It cramped and crippled the baggage animals; and there was great unreadiness to get up, so gently fell the snow as they lay there warm and comfortable, and formed a blanket, except where it slipped off the sleepers' shoulders; and it was not until Xenophon roused himself to get up, and, without his cloak on (1), began to split wood, that quickly first one and then another got up, and taking the log away from him, fell to splitting.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The following posthumous note of Voltaire's was first added to M. Beuchot's edition of his works issued in 1829; "See the extreme discretion of the author; there has not been up to the present any Pope named Urban X.; he feared to give a bastard to a known Pope.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Or again, by ambiguity of meaning,—as {pi alpha rho omega chi eta kappa epsilon nu / delta epsilon / pi lambda epsilon omega / nu upsilon xi}, where the word {pi lambda epsilon omega} is ambiguous.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Ts'ai's not T'sai's XIV " 206 " 1: exclaimed not exclained XV " 218 " 21: each not eaeh XVI " 226 " 34: pupil not purpil XVII " 249 " 35: intertwine not interwine XVII " 252 " 29: isn't not is'nt XVII " 255 " 15: and not aud XVII " 260 " 35: unexpectedly not unexpectly XVIII " 280 " 20: roll not rollster XX " 315 " 12: three)."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The Gentiles feigned to themselves near upon XIIM.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

, XIV c 100; Meyntenynge , n. upholding, XI b 170.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

nay, II 131, III 26, XVI 335, &c.; as sb., in withoutten nay , undeniably, XVII 2 ( cf. No).
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

337 Sgealoir, the burying-ground of, in North Uist, x. 294 Sgreball , three pence, tax paid to the king of Munster for each fire in Ireland, x. 139 Shades of dead animals, fear of offending, iii. 205, 206, 207 Shadow, the soul identified with the, iii. 77 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

(3) Do not use Xmas and Xtns for Christmas and Christians.
— from The Magazine Style-Code by Leigh H. (Leigh Hadley) Irvine

On the other hand, when the Normans, under [xiii] William the Conqueror, invaded England in the eleventh century, a different effect was produced.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

The bodies obtained in the above experiments were named uranium X and thorium X , respectively.
— from A Brief Account of Radio-activity by F. P. (Francis Preston) Venable

(118v) 'if one forgives one who repents, how much more will God,' core fodo xei vo iruru saie coto naricanuru ni; ucato xite va, incadeca banji canavǒzo?
— from Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Diego Collado

There can, therefore, be no naval supremacy for a nation unless [xxiv] its commerce is assured of immunity from considerable losses through the attack of its enemy.
— from The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von

Then they took my companions and cut off their heads, and when it came to my turn, the king’s son saw me and ordered that I should be left alive, and I was taken to the other boys, because none under XX years of age were killed, and I was scarcely sixteen years old.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger