"The moon emerges once more from behind the cloud, and lights up the pure, pale face."  From Mona St. Claire by Annie E. Armstrong, 1897.

An illustration from The Bashful Earthquake written and illustrated by Oliver Herford (1899).

"Anarchy Arrived": an illustration from Comic History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Charles Snyder (1898).

An illustration from The Kitchen Maid by J Bernard Partridge (1896).

From St. Nicholas magazine, illustrated by Rachael Robinson Elmer.

The "four corners of the world" technically meet at the center, as we see in this diagram from Grundzüge der mathematischen Geographie und der Landkartenprojection by Anton Steinhauser, 1857.

An illustration from Alpine Memories by Emile Javelle (1899).  The caption reads: "A Dragon in the Alps.  (From Scheuchzer's Ouresiphoites Helveticus, Zurich, 1723.)"

An illustration from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser (1899).  The caption reads: "The rabbit and the monkey who live in the moon."

An illustration from Social England under the Regency by John Ashton (1890).  The caption reads: "A clown and a grasshopper."

From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1866

"Dancing under difficulties," from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.

From A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry by Charles Mackay, 1875.

An illustration from The Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne by Thomas Love Peacock (1897).  The caption reads: "And strikes up 'I'd be a butterfly.'"

An illustration from Laughing Ann by Alan Patrick Herbert (1925).

"We board the frail vessel words are, sailing to the world's end to find the one word that would render all words superfluous." —Stein Mehren, Fire & Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North

"I presented my trophy and treasure-trove to the fairylike Miss Wee-Wee."  From Baboo Jabberjee by F. Antsey and illustrated by J. Bernard Partridge, 1897.  [For Jeremy Edwards.]

"Curtain": an illustration from The Bashful Earthquake and Other Fables and Verses by Oliver Herford (1899).

"A vision from the sea": an illustration from The Fate of Fenella by John Seymour Wood (1892).  The caption reads: "He shook his clenched hand in the air."

An illustration from Világtörténelem a Polgári Fiúiskolák Számára by Gyula Kozma (1888).

An illustration from Incwadi Yami or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa by Josiah Wright Matthews (1887).