Here's an owlish capital M from Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

An illustration from La Vie à Montmartre by Georges Montorgueil, illustrated by Pierre Vidal (1899).  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From The Child's Own Poetry Book by Horace George Hroser, 1887.

"She felt as guilty as though she were burying living souls," from The Little Squire by Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle de la Pasture, 1893.

"Bibliomania of the golden dustman," from The Letters of Charles Dickens, 1893.

From The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile, 1895.

This ornate capital G reminds us of Number 2's signature spherical chair in The Prisoner series.  From Loose Rein by Wanderer and illustrated by G. Bowers, 1887.

"Lord Senfrey gasped and fell forward right into the horrible vapour," from The Crime of a Christmas Toy by Henry Herman, 1893.

Eckhart Tolle suggested that "death is a stripping away of all that is not you."  And just who puts on what we strip off?  We find the answer in The Ingoldsby Legends, 1893.

From Clara In Blunderland by Lewis Caroline, 1902.

"She sprang toward him and fell away into nothingness."  From The Impress of a Gentlewoman by Fanny E. Newberry, 1894.

The year before Mr. Venn died, it was as if his diagrams hadn't made a dent.  Consider this muddled circle from Thinking: An Introduction to Its History and Science by Fred Casey, 1922.

The UFO of success's levitation beam of temperance is blocked by an alcoholic drinks counter, which is obvious when you think about it.  From The Missionary Visitor, 1907.

A hypochondriac from Death's Doings, illustrated by Richard Dagley, 1827.

From the Mirror yearbook of Bates College, 1921.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"It is vacation," from Zigzag Journeys in Europe by Hezekiah Butterworth, 1880.

The old-time euthemism "Golly gee whillikers" is of ambiguous etymology, but we've traced it back to this 8-pound fish who went by the name of "G. Whillikens."  From Heston's Hand-Book by Alfred Miller Heston, 1902.

People think, "T & A.  Ooh la la!"  But they have ups and downs like all of us, and the reality is that it's long hours and hard work.  Our illustration is from Lower Eatington: Its Manor House and Church, 1880.

Writing an ode to immortality, from Death's Doings, illustrated by Richard Dagley, 1827.

Ah, the number of times we ourselves have been saved by a mirror.  From Love-Clouds by John Latey, 1894.