The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But I am also indebted to the stately publication by Norwegian authors and artists entitled Norge i det nittende Aarhundrede , 2 volumes, large folio, 436 and 468 pages.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Quod autem scriptor in sympathia fundamentum ethicae constituere conatus est, neque ipsa disserendi forma nobis satisfecit, neque reapse, hoc fundamentum sufficere, evicit; quin ipse contra esse confiteri coactus est.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

“You want it, I expect?” “No, I don’t ...
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Respondeo vobis, Quia est in illis Vertus purgativa, Cujus est natura Istas duas biles evacuare.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

Even now I do not understand how you attained this result.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I believe I then fainted, and even now, I don’t know why
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

even now it delights me to record your words, and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I've been thinking and thinking and thinking, till I began to get angry with you both for plaguing me so; and even now I don't seem any nearer than ever I was to making up my mind.'
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Out of his love great joy I had For many days; and even now I do not dare to be but glad When I remember, often, how He said he had great joy of me.
— from Matins by Francis Sherman

Devoted to the Union, he yet expressed no inordinate desire to exterminate the South, and never said he would be glad to hang Jefferson Davis.
— from Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories by Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) Merrick

Our errand was soon explained, however, and we were led on into the camp, which was not entrenched, nor, indeed, defended in any other way.
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"You say, sir," said he, "that Mistress Mary Cavendish, in a spirit of youthful daring and levity, gave her grandmother a list of the goods which my Lady Culpeper ordered from England, and which even now is due?"
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

I shall enter neither into details, nor into the various consequences following from these views, nor into the disputes which have sprung up respecting them (and relating especially to the number of isomerides possible on the assumption of free affinities), because the foundation or origin of theories of this nature suffers from the radical defect of being in opposition to dynamics.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The necessitarian says, a moment before the volition did not exist, now it does exist; and hence, it necessarily follows, that there must have been a cause by which it was brought into existence.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

"He will go quietly enough now, I dare say," observed Potts, "and if not, and you will lend me a hunting-whip, I will undertake to cure him of his tricks."
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

It will be seen that in the arrangement given every number is different, and all the columns, all the rows, and each of the two diagonals, add up 179, whether you turn the page upside down or not.
— from The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Invaluable as the ancient record may have proved in giving to man the history of a once mighty but now extinct nation, in demonstrating the origin and significance of traditions cherished by the degenerate Indians as evidence of a more enlightened past, in explaining ethnological data otherwise unrelated and largely inexplicable—in these respects the Book of Mormon could have been nothing more than an important contribution to the common fund of human knowledge, possibly of great academic interest but certainly of small vital value.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage