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New England town XXIV
In a New England town! XXIV.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

NC EX The X
This message is now divided [142] into groups of two letters, in the same order, so that it reads: DE ST RO YB RI DG EA TO NC EX (The X is added to complete the group and is called a null .)
— from Fighting Germany's Spies by French Strother

not exactly the Xantippe
She is not exactly the Xantippe whom Boccaccio describes, but she is very boring, for all that: GEMMA.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

NEW ENGLISH TRIUMPHS XXXV
A NEW BOOK AND NEW ENGLISH TRIUMPHS XXXV.
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

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