107; message 107; weeks 106; months 105; made 104; handed 104; hear 104; writing 103; journey 102; gave 102; reply 102; paper 102; word 101; early 101; friends 101; expected 98; met 97; set 97; immediately 95; put 95; late 92; meet 92; bag 92; visit 91; learned 90; house 89; ago 89; passed 86; start 86; order 84; meeting 83; man 82; carried 82; friend 82; clerk 82; addressed 79; telegraph 78; knew 77; bring 76; important 75; railroad 75; lines 74; request 74; month 73; matter 71; telegram 71 0.86 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 710 In due time I reached Riverport, and obtained the mail-bag. At the post-office, I happened to meet the landlord of the hotel, who wanted to know how Squire Fishley was. I told him he was quite well. 0.84 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1801 By the afternoon train on this last day of the year there had come into Suez a missionary returning from China on leave of absence, ill from scant fare and overwork. 0.84 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2788 When the messenger arrived Latimer was reading the letters which had arrived by the last delivery. One of them was from Baird, announcing the hour of his return to the city. Latimer held it in his hand when Stamps's communication was brought to him. 0.83 Optic_Oliver_A_Victorious_Union_PG_18678.txt 1173 They reached the station, and discharged the carriage; but they found they had to wait two hours for a train to Bonnydale. As it was after noon, they went to a hotel for dinner, and passed the time very impatiently in waiting for the train. Both of them were burning with the desire to see their friends at home; but the train started in due time, and they left it at the nearest station to Bonnydale, proceeding there in a carriage. 0.82 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 524 He then wrote a note, saying that he had decided to go to town to attend to some business which had been neglected in his absence, and was soon on his way to the train. 0.81 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 264 On the following afternoon Vincent told his mother that he was going over that evening to his friend Furniss, as an early start was to be made next morning; they intended to go down the river as far as Yorktown, if not further; that he certainly should not be back for two days, and probably might be even longer. 0.81 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 653 But Jack's letter was never sent, for when the post came from Richmond the next day, Vincent read in the morning paper a surprising personal item: 0.81 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 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1204 When Middleton arrived at the court-house the afternoon of his ride, he found an order transferring his company to a frontier post in the far Northwest. They were to leave immediately. 0.80 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Lena_Rivers_PG_12835.txt 1430 The letter which brought this intelligence to Mrs. Graham, also contained a request that she would come to him immediately, and within a few days after its receipt, she started for Cuba, together with Durward, who went without again seeing 'Lena. ============================================================================= TOPIC 18 -- 3791 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= life 1413; heart 1382; love 1220; man 769; world 735; soul 654; death 599; day 474; poor 458; hope 448; woman 446; long 415; loved 359; true 349; live 342; peace 326; die 322; thought 300; blood 295; dead 286; words 283; save 274; years 272; faith 271; give 270; dear 270; human 253; bear 247; pray 245; child 240; end 239; ah 236; past 229; feel 229; make 225; wife 223; grave 216; sin 216; bitter 214; suffering 214; truth 210; sorrow 207; noble 204; duty 202; mine 202; hearts 199; nature 197; strength 196; spirit 195; hour 191; time 188; power 188; forget 186; mother 185; lost 181; men 176; earth 176; rest 175; future 173; happy 170; broken 164; fate 163; saved 159; great 158; cruel 156; knew 155; things 153; pity 153; women 152; suffer 152; memory 151; evil 150; wrong 149; friend 148; glory 148; good 146; prayer 146; face 144; made 143; forgive 143; died 142; sight 140; speak 140; thing 139; living 139; hate 138; forever 138; terrible 136; strong 134; mercy 134; felt 133; word 133; trust 132; country 131; children 130; holy 130; pain 130; hand 129; honor 129; left 128 0.91 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1951 "Let us pray God to mercifully avert such a heavy blow. But, my dear, keep this in mind: with terrible bereavement comes the strength to bear it. The strength of endurance, -- a strength born only in the darkest hours of a soul's anguish; and at last when affliction has done its worst, and all earthly hope is dead, patience with tender grace and gentle healing mutely sits down in hope's vacant place. To-day I found a passage in a new book that impressed me as beautiful, strong, and true. Would you like to hear it?" 0.89 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3891 "Oh, the awful, intolerable agony that has been my portion ever since! Do you wonder that Laurance is a synonym for all that is cruel, wicked? Is it strange that at times I loath the sight of your face, which mocks me with the assurance that you are his as well as mine? Oh, most unfortunate child! cursed with the fatal beauty of him who wrecked your mother's life, and denies you even his infamous name!" 0.88 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. 0.88 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1964 "All honor to the heroic living, all glory to the gallant dead! They have not fought in vain, they have not died for naught. No man liveth to himself alone. Not for themselves, but for their children; for those who may never hear of them in their nameless graves, how they yielded life; for the future; for all that is good, pure, holy, just, true; for humanity, righteousness, peace; for Paradise on earth; for Christ and for God, they have given themselves a willing sacrifice. Blessed be their memory forevermore!" 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2584 "Do not dwell upon a past that is fraught only with bitterness to you, and from which you can draw no balm. Throw your painful memories behind you, and turn resolutely to a future which may be rendered noble and useful and holy. There is truth, precious truth in George Herbert's words: 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1991 "Did you believe that I would let you go? Did you dream that I would see my darling leave me, and go out into the world to be buffeted and sorely tried, to struggle with poverty -- and to suffer alone? Oh, silly child! I would part with my own life sooner than give you up! Of what value would it be without you, my pearl, my sole hope, my only love, my own, pure Edna -- " 0.87 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1733 "Why should I conquer when my heart tells me that the one I love is worthy of my love? It hurts me, it wounds my very soul, that he and I should be spoken to as if we had committed a crime. How could my love be so sacred and heavenly if it were wrong? Oh, how I hate, hate! There is nothing so hateful as hate." 0.86 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!" 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1795 It was no new thing for Dr. Barton to do: an earnest Christian, he ministered to the souls as well as the bodies of his patients. He knelt and offered up a fervent prayer for the dying one, that repentance and remission of sins might be given him, that he might have a saving faith in the Lord Jesus, and trusting only in His imputed righteousness, be granted an abundant entrance into His kingdom and glory. 0.86 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 129 "Yes, Eliza, it's all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What's the use of living? I wish I was dead!" ============================================================================= TOPIC 19 -- 1925 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= people 759; war 733; men 612; country 458; government 350; state 315; southern 250; slavery 242; man 240; great 225; free 203; side 179; peace 172; political 161; northern 159; rights 154; nation 152; law 149; public 147; part 146; order 145; made 144; property 143; city 143; land 141; rebellion 134; citizens 130; power 129; party 125; friends 121; secession 116; county 116; vote 112; called 110; day 107; high 106; question 106; general 105; held 105; true 105; act 104; slave 103; slaves 103; flag 101; years 100; laws 100; race 99; american 98; history 96; make 94; army 93; election 91; loyal 90; leaders 89; women 88; civil 88; blood 88; fight 87; gentlemen 87; colored 87; arms 85; freedom 84; speech 84; states 84; sides 83; believed 83; sons 81; white 81; end 80; negroes 79; business 79; opinion 77; affairs 76; liberty 76; stand 75; principles 74; battle 73; fighting 73; office 71; meeting 71; influence 70; declared 69; citizen 69; fought 68; family 67; private 67; rule 66; hands 66; present 65; homes 65; aid 65; majority 65; put 64; treason 64; born 63; families 63; town 62; politics 62; beginning 61; armies 61 0.90 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] 0.90 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2934 The basis of representation in the Legislature was exceedingly complex. In the House of Representatives it was a mixture of property, population, white inhabitants, taxation, and slaves. In the Senate it consisted of geographical extent, white and slave population, taxation, and property. The Senate was constituted after the "Parish system," which gave the whole control of political affairs in the State into the hands of a few wealthy men from the sea-coast. 0.85 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. 0.84 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 103 The Part taken by the State in the Political Affairs of the Nation. -- Basis of Representation. -- Classes of People. -- Lowlanders and Uplanders. -- Climate. -- Cotton. -- Parish System. -- Assembling of the Legislature in 1860. -- Remarks of W. D. Porter. -- Secession Principles. -- Adjournment to Charleston. -- Hibernia Hall. -- Rev. Dr. Thornwell's Preaching. -- The Teachings of the Bible. -- The Province of History. -- Negroes for Sale. -- Women of South Carolina in Favor of Secession. -- The Charleston Mercury . -- The "Patriarchal Institution". 444 0.84 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 3636 The conflict commenced as a rebellion, but ended in revolution. Slavery has disappeared. Civil liberty is stronger than in 1861. Four millions of freedmen are candidates for citizenship, who at the beginning of the Rebellion had no rights under the flag of the Union. 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 853 This was what Captain Howard must have meant when he warned Rodney that every little community in the Southern part of the State was divided into two hostile camps. This was partisan warfare, and Rodney wanted to be a partisan. 0.83 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 792 "Friends here? Union men have no friends here. There are men here with, whom I have done business for years, men that owe prosperity to me, but when I called on them they almost insulted me. If you have friends, you must have sympathies that they appreciate." 0.82 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. 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1688 State after State was seceding and seizing upon United States property within its limits -- forts, arsenals, navy-yards, custom-houses, mints, ships, armories, and military stores -- while the government at Washington remained inactive, doubtless fearing to precipitate the civil strife. 0.80 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 618 "You're a mudsill mob," says he; "and I don't allow no violent mobs around this office. I am an American citizen, and I won't stand no mobs. What does the Constitution say about newspapers? Why, the Constitution don't say anything about them; so you've got no Constitutional authority for mobbing me." ============================================================================= TOPIC 20 -- 1992 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= green 533; white 496; flowers 449; trees 420; sun 401; leaves 383; blue 365; air 349; day 337; summer 302; morning 282; tree 259; birds 257; earth 256; grass 255; rose 250; sky 246; garden 243; beautiful 236; lay 223; stood 221; spring 212; beneath 208; bird 203; long 202; light 202; red 198; sweet 196; winter 194; golden 191; forest 190; gold 186; fields 185; yellow 185; sunshine 180; great 177; snow 175; soft 169; wind 166; roses 165; silver 163; wild 161; bright 160; woods 156; gray 156; low 149; wide 149; purple 145; dead 140; fell 138; water 135; flower 134; sea 130; black 130; fresh 130; branches 125; world 124; afternoon 124; warm 124; blossoms 124; deep 123; cool 115; looked 113; open 112; filled 109; hung 109; brown 109; shining 109; eyes 108; hills 108; beauty 108; lovely 108; field 105; early 104; house 104; spread 104; full 103; hot 102; young 102; vines 101; moon 100; sunlight 100; dust 99; wings 98; boughs 98; autumn 98; stars 97; back 96; dark 96; shadow 96; days 95; bloom 94; yard 93; dew 92; breeze 91; pink 91; clear 90; nature 90; year 89; night 89 0.93 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. 0.93 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 4174 Luxuriant vines clambered along the hillsides, and where the latter had been cut in terraces, and seemed swinging like the gardens of Semiramis, orange, lemon, myrtle, and olive trees showed all their tender green and soft grey tints, and longhaired acacias waved in the evening air, that was redolent of the faint delicious vesper incense swung from the pink chalices of climbing roses. 0.92 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." 0.91 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3437 The crescent curve of the olive-mantled Apennines girdled the city in a rocky clasp, and mellowed by distance and the magic enamelling of evening light, each particular peak rose against the chrysoprase sky like a pyramid of lapis lazuli, around whose mighty base rolled soft waves of golden haze. 0.90 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 2441 Up the quiet street the leafless trees made a gray vista that melted into transparent mist. The sunshine stretched in pale gold bars from sidewalk to sidewalk, and overhead the sky was of a rare Italian blue. But for the frost in the air and the naked boughs, it might have been a day in April. 0.90 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 909 Scarce a leaf quivered on the branches of the magnolias, or a tress of gray- green moss on the cypress boughs. All the world of the Salkahatchie was wrapped in siesta. The white clouds drifting on palest turquoise were the only moving things except the water flowing beneath, and its soft swish against the gunnels of the floating wharf made the only sound. 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1903 Two tall glittering Venice glasses stood upon the salver, casting prismatic radiance over the silver, as the sunbeams smote their slender fluted sides, and a pair of ruby tinted finger-bowls completed the colour chord. 0.88 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3170 Out on the lawn birds swung in the elm-twigs, singing cheerily, lambs bleated and ran races, and the little silver bell on Huldah's pet fawn, "Edna," tinkled ceaselessly. 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3488 She walked to the window, rested her forehead against the stone facing, and looked out; and the wonderful witchery of the solemn night wove its spell around her. Great, golden stars clustered in the clear heavens, and were reflected in the calm, blue pavement of the Mediterranean, where not a ripple shivered their shining images. A waning crescent moon swung high over the eastern crest of the Apennines, and threw a weird light along the Doria's marble palace, and down on the silver gray olives, on the glistening orange-groves, snow-powdered with fragrant bloom, and in that wan, mysterious, and most melancholy light -- 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2564 Elsewhere the sunshine streamed warm and bright over the graves, but here the rays were intercepted by the church, and its cool shadow rested over vault and slab and flowers. ============================================================================= TOPIC 21 -- 1197 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= man 385; case 231; court 229; guilty 149; made 148; crime 141; law 140; prisoner 136; evidence 133; trial 129; murder 122; put 109; charge 108; punishment 108; father 108; men 106; witness 106; found 103; proof 103; story 100; prove 98; doubt 98; justice 96; arrested 93; act 89; facts 88; jail 88; order 87; knew 87; heard 87; son 85; present 80; house 80; testimony 80; committed 78; told 76; brought 75; witnesses 74; suspicion 72; innocent 72; brother 72; murdered 71; prison 71; arrest 70; judge 69; declared 68; lawyer 68; part 66; night 66; death 65; accused 65; escape 65; stand 64; sentence 64; counsel 63; fellow 60; leech 60; called 59; punished 59; character 59; friends 59; matter 58; state 58; true 58; prisoners 58; suit 58; make 57; report 57; treachery 56; party 56; bring 56; jury 54; escaped 54; traitor 54; word 52; person 52; affair 49; paper 49; papers 48; fact 47; possession 47; property 47; false 47; oath 47; statement 46; attempt 45; save 45; spy 45; question 44; disgrace 44; reward 43; prepared 43; dead 43; examination 43; conduct 43; suspected 43; thief 43; outrage 43; account 42; making 42 0.86 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." 0.85 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1387 "How dare you, sir, bring such an infamous accusation against my son -- an accusation, like that against myself, wholly unsupported by a shred of evidence? Doubtless your negro had confided to some of his associates his plans for assisting you to escape from prison, and it is from one of these that the denunciation has come. Go, sir, report where you will what lies and fables you have invented; but be assured that I and my son will seek our compensation for such gross libels in the courts." 0.82 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. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1365 He insisted, in very complimentary terms, that one who had done what I had could not be guilty of a crime, and that I must be cleared even from the suspicion of evil. 0.76 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 942 "I have a writ for your arrest, but I am willing to waive all action on condition of your giving up the fugitives which you are harboring contrary to the peace and dignity of the State," said the sheriff. 0.76 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 3419 So Dr. Cary and General Legaie went along with the rest, though they were not handcuffed. Old Mr. Langstaff was released on his recognizance, Leech kindly offering the Commissioner to go his bail himself. 0.76 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. 0.76 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 577 “Never! never!” declared General Legaie, with whom were most of the others. “They have done their worst; they have invaded us, and taken our negroes from us. Let them bear the responsibilities they have assumed.” 0.75 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 4062 Mr. Bagby rose. “You will ask for it,” he said, looking at Leech. “We are ready to proceed.” He addressed the Court in a few words, and urged that the case proceed or that the prosecution be dismissed. This Leech “could not consent to,” and the Court refused it. Then the old lawyer more firmly insisted that his client be admitted to bail. 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 944 "But, Colonel, you are aware of the consequences of deliberately setting at defiance the laws of a sovereign State," said the sheriff. ============================================================================= TOPIC 22 -- 934 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= country 347; land 322; house 289; town 254; place 237; years 184; great 179; fields 171; houses 165; long 151; building 142; soil 135; iron 132; built 131; grass 128; small 127; region 121; large 117; side 107; hundred 105; days 104; miles 102; wilderness 102; mountains 100; trees 99; rich 98; mountain 95; stone 90; ground 89; field 86; blue 84; roads 84; half 83; farm 82; home 81; cotton 80; brick 80; wall 77; acres 77; people 76; part 74; corn 74; landscape 73; high 72; city 72; lands 71; ancient 71; stock 70; beautiful 70; ago 68; hemp 67; time 66; village 66; lay 63; walls 63; close 60; formed 60; valley 60; population 59; wide 59; roof 59; places 58; garden 58; coal 57; towns 57; called 56; vast 56; river 56; year 56; road 56; early 56; life 55; broad 53; southern 53; forests 53; summer 53; homes 52; fences 52; log 52; winter 52; found 51; view 51; fence 51; build 50; situated 50; grounds 50; state 49; western 49; mansion 49; cabins 48; county 48; occupied 47; civilization 47; wild 47; hills 47; wood 47; making 47; thousand 46; wealth 46; square 46 0.90 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. 0.90 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 483 About two years after the birth of Mildred, he had purchased a tract of land in the then new and frontier country lying upon the Rockfish river. Many families of note in the low country had possessed themselves of estates at the foot of the Blue Ridge, in this neighborhood, and were already making establishments there. Mr. Lindsay, attracted by the romantic character of the scenery, the freshness of the soil, and the healthfulness of the climate, following the example of others, had laid off the grounds of his new estate with great taste, and had soon built, upon a beautiful site, a neat and comfortable rustic dwelling, with such accommodation as might render it a convenient and pleasant retreat during the hot months of the summer. 0.88 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. 0.84 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1605 Several of the huts still standing, and in a tolerable state of repair, have supplied shelter to the new settlers; most of whom have taken up their abode in them. They are only to serve as temporary residences, until better homes can be built. There is no time for this now. The spring is on, and the cotton-seed must be got into the ground, to the neglect of everything else. 0.84 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. 0.82 Allen_James_Lane_The_Blue_Grass_Region_of_Kentucky_and_other_Kentucky_Articles_PG_43888.txt 500 Above this is the Douglass coal, an entry of forty feet into which shows a thickness of fifty inches, with a good roof, and on the northern slope of the mountains, at Cumberland River, a thickness of sixty inches. This is a gas coal of great excellence, yielding also a coke, good, but high in sulphur. Above the Douglass is an unexplored section of great thickness, showing coal stains and coals exposed, but undeveloped. 0.81 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. 0.79 Allen_James_Lane_The_Choir_Invisible_PG_2316.txt 973 Late that autumn the house was finished -- one of those early country-places yet to be seen here and there on the landscape of Kentucky, marking the building era of the aristocratic Virginians and renewing in the wilderness the architecture of the James. 0.78 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 12 With the Civil War began the long decline, lasting still. The record stands that throughout the one hundred and twenty-five odd years elapsing from the entrance of the Anglo-Saxon farmers into the wilderness down to the present time, a few counties of Kentucky have furnished army and navy, the entire country, with all but a small part of the native hemp consumed. Little comparatively is cultivated in Kentucky now. The traveller may still see it here and there, crowning those ever-renewing, self-renewing inexhaustible fields. But the time cannot be far distant when the industry there will have become extinct. Its place in the nation's markets will be still further taken by metals, by other fibres, by finer varieties of the same fibre, by the same variety cultivated in soils less valuable. The history of it in Kentucky will be ended, and, being ended, lost. 0.78 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 3217 It is some years since then, and changes have taken place in the colony. As yet none to be regretted, but the reverse. A Court-House town has sprung up on the site of the ancient Mission, the centre of a district of plantations -- the largest of them belonging to Luis Dupre; while one almost as extensive, and equally as flourishing, has Charles Clancy for owner. ============================================================================= TOPIC 23 -- 3387 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= eyes 1961; face 1788; tears 1134; hands 895; hand 824; heart 721; head 637; lips 633; arms 626; looked 519; mother 476; voice 453; white 387; turned 381; back 381; hair 361; cheeks 359; fell 318; moment 315; girl 296; pale 290; child 288; stood 288; long 285; cheek 242; kissed 241; neck 231; words 228; sat 227; room 226; laid 222; soft 221; father 220; arm 217; bosom 209; close 208; drew 205; put 194; felt 193; thought 190; burst 183; brow 183; pressed 180; woman 178; lay 178; suddenly 178; forehead 178; fingers 175; bent 174; clasped 172; held 168; cry 168; baby 168; lifted 164; cold 163; deep 163; breast 160; sweet 159; trembling 156; softly 154; blood 152; low 150; side 150; husband 150; rose 147; cried 146; raised 138; silent 135; shook 135; full 132; joy 130; knees 128; dark 127; breath 126; wept 126; emotion 124; dead 122; bright 122; weeping 120; shoulder 119; knew 117; wife 113; opened 110; closed 110; rested 110; form 109; beautiful 109; whispered 109; tenderly 108; young 107; buried 107; speak 107; folded 107; instant 106; sigh 106; threw 105; grief 105; smile 104; gazed 104; kiss 104 0.88 Dunbar_Paul_Laurence_The_Strength_of_Gideon_and_Other_Stories_PG_15886.txt 390 Then, before she knew it, Viney was sobbing, and had crept close to him and put her arms around his neck. He threw out his arms with a convulsive gesture and gathered her up to his breast, and the tears gushed from his eyes. 0.87 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. 0.87 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. 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 966 Still clutching the altar railing with one hand, she knelt, with her white suffering face upturned piteously to him, and stooping he threw his arms around her and clasped her to his heart. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1846 A deep hush filled the room, broken presently by the mother's wail as she fell on her knees at the bedside, and taking the cold hand in hers covered it with kisses and tears. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1801 The eyes closed, the hands dropped, and for a moment they thought he had passed away with that agonized cry for mercy and forgiveness; but a deep sigh heaved his breast, his lips moved, and his mother bent over him to catch the words. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1700 "Thank God! thank God!" came faintly from the white quivering lips, as she sank back upon her pillow again, and two great tears stealing from beneath the closed eyelids rolled slowly down the furrowed cheeks. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2041 Chloe slid to her knees, and taking the soft white hand in both of hers, covered it with kisses and tears, while her whole frame shook with her bitter weeping. 0.86 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 737 "Poor creature!" said Mrs. Bird, compassionately, as the woman slowly unclosed her large, dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her. Suddenly an expression of agony crossed her face, and she sprang up, saying, "O, my Harry! Have they got him?" 0.85 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2463 He took both her hands as they lay folded in her lap, opened the clenched fingers, clasping them softly in his own, so white and shapely, and his black eyes glittered: ============================================================================= TOPIC 24 -- 4309 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= face 2847; eyes 2654; looked 1793; turned 858; man 788; expression 654; smile 652; stood 507; glance 504; eye 494; moment 492; asked 404; countenance 386; voice 376; spoke 375; young 307; hand 306; head 299; lips 297; dark 296; fixed 296; back 295; pale 295; met 285; smiled 281; gave 280; gaze 274; sat 263; light 245; glanced 240; rose 239; suddenly 236; girl 233; black 225; tone 219; made 217; half 215; mouth 215; features 208; knew 205; silence 202; words 200; white 199; manner 186; slowly 184; thought 183; boy 175; full 173; strange 172; color 171; surprise 169; instant 165; cast 162; silent 161; held 160; grave 160; answered 160; flushed 160; sudden 159; quick 159; changed 159; showed 159; change 158; began 158; woman 156; astonishment 156; figure 155; red 152; deep 152; blue 149; grew 148; raised 146; standing 145; keen 145; faces 145; felt 143; brow 142; slightly 141; walked 139; stared 131; slight 130; stopped 128; low 123; moved 122; lip 121; straight 120; bright 119; appeared 118; opened 116; faced 111; gazed 111; caught 110; youth 110; question 109; flashed 109; watched 108; paused 108; drew 107; steadily 107; bent 107 0.87 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. 0.85 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. 0.85 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1395 Eyes and voice were imperious, and in her cheeks burned an indignant crimson. My lord's face was set and white; he looked at her, but spoke no word. 0.84 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3102 To the man who listened and watched with breathless anxiety her hardening, whitening features, she merely recalled the memory of her own tragic "Medea" confronting "Jason" at Athens. 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1488 Then he appeared in the doorway, where he stood turning his eyes from one to another with a wistful, questioning gaze: then words seemed to come from his lips in tones of wonder and inquiry. 0.83 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1556 Miss Ophelia looked keenly at him, and saw the flush of mortification and repressed vexation, and the sarcastic curl of the lip, as he spoke. 0.83 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. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1838 He saw a faint smile lurking about the perfect curves of her rosy mouth, but her eyes remained fixed on the picture. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 1124 Very white but fearless, the young face was lifted to hers, and before those wrathful glittering eyes that flashed like blue steel, Hannah quailed. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 369 He took it mechanically, and with his gaze fixed on the girl's face; but as she made no reply, he glanced down at it, and his stern, swarthy face lighted up joyfully. ============================================================================= TOPIC 25 -- 1877 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= water 509; table 377; coffee 336; bread 269; eat 267; drink 262; supper 254; corn 240; made 226; meal 215; dinner 208; hot 206; good 202; cup 193; breakfast 187; food 171; hungry 161; bottle 159; glass 157; milk 152; kitchen 152; wine 151; brought 147; fire 142; cook 138; large 137; cold 137; basket 137; sugar 136; set 134; tea 133; plate 129; found 127; filled 126; things 124; eating 124; put 121; chickens 120; full 119; pipe 119; chicken 118; drank 114; cake 112; meat 111; salt 107; drinking 102; began 99; tin 98; day 98; ate 98; pie 96; half 95; eaten 95; eggs 95; cakes 93; bring 91; tobacco 91; dishes 91; potatoes 91; poured 90; butter 90; ready 87; house 87; fish 86; bacon 86; appetite 85; ice 82; supply 81; dish 80; pot 79; silver 78; small 75; fresh 75; flour 75; whiskey 74; sat 72; piece 71; morning 71; cooking 71; sweet 71; boys 69; plenty 69; gave 67; empty 67; pail 67; drop 66; liquor 65; long 64; provisions 64; beef 64; bowl 64; give 63; taste 63; smoking 63; fried 63; mouth 62; smoke 61; drunk 58; hard 57; cooked 57 0.84 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, 0.83 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 363 The pork was cold, pone ditto, potatoes also. Pone is unraised corn-cake baked in the ashes, and said to be good for indigestion. It is a favorite cake in the South. 0.83 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." 0.82 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 1161 Upon going into the supper-room, my boy, I beheld a paradise of eatables that made me wish myself a knife and pork, with nothing but a bottle of mustard to keep me company. There were oysters a la fundum ; turkeys a la ruffles ; chickens a la Methusaleh ; beef a la Bull Run ; fruit a la stumikake ; jellies a la Kallararmorbus ; and ices a la aguefitz . 0.81 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. 0.80 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 879 The manner of cooking practised in the cave was exceedingly primitive. The partridges broiled over the fire, the potatoes roasted in the ashes, and the corn-cake baked in a kettle, the meal was prepared. The artificial chamber was Cudjo's pantry. One of the giant's stools, having a broad, flat surface, served as a table. On this were placed two or three pewter plates, and as many odd cups and saucers. Cudjo had an old coffee-pot, in which he made strong black coffee. He could afford, however, neither sugar nor milk. 0.79 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 133 "I don't know," answered Frank. "Well, we will have a chunk of salt beef, coffee without any milk, butter strong enough to go alone, and crackers so hard that you couldn't break them with an ax. I tell you, the navy is played out." 0.79 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. 0.79 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1344 But Jupe has never been driven to diet on alligator meat too much of musky flavour. His usual fare is roast pork, with now and then broiled ham and chicken; failing which, a fricassee of 'coon or a barbecue of 'possum. No lack of bread besides -- maize bread -- in its various bakings of "pone", "hoe cake," and "dodger." Sometimes, too, he indulges in "Virginia biscuit," of sweetest and whitest flour. 0.78 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. ============================================================================= TOPIC 26 -- 4032 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= hand 2728; head 1742; back 1041; hands 938; arm 877; put 716; chair 650; shook 591; face 580; looked 569; drew 529; turned 509; shoulder 488; stood 461; held 457; eyes 447; sat 446; side 426; man 384; rose 384; laid 382; hat 372; forward 331; feet 309; leaned 289; pocket 287; arms 286; moment 282; seat 268; fingers 264; taking 242; began 241; table 237; slowly 231; left 223; cried 222; holding 221; lips 212; spoke 210; shaking 210; dropped 201; walked 200; raised 199; boy 197; bent 193; suddenly 192; threw 191; bowed 189; hold 188; laughed 186; knee 186; coat 180; lifted 180; exclaimed 179; touched 171; room 171; smiled 164; caught 163; softly 159; putting 156; mouth 153; floor 152; standing 151; knees 150; fell 148; leaning 148; white 146; finger 145; whispered 142; made 141; foot 141; close 139; length 139; window 138; breath 138; silence 136; door 135; pressed 134; asked 131; shoulders 131; turning 131; gently 128; girl 126; resting 125; kissed 125; sitting 122; glanced 120; quickly 119; passed 117; thrust 117; breast 116; gave 115; stepped 115; seized 112; word 111; answered 109; big 109; grasped 108; laying 107; shake 106 0.87 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. 0.85 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 1955 He went on shaking his hand as he dragged him across the room and pushed him into a dingy armchair by the window; and when he had got him there, he stood over him grasping his shoulder, shaking his hand still. Tom saw that his chin was actually twitching in a curious way which made his goatee move unsteadily. 0.84 Smith_Francis_Hopkinson_The_Other_Fellow_PG_37148_8.txt 551 When it was ended he rubbed his cheek softly against his old comrade, smoothed it once or twice with his hand, laid it tenderly back in its place on the table among the books, picked up Bob's violin from the chair, and gently closed the door behind him. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3327 The boy was propped by pillows into an upright position on the sofa, and was looking curiously into a small basket which Edna held on her lap. 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2817 The fingers of the hand that hung at his side clenched suddenly, but adjusting his glasses more firmly he said very quietly: 0.83 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. 0.82 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 1381 A murmur of assent went round the circle. The Governor, leaning forward from his seat, his wife's hand in his, gravely bent his head. "All this is known, lady," he said courteously. 0.82 Harben_Will_N_Will_Nathaniel_Northern_Georgia_Sketches_PG_50896_8.txt 911 Her hand passed gently round to the front of his shirt. She unfastened it, and began to sob as she turned the garment down at the neck. "Oh, Jim, did they hurt you? Does it -- " 0.82 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 19 He laughed, then sighed, and, sinking his chin into his hand and softly tapping his foot against the ground, fell into a reverie. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2499 Mr. Palma dropped one of her hands, and his arm passed quickly around her shoulder, while his open palm pressed her head closer against him. ============================================================================= TOPIC 27 -- 5184 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= good 1920; time 1563; night 1324; back 1222; home 1062; day 1021; give 1015; make 977; find 873; long 869; ca 773; leave 723; till 713; morning 697; stay 669; told 614; morrow 593; replied 576; thought 551; wo 541; send 512; hear 509; house 493; place 488; answered 477; thing 473; wait 465; bring 450; things 448; run 437; mother 432; work 424; put 423; hope 409; ready 392; suppose 389; trouble 384; rest 374; talk 373; afraid 368; word 365; glad 363; coming 359; mind 356; boy 350; chance 335; safe 312; care 310; man 302; friends 301; men 299; call 290; wanted 282; stop 280; added 279; expect 273; remember 268; sir 265; heard 256; start 252; stand 249; ride 240; hour 239; matter 237; ago 232; boys 232; turn 227; hurry 226; meet 219; feel 219; longer 218; show 217; live 215; business 215; asked 213; money 213; news 212; friend 206; hard 206; walk 195; pretty 194; half 192; left 189; continued 189; horse 187; begin 186; watch 185; people 183; carry 183; die 179; tired 179; country 177; minute 177; evening 176; hands 174; week 173; hold 173; knew 172; exclaimed 172; town 169 0.83 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2178 "Why it's a sort of an awkward thing to be entirely by one's self in the woods, the livelong night -- it is lonesome, you know, sister; and, to tell the truth, I almost suspect I am a little afraid of ghosts." 0.82 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 479 They wanted Jacquelin to stay with them and let them take care of him until his mother could send for him. Captain Allen had been down to see about him, and Andy Stamper had been there several times, and had said that if he didn’t hear anything from him next time, he was going North to see about him, if he had to ride his old horse there. 0.82 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 707 "I can't go," replied Tom. "We have sent our overseer, and that is as much as we can do at present. I wanted to enlist weeks ago, but father said I must stay at home and help him manage the place." 0.81 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 607 "I will tell you a little more than I told the others, Wingfield. I believe the Merrimac will go out the day after to-morrow. I wish I could get away myself to see the affair; but, unfortunately, I cannot do so. However, if you like to be present, I will give you three days' leave, as you have been working very hard lately. You can start early to-morrow, and can get down by train to Norfolk in the evening. I should advise you to take your horse with you, and then you can ride in the morning to some spot from which you will get a fair view of the Roads, and be able to see what is going on." 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 257 "I can't help it if it does. I'll have to take all he offers me, but, of course, I don't expect to keep it. Now, mother, please help me get off. The longer I fool around home the harder it will be to make a start." 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_the_Refugee_PG_31831.txt 1225 "I will take a ride presently and see if I can learn something about them. They must have been very sly in getting up their company, for I don't believe our darkies knew the first thing about it. If they did they would have told us. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good plan for me to join it." 0.81 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1196 "Ah, either he was a fool or thought I was. But good-bye. I shall gallop home as fast as possible and send back word whether I find him there or not." 0.80 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 1026 "I'll go up and see her," decided Miss Loring. "Will you excuse us, doctor? And Margeret, have Chloe get us a bit of lunch. We are all a little tired, and it is a long time till supper." 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 896 "See here, Callender," the Judge was heard to say, "you fellows don't like me, and you wouldn't come here unless you had to. But when your road gets in a tight place, you turn up and expect to walk in ahead of my friends. No, sir, if you want to see me, you've got to wait." 0.80 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 264 "I thought you'd lend me a quarter," said the boy, simply. "You took the other boys, and you told me I must be certain to go. I thought you'd lend me a quarter till I could pay you back." ============================================================================= TOPIC 28 -- 812 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= men 702; people 370; women 356; crowd 353; streets 261; great 249; day 247; children 225; town 193; city 183; street 183; village 158; white 120; houses 118; court 115; young 112; faces 109; stood 107; place 106; long 103; made 103; horses 98; gathered 93; house 90; filled 90; train 88; full 86; public 84; thousands 80; open 79; passed 78; heads 77; wagons 77; half 76; soldiers 71; windows 71; crowded 70; negroes 70; groups 70; girls 66; building 66; red 65; throng 64; end 63; ladies 63; doors 63; chief 61; stores 61; front 61; square 60; hats 60; round 59; war 57; hundred 56; scene 54; tobacco 54; colored 53; citizens 53; group 52; county 52; strange 51; hotel 51; platform 51; shouting 50; car 49; carriages 48; dozen 48; walls 48; places 47; dance 47; hundreds 46; corner 46; mothers 46; stage 46; buildings 45; cheers 45; sat 44; church 44; passing 43; side 43; excitement 43; boys 43; store 43; farmers 42; walked 41; coming 41; excited 41; flags 41; market 40; sight 40; business 40; work 39; country 39; days 39; news 39; wives 39; seat 39; multitude 39; cars 39; scattered 38 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 850 They landed on the New York side, and took a carriage for the station. Perhaps the streets of the great city were never more crowded with all kinds of vehicles, and especially with wagons loaded with merchandise of all kinds. They passed up Broadway, and Colonel Passford was silent as he witnessed the marvellous activity of the city in the midst of a great war. 0.88 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2976 "Gentlemen, hats off!" said the Mercury . "Then hip-hip-hip-hurrah! -- and hip- hip-hip-hurrah -- hurrah -- hurrah -- hurrah -- for the homes we love!"[83] 0.81 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. 0.78 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1027 Trade had spread into side-streets. Drinking-houses were gayly bedight and busy. 0.78 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 3054 Mr. Hopper alights from the car with complacency. He stands for a while on a corner, against the hot building, surveying the busy scene, unnoticed. Mules! Was it not a prophecy, -- that drove which sent him into Mr. Carvel's store? 0.74 Allen_James_Lane_Flute_and_Violin_and_other_Kentucky_Tales_and_Romances_PG_50597_0.txt 417 Before him along the street passed the flying people -- men on horseback with their wives behind and children in front, families in carts and wagons, merchants in two-wheeled gigs and sulkies. A huge red and yellow stage-coach rolled ponderously by, filled within, on top, in front, and behind with a company of riotous students of law and of medicine. A rapid chorus of voices shouted to him as they passed: 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. 0.69 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2239 We were on the parade ground, among a crowd of spectators, for the hotels were very full, and the Point very gay now. I said I saw him. 0.68 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. 0.68 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1981 The happy day came, full soon to the fathers and mothers, at long last to the eager expectant children. ============================================================================= TOPIC 29 -- 1971 chunks >= 0.25 from 62 texts ============================================================================= men 1096; soldier 540; army 530; soldiers 529; regiment 526; war 481; boys 444; officers 418; officer 399; battle 375; flag 373; camp 370; company 349; fight 316; colonel 300; general 296; guard 274; boy 257; prisoners 248; captain 247; duty 246; field 242; rebel 239; day 233; service 226; military 219; wounded 217; command 206; sergeant 190; ranks 190; country 186; friends 183; young 179; made 178; time 165; place 164; arms 154; called 151; home 150; found 145; staff 143; fellows 143; troops 141; marched 139; uniform 137; line 136; brave 136; fighting 133; great 132; lieutenant 130; comrades 128; major 128; fought 127; rebels 126; tent 116; hospital 114; head 113; drill 112; regiments 111; ready 110; lines 110; ordered 108; orders 107; days 107; heard 105; orderly 105; fellow 104; stand 103; order 102; news 102; shouted 101; sword 99; left 99; marching 95; work 94; rank 94; months 92; received 92; brigade 91; headquarters 91; enemy 90; morning 89; battles 89; front 88; passed 87; enlisted 87; squad 87; good 86; state 85; join 83; charge 81; gallant 81; joined 79; cavalry 77; surrender 77; march 76; captured 75; companies 75; quarters 75; call 75 0.83 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. 0.82 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. 0.80 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 67 "Then mounte! then mounte, brave gallants, all, And don your helmes amaine; Death's couriers, Fame and Honor, call Us to the field againe," -- 0.80 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 2357 Some weeks later, five regiments were mustered into the service of the United States. The Leader was in command of one. And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. 0.79 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 136 "That's the deputy sheriff," said the recruit with whom he had been conversing, as the two hastened toward the captain's tent. "There isn't much military about that order." 0.79 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1178 The Eleventh New Hampshire, commanded by Colonel Harriman, is in the front line. They are new troops, and this is their first battle; but they fight so gallantly that they win the admiration of their general. 0.78 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 978 "Those are the coolest fellows that ever came near my lines," said the sergeant. "Men without a pass looking out for one who has a pass!" 0.78 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 25 "Then mounte! then mounte, brave gallants, all, And don your helmes amaine; Death's couriers, Fame and Honor, call Us to the field againe." 0.78 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1722 Four more of the negroes were called out, and these carried the body into the camp of his regiment. An officer was also sent from the working party to report the capture of a spy to his colonel. 0.77 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 1058 "Then you shall be a captain. I haven't heard any such -- hic -- sentiments as you expressed used in this division before. You ought to be a -- hic -- a brigadier-general." ============================================================================= TOPIC 30 -- 1387 chunks >= 0.25 from 61 texts ============================================================================= shot 735; fire 560; gun 521; men 436; fired 419; guns 408; rifle 231; rebels 191; shots 180; enemy 178; line 172; heard 168; smoke 166; firing 163; time 156; bullet 151; woods 150; musket 140; pistol 140; moment 139; bullets 138; rebel 136; shell 133; shells 129; cannon 127; ready 126; muskets 116; aim 116; hit 115; fort 115; forward 114; powder 113; ground 112; rifles 109; side 109; close 102; heavy 100; ball 100; double 99; piece 97; boys 97; long 95; battery 95; wounded 93; loaded 90; shoot 89; ran 87; struck 86; ammunition 85; left 84; quick 84; suddenly 81; run 81; report 81; front 81; yards 80; instant 80; pieces 79; direction 79; killed 78; barrel 78; made 78; immediately 77; dozen 77; soldiers 76; rushed 76; carried 74; shooting 74; charge 73; effect 73; body 71; fight 70; half 69; revolver 68; range 68; fell 67; sharp 66; sounded 64; volley 64; position 63; dead 63; soldier 63; minutes 62; instantly 62; steady 62; air 60; advance 60; balls 60; shouted 60; aimed 59; rear 58; regiment 58; shoulder 58; roar 57; weapon 56; stood 56; crack 56; opened 55; hundred 55; bushes 55 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1253 A puff of smoke and the sharp crack of a rifle startled the enemy, as the red sheik rolled over. The yells increased on all sides, the whistles of the antelopes' horns now sounded a shrill alarm, during which the leading Baris shot off their arrows, but they fell short. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 961 In about half an hour the native yells grew fainter, the noise of their horns and drums was reduced, and the heavy firing dwindled to dropping shots. I heard the bugles sound "cease firing." I then heard "the advance." Again firing commenced, this time in volleys; then I heard once more "cease firing," and then "the retreat:" the attack was repulsed. 0.87 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. 0.86 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 269 In obedience to the order, Frank raised his gun to his shoulder, and an ounce ball and a couple of buckshot went crashing through the bushes. The commotion increased for a moment, and then ceased, and something that sounded very much like a groan issued from the woods. 0.85 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 2790 Covering their advance with a heavy fire from the sniders, the boys and men rushed forward, and immediately ignited Kabba Rega's large divan. 0.85 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. 0.83 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 3294 I now had to clear all these fellows out. The officers appeared to have quite lost their heads; and the natives had carried off all the guns and ammunition from the dead men, and had sacked and plundered the powder magazine. 0.83 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. 0.82 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. 0.81 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 496 "I only pulled you down to keep that rifle-ball from going through your head. I saw a rebel picket through the trees, ready to fire at us. The ball struck the tree before we struck the ground." ============================================================================= TOPIC 31 -- 1568 chunks >= 0.25 from 66 texts ============================================================================= life 509; world 372; man 290; great 289; nature 288; human 253; men 251; people 247; women 241; character 238; race 206; society 186; history 168; mind 164; knowledge 155; moral 153; social 146; years 138; fact 134; find 133; sense 121; power 119; age 113; true 111; law 105; beauty 104; made 101; religious 100; faith 100; found 99; thing 99; system 97; common 97; type 96; high 92; things 92; learned 92; woman 91; long 88; education 88; study 87; personal 84; religion 83; modern 82; peculiar 82; mere 82; general 80; wisdom 77; science 77; higher 76; born 75; natural 74; times 74; physical 74; good 72; lives 72; ideas 71; intellect 71; century 71; strong 70; genius 70; work 69; ordinary 69; present 68; interest 68; public 67; part 67; book 67; intellectual 67; art 67; class 66; political 66; influence 65; qualities 64; mental 64; form 63; blood 63; civilization 62; noble 62; time 61; spirit 60; idea 60; material 60; development 60; perfect 60; minds 60; laws 59; ancient 59; philosophy 59; view 58; simply 57; order 57; literature 57; young 56; wealth 56; elements 56; domestic 55; manners 55; superior 53; christian 53 0.84 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.'" 0.82 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 410 "I think," replied I, carefully putting the blacking-brush in its place, "that your nature is naturally a noble one, but has been warped and shadowed by a misconceived impression of the great arcana of the universe. You permit the genuflexions of human sin to bias your mind in its estimate of the true economy of creation; thus blighting, as it were, the fructifying evidences of your own abstract being -- " 0.80 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 4088 “Mr. Page is the brightest star in our Southern literature. He belongs to the old Virginia ‘quality’; he knows the life of the people, he knows the negro and renders his dialect perfectly, he has an eye for the picturesque, the poetic, and the humorous, and his style shows exquisite artistic taste and skill.”—NASHVILLE American . 0.80 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1649 "The universality of the admission I should certainly deny, were the subject of sufficient importance to justify a discussion. However, I have been absent so long from America, that I confess my ignorance of the last social advance in the striding enlightenment of this most progressive people. According to Moleschott's celebrated dictum -- 'Without phosphorus no thought,' and if there be any truth in physiology and phrenology, you women have been stinted by nature in the supply of phosphorus. Peacock's measurements prove that in the average weight of male and female brains, you fall below our standard by not less than six ounces. I should conjecture that in the scales of equality six ounces of ideas would turn the balance in favor of our superiority." 0.79 Cable_George_Washington_The_Cavalier_PG_9839.txt 1706 "The story contains a most attractive blending of vivid descriptions of local scenery, with admirable delineations of personal character." -- The Congregationalist . 0.78 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." 0.77 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 226 "Then, can you not compare the teachings of the Apostles, THEIR faith and THEIR practice, with the teachings of this church? ITS faith and ITS practice?" 0.77 Allen_James_Lane_The_Reign_of_Law_a_tale_of_the_Kentucky_hemp_fields_PG_3791.txt 228 "Then there is the truth. And the reason. And the proof. And the authority. And the LAW. We have no creed but the creed of the Apostolic churches; no practice but their practice; no teaching but their teaching in letter and in spirit." 0.76 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 2675 “And you always will misunderstand, my dear. Your sex always will misunderstand until they learn that woman is a more complex and finer organism that their clumsy, primary machine, moved by more delicate and complicated motives.” 0.76 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 89 "But my temperament brings me an affinity with things that are great for all that," she would affirm. "One does not need to be a physical Colossus in order to see the stars." ============================================================================= TOPIC 32 -- 2697 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= man 581; back 476; fell 445; dead 444; feet 440; blood 419; head 397; hand 392; moment 365; made 359; hands 355; ground 318; men 305; cried 297; cry 291; struck 291; time 278; instant 262; arms 259; body 258; stood 255; blow 227; forward 227; wild 226; death 225; eyes 224; sprang 219; arm 217; terror 214; seized 210; half 207; rushed 206; turned 200; face 198; rage 195; caught 178; suddenly 174; threw 173; ran 169; began 163; sudden 161; lay 160; gave 158; side 155; sight 154; youth 152; sword 147; hold 146; strength 142; air 135; foot 135; breath 134; knife 134; broke 132; earth 130; wounded 130; shot 128; voice 128; cries 126; cut 125; heart 123; horror 120; fierce 120; fallen 118; awful 118; scene 117; left 116; desperate 116; great 110; broken 109; grasp 109; quick 108; terrible 107; force 105; despair 105; life 103; dog 103; fear 102; fury 102; mad 102; heard 101; knees 99; wound 99; sound 96; savage 94; held 94; felt 94; brought 94; master 94; teeth 94; poor 93; effort 92; rose 92; burst 92; dropped 92; pain 92; shouted 91; fled 90; loud 90; instantly 89 0.87 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1718 Blinded with rage, and with the liquid streaming into his eyes, Jackson rushed at Vincent. The latter caught the blow aimed at him on the edge of the shovel, and then swinging his weapon round smote his antagonist with all his strength, the edge of the shovel falling fairly upon his head. Without a cry the traitor fell dead in his tracks. The other officers now drew their swords and rushed forward. Vincent, seeing the futility of resistance, threw down his shovel. He was instantly seized. 0.85 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. 0.85 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 1742 The gibbering maniac, exhausted in body, still incoherently raving, sank back in piteous collapse, a terrifying gurgle breaking from his throat, while his tongue absolutely protruded from his jaws. 0.85 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. 0.83 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. 0.82 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. 0.82 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 784 Before she can repeat the piercing cry, the thing grasping her relaxes its hold, letting her go altogether, and she feels herself falling, as from a great height. The sensation of giddiness is succeeded by a shock, which almost deprives her of consciousness. It is but the fall, broken by a plunge into water. Then there is a drumming in her ears, a choking in the throat; in short, the sensation that precedes drowning. 0.81 Castlemon_Harry_Frank_on_a_Gun_Boat_PG_12808.txt 938 For an instant the rebel appeared utterly dumfounded; then, suddenly recovering himself, he struck up Frank's arm, and, with a quick movement, tore himself away from his grasp, and drew his Bowie-knife. 0.81 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1896 Their shrieks, and piteous appeals, are alike disregarded. One after another they are struck, or hewn down, like saplings by the machete . A scene of red carnage, resembling a saturnalia of demons, doing murder! 0.81 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1831 The sisters, startled, terrified, have but time to give out one wild cry -- a shriek. Before either can utter a second, brawny arms embrace them; blinds are thrown over their faces; and, half stifled, they feel themselves lifted from their feet, and borne rudely and rapidly away! ============================================================================= TOPIC 33 -- 3498 chunks >= 0.25 from 67 texts ============================================================================= dear 1521; love 1296; mother 933; papa 879; good 867; child 750; father 727; poor 663; girl 574; heart 471; cried 422; ah 413; glad 410; mamma 404; happy 363; asked 335; boy 327; daughter 309; darling 307; home 306; kind 304; arms 296; answered 296; sister 295; exclaimed 287; feel 277; hand 274; sweet 259; care 247; wife 247; loved 241; bless 223; make 221; son 219; hope 217; children 215; give 212; husband 207; friend 188; sake 185; world 184; wo 183; tears 180; ca 180; woman 176; kiss 173; eyes 171; die 171; afraid 166; forgive 164; leave 156; baby 152; brother 149; added 147; tender 145; beautiful 140; hard 138; night 136; true 135; hear 134; loves 134; face 132; time 131; day 131; remember 131; sad 128; stay 128; knew 125; bear 122; coming 121; smile 121; murmured 120; loving 117; kissed 117; precious 115; marry 115; whispered 114; thing 111; things 109; neck 103; sobbed 101; smiling 100; young 99; words 99; cry 98; live 98; lady 98; fear 97; mine 97; joy 94; gentle 94; trust 93; talk 92; wicked 92; speak 91; dearly 91; naughty 90; forget 89; promise 89; fond 88 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 636 "O papa!" she murmured, in a low tone of deep feeling, laying her cheek affectionately against his hand, "I might have lost my life by my disobedience. How good God was to take care of me! Oh! I hope I shall never be so naughty again." 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 594 "How young," murmured the daughter, tears filling her eyes, "how young to be a wife, a mother, and to die and leave husband and child! Oh, papa, how I used to long for her, and dream of her -- my own precious mamma!" 0.86 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 1729 "No, Cousin Sophy, I would do anything, and suffer much, to make papa happy. You know how I love Mara, though we disagree on many points; and if she and papa would be happier -- Oh! why can't I be happy, too?" and she gave way to a tempest of sobs. 0.86 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." 0.85 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." 0.85 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." 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherhood_PG_14566.txt 1975 "Oh yes, yes mamma, I know you do, and I love you too: indeed I do dearly, dearly!" he burst out, throwing his arms about her neck. "And I know you just want to make me good and happy and that your way's always best. So I won't be naughty any more." 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2044 "Mammy dear, you shall never leave me except of your own free will," Elsie answered, in tender soothing tones. "Come, get up, and don't cry any more. Why, it would come as near breaking my heart as yours, if we had to part. What could I or my babies ever do without our old mammy to look after our comfort!" 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2450 "Mamma's dear baby must try and be patient; mamma is sure she will, and Jesus will help her if she asks Him, and forgive her, if she is sorry for being naughty," the mother said, with a tender caress. "Now let us sing, 'Jesus loves me.'" 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1061 "Ah, that is my blessed privilege," he whispered, drawing her closer to him. "My wife, my own precious little wife! God keep me from ever being less tender, loving, sympathizing to you than your father has been." ============================================================================= TOPIC 34 -- 1860 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= money 1103; dollars 844; hundred 645; pay 557; thousand 453; ten 290; paid 266; buy 249; twenty 241; made 224; give 223; dollar 207; good 200; man 198; worth 198; business 197; make 189; bought 189; fifty 186; sell 186; day 181; price 172; sold 159; sum 146; put 145; year 138; half 138; place 136; amount 136; property 136; cents 130; gold 124; bill 118; cent 118; years 117; pocket 116; stock 115; gave 114; sale 114; thirty 113; cotton 102; store 101; back 99; boy 99; times 98; cost 98; claim 93; week 92; time 91; offered 91; large 90; forty 90; mortgage 89; fifteen 86; month 85; small 83; purchase 81; wages 81; rich 79; land 79; interest 78; mother 75; market 74; bills 74; bonds 71; estate 71; offer 70; free 70; twelve 68; part 68; father 68; share 67; goods 66; bank 66; paper 66; work 65; taxes 64; town 64; things 62; seventy 62; loan 61; agent 59; months 59; find 59; hands 59; purse 59; hand 58; pounds 58; gentlemen 58; left 56; days 55; fortune 55; thought 55; told 55; raise 55; war 54; piece 54; counted 54; promised 54; farm 54 0.83 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 470 "Oh, yes; they'll run up a little. Things always do in war times. The money them medicines cost, you will be able to turn over about three times when we get back to Newbern. You'll clear about three hundred dollars, when you might just as well have made five thousand, if you'd took my advice and put in your seventeen hundred, as I wanted you to do." 0.82 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." 0.81 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." 0.81 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. 0.81 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 436 "Frank," said his father, at length, "I have deposited in the Brandon Bank four hundred dollars, about half of which I have realized from crops sold this season. This you will draw upon as you have need, for grocery bills, to pay Jacob, etc. For present purposes I will hand you fifty dollars, which I advise you to put under your mother's care." 0.80 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 2458 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A. L. BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. 0.80 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 2445 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A. L. BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. 0.79 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1435 "I have plenty of money, Vincent. Since your father's death we have had much less company than before, and I have not spent my income. Besides, I have a considerable sum invested in house property and other securities. But I have, of course, since the war began been subscribing toward the expenses of the war -- for the support of hospitals and so on. I thought at a time like this I ought to keep my expenses down at the lowest point, and to give the balance of my income to the State." 0.79 Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieutenant_or_The_Adventures_of_an_Army_Officer_PG_25886.txt 2415 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A. L. BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. 0.79 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 1029 "I only get five dollars a week for my valuable services," said Tom. "I pay that for board, and get my clothes with the balance. If I hadn't a fortune of ten dollars to fall back upon, I'd have to go without." ============================================================================= TOPIC 35 -- 833 chunks >= 0.25 from 59 texts ============================================================================= church 476; sing 269; music 248; voice 239; song 225; singing 223; sang 192; prayer 145; words 119; sung 116; hear 114; heard 111; hymn 109; sweet 108; parson 107; soul 106; congregation 105; songs 103; pulpit 103; sermon 95; night 87; pastor 86; day 85; voices 84; choir 83; time 82; play 82; notes 80; morning 76; meeting 75; chorus 74; began 69; organ 67; solemn 67; musical 65; tune 64; played 63; minister 61; preached 60; dance 59; called 58; preacher 58; sound 57; people 56; sat 56; joined 55; band 55; roll 55; piano 53; preach 53; service 52; instrument 52; pew 52; religious 51; listened 51; flute 51; evening 50; book 49; hymns 49; pious 48; melody 48; prayers 47; long 46; playing 46; lad 46; read 44; meetings 44; tones 44; begun 43; air 41; great 40; school 40; funeral 40; strains 38; members 37; young 37; aisle 37; broke 36; end 35; full 35; call 35; love 35; religion 35; clear 34; strain 34; ended 33; note 33; sleep 33; listening 33; amen 33; ears 32; common 32; faith 32; seats 32; grand 31; ceased 31; sitting 31; grave 31; stood 31; prayed 31 0.87 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?" 0.80 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 -- 0.79 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 0.78 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. 0.77 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." 0.77 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 996 "O march, de angel march! O march, de angel march! O my soul arise in heaven, Lord, for to yearde when Jordan roll! Roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll." 0.76 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1524 Little children sitting on the tree of life. To hear the Jordan roll; O roll, Jordan roll, Jordan roll, Jordan roll. We march the angel march, O march the angel march, O my soul is rising heavenward To hear the Jordan roll.] 0.76 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 1067 "O my soul arise in heaven, Lord, for to yearde when Jordan roll, Roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll Jordan, roll," -- 0.75 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3386 The ordination sermon was solemn and eloquent, and preached from the text in Romans: 0.74 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 3399 And all hearts and lips present whispered "Amen!" and the organ and the choir broke forth in a grand "Gloria in excelsis." ============================================================================= TOPIC 36 -- 2704 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= man 2258; good 1482; fellow 696; men 572; young 518; thing 473; make 451; ha 322; fight 286; give 286; poor 279; boy 273; exclaimed 262; play 255; woman 251; fool 251; friend 236; brave 236; life 218; cried 216; bad 213; people 212; ca 209; ah 205; put 203; major 202; devil 195; talk 191; call 190; told 183; time 182; word 182; sort 180; women 178; honest 178; world 177; replied 177; stand 174; fellows 174; hand 169; game 168; suppose 168; chance 166; true 164; fair 163; pretty 163; thought 156; care 152; soldier 151; sir 151; makes 148; deal 146; heard 146; afraid 141; made 139; back 133; big 132; war 131; turn 131; hear 130; soul 130; gentleman 127; things 126; kind 125; truth 123; dare 121; mind 119; business 118; hold 118; country 117; great 117; worth 117; understand 116; night 116; head 116; hard 116; luck 116; find 115; played 113; show 110; doubt 108; courage 108; fighting 107; friends 104; set 104; story 104; black 102; work 100; save 96; trick 96; heart 94; laugh 93; trouble 92; sergeant 92; speak 92; added 90; lie 89; worst 88; worse 88; called 87 0.85 Churchill_Winston_The_Crisis_Complete_PG_5396.txt 1303 "Why, he's the biggest-hearted man I know. You know him, Oglesby, -- Silas Whipple. But a man has to be a Daniel or a General Putnam to venture into that den of his. There's only one man in the world who can beard Silas, and he's the finest states-right Southern gentleman you ever saw. I mean Colonel Carvel. You've heard of him, Oglesby. Don't they quarrel once in a while, Mr. Brice?" 0.84 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2466 "Not if he be the man I take him to be, young lady," replied Horse Shoe. "The world says he is above doing a cowardly thing; and it isn't natural for one brave man to wish harm against another, except in open war." 0.83 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1670 "So much the better for you," replied the sergeant. "If your people are brave sodgers or honest men, you will not have much occasion to be afeard for yourself; but, by my right hand! if so much as one hair of Major Arthur Butler's head be hurt by Colonel Innis, or by any other man among your pillaging and brandishing bullies, I myself will drive a bullet through from one of your ears to the other. This game of war is a stiff game, young man, but we will play it out." 0.82 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 393 "I wonder what those two fellows are talking about?" he said to himself. "I expect Jackson is trying to pump Pearson as to the doings at the Orangery. I don't like that fellow, and never shall, and he is just the sort of man to do one a bad turn if he had the chance. However, as I have never spoken to him about that affair from beginning to end, I don't see that he can do any mischief if he wants to." 0.82 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 187 "This big fellow is abusing and devouring a poor little chap, eh? and the chap's black?" 0.81 Cable_George_Washington_John_March_Southerner_PG_31470_8.txt 1977 "Tell who? Oh, John! -- yes, I only wish to gracious some one would! But men don't do that sort of thing for one another. If a man takes such a risk as that for another you may know he loves him; and if a woman takes it you may know she doesn't." 0.81 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 490 "There's a good deal in clo's," thought Tom, philosophically. "It makes all the difference between a young gentleman and a bootblack." 0.80 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!" 0.79 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 620 "In good truth, shall I, boy? You are a brave promiser! You remember your own adage, -- Brag was a good dog, but Holdfast was better." 0.79 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 614 "It was a good lie," declared Nicholas, in manful defence of the weak. "I don't believe she's goin' to be damned for a good lie and a little one, too." ============================================================================= TOPIC 37 -- 3619 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= day 1026; room 1026; time 916; morning 792; home 708; evening 698; house 680; young 612; found 544; hour 437; family 431; returned 411; party 399; made 395; left 391; visit 387; mother 385; night 379; father 379; afternoon 359; return 358; lady 323; place 318; good 314; company 310; breakfast 305; called 304; early 293; conversation 291; days 285; long 282; dinner 279; ladies 276; table 267; friends 264; met 258; present 255; entered 244; usual 243; half 241; wife 234; asked 231; leave 224; gentlemen 219; parlor 218; spent 217; invited 215; late 214; supper 211; pleasant 206; sat 204; meet 202; rest 197; guests 195; week 193; told 191; part 186; guest 185; pleasure 180; arrived 176; passed 173; attention 171; sitting 167; invitation 166; pleased 165; ready 163; sister 160; wished 153; taking 153; appeared 152; city 152; carriage 151; children 151; gave 151; ride 150; heard 147; leaving 144; arrival 143; engaged 140; seat 140; gentleman 140; stay 138; servants 136; occasion 135; weeks 135; talk 135; husband 134; brought 133; daughter 132; quiet 131; talking 131; seated 130; drawing 130; felt 129; received 128; son 128; making 127; presence 126; joined 123; make 123 0.90 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 351 But he did not come; and when the dinner hour arrived, the children were told that they were to dine in the nursery, on account of the large number of guests to be entertained in the dining-room. The company remained until bedtime; she was not called down to the parlor; and so saw nothing of her father that day. 0.88 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1443 Not long after there came invitations for himself, wife and Fanny to attend the bridal party, at the residence of Judge Fulton, on the evening of July 25. Frank, who was also invited, had his own reason for not wishing his mother or sister to see Fanny until they met her at Judge Fulton’s. Consequently he was not sorry when both ladies graciously informed him that Miss Middleton would not be invited by them to visit at their house. "Of course," said Mrs. Cameron, "we shall invite Kate and her husband, and shall be glad to see them. If you choose, you can in your own name invite Fanny, but if she knows anything she will not come." 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1918 Elsie spent the first hour after breakfast at the piano, practising, and the second in her papa's dressing-room, studying and reciting to him; then they took a long ride on horseback, and when they returned she found that quite a number of the expected guests had already arrived. 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 1232 Now it so happened that afternoon that Arthur, who had made himself sick by over-indulgence in sweetmeats, and had in consequence been lounging about the house doing nothing for the last day or two, remained at home while all the rest of the family were out, walking, riding, or visiting. 0.87 Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_PG_6440.txt 184 Thus repulsed, she said no more, but gave her undivided attention to her employment; and so diligent was she, that Miss Day had no excuse whatever for fault-finding this morning. Her tasks were all completed within the required time, and she enjoyed her promised ride with her aunt and Miss Allison, and her visit to the fair, very much indeed. 0.86 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 779 The rest of the winter passed quietly and happily with our friends at Ion and the Oaks, Mr. Travilla spending nearly half his time at the latter place, and in rides and walks with Elsie, whom he now and then coaxed to Ion for a call upon his mother. 0.85 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1920 The first day in fact was spent at Ion; the next he rode over to the Oaks. Mrs. Murray always made him very comfortable, and was delighted to have the opportunity; for the place was lonely for her in the absence of the family. She was on the veranda as he rode up that morning attended by his servant. 0.84 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1148 After some further conversation it was arranged that Mr. Miller, Ashton, Stanton, Raymond and Cameron should all accompany Mr. Middleton on his projected visit to his brother. Soon after Mr. Ashton departed for his boarding place, and the remainder of the company separated for the night. 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 932 It was not for want of a cordial invitation to both the Oaks and Ion that Harry was left behind; but business required his presence at home, and he could only promise himself a week's holiday at the time of the wedding. 0.84 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 930 The two weeks allotted to Lansdale of course passed very rapidly; especially to Harry, to whom the society of these new-found relatives was a great pleasure, and who on their departure would be left behind, with only Phillis for his housekeeper. ============================================================================= TOPIC 38 -- 2787 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= father 397; good 296; daughter 291; give 279; make 266; offer 247; hope 240; mother 235; confidence 234; son 233; trust 232; man 222; friend 219; accept 216; feel 215; respect 214; present 212; family 200; duty 196; position 190; heart 190; felt 186; wife 185; kind 183; honor 181; regard 175; kindness 173; young 172; future 166; gentleman 164; wishes 164; permit 162; subject 159; circumstances 158; made 155; pleasure 155; offered 154; great 154; matter 154; love 154; favor 152; influence 149; care 148; understand 136; find 134; power 133; desire 132; fully 129; request 129; life 128; dear 126; reason 124; terms 124; character 123; society 121; guardian 121; accepted 118; assured 118; brother 118; girl 118; marriage 117; prove 116; leave 115; marry 115; affection 114; friends 113; proud 113; service 112; return 112; mine 112; claim 109; generous 108; promise 107; consent 107; gratitude 107; wished 106; child 106; gave 103; refused 102; happiness 102; worthy 102; win 101; fear 101; time 99; expect 99; consideration 99; opinion 98; regret 98; sake 97; opportunity 97; husband 97; pride 96; grateful 96; act 95; secret 95; lady 95; means 94; pleased 93; interest 93; hands 93 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2515 "Your petulant vehemence is both unbecoming and displeasing; and in future you would do well to recollect that, as a child submitted to my guidance by your mother's desire, it is disrespectful both to her and to me to insist upon a course at variance with our judgment and wishes." 0.87 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2741 "No, Mr Manning! We do not love each other, and I can never be your wife. It is useless for me to assure you that I am flattered by your preference, that I am inexpressibly proud of the distinction you have generously offered to confer upon me. Sir, you can not doubt that I do most fully and gratefully appreciate this honor, which I had neither the right to expect nor the presumption to dream of. My reverence and admiration are, I confess, almost boundless, but I find not one atom of love; and an examination of my feelings satisfies me that I could never yield you that homage of heart, that devoted affection which God demands that every wife should pay her husband. You have quite as little love for me. We enjoy each other's society because our pursuits are similar, our tastes congenial, our aspirations identical. In pleasant and profitable companionship we can certainly indulge as heretofore, and it would greatly pain me to be deprived of it in future, but this can be ours without the sinful mockery of a marriage -- for such I hold a loveless union. I feel that I must have your esteem and your society, but your love I neither desire nor ever expect to possess; for the sentiments you cherish for me are precisely similar to those which I entertain toward you. Mr. Manning, we shall always be firm friends, but nothing more." 0.86 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2892 Despite the chronic sneers with which Olga always referred to his character and habitual conduct, Regina could not withhold a reverence for his opinion, and an earnest admiration of his grave, dignified, yet polished deportment in his household. 0.85 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 482 "Not that I disapproved, you must understand. No daughter could be more devoted. I could not be without her now. But I had a hope -- a mother's foolish hope -- that perhaps it might be a love affair; that the marriage would renew his interest in life and thus accomplish what the physicians could not do -- save him." 0.84 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 362 "It's a great responsibility, no doubt, to come on one so young," said the old lady, "but it's of God's appointment. He will strengthen your hands, if you will only ask Him. If you humbly seek His guidance and assistance, you need not fear to fail." 0.84 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3784 "Yes, to manifest, but not to feel. You took him from me, and I was unwilling to annoy you with useless petitions and complaints. You assured me he was well cared for, and that I need not expect to have him while I remained here; now I am going away for ever, I want him. You gave him to me once; he is mine; and you have no right to withhold him any longer." 0.83 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 1133 "I trust you will pardon me the liberty I take, in warning you to be exceedingly circumspect in your intercourse with her, for I have reason to believe that her sentiments toward you are not so friendly as might be desired." 0.82 Newell_R_H_Robert_Henry_The_Orpheus_C_Kerr_Papers_Series_PG_35906.txt 756 "I have the honor to say to your lordship, that your lordship must be aware of your lordship's important duty as a Minister to the United States, and I trust that your lordship will pay a little attention to your lordship's grammar when next your lordship addresses your lordship's most obedient servant. Your lordship will permit me to say to your lordship, that your lordship is in no way capable of interpreting the Constitution to your lordship's American friends; and I trust your lordship will not be offended when I state to your lordship, that your lordship will find nothing in the Constitution to compel your lordship to demand your lordship's passport on account of the recent capture of State prisoners from one of your lordship's government's vessels, your lordship." 0.81 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 2505 "Henceforth the 'disrespectful idea' shall never be associated with the name of Mr. Douglass Lindsay, and in the future I warn you, there shall be none but a purely fraternal niche allowed him; moreover, it is not requisite that you should speak of him as 'dear Douglass' in order to assure me of your sisterly regard. What I shall do with my unfortunate young cousin is not quite so transparent; for Elliott will not receive his rejection by proxy." 0.80 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 2140 "You have done your duty, Frank, at the sacrifice of your inclinations. I think you ought to be rewarded. God has bestowed upon me more than I need. I think he intends that I shall become his almoner. If you desire to express your gratitude, you can best do it by improving the advantages which will be opened to you." ============================================================================= TOPIC 39 -- 1632 chunks >= 0.25 from 69 texts ============================================================================= read 1133; paper 616; letter 611; book 599; written 362; story 331; reading 300; books 278; write 277; letters 240; wrote 230; writing 183; author 182; volume 179; pocket 177; history 173; papers 169; boy 164; page 162; copy 150; envelope 128; great 126; series 122; found 122; stories 122; young 121; interest 115; finished 112; pen 111; time 109; lines 109; hand 108; handed 102; pages 101; work 100; note 100; interesting 99; day 96; contents 95; reader 94; writer 90; chapter 88; boys 85; desk 85; list 84; names 82; line 81; sheet 79; aloud 78; full 77; opened 76; original 76; account 75; pencil 75; contained 73; volumes 73; laid 72; present 72; marked 72; eye 71; literary 71; words 69; tale 69; information 68; reads 68; leaves 67; newspaper 67; ink 65; carefully 64; piece 63; article 63; made 62; picture 62; readers 62; text 62; document 61; published 60; hero 60; open 59; put 59; narrative 58; long 57; addressed 57; poem 57; library 56; title 55; glanced 55; told 54; table 54; adventures 54; printed 53; excellent 53; handwriting 53; photograph 53; complete 52; seal 52; end 50; newspapers 50; taking 49; characters 49 0.93 Optic_Oliver_Taken_by_the_Enemy_PG_18579.txt 1932 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 boy's 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_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1696 "The story from its inception, and through the twelve volumes (see Second Series), is a bewitching one, while the information imparted concerning the countries of Europe and the isles of the sea is not only correct in every particular, but is told in a captivating style. OLIVER OPTIC will continue to be the boys' friend, and his pleasant books will continue to be read by thousands of American boys. What a fine holiday present either or both series of 'Young America Abroad' would be for a young friend! It would make a little library highly prized by the recipient, and would not be an expensive one." -- Providence Press. 0.92 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 . 0.91 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. 0.91 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1553 "The series has this peculiarity, that all of its constituent volumes are independent of one another, and therefore each story is complete in itself. OLIVER OPTIC is, perhaps, the favorite author of the boys and girls of this country, and he seems destined to enjoy an endless popularity. He deserves his success, for he makes very interesting stories, and inculcates none but the best sentiments, and the 'Yacht Club' is no exception to this rule." -- New Haven Journal and Courier . 0.91 Castlemon_Harry_Marcy_The_Blockade_Runner_PG_29387.txt 1499 No author of the present day has become a greater favorite with boys than "Harry Castlemon;" every book by him is sure to meet with hearty reception by young readers generally. His naturalness and vivacity lead his readers from page to page with breathless interest, and when one volume is finished the fascinated reader, like Oliver Twist, asks "for more." 0.91 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 1514 The interest in these stories is continuous, and there is a great variety of exciting incident woven into the solid information which the book imparts so generously and without the slightest suspicion of dryness. Manly boys will welcome this volume as cordially as they did its predecessors. -- Boston Gazette . 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1683 "The series has this peculiarity, that all of its constituent volumes are independent of one another, and therefore each story is complete in itself. OLIVER OPTIC is, perhaps, the favorite author of the boys and girls of this country, and he seems destined to enjoy an endless popularity. He deserves his success, for he makes very interesting stories, and inculcates none but the best sentiments, and the 'Yacht Club' is no exception to this rule." -- New Haven Journal and Courier. 0.91 Castlemon_Harry_Rodney_The_Partisan_PG_29300.txt 1427 No author of the present day has become a greater favorite with boys than "Harry Castlemon;" every book by him is sure to meet with hearty reception by young readers generally. His naturalness and vivacity lead his readers from page to page with breathless interest, and when one volume is finished the fascinated reader, like Oliver Twist, asks "for more." 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1717 The interest in these stories is continuous, and there is a great variety of exciting incident woven into the solid information which the book imparts so generously and without the slightest suspicion of dryness. Manly boys will welcome this volume as cordially as they did its predecessors. -- Boston Gazette . ============================================================================= TOPIC 40 -- 2072 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= time 374; present 316; part 233; made 230; purpose 210; party 200; great 198; condition 195; journey 193; sergeant 184; day 182; moment 182; plan 177; war 167; interest 166; place 160; escape 158; short 156; make 156; brought 153; country 151; soldier 148; enemy 147; whilst 146; circumstances 142; success 135; events 132; prisoner 131; occurred 129; night 127; object 125; military 125; late 124; means 122; service 121; succeeded 120; view 119; mind 118; operations 116; family 116; position 115; point 115; determined 114; difficulty 114; danger 113; order 111; resolved 109; long 109; scene 109; officer 108; occasion 106; engaged 105; safety 105; retreat 104; character 102; movements 102; enterprise 101; appeared 100; attention 99; soldiers 99; event 97; required 97; case 97; general 96; enabled 96; felt 95; friends 95; greater 94; presence 94; gave 93; companions 92; prisoners 91; duty 90; anxious 90; difficulties 89; making 89; full 88; companion 88; directed 88; army 87; important 87; arrived 86; neighborhood 86; immediately 85; pursuit 85; action 84; battle 84; fact 83; delay 83; distance 82; found 82; travellers 82; necessity 81; led 81; account 81; personal 80; nature 80; opportunity 78; end 78; guard 78 0.87 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3255 This journey was protracted through several days. The disturbed state of the country, produced by the active hostilities which were now renewed, made it prudent for our wayfarers frequently to halt amongst the friendly inhabitants of the region through which they travelled, in order to obtain information, or wait for the passage of troops whose presence might have caused embarrassment. 0.85 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2070 It was soon ascertained that Williams had abandoned the field he had won, and had retreated beyond the reach of immediate pursuit. And as the post at Musgrove's mill afforded many advantages, in reference to the means of communicating with the garrisons of the middle section of the province, and was more secure against the hazard of molestation from such parties of Whigs as might still be out-lying, an order was sent to Macdonald to remove with his prisoner to the habitation of the miller, and there to detain him until some final step should be taken in his case. 0.84 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 730 The wide-spread disaffection of the region through which our adventurers were about to pass, inculcated the necessity of the utmost vigilance to avoid molestation from the numerous parties that were then abroad hastening to the seat of war. Under the almost entire guidance of Robinson, who was familiar with every path in this neighborhood, Butler's plan was to temporize with whatever difficulties might beset his way, and to rely upon his own and his comrade's address for escape. 0.82 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1116 These disclosures opened the eyes of Butler and his companion to the imminent perils that encompassed them, and prompted them to the exercise of the strictest vigilance. Like discreet and trusty soldiers, they pursued their way with the most unwavering courage, confident that the difficulty of retreat was fully equal to that of the advance. 0.81 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. 0.81 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3206 When this was done, he gave a narrative of the events relating to the escape of Butler and his subsequent recapture at the funeral of John Ramsay, to which, it may be imagined, Mildred and Henry listened with the most absorbed attention. 0.80 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 1936 When Arthur Butler was conducted back to his place of confinement, after his trial, orders were given that no one should be allowed to approach him, except the officer to whom was intrusted his safe custody. The intercourse of this person with him was short; and concerned only with the scant accommodation which his condition required. He was, therefore, deprived of all chance of becoming acquainted with the extraordinary events that had led to his present respite from death. In the interrogations that had, during the first moments of excitement, been put to him, in regard to the letter, he was not told its import; from what quarter it had come; nor how it affected his fate. He only knew, by the result, that it had suspended the purpose of his immediate execution; and he saw that it had produced great agitation at head-quarters. He found, moreover, that this, or some other cause, had engendered a degree of exasperation against him, that showed itself in the retrenchment of his comforts, and in the augmented rigor of his confinement. 0.79 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 3163 As the events of this history are confined to the duration of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina, it becomes me to prepare my reader for the conclusion to which, doubtless much to his content, he will hear that we are now hastening. We have reached a period which brings us to take notice of certain important operations that were in progress upon the frontier, and touching the details of which, to avoid prolixity, I must refer to the graver chronicles of the times. It answers my present purpose merely to apprise my reader that Colonel Clarke had lately assembled his followers and marched to Augusta, where he had made an attack upon Brown, but that almost at the moment when his dexterous and valiant adversary had fallen within his grasp, a timely succor from Fort Ninety-Six, under the command of Cruger, had forced him to abandon his ground, and retreat towards the mountain districts of North Carolina. To this, it is important to add that Ferguson had now recruited a considerable army amongst the native Tories, and had moved to the small frontier village of Gilbert-town, with a purpose to intercept Clarke, and thus place him under the disadvantage of having a foe both in front and rear. 0.78 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 721 "Sir, at the close of the conflict yesterday, my forces being exhausted by the extraordinary length of the time during which they were engaged with yours on that and the preceding day, and it being apparent that you had received and were still receiving reinforcement, I felt it my duty to withdraw my troops from the immediate scene of the conflict." 0.78 Kennedy_John_Pendleton_Horse_Shoe_Robinson_A_Tale_of_the_Tory_Ascendency_PG_33478_8.txt 2023 Horse Shoe had now entered the cabin with David Ramsay, and in the course of the hour that followed, during which the family had prepared refreshment for the travellers, the sergeant had fully canvassed all the particulars necessary to be known for his future guidance. It was determined that he and John should remain in their present concealment until night, and then endeavor to reach the mill under cover of the darkness, and open some means of communication with the family of the miller. ============================================================================= TOPIC 41 -- 1835 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= years 1299; father 1074; mother 963; man 731; son 644; young 611; wife 526; ago 496; family 493; boy 484; home 469; child 406; daughter 399; died 392; brother 388; married 362; long 342; day 341; year 328; told 319; age 317; days 305; husband 305; lived 304; woman 269; left 258; poor 257; great 255; girl 251; time 245; children 237; life 226; house 222; death 221; story 220; dead 216; war 212; thought 210; born 202; twenty 193; live 183; remember 182; heard 178; sister 178; lady 177; loved 173; months 169; older 158; met 157; lost 148; living 147; back 143; ten 140; younger 137; knew 136; friends 135; brought 134; place 134; called 131; grown 126; friend 125; country 121; parents 119; grandmother 118; marriage 113; gentleman 108; named 107; care 106; people 101; widow 98; college 94; boys 93; world 92; brothers 91; beautiful 90; grandfather 90; dear 89; sisters 89; killed 88; good 84; asked 84; week 83; health 83; school 83; fine 82; fellow 80; weeks 80; marry 80; plantation 80; town 78; rich 76; person 76; fortune 74; month 73; property 72; mine 72; aged 72; found 71; grave 71; thirty 70 0.85 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. 0.85 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 2822 "You remember the story you heard here today -- the story of your guest and guardian, who sold the white child of his own brother? and the day when that was done is not so long past! It is so close that the child is now only a girl of twenty-three, the girl who was educated by her father's brother that she might prove a more desirable addition to your bondslaves!" 0.84 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 443 "I don't know whether you've seen the daughter or not -- I'm sure you haven't for the past year or so, for she's been away. But she's in town now, and, by Jove, the girl is really beautiful. And I'm a judge of beauty. Do you remember my wife thirty years ago, judge?" 0.83 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 2330 "The Carringtons -- father and sons -- have all fallen, Sophie is here, with her orphan children; her mother-in-law, with her own daughter, Lucy Ross. Philip has escaped unhurt. They will all be here next week to attend May's wedding. 0.82 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." 0.80 Dickinson_Anna_E_Anna_Elizabeth_What_Answer_PG_15402.txt 1280 Here some poor fellow, -- poor indeed, -- delirious with fever, called out, "Mother! mother! I want to see my mother!" 0.79 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 328 "Sixteen; just as old as Anna was when she died, and just as old as my mother was when she was married; so it seems you are not too young to die, or to be married either, if you are too young to go out with me," said Dr. Lacey. 0.78 Chesnutt_Charles_W_Charles_Waddell_The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_PG_472.txt 340 "I told him we were people of no family, and that we had no relatives that we were proud of. He said he loved you for yourself, and would never ask you about your ancestry." 0.78 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 150 My father had moved from the State of New York to Torrentville when I was eight years old, and soon after the death of my mother. He had three children, Clarence, Flora, and myself. He bought a farm just out of the village, employed a housekeeper, and for four years got along very well. But he was too ambitious, and worked too hard for his constitution. After a four years' residence in the west, he died. That was a sad day to us, for he was the kindest of fathers. Poor Flora scarcely ceased to weep, at times, for a year, over the loss of her only parent. 0.78 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 2539 About this time, St. Clare's brother Alfred, with his eldest son, a boy of twelve, spent a day or two with the family at the lake. ============================================================================= TOPIC 42 -- 2256 chunks >= 0.25 from 49 texts ============================================================================= natives 541; country 468; people 462; men 451; troops 347; slave 298; government 294; cattle 275; station 265; large 250; arrived 247; vessels 240; great 220; expedition 207; river 203; miles 187; soldiers 179; force 165; camp 165; time 162; immediately 160; trade 156; native 154; attack 153; arrival 148; slaves 148; started 146; corn 145; hunters 138; returned 135; work 131; general 128; number 123; received 122; degrees 120; orders 118; small 116; traders 114; usual 113; appeared 109; ivory 108; return 107; impossible 103; days 103; ordered 100; quickly 100; arranged 99; officers 98; high 95; carried 95; villages 95; determined 93; south 92; party 92; sheik 92; gave 91; good 90; yards 88; accompanied 88; left 86; explained 86; supply 85; position 83; declared 83; king 83; cows 83; women 82; distant 82; order 80; grass 80; attacked 79; twenty 79; killed 78; journey 78; march 78; ammunition 76; egyptian 74; steamers 72; manner 72; generally 71; simply 71; length 71; day 71; transport 70; formed 70; numbers 70; excellent 70; governor 70; made 70; powerful 70; spot 69; fifty 68; entire 66; tribe 66; including 65; village 65; herd 65; carriers 65; distance 64; quarters 64 0.93 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1128 I had not returned these vessels earlier, as I required all the sailors to assist in building the station, and in collecting corn for the troops. At this season (October) the Nile was at its maximum, therefore I hoped there would be no difficulty in the return voyage to Khartoum with empty vessels, and the stream in their favour. Had I returned them earlier, I should have been obliged to victual them for a four months' voyage, at a time when corn was extremely scarce. The sailors had now assisted us in our work, and they would not require provisions for more than two months, as the Nile was full. 0.91 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 130 Six steamers, varying from 40 to 80-horse power, were ordered to leave Cairo in June, together with fifteen sloops and fifteen diahbeeahs -- total, thirty-six vessels -- to ascend the cataracts of the Nile to Khartoum, a distance by river of about 1,450 miles. These vessels were to convey the whole of the merchandise. 0.91 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1096 The soldiers and sailors, including all the women of the camp, were employed for some days in conveying the corn to head-quarters. If our people had worked well, we should have had a supply for twelve months. Instead of which, a force of 650 men had actually delivered in the magazine only 150 urdeps, or about 670 bushels. 0.90 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 715 "I sent for the chief, Allorron, who, upon arrival with some other natives, explained that his country had been destroyed by the attacks of the people of Loquia at the instigation of the traders. I promised him protection if he and his people would return to the mainland and become true subjects to the Khedive. At the same time I informed him that, in return for protection, his people must cultivate corn, and build the huts required for the troops upon arrival. This he promised to do, and I arranged that he should summon a general meeting of the headmen and their people to-morrow, or as soon as possible. 0.89 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1907 A station of 350 men consumes daily . . . . 700 lbs. In addition, they require to exchange for flour . . . . 350 lbs. -- -- - Daily consumption of flesh . . 1,050 lbs. 0.89 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.) 0.89 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. 0.88 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. 0.88 Baker_Samuel_White_Sir_Ismailia_PG_3607.txt 1689 In the evening, the cattle arrived with the rear-guard. I had requested the old sheik to have a zareeba prepare, for them; this was quickly accomplished, therefore an ox was slaughtered as a reward for all those who had worked at the inclosure. 0.88 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 43 -- 966 chunks >= 0.25 from 68 texts ============================================================================= laughed 549; laugh 346; laughing 191; boy 182; good 180; man 142; laughter 125; gave 122; joke 121; made 119; looked 116; smiled 105; began 104; general 101; smile 100; remarked 98; shoulders 87; speech 80; added 74; burst 74; story 70; young 68; cried 68; thought 66; air 65; fat 63; told 63; mouth 61; heartily 61; loud 57; broke 56; hear 55; funny 55; amused 51; fun 50; called 49; ridiculous 49; exclaimed 49; hearty 46; merriment 44; crowd 43; delight 43; gravity 42; head 41; face 40; giving 40; picture 40; fellow 39; asked 39; telling 39; shrugged 39; humor 39; spite 38; returned 38; boys 38; stories 38; big 37; pleasant 36; mirth 36; jokes 36; call 35; nodded 35; retorted 35; show 34; remark 34; voice 34; gentlemen 34; mock 34; heard 33; reckon 33; merry 33; eliphalet 33; pleased 32; half 32; youth 31; jest 31; smiling 31; comical 31; tone 30; fool 30; talk 30; speaker 30; reminded 29; great 28; declared 28; expense 28; stop 28; company 28; outright 28; meant 28; companions 27; responded 27; aloud 27; natured 27; grimly 27; chuckle 27; joined 26; merrily 25; angry 25; droll 25 0.80 Keenan_Henry_F_Henry_Francis_The_Iron_Game_A_Tale_of_the_War_PG_10062.txt 259 "Yes, mein golonel, I hof cabbage und sauerkraut und" -- looking about circumspectly -- " etwas schnapps aus Antwerpen gebracht?" 0.80 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 758 He smiled in the same lazy, yet deferential way, as the Countess chatted and questioned him. He confessed he did not remember why he had returned; at least he could not tell in a crowd, or with cynical Dumaresque listening to him. 0.79 Page_Thomas_Nelson_Red_Rock_A_Chronicle_of_Reconstruction_PG_49648_0.txt 1411 This declaration was received with an outburst of applause, not unmingled with laughter, for his audience had some appreciation of humor. 0.76 Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Hope_A_Tale_of_Colonial_Virginia_PG_21886.txt 711 The man received this intimation with a malevolent grin. "Talking big eases the smart, don't it?" and he broke into his yelling laugh. 0.74 Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_A_Horseman_of_the_Plains_PG_1298.txt 490 He gave a hilarious chuckle. "No, Em'ly knows nothing o' them joys. So yu' have no notion about her? Well, I've got one. I reckon maybe she was hatched after a big thunderstorm." 0.74 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?" 0.74 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 -- 0.73 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. 0.73 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2450 "Just four of them!" said Mr. Thorold, settling his cap down over his brows; but then he laughed, and I laughed; how we laughed! 0.72 Alger_Horatio_Tom_The_Bootblack_or_The_Road_to_Success_PG_26355.txt 482 "Perhaps," said Bessie, with a little coquettish glance at Tom, whom she privately thought a very good-looking boy; "perhaps this young gentleman will look after me." ============================================================================= TOPIC 44 -- 1932 chunks >= 0.25 from 70 texts ============================================================================= good 740; school 661; time 557; great 552; 532; things 502; day 454; people 436; thought 416; make 383; made 365; work 334; knew 322; deal 319; thing 310; read 259; mind 230; books 226; home 219; girls 211; world 207; care 195; learn 195; wanted 193; study 188; boys 187; sort 184; put 183; mother 177; long 176; found 175; life 174; give 174; pleasure 174; told 171; lesson 167; teach 165; talk 163; children 162; teacher 162; began 160; child 160; lessons 158; poor 156; hard 155; kind 150; set 144; place 135; rest 135; pleasant 132; learned 130; times 125; aunt 125; girl 124; find 122; gave 121; pretty 119; suppose 119; days 117; looked 117; remember 115; bad 111; matter 110; book 109; learning 108; asked 107; talked 105; class 101; felt 100; taught 99; feel 95; back 93; glad 92; sit 90; ashamed 90; year 88; understand 88; end 86; thinking 86; full 84; fine 84; governess 84; knowledge 83; room 83; till 82; doctor 82; afraid 82; speak 79; dear 79; bit 77; father 76; making 75; fun 75; comfort 75; church 74; boy 72; task 71; fellow 71; music 70; happy 69 0.85 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1849 "But it's too bad, Macy," said the girl. "We're all so rough, you know. We don't know how to behave ourselves; we can't make curtsies; our mothers never taught us anything, and dancing masters are no good. We ought to go to Egypt. There isn't anything so truly dignified as a pyramid. There is a great deal of à plomb there!" 0.82 Optic_Oliver_Down_the_River_Or_Buck_Bradford_and_His_Tyrants_PG_24283.txt 1377 "I had no idea that you were actually abused. Boys are always grumbling and complaining, and some of them think their lot is a great deal harder than it is. Flora didn't say anything in her letters; she didn't complain." 0.80 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 1767 Just before the vacation, my aunt came home from Europe. With her came the end of my obscurity. She brought me, from my mother, a great supply of all sorts of pretty French dresses, hats, gloves, and varieties. Chosen by my mother; as pretty and elegant, and simple too, as they could be; but once putting them on, I could never be unnoticed by my schoolmates any more. I knew it, with a certain feeling that was not displeasure. Was it pride? Was it anything more than my pleasure in all pretty things? I thought it was something more. And I determined that I would not put on any of them till school was broken up. If it was pride, I was ashamed of it. But besides French dresses, my aunt brought me a better thing; a promise from my father. 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 553 "You will make me proud of you, my little Pearl, when you are smart enough to teach a school and take care of me, for I shall be too old to work by that time." 0.77 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1801 "Perhaps you would learn faster with a better teacher," said Elsie, "I'm sure the fault is not in the scholar; because I know he's bright and talented." 0.77 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 313 "Uncle Darry he does," said the girl; "and he do 'spoun some; but I don't make no count of his 'spoundations." 0.76 Stowe_Harriet_Beecher_Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin_PG_203.txt 1728 "And when we get to Canada," said Eliza, "I can help you. I can do dress-making very well; and I understand fine washing and ironing; and between us we can find something to live on." 0.75 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_Winning_His_Way_PG_22913_8.txt 173 "What is it?" Hans Middlekauf asked, ready for fun of any sort. The boys gathered round, for they knew that Paul was a capital hand in inventing games. 0.75 Alger_Horatio_Frank_s_Campaign_Or_The_Farm_and_the_Camp_PG_1573.txt 1671 "Very well, Pomp," said his teacher approvingly. "You have worked unusually well to-day. If you keep on you will make quite a scholar some day." 0.75 Warner_Susan_Daisy_PG_18687_8.txt 2737 In the afternoon Mr. Thorold came and took me to see the laboratory, and explained for me a number of curious things. I should have had great enjoyment, if Preston had not taken it into his head, unasked, to go along; being unluckily with me when Thorold came. He was a thorough marplot; saying nothing of consequence himself, and only keeping a grim watch I could take it as nothing else of everything we said and did. Consequently, Mr. Thorold's lecture was very proper and grave, instead of being full of fun and amusement as well as instruction. I took Preston to task about it when we got home. ============================================================================= TOPIC 45 -- 2018 chunks >= 0.25 from 57 texts ============================================================================= men 723; enemy 686; line 619; troops 602; army 563; battle 521; position 442; left 423; road 416; rebels 373; force 358; front 325; lines 324; attack 322; division 287; fire 286; advance 276; field 262; rear 256; day 246; miles 245; batteries 240; guns 231; command 228; artillery 227; brigade 219; made 218; morning 218; back 218; ground 218; moved 217; movement 215; river 212; regiment 197; cavalry 194; soldiers 189; thousand 181; march 181; forward 181; night 177; town 175; fight 175; hundred 171; officers 170; wounded 164; woods 160; marched 159; fighting 154; bridge 153; retreat 150; general 150; order 150; hill 147; column 146; held 143; flank 143; captured 142; great 142; point 142; house 141; time 140; forces 136; north 135; reached 134; move 132; south 130; heavy 130; infantry 129; battery 128; corps 127; fought 127; divisions 120; ordered 120; city 119; advanced 118; railroad 117; formed 115; side 115; place 114; prisoners 114; regiments 113; driven 106; moving 106; till 105; found 103; part 103; work 100; main 100; thirty 100; victory 100; roads 100; arrived 99; loss 99; orders 98; charge 96; afternoon 95; advancing 94; long 93; brought 92; early 91 0.96 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1148 "The first brigade to the right advanced several hundred yards over cleared ground, driving the enemy's skirmishers before them till they reached the woods in front of the railroad, which they entered, driving the enemy out of them to the railroad, where they were found strongly posted in ditches and behind temporary defences. The brigade (First) drove them from there and up the heights in their front. Owing to a heavy fire being received on their right flank, they obliqued over to that side, but continued forcing the enemy back till they had crowned the crest of the hill, crossed a main road which runs along the crest, and reached open ground on the other side, where they were assailed by a very severe fire from a larger force in their front, and at the same time the enemy opened a battery which completely enfiladed them from the right flank. After holding their ground for some time, no support arriving, they were compelled to fall back to the railroad."[15] 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1035 "The Yankees made nine desperate attempts to finish their bridges, but were repulsed at every attempt. They used their artillery incessantly, with a heavy detachment of sharpshooters, for twelve hours, we holding our position firmly the whole time, until about half past four, P. M., when they increased their artillery and infantry, and their batteries becoming so numerous and concentrated, we could not use our rifles. Being deprived of all protection, we were compelled to fall back to Caroline Street, and from there were ordered from town. The casualties of the regiment during the engagement were one hundred and sixteen wounded, killed, and missing."[12] 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1322 Anderson's division advanced rapidly up the Fredericksburg road, charging upon Kane's brigade of Geary's division, composed of new troops, which, after a short resistance, retreated in confusion. An aid from Slocum came down to Hooker for reinforcements. "No," said Hooker, "he must hold his own. Let Geary's division, however, be thrown to the right of the road, that the artillery may be able to sweep the enemy on the left." This was done, and the heavy fire that was given by Knapp's and other batteries checked Anderson's advance. A constant demonstration was kept up by Anderson to deceive Hooker as to Lee's intentions. Thus the night passed. 0.94 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. 0.94 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1248 Meanwhile the main body of the army was making a rapid march up the river. The Eleventh Corps reached Kelley's Ford, twenty-eight miles above Falmouth, at half past four in the afternoon. The pontoons arrived at six o'clock. Four hundred men went over in the boats, and seized the Rebel rifle-pits, capturing a few prisoners, who were stationed there to guard the Ford. As soon as the bridge was completed, the troops began to cross. The Seventeenth Pennsylvania cavalry preceded the infantry, pushed out on the road leading to Culpepper, and encountered a detachment of Stuart's cavalry. 0.94 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 1567 On the 27th of April General Hooker's preparations were complete. His plan of action was that 20,000 men should cross the river near the old battlefield of Fredericksburg, and thus lead the Confederates to believe that this was the point of attack. The main body were, however, to cross at Kelley's Ford, many miles higher up the river, and to march down toward Fredericksburg. The other force was then to recross, march up the river, cross at Kelley's Ford, and follow and join the main army. At the same time the Federal cavalry, which was very numerous and well-organized, was, under General Stoneman, to strike down through the country toward Richmond, and thus cut the Confederate communication with their capital, and so prevent Longstreet's division, which was lying near Richmond, from rejoining Lee. 0.93 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 1254 At noon of the 30th the Eleventh Corps reached its assigned position, between the Germanna road and Dowdal's tavern, forming the right flank of Hooker's line. The Third Corps, which had crossed at Ely's Ford, came down through the woods across Hunting Run, and formed on the left of the Eleventh, by the tavern. The Twelfth Corps filed past the Eleventh, along the Stevensburg road, and the Third Corps passed Chancellorsville, and moved almost to Tabernacle Church, on the Orange and Fredericksburg plank-road. The Second Corps, having crossed at United States Ford, came into position a mile or more in rear of the Eleventh and Third, while the Fifth moved up and formed a line facing southeast, reaching from Chancellorsville to Scott's Dam on the Rappahannock, a mile and a half north of Chancellorsville. 0.93 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 2349 A. P. Hill had already been thrown south of Richmond, and was in front of Butler. The scouts up the Appomattox reported the rumbling of heavy trains along the Richmond and Petersburg railroad. Lee was putting his troops into the cars. The dash of Kautz, and the movement of Gillmore up to the entrenchments, and his retirement without an attack, had resulted in the manning of the Petersburg batteries. A brigade had been thrown down towards City Point, five miles from Petersburg. Soon after daylight the cavalry came upon the Rebel pickets, by the City Point railroad, beyond which they found the Rebels with two cannon behind rifle-pits, in the centre of an open field on Bailey's farm. 0.93 Coffin_Charles_Carleton_The_Boys_of_or_Four_Years_of_Fighting_Personal_PG_34843.txt 809 Hooker gave Meade, with the Pennsylvania Reserves, the right, Ricketts the left, and placed Doubleday in support in rear. Mansfield joined Hooker's left, but was an hour behind time. Sumner was slow to come into action. Hooker advanced, drove in the Rebel pickets, found a Rebel battery on his extreme right, which, as soon as he came within its range began to plough him with a flanking fire. Meade obliqued to the right, poured in a few volleys, and drove the enemy across the turnpike. This was the extreme left of the enemy's line. Hooker crossed the turnpike a few rods north of Poffenberg's, marched through the fields to the ridge by the cornfield. Having obtained possession of the ridge east of Poffenberg's, he planted his batteries and opened a fierce cannonade upon the Rebels. 0.93 Henty_G_A_George_Alfred_With_Lee_in_Virginia_A_Story_of_the_American_Civil_War_PG_2805.txt 668 Jackson's division now came up, and as it was moving into position General Winder was killed by a shell. For some hours Jackson did not attempt to advance, as Hill's division had not come up. Encouraged by this delay, the enemy at five o'clock in the afternoon took the offensive and advanced through some cornfields lying between the two armies and attacked Ewell's division on the Confederate right; while shortly afterward they fell with overwhelming strength on Jackson's left, and, attacking it in front, flank, and rear, drove it back, and pressed upon it with such force that the day appeared lost. ============================================================================= TOPIC 46 -- 4125 chunks >= 0.25 from 55 texts ============================================================================= boat 1489; steamer 1017; board 747; vessel 688; ship 686; deck 673; captain 660; men 608; water 505; time 447; shore 435; run 423; river 377; crew 369; sea 367; made 358; pilot 354; sail 347; schooner 343; blockade 327; vessels 298; flag 296; make 295; half 282; hour 268; order 265; boats 264; replied 254; port 250; side 246; commander 236; fast 227; officer 225; ahead 222; wheel 219; guns 216; added 215; put 214; continued 212; speed 211; fleet 207; lieutenant 203; ready 201; gun 196; cotton 190; aboard 184; point 183; stern 181; hands 179; wharf 177; distance 176; work 175; long 175; bay 175; coast 175; wind 174; alongside 174; island 167; shouted 167; engine 166; bow 163; prize 161; called 159; brought 158; steam 157; quarter 155; running 154; gave 153; place 152; full 151; began 151; ships 149; coming 149; till 148; anchor 148; craft 146; cargo 145; found 145; sight 145; ashore 144; small 143; watch 143; steamers 142; miles 142; tug 141; fort 140; left 138; mate 138; cutter 135; oars 135; short 134; fog 134; raft 132; making 132; house 130; forward 129; minutes 128; sailor 125; mile 123; engineer 120 0.92 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1721 This was done under the direction of Mr. Camden. A fresh breeze had sprung up from the north-west, and the Bronx came up to the cable still headed in the direction of her former course. The carpenter reported that the shot had passed out at the side between decks, and that he had plugged the hole. The third lieutenant was busy rigging new wheel ropes, which he said would be ready in half an hour. Mr. Flint, at the order of the captain, had manned the broadside guns, and loaded them with shrapnel, for the most perilous part of the enterprise was yet to come. 0.92 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. 0.92 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." 0.91 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 1156 When the commander went on deck, the fog had disappeared, and the shore was to be seen at the distance of about six miles from the steamer. At eight bells, or noon, a steamer was discovered coming out of the bay by a channel between two islands. She carried the American flag over the Confederate, and no one doubted that she was the Floridian. In half an hour she was alongside, and she looked like a fine vessel, for she had come from the other side of the ocean as a blockade-runner. 0.90 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. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 1600 The guns were heard on board of the Bellevite, and she began to move up the bay as though she intended to proceed to the assistance of her consort. Mr. Blowitt in the first cutter had followed the Bronx, and the third cutter, in charge of Mr. Lobscott, had gone over to Piney Point, to which there was a channel with from three to five fathoms of water, and which seemed to be a favorable place to load a vessel with cotton. 0.90 Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_PG_18617.txt 150 Mr. Lillyworth was the acting second lieutenant, though he was not to be attached to the Bronx after she reached her destination in the Gulf. He repeated the report from the boatswain to the first lieutenant. The steamer was rigged as a topsail schooner; but the wind was contrary, and no sail was set before getting under way. The capstan was manned again, and as soon as the report came from the second lieutenant that the anchor was aweigh, the first lieutenant gave the order to strike one bell, which meant that the steamer was to go "ahead slow." 0.90 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. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Union_PG_18816.txt 878 The reports of the leadsman were satisfactory, and the steamer went ahead for an hour. Then they began to give a diminution of the depth of water, indicating, as Christy stated it, that the vessel was approaching the land. He looked over the log slate, and found that the course had been due east till the order had been given to head her in the opposite direction. She had sailed rather more than an hour on that tack, during which the recapture of the steamer had been made. 0.89 Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_the_Right_PG_18803_8.txt 310 Christy remained on deck another hour, and at the end of that time a quartermaster came aft to report that the chase had changed her course farther to the eastward. This proved to be the fact on examination by the officers on the quarter-deck, and as nearly as could be made out she was now headed to the south-east. ============================================================================= TOPIC 47 -- 1910 chunks >= 0.25 from 65 texts ============================================================================= life 1024; heart 714; love 606; thought 384; felt 377; thoughts 365; day 362; time 333; mind 331; nature 317; woman 305; long 291; happy 260; years 253; world 246; past 242; future 239; young 235; passed 231; eyes 225; days 225; feeling 218; happiness 213; words 210; girl 208; deep 207; youth 207; made 198; sense 194; things 191; loved 181; home 177; memory 176; strong 174; hope 170; spirit 167; dream 159; began 150; knew 148; face 148; change 146; hours 146; passion 143; strange 139; joy 138; sad 135; full 134; father 134; affection 134; return 131; quiet 131; human 128; hour 127; soul 120; fancy 119; child 113; scene 110; man 108; presence 108; sweet 107; lost 105; daily 105; kind 104; found 104; beauty 104; friend 103; desire 103; power 102; night 102; brought 100; lived 99; beautiful 98; grew 98; grace 98; light 97; back 96; lover 96; sorrow 96; left 95; place 94; filled 93; pain 91; sympathy 90; shadow 88; memories 87; work 86; peace 86; early 86; hopes 86; calm 86; feel 85; scarcely 85; mood 85; truth 84; growing 83; natural 82; scenes 82; imagination 81; times 80; months 79 0.84 Seawell_Molly_Elliot_Throckmorton_A_Novel_PG_36829.txt 814 "Certainly she is in better spirits -- more like what one can see her natural self is in the last month or two," he thought; and then he began to think what a very sweet and natural woman she was, and to hope that, when Jacqueline was her age, she would have developed into something like Judith. But he never liked to look very far into the future with Jacqueline. 0.83 Ryan_Marah_Ellis_The_Bondwoman_PG_29581.txt 496 He was happy in imagining the happiness that might be, forgetful of another lover, one among the poets, who avowed that the happiness of the future was the only real happiness of the world. 0.82 Burnett_Frances_Hodgson_In_Connection_with_the_De_Willoughby_Claim_PG_25810_8.txt 2343 But at his side was eager youth which had outlived nothing, which believed in a future full of satisfied yearnings and radiant joys. 0.82 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1731 "It should. But what have I brought you but pain and deep anxiety? Oh, Alford, Alford! you will waken some bitter day to the truth that you love but the wraith of the girl who unconsciously won your heart. You have idealized her, and the being you now love does not exist. How can I let you go on thus wronging yourself?" 0.79 Roe_Edward_Payson_His_Sombre_Rivals_PG_6128.txt 1773 What was Grace? -- what becoming? As he looked he thought of her as a sculptor's ideal embodied, a dream of beauty only, not a woman -- as the legend of Eve, who might, before becoming a living soul, have harmonized with the loveliness of her garden without seeing or feeling it. 0.79 Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanhood_PG_14874.txt 1719 "They are full of the war; it is the all-absorbing theme with them, as with us. Aunt Adelaide's is very sad. Her heart clings to the South, as ours do; yet, like us, she has a strong love for the old Union. 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 1188 Despite the thieve's confidence with which Borlasse has inspired him, this reference to his future brings up its darkness, with its dangers; and he pauses before making response. 0.77 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_Infelice_PG_17718_8.txt 3640 Dreaming of her child, whose pure image hovered in the mirage hope wove before her -- 0.76 Roe_Edward_Payson_The_Earth_Trembled_PG_6719.txt 122 They were contemplating the future in a hopeless sort of dread and perplexity on the evening when Aunt Sheba and young Clancy's thoughts were drawn toward them in such deep solicitude. This fact involves no mystery. The warm-hearted colored woman had seen and heard little things which suggested the truth, and the sympathetic lover had seen the face of the young girl when she was off her guard. Its expression had haunted him, and impelled him to see her at once, although she had chilled his hopes of late. 0.76 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." ============================================================================= TOPIC 48 -- 1707 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= light 878; fire 635; night 609; wind 433; dark 414; smoke 363; sun 360; darkness 333; sky 319; rain 310; clouds 268; storm 245; cloud 243; air 240; white 238; moon 230; burning 218; black 213; wood 211; eyes 194; stars 192; trees 177; long 175; flame 172; red 161; forest 161; shadow 160; great 155; rising 153; silence 149; sea 147; shadows 140; blue 139; looked 139; beneath 137; bright 137; low 136; figure 135; flames 135; thunder 134; began 132; cold 125; fell 124; sound 124; lightning 124; gray 124; rose 122; earth 122; fires 116; coming 113; lights 111; heavy 109; deep 108; shone 107; distant 106; shining 106; face 104; sat 104; high 100; suddenly 100; window 100; set 100; burned 100; water 99; lighted 99; torch 98; falling 96; slowly 95; blaze 94; glare 94; gloom 94; faint 93; evening 92; pine 90; grew 89; horizon 88; faces 88; flash 88; distance 86; passed 84; mist 84; hour 83; time 81; sudden 81; blazing 80; lay 79; dull 79; glow 79; ground 78; twilight 77; lit 77; silent 76; swept 76; pipe 76; star 76; close 75; feet 75; strange 75; moving 73; thick 73 0.92 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2502 The outer world was chill and dreary, the leafless limbs of the trees in the park looked ghostly and weird against the dense dun clouds which seemed to stretch like a smoke mantle just above the sea of roofs; and, dimly seen through the white mist, Brooklyn's heights and Staten's hills were huge outlines monstrous as Echidna. 0.88 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. 0.88 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 918 It rained heavily, the drops descending in horizontal lengths like a fantastic fall of colourless pine needles. Overhead the clouds were black, impenetrable. 0.86 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. 0.86 Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson_The_Voice_of_the_People_PG_16505_8.txt 1804 A light wind sprang up, blowing across the pasture and whirling the dead leaves of distant trees into their faces. Overhead other stars came out, and far away an owl hooted. 0.85 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2268 They see the great tree, with its white shroud above, and deep obscurity beneath -- the moonlit ring around it. But at first nothing more, save the fire-flies scintillating in its shadow. 0.84 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2894 Felix pointed to the distant water-line, where now and then a bluish flash of lightning showed the teeth of the storm raging far away under southern constellations, extinguishing for a time the golden flame of Canopus. 0.83 Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_Hold_PG_2807.txt 940 It grew later and later. The wind howled down the chimney, and I heaped more wood upon the fire. The town lay in darkness now; only in the distance burned like an angry star the light in the Governor's house. In the lull between the blasts of wind it was so very still that the sound of my footfalls upon the floor, the dropping of the charred wood upon the hearth, the tapping of the withered vines without the window, jarred like thunder. 0.83 Trowbridge_J_T_John_Townsend_Cudjo_s_Cave_PG_31406.txt 277 The place was deserted and silent. Only the cold wind swept the bleak wood-side, making melancholy moans among the trees. Overhead shone the stars, lighting dimly the desolation of the ground. 0.82 Evans_Augusta_J_Augusta_Jane_St_Elmo_PG_4553.txt 2959 As the night wore on, the wind became a gale; the fitful, bluish glare of the lightning showed fearful ranks of ravenous waves scowling over each others' shoulders; a roar as of universal thunder shook the shore, and in the coral- columned cathedral of the great deep, wrathful ocean played a wild and weird fugue. ============================================================================= TOPIC 49 -- 1869 chunks >= 0.25 from 71 texts ============================================================================= head 336; dog 293; cut 293; tree 264; long 262; end 248; hole 245; foot 232; put 198; set 198; dogs 196; work 188; piece 177; knife 172; rope 168; big 168; feet 166; found 164; tail 157; hand 152; legs 151; coat 150; boy 149; ground 147; wood 140; neck 138; leg 138; round 137; make 135; gun 134; boys 133; water 130; blood 128; large 127; small 126; nose 124; man 123; caught 121; time 119; tied 119; body 115; side 115; fish 111; broken 110; laid 109; skin 109; game 108; hold 107; short 105; pieces 103; animal 103; stick 103; iron 99; ball 99; pocket 98; taking 97; string 95; eye 93; arm 93; ran 90; wild 89; heavy 88; red 87; inside 87; hard 86; log 86; carried 85; struck 85; black 84; mouth 84; cabin 84; top 84; clothes 83; deer 80; fire 79; back 78; bone 76; hunting 74; great 74; boot 73; picked 72; stuck 72; chain 71; catch 71; tent 71; fastened 71; handkerchief 70; pull 69; wet 67; sharp 67; axe 67; bones 67; open 66; hands 66; clean 66; horn 66; held 65; feathers 65; bark 65; place 64 0.85 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 594 "Thar's a blue pill goed in thar', which jedgin' by the size and shape o' the hole must a kum out a biggish gun barrel. An', lookin' at the red stain 'roun' its edge, that pill must a been blood-coated." 0.84 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. 0.82 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 514 "Ohdy! dody! Look here! There is a big, black cat’s foot in this oyster’s mouth. I wonder if the cat bit off his own foot!" 0.80 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 622 It was not a crab. Robert and he pulled together, and after considerable play, they found that it was an enormous cat-fish or bull-head. 0.78 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2559 Before long, Brasfort shows signs that he has again caught scent. His ears crisp up, while his whole body quivers along the spinal column from neck to tail. There is a streak of the bloodhound in the animal; and never did dog of this kind make after a man, who more deserved hunting by a hound. 0.78 Holmes_Mary_Jane_Tempest_and_Sunshine_PG_17260_0.txt 1224 "You go long, you Bob," said Aunt Judy, seizing a lock of his wool between her thumb and finger, "let me catch you not milking the heifer, and I’ll crack you." 0.78 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 528 Another, of less serious suggestion, is a piece of cord knotted around the dog's neck -- the loose end looking as though gnawed by teeth, and then broken off with a pluck; as if the animal had been tied up, and succeeded in setting itself free. 0.77 Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Marooners_on_the_Florida_Coast_PG_42066_0.txt 262 "Yes, he would have rumpled its plume, so as to reverse the direction of the feathery part, and would have thrust that down the throat, below the pin or bone. On withdrawing the feather, the substance would be either found adhering to its wet sides, or raised on end, so that it could be easily swallowed." 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 2686 Stocker and Driscoll draw their tomahawks, and commence hacking at the ground; which, though hard, yields to the harder steel of hatchets manufactured for the cutting of skulls. As they make mould, it is removed by Chisholm with the broad blade of his Comanche spear. 0.77 Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_A_Story_Retold_PG_23140.txt 601 Saying this, he inserts his knife-blade into the bark, and first makes a circular incision around the bullet-hole. Then deepens it, taking care not to touch the ensanguined edge of the orifice, or come near it. len(cells_accounted_for) 104974
. . . 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')