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Neilou xuggennetor teknon
He further notes some curious uses of the genitive case, e.g. philias omologiai, maniai orges, laimargiai edones, cheimonon anupodesiai, anosioi plegon tolmai; and of the dative, omiliai echthrois, nomothesiai, anosioi plegon tolmai; and of the dative omiliai echthrois, nomothesiai epitropois; and also some rather uncommon periphrases, thremmata Neilou, xuggennetor teknon for alochos, Mouses lexis for poiesis, zographon paides, anthropon spermata and the like; the fondness for particles of limitation, especially tis and ge, sun tisi charisi, tois ge dunamenois and the like; the pleonastic use of tanun, of os, of os eros eipein, of ekastote; and the periphrastic use of the preposition peri.
— from Laws by Plato

No x Things
No x -Things are y -Things.” which we may write, as explained at p. 26 , thus:— “No x are m ; No y are m′ .
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

No x to
(No. x.) to his second part of a "Tour in Scotland in 1772," and a much more general account of the mines and ores of Great Britain in early times, in his "Tour in Wales of 1773," pp. 51-66.] 61 ( return ) [ Camden mentions pearls being found in the counties of Caernarvon and Cumberland, and in the British sea.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

No x Things
Henceforwards, in stating such Propositions as “Some x -Things exist” or “No x -Things are y -Things”, I shall omit the word “Things”, which the Reader can supply for himself, and shall write them as “Some x exist” or “No x are y ”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

notochord x thickening
epiblast; ch. notochord; x. thickening of hypoblast (possibly a rudiment of the subnotochordal rod); al. throat; ht.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

n Xenophanes the
Wellhausen, 238 , 269 , 457 n. Xenophanes, the Eleatic, contemporary of "Second Isaiah," 125 .
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

NO XIV The
NO. XIV. The first of the above engravings represents one of the Body Guards of the Sheikh of Bornou , copied from an engraving after a sketch made by Major Denham, in his recent "Travels in Africa."
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 by Various

NIGHT XIX THE
XV THE HEAVY FATHER XVI TRANSFER OF MIMI XVII ROMANCE XVIII A HOMELESS NIGHT XIX THE RECEPTION XX THE SILENT TOWER XXI EVE'S MARTYRDOM XXII MR.
— from Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Arnold Bennett by Arnold Bennett

Ningbo Xiamen Tanggu
Communications #_Railroads: total about 54,000 km common carrier lines; 53,400 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; 600 km 1.000-meter gauge; all single track except 11,200 km double track on standard-gauge lines; 6,500 km electrified; 10,000 km industrial lines (gauges range from 0.762 to 1.067 meters) _#_Highways: about 980,000 km all types roads; 162,000 km paved roads, 617,200 km gravel/improved earth roads, 200,800 km unimproved natural earth roads and tracks _#_Inland waterways: 138,600 km; about 109,800 km navigable _#_Pipelines: crude, 6,500 km; refined products, 1,100 km; natural gas, 6,200 km _#_Ports: Dalian, Guangzhou, Huangpu, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Xingang, Zhanjiang, Ningbo, Xiamen, Tanggu, Shantou _#_Merchant marine: 1,421 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 14,010,317 GRT/21,223,170 DWT; includes 24 passenger, 42 short-sea passenger, 19 passenger-cargo, 7 cargo/training, 776 cargo, 11 refrigerated cargo, 70 container, 17 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 multifunction barge carrier, 181 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 9 chemical tanker, 250 bulk, 2 liquefied gas, 2 vehicle carrier, 9 combination bulk; note—China beneficially owns an additional 183 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling approximately 5,921,000 DWT that operate under Maltese and Liberian registry _#_Airports: 330 total, 330 usable; 260 with permanent-surface runways; fewer than 10 with runways over 3,500 m; 90 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 200 with runways 1,220-2,439 m _#_Telecommunications: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; 11,000,000 telephones (December 1989); stations—274 AM, unknown FM, 202 (2,050 relays) TV; more than 215 million radio receivers; 75 million TVs; satellite earth stations—4 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 INMARSAT, and 55 domestic _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

not x then
The more abstractly these are described, the more they come to resemble simple algebraic expressions, replete with "if, then" statements and instructions that resolve to "if x, then y, if not x, then z." 50 If this sounds reminiscent of the discussion of the Turing machine, it should.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

Not XX Then
"No; My Lord, I Do Not" XX. "Then He Will Come Again" XXI.
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

not xcept the
“Leastways, not 'xcept the good dear man as is gone, Angus hissel', made a will for her; and, as I say to my Joey, there's no knowin' as ever he did; and nowther is there.”
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir


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