Danton against Louis XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

If we take the root of Pixy , Pix , and divide the double letter x into its component parts, we get Piks or Pics , and if we remember that a final s or z in Cornish almost always represents a t or d of Welsh and Breton (cf. tas for tad , nans for nant , bos for bod ), we may not unreasonably, though without absolute certainty, conjecture that Pixy is Picty in a Cornish form.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The favorite minister of the king at this time was Louvois, a very able but extremely prodigal man, who plunged Louis XIV. into innumerable expenses, and encouraged his taste both for palaces and war.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

The College (Place Louis XII.) is installed in the ancient Abbaye de Bourg-Moyen, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, with the exception of the fourteenth-century gable.
— from The Motor Routes of France To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone Valley by Gordon Home

In the fifteenth century the use of the national language in literature entirely died out, through the rise of the Humanists, and the craze for Greek and Latin classics; but toward the end of the fifteenth century, under Lorenzo de'Medici and Leo X, interest in their own literature among the Italians began to revive again.
— from The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis

Louis XI., it is true, was more distrustful than far-sighted, and, though he placed but little reliance in his advisers and servants, he had so much confidence in himself, his own sagacity, and his own ability, that he easily deluded himself about the perils of his position; but the facts which have just been set forth were too serious and too patent to have escaped his notice.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot

The Duchess of Burgundy, mother of Louis XV., it is known, never hesitated to administer to herself a relieving remedy, not to be pronounced by name in English society, in presence of Louis XIV. and his attendant courtiers; so that these violations of decorum, falsely imputed to our court, were of historical truth at Versailles.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 128, April 10, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

A close inspection will show the brackets drawn around the name of Horttinguer and the letter "X" inserted in margin on left.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

"Louis XVI. is in the state of Charles the First of England, and my sister will certainly be murdered."
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

But in Leviticus xxvii, it is entirely a question of ability, capacity, or worth.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

To arouse our country to a sense of its own lamentable {x} insecurity is the object of this volume, and that other nations besides ourselves are interested in England’s grave peril is proved by the fact that it has already been published in the German, French, Spanish, Danish, Russian, Italian, and even Japanese languages.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux