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id: 01-deerslayer_017-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_017-1740
date: 1740
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summary:
  or, must I, while a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms, cheat you still? Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan The fire, the canoe, and the spring, near which Deerslayer commenced his retreat, would have stood in the angles of a triangle of tolerably equal sides. Notwithstanding the pressing nature of the emergency, Deerslayer hesitated a single instant, ere he plunged into the bushes that lined the shore.


id: 01-deerslayer_016-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_016-1740
date: 1740
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words: 7304
sentence: 254
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Then, if love does count for so much with some people, particularly with young women, fri'ndship counts for something, too, with other some. As for the ark, though scarcely farther from the canoe than the point, it lay so completely buried in the shadows of the shore, that it would not have been visible even had there been many degrees more of light than actually existed.


id: 03-pathfinder_014-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_014-1758
date: 1758
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words: 7732
sentence: 311
flesch: 73
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summary:
  I am told that the gentry at Frontenac will care more for the capture of the Scud, with Sergeant Dunham and a party of men, together with the defeat of our favorite plan, than for the capture of a girl and the scalp of her uncle. The whole force confided to the care of Sergeant Dunham consisted of but ten privates and two non-commissioned officers, though it was soon positively known that Mr. Muir was to accompany the expedition.


id: 03-pathfinder_015-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_015-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
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words: 5649
sentence: 201
flesch: 71
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summary:
  You've no inclination, Jasper lad, to trust yourself too near our neighbours the French, observed Muir, who took that occasion to recommence the discourse. Jasper, like the weather and his vessel, seemed to be waiting for the land-breeze; while the soldiers, accustomed to early rising, had, to a man, sought their pallets in the main hold.


id: 05-prairie_009-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_009-1804
date: 1804
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words: 5028
sentence: 173
flesch: 67
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summary:
  It would have been easy to have imagined, in the ages of fable, that the god of the winds had permitted his subordinate agents to escape from their den, and that they now rioted, in wantonness, across wastes, where neither tree, nor work of man, nor mountain, nor obstacle of any sort, opposed itself to their gambols. On this elevation the signs of man, to which the allusion just made applies, were to be found.


id: 05-prairie_008-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_008-1804
date: 1804
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words: 4845
sentence: 159
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Look around you, men; what will the Yankee Choppers say, when they have cut their path from the eastern to the western waters, and find that a hand, which can lay the 'arth bare at a blow, has been here and swept the country, in very mockery of their wickedness. Howsomever, these are thoughts that are more likely to rise in him who has seen the folly of eighty seasons, than to teach wisdom to men still bent on the pleasures of their kind!


id: 01-deerslayer_029-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_029-1740
date: 1740
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words: 4701
sentence: 154
flesch: 63
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summary:
  To this irritable person succeeded several other young warriors, who not only hurled the tomahawk, but who cast the knife, a far more dangerous experiment, with reckless indifference; yet they always manifested a skill that prevented any injury to the captive. The Great Spirit often speaks to men with such tongues.


id: 02-mohicans_032-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_032-1757
date: 1757
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words: 3303
sentence: 129
flesch: 68
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summary:
  If it were possible to translate the comprehensive and melodious language in which he spoke, the ode might read something like the following: Manitou! Manitou! Manitou!


id: 01-deerslayer_028-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_028-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
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words: 5696
sentence: 229
flesch: 74
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summary:
  He is a Delaware woman, dressed in the skin of a Yengeese! Have your say, young man; have your say, returned Deerslayer, unmoved; you know no better, and I can overlook it. Young man was neither, any more than you can be called a young woman, and as to the Great Spirit's intending that they should fall otherwise than they did, that's a grievous mistake, inasmuch as what the Great Spirit intends is sartain to come to pass.


id: 02-mohicans_033-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_033-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
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words: 6012
sentence: 216
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Across the tract of wilderness which lay between the Delawares and the village of their enemies, it seemed as if the foot of man had never trodden, so breathing and deep was the silence in which it lay. exclaimed the scout, in English, adding, with the quickness of thought, in his adopted tongue: To cover, men, and charge!


id: 04-pioneers_030-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_030-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3702
sentence: 144
flesch: 72
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summary:
  You are of opinion, Judge Temple, that a man is to be qualified by nature and education to do only one thing well, whereas I know that genius will supply the place of learning, and that a certain sort of man can do anything and everything. An examination of the exterior of the cavern left the Judge in doubt whether it was one of Nature's frolics that had thrown it into that shape, or whether it had been wrought by the hands of man, at some earlier period.


id: 04-pioneers_031-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_031-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5075
sentence: 194
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Stop us at your peril, continued Hiram. When Hiram Doolittle had obtained his search-warrant, his first business was to procure a proper officer to see it executed.


id: 05-prairie_003-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_003-1804
date: 1804
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sentence: 148
flesch: 66
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summary:
  But, tell me, do you then actually live alone, in this desert district, old man; is there really none here besides yourself? There are hundreds, nay, thousands of the rightful owners of the country, roving about the plains; but few of our own colour. Men seldom bring any thing to be concealed into these deserts, returned the old man, as if willing, and yet a little ignorant how to apologize for the liberty he had been about to take, and I had hoped no offence, in examining your comforts.


id: 05-prairie_002-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_002-1804
date: 1804
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words: 3886
sentence: 105
flesch: 54
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summary:
  This adventurous and venerable patriarch was now seen making his last remove; placing the endless river between him and the multitude his own success had drawn around him, and seeking for the renewal of enjoyments which were rendered worthless in his eyes, when trammelled by the forms of human institutions.[3] In the pursuit of adventures such as these, men are ordinarily governed by their habits or deluded by their wishes. It was now evident, by the tardy movements both of beasts and men, that the time of necessary rest was not far distant.


id: 04-pioneers_004-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_004-1793
date: 1793
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words: 3571
sentence: 98
flesch: 56
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summary:
  Immediately beneath them lay a seeming plain, glittering without in equality, and buried in mountains. But these and many other unpleasant additions to the view were unseen by the delighted Elizabeth, who, as the horses moved down the side of the mountain, saw only in gross the cluster of houses that lay like a map at her feet; the fifty smokes that were curling from the valley to the clouds; the frozen lake as it lay imbedded in mountains of evergreen, with the long shadows of the pines on its white surface, lengthening in the setting sun; the dark ribbon of water that gushed from the outlet and was winding its way toward the distant Chesapeake--the altered, though still remembered, scenes of her child hood.


id: 04-pioneers_005-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_005-1793
date: 1793
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words: 4517
sentence: 166
flesch: 73
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summary:
  exclaimed the veteran German, looking over the side of the sleigh with unusual emotion, put you will preak ter sleigh and kilt ter horses! Good Mr. Jones, said the clergyman, be prudent, good sir--be careful. Cover thy poll, Gaul, cover thy poll, cried the driver, who was Mr. Richard Jones; cover thy poll, or the frost will pluck out the remnant of thy locks.


id: 02-mohicans_006-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_006-1757
date: 1757
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words: 3603
sentence: 119
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Water leaves no trail, and an owl's eyes would be blinded by the darkness of such a hole. what noise is that? Poor Miriam! murmured the stranger; thy foal was foreordained to become a prey to ravenous beasts!


id: 02-mohicans_007-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_007-1757
date: 1757
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words: 4523
sentence: 155
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side, he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded. Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat is coarse, and like a fishnet, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything.


id: 03-pathfinder_020-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_020-1758
date: 1758
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sentence: 438
flesch: 70
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summary:
  your mind, beautiful Mabel, is polished just like the barrel of a soldier's musket, and your conversation is only too discreet and wise for a poor d---l who has been chewing birch up here these four years on the lines, instead of receiving it in an application that has the virtue of imparting knowledge. Did you ever hear of the person Mabel mentions, Pathfinder? Not I, Sergeant; but what of that?


id: 03-pathfinder_021-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_021-1758
date: 1758
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flesch: 72
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summary:
  And the king's honor, pretty Mabel. It was not only broad daylight when Mabel awoke, but the sun had actually been up some time.


id: 01-deerslayer_023-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_023-1740
date: 1740
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flesch: 73
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summary:
  On this occasion, however, sadness and thought contributed their share to the general desire not to converse, for Deerslayer was so far an exception to the usages of men of his cast, as not only to wish to hold discourse on such occasions, but as often to create a similar desire in his companions. It had a few silver ornaments, though, on the whole, it would have been deemed a plain piece by most frontier men, its great merit consisting in the accuracy of its bore, the perfection of the details, and the excellence of the metal.


id: 01-deerslayer_022-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_022-1740
date: 1740
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flesch: 78
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summary:
  Yet where is the man to turn this beautiful place into such a garden of Eden for us? Harry March loves you, sister, returned poor Hetty, unconsciously picking the bark off the canoe as she spoke. You are an unaccountable being, Deerslayer, returned the girl, not a little puzzled with the childish simplicity of character that the hunter so often betrayed--a simplicity so striking that it frequently appeared to place him nearly on a level with the fatuity of poor Hetty, though always relieved by the beautiful moral truth that shone through all that this unfortunate girl both said and did--You are a most unaccountable man, and I often do not know how to understand you.


id: 04-pioneers_019-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_019-1793
date: 1793
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words: 3150
sentence: 123
flesch: 71
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summary:
  The unfortunate would be welcome at any time, but doubly so when we feel that we have occasioned the evil ourselves, Yes, said Richard, and if you relish turkey, young man, there are plenty in the coops, and of the best kind, I can assure you. I have lived in the woods for forty long years, and have spent five at a time without seeing the light of a clearing bigger than a window in the trees; and I should like to know where you'll find a man, in his sixty-eighth year, who can get an easier living, for all your betterments and your deer laws; and, as for honesty, or doing what's right between man and man, I'll not turn my back to the longest-winded deacon on your Patent.


id: 04-pioneers_018-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_018-1793
date: 1793
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words: 4742
sentence: 179
flesch: 74
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summary:
  A good deal of higgling about the price of the choicest bird had taken place between Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his companions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was the highest sum ever exacted, the black taking care to protect himself from losses, as much as possible, by the conditions of the sport. Don't be boasting, Billy Kirby, said Natty, throwing the breech of his rifle into the snow, and leaning on its barrel; you'll get but one shot at the creatur', for if the lad misses his aim, which wouldn't be a wonder if he did, with his arm so stiff and sore, you'll find a good piece and an old eye coming a'ter


id: 03-pathfinder_003-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_003-1758
date: 1758
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summary:
  But there is no end to conceit in this world: for a fellow who never saw salt water often fancies he knows more than one who has gone round the Horn. But speaking of water, it reminds me of my young friend, Jasper Western here, who can claim to know something of these matters, seeing that he has passed his days on Ontario.


id: 03-pathfinder_002-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_002-1758
date: 1758
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sentence: 182
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Ontario, repeated Arrowhead, with emphasis, again stretching his hand towards the north-west. Cap looked at the Tuscarora, for the first time since their acquaintance, with something like an air of contempt, though he did not fail to follow the direction of the chief's eye and arm, both of which were directed towards a vacant point in the heavens, a short distance above the plain of leaves. I must show it to Arrowhead, who may be running past a port without knowing it.


id: 01-deerslayer_001-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_001-1740
date: 1740
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sentence: 202
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken. Harkee, Master Deerslayer, since we are on the subject, we may as well open our minds to each other in a man-to-man way; answer me one question; you have had so much luck among the game as to have gotten a title, it would seem, but did you ever hit anything human or intelligible: did you ever pull trigger on an inimy that was capable of pulling one upon you?


id: 05-prairie_020-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_020-1804
date: 1804
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words: 4811
sentence: 179
flesch: 71
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summary:
  I understand your meaning; for it is not needful to live in towns to hear all the devilish devices, that the conceit of man can invent to upset his own happiness. If we hide ourselves, altogether, the horned brutes will break through the place and trample us beneath their feet, like so many creeping worms; so we will just put the weak ones apart, and take post, as becomes men and hunters, in the van.


id: 05-prairie_021-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_021-1804
date: 1804
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sentence: 203
flesch: 69
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summary:
  But, even while engaged in this hospitable manner, the Dahcotah did not fail to keep a strict watch on the more distant party of white men, as if he still distrusted an artifice, or sought further explanation. The eyes of the Teton flashed fire as he answered They are gone: but Mahtoree is a wise chief, and his eyes can see a great distance! Does the partisan of the Tetons see men on these naked fields? retorted the trapper, with great steadiness of mien.


id: 04-pioneers_027-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_027-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4412
sentence: 165
flesch: 77
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summary:
  No, no, Natty, you must remember the law, said Edwards, or we shall have you in trouble; and that, old man, would be an evil day and sore tidings to us all. The recollection of the sight has warmed your blood, old man.


id: 04-pioneers_026-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_026-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3535
sentence: 121
flesch: 65
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summary:
  We would not wish to mislead our readers in their conceptions of any of our characters, and we therefore feel it necessary to add that the adjective, in the preceding agnomen of Mr. Van der School, was used in direct reference to its substantive. Mr. Van der School was a well-educated man, but of slow comprehension, who had imbibed a wariness in his speeches and actions, from having suffered by his collisions with his more mercurial and apt brethren who had laid the foundations of their practice in the Eastern courts, and who had sucked in shrewdness with their mother's milk.


id: 02-mohicans_025-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_025-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4769
sentence: 194
flesch: 68
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summary:
  But who has ever found a Huron asleep? The darkness of the impending cloud which precedes a burst of thunder was not blacker than the brow of Magua as he exclaimed: Standing a single minute to enjoy his bitter triumph, he turned away, as if sickening at the gaze of men, and, veiling his face in his blanket, he walked from the lodge with the noiseless step of an Indian seeking, in the privacy of his own abode, the sympathy of one like himself, aged, forlorn and childless.


id: 02-mohicans_024-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_024-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5192
sentence: 194
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Beneath one of them, a line of warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly toward the dwellings. When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.


id: 02-mohicans_011-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_011-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4548
sentence: 153
flesch: 63
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summary:
  In order to complete his victory, he was in the act of recommencing the enumeration of the rewards, when Magua made an expressive gesture and said: Enough; Le Renard is a wise chief, and what he does will be seen. As there was nothing improbable to an Indian in the manner of the escape, Magua admitted the truth of what he had heard, with a readiness that afforded additional evidence how little he would prize such worthless captives.


id: 02-mohicans_010-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_010-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3385
sentence: 114
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Still ignorant of the fate of those who had trusted to the aid of the swift current, he at first listened intently to any signal or sounds of alarm, which might announce the good or evil fortune of their hazardous undertaking. I have been mocked with the likeness of sleep, while sounds of discord have rent my ears, such as might manifest the fullness of time, and that nature had forgotten her harmony.


id: 03-pathfinder_009-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_009-1758
date: 1758
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mime: text/plain
words: 6622
sentence: 244
flesch: 74
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summary:
  He was leaning quietly on his long rifle, and laughing in his quiet manner, while, with an outstretched arm, he swept over the whole panorama of land and water. Sure enough, Cap, who had announced his approach by a couple of lusty hems, now made his appearance on the bastion, where, after nodding to his niece and her companion, he made a deliberate survey of the expanse of water before him.


id: 03-pathfinder_008-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_008-1758
date: 1758
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flesch: 76
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summary:
  I think nothing of your ignorance, young man; for it is natural to your situation, and cannot be helped. Still, there was necessarily a strong feeling of insecurity in all on board them; and even Jasper, who by this time began to tremble, in behalf of the girl, at every unusual sound that arose from the forest, kept casting uneasy glances around him as he drifted on in company.


id: 04-pioneers_013-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_013-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5600
sentence: 193
flesch: 67
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summary:
  But, young man, to you I owe not only an obligation, in common with those you saved this evening on the mountain, but my thanks for your respectable and pious manner in assisting in the service at a most embarrassing moment. You may have heard the maxim, that 'young men may die, but that old men must'.


id: 04-pioneers_012-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_012-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3340
sentence: 88
flesch: 51
cache: cache/04-pioneers_012-1793.txt
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summary:
  He had acquired much of his knowledge from studying the great book of human nature as it lay open in the world; and, knowing how dangerous it was to contend with ignorance, uniformly endeavored to avoid dictating where his better reason taught him it was the most prudent to attempt to lead, His orthodoxy had no dependence on his cassock; he could pray with fervor and with faith, if circumstances required it, without the assistance of his clerk; and he had even been known to preach a most evangelical sermon, in the winning manner of native eloquence, without the aid of a cambric handkerchief. Wise and holy men, the fathers of our religion, have expended their labors in clearing what was revealed from the obscurities of language, and the results of their experience and researches have been embodied in the form of evangelical discipline That this discipline must be salutary, is evident from the view of the weakness of human nature that we have already taken; and that it may be profitable to us, and all who listen to its precepts and its liturgy, may God, in his infinite wisdom, grant!--And now to, etc.


id: 05-prairie_014-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_014-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3489
sentence: 135
flesch: 70
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summary:
  It required some knowledge in gun-shot wounds to decide this delicate point, but the experience of the borderers was quite equal to the scrutiny; and a smile of wild, and certainly of singular satisfaction, passed among the sons of Ishmael, when Abner confidently announced that the enemies of Asa had assailed him in the rear. It also appeared, on examination, that a desperate struggle had taken place on the very margin of the thicket.


id: 05-prairie_015-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_015-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4297
sentence: 141
flesch: 62
cache: cache/05-prairie_015-1804.txt
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summary:
  And now, young woman, still keeping a jealous eye on the muskets which the girl had suffered to be diverted a little from their aim,and now, young woman, for the last, and therefore the most solemn asking: I demand of thee the surrender of this rock, without delay or resistance, in the joint names of power, of justice, and of the law he would have added; but recollecting that this ominous word would again provoke the hostility of the squatter's children, he succeeded in swallowing it in good season, and concluded with the less dangerous and more convertible term of reason. Natur' will work in the bosom of the child, and we shall gain our object, in good time.


id: 03-pathfinder_004-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_004-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4942
sentence: 168
flesch: 70
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_004-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_004-1758.txt
summary:
  The Oswego is formed by the junction of the Oneida and the Onondaga, both of which flow from lakes; and it pursues its way, through a gently undulating country, some eight or ten miles, until it reaches the margin of a sort of natural terrace, down which it tumbles some ten or fifteen feet, to another level, across which it glides with the silent, stealthy progress of deep water, until it throws its tribute into the broad receptacle of the Ontario. Still he was indisposed to express all he felt, lest it might be conceding too much in favor of fresh water and inland navigation; and no sooner had he cleared his throat with the afore-said hem, than he loosened his tongue in the usual strain of superiority.


id: 03-pathfinder_005-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_005-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5294
sentence: 196
flesch: 72
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_005-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_005-1758.txt
summary:
  The guide then went a short distance into the bushes, accompanied by the Indian, where the two cut off the larger stems of several alders and other bushes, using the utmost care not to make a noise. There are places where the river flows in the quiet stillness of deep water, but many shoals and rapids occur; and at that distant day, when everything was in its natural state, some of the passes were not altogether without hazard.


id: 05-prairie_019-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_019-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5037
sentence: 167
flesch: 66
cache: cache/05-prairie_019-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_019-1804.txt
summary:
  And warriors are going up the Long-river, to see that they have not been cheated, in what they have bought? Ay, that is partly true, too, I fear; and it will not be long before an accursed band of choppers and loggers will be following on their heels, to humble the wilderness which lies so broad and rich on the western banks of the Mississippi, and then the land will be a peopled desert, from the shores of the main sea to the foot of the Rocky Mountains; fill'd with all the abominations and craft of man, and stript of the comforts and loveliness it received from the hands of the Lord! And where were the chiefs of the Pawnee-Loups, when this bargain was made? suddenly demanded the youthful warrior, a look of startling fierceness gleaming, at the same instant, athwart his dark visage. all whom he sees here have pale skins, but the Pawnee warriors are red; does he believe that man changes with the season, and that the son is not like his father? The young warrior regarded his interrogator for a moment with a steady and deliberating eye; then raising his finger upward, he answered with dignity The Wahcondah pours the rain from his clouds; when he speaks, he shakes the lulls; and the fire, which scorches the trees, is the anger of his eye; but he fashioned his children with care and thought.


id: 05-prairie_018-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_018-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4118
sentence: 139
flesch: 66
cache: cache/05-prairie_018-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_018-1804.txt
summary:
  Man may be degraded to the very margin of the line which separates him from the brute, by ignorance; or he may be elevated to a communion with the great Master-spirit of all, by knowledge; nay, I know not, if time and opportunity were given him, but he might become the master of all learning, and consequently equal to the great moving principle. Many is the hour that I've passed, lying in the shades of the woods, or stretch'd upon the hills of these open fields, looking up into the blue skies, where I could fancy the Great One had taken his stand, and was solemnising on the waywardness of man and brute, below, as I myself had often look'd at the ants tumbling over each other in their eagerness, though in a way and a fashion more suited to His mightiness and power.


id: 01-deerslayer_007-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_007-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6990
sentence: 270
flesch: 73
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_007-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_007-1740.txt
summary:
  All have his own, said the Indian; my canoe, mine; your canoe, your'n. He go to house in water--muskrat house--Injin go to camp; tell chiefs no find canoe.


id: 01-deerslayer_006-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_006-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6159
sentence: 217
flesch: 72
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_006-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_006-1740.txt
summary:
  The distance was not great, but the descent was extremely difficult; and, towards the end of their little journey, Deerslayer was obliged to land and meet them, in order to aid in lifting the canoe through the bushes. At any rate, we know you can use a paddle, young man, said Hutter, and that's all we shall ask of you to-night.


id: 05-prairie_027-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_027-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5965
sentence: 240
flesch: 71
cache: cache/05-prairie_027-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_027-1804.txt
summary:
  So soon as Mahtoree found that the other had stopped within reach of him, he stretched forth his arm, and laying a hand upon the shoulder of the attentive old man, he stood regarding him, a minute, with eyes that seemed willing to penetrate the recesses of his most secret thoughts. With an incredible effort he succeeded in gaining his feet, and called aloud to the retiring trapper I conjure you, old man, if the love you bore my parents was more than words, or if the love you bear your God is that of a Christian man, utter not a syllable that may wound the ear of that innocent Exhausted in spirit and fettered in limbs, he then fell, like an inanimate log, to the earth, where he lay like one dead.


id: 05-prairie_026-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_026-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4927
sentence: 164
flesch: 67
cache: cache/05-prairie_026-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_026-1804.txt
summary:
  They were men of stature and mien, whose stern countenances were often rendered doubly imposing by those evidences of their valour, which had been roughly traced on their lineaments by the hands of their enemies. I have heard the old men say, that there were bands, who hid themselves in the woods under the rising sun, because they dared not come upon the open prairies to fight with men.


id: 04-pioneers_020-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_020-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3313
sentence: 98
flesch: 63
cache: cache/04-pioneers_020-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_020-1793.txt
summary:
  The limits of the view, in the west, were marked by an undulating outline of bright light, as if, reversing the order of nature, numberless suns might momentarily he expected to heave above the horizon. With her arm locked in that of Miss Grant, the young mistress of the mansion walked slowly up and down the hall, musing on scenes that were rapidly recurring to her memory, and possibly dwelling, at times, in the sanctuary of her thoughts, on the strange occurrences that had led to the introduction to her father's family of one whose Manners so singularly contradicted the inferences to be drawn from his situation.


id: 04-pioneers_021-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_021-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5112
sentence: 182
flesch: 71
cache: cache/04-pioneers_021-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_021-1793.txt
summary:
  There was no room for gesticulation or grace in the delivery of his reply, for the mountain was steep and slippery; and, although the Frenchman had an eye of uncommon magnitude on either side of his face, they did not seem to be half competent to forewarn him of the impediments of bushes, twigs, and fallen trees, that were momentarily crossing his path. I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark: for trees have disorders, like creatur's; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or an over heated ox to do your logging? All that is true.


id: 02-mohicans_022-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_022-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4196
sentence: 179
flesch: 72
cache: cache/02-mohicans_022-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_022-1757.txt
summary:
  Here we have three pair of moccasins, and two of little feet. Ay, it has been planned with Indian judgment, said the scout, when the party was assembled around the place, and would have blinded white eyes.


id: 02-mohicans_023-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_023-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4450
sentence: 163
flesch: 66
cache: cache/02-mohicans_023-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_023-1757.txt
summary:
  His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; his cataract into a dam, constructed by those industrious and ingenious quadrupeds; and a suspected enemy into his tried friend, David Gamut, the master of psalmody. Though our wayfaring has been sore and our sustenance scanty, we have had little other cause for complaint, except the violence done our feelings, by being thus led in captivity into a far land.


id: 02-mohicans_016-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_016-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4404
sentence: 149
flesch: 63
cache: cache/02-mohicans_016-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_016-1757.txt
summary:
  Montcalm had filled the woods of the portage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too much disposed to magnify the danger. All that pertained to nature was sweet, or simply grand; while those parts which depended on the temper and movements of man were lively and playful.


id: 02-mohicans_017-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_017-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4378
sentence: 167
flesch: 67
cache: cache/02-mohicans_017-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_017-1757.txt
summary:
  Speak to the boys to be watchful, sir, he said, in an undertone, to Duncan; and to look well to their flints and steel, for one is never safe with a servant of these Louis's; at the same time, we shall show them the front of men in deep security. At length, he paused directly in front of Heyward, and riveting his eyes upon those of the other, he said, with a lip that quivered violently: Duncan Heyward, I have loved you for the sake of him whose blood is in your veins; I have loved you for your own good qualities; and I have loved you, because I thought you would contribute to the happiness of my child.


id: 04-pioneers_014-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_014-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4935
sentence: 137
flesch: 63
cache: cache/04-pioneers_014-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_014-1793.txt
summary:
  why do ye bother yourself wid texts, man, about so small a matter? interrupted the landlady; sure, it was the Lord who was with 'em; for he always sided with the Jews, before they fell away; and it's but little matter what kind of men Joshua commanded, so that he was doing the right bidding. For ten or fifteen minutes the different individuals, who intended either to bestow or receive edification before the fires of the Bold Dragoon on that evening, were collecting, until the benches were nearly filled with men of different occupations.


id: 04-pioneers_015-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_015-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4565
sentence: 188
flesch: 79
cache: cache/04-pioneers_015-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_015-1793.txt
summary:
  He was to give me ten dollar an acre for the clearin', and one dollar an acre over the first cost on the woodland, and we agreed to leave the buildin's to men. I knew many French gentlemen during our war, and they all appeared to me to be men of great humanity and goodness of heart; but these Jacobins are as blood thirsty as bull-dogs.


id: 05-prairie_013-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_013-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4437
sentence: 172
flesch: 70
cache: cache/05-prairie_013-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_013-1804.txt
summary:
  Come; come to the front, man; and give us a bold lead. And a bloody piece of work you made of it, man, cried the squatter, pointing tauntily to the soiled garments of his kinsman, and then directing the attention of the spectators to his own, by the way of a triumphant contrast.


id: 05-prairie_012-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_012-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4192
sentence: 168
flesch: 69
cache: cache/05-prairie_012-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_012-1804.txt
summary:
  Here he sat lolloping about the rock from light till noon, doing nothing but schemeschemeschemewith seven as noble boys at his elbows as woman ever gave to man; and what's the upshot? You appear not to sleep, my very kind and worthy Mrs. Bush, he said, determined to commence his applications with a plaster that was usually found to adhere; you appear to rest badly, my excellent hostess; can I administer to your ailings? What would you give me, man? grumbled Esther; a blister to make me sleep? Say rather a cataplasm.


id: 02-mohicans_028-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_028-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3909
sentence: 145
flesch: 62
cache: cache/02-mohicans_028-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_028-1757.txt
summary:
  Unlike other men engaged in the spirit-stirring business of war, they stole from their camp unostentatiously and unobserved resembling a band of gliding specters, more than warriors seeking the bubble reputation by deeds of desperate daring. When he had ended, and resumed his seat, the collected tribefor his auditors, in substance, included all the fighting men of the partysat regarding each other like men astonished equally at the audacity and the success of their enemies.


id: 02-mohicans_029-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_029-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3907
sentence: 163
flesch: 68
cache: cache/02-mohicans_029-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_029-1757.txt
summary:
  Have not my brothers scented the feet of white men? Let my Canada father come, returned the other, evasively; his children are ready to see him. The warriors were lounging in groups, musing more than they conversed and when a few words were uttered, speaking like men who deeply weighed their opinions.


id: 01-deerslayer_032-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_032-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5145
sentence: 215
flesch: 73
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_032-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_032-1740.txt
summary:
  The tears of Judith and Hist were shed freely, and Deerslayer gazed upon the limpid water, that now flowed over one whose spirit was even purer than its own mountain springs, with glistening eyes. Still, Deerslayer, it is not easy for one of my sex and years to forget all her lessons of infancy, all her habits, and her natural diffidence, and say openly what her heart feels! Why not, Judith?


id: 03-pathfinder_030-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_030-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4761
sentence: 169
flesch: 73
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_030-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_030-1758.txt
summary:
  Hour! echoed Mabel, as the other first used the word; the tell-tale blood, which had begun to ebb towards her heart, rushing again tumultuously to her very temples; surely not an hour, Pathfinder? Hour! exclaimed Jasper at the same instant; No, no, my worthy friend, it is not ten minutes since you left us! Come, Mabel, continued Pathfinder, rising and drawing nearer to our heroine, with grave decorum, kiss me; Jasper will not grudge me one kiss; then we'll part.


id: 03-pathfinder_031-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_031-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2858
sentence: 125
flesch: 76
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_031-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_031-1758.txt
summary:
  During the hour of Pathfinder's visit (for it lasted no longer, though he ate in the dwelling of his friends), one who was expert in tracing the working of the human mind might have seen a faithful index to the feelings of Mabel in her manner to Pathfinder and her husband. Mabel, her husband, and June all watched the form of the Pathfinder, in the hope of receiving a parting gesture, or a stolen glance of the eye; but he did not look back.


id: 04-pioneers_040-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_040-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4543
sentence: 155
flesch: 67
cache: cache/04-pioneers_040-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_040-1793.txt
summary:
  Men talked of the cave as a secret receptacle of guilt; and, as the rumor of ores and metals found its way into the confused medley of conjectures, counterfeiting, and everything else that was wicked and dangerous to the peace of society, suggested themselves to the busy fancies of the populace. Come, old chap, said Billy, good-naturedly, don't be crabb'd, but hear what a man has got to say I've no consarn in the business, only to see right 'twixt man and man; and I don't kear the valie of a beetle-ring which gets the better; but there's Squire Doolittle, yonder be hind the beech sapling, he has invited me to come in and ask you to give up to the law--that's all.


id: 04-pioneers_041-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_041-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3670
sentence: 139
flesch: 70
cache: cache/04-pioneers_041-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_041-1793.txt
summary:
  I know not how to act, Judge Temple; ought I, can I suffer Major Effingham to become an inmate of your family? Thou shalt be thyself the judge, said Marmaduke. A devise of his whole estate to certain responsible trustees followed; to hold the same for the benefit, in equal moieties, of his daughter, on one part, and of Oliver Effingham, formerly a major in the army of Great Britain, and of his son Ed ward Effingham, and of his son Edward Oliver Effingham, or to the survivor of them, and the descendants of such survivor, forever, on the other part.


id: 01-deerslayer_010-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_010-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6981
sentence: 256
flesch: 71
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_010-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_010-1740.txt
summary:
  I must tell you the truth, dear Hist, because you ask me, but I should fall down and die in the woods, if he knew it! Why he no ask you, himself?--Brave looking--why not bold speaking? Young warrior ought to ask young girl, no make young girl speak first. Young warrior must tell young girl he want to make wife, else never can live in his wigwam.


id: 01-deerslayer_011-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_011-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6711
sentence: 231
flesch: 68
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_011-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_011-1740.txt
summary:
  There wicked red man, and wicked white man--no colour all good--no colour all wicked. Neighbor mean Iroquois for Iroquois, Mohican for Mohican, Pale-face for pale face.


id: 04-pioneers_009-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_009-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3480
sentence: 90
flesch: 50
cache: cache/04-pioneers_009-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_009-1793.txt
summary:
  To these flourishing resolutions, which briefly recounted the general utility of education, the political and geographical rights of the village of Templeton to a participation in the favors of the regents of the university, the salubrity of the air, and wholesomeness of the water, together with the cheapness of food and the superior state of morals in the neighbor hood, were uniformly annexed, in large Roman capitals, the names of Marmaduke Temple as chairman and Richard Jones as secretary. When no such regular minister offered, a kind of colloquial prayer or two was made by some of the more gifted members, and a sermon was usually read, from Sterne, by Mr. Richard Jones.


id: 04-pioneers_008-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_008-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5139
sentence: 165
flesch: 67
cache: cache/04-pioneers_008-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_008-1793.txt
summary:
  Mr. Jones was quite satisfied with this commission; and ever after, in speaking of the event, was used to say that Dr. Todd and I cut out the bullet, and I and Indian John dressed the wound. Perhaps there was something of deep feeling excited in the bosom of this inhabitant of the forest by the sound of a name that recalled the idea of his nation in ruins, for he seldom used it himself--never, indeed, excepting on the most solemn occasions; but the settlers had united, according to the Christian custom, his baptismal with his national name, and to them he was generally known as John Mohegan, or, more familiarly, as Indian John.


id: 03-pathfinder_013-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_013-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4779
sentence: 195
flesch: 78
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_013-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_013-1758.txt
summary:
  Every man has his enemies, and I have mine, though I count neither you, Master Cap, nor pretty Mabel here among the number. You are no stranger, Master Pathfinder, returned Cap, and no one can be more welcome than yourself.


id: 03-pathfinder_012-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_012-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7678
sentence: 281
flesch: 70
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_012-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_012-1758.txt
summary:
  After a few unmeaning words concerning the noble sheet of water before them, he turned towards his companion with strong interest in his countenance, and said,-- Jasper earned that calash for you, Mabel, without much trial of his gifts. Jasper, here, will show you how a nail is to be started, or the lad has lost some of his steadiness of hand and sartainty of eye.


id: 02-mohicans_034-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_034-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5226
sentence: 176
flesch: 66
cache: cache/02-mohicans_034-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_034-1757.txt
summary:
  They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conqueredbut Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. Her form was concealed in many wrappers of the same simple manufacture, and her face was shut forever from the gaze of men.


id: 04-pioneers_037-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_037-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3440
sentence: 148
flesch: 76
cache: cache/04-pioneers_037-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_037-1793.txt
summary:
  Miss Temple knew not what to say. Taking her hand, he drew Miss Temple to a seat beside him, and pointed to the country beneath them.


id: 04-pioneers_036-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_036-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5252
sentence: 230
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Now the Leather-Stocking refuses the money, whispered Louisa, it can all be given to Mr. Edwards, and that added to-- Listen! said Elizabeth; I hear the rustling of the hay; they are escaping at this moment. Surely, sir, cried the impatient Elizabeth, those laws that condemn a man like the Leather-Stocking to so severe a punishment, for an offence that even I must think very venial, cannot be perfect in themselves.


id: 05-prairie_030-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_030-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5086
sentence: 145
flesch: 59
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summary:
  On the other hand, many of his followers were far better in a hunt than in a combat; men who might serve to divert the attention of his foes, but from whom he could expect little desperate service. In such a crisis there was little time for deliberation.


id: 05-prairie_031-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_031-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5154
sentence: 192
flesch: 72
cache: cache/05-prairie_031-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_031-1804.txt
summary:
  Mahtoree exclaimed, setting an arrow to his bow, and sending it, with a sudden and deadly aim, full at the naked bosom of his generous and confiding enemy. A long and grave pause succeeded this movement, during which these two distinguished braves, who were now, for the first time, confronted, with arms in their hands, sat regarding each other, like warriors who knew how to value the merits of a gallant foe, however hated.


id: 03-pathfinder_019-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_019-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7918
sentence: 296
flesch: 72
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_019-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_019-1758.txt
summary:
  More than once, before the shore was reached, Mabel repented of her temerity, but Pathfinder encouraged her, and really manifested so much self-possession, coolness, and strength of arm himself, that even a female might have hesitated about owning all her apprehensions. I understand you, Pathfinder, returned Mabel, smiling sweetly, though as calmly as if the discourse was with her father.


id: 03-pathfinder_018-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_018-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5129
sentence: 201
flesch: 74
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_018-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_018-1758.txt
summary:
  As the soldier's wife was sick in her berth, Mabel Dunham was the only person in the outer cabin when Jasper returned to it; for, by an act of grace in the Sergeant, he had been permitted to resume his proper place in this part of the vessel. You let this affair weigh too heavily on your mind, Jasper, said she eagerly, or with that forgetfulness of self with which the youthful of her sex are wont to betray their feelings when a strong and generous interest has attained the ascendency; no one who knows you can, or does, believe you guilty.


id: 05-prairie_004-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_004-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5027
sentence: 188
flesch: 74
cache: cache/05-prairie_004-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_004-1804.txt
summary:
  Did you ever run him upon the trail of carrion? Why, I must say, that the ravenous beasts have sometimes tempted me to let him loose, for they are as greedy as men, after the venison, in its season; but then I knew the reason of the dog, would tell him the object!Nono, Hector is an animal known in the ways of man, and will never strike a false trail when a true one is to be followed! Not I, old man; nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.


id: 05-prairie_005-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_005-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6574
sentence: 240
flesch: 67
cache: cache/05-prairie_005-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_005-1804.txt
summary:
  It may be true, he answered, that white men are sleeping in the prairie. But it is no more than your daily calling, I reckon, to take men, as well as beasts, in snares.


id: 04-pioneers_003-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_003-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3135
sentence: 81
flesch: 49
cache: cache/04-pioneers_003-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_003-1793.txt
summary:
  At the school where the reviving prosperity of his father was enabled to maintain him, young Marmaduke formed an intimacy with a youth whose years were about equal to his own. CHAPTER II All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens: Think not the king did banish thee: But thou the king.--Richard II An ancestor of Marmaduke Temple had, about one hundred and twenty years before the commencement of our tale, come to the colony of Pennsylvania, a friend and co-religionist of its great patron.


id: 04-pioneers_002-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_002-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6004
sentence: 169
flesch: 64
cache: cache/04-pioneers_002-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_002-1793.txt
summary:
  Sleighs are also subdivided into two-horse and one-horse sleighs. Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.


id: 02-mohicans_001-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_001-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 1355
sentence: 48
flesch: 58
cache: cache/02-mohicans_001-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_001-1757.txt
summary:
  Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to themselves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.


id: 03-pathfinder_027-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_027-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3832
sentence: 142
flesch: 68
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_027-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_027-1758.txt
summary:
  My dearest friend, Muir commenced,--for ye'll be dearer to us all, by seventy and sevenfold, after your late conduct than ever ye were,--ye've just established yourself in this late transaction. Take Mabel Dunham, for Heaven's sake, to your bosom, and ye'll have both a bonnie bride and a bonnie reputation.


id: 03-pathfinder_026-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_026-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4710
sentence: 173
flesch: 72
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_026-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_026-1758.txt
summary:
  This time you are out in your reckoning, friend Pathfinder, if you never were before, returned Cap in a manner that had lost none of its dogmatism by the critical circumstances in which they were placed. Well, well, with Chingachgook and Jasper on the water, and you and I in the block, friend Cap, it will be hard if we don't teach these Mingo scamps the rationality of a fight.


id: 01-deerslayer_024-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_024-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 8361
sentence: 291
flesch: 70
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_024-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_024-1740.txt
summary:
  They never deserved them more, Deerslayer, and the name is a good one; either Hetty, or myself, would a thousand times rather be called Hetty Bumppo, or Judith Bumppo, than to be called Hetty or Judith Hutter. I'll do it, Judith; I'll do it, returned the patient Deerslayer, but if there's many more letters to read, we shall see the sun ag'in afore you've got through with the reading of them!


id: 01-deerslayer_025-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_025-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7986
sentence: 331
flesch: 77
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_025-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_025-1740.txt
summary:
  He has not answered my question; when a chief puts a question, his friend should not talk of other things. The sun, while he seems to keep traveling in the heavens, never budges, but it is the 'arth that turns round, and any one can understand, if he is placed on the side of a mill-wheel, for instance, when it's in motion, that he must some times see the heavens, while he is at other times under water.


id: 01-deerslayer_009-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_009-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7294
sentence: 246
flesch: 67
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_009-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_009-1740.txt
summary:
  My brother and friend struck the body? That was uncalled for, seeing that the Mingo died in my arms. The uncertainty of its movements, and the fact that it was unquestionably managed by white men, soon led him to conjecture the truth, however, and he held himself in readiness to get on board whenever a suitable occasion might offer.


id: 02-mohicans_012-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_012-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4850
sentence: 203
flesch: 70
cache: cache/02-mohicans_012-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_012-1757.txt
summary:
  She waited until he had departed, and then turning to the native, with the dignity of her sex in her voice and manner, she added: What would Le Renard say to the daughter of Munro? Listen, said the Indian, laying his hand firmly upon her arm, as if willing to draw her utmost attention to his words; a movement that Cora as firmly but quietly repulsed, by extricating the limb from his grasp: Magua was born a chief and a warrior among the red Hurons of the lakes; he saw the suns of twenty summers make the snows of twenty winters run off in the streams before he saw a pale face; and he was happy! Would it not be more like a man to go before his face, and take the satisfaction of a warrior? The arms of the pale faces are long, and their knives sharp! returned the savage, with a malignant laugh: why should Le Renard go among the muskets of his warriors, when he holds the spirit of the gray-head in his hand? Name your intention, Magua, said Cora, struggling with herself to speak with steady calmness.


id: 01-deerslayer_008-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_008-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7056
sentence: 242
flesch: 68
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_008-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_008-1740.txt
summary:
  To the surprise of Deerslayer, Judith seemed the most distressed, Hetty listening eagerly, but appearing to brood over the facts in melancholy silence, rather than betraying any outward signs of feeling. This is stranger still, Deerslayer, that father should tell them to Hetty, and not tell them to me! There's a good reason for that, Judith, though you're not to know it.


id: 02-mohicans_013-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_013-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5754
sentence: 198
flesch: 67
cache: cache/02-mohicans_013-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_013-1757.txt
summary:
  Friend, he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand toward Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twinkled and grew moist, I thank thee that the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence; for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curling, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter. They come from the shores of Narrangansett Bay, in the small province of Providence Plantations, and are celebrated for their hardihood, and the ease of this peculiar movement; though other horses are not unfrequently trained to the same.


id: 04-pioneers_010-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_010-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3258
sentence: 122
flesch: 73
cache: cache/04-pioneers_010-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_010-1793.txt
summary:
  Gentleman! echoed Richard; do you call such chaps gentlemen, at school, Elizabeth? Every man is a gentleman that knows how to treat a woman with respect and consideration, returned the young lady promptly, and a little smartly. Dost thou not think so, Bess? There was nothing in this question particularly to excite blushes, but Elizabeth started from the revery into which she had fallen, and colored to her forehead as she answered: To me, dear sir, he appeared extremely skilful, and prompt, and courageous; but perhaps Cousin Richard will say I am as ignorant as the gentleman himself.


id: 04-pioneers_011-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_011-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3385
sentence: 121
flesch: 71
cache: cache/04-pioneers_011-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_011-1793.txt
summary:
  I observe you also keep the dear sign that I saw Cousin Richard paint; and even the name at the bottom, about which, you may remember, you had the disagreement. --Scotts Burgher While Richard and Monsieur Le Quoi, attended by Benjamin, proceeded to the academy by a foot-path through the snow, the judge, his daughter, the divine, and the Major took a more circuitous route to the same place by the streets of the village.


id: 05-prairie_017-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_017-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3091
sentence: 106
flesch: 69
cache: cache/05-prairie_017-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_017-1804.txt
summary:
  Tell me that a drone has a sting, and I'll believe you as easily as I will that this young woman is a debtor to any of the tribe of Bush! It is but little matter who owes me, or where I am in debt. The mouth of the light-hearted and reckless bee-hunter was instantly closed, and he was rendered as mute, as he had just been boisterous and talkative, by the appearance of Ellen Wade.


id: 05-prairie_016-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_016-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5333
sentence: 176
flesch: 63
cache: cache/05-prairie_016-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_016-1804.txt
summary:
  Middleton was returning through the grounds of Don Augustin, from a visit of duty to his encampment, at that hour in which the light of the sun begins to melt into the shadows of evening, when a glimpse of a robe, similar to that in which Inez had accompanied him to the altar, caught his eye through the foliage of a retired arbour. Father Ignatius performed the offices of the church, in a little chapel attached to the estate of Don Augustin; and long ere the sun had begun to fall, Middleton pressed the blushing and timid young Creole to his bosom, his acknowledged and unalienable wife.


id: 05-prairie_029-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_029-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4967
sentence: 211
flesch: 75
cache: cache/05-prairie_029-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_029-1804.txt
summary:
  He stopped before the person of Hard-Heart, whose faultless form, unchanging eye, and lofty mien, he contemplated long, with high and evident satisfaction. His words are like the fruit on the tree, ripe and fit to be given to chiefs.


id: 05-prairie_028-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_028-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5563
sentence: 209
flesch: 68
cache: cache/05-prairie_028-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_028-1804.txt
summary:
  The immovable old man smiled, with an expression of singular intelligence, as he answered Friend squatter, you ask what few men would be willing to grant. Both are in the hands of the Lord, it being as unlawful for man to strive to hasten the one, as impossible to prevent the other.


id: 03-pathfinder_001-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_001-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 542
sentence: 15
flesch: 53
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_001-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_001-1758.txt
summary:
  The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid dwelling on it too much on the present occasion; its association with the sailor, too, it is feared, will be found to have more novelty than interest. Fleets have manoeuvered on those waters, which, half a century ago, were as deserted as waters well can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the interests of human society.


id: 02-mohicans_018-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_018-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5542
sentence: 224
flesch: 70
cache: cache/02-mohicans_018-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_018-1757.txt
summary:
  Along the sweeping borders of the woods hung a dark cloud of savages, eyeing the passage of their enemies, and hovering at a distance, like vultures who were only kept from swooping on their prey by the presence and restraint of a superior army. It was during these moments of deep silence that the canvas which concealed the entrance to a spacious marquee in the French encampment was shoved aside, and a man issued from beneath the drapery into the open air.


id: 01-deerslayer_003-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_003-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6685
sentence: 225
flesch: 71
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_003-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_003-1740.txt
summary:
  Now, I gainsay that proposal, consarning white men, even. I do not pretend that all that white men do, is properly Christianized, and according to the lights given them, for then they would be what they ought to be; which we know they are not; but I will maintain that tradition, and use, and color, and laws, make such a difference in races as to amount to gifts.


id: 02-mohicans_019-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_019-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4660
sentence: 180
flesch: 72
cache: cache/02-mohicans_019-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_019-1757.txt
summary:
  Nothing but vast wisdom and unlimited power should dare to sweep off men in multitudes, he added; for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgment; and what is there, short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord? We are not about to start on a squirrel hunt, or to drive a deer into the Horican, but to outlie for days and nights, and to stretch across a wilderness where the feet of men seldom go, and where no bookish knowledge would carry you through harmless.


id: 01-deerslayer_002-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_002-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6383
sentence: 214
flesch: 70
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_002-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_002-1740.txt
summary:
  But though there be other lakes, Deerslayer, there's no other Judith Hutter! Lakes have a gentle character, as I say, being pretty much water and land, and points and bays.


id: 05-prairie_023-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_023-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5298
sentence: 183
flesch: 69
cache: cache/05-prairie_023-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_023-1804.txt
summary:
  Many men must have been needed to finish such an edifice; ay, and men gifted with strength and skill too! But never, before nor since, have I seen human man in such a state of mortal despair as that very savage; and yet he scorned to speak, or to cry out, or to own his forlorn condition!


id: 05-prairie_022-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_022-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5018
sentence: 188
flesch: 69
cache: cache/05-prairie_022-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_022-1804.txt
summary:
  The ways of a great medicine are not like the ways of other men. Obed had not been mistaken in supposing that he was already missed and sought, though his imagination had corrupted certain savage cries into the well-known sounds that composed his own latinized name.


id: 04-pioneers_024-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_024-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4288
sentence: 138
flesch: 69
cache: cache/04-pioneers_024-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_024-1793.txt
summary:
  Marmaduke, with his daughter, her friend, and young Edwards, continued on the high grassy banks at the outlet of the placid sheet of water, watching the dark object that was moving across the lake, until it entered the shade of the western hills, and was lost to the eye. Would it stand to reason, that such a fish should live and be catched in this here little pond of water, where it's hardly deep enough to drown a man, as you'll find in the wide ocean, where, as every body knows that is, everybody that has followed the seas, whales and grampuses are to be seen, that are as long as one of the pine-trees on yonder mountain?


id: 04-pioneers_025-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_025-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5276
sentence: 179
flesch: 68
cache: cache/04-pioneers_025-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_025-1793.txt
summary:
  But, d'yesee, squire, I kept my hatches chose, and it's but little water that ever gets into my scuttle-butt. Mohegan gave a wave of assent with his hand, and in the next instant the canoe was without the run of the bass, and in water nearly twenty feet in depth.


id: 02-mohicans_026-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_026-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5109
sentence: 212
flesch: 72
cache: cache/02-mohicans_026-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_026-1757.txt
summary:
  I would gladly believe her such, returned Duncan, hastily; I could wish her to be even more; but with you, Alice, I have the permission of your father to aspire to a still nearer and dearer tie. Duncan, as may be gathered from the words of his companion, was eagerly obeying; and, as the other finished speaking, he took the light person of Alice in his arms, and followed in the footsteps of the scout.


id: 02-mohicans_027-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_027-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4136
sentence: 158
flesch: 67
cache: cache/02-mohicans_027-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_027-1757.txt
summary:
  As they proceeded, the scout ascertained that his companion found access to Uncas, under privilege of his imaginary infirmity, aided by the favor he had acquired with one of the guards, who, in consequence of speaking a little English, had been selected by David as the subject of a religious conversion. It proved to be the abiding place of David Gamut.


id: 05-prairie_001-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_001-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 879
sentence: 38
flesch: 65
cache: cache/05-prairie_001-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_001-1804.txt
summary:
  At the period of the tale, they dwelt in open hostility; national feuds passing from generation to generation. When the adventurers, who first penetrated these wilds, met, in the centre of the forests, immense plains, covered with rich verdure or rank grasses, they naturally gave them the appellation of meadows.


id: 04-pioneers_007-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_007-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4816
sentence: 134
flesch: 59
cache: cache/04-pioneers_007-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_007-1793.txt
summary:
  When this preparatory measure was taken, Dr. Todd selected a piece of the shirt with great care, and handing to Mr. Jones, without moving a muscle, said: Here, Squire Jones, you are well acquainted with these things; will you please to scrape the lint? The gentleman knows best, said Dr. Todd, laying down the probe with the air of a man who had assumed it merely in compliance with forms; and, turning to Richard, he fingered the lint with the appearance of great care and foresight.


id: 04-pioneers_006-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_006-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5227
sentence: 160
flesch: 63
cache: cache/04-pioneers_006-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_006-1793.txt
summary:
  Major Hartmann wore a coat of sky-blue, with large brass buttons, a club wig, and boots; and Mr. Richard Jones had set off his dapper little form in a frock of bottle-green, with bullet-buttons, by one of which the sides were united over his well-rounded waist, opening above, so as to show a jacket of red cloth, with an undervest of flannel, faced with green velvet, and below, so as to exhibit a pair of buckskin breeches, with long, soiled, white top-boots, and spurs; one of the latter a little bent, from its recent attacks on the stool. A small hill was risen, and Elizabeth found herself at once amidst the incongruous dwellings of the village.


id: 02-mohicans_005-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_005-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3406
sentence: 130
flesch: 72
cache: cache/02-mohicans_005-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_005-1757.txt
summary:
  We will not dispute concerning the excellence of the passage, returned Heyward, smiling; for, as the reader has anticipated, it was he. No, give me a Delaware or a Mohican for honesty; and when they will fight, which they won't all do, having suffered their cunning enemies, the Maquas, to make them womenbut when they will fight at all, look to a Delaware, or a Mohican, for a warrior! Enough of this, said Heyward, impatiently; I wish not to inquire into the character of a man that I know, and to whom you must be a stranger.


id: 02-mohicans_004-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_004-1757
date: 1757
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flesch: 70
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summary:
  The horses of white men are coming! Hawkeye, let us eat to-night, and show the Maquas that we are men to-morrow.


id: 04-pioneers_039-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_039-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4609
sentence: 188
flesch: 79
cache: cache/04-pioneers_039-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_039-1793.txt
summary:
  In order to estimate the probability of such an event, it is necessary to remember the effects of a long drought in that climate and the abundance of dead wood which is found in a forest like that described, The fires in the American forests frequently rage to such an extent as to produce a sensible effect on the atmosphere at a distance of fifty miles. man, said Natty, he knows his end is at hand as well as you or I; but, so far from thinking it a loss, he believes it to be a great gain.


id: 04-pioneers_038-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_038-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3373
sentence: 147
flesch: 77
cache: cache/04-pioneers_038-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_038-1793.txt
summary:
  If we reach the point of yon rock before that sheet of fire, we are safe, Miss Temple, exclaimed the young man in a voice that burst without the bounds of his forced composure. The place of the interview between Miss Temple and the Indian has already been described as one of those platforms of rock, which form a sort of terrace in the mountains of that country, and the face of it, we have said, was both high and perpendicular.


id: 03-pathfinder_023-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_023-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6501
sentence: 295
flesch: 75
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_023-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_023-1758.txt
summary:
  you would not betray me--you could not give me up after all you have done for me? Just so, returned June, making a backward gesture with her hand, and speaking with a warmth and earnestness Mabel had never witnessed in her before. June no Yengeese, June Tuscarora--got Tuscarora husband--Tuscarora heart--Tuscarora feeling--all over Tuscarora.


id: 03-pathfinder_022-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_022-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4092
sentence: 142
flesch: 66
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_022-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_022-1758.txt
summary:
  At first Mabel fancied that her uncle had entered the blockhouse, and she was about to descend the ladder and throw herself into his arms; then the idea that it might be an Indian, who had barred the door to shut out intruders while he plundered at leisure, arrested the movement. For God's holy sake, Mistress Mabel, called out the woman from below; for, though her fear had become too ungovernable to allow her to keep silence, our heroine's superior refinement, more than the regimental station of her father, still controlled her mode of address,--Mistress Mabel, tell me if any of our friends are living!


id: 01-deerslayer_020-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_020-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6967
sentence: 235
flesch: 66
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_020-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_020-1740.txt
summary:
  The exhausted warrior reclined against the hut, there having been no time to remove him, and Hurry lay, almost as helpless as a log, tethered like a sheep on its way to the slaughter, near the middle of the platform. At this moment Hurry was towing fifty or sixty feet astern, with nothing but his face above water.


id: 01-deerslayer_021-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_021-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7506
sentence: 281
flesch: 70
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_021-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_021-1740.txt
summary:
  The reader must imagine the horror that daughters would experience, at unexpectedly beholding the shocking spectacle that was placed before the eyes of Judith and Esther, as related in the close of the last chapter. Such was now the fact with Judith and Hetty, who both perceived the decrees of a retributive Providence, in the manner of their father's suffering, as a punishment for his own recent attempts on the Iroquois.


id: 01-deerslayer_014-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_014-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6887
sentence: 244
flesch: 69
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_014-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_014-1740.txt
summary:
  The protest of Deerslayer was met by his communicating the fact that the presence of an Indian in the hut was known to the Iroquois, and that maintaining the disguise would be more likely to direct suspicions to his real object, than if he came out openly as a member of a hostile tribe. All this was lost on Deerslayer, who was no great adept in the mysteries of Cupid, but whose mind was far more occupied with the concerns that forced themselves on his attention, than with any of the truant fancies of love.


id: 01-deerslayer_015-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_015-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7158
sentence: 284
flesch: 74
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_015-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_015-1740.txt
summary:
  You may laugh at such men as Hurry and I, for we're rough and unteached in the ways of books and other knowledge; but we've our good p'ints, as well as our bad ones. Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold 'em.


id: 03-pathfinder_017-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_017-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5009
sentence: 200
flesch: 74
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_017-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_017-1758.txt
summary:
  By accident, we might find a party at any point on the shore; or we might pass months there without seeing one. We must take our chance, then, as to the blackguards; but, to be frank with you, Master Western, if this little unpleasant matter about the French had not come to pass, what would you now do with the cutter? I am a much younger sailor than yourself, Master Cap, said Jasper modestly, and am hardly fitted to advise you. This bit of fresh water, after all, brother Dunham, has some spirit, I find, cried Cap about noon, rubbing his hands in pure satisfaction at finding himself once more wrestling with the elements.


id: 03-pathfinder_016-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_016-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6245
sentence: 261
flesch: 74
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_016-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_016-1758.txt
summary:
  The life of a soldier, brother Cap, is one of constant thought and circumspection. I know nothing of either, brother Cap, returned Dunham, not a little embarrassed at the question.


id: 02-mohicans_031-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_031-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4494
sentence: 224
flesch: 78
cache: cache/02-mohicans_031-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_031-1757.txt
summary:
  And ye, returned Uncas, looking sternly around him, are dogs that whine, when the Frenchman casts ye the offals of his deer! Twenty knives gleamed in the air, and as many warriors sprang to their feet, at this biting, and perhaps merited retort; but a motion from one of the chiefs suppressed the outbreaking of their tempers, and restored the appearance of quiet. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stood in the living circle.


id: 02-mohicans_030-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_030-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5121
sentence: 220
flesch: 74
cache: cache/02-mohicans_030-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_030-1757.txt
summary:
  He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race. The flushed countenance, angry eye and swelling figure of the scout, produced a sensation of secret awe in all that heard him.


id: 03-pathfinder_029-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_029-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5111
sentence: 185
flesch: 70
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_029-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_029-1758.txt
summary:
  I'm not consaited, Jasper; I'm not consaited, I do think I'm not; but if Mabel Dunham is willing to overlook all my imperfections and ignorances like, I should be wrong to gainsay it, on account of any sartainty I may have myself about my own want of merit. No one will blame you, Pathfinder, for marrying Mabel Dunham, any more than they will blame you for wearing a precious jewel in your bosom that a friend had freely given you.


id: 03-pathfinder_028-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_028-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5572
sentence: 192
flesch: 71
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_028-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_028-1758.txt
summary:
  Here is the Sergeant, poor man, on his dying bed; he has given me his daughter for a wife, and Mabel, dear girl, she has consented to it; and it makes me feel that I have two welfares to look after, two natur's to care for, and two hearts to gladden. Some go their way as stupid and ignorant as if God had never given them reason and an accountable state; while others quit us rejoicing, like men who leave heavy burthens behind them.


id: 04-pioneers_033-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_033-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4430
sentence: 173
flesch: 75
cache: cache/04-pioneers_033-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_033-1793.txt
summary:
  Since his appointment to the office of sheriff and his consequent absences from home, he had employed Benjamin to make memoranda on a slate, of whatever might be thought worth remembering, which, on his return, were regularly transferred to the journal with proper notations of the time, manner, and other little particulars. He is suspected of other misdemeanors and offences against private rights; and I have this night taken on myself, by the virtue of my office as sheriff, to arrest the said Bumppo, and bring him to the county jail, that he may be present and forthcoming to answer to these heavy charges before the court to-morrow morning.


id: 04-pioneers_032-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_032-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3138
sentence: 134
flesch: 75
cache: cache/04-pioneers_032-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_032-1793.txt
summary:
  There was very little similarity in the manners or opinions of the two; but as they both belonged to the more intelligent class of a very small community, they were, of course, known to each other, and as their meeting was at a point where silence would have been rudeness, the following conversation was the result of their interview: A fine evening, Mr. Edwards, commenced the lawyer, whose disinclination to the dialogue was, to say the least, very doubtful; we want rain sadly; that's the worst of this climate of ours, it's either a drought or a deluge. Well, Mr. Edwards, said Lippet, dropping all reserve from his manner, you are called a curious man; but if you can tell me how a jury is to be prevented from finding a verdict of guilty, if this case comes fairly before them, and the proof is clear, I shall acknowledge that you know more law than I do, who have had a license in my pocket for three years.


id: 05-prairie_034-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_034-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4490
sentence: 165
flesch: 70
cache: cache/05-prairie_034-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_034-1804.txt
summary:
  It is the way of man, returned the Captain; and it is probable they are not wanting in any of his natural qualities. Yes, lad, yes; you would do your endeavours; but what are the strivings of man against the working of the devil!


id: 05-prairie_035-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_035-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5289
sentence: 203
flesch: 71
cache: cache/05-prairie_035-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_035-1804.txt
summary:
  Look to your arms, men; it may be necessary to let these savages feel our strength. The rest of those immediately in the centre were aged men, who had apparently drawn near, in order to observe the manner, in which a just and fearless warrior would depart on the greatest of his journeys.


id: 05-prairie_007-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_007-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4000
sentence: 133
flesch: 59
cache: cache/05-prairie_007-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_007-1804.txt
summary:
  No; pari passu with Solander, who bought his knowledge with pain and privations! Have you discovered a mine, Doctor Bat? More than a mine; a treasure coined, and fit for instant use, girl. The naturalist raised his tablets to the heavens, and disposed himself to read as well as he could, by the dim light they yet shed upon the plain; premising with saying Listen, girl, and you shall hear, with what a treasure it has been my happy lot to enrich the pages of natural history!


id: 05-prairie_006-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_006-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4429
sentence: 163
flesch: 72
cache: cache/05-prairie_006-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_006-1804.txt
summary:
  We ar' of a slow breed, it may be said, and it is often said, of us; but slow is sure; and there ar' few men living, who can say they ever struck a blow, that they did not get one as hard in return, from Ishmael Bush. Men only die when he chooses; and no Dahcotah can change the hour.


id: 04-pioneers_001-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_001-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 1952
sentence: 72
flesch: 63
cache: cache/04-pioneers_001-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_001-1793.txt
summary:
  As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlantic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Otsego Lake, being the source of the Susquehanna, is of necessity among its highest lands. The physician with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human constitution; the pious, self-denying, laborious, and ill-paid missionary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable lawyer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of better origin and of better character; the shiftless, bargaining, discontented seller of his betterments; the plausible carpenter, and most of the others, are more familiar to all who have ever dwelt in a new country.


id: 01-deerslayer_019-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_019-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7796
sentence: 284
flesch: 67
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_019-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_019-1740.txt
summary:
  At the precise moment when Hurry committed this act of unthinking cruelty, the canoe of Judith was within a hundred feet of the spot from which the Ark had so lately moved. The conjecture of Judith Hutter, concerning the manner in which the Indian girl had met her death, was accurate in the main.


id: 02-mohicans_002-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_002-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4068
sentence: 101
flesch: 50
cache: cache/02-mohicans_002-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_002-1757.txt
summary:
  He had all the bones and joints of other men, without any of their proportions. It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.


id: 01-deerslayer_018-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_018-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4566
sentence: 202
flesch: 77
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_018-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_018-1740.txt
summary:
  Resolute as she was both by nature and habit, Judith scarce breathed, while poor Hetty hid her face and trembled. Here I am, Judith, she added, and there is no one near me.


id: 02-mohicans_003-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_003-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3348
sentence: 99
flesch: 60
cache: cache/02-mohicans_003-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_003-1757.txt
summary:
  The conjecture of Major Heyward was true. Judge not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appearances, said the lady, smiling; though Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion, believe me, his natural tones are better fitted for a mellow tenor than the bass you heard.


id: 03-pathfinder_024-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_024-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 8604
sentence: 361
flesch: 74
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_024-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_024-1758.txt
summary:
  Rank sophistry, pretty Mabel, and treason to the king, as well as dishonoring his commission and discrediting his name. Although Mabel and June went to every loophole, not a sign of the presence of a living being on the island was at first to be seen, themselves excepted.


id: 03-pathfinder_025-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_025-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7272
sentence: 284
flesch: 74
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_025-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_025-1758.txt
summary:
  Mabel Dunham, said Pathfinder reproachfully, though he took her hand with kindness, I have not desarved this. Give me the history of this sad business, Pathfinder.


id: 01-deerslayer_027-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_027-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7603
sentence: 256
flesch: 66
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_027-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_027-1740.txt
summary:
  There were several who might claim the distinction of being chief men, but the two in question were so much superior to all the rest in influence, that, when they agreed, no one disputed their mandates, and when they were divided the band hesitated, like men who had lost their governing principle of action. With a view to render their triumph as signal as possible, in the event of the hour's passing without the reappearance of the hunter, all the warriors and scouts of the party had been called in, and the whole band, men, women and children, was now assembled at this single point, to be a witness of the expected scene.


id: 01-deerslayer_026-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_026-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7497
sentence: 269
flesch: 74
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_026-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_026-1740.txt
summary:
  They say an Injin may torment and tortur' the body to his heart's content, and scalp, and cut, and tear, and burn, and consume all his inventions and deviltries, until nothin' is left but ashes, and they shall be scattered to the four winds of heaven, yet when the trumpet of God shall sound, all will come together ag'in, and the man will stand forth in his flesh, the same creatur' as to looks, if not as to feelin's, that he was afore he was harmed! The missionaries are good men--mean well, returned the Delaware courteously; they are not great medicines. The Delawares believe that good men and brave warriors will hunt together in the same pleasant woods, let them belong to whatever tribe they may; that all the unjust Indians and cowards will have to sneak in with the dogs and the wolves to get venison for their lodges.


id: 02-mohicans_008-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_008-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4555
sentence: 179
flesch: 73
cache: cache/02-mohicans_008-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_008-1757.txt
summary:
  Their anxious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees. Gray 'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good to lie hid any longer, said Hawkeye when such sounds are raised in the forest.


id: 01-deerslayer_013-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_013-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7021
sentence: 291
flesch: 75
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_013-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_013-1740.txt
summary:
  That say Great Sarpent, in Deerslayer tongue. It is true the lad proposed to carry one of the elephants with him, as a specimen of the other, but to this his brother negotiator was too sagacious to consent; well knowing that it might never reach its destination if confided to such hands.


id: 02-mohicans_009-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_009-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3935
sentence: 140
flesch: 69
cache: cache/02-mohicans_009-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_009-1757.txt
summary:
  If you are led into the woods, that is such of you as may be spared for awhile, break the twigs on the bushes as you pass, and make the marks of your trail as broad as you can, when, if mortal eyes can see them, depend on having a friend who will follow to the ends of the 'arth afore he desarts you. His countenance was composed, though thoughtful, while his dark, gleaming eyes were gradually losing the fierceness of the combat in an expression better suited to the change he expected momentarily to undergo.


id: 01-deerslayer_012-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_012-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7783
sentence: 277
flesch: 71
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_012-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_012-1740.txt
summary:
  Then the key is hid only from the Wild Rose? for so Chingachgook had begun gallantly to term Judith, in his private discourse with his friend. Judith hath given me them for your use, chief, said the latter, as he cast the jacket and trousers at the feet of the Indian, for it's ag'in all prudence and caution to be seen in your war dress and paint.


id: 04-pioneers_042-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_042-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4326
sentence: 180
flesch: 77
cache: cache/04-pioneers_042-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_042-1793.txt
summary:
  Effingham and Elizabeth were surprised at the manner of the Leather-Stocking, which was unusually impressive and solemn; but, attributing it to the scene, the young man turned to the monument, and read aloud: Sacred to the memory of Oliver Effingham Esquire, formally a Major in his B. Majesty's 60th Foot; a soldier of tried valor; a subject of chivalrous loyalty; and a man of honesty. I love the woods, and ye relish the face of man; I eat when hungry, and drink when a-dry; and ye keep stated hours and rules; nay, nay, you even over-feed the dogs, lad, from pure kindness; and hounds should be gaunty to run well.


id: 03-pathfinder_010-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_010-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5057
sentence: 184
flesch: 70
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_010-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_010-1758.txt
summary:
  They have their gifts, I suppose, like other men, observed Pathfinder, with a view to preserve the peace, which was evidently in some danger of being broken by the obstinate predilection of each of the disputants in favor of his own calling; and when a man has his gift from Providence, it is commonly idle to endeavor to bear up against it. That is your own humble opinion of yourself, Pathfinder; but we have seen too many fail with the same weapon, and you succeed too often with the rifles of other men, to allow me to agree with you.


id: 03-pathfinder_011-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_011-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5997
sentence: 252
flesch: 75
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_011-1758.txt
txt: txt/03-pathfinder_011-1758.txt
summary:
  It has indeed, Major Duncan, returned the other, who, though he complied so far as to take the seat, was much too practised not to understand the degree of respect it was necessary to maintain in his manner; a very fine day, sir, it has been and we may look for more of them at this season. They promise a good yield, Major Duncan; and, in that light, a more comfortable winter than the last.


id: 04-pioneers_034-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_034-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5662
sentence: 181
flesch: 66
cache: cache/04-pioneers_034-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_034-1793.txt
summary:
  Prisoner, remove your cap, said Judge Temple. I repeat my question; did he tell you not to enter his habitation? There was a good deal passed betwixt us--but I've the warrant in my pocket; maybe the court would wish to see it? Witness, said Judge Temple, answer the question directly; did or did not the prisoner forbid your entering his hut? Why, I some think-- Answer without equivocation, continued the Judge sternly.


id: 04-pioneers_035-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_035-1793
date: 1793
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  I am ashamed to see a man of your character and office forget himself so much as to disturb the peace, insult the court, and beat poor Benjamin in this manner! Now, I've known very good sort of men, aboard of the Boadishey, laid by the heels, for nothing, mayhap, but forgetting that they'd drunk their allowance already, when a glass of grog has come in their way.


id: 05-prairie_033-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_033-1804
date: 1804
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words: 4860
sentence: 216
flesch: 73
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summary:
  It was not often that the blood of Ishmael moved at the rate with which the fluid circulates in the veins of ordinary men; but now he felt it ready to gush from every pore in his body. Ishmael awaited long and patiently for the motley train of Hard-Heart to disappear.


id: 05-prairie_032-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_032-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
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words: 5921
sentence: 190
flesch: 68
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summary:
  And now, young man; you, who have so often come into my clearing, under the pretence of lining the bee into his hole, resumed Ishmael, after a momentary pause, as if to recover the equilibrium of his mind, with you there is a heavier account to settle. I am called upon this day, to fill the office which in the settlements you give unto judges, who are set apart to decide on matters that arise between man and man.


id: 02-mohicans_015-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_015-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5387
sentence: 202
flesch: 73
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summary:
  And but little time to do it in, added Heyward, glancing his eyes upwards, toward the bank of vapor that concealed the setting moon. Birds, beasts, and man, appeared to slumber alike, if, indeed, any of the latter were to be found in that wide tract of wilderness.


