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brokenly live on XXXIII

The bars survive the captive they enthral; The day drags through though storms keep out the sun; And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on: XXXIII.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

become lord of X

May Enshagme become lord of X. 51.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

but lij onz xvijs

wherof ij communyon cuppis were made by the said Calton (purchaser of a previous lot) waynge but lij onz.... xvijs viii.d" (2) The omission of prices, and (3) the disappearance of articles quoted as "myssinge at the praysement of the vestry stuff," or (4) "myssinge and not delyveryd to the now Churche wardens neither sold or accompted for to thuse of the Churche."
— from Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by George Worley

breathing less oxygene xviii

—— from breathing less oxygene, xviii. 20 . —— from being whirled on a millstone, xviii. 20 . —— from application of cold, xviii. 20 . —— induced by regular hours, xxxvi.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

Baldwin Looks On XXVI

XXI Pershore Castle XXII A Summer Afternoon XXIII Approaches XXIV Almost XXV Miss Baldwin Looks On XXVI Before Christmas XXVII Two Young Men XXVIII And the Third XXIX The New Chapter XXX
— from The Hall and the Grange: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

by Lloyd Osbourne xxv

; sudden death and burial, xxv. 8 , 10 n. 1, 375 ; account of, by Lloyd Osbourne, xxv. 457 et seq.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Lloyd Osbourne xxii

342 Squatting, The Act of, ii. 221 Starry Drive, A, ii. 250 Stevenson at Play: Introduction by Lloyd Osbourne, xxii. 259; War Correspondence from Stevenson’s Note-book, xxii.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

black lotus of Xuthal

He decided that she must be an addict of some drug, perhaps like the black lotus of Xuthal.
— from The Devil in Iron by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

Both Lysias Orat xii

[423] Both Lysias (Orat. xii, cont. Eratosth.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

blessed little optimist XIV

Now, don't you laugh!—The father kissed The little serious mouth and said "You've almost made me cry instead, You blessed little optimist." XIV September 21st, 1916.
— from Carry On: Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson

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