We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

But from one century to the next, the status of illustrative images has changed. That they were placed in such nineteenth-century collections as the ones analysed here was not merely for peritextual, or perigraphic in the iconotext sense of the word, purposes.

Far away on the moon-ward horizon a luminous silver mist veiled the distant view.

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em; now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you’ld thrust a cork into a hogshead.