Shakespeare Midsummer, First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, nowadayes.
1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.27:What is it that now adaies makes all our quarrels mortall?
1762, A. F. Busching, A New System of Geography, volume 4, translated from German, p. 4:The appellation of Germany, is seldom used now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
Orwell Animal Farm|6And 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, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2012:My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
