"Be steadfast unto the end," from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant, 1889.

Forget how many angels can dance upon the point of a needle (for St. Thomas Aquinas' answer, see our previous post.)  How many angels can play see-saw on a quill?  We find our answer in The Wilful Willoughbys by Evelyn Everett Green, 1893.

Even stars and star angels have their dark sides.  We find our proof in Arona by P. Perucchetti, 1894.

Revealed: one of the ways lost works of art find themselves lost in the first place.  From Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1859.

From the University of Maryland's Bones, Molars and Briefs, 1904.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

The spirits of night, from The Merry Ballads of the Olden Time, 1880.

Here's an angelic bear aware of its own halo.  (Compare to the saintly jackdaw aware of its own halo.)  From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1890.

Ironically, this is not what soccer/football considers a "dead ball."  From Grisette by Lew Rosen, 1890.

"Leo and the angel death," from In a Sea Bird's Nest by Frances Clare, 1896.

"But Memory came and took the glass of Time," from Seen in Three Days, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1893.

Atmospheric electrical discharges often get demonized, but they're sparked by an angel: "Nang Make Kala, an angel who causes lightning."  From Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896 by Herbert Warington Smyth, 1898.

From Scenes and Characters From the Works of George Eliot, 1888.