The moon is actually bigger than it looks from down here on Earth, as we learn in La Dix-Neuvième Caravane des Dominicains d'Arcueil, 1894.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, 1879.

Winking at the devil, from Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

From The Oxford Thackeray.

From Nine Years in Nipon by Henry Faulds, 1887.

From The Lamentable Vision of the Devoted Hermit, 1813.

"A day of a hundred and forty-four hours!" from The Conquest of the Moon by André Laurie, 1889.

"Octavia went about with a pruning-hook," from Maids in a Market Garden by Clotilda Inez Mary Graves, 1894.

From The Unbidden Guest by Ernest William Hornung, 1894.

"A word came hissing out with the sparks," from Under which Lord? by Elizabeth Lynn and illustrated by Arthur Hopkins, 1879.

From Peeps into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall by John Tabois Tregellas, 1879.

"Sitting down the poultry-yard, fancying that he was in his school," from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat and illustrated by H. M. Brock, 1895.

From Kings of the Platform and Pulpit by Melville D. Landon, 1900.

From an 1878 ad for The Aloe Series of richly illustrated, elegantly bound books.