The first time we were invited to a banquet, this is what we imagined.  We should have gone.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.

When the enemy is upon you, just "m-m-b-l-m-b-l-m."  From The Judge, 1917.    See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

"And yet—" [a very long dash followed by an isosceles triangle of asterisks].  From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett, 1920.

"The whole world is governed largely by intuition, which is a method of knowing, without knowing why."  From The Occult and Biological Journal, 1900.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.

"Thus the horror and apprehension of a supernatural visitation terminated in a joyous wedding, which was consummated in the same chamber where the innocent Rosina had twice filled her lover with inexpressible alarm."  From "The Haunted Inn" in Ghost Stories, 1846.

It does take balls to model atom formations.  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.  The headline reads, "Models of atom formatinos shown with balls."

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From Jugend, 1900.

From Die Bühne, 1934.

From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894. 

"Finis" by Charles Ricketts.  From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.

From a ghost's autobiography: The Story of My Life by the late Colonel Meadows Taylor, 1878.  For an explanation of how this scanned page captures a genuine spirit, see that remarkable book The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine, which makes good on its promises of real ghosts, actual hauntings, and necromancy by proxy.

The heart line.  From A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.

"Everything is wrong!"  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.

"Three sunsets seen in hour."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

From Tales of Enchantment, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1920.

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From Jugend, 1900.

From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.

From Le Rire, 1894.

True even today -- the mask of science.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.

Dentist with a pickax.  From The Judge, 1913.

From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

From The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.

Some heartwarming news: "Coldest cold ever produced still has a little heat."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

"The New Jersey 'What-Is-It,' as Nelson Evans says he saw it on his shed roof at 2 a.m."  From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1909.

From The Harvard Lampoon, 1886.

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From Kladderadatsch, 1938.

"Far up the heights of wild Tibet / They say this beast is living yet."  From The Judge, 1916.

From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.

"The Muses are not the only pagan divinities who preserved their influence over mankind in modern times; for every age has its sirens, and every siren her votaries."  From Wonder of the World!! Fairburn's Account of the Mermaid, 1822.

"Jumping off the great red log on the fire was a most lovely little man."  From Golden Curl by F. A. E. A., 1882.

From Jugend, 1917.

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"The son of seven mothers."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.

"The night-blooming serious."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.

Not at the horse show.  From The Judge, 1913.

"The ships in the church."  From St. Nicholas, 1879.

From Le Rire, 1913.