Now they were among trees and savages, now they were on the sea, now they were on the tops of high towers; now they jumped; now they flew.
Now they can't roll any more," he said cheerfully.
Now they all, such as did not marry abroad, lie in the crypt of the church, in caskets of bronze and copper and marble, with draperies of black samite, more and more funereally vainglorious to the last.
Now they rested a while and held a consultation while they ate.
Now they were in deep darkness, the darkness of death, and in utter silence, the silence of the dead.
Now they rose, now they fell, as he gave forth the notes with the full force of his lungs, or warbled softly, sometimes finishing with a melancholy wail which produced the most mournful effect.
Now they open, to the beautiful April morning, the shutters of their narrow windows, pierced like portholes in the thickness of the very old wall.
For an instant their proud heads were turned toward the nuns slowly fleeing; now they look at each other through the night.
Now they are in French waters, in safety, not far, doubtless, from the slime of the banks.
Now they drew up a golden cup fit for the King of Spain to drink his wine out of.
Now they beheld a table of solid silver, once the property of an old Spanish grandee.
Now they found a sacramental vessel which had been destined as a gift to some Catholic church.
And dost thou think that those, once so bad, now they are in heaven, repent them there because they left their sins for Christ when they were in the world?
They say they will not bend; I say they shall; now they 'shall know whose words shall stand, Mine or theirs.
Now Satan assaults the soul with darkness, fears, frightful thoughts of apparitions; now they sweat, pant, and struggle for life.
An' now they're dancin' with all their might," whispered the shiftless one.
Now they seemed to have vanished, or, when he lighted on one, it meant nothing.
Now they began to search for the rider's line of movement from the place.
Now they swung up their framework of two posts and a cross-bar, and stepped the feet of the posts in the holes, throwing back the soft earth, and ramming it in with the short, thick pieces cut off the rails.
Now they stood up with only their brass spikes, which were intended to intercept and conduct the lightning.
Now they dwell in the earth, wurmes ham habbeth todæled.
Now they think it all too long that thu ham neih list.
Now they divide it among them, heo doth the withuten.
Now they are up in the slushy snow, where the dirty, yellow water seethes and bubbles round their lashing tails; now they disappear in a flickering zigzag down to the bottom.
Now they arrive, and the alarm in the swarm of bleak below spreads with magical swiftness to the upper layers, where the bewildered little creatures make off at full speed.
The French buccaneers had already gained a footing on Hispaniola; now they attempted to get possession of the whole island, but could not succeed.
Now they made up for their long term of privation by carousing to their hearts' content, and when drunk, often fought and killed each other.
Hitherto they were unable to find words harsh enough to use in condemning slavery--now they began to find that it had its good points.
Now they had to show a good face to some buccaneer company, and anon to fight the French or Dutch when war broke out.
Now they sidled, now they trotted, now twirled madly as on a pivot.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "now they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
