By the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football.

By the early 1840s, instructions for crochet were being published in England, particularly by Eleanor Riego de la Blanchardiere and Frances Lambert.

By the 1840s, the ACS was effectively bankrupt ; Liberia had become a financial burden for it.

By the 1840s, Pittsburgh was one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains.

By the 1860s it was apparent that wood sourced from some condemned slave ships ( possibly a Brazilian ship ) from the 1840s were infested by termites (“ white ants ”).

By the 1840s, India was no longer capable of supplying the vast quantities of cotton fibers needed by mechanized British factories, while shipping bulky, low-price cotton from India to Britain was time-consuming and expensive.

By the 1840s, however, large scale sheep ranches were exporting large quantities of wool to the textile mills of England.

By the 1840s, iron boxes were in use as well as wooden ones.

By the 1840s, some Hicksite Quakers determined to bring women and men together in the faith as an expression of their spiritual equality.

By the 1840s, the memory of Bolívar proved useful for the construction of a sense of nationhood.

By the 1840s, German settlers had overtaken the Mennonites as the dominant segment of the population.

By the 1840s other writers are using " Scots Law ", and this usage is now standard ( although not universal ) world-wide.

By the 1840s, Lynn's ill-health blunted his enthusiasm for Aintree.

By the 1840s, the camellia was at the height of its fashion as the luxury flower.

By the 1840s, she was an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden and her writing was translated into many languages.

By the 1840s Whitechapel, along with the enclaves of Wapping, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Mile End, Limehouse, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Poplar, Shadwell and Stepney ( collectively known today as " the East End "), had evolved, or devolved, into classic " Dickensian " London, with problems of poverty and overcrowding.

By the end of the 1840s he began to focus his energies on utopian communities.

By the 1840s, Methodist, Universalist and Presbyterian congregations had taken root.

By the 1840s, settlers were moving into the area, and several missionaries lived in and near " Peoria Village ".

By the late 1840s, however, tensions between the village of Mattapoisett and the town led to a battle which sought to redraw the town lines and effectively take over Sippican Village.

By the 1840s and 1850s, white settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in what became eastern Multnomah County.

By the 1840s, Pittsburgh had grown to one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains.

By the 1840s, some 2, 000 clocks were being completed each year.

By the 1840s, there were a number of proposals to build railways in the region, and the River Don Navigation Company acted to ensure they would remain in business.

By the 1840s, after New York, the port of New Orleans was the second largest importer of coffee.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By saying `` another emotional death '', she reveals that there has been a previous one, although she has not described it in words.

By the next morning, she had turned the paper over.

By relaxing the throat muscles and expanding the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses, she could direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous position for proper reproduction through her throat microphone.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

By him she was the grandmother of Emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos.

By bringing part of mass of her body closer to the axis she decreases her body's moment of inertia.

By figuratively rolling her eyes at the hype, Peters gives us a rich, warm and comedically human Desiree, which reaches full impact when she pierces the facade with a nakedly honest, tears-on-cheek ' Send in the Clowns.

Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

By age twenty, she had met and befriended the important, and pivotal, landscape painter of the Barbizon School, Camille Corot, who excelled in figure painting as well.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

By now she was pretty well used to these funny ways of his.

By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

By staying in their midst, she could live out her rejection of them more strongly.

By then she had seen the end of the wealth and the happiness of her family, and followed most of her children and several of her grandchildren to the grave.

By 1393, she was writing love ballads, which caught the attention of wealthy patrons within the court.

By the time of their break up, Elvira was pregnant, leading her family members to conceal her pregnancy until she gave birth to Diego in 1479.

By 84, Domitia had returned to the palace, where she lived for the remainder of Domitian's reign without incident.

By age nine, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee.

By the time of her death, she had outlived all her children except for King John and Eleanor, Queen of Castile.