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.

"To the wolf at the door," from The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

Here's one way to diagram a sentence about a fairy-like creature emerging from a portal.  From Community English by Mildred Flagg, 1921.

"Death by tennis is obviously a much underrated crime." —David Smith, Death in Leamington, 2015

"Could slay any member of the family with a tennis-ball at a hundred yards." —Sara Jeanette Duncan, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves, 1890.

"Analysis of the perspiration of a brain-worker shows the amount of brain effort by the volume of little particles of Phosphate of Potash thrown off by the brain when working."  From an ad for Grape-Nuts in St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

From Captain Marryat's Novels, 1896.

We tend to appreciate palindromic book titles.  Here's This and That, and That and This by Charles Josiah Adams, 1919.

"Stanley was removed from the room," from The Woodleighs of Amscote by Frances Collins, 1881.

Here's a precursor to Tom and Jerry, from St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

"It was a human skull," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"There's a dead body walking about the room!  One?  No!  It is not one; it is five hundred!"  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

Here's a bartender as a wicked spider, from The World's Temperance Reciter by Joseph Malins, 1890.

From The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

We know from the rhyme that the cow jumped over the moon, but here's the view.  From Síḋeóga ag Obair by William Patrick Ryan, 1903.

"Wooden shoes" is an anagram of "one swooshed."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

An illustration by George Cruikshank from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"He moved his walking-stick repeatedly through the phantom," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

Our favorite sort of lineup: "Executioner, Lord High-Keeper-of-the-Candy-Box, Lord High-Thinker, and Jester," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1903.