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ePub xi ILLUSTRATIONS The Spelling
The Call of the Illiterates 189 Page break for ePub [xi] ILLUSTRATIONS The Spelling Match Frontispiece FACING PAGE
— from Moonlight Schools for the Emancipation of Adult Illiterates by Cora Wilson Stewart

Experiment XII in the seed
Leeuwenhoek was sixty-one years old in 1713, had made microscopical observations for more than forty-five years, had published the discovery of spermatic animals for about thirty-six years, and then, for the first time, saw in the seminal liquor of a ram, what is seen in all seminal liquors, and what I have described in Experiment IX in the seed of a man; Experiment XII in the seed of a dog; and in Experiment XXIX in that of a bitch.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

element x in the spermatogonia
The most important points are: (1) The presence of the element x in the spermatogonia, closely associated with the nucleolus.
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens

EDITION x I THE SEXUAL
NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY 3617 10th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION v AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ix AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION x I. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS 1 II.
— from Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud

Either Xuarez intended to starve
Either Xuarez intended to starve him to death, or would visit him shortly with a meal.
— from The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Fergus Hume

e xviij is the side
For here the plaine of the sexangular base is 41.1/7; (For the ray, by the 9 e xviij , is the side:) and the heighth 5, shall be 205.5/7.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus


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