I could tell that all these writers wanted to make me into a leader or a general or a supreme guerrilla commandant, and I figured one way of solving that would be to have a bunch of Xnetters running around answering questions too.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

They travelled eastward until they reached the neighbourhood of the Fish river, where at daylight one morning they were attacked unexpectedly and without provocation by a band of Xosa warriors who were fugitives from their own country and were living in friendship with the Hottentots.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

The fleet was commanded by a Persian, Prince Ariabignes, brother of Xerxes.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

In this battle perished the admiral, Ariabignes, son of Darius, and brother of Xerxes, and many other illustrious men of the Persians and Medes, and the other allies; but only a very few of the Greeks: for as they knew how to swim, they whose ships were destroyed, and who did not perish in actual conflict, swam safe to Salamis; whereas, many of the barbarians, not knowing how to swim, perished in the sea.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

167 Saône and Rhone, projected journey down and book on, xxiv.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

ccx074@pglaf.org A BALLADE OF XXXII BALLADES .
— from XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885] by Andrew Lang

VIVIEN’S SONG at the l.l.a. examination In Algebra, if Algebra be ours, x and x 2 can ne’er be equal powers, Unless x =1, or none at all.
— from The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man by R. F. (Robert Fuller) Murray

"Right" & "Left," refer to right & left of the spectator 1 FRANCO-FLEMISH, POSSIBLY ARRAS, BEGINNING OF XV OR END OF XIV CENTURY Wool, Silk, Gold.
— from Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries by San Francisco Museum of Art

+For all of them+ ( oi pantes ), all from whom I could in this case select, +are bent on+ ( xêtousi : cp.
— from Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

This and the feijão , the small black bean of Rio Grande do Sul, with now and then a bit of xarque , dried or salted beef, added to give it distinction, makes up the bulk of any native Brazilian repast in such rendezvous of starvation as the “Pensão Americana.”
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

After awhile bottle the results of your brew, place it in a remote corner of your cellar, and order in a barrel of XXX.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke