“If thou weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!”

Hareton Earnshaw to Linton Heathcliff (Ch. XXI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Emily Brontë151

English novelist and poet 1818–1848

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

Song II, st. 1. <br class="br"> Water Babies http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtrbs10h.htm (1863)

“We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants.”

Margery Allingham (1904–1966) English writer of detective fiction

The Oaken Heart

“Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning,
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning;
Never was owl more blind than a lover,
Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.”

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet

"Magnus and Morna", in Thirty Years, Poems New and Old (1880)

“I think he's saying there should be more than a minute.”

Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator

Belgium v. United States https://web.archive.org/web/20140702125036/https://vine.co/v/MFLYdq5wVQL (1 July 2014). <br class="br">2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup