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Speusippus and Xenocrates and

And he was the master of the sect of the Socratic philosophers, and of Plato, who was the founder of the old Academy; and Plato’s pupils were Speusippus and Xenocrates; and Polemo was the pupil of Xenocrates, and Crantor and Crates of Polemo.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

sent at Xmas a

yes and the second pair of silkette stockings is laddered after one days wear I could have brought them back to Lewers this morning and kicked up a row and made that one change them only not to upset myself and run the risk of walking into him and ruining the whole thing and one of those kidfitting corsets Id want advertised cheap in the Gentlewoman with elastic gores on the hips he saved the one I have but thats no good what did they say they give a delightful figure line 11/6 obviating that unsightly broad appearance across the lower back to reduce flesh my belly is a bit too big Ill have to knock off the stout at dinner or am I getting too fond of it the last they sent from ORourkes was as flat as a pancake he makes his money easy Larry they call him the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt get anyone to drink God spare his spit for fear hed die of the drouth or I must do a few breathing exercises I wonder is that antifat
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

see a Xanthus and

shall I nowhere see a Xanthus and a Simoïs, the rivers of Hector?
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Sophron and Xenarchus and

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

spectrum analysis XVII As

[1] Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899), chemist and physicist; inventor of Bunsen's burner and magnesium light; and originator (with Kirchhov) of spectrum analysis. XVII As we know, time either flies like a bird or crawls like a snail.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

scold as Xanthippe as

Duci volunt, non cogi : though she be as arrant a scold as Xanthippe, as cruel as Medea, as clamorous as Hecuba, as lustful as Messalina, by such means (if at all) she may be reformed.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sokrates and Xenophon are

Sokrates and Xenophon are among the most imposing witnesses cited by Quintus Cicero, in his long pleading to show the reality of divination (Cicero, De Divinatione, i. 25, 52, i. 54, 122).
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

stationed at X and

They had confided to me the following details: the frontier was a dozen kilometres away as the crow flies; news of a prisoner who had escaped would be transmitted all over the neighbourhood by one hundred and fifty telegrams and three battalions of Landsturm stationed at X——; and in another town a search-party would be organised, with police dogs to help.
— from Captivity and Escape by Jean Martin

second A XIII a

they, III 58; Hy(e) , II 91, XIII a 17, b 9, 11; Hii , VIII a 15; also He , II 185, III 57 (second); A , XIII a 13, &c. ( see A). Acc. and dat.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

Sesostris and Xerxes and

[36] And Herodotus assures us that Negroes were found in the armies of Sesostris and Xerxes; and, at the present time, they are no inconsiderable part of the standing army of Egypt.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

single a x and

A little consideration will show that amongst the English measures, x a and x x a naturally form single, a x and x a x double, and a x x treble rhymes.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

son Alfonso XI afforded

The turbulence which attended his minority and short reign and the minority of his son, Alfonso XI, afforded a favorable opportunity for the manifestation of hostility and the royal power was too weak to prevent the curtailment in various directions of the Jewish privileges.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

see Appendix XIII Additional

[86] For further illustrations, see Appendix XIII —“Additional Data—Miscellaneous Places.”
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

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