From Clarion State Normal School's Sequelle yearbook, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Yarns of an Old Mariner by Mary Cowden Clarke and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1800.

"Will you allow me to offer you a very rough shawl?"  (He had promised the soft one to himself.  And why not?)  From Simplicity and Fascination by Ann Beale, 1883.

Angels write with quills and devils with dip pens [how could it be otherwise?], as we learn in this piece from Zwei Reisen in der Türkei, 1899.

The Story of the Mermaiden, Adapted from the German of Hans Anderson by E. Ashe and illustrated by Laura Troubridge, 1888.

"To those who enter the hall of the dead, evil comes."  From King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, 1891.

"Hindu smoke charm to cure disease," from Women of All Nations, a Record of their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs and Influence, 1908.

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.

"Up he went, spinning like a top."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

"The fire dogs," from Un-natural History Not Taught in Bored Schools by James Freyberg, 1883.

This sort of objectification is going on to this very day.  The caption reads, "My horse started from an object upon the ground."  From Pelham by Baron Lytton, 1883.

From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Mystères du Palais de l'Élysée by Jules Beaujoint, 1888.