Indeed, said Epistemon, I saw this way of syllabizing tried at Xaintes at a general procession, in the presence of that good, virtuous, learned and just president, Brian Vallee, Lord of Douhait.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

For example, you may have to use a domain address to send through Internet, and a different form when sending through an X.400 network.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

THRUSH, HEALTH STYLE TURDOS APONTOMENUS XXX .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The age of Pericles was rich in such characters; Pericles himself, Pheidias, Plato, above all Sophocles, Thucydides also, Xenophon and Socrates, each in his own order, the perfection of one remaining undiminished by that of the others.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Now the supposition that the two Propositions, “Some x are y ” and “No x are not- y ”, do not “assert”, necessarily involves the supposition that “All x are y ” does not “assert”, since it would be absurd to suppose that they assert, when combined, more than they do when taken separately.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

22 Timothy and Erastus are described as δύο τῶν διακονούντων αὐτῷ. Tychicus himself also was one of several who ministered to St Paul about that same time (Acts xx. 4).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Whether thou speak in the Senate or whether thou speak to any XXIX.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

the speech of Suillius, Tac. Ann. xiii. 42; Dion. Cass. lxi.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

213 —— -hot iron chain, passing persons possessed by evil spirits through a, xi. 186 Red Island, Torres Straits, seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 39 sq. —— Karens of Burma, their festival in April, ii. 69 sq. —— ochre round a woman's mouth, mark of menstruation, x. 77 —— oxen sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

281 Chonga, on the Niger, the king of, keeps himself concealed, iii. 121 Chopping-knife, soul of woman in childbirth transferred for safety to a, xi. 153 sq. Chorinchen, custom at threshing at, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

"For Thine all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter," says the author (xi. 17), establishing before Philo the compromise between two competing influences in his mind.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

Unhappily, however, what they said gave the enemy an advantage that he was not slow to avail {XLVII} himself of, and the unwisdom of some of the Saints is a factor that must be reckoned with in dealing with the causes of the persecutions of the Saints in Missouri.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Furthermore, if (1) a = b and (2) x = y , then since a + x is the same as a + x , we may, by substituting, say that a + x = a + x
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Stuart smouldered and chafed, seeing the incident pictured in bright colours: “A Little Mother,” and framed on the nursery wall, valued supplement to a Xmas number.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern