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What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?
1762, A F Busching, “Introduction to the Description of Germany”, in , transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World;, volumes IV (Containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine), London: A Millar, →OCLC, § 4, page 4:
The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
2012 June 11, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian:
My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
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Translations to be checked: "formerly in a combined sense"