From Duodecim Specula Deum Aliquando Videre Desideranti Concinnata, 1610.

From Petri Costalij Pegma, 1555.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From Rosa Lambert by George W. M. Reynolds, 1854.

From the Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, 1923.

"Too late?"  From Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 1949.

From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.

From The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, illustrated by T. Seccombe, 1870.

Here's a precursor to the manga character Naruto, from Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1922.

From The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, 1916.

Embers by Maurine Hathaway, 1910.

From Das Kloster, Weltlich und Geistlich by J. Scheible, 1845.

From Ward Seminary's Iris yearbook, 1912.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Light-fingered," from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.

This is Marquette's Monster, a.k.a. Lennipinja or Man-Cat of the Peorias and Illinois, a.k.a. Micibisi of the Northern tribes.  The Chippewa name is Michibichi, the spirit panther "god of the waters" or "the manito of the waters and the fishes."  The Shawnese clan name is "Manetuwi Msi-pessi," a "'celestial tiger,' i.e. a meteor or shooting star.  The manetuwi msi-pessi lives in water only, and is visible not as an animal, but as a shooting star.  But the activities of this manito are not confined to the water.  He corresponds to the 'Fire Dragon' of other mythologies; and when they see a meteor, the old Miamis say that it is Lennipinja going from one sea to another" (Indiana and the Indianans by Jacon Piatt Dunn, 1919).

From The War Cry, 1908.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton, 1695.