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enemies until Xanthippus
And, besides this, Stesimbrotus tells us that Xanthippus put about that scandal about his father and his own wife, so that the father and son remained irreconcilable enemies until Xanthippus's death, which happened during the plague, by an attack of that disorder.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Eternally unknown XVIII
Whether by day abducted, Or emptied by the sun Into the sea, in passing, Eternally unknown. XVIII.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

encymatismis utimur xviii
locum phlebotomo sollicite dividimus omnibus praedictis post encymatismis utimur (xviii. 10, p. 83, ed. Rose).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

entry under XXXIV
Page 218, third entry under 'XXXIV.—Page 155.': Sack, to plunder and destroy[original has distroy].
— from A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

et Umbra xvi
273 Pulvis et Umbra, xvi.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

enfin un x
Après celà vient un mathématicien qui vous bourre avec des a+b et vous rapporte enfin un x+y, dont vous n’avex pas besoin et qui ne change nullement vos relations avec la vie.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

effect until Xmas
[170] :— The new Imperial stamps referred to in past numbers of the Era were issued this morning, and although the new Imperial rate does not come into effect until Xmas-day, and they bear that inscription, they are receivable for ordinary postage now.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

englischen Unterricht XIII
(Important.) Reviews: ‡Jantzen, Z. f. französischen u. englischen Unterricht , XIII , 546-7; Berendsohn, Literaturblatt , XXXV , 152-4; Dyboski, Allgemeines Literaturblatt , XXII , 1913, 497-9; Imelmann, D.L.Z. XXXIV , 1913, 1062-6 (weighty criticisms); Barnouw, Museum , XXI , 53-8.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

EYES UNBANDAGED XXXV
LOVE'S EYES UNBANDAGED XXXV.
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

EFUNCTÆ U XORIS
P RO M ATRIMONIO P RINCIPIS CUM D EFUNCTÆ U XORIS S ORORE C ONTRACTO R ESPONSUM J URIS , C OLLEGH J URISCONSULTORUM IN
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

epilogue upon x
435 xcvi U. Union of the two companies, epilogue upon, x, 398 United States, irruption of the Bishop of Munster into, ix, 165 Unities, three, what, xv, 305 servility of the French in attention to, xv, 346 Unity of time, what, xv, 305 place, what, ib. 306 action, what, ib. 307 of time, neglected by Terence, xv, 315 and action, scrupulously observed by the French authors, xv, 325 University, Dryden’s residence at, i, 31 of Oxford’s decree concerning non-resistance, x, 241 of Oxford, prologues to, x, 328, 358, 378, 385 epilogues to, ib. 360, 381 Usurpation of Cromwell, Shaftesbury’s situation during, ix, 445 Urania’s Temple, or a Satire upon the Silent Poets, xviii, 224 V. Varronian satire, what, xiii, 61 Vaughan, Lord, account of, vi, 6 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 6 Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased, xi, 190 Verbal translation impossible, xii, 12 opinion of Sir John Denham on, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden


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