One marvel I have, lady, and it is this: If now, in [xxvi] these last days, thou wilt help thy people, why didst thou not before?"
— from The Ruinous Face by Maurice Hewlett

What the Railways have Done XXVIII Railways a National Industry XXIX Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction XXX Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes XXXI
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

In some insects, however, as in the Strepsiptera Kirby, the lenses are not numerous: in Xenos they do not exceed fifty, and are distinctly visible to the naked eye
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

C. E. Norton, Inferno, xvi— “ The narrative of the poet's spiritual journey is so vivid and consistent that it has all the reality of an account of an actual experience; but within and beneath runs a stream of allegory not less consistent and hardly less continuous than the narrative itself. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

It is time, Abendaraez, that thou shouldst know the secret of thy birth; that thou art no son of mine, neither is Xarisa thy sister.’
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

We are not indeed [xxiv] told that this was of gold; probably a different material is to be supposed from the mention of gold as the material of these parts or appendages.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

Of nouns in x , there are few, if any, which ought not to form the plural regularly, when used as English words; though the Latins changed x to ces , and ex to ices , making the i sometimes long and sometimes short: as, apex, apices , for apexes; appendix, appendices , for appendixes; calix, calices , for calixes ; calx, calces , for calxes; calyx, calyces , for calyxes; caudex, caudices , for caudexes; cicatrix, cicatrices , for cicatrixes; helix, helices , for helixes; index, indices , for indexes; matrix, matrices , for matrixes; quincunx, quincunces , for quincunxes; radix, radices , for radixes; varix, varices , for varixes; vertex, vertices , for vertexes; vortex, vortices , for vortexes .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown