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Then Xenophon returning from

Then Xenophon, returning from the right wing to the left, addressed the soldiers.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

the Xomlenzi range from

I. I had been for two days endeavouring to frame a workable quarantine scheme in respect of an outbreak of lung sickness amongst the natives' cattle in several of those deep valleys which cleave the Xomlenzi range from the Northern bank of the Tina River, and it was late in afternoon when I reached the kraal of my friend Numjala, Headman over a section of the Baca tribe of Kafirs.
— from Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

the xanthoproteic reaction for

Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin. Xan`tho*pro"te*in (?), n. [ Xantho- + protein .] (Physiol.
— from The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section X, Y, and Z by Project Gutenberg

till Xerxes return from

Now this is said not to have been destroyed till Xerxes' return from Greece in 479.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

the X reef for

She reported the ship Lord Auckland, from Hobart Town, with horses, having been aground on the X reef for several days; she subsequently got off, and had proceeded on her voyage, not having sustained any very material damage; she had lost four anchors, and the Coquette was going to try to pick them up.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

the X rays for

Third .—That at present the internal organs are not accessible to examination by the X rays for two reasons: First, because many of them are enclosed in more or less complete bony cases, which cut off the access of the rays; and, second, because even where not so enclosed, the thickness of the body, even though it consists only of soft parts, is such that the rays have not sufficient power of penetration to give us any information.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

TRIAL XIV REASONS FOR

TO TRIAL XIV. REASONS FOR PRESERVING THE LIFE OF LOUIS CAPET, XV. SHALL LOUIS XVI.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

the X rays for

Let us therefore recognise with J.J. Thomson and the many physicists who, in his wake, have taken up and developed the idea of Giese, that, under the influence of the X rays, for reasons which will have to be determined later, certain gaseous molecules have become divided into two portions, the one positively and the other negatively electrified, which we will call, by analogy with the kindred phenomenon in electrolysis, by the name of ions.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

T X rose from

T. X. rose from the table and walked to the door and opened it.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

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