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.

Seen in Three Days, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1893.

"Desolation deified," from Rambles Round Rossendale by J. Marshall Mather, 1888.

Angels write with quills and devils with dip pens [how could it be otherwise?], as we learn in this piece from Zwei Reisen in der Türkei, 1899.

The Milky Way, from Finland in the Nineteenth Century by Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin, 1894.

"Let no bell toll—lest her sweet soul should catch the note" and drift into the afterlife.  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

Here's one simple way to change a negative outlook into a positive one, as revealed in The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909.

Here's the spirit of burning the midnight oil, whose mantra is perhaps "Just one more page" or "Why not finish this chapter?"  From Csataképek a Magyar Szabadságharzból by Mór Jókai, 1899.

Here's a bird singing a dirge, from Krag and Johnny Bear by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1902.

Here's the only way to fly, from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"And the star of peace return," from The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.