Who by her wicked arts, and wylie skill, Too false and strong for earthly skill or might, Unwares me wrought unto her wicked will, And to my foe betrayd, when least I feared ill. XXXIII Then stepped forth the goodly royall Mayd, 290
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

In order, however, that the daughter of the first marriage might not stand in his way, she was conveyed secretly during night-time to an Indian family in Xicalango, they spreading the rumour she had died, which gained further belief from the circumstance that a daughter of one of her female slaves happened to die at the time.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

"WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN IT?" X. "THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE HAPPENED" XI.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Life's Morning A Life's Morning by George Gissing CONTENTS I AN UNDERGRADUATE AT LEISURE II BEATRICE REDWING III LYRICAL IV A CONFLICT OF OPINIONS V THE SHADOW OF HOME VI A VISITOR BY EXPRESS VII ON THE LEVELS VIII A STERNER WOOING IX CIRCUMSTANCE X AT THE SWORD'S POINT XI EMILY'S DECISION XII THE FINAL INTERVIEW XIII THE CUTTING OF THE KNOT XIV NEWS AND COMMENTS XV MRS.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

In For It! XXII The Importunate Mr. Gibbon XXIII
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

Haeckel’s distinctive services in regard to man’s evolution have been: (1) The construction of a complete ancestral tree, though, of course, some of the stages in it are purely conjectural, and not final; (2) The tracing of the remarkable reproduction of ancestral forms in [ xi ] the embryonic development of the individual.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

A LASSO XII THE BUCKING BRONCO XIII MISSING CATTLE XIV LOOKING FOR INDIANS XV TROUBLE "HELPS" XVI
— from The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch; Or, Little Folks on Ponyback by Howard Roger Garis

Friends in need are friends indeed." XIV THE BRAVE LITTLE
— from More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt

e fortifications, though I have without any help from INTRODUCTION {xlv} them built a new Barrack for the Garrison in the Fort, and have made upwards of twenty new carriages for guns of this country timber, and shall continue to do all I can towards the Fortifications as soon as the heat of the summer is over, that I can put the garrison to work again, without endangering their healths.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

And therefore Herodotus telling of an Eclipse which fell in Xerxes time, describes it thus: Herodot.
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

The second is niguat , the third is saguat , [194] the fourth is xiguat , the eleventh is ximotçuqi , and the twelfth and last is xi vasu .
— from Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Diego Collado

One Dicæus, an Athenian exile high in the Persian service, asserted that one day, when he was in the Thriasian plain, which stretched from Eleusis northward, in company with Demaratus, the banished king of Sparta, who followed in Xerxes’ train, and was much consulted by the monarch throughout this war, they saw a cloud of dust, such as might be raised by the trampling of 30,000 men, advance from Eleusis.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin