Restoring the Lost Sense

"Nina rushed as quickly as she could from the presence of that which she truly believed to be nothing less than the spirit of her murdered friend," from Thrilling Life Stories for the Masses, 1892.

"Who is it?  What is it?  Who speaks?"  From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

Well, we know how they got to Europe: they flew!

From Harvard Inside-Out by Elmer Elsworth Hägler, 1916.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

"We really cannot go about 'objects,'" from The Foreign Freaks of Five Friends by C. A. Jones, 1882.

What's the word for being "Tired of sitting on an iron seat among the straightly-clipped boxwood trees side by side with Aunt Deb"?  From Silverton Court by Winifred Taylor, 1885.

When enough isn't enough, from St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

From L'Espagne Pittoresque, Artistique et Monumeatale by Manuel Galo de Cuendias, 1848.

"At least, sir, spare yourself for the present."  From By Proxy by James Payne and illustrated by A. Hopkins, 1878.

"This hat" speaks for itself.  From London and Paris through Indian Spectacles, 1897.

From The Chronicles of a Garden by Henrietta Wilson, 1864.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1903.

From Die Kopien der Weltkarte des Museum Borgia, 1892.

We're more geologically agnostic, but here's a book on Skepticism in Geology from 1878.

How to transform into an octopus, Step One (apparently).  From The Illinois Teacher, 1855.

"'You were paid 200 pounds per year,' she retorted, 'for doing nothing, except keeping a door locked, and feeding a half-mad woman."  From Thrilling Life Stories for the Masses, 1892.

From The Forum, 1919.

"He evidently thought his audience could not have enough of it," from Miss Misanthrope by Justin MacCarthy and illustrated by Arthur Hopkins, 1878.