Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatraöand sank.

-Brown,John Mason
  In the NewYork Post,11 Nov.

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

-Browne, SirThomas
  The Garden of Cyrus, ch.5.

Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, Thisgewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

-Dryden,John
  Anthony.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2, sc.1.

Si la morale de Cle¤  opa" t re e u" t e¤  te¤   moins courte, la face du monde aurait change¤  . Son nez n'en serait pas devenu plus long. If Cleopatra's morality had been less short, the face of the world would have been altered. Her nose would not thereby have grown longer.

-Lautre¤  amont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse
  Poe¤  sies, pt.2.

Le nez de Cle¤  opa"  tre: s'il e u" t e¤  te¤   plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change¤  . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, no.162 (translated byA Krailsheimer).