| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: this about it." He turned again to Magnus, speaking with every
degree of earnestness, every appearance of conviction. "I did
not deny, Governor, from the very start that this would mean
bribery. But you don't suppose that I like the idea either. If
there was one legitimate hope that was yet left untried, no
matter how forlorn it was, I would try it. But there's not. It
is literally and soberly true that every means of help--every
honest means--has been attempted. Shelgrim is going to cinch us.
Grain rates are increasing, while, on the other hand, the price
of wheat is sagging lower and lower all the time. If we don't do
something we are ruined."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: season unavoidably created some alarm, lest he should be
overtaken with bad weather at a late period of the season,
with the building operations in an unfinished state. These
apprehensions were, no doubt, rather increased by the
inconveniences of his situation afloat, as the tender rolled
and pitched excessively at times. This being also his first
off-set for the season, every bone of his body felt sore with
preserving a sitting posture while he endeavoured to pass away
the time in reading; as for writing, it was wholly
impracticable. He had several times entertained thoughts of
leaving the station for a few days and going into Arbroath
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [14] Or, "if the creature is not first suffocated in the snow itself."
[15] See Pollux, v. 50. "She must presently be tired out in the heavy
snow, which balls itself like a fatal clog clinging to the under
part of her hairy feet."
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For hunting fawns[1] and deer,[2] Indian dogs[3] should be employed,
as being strong, large, and fleet-footed, and not devoid of spirit;
with these points they will prove well equal to the toil.
[1] See Hom. "Il." xxii. 189, x. 361; "Od." iv. 35; Aelian, "N. A."
xiv. 14; xvii. 26; Geopon. xix. 5.
[2] {e elaphos} (generic, Attic) = hart or hind, of roe (Capreolus
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