Duci volunt, non cogi : though she be as arrant a scold as Xanthippe, as cruel as Medea, as clamorous as Hecuba, as lustful as Messalina, by such means (if at all) she may be reformed.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

PERSONALITY AS A SUCCESS ASSET XVII.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A number of various fields and armatures of small models of high frequency apparatus as shown at X and Y , and others not visible in the picture, were exhibited.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

[179] For further particulars of Eta in Japan and America, see Appendix XLIX .
— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

Meantime, snowballs had rained upon his body and head from all directions, increasing his fury; and as soon as Xaver no longer struggled he started up, exclaiming with glowing cheeks and upraised fists: “Wait, wait, you wicked fellows!
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

and of footfolke mo thanne xxxv m l ; and of Englysshmen there were dede a knyght and a squyere and xij footfolke.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

Here were treacherously seized Clearchus, Proxenus, Menon, Agias, and Socrates; and Xenophon, elected to the command of the Greek auxiliaries, commenced the ever-memorable retreat of the Ten Thousand.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

42 Shan custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51; modes of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277. See also Shans Shanga, city in East Africa, story of an African Samson at, xi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

153 n. 1; need-fire kindled as a safeguard against, x. 284 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Some cities paid their taxes with fire-wood, stone, and beams for building; others with copal-gum; others sent to the royal houses and forests a certain number of birds and animals, such as Xilotepec, Michmaloyan, and other cities of the Otomís, which were each compelled to furnish yearly forty live eagles to the king.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft