Here's "no-body" from England Under the House of Hanover by Thomas Wright and illustrated by F. W. Fairholt, 1868.

From Vagabondiana by John Thomas Smith, 1874.

"A cat would like that place."  From Following the Equator by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1897.

From Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith and illustrated by Fred Jane, 1897.

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

"Knees are calloused from the worship of other gods," from The Modern Devil by Isaiah Mench Chambers, 1903.

From Causeries avec Mes Élèves by Lambert Sauveur, 1875.

We have a friend in Tuscany who recenly attended the Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori's writers' retreat, and he surreptitiously snapped a photo of her looking something up in our dictionary of one-letter words.  We didn't know very much about the history of the Baronessa's selection and support of writing talent, so we did some digging, and there's one tidbit in a Telegraph article that we found especially charming: "'When people ask me how I know so many people,' she explains, 'I say it's because of Capri.  I was the pretty girl of Capri, and I met all these writers, artists, homosexuals – and they would take me around, much like the pug.'"

The North Star and the Southern Cross by Margaretha Weppner, 1875.

From The Childhood of the World by Edward Clodd, 1875.