"Now, be happy, child, under better circumstances.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This Group of Leading Trade-Marked Coffees Illustrates the Wide Variance in Styles of Containers Used by Coffee-Roasters.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Called up by Commissioner Pett, and with him by water, much against my will, to Deptford, and after drinking a warm morning draft, with Mr. Wood and our officers measuring all the morning his New England masts, with which sight I was much pleased for my information, though I perceive great neglect and indifference in all the King’s officers in what they do for the King.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up and to my office, called up by Commissioner Middleton, newly come to town, but staid not with me; so I to my office busy all the morning.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

CRACK, crack up, boast; come to grief.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

forstandan 2 to defend, help, protect , LL : withstand, prevent, hinder, resist, oppose , Met : benefit, avail , CP: understand , Bo ; CP: signify, be equal to , EC, LL.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

They were also absent from copies used by Clement of Alexandria ( Pæd. iii. 11, p. 295, where however they are inserted in the printed texts; Strom. iii. 5, p. 531), by Cyprian ( Epist.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

For if we say that no such thing shall be reproduced in the body of a man, they suppose that they confute us by citing the marks of the wounds which we assert were found in the risen body of the Lord Christ.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

A Goldberg Cartoon, 1910 Newspaper Copy Used by Chase and Sanborn About 1900
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As the young backwoodsman came up, Bonnet continued, "Two boys aboard is bad business, for you're sure to be scheming to get away.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

To go deer hunting, the archer should seek a country unspoiled by civilization and gunpowder.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled, but it can undoubtedly be choked.
— from Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Those pageants and glittering processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed Queen Victoria.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

An old lady, clothing undistinguishable, but containing a purse with twenty-seven dollars and a small key.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

In the coach-house were seen some very curious old state coaches used by Charles X. and Napoleon I. and many other sovereigns.
— from To Nuremberg and Back: A Girl's Holiday by Amy Neally

You will, I hope, excuse my having spoken thus freely on the subject which so much concerns us both; consider it well and favour me with your sentiments again.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

Search is now being made in the western desert of Egypt for a lost city of burnished copper; and the Anglo-Egyptian official is constantly urged by credulous natives to take camels across the wilderness in quest of a town whose houses and temples are of pure gold.
— from The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

By degrees the education of almost the whole nation came under Buddhist control; and the moral effect was of the best.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

First settled by the French in the seventeenth century, this country came under British control in 1763, as a result of the great struggle between the two active colonizing powers for dominion in America.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris