I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

They that but now, for honor and for plate,
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. Waller.

The ship was now in the midst of the sea. Matt. xiv. 24.

How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor ? L'Estrange.

Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is ? Shak.

Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40.

The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander. South.

Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- Now and now, again and again; repeatedly. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Now and then, at one time and another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. "A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood." Drayton. -- Now now, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster (1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley.