"Dead is a nonsense.  But a real one.  And one of us is dead."  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.

"'That deathly feeling.'  People often speak of having 'deathly sensations.'  What are the actual sensations of death?  Are there really any feelings of pain when death comes?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1895.

We were researching what the night contains and shouldn't have been surprised to discover sheet ghosts.  Do you agree that it is sheets ghosts who, in the final lines here, billow down lanes at dusk, like a mist of bleached portraits that don't exist, "who walk like a shivering laundry of shifted humanity"?  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

"Nobody knows just when he's going to walk in front of an automobile, or entertain a house party of nice, husky, vicious, little disease germs."  From Wadco News, 1922.

"There's no death like it!  How would you rather kick the bucket -- slowly fading out of the world in a fog of arteriosclerosis and senility in some two-bit nursing home ... or disintegating instantly in a glorious hail of bullets?  Choking on mashed turnips at the age of 93 ... or getting detonated into heaven by a magnificent explosion of TNT?  Think about it."  From The Getaway, 1982.

From William and Mary's 1908 yearbook.

From Nebelspalter, 1898.

From Weird Tales, 1942.

"'You will come,' the messenger mumbled in his brain.  'Your master has called.'"  From Unknown, 1940.

From Lustige Blätter, 1914.

"Chariot of Death."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1943. 

From Tulane's 1926 yearbook.

From Weird Tales, 1943.

From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

From The Gateway, 1981.

"Doesn't a good host make you even forget you're yourself?"  From Weird Tales, 1948.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)