| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: of Robin's horn, and was bustling with singular alacrity
to set forth her festal ware and prepare an abundant supper.
Her features, though not beautiful, were agreeable and expressive,
and were now lighted up with such manifest joy at the sight of Robin,
that Marian could not help feeling a momentary touch of jealousy,
and a half-formed suspicion that Robin had broken his forest law,
and had occasionally gone out of bounds, as other great men have
done upon occasion, in order to reconcile the breach of the spirit,
with the preservation of the letter, of their own legislation.
However, this suspicion, if it could be said to exist in a mind
so generous as Marian's, was very soon dissipated by the entrance
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: II
A BOARD FENCE LOSES A PLANK
The work on the sea-wall progressed. The coffer-dam which had
been built by driving into the mud of the bottom a double row of
heavy tongued and grooved planking in two parallel rows, and
bulkheading each end with heavy boards, had been filled with
concrete to low-water mark, consuming not only the contents of the
delayed scow, but two subsequent cargoes, both of which had been
unloaded by Tom Grogan.
To keep out the leakage, steam-pumps were kept going night and
day.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: house, and after it is plaistered;
LEV 14:44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it
is unclean.
LEV 14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the
timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them
forth out of the city into an unclean place.
LEV 14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it
is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
LEV 14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he
that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
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