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D Asciano xxix
Caccia DAsciano, xxix.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

do and XXXII
As long as the foot doth that which belongeth unto it to do, and XXXII.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Deux Amis xii
( Deux Amis, xii.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Deux Amis xi
( Deux Amis, xi.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Domenica a x
470 Domenica a x de nouembr̃ Queſto re volſe intendere quanto tempo era Se eramo partiti deſpagnia et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Deux Amis xi
( Deux Amis, xi. 147; xiii. 160-92, &c. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

degli Abati xxv
—— degli Abati, xxv.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Darius and Xerxes
The ancient hosts of Darius and Xerxes labor under the same doubt of a vague and indefinite magnitude; but I am inclined to believe, that a larger number has never been contained within the lines of a single camp, than at the siege of Nice, the first operation of the Latin princes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Degli Alberti xxxii
Napoleone Degli Alberti, xxxii.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Done Away xxxv
The Healer and Joy-Giver The Curse Done Away xxxv.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

Domestic Anne xxxvi
[Footnote: State Papers Domestic , Anne, xxxvi: No. 24: Petition of the Mayor, Jurats and Commonalty of the Free Town and Borough of Deal.]
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

Difficult as xxxi
Difficult as xxxi was the expedition he was undertaking, the awful reality of the morrow never crossed my mind even as a possibility.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

Defli at xxiv
349, 350 Campagne Defli, at, xxiv.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

DIEGO AGAIN XIX
AGAIN—BEATING THE COAST XVIII EASTER SUNDAY—"SAIL HO!"—WHALES—SAN JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN XIX THE SANDWICH ISLANDERS—HIDE-CURING—WOOD-CUTTING—RATTLE-SNAKES—NEW-COMERS XX LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—"BURNING THE WATER" XXI CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS XXII LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT XXIII NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

de Aiounones xxiii
42 , 45 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 Iowa reserve, 74 Iowa River, i. e., “Riviere de Aiounones,” xxiii , note .
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

de animalibus xviii
Secreta fratris Alberti ordinis fratrum predicatorum (i) de herbis xvi (ii) de lapidibus (iii) de animalibus (xviii).
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

delightful about Xenophon
There is something rather delightful about Xenophon's ingenuousness when he tells us quite seriously that “a horse that has no longer the marks in his teeth, neither rejoices the buyer with hope, nor is easy to be exchanged”!
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer


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