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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 4677 Þorou his awen happy [Vesp. scel-wis, Gött. witti] rede. he filled wiþ wine baþ quyte and rede.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xx. f. 140 Hauing done Saladine to vnderstand his happy repaire home to his Countrey,..[he] liued with his wife afterwardes many prosperous yeres.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 155 If a lie may do thee grace, Ile guild it with the happiest termes I haue. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. iii. 1 Saint Dennis blesse this happy Stratageme. View more context for this quotation

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §8 The happy use the Primitive learned Christians made of all those passages.

1779 W. Cowper Let. 21 Sept. (1979) I. 304 The Situation is happy, the Gardens elegantly disposed.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. i A most happy thought.

1799 I. D'Israeli Lovers ii. in Romances 310 They glided on the river with a happy audacity.

1862 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 84 This happy thought was considered to get rid of the whole difficulty.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 391 No comparison could be more misleading or less happy.

1915 J. Turner Let. 30 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 14 It is a happy thought that a man can only peg out or be wiped out once.

1926 Rep. Proc. Ann. Meeting (Alabama State Bar Assoc.) 29 Making a very happy reply, the lawyer said, ‘By falsely and fraudulently pretending, if your Honor please, that the court was with me, when indeed it was not.’ (Laughter).

1991 C. B. Boyer & U. C. Merzbach Hist. Math. (ed. 2) xv. 288 Bombelli had the happy thought that the radicals themselves might be related in much the way that the radicands are related.