Here's a precursor to the Smell of Reeves & Mortimer running gag about a father who begs for "booze for t'baby."  From Le Rire, 1908.

While looking up what a "wag-at-the-wa'" is, we encountered an article about how crossword puzzles would be affected by Scottish independence, which noted three words/phrases that would be lost:

CLAMJAMPHRIE [nonsense]

NIPPERTY-TIPPERTY [foppish]

WAG-AT-THE-WA’ [an uncased pendulum clock]

The difference between "portrait" and "landscape" orientation.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.

"I sank senseless upon the sand behind the protecting body of my dead horse."  From The Golden Lake by Carlton Dawe, 1891.

"Can you go where others go?"  From Ambition magazine, 1911.

"He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."  From Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.   Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From Die Muskete, 1913.

"The 'ooray face and the ugh face," from The Sketch, 1910.

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"Oh, you want me to have a shirt on you," from Pearson's, 1905.

"Stories unreasonable, unlikely, or uncomfortable."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.

"An unfortunate soul."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.

A postcard from a ghost: "This is the berg where I spent most of my days."  From c. 1907.  Courtesy of the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.