And we’ve started gymnastic exercises.” “No, thank you, I won’t have any more tea,” said Levin, and conscious of doing a rude thing, but incapable of continuing the conversation, he got up, blushing.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Aren't you glad, even now, that you have a home and shelter?"
— from Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Beshrew me, but I think I have conquered the grim enemy now that you are come.
— from Devereux — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Why, do you not see, George, even now, that your wife will always come second to your real love?"
— from The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

His only large swellings of the heart had come from his thinking about them, particularly Grace Elderby, now twelve years old.
— from The Spinners' Book of Fiction by Spinners' Club

The children of both sexes seldom wear a rag of clothing till they are four years old, and the boys often go entirely naked ten years longer.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

"They'll try another shell, just to get even, now that you've got away from them."
— from Under Fire For Servia by James Fiske