Children now-a-days allers duz know more than their mothers.

This Fellow's of a quick Wit and good Apprehension, though possibly he cannot act the Don so well, yet that which makes up the best part of our young Gallants now a-days, he shall not want; that is, good Clothes, Money, and an Equipage,and a little Instruction will serve turn.

To see real blue eyes was so rare now-a-days!

He does not, as one of your Collects says, put into men's minds good desiresthey come to a man entirely from outside a man, from his early teaching, his youthful impressions, as they are called now-a-days.

"You mean in good breeding; but no one thinks of those antiquated laws now-a-days.

Most men, now-a-days, understand by faith, a firm reliance on their own opinions!"

And from that day, sir, I gave myself up to that one thing, and will until I die, to save the poor young fellows like myself, who are left now-a-days to the Devil, body and soul, just when they are in the prime of their power to work for God.' 'Ah!' said Lancelot'if poor Luke's spirit were but as strong as yours!'

Now-a-days it is of an equally pregnant necessity to the United States, to take the position of a power on earth.

But it is in the name of society I speak; and words, at all events, now-a-days are not the terrible, stake-preceding things they were in his.

Many, indeed, of the absurdities of Dante's poem are too obvious now-a-days to need remark.

He was inclined to admire a woman who kept him at a distance; for the general bent of young women now-a-days is otherwise.

Now-a-days we look upon dragons as fabulous animals, and stories of the destruction they wrought, their fierceness and their might are dismissed with a smile, and mentally relegated to a place amongst the fairy tales that delighted our childhood's days, when the idea of belief or disbelief simply did not enter the question.

Pre-eminently it shows the rottenness of that mere Act-of-Parliament foundation on which some, now-a-days, would rest our Church.

There is more competition now-a-days; there are more provincial musical gatherings; and there are now more high-class concerts than formerly.

Oh! beware, beware, you who complain of the behaviour of children now-a-days, lest your children have as much cause to complain of you. Are your children selfish, lovers of themselves?See that you have not set them the example by your own covetousness or laziness.

There are many now-a-days who complain of that part of the Church Catechism which speaks of our duty to God and to our neighbour; and many more, I fear, who shrink from complaining of the Church Catechism, because it is part of the Prayer-book, yet wish in their secret hearts that it had said something different about Duty.

you don't find many women like her now-a-days.

He has left us sundry monuments of his taste and critical skill: one is his "Treatise of English Particles,"a work of great labour and merit, but useless to most people now-a-days, because it explains the English in Latin; an other, his "Art of Teaching Improv'd,"which is also an able treatise, and apparently well adapted to its object, "the Grounding of a Young Scholar in the Latin Tongue."

"A-nights, he was in the practice of sleeping, &c.; but a-days he kept looking on the barren ocean, shedding tears."Dr.

[Footnote: The ascetics of lower rank, now called Pa[n.][d.]it, now-a-days wear the costume of the country.

"Now-a-days I has a heap of misery in my knee, so I can't ride 'roun' no mo'.

de folks now-a-days don't know nothin' 'bout good eatin', nowhow.

"Now-a-days, on the contrary, what our ancestors called hen-houses are known as ornithones, and serve to house thrushes and pea-cocks to cater to the delicate appetite of the master: and indeed such structures now have larger roofs than formerly sufficed to cover an entire farm house.

From the plainness of his attire, and a certain not unpleasing rusticity of air, Sir Francis comprehended at once that he was fresh from the country; but he also felt satisfied, from his bearing and deportment, that he was a gentleman: a term not quite so vaguely applied then, as it is now-a-days.

An old elder of mine, whose recollection might reach back from sixty to seventy years, said to me one day, 'Now-a-days, people make a work if a minister preach the same sermon over again in the course of two or three years.