1913, Agnes C. Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness:
Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays.
1899, Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum:
I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays.
1876, Pansy, Four Girls at Chautauqua:
He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays.