From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.

"How far that little candle throws its beams."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901

From How to Read Heads and Faces by James Coates, 1937.

From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: in honor of The Shadow of the Waxwing, who said, "I really want to put Ex Libris plates in all my books, but I'm not sure if I could handle that level of pretension.  My tolerance is high but my god.  It's a real struggle.  I feel like I'm allowed 2 or 3 very improbable/pretensious things before I descend into self parody, and they might be a bridge too far."  In our diagram, we've identified that bridge-too-far as cantilevered.

"The brightest of all things, the sun, has its spots."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

The temporal course of a feeling.  From The Psychology of Feeling and Emotion by Christian Ruckmick, 1936.

"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

From The Mayans, 1936.

"We reach the goal when, in the mansions of the blest, Death leaves to its eternal rest the weary soul."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Often in a wooden house a golden room you find."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

The "stream" of experience.  From The Psychology of Feeling and Emotion by Christian Ruckmick, 1936.

How a theatrical ghost walks.  (But no mention of how ectoplasmic perambulation occurs.)  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.

"Those things which are said to be done by Nature are done by Divine Art."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

From Cosmogonie Humaine, 1917.

This old sentence diagram could be printed as a talisman for wealth-building.  The sentence is even numbered "3," giving it triple potency.  May it work to give you more money than you know what to do with.  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

Charting the ups and downs of one person's popularity.  From Centenary's 1934 yearbook.

A word of caution: the Grim Reaper appears at the end of this:

"Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, and stars to set; but all, thou has all seasons for thine own, O Death." 

From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: There's a fine line between raising the roof and bringing the house down.  It's called the "eave."

From The Gateway, 1971.