From Le Charivari, 1844.

"Uh, hello ... I understand you're here to help us out."  From the [Thornton] Courier, 1973.

From the Wyoming yearbook of 1930.

"Day and night the candle smolders, and we carry death on shoulders" (a miners' song, quoted in Olgin's The Soul of the Russian Revolution).

From Chatterbox, 1879.

From The Martlet, 1970.

From Jugend, 1920.

From Unknown, 1941.

From Unknown, 1943.

From Avila Examiner, 1988.

From Saint Mary's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

This yearbook suspiciously enquires of its readers' vitality: "Are you dead?"  From American University, 1969.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell.

From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

"Dead is a nonsense.  But a real one.  And one of us is dead."  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.

"'That deathly feeling.'  People often speak of having 'deathly sensations.'  What are the actual sensations of death?  Are there really any feelings of pain when death comes?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1895.

We were researching what the night contains and shouldn't have been surprised to discover sheet ghosts.  Do you agree that it is sheets ghosts who, in the final lines here, billow down lanes at dusk, like a mist of bleached portraits that don't exist, "who walk like a shivering laundry of shifted humanity"?  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

"Nobody knows just when he's going to walk in front of an automobile, or entertain a house party of nice, husky, vicious, little disease germs."  From Wadco News, 1922.