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1982bb11e7f3	"The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes.	730_360_000009_000000
68bb48e849b3	There was a class, however, too rich, too famous, or too successful, with whom he could not attempt any familiarity of address, and with these he was professionally tactful, assuming a grave and dignified attitude, paying them the deference which would win their good feeling without in the least compromising his own be...	2007_149877_000011_000003
5b00757f9c22	He felt that he had to balance carefully (though it was difficult) so that this airy structure should not collapse; but nevertheless it kept collapsing and again slowly rising to the sound of whispered rhythmic music-"it stretches, stretches, spreading out and stretching," said Prince Andrew to himself.	3168_173565_000022_000002
6199635c5760	His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in to...	1502_122619_000058_000004
53330e72cbb6	Well, if she could get along without me, I could get along without her. I'm the easiest going person in the world, but when it comes to allowing the girl you are practically engaged to, to make a fool of herself over another man, I won't stand for it.	1970_26100_000010_000000
838ff10ef1d4	Gout, Neuralgia, Malaria and La Grippe; is analgesic, antipyrectic, an intestinal antiseptic, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, deobstruent, sialagogue, cholagogue, emmenagogue, gouocococidal, anti syphilitic and alterative. Doctor, you may prescribe Saliodin with confidence wherever iodine or salicylate is indicated...	1183_133256_000083_000005
0630723523f4	In the bottoms the trees are filled with flocks of birds,--crows, hawks, blackbirds, with stately blue herons and agile plovers foraging on the long gravel spits which frequently jut far into the stream; ducks are frequently seen sailing near the shores; while divers silently dart and plunge ahead of the canoe, safely ...	7226_86964_000006_000001
424bf5e0a332	A faulty, or at least a slow working, charm, however, for the father did not lift a bag of gold from his safe and say: "Take her, take this also-be happy"--he only consented to a provisional engagement, took an earnest interest in the young man's affairs, and offered to make his daughter an annual allowance on her marr...	696_93314_000013_000010
f17dc54cffbb	He carried the Point so far at last, as to murmur at the unequal Dispensations of Divine Providence; and was tempted to believe, that all Occurrences were govern'd by a malignant Destiny, which never fail'd to oppress the Virtuous, and always crown'd the Actions of such Villains as the green Knight, with uncommon Succe...	1992_141719_000016_000013
1de9eee4c950	But think of this: if you were to obey your passion-for it IS passion, and you deceive yourself in calling it justice-it might be with you precisely as it has been with Arthur; nay, worse; your passion might lead you yourself into a horrible crime."	2817_142380_000024_000007
da6d82ba8a61	They found out what an important personage an Earl of Dorincourt was, and what a magnificent income he possessed, and how many estates he owned, and how stately and beautiful was the Castle in which he lived; and the more they learned, the more excited they became.	2182_181183_000002_000009
0cc7f15fdb19	We even go so far as to talk of a weary road, a giddy height, a jocund morning or a sullen sky; and the term 'indefinite' while usually applied only to our apprehensions, functions as a fundamental physical qualification of things in Spencer's 'law of evolution,' and doubtless passes with most readers for all right.	911_128684_000012_000013
b0beff0ea1d8	She told how poor, red faced, bewildered Marie dropped her ladle and stared at the speaker, then rolled down her sleeves while the Frau Wirthin tied her own best white apron around her waist, at the same time instructing her in the manner in which she must hold her dress at the sides, between thumb and forefinger, and ...	2691_156755_000014_000000
413b0f6bbe6e	If one accepts the fact that discrepancy between imagination and reality is inevitable, he is better able to go on to a more thorough examination of the situation, from the fresh viewpoint of finding out just what he has received, regardless of hazy but optimistic expectations; and the object possessed will more than l...	1116_137572_000002_000001
7882a3db2e05	Would it not be better to go away, having looked at it from the hill and having heard the saga of the firs, keeping his memory of it unblurred, than risk the probable disillusion of a return to the places that had forgotten him and friends whom the varying years must certainly have changed as he had changed himself? No...	6367_65536_000007_000005
6a5c1d62e43a	For himself personally Nicholas could not wish for a better wife: by marrying her he would make the countess his mother happy, would be able to put his father's affairs in order, and would even-he felt it-ensure Princess Mary's happiness.	3214_167602_000056_000003
9946850525a8	So here we are, all lodging together in an ideal English farmhouse. There is a thatched roof on one of the old buildings, and the dairy house is covered with ivy, and Farmer Hendry's wife makes a real English curtsey, and there are herds of beautiful sleek Durham cattle, and the butter and cream and eggs and mutton are...	4267_72637_000016_000000
cc1879a766ad	OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.	4214_7146_000001_000000
aaa643e4a901	"I tell you, boys," continued Jeff (there were no boys present, but in Mariposa all really important speeches are addressed to an imaginary audience of boys)--"I tell you, if I was to make a million out of this Cubey, I'd give it straight to the poor, yes, sir-divide it up into a hundred lots of a thousand dollars each...	460_172359_000080_000000
b25a108e1ea0	The scene looked less harsh in the soft October sunshine than it had in the eager time of early spring, and the one grand charm it possessed in common with all wide stretching woodless regions-that it filled you with a new consciousness of the overarching sky-had a milder, more soothing influence than usual, on this al...	1963_142393_000012_000001
942c75894646	'Well,' answered the first raven, 'my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again.'...	2092_145706_000014_000000
8f0de1f606c4	Among these was to be seen every variety of age, sentiment, and condition,--striplings and blanched heads; wild, visionary enthusiasts; grave, heroic men, who, in the struggle for freedom, had ventured all, and lost all; nobles and beggars; bandits, felons and brigands.	7312_92432_000005_000002
da14407d1920	Eight hundred men and women with faith and hopes, with affections and memories, they had collected there, coming from north and south and from the outskirts of the East, after treading the jungle paths, descending the rivers, coasting in praus along the shallows, crossing in small canoes from island to island, passing ...	196_122150_000009_000001
9949c1deed83	A temperate current of blood ran orderly through her veins in all months of the year, and in all critical moments both of the day and night alike; nor did she superinduce the least heat into her humours from the manual effervescencies of devotional tracts, which having little or no meaning in them, nature is oft times ...	3699_19402_000007_000000
179bcf92ec05	To heighten his vexation, Governor Printz, who, as has been shown, was a huge trencherman, took the liberty of having the first rummage of every Dutch merchant ship, and securing to himself and his guzzling garrison all the little round Dutch cheeses, all the Dutch herrings, the gingerbread, the sweetmeats, the curious...	8051_295385_000016_000001
365a0f82ed2c	"Do you think," he asks, "she would give me a few words on 'How it Feels to be a Widow?' Rather a good title for an article, isn't it?" These sentences are bad because into an atmosphere of more or less naturalistic comedy they simply introduce a farcical exaggeration of mr Shaw's opinion of the incompetence and impude...	7402_59171_000011_000009
b9d87e2b49b0	The union which is thus effected and which adds a new value to every atom in nature-for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray, and bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element-is yet a temporary state. Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in an...	1088_129236_000028_000010
0e58e9ef75e9	Novels had been delightful at Downport, when they were read in hourly fear of the tasks that always interfered to prevent any indulgence; but in those days, for some reason, they were not as satisfactory as they appeared once, and so being thrown on her own resources, she succumbed to the very natural girlish weakness ...	4160_11550_000011_000003
73939242b03c	He was a tall, sunburnt, and very silent man, who wore a red smoking cap like a fez, making him look like one of the English Sirdars or Pashas in Egypt. With him was his brother in law, lately come from Canada, a big and rather boisterous young gentleman farmer, with a yellow beard, by name james Blount.	412_126975_000022_000001
6b64213a956a	When going to mr Wharton at his chambers he had not intended to cheat the lawyer into any erroneous idea about his family, but he had resolved that he would so discuss the questions of his own condition, which would probably be raised, as to leave upon the old man's mind an unfounded conviction that in regard to money ...	4297_13006_000015_000001
dce7bc32115c	Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or john Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? Statesmen were dull creatures in those days.	3607_29116_000050_000003
d7f261a01259	There were walks with him, there were motionless evenings of reading, but chiefly Washington was associated with people, scores of them, sitting about the flat, talking, talking, talking, not always wisely but always excitedly. It was not at all the "artist's studio" of which, because of its persistence in fiction, she...	1246_124550_000017_000004
fba68d31c46e	Now then, on may twenty fifth while submerged to a depth of three thousand eight hundred thirty six meters, the Nautilus lay in precisely the locality where this second cable suffered the rupture that ruined the undertaking. It happened six hundred thirty eight miles from the coast of Ireland.	839_130898_000035_000000
a50f6603e9a2	But Cupid, being now recovered from his wound, and not able longer to bear the absence of his beloved Psyche, slipping through the smallest crack of the window of his chamber which happened to be left open, flew to the spot where Psyche lay, and gathering up the sleep from her body closed it again in the box, and waked...	2910_131096_000036_000000
8df18e3b62cf	The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine. So with our boo...	254_145458_000011_000001
2dcdd549613d	While the pair were traveling together, Kajiwara one day found himself in great straits for want of money; and Umegae, remembering the tradition of the Bell of Mugen, took a basin of bronze, and, mentally representing it to be the bell, beat upon it until she broke it,--crying out, at the same time, for three hundred p...	2952_407_000012_000003
f40f7a08e528	Behind one of these walls, broken down in places, but held together with straggling ivy, and buttressed here and there with a bramble bush, Elzevir put me down at length and said, 'I am beat, and can carry thee no farther for this present, though there is not now much farther to go.	2518_154826_000008_000004
8b8959a4e963	Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; and the first comer took it upon him...	5514_19192_000010_000000
ac295099fd7f	Her mother-her mother always so kind and tender towards her-seemed now and then so much discontented with their situation; thought that the bishop strangely neglected his episcopal duties, in not giving mr Hale a better living; and almost reproached her husband because he could not bring himself to say that he wished t...	250_142276_000006_000007
d55fcba4fd2b	Nevertheless, among many other representations made to him, the housekeeper said to him, "In truth, master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home, and give over roaming mountains and valleys like a troubled spirit, looking for what they say are called adventures, but what I call misfortunes, I shall have to m...	2989_138028_000007_000002
30fb857a61fa	Ascending the saint Lawrence, it was seldom that the sight of a human form gave relief to the loneliness, until, at Quebec, the roar of Champlain's cannon from the verge of the cliff announced that the savage prologue of the American drama was drawing to a close, and that the civilization of Europe was advancing on the...	2911_15045_000013_000000
e596ce293ff7	"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite-for that is the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been no occasion to tell you of it.	201_127786_000020_000000
6ecb9bdb5541	It was mr Ellison who first suggested the idea that what we regarded as improvement or exaltation of the natural beauty, was really such, as respected only the mortal or human point of view; that each alteration or disturbance of the primitive scenery might possibly effect a blemish in the picture, if we could suppose ...	7780_274562_000009_000001
9ef0c934d2b5	To this I likewise added much respecting the substance, the situation, the motions, and all the different qualities of these heavens and stars; so that I thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear pre...	311_124404_000002_000008
c8fe46e63438	'Very well,' said the Mother Dragon; 'but if you wish to enter my service, you must first lead my mare out to the meadow and look after her for three days; but if you don't bring her home safely every evening, we will eat you up.'	1898_145724_000022_000000
feb24c50a084	Smiling villages nestling amid stately groves, rearing white church spires from out their green, bowery surroundings, dot the low, broad, fertile shore land to the left; the gleaming waters of Lake Erie here and there glisten like burnished steel through the distant interspaces, and away beyond stretches northward, lik...	6836_76549_000003_000008
9e18c3a599f6	He could do nothing; Emesa and Heliopolis were sacked before his eyes, and after an inglorious campaign he hurried to Jerusalem, took the "True Cross" from its sanctuary, where he had replaced it in triumph five years before, and retired to Constantinople.	7859_102518_000011_000004
89720e994364	They were forty to fifty feet high, and two in diameter, with a uniform tufted top; and the summer green of their beautiful foliage, with the singing birds, and the sweet summer wind which was whirling about the dry oak leaves, nearly intoxicated us with delight; and we hurried on, filled with excitement, to escape ent...	5778_12761_000008_000002
538ce0899314	Before being led to the Grotto of Enchantment-such was the modest title given to the loft over my friend's wood house-my hands were securely pinioned, and my eyes covered with a thick silk handkerchief. At the head of the stairs I was told in an unrecognizable, husky voice, that it was not yet too late to retreat if I ...	6437_66172_000005_000001
d8fd54b60316	He heard Russian being spoken, and also heard the rapid smooth flow of the Terek, and a few steps farther in front of him saw the brown moving surface of the river, with the dim coloured wet sand of its banks and shallows, the distant steppe, the cordon watch tower outlined above the water, a saddled and hobbled horse ...	5322_7679_000001_000001
0ad624a99173	She had an eager and growing thirst for knowledge, and was an apt scholar, whom any one with the least love for the profession might have delighted in teaching; and mr Dinsmore, a thorough scholar himself, and loving knowledge for its own sake-loving also his little pupil with all a father's fond, yearning affection-de...	3440_171009_000013_000000
4967c2190e22	With this spirit she sprang forward, and her confidence did not deceive her. Her resolute effort threw back the lid, and gave to her astonished eyes the view of a white cotton counterpane, properly folded, reposing at one end of the chest in undisputed possession!	89_218_000005_000006
edf69432945d	His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his respectful attitude promptly changed, and a chance to reprove or discomfit his absurdly rich brother in law was one of his most satisfactory diversions.	4481_17498_000035_000003
a5ff6d3fef0a	Kenneth and mr Watson came to the station to see them off, and they parted with many mutual expressions of friendship and good will. Louise, especially, pressed an urgent invitation upon the new master of Elmhurst to visit her mother in New York, and he said he hoped to see all the girls again.	4195_186236_000042_000000
c583a5ca531f	this simple seeming unity-the self! Who can trace its reintegration as morning after morning we awaken, the flux and confluence of its countless factors interweaving, rebuilding, the dim first stirrings of the soul, the growth and synthesis of the unconscious to the subconscious, the subconscious to dawning consciousne...	1363_139304_000004_000001
073b4ece0647	He had not meant to yield, but now that the moment had come, now that he must at once and forever choose between a course that led simply to personal unhappiness and one that involved not only himself, but those dearest to him, in disgrace and sorrow, he felt himself weaken to the point of clutching at whatever would s...	8629_261139_000015_000004
b2bcf6866423	Friends soon came in from the outside, bringing city dolls dressed in ribbons and laces; there were tiny dishes, chairs, tables,--a hundred things dear to a little girl's heart, and all pleased her immensely, but all were laid quickly aside for a basket of wild flowers or mosses, for a fish, bird, animal or baby, showi...	3235_28452_000007_000001
0577df6568e8	It first pursues a westerly course through grassy plains darkened here and there with groves of spruce and pine; then, curving southward and receiving numerous tributaries from the north, it enters the Coast Range, and sweeps across it through a magnificent canyon three thousand to five thousand feet deep, and more tha...	4898_28461_000004_000002
abb977a83ce3	Mile after mile of the rough trail fell behind him, and still the pony shambled along at a loose trot or a swinging canter; the steep upgrades it took at a steady jog and where the slopes pitched sharply down, it wound among the rocks with a faultless sureness of foot.	1867_148436_000002_000000
b7561850f560	Here they told us they saw a flaming sword held in a hand coming out of a cloud, with a point hanging directly over the city; there they saw hearses and coffins in the air carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying unburied, and the like, just as the imagination of the poor terrified people furn...	26_496_000021_000004
13120199bee3	And on that altar, and in that glory, the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. All the torments through which they had passed came back to th...	5393_19219_000015_000006
11bd68a6ba49	Its intemperate use or its use by young people and by pathological persons is one of the gravest dangers. Whether intemperance ought to be fought by prohibition or rather by an education to temperance is a difficult question in which the enthusiastic women and ministers, backed by the well justified fears of psychiatri...	1355_39947_000024_000006
a248a6843cd8	Its flowing curves and bendings are a real pleasure; only breath is wanting; but under the spell of the imagination the marble thrills and becomes the divine reality of the ideal. Imagination puts a sentiment into every line and curve, and the statue in my touch is indeed the goddess herself who breathes and moves and ...	1841_179183_000022_000002
4ff3a02ea8cd	We believe that none of you will ever care to allow advertising signs on your property again, and that the quiet refinement of this part of the country will induce many other places to follow our example, until advertisers are forced to confine themselves to newspapers, magazines and circulars, their only legitimate ch...	6818_68772_000011_000008
fc0b65608e50	He had disappeared when the sailor said to me, 'I think that was the fellow-the one that just went by.' Not wanting to arouse his suspicions, I ended the conversation with a casual remark, and then strolled away until I was out of the sailor's sight, and then hurried as fast as I could toward the engine room.	4014_186176_000007_000001
3ecee4384b1d	He was a "raider" sure, she thought now, and he was looking for a "moonshine" still, and the wild little thing in the bushes smiled cunningly-there was no still up that creek-and as he had left his horse below and his gun, she waited for him to come back, which he did, by and by, dripping and soaked to his knees.	3526_176653_000002_000000
317eefeef77f	"But your father, Sybil, stands alone," at length Morley replied; "surrounded by votaries who have nothing but enthusiasm to recommend them; and by emulous and intriguing rivals, who watch every word and action, in order that they may discredit his conduct, and ultimately secure his downfall."	4018_107338_000028_000000
aeda754d5c60	Annetta Bell's worst crime was 'eating some blueberries that grew in the graveyard.' Willie White had 'slid down the sheephouse roof a lot of times with his Sunday trousers on.' 'But I was punished for it 'cause I had to wear patched pants to Sunday School all summer, and when you're punished for a thing you don't have...	426_122821_000011_000004
fbb455f7549c	An oval face, broad above and narrow below, golden hair, fair skin, white, delicate, and well formed hands with slender tapering fingers: these were considered as marking the type of beauty and of high family descent; they were the Marks of Aristocracy.	8014_112602_000000_000000
c5b31626d5bb	Off, the length of Commonwealth Avenue, to where it crosses the Brookline branch of the Mill Dam,--dashing along with the gayest of the sleighing parties as we came back into town, up Chestnut Street, through Louisburg Square,--we ran the sleigh into a bank on the slope of Pinckney Street in front of Walter's house,--a...	6454_120342_000020_000000
83a513d11461	For old man as he was, he realized that dr Kemp's strong personality was such as would prove dangerously seductive to any woman whom he cared to honor with his favor; but with a "Get thee behind me, Satan" desire, he had put the question from him.	587_54108_000005_000004
29a90fa3128f	Launcelot was enfeebled by his wounds, and fought not with his usual spirit, and the contest for a time was doubtful; till Guenever exclaimed, "Ah, Launcelot! my knight, truly have I been told that thou art no longer worthy of me!" These words instantly revived the drooping knight; he resumed at once his usual superior...	3436_172162_000016_000005
7efac0d531ca	Thus he had preluded his speech on the Poor Law question, pointing to the true charity that existed among Masons apart from religious motive, and appealing to the famous benefactions on the Continent; and in the enthusiasm of the Bill's success the Order had received a great accession of members.	5678_43301_000005_000005
984123d9dc21	"Done, my captain!" replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl's hand. "But, by the bye, you have already lost three bets with our president, as the necessary funds for the enterprise have been found, as the operation of casting has been successful, and lastly, as the Columbiad has been loaded without accident, six thousand dolla...	1263_138246_000044_000000
28ce2b87531f	He begged to know more; on which Ribaut, taking him aside, told him that the returning ships had brought home letters filled with accusations of arrogance, tyranny, cruelty, and a purpose of establishing an independent command,--accusations which he now saw to be unfounded, but which had been the occasion of his unusua...	3879_173592_000035_000005
2af61d9306fc	Edward was standing, with many others of the suit, behind the chair of the king, amusing himself with the presentations as they took place, and waiting for the arrival of his sisters-Chaloner and Grenville were not with him, they had obtained leave to go into the country, for the object we have before referred to-when ...	1334_135589_000062_000004
25acdb3075a6	The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance, the application and disbursement of the public moneys in conformity to the general appropriations of the legislature, the arrangement of the army and navy, the directions of the operations of war-these, and other matters of a like nature, con...	909_131045_000007_000001
226698da121d	The historian evidently decomposes Alexander's power into the components: Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, and the rest-but the sum of the components, that is, the interactions of Chateaubriand, Talleyrand, Madame de Stael, and the others, evidently does not equal the resultant, namely the phenomenon of millions of Frenchmen...	4859_29340_000007_000002
8b0d0d441fa8	A man having two umbrellas keeps one at his office and the other at home; a student having two books of the same kind keeps one at his room and the other at the university; a farmer having two hoes keeps one at the barn and the other in a distant field, and by this distribution the agents are increased in efficiency.	7505_258964_000014_000001
ef8d1c60113b	I did not witness the first meeting of this mysterious Maximilian and this magnificent Margaret, and do not know whether Margaret manifested that trepidation and embarrassment which distressed so many of her youthful co rivals; but, if she did, it must have fled before the first glance of the young man's eye, which wou...	6019_3185_000022_000003
db3a592864b4	Before they parted, however, it was agreed that the projected walk should be taken as soon as possible; and, setting aside the misery of his quitting their box, she was, upon the whole, left one of the happiest creatures in the world.	198_209_000017_000001
f7dbacaaac34	In that year the young prince espoused Catherine of Arragon, our present queen, and soon afterwards died; whereupon the old king, not liking-for he loved his treasure better than his own flesh-to part with her dowry, gave her to his second son, Henry, our gracious sovereign, whom God preserve!	7148_82991_000014_000003
cd8d7e7ac01a	Back in the Old Briar patch peter thought over all he had learned about the Flycatcher family, and as he recalled how they were forever catching all sorts of flying insects it suddenly struck him that they must be very useful little people in helping Old Mother Nature take care of her trees and other growing things whi...	1743_142913_000013_000000
311d00ecf44d	But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment.	8609_283227_000009_000004
