"Your sister is a nut," I said as we lay on Ange's bed again, looking at Xnet blogs.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

May the devil be damned, I have it now: their fathers devoured the good gentlemen who, according to their state of life, used to go much a-hunting and hawking, to be the better inured to toil in time of war; for hunting is an image of a martial life, and Xenophon was much in the right of it when he affirmed that hunting had yielded a great number of excellent warriors, as well as the Trojan horse.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The multitude expressed their approbation by loud cheers, and were for engaging the enemy without delay, convinced that no harm could happen to them as long as Xanthippus was their leader.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He uses similar language also (xxx. 18, p. 142) in describing the Ebionites, whom he places in much the same localities (naming Moab also), and whose Essene features are unmistakeable: οὔτε γὰρ δέχονται τὴν πεντάτευχον Μωϋσέως ὅλην ἀλλά τινα ῥήματα ἀποβάλλουσιν.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Then hath a man attained to the estate of perfection in his life and XLI.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

St. Paul, addressing the Jews, used the same language: Acts xxi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

155 Famous for the victory won near it by Leotychides and Xanthippus over the Persians, B.C. 479.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

II (2) , and Plates XXIV , and XXXVI , to the left, also XXXVII ) are used; finally, for deep sea sailing, the biggest type is needed, with a considerable carrying capacity, greater displacement, and stronger construction.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

As, in this trap a ravenous pike was tane, Who, though himselfe distrest, would faine have slain 260 This wretch; So hardly are ill habits left again. XXVII.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

For on this side and on that the gods went forth to war: to the company of the ships went Hera, and Pallas Athene, and Poseidon, Earth-enfolder, and the Helper Hermes, pro-eminent in subtle thoughts; and with these went Hephaistos in the greatness of his strength, halting, but his shrunk legs moved nimbly under him: but to the Trojans went Ares of the glancing helm, and with him Phoebus of the unshorn hair, and archer Artemis, and Leto and Xanthos and laughter-loving Aphrodite.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Cudworth, in Col. Abijah Peirce's Regiment." Lexington Alarms, XII, 8.
— from The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts by Frank Warren Coburn

She ordered Dunois, who ran to her, together with Lahire and Xaintrailles, to send one of their orderlies into Orleans on the spot, in order to ascertain the cause of the fatal inaction of the other chiefs, and to enjoin them to commence the attack from the side of the town within an hour, or else to order the barges with combustibles to be set on fire and pushed against the Tournelles.
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue

Santi (Urbino, 1822); Schmarzow , Giovanni Santi der Vater Raffaels , in Kunstchronik (Leipsig), An. XXIII., No. 27; Schmarzow , Giovanni Santi in Vierteljahrsschrift für Kultur und Lett. der Renaissance (Leipsig), vol.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun

Metrik , ii. 146; and Luick, Anglia , xii.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

; Villemain , Lit. au XVIII e Siècle , vol. i. p. 14; Brougham's Men of Letters , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Lexington Alarms, XIII, 171.
— from The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts by Frank Warren Coburn

Mr. Benjamin Sulte's interesting and learned articles on "Le pays des grands lacs au XVIIe Siecle" in that excellent magazine, "Le Canada Francais," have been most valuable in this connection.
— from The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot by James H. (James Henry) Coyne