Quotable quotes

Thought-provoking snippets from the OED quotation files:

that'd be most of us then...

1763 W. Dowdeswell (title) An address to such of the electors of Great-Britain, as are not makers of cyder and perry.

what fun they had...

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda, While this polite pea-shooting was going on, Gwendolen trifled with her jelly.

Olympic prowess...

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals (Gloss.), The practise of all the fiue feats of activity, which is called Pentathlon and Quinquertium: to wit, buffetting, wrestling, running leaping and coiting.