M. DE BASSOMPIERRE XXV.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Elk , myth concerning 467 Elvas, Gentleman of , on De Soto’s expedition 24 – 27 , 191 – 201 Emory , ——, study of ruins discovered by xiv Emukfaw creek , battle of 92 Enchanted mesa , exploration of xiii–xix Energy , discussion of lxiv England , Cherokee visit to 36 England , enlistment of Tecumtha in service of 88 England , see also British .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

LONDON, June 28, 1848 CONTENTS I Chiswick Mall II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy IV The Green Silk Purse V Dobbin of Ours VI Vauxhall VII Crawley of Queen's Crawley VIII Private and Confidential IX Family Portraits X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends XI Arcadian Simplicity XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter XIII Sentimental and Otherwise XIV Miss Crawley at Home XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time XVI The Letter on the Pincushion XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible XXV In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton XXVI Between London and Chatham XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment XXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries XXIX Brussels XXX
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

See Saxo-Grammaticus, Hist. of Denmark, book xiv.]—tied together like dogs; and a wife ought not to be so greedily enamoured of her husband’s foreparts, that she cannot endure to see him turn his back, if occasion be.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For, upon reading the account delivered by Xenophon, how Cyrus in his last illness gave instructions respecting his funeral, Caesar deprecated a lingering death, and wished that his own might be sudden and speedy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

NORMAN VILLAGES AND THE “DOMESDAY BOOK” XI.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Doria, Branca, xxxiii.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

How is it distant?' BOOK X. HEANG TANG.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

Bertrand de Born, xxviii.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Dialogue Between X, Y and Z. An appeal to enlist in the provincial army for the defense of Pennsylvania.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Le Diable Boiteux, XVI.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 by Various

A DEATH BLOW XX.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

But the detection by Xenophanes of the anthropomorphic tendency in religion could not account for the instinct which made Greeks, like other peoples, as Aristotle noticed, figure their gods not only in human shape, but in the guise of the lower animals.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Ainsworth conjectures it to be the spot described by Xenophon as “a kind of palace with several villages round it,” which was reached by the Greeks in five days’ march from Mespila-Nineveh, but it must be admitted that Xenophon’s description is not exactly suited to Zâkhô.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Ancient abbey, VIIth century First bishop appointed, 1317 Richelieu bishop here, 1616-1624 Main fabric of cathedral dates from XIIth to XVIIth centuries Fabric restored, 1853 Cloister of episcopal palace, XVth century ST. JEAN DE LYON Bridge across Saône, Xth century Earliest portions of cathedral, 1180 Concile générale of the Church held at Lyons, 1245 and 1274 Portail, XVth century Glass of choir, XIIIth and XIVth centuries Great bourdon, 1662 Weight of great bourdon, 10,000 kilos Chapelle des Bourbons, XVth century Astronomical clock, XVIth and XVIIth centuries STE.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

It is remarkable for its severe character, but was certainly not out of the ordinary, for a bit of precisely similar character is described by Xenophon in his treatise on horsemanship (early fourth century B.C. ).
— from A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

" The Temple of Jupiter Belus with its tower was partially destroyed by Xerxes b.c. 490; upon which, says Kalisch, "the fraudulent priests appropriated to themselves the lands and enormous revenues attached to it, and seem, from this reason, to have been averse to its restoration."
— from Bible Romances, First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote

royale de Belgique, xlix.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

“Trieste, the day before Xmas 1868 “I promised to report if I was alive, and I do so, though, without any captiousness or Gladstonianism, the matter of my vitality might be well open to contention.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

July General Post Office, St. Martin’s le Grand Slightly damaged Builder, xxxii.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.