O let us not, like snarling curs, In wrangling be divided, Till, slap!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

sed etiam legibus populorum, quibus in singulis civitatibus res publica continetur, eodem modo constitutum est, ut non liceat sui commodi causa nocere alteri; hoc enim spectant leges, hoc volunt, incolumem esse civium coniunctionem; quam qui dirimunt, eos morte, exsilio, vinclis, damno coërcent.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

where, whilst he, With his strain'd action, and his dole of faces, To his drug-lecture draws your itching ears, A crew of old, unmarried, noted letchers, Stood leering up like satyrs; and you smile Most graciously, and fan your favours forth, To give your hot spectators satisfaction!
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But let us no longer stay here talking like children, lest we be ill spoken of; go, fetch your spear from the tent at once.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Mr Burd points out that this passage is imitated directly from Cicero's "De Officiis": "Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum; confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The mother lay underground now, long since forgotten—the sisters and brother had a hundred different interests of their own, and, familiar still, were utterly estranged from each other.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I initials (in the name) DDA domain-defined attributes, keywords defined and used by the individual systems to specify mailboxes (user name, list, station, user code, etc.), direct delivery devices (attention name, telex addresses, facsimile, etc.) PN personal name (a) the character @ cannot be used when routing messages from X.400 to Internet.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

She is very sorry for the further complication likely to arise out of the communication to the House of Commons of the despatch in full, which is most unfortunate, not less so than the communication of it previously to Mr Bright and his friends.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

“If I sees Buck afore yu do, I'll tell him yu an' Frenchy are growin' watermelons up near Last Stand Rock an' are waitin' for rain.
— from Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford

“Who is this poor, unhappy, neglected little soul?”
— from The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

I am obliged to replace it when it can be used no longer, simply to save him the trouble of asking for a new one.
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac

"These things concern us no longer," said he.
— from The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Arthur Conan Doyle

I thought, once, I would have stayed there: when I saw her face again—it is hers yet!—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up: not Linton’s side, damn him!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Russian River Valley "pinches out" at Cloverdale, a pretty little town, set down in a bowl with a very large rim—so large, that unless new life should be infused into the town, it will not be likely to slop over.
— from A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by W. C. (William Chauncey) Bartlett