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Lotus Appendice No xiv
See Burnouf, Lotus , Appendice, No. xiv.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Land Act No XIII
The Panjáb Alienation of Land Act, No. XIII of 1900, has supplied a remedy generally applicable, and the peasant grantees are now being allowed to acquire ownership on very easy terms.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

Lorentz Archives Neerlandaises xxi
REFERENCES.—Maxwell, Collected Papers H. A. Lorentz, Archives Neerlandaises, xxi. 1887, and xxv. 1892, and a tract, Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Korpern (Leyden, 1895); also recent articles ``Elektrodynamik'' and ``Elektronentheorie'' in the Encyk.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Lee Appendix no xxxii
Ta Tsing Leu Lee , Appendix, no. xxxii.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Loire a new XVIIth
Thus, in the course of October, under cover of the troops of General d'Aurelle de Paladines which had re-crossed the Loire, a new XVIIth Corps was made up at Blois, another, the XVIIIth, at Gien, and a third, under Admiral Jaurès, at Nogent le Rotrou.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

length as namely xvj
It is the opinion of some, that Alder-poales are most proper and fit for the Hoppe-garden, both that the Hoppe taketh, as they say, a certaine naturall loue to that woode, as also that the roughnesse of the rinde is a stay & benefit to the growth of the Hoppe: to all which I doe not disagrée, but that there should be found Alder-poales of that length, as namely, xvj.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

love and near Xaïloun
But he put Xaïloun in a safer place, that his friends might come and do right to him; and he buried the kardouon apart on a little slope facing the sun, such as lizards love, and near Xaïloun.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury


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