"Nowadays" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... You have to eat war bread. Kings nowadays belong to the poorer classes. The King of England does not even ...
— The Inca of Perusalem • George Bernard Shaw
... is a gentleman. The breed is rare, and very fine when you get it. But he is exceedingly poor. People marry for money nowadays; and your mother will be very unhappy if this ...
— Five Little Plays • Alfred Sutro
... "that we are getting too squeamish nowadays as to speech. Women are so frightened to call a spade ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... can hear of, it has been considered a feather in a man's cap to belong to the horse artillery. Many a fine fellow has put down his name and wanted to be transferred from the foot, and want has been his master. But nowadays the service is going ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn
... Lausanne, upon which we made a pilgrimage to Chillon, to the great delight of the Kinder. Miss Cassandra insisted that we should take the children to see this most romantic and beautiful spot, because, she says, it is out of fashion nowadays, like Niagara Falls at home, and that it is a part of a liberal education to see the Castle of Chillon and read Byron's poem on the spot, all of which we did. It is needless to tell you that Christine and Lisa considered this day on the ...
— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
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