Walk up, never say die, uncle."
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Pecker , “keep your PECKER up,” i.e. , don’t get down in the mouth,—literally, keep your beak or head well up, “never say die!”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“You see she is yet young; you observe she possesses the ordinary form of childhood; God has graciously given her the shape that He has given to all of us; no signal deformity points her out as a marked character.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Unsa pa may ímung ubanun ngadtu sa dawuntáwun?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ang urkiyu nga sugarul dílì mupusta ug sinintabus, An honest-to-goodness gambler does not bet nickles and dimes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

De nouveaux magazines (DRH Actu, NetLocal Actu, Automates intelligents dans quelques jours, Correspond@nces avec la Fondation la Poste, etc.), de la TV (avec un studio propre), un nouveau système d'information (ou de production) très puissant (Reef.com), le kiosque de presse (avec des partenaires presse externe, à commencer par Diora), etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

These men were all Americans, all so proud of their part in the Canal, and so strong and healthy—most of them trained and educated, I knew as soon as they opened their mouths—the greatest contrast to the crowd on the steamer, who now were all tamely following a guide and listening to what they could neither understand nor see during their only day ashore.
— from Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist by Joseph Pennell

I will use not speak daggers— Fairfax, I am mad!—Raging!—The smothered and pent-up mania must have vent—What!
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Un nouveau syndrôme dans les contusions aériennes.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

MURDER OF GEORGE CRAWFORD AND HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER U ncompromising severity does not always produce the intended effect.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth

“Never say too late,” cried Disco, starting up; “never say die while there’s a shot in the locker.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The other said, "My Lord, I understand not such dark manner of speaking: if I shall give you any answer, you must speak more plain."
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

Lord Amherst mounted his horse, and when by the ruddy light of the conflagration the aged courtier was seen advancing it was generally understood that that class of society, until now so disdainfully indulgent, had taken a hand, and would show itself pitiless in the defence of its property and life.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon

But you labour under no such disadvantages.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini