| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: as the sharpening of the irons was rather behind, from their
being so much broken and blunted by the hard and tough nature
of the rock, which became much more compact and hard as the
depth of excavation was increased. Besides avoiding the risk
of encumbering the boats with a number of men who had not yet
got the full command of the oar in a breach of sea, the writer
had another motive for leaving them behind. He wanted to
examine the site of the building without interruption, and to
take the comparative levels of the different inequalities of
its area; and as it would have been painful to have seen men
standing idle upon the Bell Rock, where all moved with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: put the collar and brass-studded belly-band on Mukhorty and,
carrying a light, painted shaft-bow in one hand, was leading
the horse with the other up to two sledges that stood in the
shed.
'All right, let it be the little one!' he said, backing the
intelligent horse, which all the time kept pretending to bite
him, into the shafts, and with the aid of the cook's husband he
proceeded to harness. When everything was nearly ready and
only the reins had to be adjusted, Nikita sent the other man to
the shed for some straw and to the barn for a drugget.
'There, that's all right! Now, now, don't bristle up!' said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: then, after he had once seen Freya, he made a practice of calling
at the group whenever he found himself within half a day's steaming
from it.
I don't mean to say that Heemskirk was a typical Dutch naval
officer. I have seen enough of them not to fall into that absurd
mistake. He had a big, clean-shaven face; great flat, brown
cheeks, with a thin, hooked nose and a small, pursy mouth squeezed
in between. There were a few silver threads in his black hair, and
his unpleasant eyes were nearly black, too. He had a surly way of
casting side glances without moving his head, which was set low on
a short, round neck. A thick, round trunk in a dark undress jacket
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