The hunters built fires around the hole, so that the smoke filled the cave and smothered the great insect and multitudes of the smaller ones, but others which were outside the cave were not killed, and these escaped and increased until now the yellow-jackets, which before were unknown, are all over the world.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

strangers, until now, to you.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It was not until nearly twenty years later that Clerk, a Scotch private gentleman, published an ingenious study of naval tactics, in which he pointed out to English admirals the system by which the French had thwarted their thoughtless and ill-combined attacks.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Let us note this young chief.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And I hope that you will not quarrel with us, now that you are going the way o
— from Laws by Plato

With us, now twenty years after the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers—who profess devotion to the nation—engaged in trying to prove that the Union forces were not victorious; practically, they say, we were slashed around from Donelson to Vicksburg and to Chattanooga; and in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, when the physical rebellion gave out from sheer exhaustion.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Maáyu ka na man giyung pagkamuntǎr dihà sa ímung trúnu, ayaw táwun mig kalimti ang día sa ubus, Now that you are nicely established on your throne, don’t forget those of us left down here below.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Get up.' 'Not till you let me go—not till you let me go—Never—never!' screamed the girl.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Why is it not then a very mean thing for us not to yield up that to the public benefit which we must yield up to fate?
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Why weren't you confirmed with the rest of us nearly three years ago?
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

In the midst of all, and forming the central feature, stands a cabin, deserted and lowly since that unhappy night two years ago.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

We want you to come to us, now that you're leaving Mrs. Cortelyon—at once, to-day.
— from The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

Amerigo Vespucci, who has carried away the honor of giving name to the continent, did not reach it until nearly two years after the English adventurer.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

"I see that I understand nothing that you say after all," he said with a fine fatherly dignity.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

There, he is going up now. Take your place, Ralph."
— from The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet by Kenneth Ward

It is one of those exquisitely told tales, not unhappy, nor tragic, yet not exactly ‘happy,’ but full of the pain—as a philosopher has put it—that one prefers, which are read, when the reader is in the right mood, with, at least, a subdued sense of tears, tears of pleasure.” ATHENÆUM.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood

"Did ye notice she never said a word to us, neyther 'Thank ye,' nor yet 'Guid-day'?
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

It was not until nearly two years later that Grant was permitted to act upon his conviction, repeatedly formulated, that the strength of the Confederacy and the danger to the Union lay, not in the possession of strategic positions, but in the fighting force of that Army of Northern Virginia which responded to every demand of Lee for heroic self-sacrifice, as the needle responds to the attraction of the pole.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

"Can't you stay and spend the day with us, now that you're here?" they pleaded.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. Frey

Besides this it is admitted that Paul did not witness the crucifixion, and that these Epistles, even if authentic, were not written until nearly thirty years after it is said to have occurred.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg