687 And Xerxes inflicted stripes and blows on the sea, and sent letters to Mount Athos, "Divine Athos, whose top reaches heaven, put not in the way of my works stones large and difficult to deal with, or else I will hew thee down, and throw thee into the sea."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Aetius (XII. iii) says that the root of the birthwort (aristolochia) may be used in the same way.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

H2 anchor XI I suppose there would have been even more remarks upon the growing intimacy of the Young Astronomer and his pupil, if the curiosity of the boarders had not in the mean time been so much excited at the apparently close relation which had sprung up between the Register of Deeds and the Lady.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Compare {nerves} IX and XII in Sheet 9 .
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

P. Champion, Guillaume de Flavy, capitaine de Compiègne, contribution à l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc et à l'étude de la vie militaire et privée au XV ième siècle , Paris, 1906, in 8vo, passim .
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Article X. It shall be free for each of the two contracting parties to appoint consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and territories of the other party; but before any consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the government to which he is sent,
— from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt by Parish, Woodbine, Sir

For which cause alone, Xerxes is said to have ordered the temples of the Athenians to be burnt; considering it to be wicked to shut the gods up within walls, whose residence was the whole universe.
— from The republic of Cicero Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

De La Fons-Mélicocq, Documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de l'instruction publique en France et à l'histoire des mœurs au XV ieme siècle , in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie , vol. iii, pp.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Another thing—the next station, P6, I think is keeping himself all x. If so, when you corrected for E2, which was wrong, it'd throw you all off on P6, which was right, and so on—a bad hump at almost every check-station.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

[21] The references for all these changes are given in Lewin's Fasti , and in his Life of St. Paul , with which Josephus, Antiqq. , XVIII., iv., should be compared.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

an. XII) is scandalized at the eaves-dropping which is common in Rome.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein