From Medical Pickwick, 1921.

Sprinter races billiard ball.  From Popular Mechanics, 1926.

From Mocca, 1928.

"When Mr. McDonald wasn't dancing."  From Long Lines magazine, 1921.

"'Perhaps,' said the little man, "having lived forty centuries, I may be old enough to advise a young man of twenty-three."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.

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"Moderation is a word unknown among clocks."  From Pearson's, 1898.

"I thought at first I had reached Hell.  There seemed no God, but horrible desolation and emptiness.  That was because I was not tuned, nor could I manipulate my new form.  I was all at sea, and lonely beyond words." —Fear Not the Crossing by Gail Williams, 1920.

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"Anything is possible, unless it is proved impossible.  And sometimes even then."  From the missing last chapter to Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, revealing the marvelous, eerie finale to the mystery of the story.  See The Secret of Hanging Rock.

Here's a blank map of the North Pole, from Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.