id: 02-mohicans_014-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_014-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4247
sentence: 129
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Hawkeye dropped the breech of his rifle to the earth, and drawing a long, free breath, exclaimed, in an audible whisper: Ay! they respect the dead, and it has this time saved their own lives, and, it may be, the lives of better men too. While the eyes of the sisters were endeavoring to catch glimpses through the trees, of the flood of golden glory which formed a glittering halo around the sun, tinging here and there with ruby streaks, or bordering with narrow edgings of shining yellow, a mass of clouds that lay piled at no great distance above the western hills, Hawkeye turned suddenly and pointing upward toward the gorgeous heavens, he spoke: Yonder is the signal given to man to seek his food and natural rest, he said; better and wiser would it be, if he could understand the signs of nature, and take a lesson from the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field!


id: 04-pioneers_017-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_017-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4029
sentence: 178
flesch: 80
cache: cache/04-pioneers_017-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_017-1793.txt
summary:
  Hold, Cousin Richard, exclaimed Elizabeth, clinging to his arm; would it be delicate to offer a shilling to that gentleman? Gentleman, again! I never was in a house yet where I didn't get the first Christmas greeting on every soul in it, man, woman, and child--great and small--black, white, and yellow.


id: 04-pioneers_016-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_016-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4088
sentence: 153
flesch: 75
cache: cache/04-pioneers_016-1793.txt
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summary:
  For that matter, Mistress Remarkable, said Benjamin, there's none here who will contradict you; for I'm of opinion that it would be as easy to stop a hurricane with a Barcelony handkerchy as to bring up your tongue when the stopper is off. It's a peeler without, I can tell you, good woman; but what cares I?


id: 05-prairie_010-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_010-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4726
sentence: 168
flesch: 67
cache: cache/05-prairie_010-1804.txt
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summary:
  Having made the reader acquainted with the manner in which Ishmael Bush had disposed of his family, under circumstances that might have proved so embarrassing to most other men, we shall again shift the scene a few short miles from the place last described, preserving, however, the due and natural succession of time. If I had but a cup of metheglin, said Paul, stopping to perform the necessary operation of breathing, I should swear this was the strongest meal that was ever placed before the mouth of man! Ay, ay, well you may call it strong!


id: 05-prairie_011-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_011-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4698
sentence: 185
flesch: 70
cache: cache/05-prairie_011-1804.txt
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summary:
  The semi-barbarous hunters from the Canadas, the same description of population, a little more enlightened, from the States, and the metiffs or half-breeds, who claimed to be ranked in the class of white men, were scattered among the different Indian tribes, or gleaned a scanty livelihood in solitude, amid the haunts of the beaver and the bison; or, to adopt the popular nomenclature of the country of the buffaloe.[15] It was, therefore, no unusual thing for strangers to encounter each other in the endless wastes of the west. It is the fashion of old age to relish these ancient traditions, and, for that matter, I can say that I don't dislike to listen to them myself.


id: 01-deerslayer_030-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_030-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5862
sentence: 243
flesch: 72
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_030-1740.txt
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summary:
  This discovery at once pointed distrust towards Hist, and to Judith's surprise, when questioned on the subject, that spirited girl was not disposed to deny her agency in what had passed. Which of these warriors is the principal chief? demanded Judith of Deerslayer, as soon as she found it was expected that she should open the communications; my errand is too important to be delivered to any of inferior rank.


id: 01-deerslayer_031-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_031-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4962
sentence: 210
flesch: 74
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_031-1740.txt
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summary:
  Craig is covering us with benedictions, observed this person to his young ensign, with an air of indifference, as he shut the glass and handed it to his servant; to say the truth, not without reason; it is certainly more agreeable to be here in attendance on Miss Judith Hutter, than to be burying Indians on a point of the lake, however romantic the position, or brilliant the victory. For heaven's sake, dearest sister; for my sake, beloved Hetty, interposed Judith, imploringly, say no more of this! Hetty looked surprised, but accustomed to comply, she ceased her awkward and painful interrogations of Warley, bending her eyes towards the Bible which she still held between her hands, as one would cling to a casket of precious stones in a shipwreck, or a conflagration.


id: 04-pioneers_029-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_029-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5185
sentence: 197
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Mind, old man, the law don't get hold on you. Well, they are strange dogs, I must say--I am quite in a wonderment.


id: 04-pioneers_028-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_028-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2247
sentence: 92
flesch: 80
cache: cache/04-pioneers_028-1793.txt
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summary:
  He-ere, he-ere--shore with you, rascals--shore with you--will ye? Back water, cried Natty, as the canoe glided over the place where the spear had fallen; hold water, John.


id: 03-pathfinder_007-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_007-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4758
sentence: 167
flesch: 70
cache: cache/03-pathfinder_007-1758.txt
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summary:
  For it, it may be said water leaves no trail-- What do you call the wake? interrupted the pertinacious and dogmatical Cap. Anan? Go on, said Jasper; Master Cap thinks he is on the ocean--water leaves no trail-- It leaves none, Eau-douce, hereaway, though I do not pretend to say what it may leave on the sea. Once or twice the wanderers altered their course, in consequence of unexpectedly stepping into deep water; for they knew that the boat had lodged on the shallowest part of the rift.


id: 03-pathfinder_006-1758
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 03-pathfinder_006-1758
date: 1758
extension: .txt
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words: 6453
sentence: 229
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Ay, empty your rifles like simpletons as you are, said the Pathfinder, who had acquired a habit of speaking when alone, from passing so much of his time in the solitude of the forest; empty your rifles with an unsteady aim, and give me time to put yard upon yard of river between us. Without making any noise, therefore, he managed to get the two Indians and Jasper near him, when he opened his communications in a whisper.


id: 01-deerslayer_004-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_004-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6706
sentence: 221
flesch: 69
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_004-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_004-1740.txt
summary:
  You are Hetty Hutter, said Deerslayer, in the way one puts a question unconsciously to himself, assuming a kindness of tone and manner that were singularly adapted to win the confidence of her he addressed. Hurry Harry has told me of you, and I know you must be the child? Yes, I'm Hetty Hutter returned the girl in a low, sweet voice, which nature, aided by some education, had preserved from vulgarity of tone and utterance--I'm Hetty; Judith Hutter's sister; and Thomas Hutter's youngest daughter.


id: 01-deerslayer_005-1740
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 01-deerslayer_005-1740
date: 1740
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7201
sentence: 261
flesch: 72
cache: cache/01-deerslayer_005-1740.txt
txt: txt/01-deerslayer_005-1740.txt
summary:
  What's your sentiments, Hurry, touching these p'ints? That you've made a vast mistake, old man, in calling savage blood human blood, at all. And I thought they would have killed you with their we'pons, Judith, returned Deerslayer; it was an awful risk for a female to run in the face of a dozen Mingos! Did that make you come out of the cabin, in spite of their rifles, too? asked the girl, with more real interest than she would have cared to betray, though with an indifference of manner that was the result of a good deal of practice united to native readiness.


id: 05-prairie_024-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_024-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6180
sentence: 213
flesch: 71
cache: cache/05-prairie_024-1804.txt
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summary:
  This has been a strange beast, old man, said Paul, who had pulled the bridle, or rather halter of his steed, over the second carcass, while the rest of the party were already passing, in their eagerness to proceed; a strange horse do I call it; it had neither head nor hoofs! The fire has not been idle, returned the trapper, keeping his eye vigilantly employed in profiting by those glimpses of the horizon, which the whirling smoke offered to his examination. Such is the difference atween a province and a state, my men; and I, miserable and worn out as I seem, have lived to see it all! That you must have seen many a chopper skimming the cream from the face of the earth, and many a settler getting the very honey of nature, old trapper, said Paul, no reasonable man can, or, for that matter, shall doubt.


id: 05-prairie_025-1804
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 05-prairie_025-1804
date: 1804
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6225
sentence: 232
flesch: 70
cache: cache/05-prairie_025-1804.txt
txt: txt/05-prairie_025-1804.txt
summary:
  Surprise kept both sides mute, and more than a minute was passed in surveying each other, with eyes of astonishment, if not of distrust. Mahtoree has eyes; he will see it.


id: 04-pioneers_023-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_023-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3633
sentence: 122
flesch: 69
cache: cache/04-pioneers_023-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_023-1793.txt
summary:
  The roar of the gun echoed along the mountains, and died away to the north, like distant thunder, while the whole flock of alarmed birds seemed, for a moment, thrown into one disorderly and agitated mass. So prodigious was the number of the birds that the scattering fire of the guns, with the hurling of missiles and the cries of the boys, had no other effect than to break off small flocks from the immense masses that continued to dart along the valley, as if the whole of the feathered tribe were pouring through that one pass.


id: 04-pioneers_022-1793
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 04-pioneers_022-1793
date: 1793
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4353
sentence: 157
flesch: 70
cache: cache/04-pioneers_022-1793.txt
txt: txt/04-pioneers_022-1793.txt
summary:
  It seems that he was of the party that Judge Temple had designated as his surveyors; and he embraced the opportunity of the pause that succeeded the retreat of young Edwards to take up the discourse, and with a narration of their further proceedings, after his own manner. A very just and apposite figure, Judge Temple, observed the sheriff; and the garrison under the command of Jack Frost make formidable sorties--you understand what I mean by sorties, monsieur; sallies, in English--and sometimes drive General Spring and his troops back again into the low countries.


id: 02-mohicans_021-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_021-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4719
sentence: 184
flesch: 71
cache: cache/02-mohicans_021-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_021-1757.txt
summary:
  Heyward was silent until the Indians had cautiously paddled the canoe some distance from the fort, and within the broad and dark shadows that fell from the eastern mountain on the glassy surface of the lake; then he demanded: What need have we for this stolen and hurried departure? If the blood of an Oneida could stain such a sheet of pure water as this we float on, returned the scout, your two eyes would answer your own question. In another instant several savages were seen rushing into canoes, which were soon dancing over the water in pursuit.


id: 02-mohicans_020-1757
author: James Fenimore Cooper
title: 02-mohicans_020-1757
date: 1757
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 4934
sentence: 175
flesch: 67
cache: cache/02-mohicans_020-1757.txt
txt: txt/02-mohicans_020-1757.txt
summary:
  Now, to white eyes there is no difference between this bit of skin and that of any other Indian, and yet the Sagamore declares it came from the poll of a Mingo; nay, he even names the tribe of the poor devil, with as much ease as if the scalp was the leaf of a book, and each hair a letter. But it is a comfort to know we serve a merciful Master, though we do it each after his fashion, and with great tracts of wilderness atween uswhat goes there?


