Even now I dimly see and faintly hear The clang of drum, the clash of sword and spear."
— from By the Sea, and Other Verses by Baily, H. Lavinia, (Hannah Lavinia)

The horsemen who were flying, as soon as they saw the ensigns of their friends, faced about against the enemy, now in disorder; so that in a moment's time the fortune of the battle was changed, those now turning their backs who had lately been the pursuers.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

"Ye'll be wanting somethin' to eat now, I daresay," she went on, "I'll send granne'ma in to ye."
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

Her gay heart will be dull enough now, I dare say, poor thing; but you must go and comfort her."
— from A Whim, and Its Consequences Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

[46] All enveloped now in dough, See them, monuments of woe.
— from Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks by Wilhelm Busch

This characteristic is especially noticeable in declamatory speeches and soliloquies; sometimes idyllic as in Philaster's description of Bellario,—"I found him sitting by a fountain's side,"—or in the well-known "Oh that I had been nourished in these woods with milk of goats and acorns"; often operatic, as in Aspatia's farewells to Amintor and to love; always lyrical, imaginatively surcharged.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley