"Listen!  Can't you hear him crying now?  Can't you see the ghost?"  From Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh, 1898.

"Probable effect of the Greek knot if it continues to grow at the present alarming rate," from Grip, 1890.

From our unpublished guide on How to Write a Blank Book: here's a poor unhappy blank book with no hope of ever becoming great.  From Half-Hours With Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893.

From English Illustrated, 1890.

From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.

From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

It's actually true that cheeses can be hypnotized.  "No man, unless he be a mesmerist, can cope, unaided, with that fiery, untamed Gorgonzola."  From Pick Me Up, 1890. 

"He was caught beneath the cover of the book."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.

"Traversing the dark sea."  From Allegories by Frederic W. Farrar, 1898.

"He pretended to yawn."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.