"I only want to get away somewhere, and forget, if I can, that all this has ever been."  From Open! Sesame! by Florence Marryat, 1876.

From Approaches to the Great Settlement (1918).

What we call "volunteer" plants are actually scattered by elves, as we learn in the Annual Program for the Observance of Arbor Day in the Schools of Rhode Island, 1901.

Here are some penny-farthings from The Gypsy Road by Grenville Arthur James Cole and illustrated by E. J. New, 1894.

"Gray Forest" from The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1894.

Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? by William Knox, 1882.

"Kongcorong" from Travels in Western Africa in the Years 1819-21 by William Gray, 1825.

From Memories of the Months by Hume Nisbet, 1889.

"All woods—woods—as far as he went."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

From Works of Charles Dickens, New Illustrated Library Edition.

Here are revealed the roots of introversion and extroversion, from the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 21st Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 3, 1875.

From The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1897.

From Community English by Mildred Flagg, 1921.  The text on the tree reads, "Japanese reading and writing books are odd[ly] printed.  Read from right to left.  First page is at back.  Lines run up and down.  Address is backward.  Words are painted with brushes."