hina men gar to xanthon erythron genêtai kai to erythron xanthon, haplês kai mias deitai tês alloiôseôs; hina de to leukon melan kai to melan leukon, hapasôn tôn metaxy.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

398 And when one of these polyphonous pantomimic gentlemen offers to exhibit xliii himself and his poetry we will show him every observance of respect, but at the same time tell him that there is no room for his kind in our State; we prefer the rough, honest poet, and will not depart from our original models (ii. 379 foll.;
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” xxi , xxxiv ; account of his life, xxxiii-xliii ; his family, xxxiii ; born near Wearmouth, xxxiii , xxxiv , 386 ; his instructors, xxxiii , xxxiv , 222 , 257 n., 386 ; his ordination, xxxiii , 273 n., 386 ; his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiii , xxxiv , 137 n., 386 ; dates of his birth and death, xxxiv ; his autobiography, xxxiv , 386-389 ; his diligence, xxxiv ; his eyes dim in age, xxxiv ; his death, xix , xxxiv , xxxix-xliii , 391 ; his epitaph, xxxiv ; his learning, xxxiv , xxxv , xxxvi ; his style, xxxvi ; visits Lindisfarne, xxxvi ; visits York, xxxvi ; Egbert his pupil, xxxvi ; his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” xxxvi , 273 n., 342 n.; his influence, xxxvi ; his last illness, xxxvi , xxxix , xl , xlii , xliii ; his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, xxxvi , 4 n., 260 n., 285 n., 287 n., [pg 400] 288 n., 291 , 309 ; story of his visit to Rome, xxxvi ; story of his residence at Cambridge, xxxvi ; his writings, xxxvii , 311 n.; list of his literary works and compilations, 386-389 ; his studies, xxxvii , 386-389 ; his duties, xxxvii ; his character, xxxvii , xxxviii , xxxix ; his zeal for Catholic usages, xxxviii , xxxix ; his admiration for Aidan, xxxix ; dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, xlii , xliii ; buried at Jarrow, xl ; his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, xl ; translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, xl ; a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, xl ; his chronology corrected, 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 n., 20 n., 22 n., 23 n., 27 n., 28 n., 29 n., 42 n., 63 n., 68 n., 75 n., 94 n., 241 n., 254 n., 287 n., 314 n.; his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, 27 n., 99 n., 265 n.; his friendship for Acca, 161 n.; his “De Temporibus,” 170 ; his “De temporum Ratione,” 170 , 227 n.; his “History of the Abbots,” 213 n., 215 n., 257 n., 287 n.; uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, 227 n.; his “De Locis Santis,” 337 n., 338 n.; said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, 360 n.; his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” 364 n.; his “Ecclesiastical History,” see Ecclesiastical .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Every Xbox has been sold way below cost -- Microsoft makes most of its money charging games companies money for the right to put out Xbox games -- but the Universal was the first Xbox that Microsoft decided to give away entirely for free.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

In Microsoft's case, every Xbox has had countermeasures to keep you from running software that was released by people who didn't pay the Microsoft blood-money for the right to sell Xbox programs.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

cõ alt i tanti piati de legnio grandi daL parte de re in ogni piato erão x hoꝟo dudize ſcudelle de porcelana pienne de Carne de vitello de caponi galine pauonj et altry animali et de peſce cenaſſemo in tera ſoura vna ſtora de palma de trenta o trenta dui ſorte de viuande de carne eccepto Lo peſce et alt e coſe
— 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

“Pettier X his mark Connell, “Ellish X her mark Connell.”
— from Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Hætera , Lymanopoda , Calisto , Corades , Taygetis , Pronophila , Euptychia , and some allied forms (25 genera in all) are Neotropical, the last named extending north to Canada; Debis , Melanitis , Mycalesis and Ypthima , are mostly Oriental, but extending also into the Australian and the Ethiopian regions; Gnaphodes , Leptoneura , and a few other small genera, are exclusively Ethiopian; Xenica , Hypocista , and Heteronympha , are Australian; Erebia , Satyrus , Hipparchia , Cœnonympha , and allies, are mostly Palæarctic, but some species are Ethiopian, and others Nearctic; Chionabas , is characteristic of the whole Arctic regions, but is also found in Chili and the Western Himalayas.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

E XCEPTION has frequently been taken to the anthropological classifications of different authors, from the time of F. Bernier (1672) to our own days, in that they recognise in humanity an excessively variable number of races, from two (Virey in 1775) up to thirty-four (Haeckel in 1879).
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

D., his friend- ship for Dr. Burney, i. xvi; his opinion of "Evelina," xxvi; his last message to Fanny, xxix; assists her with "Cecilia," lii-lv; "Evelina" read to him, 71, 73; meets Fanny, 77; tails at Langton, 81; praises "Evelina," 83, 90, 103; abuses the Scotch, 84-5; criticises Mrs. Burney's dress, 86; his stories of Bet Flint and Mrs. Pinkethman, 87-8; his household, 95; his opinion of Mrs. Montagu, 97-9; his compliments and bitter sayings, 104-6; kisses Fanny, 109; disputes with Sir P. J. Clerke, 128-9; advises Fanny respecting her play, 130-2; his account of the Gordon riots, 192; offers to take Fanny to Grub Street, 199; is appointed Thrale's executor, 202; intercedes for Mauritius Lowe, 209; his "Life of Lord Lyttelton," 211-3; his sportive moods, 215; at Brighton, 238; on Gray and Pope, 240-1; his bluster at Lord de Ferrars, 243; is held in general dread, 247 attends Miss Monckton's assembly, 250-5; his inmates at Bolt Court, 258; is attacked by paralysis, 272; his failing health, 283; his death, 285-8; his letters to Mrs. Thrale, ii. 74; his intercourse with Windham, 103, 136-8; his life by Boswell, 377, 400; his monument at Lichfield, iii. 129; his portrait by Reynolds, 389; his view of sorrow, 445.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I believe that even Xantippe had her lucid intervals of amiability, during which she fondled her Socrates.
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

(13. E. X.) Hearne particularly notices the inscription on this volume: 'Iste liber est Sancti Jacobi et Sancti Mirini de Pasleto.'— Præfatio ad Fordun , p. lxvi."
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, March 20, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But it is time the Duke to France was gone; Who having thus provided, in his care, For the main places in the Moorish land, Made the hippogryph anew his wings expand; XXIV He reached Sardinia at one flight and shear, Corsica from Sardinia; and then o'er The foaming sea his venturous course did steer, Inclining somewhat left the griffin's soar.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

EPITAPHS XXV. 'HANSARD' XXVI.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell