| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and pass on the offender a sentence proportionate to his offence.
The ministers of civil justice said that would not do.
The abbot said it would do and should; and bade them not
provoke the meekness of his catholic charity to lay them under
the curse of Rome. This threat had its effect, and the party
rode off to Gamwell-Hall, where they found the Gamwells
and their men just sitting down to dinner, which they saved
them the trouble of eating by consuming it in the king's
name themselves, having first seized and bound young Gamwell;
all which they accomplished by dint of superior numbers,
in despite of a most vigorous stand made by the Gamwellites
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: forcibly and to writhe one's features violently. This is not only
a lengthy and frequently ineffectual method, but one exceedingly
terrifying to foot passengers. And again, sometimes the beginner
rides for a space with one eye closed by perspiration, giving him
a waggish air foreign to his mood and ill calculated to overawe
the impertinent. However, you will appreciate now the motive of
Mr. Hoopdriver's experiments. He presently attained sufficient
dexterity to slap himself smartly and violently in the face with
his right hand, without certainly overturning the machine; but
his pocket handkerchief might have been in California for any
good it was to him while he was in the saddle.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: annoyance, which he would make haste to wreak on the nearest
victim, and too often on myself.
It was so now. Our rations were scarce served out, and I had just
withdrawn into a corner of the yard, when I perceived him drawing
near. He wore an air of hateful mirth; a set of young fools, among
whom he passed for a wit, followed him with looks of expectation;
and I saw I was about to be the object of some of his insufferable
pleasantries. He took a place beside me, spread out his rations,
drank to me derisively from his measure of prison beer, and began.
What he said it would be impossible to print; but his admirers, who
believed their wit to have surpassed himself, actually rolled among
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