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For I xxix except
For (I. xxix.), except in this sense, nothing is contingent.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

for in xxii eight
The rapidity with which these trees grow in the tropics is astonishing, for in {xxii} eight or ten years, the time required to reach its maximum growth, they attain the size of the largest denizens of the forest.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

FURTHER IDLENESS XIV END
IDLENESS XI NEURASTHENIA CURED XII THE PRACTICE OF IDLENESS XIII FURTHER IDLENESS XIV END OF AN IDLE DAY
— from Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Arnold Bennett by Arnold Bennett

Formiano inter XIII et
in Formiano inter XIII et X K. Ian.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

FIDELIS IN XPO EIVS
SAPIENS ET PVLCHRA , “A sweet spirit, guileless, wise, beautiful;” AMATRIX PAVPERORVM ( sic ) ET OPERARIA , “A lover of the poor, and attentive to her work;” FIDELIS IN XPO EIVS
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

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