But if instead of this recondite learning adapted to feed the mind, not the body, you have recourse, at need, to your hands and your handiwork, there is no call for deceit, your trade is ready when required.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sure, a studding-sail with reefed topsails was rather a new thing; yet there was some reason in it, for if we carried that away, we should lose only a sail and a boom; but a whole topsail might have carried away the mast and all.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

But I certainly will not run away, now that you have asked me to stop.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

But I certainly shall not run away, now that you have asked me to stop.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Run along, now, to yer barracks; and you, Jim, here's one for you, though yer don't desarve it.
— from Nibsy's Christmas by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

As for the French, the weekly lectures, the French receptions, and now this year, the “French table” which Professor Lalande has arranged for, are prominent features.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

But I dread sleeping again under that roof, and now that you and Margrave leave me, I shall go this very day to London.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

What Louis the Great has looked upon as possible will seem righteous and necessary to your successors; and it will happen, maybe, before long, that the thirst for conquests and the needs of the State (those constant and familiar pretexts of ministers) will authorise some political Attila to extend your work, and wreak destruction upon the tabernacle by depriving it of the splendour which is its due, and which sustains it.”
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

His one object, as set out in the Preface, was to treat the problem of the origin of species from the standpoint reached after nearly thirty years of discussion, with an [pg 016] abundance of new facts and the advocacy of many new and old theories.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Then, remembering a problem which had been bothering her several times that evening, she said rather anxiously, “Now that you are here, will you tell me how I am to find your house?
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

It's quite right and natural that you should.
— from Years of Plenty by Ivor John Carnegie Brown

It was the first time anything savouring of reproof to him had fallen from Monella’s lips; and, up to that moment, its possibility had seemed remote; and now the young man deeply felt the fact that the other should have thought it necessary.
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

“But wasn’t Mr. Rocksby awfully nice to you after that?”
— from The Teacup Club by Elisa Armstrong Bengough