| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: them, and the prize was lost.
But even though there were two men-of-war against all that
remained of six-and-twenty buccaneers, the Spaniards were glad
enough to make terms with them for the surrender of the vessel,
whereby Pierre Francois and his men came off scot-free.
Bartholomew Portuguese was a worthy of even more note. In a boat
manned with thirty fellow adventurers he fell upon a great ship
off Cape Corrientes, manned with threescore and ten men, all
told.
Her he assaulted again and again, beaten off with the very
pressure of numbers only to renew the assault, until the
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: addressed her always with polite seriousness, was not a favourite
with her. The "charming, brave Monsieur" was now fighting for the
King and religion against the impious Liberals. He went away the
very morning after I had left and, oh! she remembered, he had asked
her before going away whether I was still in the house. Wanted
probably to say good-bye to me, shake my hand, the dear, polite
Monsieur.
I let her run on in dread expectation of what she would say next
but she stuck to the subject of Blunt for some time longer. He had
written to her once about some of his things which he wanted her to
send to Paris to his mother's address; but she was going to do
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Ere he let him go, "Mine own dear boy," he said, holding him off
at arm's-length, and winking his one keen eye rapidly, as though
to wink away a dampness of which he was ashamed--"mine own dear
boy, I do tell thee truly this is as sweet to me as though thou
wert mine own son; sweeter to me than when I first broke mine own
lance in triumph, and felt myself to be a right knight."
"Sir," answered Myles, "what thou sayest doth rejoice my very
heart. Ne'theless, it is but just to say that both his
breast-piece and over-girth were burst in the stitches before he
ran his course, for so I saw with mine own eyes."
"Burst in the stitches!" snorted Sir James. "Thinkest thou he did
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