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neither Xenophon nor
" After him Agasias got up, and said, "I swear to you, sirs, by the gods and goddesses, verily and indeed, neither Xenophon nor any one else among you bade me rescue the man.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Note xx No
[ Lettre à d'Alembert, Note xx.] No one who sees at all below the surface can have failed to remark the same thing.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

not x No
Similarly, with this Diagram, the following are true:—“All x are not- y ”, “All y are not- x ”, “No x are y ”, “Some x are not- y ”, “Some y are not- x ”, “Some not-
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

not X now
If there are to be purely psychological causal laws, taking no account of the brain and the rest of the body, they will have to be of the form, not "X now causes Y now," but— "A, B, C,... in the past, together with X now, cause Y now."
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Nana XVII now
But "Nana" (XVII) now confronts the reader.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

n xa n
The latter having reported, Two Crows himself, being one of the captains, went with Sĭnde-xa n ´xa n , to make a final examination.
— from Omaha sociology (1884 N 03 / 1881-1882 (pages 205-370)) by James Owen Dorsey

n xxix n
Schotel, Anna Maria van Schurman , xiii n., xxix n. Schurman, Anna Maria van, Schotel's book on, xiii n., xxix n.; relations with Labadie, xxii , xxviii , xxx ; reference to, xxix n.; mentioned, 265 ; biographical information concerning, 265 n. Schutters, or Shooter's, Island, 75 , 75 n., 92 , 173 .
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

Nycht X Nyht
Nyght , Niȝt , Nyȝt ; Nycht ( X ); Nyht ( XII ); n. night, I 29, II 370, VII 127, X 197, XII a 68, &c.; be nyȝt , nyhte (dat.), at night, XII a 117, 131, XV i 15; on nyght , at night, XV h 22; see next.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

new x not
At present, then, we must understand x to mean "new", x' "not-new", y "nice", and y' "not-nice.
— from The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll

n xa n
The chief of the gens is Sĭnde-xa n xa n .
— from Omaha sociology (1884 N 03 / 1881-1882 (pages 205-370)) by James Owen Dorsey

no xôcocu ni
no xôcocu ni saie caióna coto gozaru fodo ni
— from Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Diego Collado

Note XIII not
Should read 'Note XIII', not 'Note XII', changed.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden


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