"Until now" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... Nature was not all that John studied in these days. He learned to read also the written language of men, and studied the wise and holy words which have kept goodness before men's sight since knowledge began. Until now John had never opened a book or held a pen. But the Hermit taught him wisely and well, and soon he was in a fair way to ...
— John of the Woods • Abbie Farwell Brown
... a silly phrase—a bad woman. Do you suppose I ever felt like a bad woman—until now? Even now I can't realize that the words belong to me, though I know that according to the rules I've done ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge
... England type. It was low and rambling, covering a good deal of ground and yet without any porch and very little yard, because as the village closed about it and Elm Street became a fashionable quarter the land had been gradually sold until now its white picket fence was only a dozen feet from the front door and passers-by could easily have looked inside its parlor windows save for the tall bushes that served as a shield. By immemorial custom the cottage had always been painted ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill • Margaret Vandercook
... did, but when I asked him why he had shaved it off he said I was mistaken—said it was only a bunch of seaweed I had thought was a beard. Then you called me to hurry out, and I forgot all about it until now. But he must have shaved his whiskers off in here, and then he disappeared. There's something strange ...
— Larry Dexter's Great Search - or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire • Howard R. Garis
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