| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: them for their prey.
Here, also, as a farther testimony of the immense riches which have
been lost at several times upon this coast, we found several
engineers and projectors--some with one sort of diving engine, and
some with another; some claiming such a wreck, and some such-and-
such others; where they alleged they were assured there were great
quantities of money; and strange unprecedented ways were used by
them to come at it: some, I say, with one kind of engine, and some
another; and though we thought several of them very strange
impracticable methods, yet I was assured by the country people that
they had done wonders with them under water, and that some of them
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: stairway standing partly open...
"Did you now, miss?" The two regarded each other warily. "And
what hour may that have been?"
The butler cocked his ear for her answer - 'he was sometimes a
little hard of hearing; but he waited in vain, Barbara had
disappeared inside the library.
Colonel McIntyre had not gone at once to see his daughter Helen,
as Barbara had supposed from his remark, instead he went down the
staircase and into the reception room on the ground floor. It
was generally used as a smoking room and lounge, but when
entertaining was done, cloaks and wraps were left there. McIntyre
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: account is strained, and I could buy none equal to
those of yours, anyway."
"Oh, I do not object," said Jane Carew; still she
looked aghast.
Viola Longstreet shrieked with laughter. "Oh,
I know. You think the corals too young for me.
You have not worn them since you left off dotted
muslin. My dear, you insisted upon growing old
-- I insisted upon remaining young. I had two
new dotted muslins last summer. As for corals, I
would wear them in the face of an opposing army!
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