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enthusiastic x doctors
= enthusiastic; x = doctors;
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

et x donzelle
Lo capo alhora alhora riſpoſe lo re lo farebe ꝓ che varamẽte credeua in chriſto faceſſemo vna ꝓceſſione dela piaza fino aLa caſa de linfermo aL meglio poteſſemo oue Lo trouaſſemo que non poteua parlare ne mouerſe Lo baptizaſſemo cõ due ſue mogliere et x donzelle poi lo cap o li fece dire como ſtaua ſubito parlo et diſſe como ꝓ la grac a de nr̃o s or .
— 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

e xiii day
e xiii day of Ianuary the yer of o r lord m v e xxiii on whose soule Ihu haue mercy
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

eisdem xxv die
Liberatum eisdem xxv die Maij.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Ep xxii describes
St. Jerome, in a very famous and very beautiful passage of his letter to Eustochium ( Ep. xxii.) describes the manner in which the forms of dancing-girls appeared to surround him as he knelt upon the desert sands.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

example XX dist
[Footnote AB: as for example XX dist.
— from Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Arthur O. Norton

Even Xerophrastes did
Even Xerophrastes did not refrain from some ejaculations.—
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

e XXIII d
My dawter Fones came the VIII th & departed home y e XXIII d of Maye."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

early XVIIIth Dynasties
Over and along the side of the wall were many irregularly built mud dwellings for workmen, made of stray bricks of the XIth and early XVIIIth Dynasties; they no doubt were the rest-houses of the builders of the Queen Hatshepsût’s temple.
— from Five Years' Explorations at Thebes A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter

e xxv day
e xxv day of | Marche.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Early XVIIIth Dynasty
62 A, B) contained antiquities of the Early XVIIIth Dynasty to as late as the time of Princess Neferu-ra (Hatshepsût’s daughter) and Thothmes III (see Pl. LXXII .
— from Five Years' Explorations at Thebes A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter


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