Some of the best discourses are in the form of skeletons.  By Charles Simeon, 1820.

The impossibilty of ever seeing Catalina Island -- "Some one is sure to say, 'There's Catalina.'  And you say, 'I see it.'  But of course you don't."  From Long Lines magazine, 1921.

"On dense and rainy nights, as well as on the clear and moon-lighted, you could see his long figure, rubber-coated and glistening."  From Ambition magazine, 1915.

From The Triumphs of Temper by William Hayley and illustrated by William Blake, 1807.

The Next Beyond by Anonymous, 1921.

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From Pearson's, 1903.

"'You'd think there were people hiding there, wouldn't you?'  She pointed to a cluster of black, bare trees."  From English Illustrated, 1899.

"Those legs."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.

"At the court of the fire-king."  From Fairy Guardians by F. Willoughby, 1875.

Everybody [on Mars] is doing this.  From Die Muskete, 1920.

"Are monsters like this still alive?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

Use your white crayon to color in "all the little sighing souls" from The Haunted Hour compiled by Margaret Widdemer, 1920.

From Die Muskete, 1927.

A spirit message written via a planchette: "'Aide-toi le ciel t'aidera' (Help yourself and Heaven will help you)."  From The Vanished Friend: Evidence, Theoretical and Practical, of the Survival of Human Identity After Death by Jules Thiébault, 1920.