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

They were to pick up Vincent in the town of X—— itself and run on to the Camp.
— from Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Battle of the Ourcq — x i. A Premature Engagement 113 ii.
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

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 PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

We may indeed talk of Xuthus, Ion, and Hellen: also of the Leleges, and Pelasgi, and thus amuse ourselves in the dark: but no real emolument can possibly arise, till the cloud, with which history has been so long obscured, be done away.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant