“You Do the Talking,” She Breathed. “I Do the Loving.” (1899)

 Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Indian on the Trail ,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 99 (October 1899): 711.

I Go Dat Lenk for You Honoré—but Not for Any Other Man (1899)

Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Illustrated by W.R. Leigh, “The Mothers of Honoré,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 99 (June 1899): 136.

It Will Be Quite Safe, I See (1895)

Julia Magruder, Illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson, The Princess Sonia (New York: The Century Co, 1895), 31.

What’s Your First Name Dear? (1912)

Kate Jordan, “The Ragged Edge,” Illustrations by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, Everybody’s Magazine 27 (July 1912): 77.

I Want You to Help Me in Something (1870)

“The Light of Elstone Hearth,” Drawn by F.W. Lawson, The Quiver 5 (1870): 345.

The Drooping Boughs of an Apple Tree Formed a Leafy Screen (1906)

E. Crayton McCants,  “The Strategists,” Illustration by H.S. Potter, Everybody’s Magazine 14 (February 1906): 217.

She Was Calling Him a Noble, Great-Hearted Man When Two Piercing Lights Shot Full into Their Faces (1913)

Leavitt Ashley Knight, Illustrations by C.E. Chambers, “The Promised Land,” Everybody’s Magazine 28 (June 1913): 789.

I'll Lead the Mules up the Road a Piece for You (1908)

Alice MacGowan, Illustrations by George Wright, Judith of the Cumberlands (New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1908), 13.

He Was a Man on the Edge of Some Despair (1899)

H.B. Marriott Watson, “The Princess Xenia: A Romance,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 99 (November 1899): 890.

My Love Concerns Thee Not—and Yet I Will Not Ask Thee to Forget (1866)

F.E.C., “An Idyll of the Hayfield,” Illustration by Edward Hughes, Once a Week 1 (June 23, 1866): 687.

“Now,” Said I, “Is the Time for You to Exert All Your Strength.” “I Am Ready,” Said She. (1874)

James De Mille, Illustrations by C.G. Bush, The Lady and the Ice (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874), frontispiece.

At First, I Elected to do the Hunting and Fresh-Meat-Providing (1899)

“The Spell of the Bird: A Strange Tale of British Guiana,” Illustrations by Warwick Goble, The English Illustrated Magazine 22 (October 1899): 27.

They Sealed a Bond of Partnership That Was to Stand the Shocks and Strains of Their World for Eighteen Years and Gives yet No Sign of Breaking (1914)

Peter Clark Macfarlane, “Clown and Superclown,” Everybody’s Magazine 30 (March 1914): 406.

“This Time Tomorrow,” He Murmured, “Shall I Be Fondling the Tuning-Fork, as the Chief Instrument of My Success, or Shall I Be in Holloway Gaol, Charged with Obtaining Admission under False Pretences?” (1899)

Mary Romney, “The Mediation of a Piano: A Tuning Romance,” Illustrated by Fred Pegram, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 3 (December 1899): 473.

I Am Not for Sale, You Remember—Only “to Rent” (1892)

Jere Ode, “My Typewriter,” Belford’s Monthly 10 (December 1892): 172.

Oh, You’ve Been Playing Solitaire with the Books, Have You? (1916)

Willa Sibert Cather, “The Bookkeeper’s Wife,” Illustrations by Arthur William Brown, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 92 (May to October 1916): 57.

“Stay There,” She Said, “or I Will Move the Pieces.” (1899)

Beatrice Heron-Maxell, “Tragedy in Chess: The Story of a Prize Solution,” The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 3 (Aug 1899–Jan 1900): 127.

Only Her Heaving Shoulders and General Attitude Told Him of Her Distress (1905)

Amy Le Feuvre, “The Sea Between,” The Quiver, Annual Volume (1905): 61.

Love,” Jeered He. “What Does a Finished Coquette like Yourself Know about Love?” (1899)

Jenny Wren, “The Ways Fools Propose: How a Lady Journalist Got Copy,” Illustrated by Arthur Garratt, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 3 (Aug 1899–Jan 1900):403.

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And, Lo, if He Had Struck Her, and She Had Been Bound, Defenseless, She Could Not Deeper Have Entreated Him Than in the Glance She Fleeted from Her Eyes. It Stopped His Words. It Caught His Throat. (1921)

A.S.M. Hutchinson, “When Winter Comes,” Everybody’s Magazine 44 (February 1921): 35.

The Swan Was Seized by the Pike and Both Were Found Dead (1899)

R.B. Marston, “Big Pike Stories,” Illustrated by C. Whymper and A. Barraud, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 2 (February to July 1899): 223.

You Have Kept Me in a Dungeon for Four Years without Any Air or Light or Happiness or Hope (1914)

Lloyd Osbourne,  “Major Bronquard of the Army,” Illustrations by Aurthur William Brown, Everybody’s Magazine 30 (January to June 1914): 77.

Ah, I Have Made a Mistake, I See (1895)

Julia Magruder, “The Princess Sonia,” Illustrated by C.D. Gibson. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 50 (May 1895): 13.

This Led to a Quarrel: Which Led to a Parting (1900)

George Gamble, “This and That,” The English Illustrated Magazine 23 (April to September 1900):187.

Betty Blake Turned Round on Me and Said Cruel Words (1916)

Eden Phillpotts, “Farmer Sleep’s Savings,” Illustrations by W.P. Benda, The Century Illustrated 92 (October 1916): 927.

He Had Been Beaten by Mr. Meeker's Cane (1919)

Joseph Hergesheimer, “The Meeker Ritual,” Illustrations by John Newton Howitt, The Century 98 (June 1919): 157.

A Wench—Thou? What Gnat in the Brain is This? (1900)

Hamilton Drummond, “High and Low Justice,” The English Illustrated Magazine 23 (April to September 1900): 471.

He Would Have Had My Fist, but for Having Been at School with Me (1882)

“[Review of] Lorna Doone,” The Christmas Bookseller 1882, Being a Complete List of Illustrated and Other Books Suitable for School Prizes or Rewards with Numerous Specimens of Illustrations (1882): 55.