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Homeric Epigrammata xiii
ii. 4, 3. 117 Homeric Epigrammata, xiii.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

hygron ek xêrou
ta proeirêmena kata tên poiotêta kineisthai lechthêsetai kai ou monon ge ta kata tên chroan ê ton chymon exallattomena kineisthai phamen, alla kai to thermoteron ek psychroterou genomenon ê psychroteron ek thermoterou kineisthai kai touto legomen, hôsper ge kai ei ti xêron ex Pg 6 Greek text hygrou ê hygron ek xêrou gignoito.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Horace Epod xvi
And that durare is applied to the idea of hardness, as well as that of existence, we see in Horace, Epod. xvi.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

have endeavoured xliii
I have endeavoured xliii to show above that he has not treated the theoretical line of reasoning quite fairly, and that he has underestimated its force; but its value as an argument is not increased by showing that another entirely different process of thought leads to the same result.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

H EBREWS xiii
The S E R M O N. H EBREWS xiii.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

having elected Xenophantus
Meanwhile the Rhodians manned six ships and received four from their allies; and, having elected Xenophantus to command them, they sailed with this squadron of ten ships to the Hellespont.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

HTML et XTML
Une manière de dérivé du langage HTML (et XTML) principal langage d'internet (et des Waps et autres UMTS pour l'autre, le x).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

herbs etc XVIII
(Trees, herbs, etc.) XVIII.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

his Eugene X
his Eugene X Steward mark Witness Jacob S. McGinley Few, however, of the imported negro strike-breakers showed the splendid spirit of this unlettered boy.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

him Enxemplo XLV
In him ( Enxemplo XLV. ) is the germ of the Taming of the Shrew (though it is scarcely credible that Shakespeare lifted it direct), and from him Calderón takes not merely the title— Count Lucanor —of a play, but the famous apologue in the first act of Life is a Dream , an adaptation to the stage of one of Juan Manuel's best instances ( Enxemplo XXXI. ).
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

HE E XECUTIONER
N EW Y ORK L ABOR N EWS C OMPANY 28 CITY HALL PLACE :: NEW YORK T HE E XECUTIONER'S K NIFE : : : :
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue

health etc XIX
The two prefixes in our examples, un- and be- , are differentiated forms of the old negative ne and the preposition by , and the only affix in our two long words which is thus left unexplained is -th , which makes true into truth and is found also in length , health , etc. XIX.—§ 9.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Hor Epod XV
ingenii dotes corporis adde bonis'; see also Hor Epod XV 22 'forma ... uincas Nirea', Hor Carm III xx 15 (where Nireus is paired with Ganymede) and Prop III xviii 27 'Nirea non facies, non uis exemit Achillem'; from Greek epigram Professor C. P. Jones cites Peek Griech.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

Horace Epod xii
[“In whose unbridled reins the vigour is more inherent than in the young tree on the hills.”—Horace, Epod., xii.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne


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