a1e5362a4f1f	Already the California sort, in the commercial channels, has become the broadly accepted if mediocre national form. People who revere the Pilgrim Fathers of sixteen twenty have often wished those gentlemen had moored their bark in the region of Los Angeles rather than Plymouth Rock, that Boston had been founded there.	7059_88364_000004_000004
23e66e85f60f	Certainty, or at least the light which leads to it, regained; the sudden intervention of some mysterious clemency possessed, perhaps, by destiny; life saying, "Behold me!" in the darkest recess of the grave; the very moment in which all expectation has ceased bringing back health and deliverance; a place of safety disc...	6385_34669_000011_000005
59ebd8d9a110	As it is entirely impossible to determine all those factors by any sufficient inquiry, most of the adjustment of method must be left to the instinct of the physician, in which wide experience, solid knowledge, tact, and sympathy ought to be blended. Even the way in which the patient reacts on the method will often guid...	5652_39938_000005_000004
4ef658f47ec2	Indeed I understood that my only hope of deliverance lay in being picked up; and that, though by heading east I should be clinging to the stormy parts, I was more likely to meet with a ship hereabouts than by sailing into the great desolation of the north-west.	4853_27671_000015_000001
45edd6e01654	Generally it would seem Miss Grammont liked him, and she had a way of speaking about him that suggested that in some way mr Lake had been rather hardly used and had acquired merit by his behaviour under bad treatment. There was some story, however, connected with her war services in Europe upon which Miss Grammont was ...	7067_76048_000074_000002
50f03acd34ec	At Friedrichshafen the facilities are adequate to produce two of these vessels per month, while another factory of a similar capacity has been established at Berlin. Unfortunately such big craft demand large docks to accommodate them, and in turn a large structure of this character constitutes an easy mark for hostile ...	6563_285357_000011_000001
50b3ea186ed3	When the boat was nearing the island of Marken, the little yellow cheese had been presented with all due formality to one of the sailors who had been specially kind in the matter of securing good seats for mr King's party, Polly and Phronsie having held a whispered conference in a retired nook, to come out of it bright...	5163_18515_000003_000000
5adc3076cbd5	"Our feeling was," went on mr Furlong, "that if the city wanted our land for the cemetery extension, it might have it at its own figure-four hundred thousand, half a million, in fact at absolutely any price, from four hundred thousand up, that they cared to put on it. We didn't regard it as a commercial transaction at ...	3982_182255_000058_000000
ab41f8408bc6	Fifteen young Muskrats who really loved each other, talking like that because they couldn't decide whether the oldest or the youngest or the half-way-between brothers and sisters should go first into the old nest. And it didn't matter a bit who was oldest or who was youngest, and it never would have happened had it not...	8324_286683_000024_000002
76f14fa44c52	He has a "sense of calm trust in fate, a quiet submission to the inevitable, a stoic composure in sight of danger or calamity, a disdain of life and friendliness with death." He relates himself to the State as, amongst bees, the worker is related to the hive; himself nothing, the State everything; his reasons for exist...	8797_294123_000034_000009
e3f498d322e4	Its obscurity of situation rendered it the more conspicuous: the diminutive letters grew gigantic to the bewildered eye of fear: they seemed graven with a pen of iron, impressed by fire, woven in the clouds, stamped on the very front of the universe.	2002_139469_000020_000006
dbdd90b00d54	As a rule, they are far less interested in the corpses laid out for public view on the marble slabs in the principal hall than in the people of every age and station in life who congregate here all day long; at times coming in search of some lost relative or friend, but far more frequently impelled by idle curiosity.	6081_41998_000001_000002
3ec2504d0408	In order to remove all jealousy, he had resolved that their usurpations and illegal pretensions should be apparent to the whole world; and thought that to recover the confidence of the people was a point much more material to his interest, than the collecting of any magazines, stores, or armies which might breed appreh...	8226_274371_000040_000003
bcc534319f9f	For me and for this book, however, for my love of it and for its inner development, there is no better adaptation of means to ends than this, namely, that right at the start I begin by abolishing what we call orderly arrangement, keep myself entirely aloof from it, frankly claiming and asserting the right to a charming...	3374_298025_000015_000004
9e8dd36e689a	He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.	39_121916_000002_000002
e67b0406a4f5	Seemed as if I couldn't get away from Graham's Extract, and whenever I saw it I gagged, for I knew it was costing me money that wasn't coming back; but every time I started to draw in my horns Jim talked to me, and showed me where there was a fortune waiting for me just around the corner.	3242_67153_000020_000004

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radiotalk-voices-2k

2,000 English reference voices — one 12–30s clip per speaker, selected as the longest qualifying utterance per speaker from LibriTTS-R. Built for zero-shot TTS voice cloning in the radiotalk pipeline.

Stats

2,000 voices · 12.03 hours total
Duration: min 12.0s · median 21.8s · mean 21.7s · max 30.0s
24 kHz, mono, FLAC-encoded

Schema

Column	Type	Description
`voice_id`	string	Stable 12-hex-char id, derived from `(source, source_speaker_id)`
`audio`	Audio	FLAC bytes at 24 kHz (Hub viewer plays inline)
`text`	string	Normalized transcript from LibriTTS-R (`text_normalized`)
`source_clip_id`	string	Utterance id in LibriTTS-R, format `{speaker}_{chapter}_{section}_{utterance}`

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("twangodev/radiotalk-voices-2k", split="train")
row = ds[0]
print(row["voice_id"], row["text"][:60])
audio = row["audio"]  # {"array": np.ndarray, "sampling_rate": 24000, "path": ...}

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite both this repository and the upstream LibriTTS-R corpus.

@misc{ding2026radiotalk,
  author       = {Ding, James},
  title        = {{radiotalk}: Data pipeline and reference voice pool for TTS},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/twangodev/radiotalk}},
}

@inproceedings{koizumi2023libritts,
  title     = {{LibriTTS-R}: A Restored Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Corpus},
  author    = {Koizumi, Yuma and Zen, Heiga and Karita, Shigeki and Ding, Yifan and Yatabe, Kohei and Morioka, Nobuyuki and Bacchiani, Michiel and Zhang, Yu and Han, Wei and Bapna, Ankur},
  booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
  year      = {2023},
}

License

All clips are derived from LibriTTS-R, licensed CC BY 4.0. This dataset inherits that license. See NOTICE.md for the full source attribution.

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