‘In these days,’ pursued Vera—speaking of ‘these days’ as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of ‘these days’ and that human nature changes with the times.
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (1869).
Oct
02
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