"Even now I told you that your authority was from God, and by his sufferance: and now I tell you God hath heard the voice of his servants, which hath been poured forth with tears for his afflicted saints, whom you daily persecute, as now you do us.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

We deceived you then, writing that this money came from Dounia’s savings, but that was not so, and now I tell you all about it, because, thank God, things have suddenly changed for the better, and that you may know how Dounia loves you and what a heart she has.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have been slaving myself till I can hardly stand, to contrive Mr. Rushworth's cloak without sending for any more satin; and now I think you may give me your help in putting it together.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I well remember that I was appointed close shaver at Newgate, in the year 1715 and 1716, when the rebels were confined there, and shaved all those who were close confined."
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The smaller-sized photographs at present in use were originally described as Cartes-de-Visite from the practice of the Duc de Parma, who, while staying at Nice in the year 1857, had his photograph produced on the back of his visiting cards.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

The Peninsular and Oriental Company had arranged an excursion in the Mediterranean, by which, in the space of a couple of months, as many men and cities were to be seen as Ulysses surveyed and noted in ten years.
— from Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray

Jacques shook his head, and said in an icy tone,— “I was angry; but I have reflected since, and now I thank you for your candor.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

"You have corrupted Scripture, you have broken through the communion of saints, and now I tell you what you must do; I tell you, or rather not I, but Christ and the church through me.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

Returning to Arthur’s side, “He’s beginning to come around,” he said; “and now, I think, you gentlemen had better leave the room.
— from Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland

Ain't she about?" "No. I told you she was ill.
— from The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance by May Agnes Fleming

“Here comes a ‘smooth,’ and now I think you may try her, Mr Howard.”
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

"I know I was a mean little scamp when I was a boy," he said, "and did a lot of things for which I am ashamed; but I always thought you the prettiest little girl I ever saw, and now I think you the prettiest big one, and I have had splendid opportunities for seeing girls.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes