SILVERWARE, anagrammatically, WERE RIVALS.  From La Dix-Neuvième Caravane des Dominicains d'Arcueil, 1894

"Half-a-century of pain," from The Story of a Tour by William Scriven, 1898.

Here's the Road to Nowhere, with a subtle suggestion to step off the beaten path.  From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1890.

Q: "Obviously, a preface should not be the first thing, or the first thing for thirty years, that the editor composes in Latin.  Need it be, though?" (Michael Reeve, "Cuius in Usum? Recent and Future Editing," The Journal of Roman Studies)
A: Well, the short answer is "yes."

Ironically, this is not what soccer/football considers a "dead ball."  From Grisette by Lew Rosen, 1890.

From Brethren's Family Almanac, 1894.

From Kopenhagen, die Hauptstadt Dänemarks by Franz von Jessen, 1898.

Speaking of the acronym LOA, the loa are the mysterious intermediary spirits of Haitian Vodou.  From the Aurora publication of the Agnes Scott Institute, 1897.

Here's a precursor to Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) from Polk's Indianapolis City Directory, 1890.

A skeleton key isn't complete without a skull. From The Stiles Family in America by Henry Reed Stiles, 1895.

There is a "time of awkward silences," as Suzanne Brockmann has noted in Tall, Dark and Dangerous.  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

From Hysteria and Certain Allied Conditions by George Junkin Preston, 1897.

From The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

You've heard that money makes the world go around, but it's actually bunny.  From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From The Prisoner of Chiloane, or, With the Portuguese in South-East Africa by Wallis Mackay, 1890.

From the Up-to-Date Primer by John Wilson Bengough, 1896.

Here's the spirit of "Running with Scissors" (maybe), from The Literary Digest, 1890.