Breakfast is usually a cheerful meal, and cheerfulness is not given to argument.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

[Pg xiv] MANSFELD AND CHRISTIAN IN NORTH GERMANY.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

"Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store;— Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance; and at night Lies down secure,—her heart and pocket light.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

ii., p. 390, relates that numbers of the carnivorous elephants have been seen feeding on the plains at the foot of a ridge of mountains, at Choco, in New Granada.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

MANSFELD AND CHRISTIAN IN NORTH GERMANY.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

"Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day: Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Of such handwork Cowper wrote:— "Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffering her threads about the livelong day."
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess