| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: Two long borders were done during my absence <21> one day, and when I
explained that I should like the third to have plants in groups and not
in lines, and that what I wanted was a natural effect with no bare spaces
of earth to be seen, he looked even more gloomily hopeless than usual;
and on my going out later on to see the result, I found he had planted
two long borders down the sides of a straight walk with little lines
of five plants in a row--first five pinks, and next to them five rockets,
and behind the rockets five pinks, and behind the pinks five rockets,
and so on with different plants of every sort and size down to the end.
When I protested, he said he had only carried out my orders and had
known it would not look well; so I gave in, and the remaining borders
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: point in its forward travel the charge is fired and the
projectile speeds on its way. The kick or recoil serves to
arrest the forward movement of the barrel and finally drives it
back again against the strong spring or cushion of compressed air
within the cylinder to its normal position, when it is ready for
the introduction of the next shell.
The outstanding feature of this system is that the projectile is
given a higher initial velocity than is possible with the barrel
held rigid at the moment of discharge, because the shell is
already travelling at the moment of firing.
The fixed anti-aircraft guns such as are stationed upon eminences
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: little hotel where they first had engaged accommodations. Half
an hour later they stepped to the deck of the Halfmoon.
Billy Byrne saw them from where he worked in the vicinity
of the cabin. When they were not looking he scowled maliciously
at them. They were the personal representatives of
authority, and Billy hated authority in whatever guise it might
be visited upon him. He hated law and order and discipline.
"I'd like to meet one of dem guys on Green Street some
night," he thought.
He saw them enter the captain's cabin with the skipper, and
then he saw Mr. Divine join them. Billy noted the haste
The Mucker |
