The Kestrel, On Board Which the Reader Will in Imagination Transport Himself, Was a Very Handsomely-Built Craft (1863)

¶ The day was delicious, and the sun had not yet commenced to parch the town and citizens, and we had a pleasant little breeze. ¶ Before us was the vast Pacific, where sky and water kiss each other; and the little white-sailed bark lies in the centre of the motionless expanse, with canvas flapping from the long yards, and pitch streaming down her black hull, while the tropical sun beams fiercely over head, and the shark follows day after day, and the flying fish darts up into the still air, and the dolphin swims round and round, and the stately albatross rises on the long rolling swell: or perchance the scene changes, and a long low hull, from which arise two tall spars destitute of canvas is madly hurled along, and the waters burst over her side and run through the scupper holes to leeward; and the terrified mariners, lashed to the shrouds. gaze around while the storm-fiend exults in black waves and the sombre sky.

 “The Perilous Adventures of Stephen Houston, M.D., as Related by Himself,” The Boy’s Yearly Book, Being the Twelve Numbers of the Boy’s Penny Magazine (January – December 1863): 267.

“Well, Well, Boys!” Thomas Brackett, Immaculate in Dinner Clothes, Stood Regarding Them from the Doorway. Tommy’s Manner Was Always Elderly and Superior When He Found Them Rough-Housing. He Invariably Fled from a Rough-House, Especially on a Hot Night, as He Would from the Breath of Scandal. (1914)

James Shelley Hamilton and Frank Leon Smith, “Once Over,” Illustration by Fanny Munsell, Everybody’s Magazine 31 (October 1914): 483.

His Dress Is Just Sufficiently Suggestive of His “Dandy” Inclinations and Serves to Remind Us of the Appropriateness of His Sobriquet, “Beauty Steele,” in Spite of the Fact That He Was Not Handsome in Feature (1907)

“The Modern Hero in Illustration,” Image caption “Arthur I. Keller’s Charlie Steele of The Right of Way,” The Bookman 25 (July 1907): 505.

If I Am Not Strong Enough to Leave This Place in a Few Days, I Shall Never Leave It at All (1866)

Matilda Betham Edwards, “Blanche,” Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information 1 (March 17, 1866): 291.

Been Dancin’ at All? (1892)

“The Dancing Man of the Period.”  Illustration by George Du Maurier, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 86 (December 1892): 154. 

“Why Should We Watch Out for Frenchies?” Demanded Stanley, in Another Effort to Assert His Manhood (1912)

Talbot Mundy, “The Pillar of Light,” Illustration by Charles B. Falls, Everybody’s Magazine 27 (December 1912): 755.

The Distinctive Difference (1911)

“The House of Kuppenheimer” advertisement, Popular Mechanics Magazine 16 (September 1911): 147.

Rather a Gorgeous Bluff, Eh, Skipper? (1898)

Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Adventures of Captain Kettle: No. VII The Pearl Poachers,” Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood, Pearson’s Magazine 5 (January 1898): 47.

He Began to Caper and Dance Round the Room, and Took out the Pawn and Kissed It (1895)

Edwin Hughes, “The White Pawn,” The English Illustrated Magazine 13 (June 1895): 234.

Fred [Seated] Was Consumed with Envy. In Comparison with This Ingenious Narrative How Prosaic and Commonplace Became His Own Plans to Rid Himself of Accusing Garments and Explain His Nakedness (1912)

Richard Harding Davis, “The Naked Man,” Illustration by Wallace Morgan, Everybody’s Magazine 27 (September 1912): 307.

The Lieutenant Thought It One of the Pleasantest Botanical Expeditions He Had Ever Attended and Considered That the Captain Was Finding Fault without a Cause (1873)

Alton Clyde, “Better Than Gold,” Illustration by John Lawson, The Quiver 8 (1873): 617.

He Made an Astonishing Proposal to Eustace (1905)

C. Edwardes, “The Man from Head Office,” The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 497.

Catching the Fast-Drowning Man by the Arms, He Drew Him from the Water and Dragged Him to a Place of Safety (1883)

“The Lost Letter,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February 1883): 40.

“You Are a Good Chap to Bring Me Such a Letter,” He Said (1897)

Robert Hichens and Frederick Hamilton, “A Tribute of Souls,” Illustration by Sydney Cowell, Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine 13 (September 1897): 47.

Bloyn Watches Him—Watches Him Sympathetically (1900)

George Gambell, “The Dream of His Life,” The English Illustrated Magazine 23 (May 1900): 117.

Here We Knelt among the Broken Fragments of Ice and Bathed Our Faces and Hands (1898)

Walter A. Wickoff, “The Workers—The West,” Illustration by W.R. Leigh. Scribner’s 23 (April 1898): 431.