[388] even now) then hardening medicines must needs be cold and dry, because they are contrary to them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain— Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt—yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered; as, when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

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— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

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— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Has it ever needed to hide its face?
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

"Do this," said the ghost of Mr. Surveyor Pue, emphatically nodding the head that looked so imposing within its memorable wig; "do this, and the profit shall be all your own.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

About a fortnight after Tom’s rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As joined in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel Serpent: On me exercise not Thy hatred for this misery befallen; On me already lost, me than thyself More miserable!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Fred and Rosamond had little to say to each other now that marriage had removed her from collision with the unpleasantness of brothers, and especially now that he had taken what she held the stupid and even reprehensible step of giving up the Church to take to such a business as Mr. Garth's.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The thought of Edith Leslie had been so long the solace of his confinement, that it seemed to have grown into a part of himself; at all events, now that his doubts were on the verge of decision, for good or evil, it drove every other thought from his mind.
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman

Ephraim now thought he perceived that the blackest thunder-clouds came from the south and not from the north, but the glare of the lightning showed behind him a span of frightened horses rushing into the sea, one chariot shattered against another, and farther on several jammed firmly together to the destruction of their occupants, while they barred the progress of others.
— from Joshua — Volume 4 by Georg Ebers

"Then monsieur lies yonder?" inquired Marie, eager, now that her scruples and surprise were overcome, to assist in this unexpected romance.
— from A Maid of Brittany: A Romance by Mabel Winifred Knowles

How I dread its ebbing; yet even now the hastening nights are giving warning.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

dramatic author in France is entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a fixed sum per act, viz.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 by Various

Attack on Etruria by the Romans Subjected to these simultaneous and, as it were, concerted assaults on the part of very different peoples—the Syracusans, Latins, Samnites, and above all the Celts—the Etruscan nation, that had just acquired so vast and sudden an ascendency in Latium and Campania and on both the Italian seas, underwent a still more rapid and violent collapse.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

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— from Urbain Grandier Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas