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of Xheev establishing again

"Xheev had promised that when the punishment was ended, he would send a sign, and his sign would be that a great silver shell should fall from the heavens, and within would be Xheev's own emissary, who must wed the ranking priestess of Xheev, establishing again the rapport between the kingdom of paradise and the world of Ahhreel."
— from Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable

of Xi eleven and

Yes, Mr. Malthus: he asserts that the value will not be always the same; and the purpose of the ninth column is to assign the true values; which, by looking into that column, you may perceive to be constantly varying: the value of Alpha, for instance, is twelve and five tenths; the value of Epsilon is twelve and seven tenths; of Iota, twelve; and of Xi, eleven and twenty-five one-hundredths.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

of Xenophon early acquired

Even the lawless habits of a captain of mercenary troops could not change the tendency which the character of Xenophon early acquired.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

of xx Europe all

The whole of the well-educated, scholarly, learned men of the sixteenth century, in England and on the continent of xx Europe, all entered into the same classical heritage.
— from Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives by Juan Luis Vives

of X elements are

But when it comes to the maturation of the sex-cells of this female, the pair of X -elements are separated in the usual way with the result that half of the mature ova contain a normal X and half a defective X (row four).
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

of X erxes away

is X antippe, who's having her say, His prurient plots pained W esley and W atts, And frightening the army of X erxes away.
— from An Alphabet of Celebrities by Oliver Herford

others Xerophrastes exchanged as

Of these, some deigned not to intimate by the smallest movement their perception that any one had approached; but with others Xerophrastes exchanged, as he walked, lofty salutation, and one or two even entered, for a moment, into conversation with him.
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

of xxx Englisshemen and

“The second Journey was in a wodde biside Compeigne: the Pucelles mayny ij c were discounfeited of xxx Englisshemen, and there were xij Armynaks prisoners.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

of Ximenes especially as

[877] Although no outbreak occurred during this forcible missionary work, the discontent which it excited was threatening, and Ferdinand returned to Granada where he made no secret of his displeasure at the imprudent zeal of Ximenes, especially as it interfered with his designs on Naples.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

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