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see also xxxix
[26] But see also xxxix.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Sempoalla and Xocotlan
They were already informed of our having left that place, and concluded from the number of warriors we had with us out of Sempoalla and Xocotlan, tributary to Motecusuma, that we came with hostile intentions.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Sophron and Xenarchus
For there is no common term we could apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and the Socratic dialogues on the one hand; and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar metre.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Stream an X
PSS —- British Telecom's Packet Switch Stream, an X.25 packet data network.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

sophistical arguments xiv
Thus in a succession of characters Plato represents the successive stages of morality, beginning with the Athenian gentleman of the olden time, who is followed by the practical man of that day regulating his life by proverbs and saws; to him succeeds the wild generalization of the Sophists, and lastly come the young disciples of the great teacher, who know the sophistical arguments xiv but will not be convinced by them, and desire to go deeper into the nature of things.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

see Acts xii
For the reference to Herod see Acts xii. 21-23. return Footnote 39: Cf.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

such as Xenophon
But Timon ridicules him in these words:— [78] A silly couplet, or e’en triplet of speeches, Or longer series still, just such as Xenophon Might write, or Meagre Æschines.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

so admirably x
It is the aim of the present work to enable him to find suitable places where the principles so admirably [x] laid down by those authorities may be tested and applied, and to understand the descriptions—often involving difficult technical and local terms—which have been published of them.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

Seville and Xeres
The destroying army on arriving at the sea-coast found vessels lying off shore laden with all kinds of provisions and munitions sent from Seville and Xeres, and was thus enabled to continue its desolating career.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

See Appendix XXIV
[1432] See Appendix XXIV.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

See Appendixes XVI
[ 221 ] 1 See Appendixes XVI and XVII.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

See Appendix XXXVII
[242] See Appendix XXXVII .
— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

shrines Acts xix
as Demetrius and the craftsmen at Ephesus cried up aloud the greatness of Diana of the Ephesians, not out of any true zeal they had for her, but their gain, which was increased by the confluence of her worshippers, and the sale of her own shrines (Acts xix. 24, 28).
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

sanctam Apoc xxi
Senserat in Scripturis tum propheticis, tum apostolicis, ubique honorificam Ecclesiae fieri mentionem: vocari civitatem sanctam (Apoc. xxi. 10), fructiferam vineam (Ps. lxxix.9), montem excelsum (Isai. ii. 2), directam viam (Ibid.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint


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