Restoring the Lost Sense

He pulled out a drawer at random—Schedule K-36, Minor Social Offenses—and ran his embittered eye over a card.  It was marked Conversational Felonies, and began thus:

Arguing
Blandishing
Buffoonery
Contradicting
Demurring
Ejaculating
Exaggerating
Facetiousness
Giggling
Hemming and Hawing
Implying
Insisting
Jesting

Each item also referred to another card on which the penalty was noted and legal test cases summarized.

An illustration from The Gate Beautiful by John Ward Stimson (1903).  The caption reads: "The Scroll of Life."

An illustration from The Fur Country by Jules Verne (1874).  The caption reads: "It is more beautiful than the Aurora Borealis."

An illustration from Life in the Mines or Crime Avenged by Charles H. Sompson (1898).  The caption reads: "It was the Phantom Horseman!"

An illustration from City Festivals by Will Carleton (1892).

An illustration from The Secret of Wrexford by Esther Carr (1878).

An illustration from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum (1906).

An illustration from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum (1901).  The caption reads: "Those fellows seem to be looking for trouble."

An illustration from The Wrong Woman by Charles D. Stewart (1912).  The caption reads: "The stars, a vast audience, had all taken their places."

"Somnambulist—A judge tries a case while asleep."  An illustration from Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).

An illustration from The Mystery of the Red Flame by George Barton (1918).  The caption reads: "The dearest wish of my life...has been to live in Washington."

An illustration from The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens (1848).

"Somnambulist—Playing while asleep": an illustration from Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).

An illustration from The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901).

An illustration from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum (1901).

An illustration from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca Newman Porter (1922).  The caption reads: "Good God! Anything could happen in a place like this!"

An illustration from Monitor at Megson's by Robert Leighton, illustration by Gordon Browne (1906).