As regards the orthography of the names in the regimental lists, I am not responsible, as they are copied from the “official” xv Army List .
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

OAKLEY XI A LETTER OP INTRODUCTION XII "PEACEFUL MOMENTS" XIII BETTY MAKES
— from The Prince and Betty by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

as they quaffed the choicest vintage of Xeres, and laughed at jests ribald as any ever perpetrated in a pot-house.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

A farmer has quite as much business in the field, or about his ordinary occupations, with ragged garments, out at elbows, and a crownless hat, as he has to occupy xiv a leaky, wind-broken, and dilapidated house.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

Brasseur de Bourbourg on the antiquity of the Mound-Builders, 53 ; on their Mexican origin, 57 ; on their religion, 53 ; on the Chichimecs, 198 ; on Huehue Tlapalan, 201 ; [296] on Nahuatl chronology, 204 ; his “Atlantic theory,” 159 , 160 , 174-83 ; he has great knowledge of American traditions and antiquities, 174 ; discovered the works of Ximenes and Landa’s Maya alphabet, 191 , 192 ; translated “Popol-Vuh,” 192 ; he is unsystematic, confused, and fanciful, 102 , 160 .
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

The book was at once translated into English by, or xiii at least under the supervision of, the late Dr. W. P. Dickson, Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

The sun rose also over the plains of Xeres, and lighted up the picturesque form of Esteban Larralde, in the saddle this hour and more, having learnt that Colonel Monreal’s death took place an hour before Conyngham’s arrival in the town of Xeres de la Frontera.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

Another troop repeat, They should esteem it were a worthier notion To cast themselves into the neighbouring ocean; XXIV "And lighter ill, if they as harlots went About the world, — beggars or slaves to be, Than offer up themselves for punishment, Well merited by their iniquity.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

At nine o'clock we left the pleasant town of Xerez, and lodged the next night at Lebrija; and the next night at Utrera, where we saw the ruins of a brave town, nothing remaining extraordinary, but the fineness of the situation.
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe