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must appear xvi congruous
A rational world must appear {xvi} congruous with our powers, 82 .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Ms Apiciana XII CHAMAE
CERFEUILLE Cereto de Tridino, printer, see Tacuinus CERVUS, stag, venison, ℞ 339-45 Cesena, a town in Italy where there is an Apicius Ms.; Apiciana XII CHAMAE, cockles Chamois, ℞ 346 seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Meyer An X cap
[ Voyage en Italie , par F. J. L. Meyer, An X. cap.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Middle Ages XIVth Century
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

many a XIV century
Graceful and stately as is many a XIV-century church, never in them do we find the unexpected entrancing touches of Apogee Gothic.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Mollienesia and Xiphophorus Cyprinodontidæ
There are also a considerable number of peculiar genera;— Petenia , Theraps , and Neotrophus (Chromides); Ælurichthys (Siluridæ); Chalcinopsis (Characniidæ); Characodon , Belonesox , Pseudoxiphophorus , Platypœcilus , Mollienesia , and Xiphophorus (Cyprinodontidæ).
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

myself a Xerox copy
That's a copy I made myself, a Xerox copy [indicating].
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Mardonios and Xerxes cut
For when Leonidas was slain at Thermopylai, Mardonios and Xerxes cut off his head and crucified him: to him therefore do thou repay like with like, and thou shalt have praise first from all the Spartans and then secondly from the other Hellenes also; for if thou impale the body of Mardonios, thou wilt then have taken vengeance for Leonidas thy father's brother.".
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

M ANN XXVIII C
We read also of Felicissima, QVAE VIXIT ANNVS LX · QVAE FECIT CVM VIRO SVO ANNVS XLV —“Who lived sixty years, who passed with her husband forty-five years;” and of Januaria, L · F · QVAE VIXIT PL · M · ANN · XXVIII · C · MARITV · FEC ANN XV · M · XI · D · X —“A praiseworthy woman, who lived twenty-eight years, more or less; she passed with her husband fifteen years, eleven months, ten days.”
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow


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