Pray hear me out, Xenia——" "You cannot call me by that name.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida
Zan mitzyananquili omitzyananquili xochincalaitec y in aquiauhatzin in tlacateuhtli ayapancatl yahuayia.
— from Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
288 The Bradys’ Wall Street Trail; or, The Matter of X. Y. Z. 289 The Bradys and the Bandit’s Gold; or, Secret Work in the Southwest.
— from How to Stuff Birds and Animals A valuable book giving instruction in collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving birds, animals, and insects by Aaron A. Warford
& if the clothe be longer in measure than xxiiii yardes & the ynches than the byer therof shall paye to the seller for for as moche as doth excede such measure of xxiiii yardes, after the rate of the measure above ordeyned.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead
"Tenian por costumbre estos Indios, de sepultar los Difuntos en los Campos, à corta distancia del Pueblo, y poner sobre las Sepulturas de los Varones Banquitos, Puquietes, y otras cosas del uso varonil; y sobre las de las Mugeres, Piedras de moler, Ollas, Xicaras, y otros trastos à esto modo."— Villagutierre , op.
— from The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras by Thomas William Francis Gann
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