Jan Went Through the Ice into the Black Water (1918)

Howard R. Garis,  The Curlytops Snowed In or Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds, Illustration by Julia Greene (New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1918), 108.

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

Lad Galloped Back to the Ravine Lip and Stood There, Sniffing the Icy Air and Growling Deep in His Throat (1921)

Albert Payson Terhhune, “The Tracker: Lad Helps a Foe,” Illustration by Frank Stick, The Ladies’ Home Journal 38 (December 1921): 30.

Our Lives Were in the Hand of God. On the 8th We Tasted the Dogs’ Flesh for the First Time (1901)

“The Voyage of the Polar Star: ‘Nearest the Pole.’ Commander Cagni’s Own Account of His Hazardous Journey,” The Pall Mall Magazine 24 ( May to August 1901): 413.

A Man Frozen to the Cross-Tree of a Chicago Vessel (1872)

The Illustrated Police News 11 (January 4, 1872): 4.

Often They Tried to Tell Him the Importance of the Smoke-Wreath in the Rear, but He Could Not Comprehend and Grew Suspicious of Them (1904)

Jack London, “The One Thousand Dozen,” The Windsor Magazine 20 (June –November 1904): 181.

A Small Black, Energetic Figure Came out from among the Firs and Ran Forward Where the Longest Shadow Pointed (1919)

Katherine Newlin Burt, “The Branding Iron,” Illustrated by Charles Sarka, Everybody’s Magazine 40 (March 1919): 50.

The Savage Fairies Set Their Dragon on the King, and It Devoured Him before My Very Eyes (1892)

The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy, Newly Done Into English With an Introduction by Ann Thackery Ritchie, Illustrated by Clinton Peters (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1868), 373.

And There Was a War in Heaven (1886)

Adolphe Napoléon Didron, translated from the French by E.J. Millington, completed with additions and appendices by Margaret Stokes, “St. Michael and the Dragon,” Christian Iconography;or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. Vol II. The Trinity: Angels: Devils: Death: The Soul: The Christian Scheme: Appendices (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886), 185.

All Dread to Anger the Dragon (1880)

Mrs. E.W. Latimer. “St. George and the Dragon.” St. Nicholas 7 (April 1880): 496.

Cato, with a Loud Bark and a Growl, Seized the Throat of the Gipsy Who Was Stripping Harry (1858)

I Won’t and I Will (London: William Tegg and Company, 1858), 24.

The Engines Now Stood up to Their Throttles in Snow (1896)

R. Pitcher Woodward, Trains That Met in a Blizzard: A Composite Romance, Being a Chronicle of an Extraordinary Adventure of a Party of Twelve Men and One Woman in the Great American Blizzard March 12, 1888, Illustration by J. Carter Beard (New York: Salmagundi Publishing Company, 1896), frontispiece.

The Child Was Lost, and through the Night Strong Hearts Went Forth (1883)

“Lost,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February 1883): 216.

A Moonlight Frolic (1895)

“A Moonlight Frolic,” Illustration by David Ericson, St. Nicholas 22 (March 1895): 431.

Several Huge and Hideous Heads Made Themselves Visible (1875)

Tom Hood, From Nowhere to the North Pole:  A Noah’s Ark-Aeological Narrative, Illustrations by W. Brunton and E.C. Barnes (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), 220.

Dr. Kane’s Men Hauling Their Boat over Rough Ice (1912)

A.W. Greely, True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912), frontispiece.

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.

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.

Clem Had Manufactured a Hideous Pumpkin Face (1883)

D.P. Sanford, From May to Christmas at Thorne Hill (London: Griffith and Farren, 1883), 173.

Straight at the Man He Launched His One Hundred and Forty Pounds of Fury (1915)

Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Illustration by Philip R. Goodwin (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915), 20.