They themselves look down upon a man who has to make an "X" mark in place of signing his name—but they overlook entirely that to those more highly educated, they are themselves in degree quite as ignorant.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

After this achievement the barbarians came to a crest facing the mamelon, and Xenophon held a colloquy with them by means of an interpreter, to negotiate a truce, and demanded back the dead bodies.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Then Medosades, addressing Xenophon, said: "You are doing wrong to pillage our villages; we give you fair warning—I, in behalf of Seuthes, and this man by my side, who comes from Medocus, the king up country—to begone out of the land.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

[498] At that time there reigned as the seventh kings,—among the Assyrians, that more ancient Xerxes, who was also called Balæus; and among the Sicyons, [Pg 221] Thuriachus, or, as some write his name, Thurimachus.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

STUDY ATTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL ANGELO XIII.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Four several dispositions or inclinations there be of the mind and XVIII.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Article XXIV: Of the Mass. Article XXV: Of Confession.
— from The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Philipp Melanchthon

The rivers now flowed out of, and not into the Mississippi, and Xavier called them bayous, and often it took much skill and foresight on his part not to be shot into the lane they made in the dark forest of an evening.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

This was by far the most dangerous place on the Mississippi, and Xavier was never weary of recounting many perilous escapes there, or telling how such and such a priceless cargo had sunk in the mud by reason of the lack of skill of particular boatmen he knew of.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

"In three monethes and xx dayes they sailed foure thousande leagues in one goulfe by the sayde sea called Pacificum....
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

Erasmus, i, 248; x, 117; xiv, 40 ; an authority on books and printing, x, 175; the Bishop of Cambray and, x, 161; Froben, the publisher, and, x, 173; Melanchthon and, x, 172; Sir Thomas More and, x, 170; Lord Mountjoy and, x, 169; Luther compared with, x, 152; Diderot on, x, 152; Albrecht Durer on, x, 157; In Praise of Folly , x, 177; intellectual pivot of the Renaissance, x, 150; on preaching, x, 150; quoted, vi, 46; reference to, i, 124; v, 123; travels of, x, 161.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

The Lab Coat Man reached for his pen in order to mark an 'X' on his clipboard, stopped, and sighed.
— from Any Coincidence Is Or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a Fate Worse Than Death by Daniel Callahan

It is evident that the Cyropædia is ignorant of many facts about Cyrus, and must have taken conscious liberties with many more, but nobody—who, on the one hand, is aware of what Cyrus effected upon the world, and who, on the other, can appreciate that it was possible for a foreigner (who, nevertheless, had travelled through most of the scenes of Cyrus' career) to form this rich conception of him more than a century after his death—can doubt that the Persian's character (due allowance being made for hero-worship) must have been in the main as Xenophon describes it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith