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incessantly Now XXVIII
Wipe off all idle fancies, and say unto thyself incessantly; Now XXVIII.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

In November xiii
In November, [xiii] 1873, they went back again to Bengal, and the four remaining years of Toru's life were spent in the old garden-house at Calcutta, in a feverish dream of intellectual effort and imaginative production.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

In Numbers xxiv
In Numbers xxiv.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

in No xl
Turun-lah Raja Kapor, etc. (as in No. xl.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

is not X
All M is X; All Z is M; All Z is X. Will any one say that perhaps , we don't know but it might have been so made, as to appear to us that the conclusion was Some Z is not X?
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

in Northumbria xxv
“Hateful Year, The,” in Northumbria, xxv , 135 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

in Nature xx
[259] Consul E. L. Layard gives in Nature (xx., p. 339) a precisely similar case of a cat habitually and without tuition ringing a bell by pulling at an exposed wire.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

in Numbers xxi
He refers to the historical incident, if our critical friends will leave us any Biblical history, in Numbers xxi. 8, 9.
— from The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism by S. E. (Samuel Ellis) Wishard

is not x
x it must therefore be considered indestructible Matter, as we have seen, is not x .
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan

in Norse x
370 Tivor , god or victim, in Norse, x. 103
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Inscription No x
The Inscription , No. x .
— from Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

in Need XXI
A Friend in Need XXI.
— from The Palace of Darkened Windows by Mary Hastings Bradley

in Nature xxxix
The following letter refers to the theory of physiological selection which had recently been propounded by Romanes, and which Prof. Meldola had criticised in Nature , xxxix.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace


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