A ritual-murder trial was in progress in the town of Xanten, in the Rhineland.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

When Alcibiades said to him, “The abusive temper of Xanthippe is intolerable;” “But I,” he rejoined, “am used to it, just as I should be if I were always hearing the noise of a pulley; and you yourself endure to hear geese cackling.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And another which ends thus:— O Xenophon, if th’ ungrateful countrymen Of Cranon and Cecrops, banished you, Jealous of Cyrus’ favour which he show’d you, Still hospitable Corinth, with glad heart, Received you, and you lived there happily, And so resolved to stay in that fair city.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION XXXIV IN WHICH PHILEAS
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

When the elder Xicotencatl, Maxixcatzin, and the other caziques received this answer, they were so exasperated, that they immediately sent orders round to all the officers and the whole army not to obey Xicotencatl in anything which related to an attack upon us, and altogether to stay all hostilities against us.
— 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

GIRY'S REVELATIONS XVII THE SAFETY-PIN AGAIN XVIII THE COMMISSARY, THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN XIX THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN XX IN THE CELLARS OF THE OPERA XXI INTERESTING VICISSITUDES XXII IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER XXIII
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

It must be enough for the States that I promise them, in case the enemy is cheating or is trying to play any trick whatever, or is seeking to break the Treaty of Xanten in a single point, to come to their assistance in person."
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley

who?’—‘Farmer Tickle of X——, I say.’
— from The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A. by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

All the Island is very pleasant and more temperate than Hispaniola, very healthy, has safer Harbors for many Ships than if they had been made by Art, as is that of Santiago on the Southern Coast being in the shape of a Cross, that of Xagua is scarce to be matched in the World, the Ships pass into it through a narrow {349} Mouth, not above a Cross bow Shot over and then turned into the open Part of it, which is about ten Leagues in Compass with three little islands so posited, that they may make fast their Ships to Stakes on them, and they will never budge, all the Compass being shelter'd by Mountains, as if they were in a House, and there the Indians had Pens to shut up the Fish.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

“It’s the only Xingu in the Encyclopaedia; and she has been living in Brazil,” Miss Van Vluyck persisted.
— from Xingu by Edith Wharton

This is a statement more plausible than that of Xenophon, in this point of view, that it makes out the king to have acted upon a rational scheme; whereas in Xenophon he appears at first to have adopted a plan of defence, and then to have renounced it, after immense labor and cost, without any reason, so far as we can see.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

Better still, I caught you the other day in the act of reading a translation of Xenophon in your dug-out.
— from The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois

[I. e., apparently, 'to conceive this unity of the rule is to represent to myself the object x , i. e. the thing in itself, [49] of which I come to think by means of the rule of combination.']
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

All the specimens I am aware of, viz., the eight now in my collection, the type of " Xenicus insularis " in Buller's former collection, one in the late Canon Tristram's collection, one in the British Museum (ex Tring), and two or more offered some years ago by Mr. Travers, were brought in by the lighthouse-keeper's cat.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron