,’ said the manager (for Nicholas had given the name which Newman Noggs had bestowed upon him in his conversation with Mrs. Kenwigs), ‘let me introduce Mrs. Vincent Crummles.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Very well, to-morrow the knife will be in my possession, but when it is once in my hands you need not hope to see it again.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The King was cordially ashamed of himself for having gotten all that fright and misery out of so paltry a matter as a slumbering calf; but he need not have felt so about it, for it was not the calf that frightened him, but a dreadful non-existent something which the calf stood for; and any other boy, in those old superstitious times, would have acted and suffered just as he had done.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Going with her petition from door to door, only to have them shut in her face by the women she was trying to help; subjecting herself to the jeers and insults of men whom she need never have met except for this mission; held up by the press to the censure and ridicule of thousands who never had seen or heard her; misrepresented and abused above all other women because she stood in the front of the battle and offered herself a vicarious sacrifice—can the women of New York, can the women of the nation, ever be sufficiently grateful to this one who, willingly and unflinchingly, did the hardest pioneer work ever performed by mortal?
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It would have improved the Whites and done the Natives no harm.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

either : as, nec nunc , H. S. 2, 3, 262, not even now , a free quotation of nē nunc quidem , T. Eu. 46. nec . . .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle, for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If, where thou art, two villians shall not be, Come not near him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Happiness used to wake with me every morning, and then it was just as it is now; nothing has changed.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And consequently, though the immortality of the angels does not pass in time, does not become past as if now it were not, nor has a future as if it were not yet, still their movements, which are the basis of time, do pass from future to past; and therefore they cannot be co-eternal with the Creator, in whose movement we cannot say that there has been that which now is not, or shall be that which is not yet.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I had been two whole days at the fort, and no news had been received of Sandy and his party, who had gone in search of poor Pat and me.
— from Snow Shoes and Canoes Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by William Henry Giles Kingston

Never, never had she seen a being so beautiful as the young hero now before her.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

Published by Paul Elder & Company, and printed under the typographical direction of H. A. Funke at their Tomoye Press, in San Francisco, during the month of November, Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen.
— from The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco, 1915 by Cora Lenore Williams

" "And are you not—I remember you now—the very lad, the tanner's lad, that once pulled us ashore from the eger—Cousin March and me?" I heard a quick exclamation beside me, and saw Ursula listening intently—I had not noticed how intently till now.
— from John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Oh, yes, he could tell them brave tales of how he had lived with the Indians, he bragged, but not now; he had to go now and be admonished by the Elder, he explained, as if he took pride in such awful depths of iniquity.
— from Soldier Rigdale: How He Sailed in the Mayflower and How He Served Miles Standish by Beulah Marie Dix

When Lucius appeared on Main Street, men who had never noticed him before went out of their way to be polite and friendly.
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

It did not neglect, however, to rush detachments of men with trench mortars and hand bombs to its reservoirs, prepared to destroy any possible cold bombs on their first appearance.
— from A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster

Dinhay naglunu nga hálas dinhi
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Is Shoo Fly on the limb now?” “Nor, he tak’n din’r wid me terday, an’ las’ night, he tak’n supp’r wid Miss Lucy,” she laughed aloud.
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

yee need not have taken such trouble to cater for your childer .
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir