From True Fairy Stories by Mary E. Bakewell, 1902.

From Wee Wisdom, 1941.

From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.

From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.

"The pros were pro; the cons were con; so much one could rely upon."  From St. Nicholas, 1895.

Today's fish sitting in a chair is from Teaching Creative Art in Schools by Eccott & Eccott, undated (c. 1948).

"The 8 people who have been known to be unfriendly are listed below. The Phantom has got to be one of them. Sergeant Sargent, Weird Wolf, Baron Von Drup, Count Dragulot, John Goldstone, Franksanwine, Blockhead, Birdman."  From SRA Mathematics Learning System, Teacher's Guide, 1974.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

From Discovering Our World by Beauchamp, Melrose & Blough, 1937.

From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.

From Polly the Kid by Gates and Heyl, 1939.

From Broadcasting Health by Andress & Goldberger, 1933.

From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.

From How You Look and Dress by Byrta Carson, 1949.

"Oh!  Why do you do this?"  From Angela's Business, by Henry Sydnor Harrison and illustrated by Frederic R. Gruger, 1915.  (Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)

From Fifty Winters Ago by Gates, Neill & Peardon, 1940.

Springbok or white antelope.  From Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston, 1932.

That feeling of playing lots of games simultaneously.  From Spelling in Language Arts Studybook C by Kuska, Webster, et al., 1967.

From Animals Everywhere by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, 1954.