With what remorse did I repent of the fact that until now I had remained blind and deaf to this life so full of inexplicable riddles! Never had I opposed this mysterious book, never had I stopped even for a single moment to consider the question marks which are represented by things and beings; I did not know anything.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

Producing the first year some 4,000 cases, representing, at the high price they commanded, $16 per case, a total value of $64,000, it has steadily increased its product, until now it has reached upward of half a million cases.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

And, as you say, there could hardly be anything unsettling now in her reading about the troubles that poor Becky went through.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

"Well, well," said he, "I guess Uncle Nathan is half right; 'it's all prejudice.'
— from Two Christmas Celebrations by Theodore Parker

Nevertheless, we may believe, from experience much further back than memory can trace, that men formerly knew the misfortunes which resulted from alliances with the same blood; since in the most uncivilized nations, it has rarely been permitted for the brother to marry the sister.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

That is what he is for us now, if he rolled in too much clay of earth.
— from Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

But we need not follow Uncle Nathan in his reformatory lucubrations.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton

And Eleanor being a true descendant of the Man with the Iron Hand flaunted personal fear; and went back to a sleepless but not unhappy night in her room.
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

"Until now, I have refused to talk to journalists, but in future I will reply to all their questions, if only they will help me.
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

Your father, when he went away, gave me full authority to make such arrangements for you as I might feel were necessary, but until now I have rather avoided taking upon myself any responsibility.
— from The Governess by Julie M. Lippmann