Though the subject is one which would naturally lend itself to a comparative treatment, and though [ xi ] the comparison of Malay folklore with that of other nations (more particularly of India, Arabia, and the mainland of Indo-China) would no doubt lead to very interesting results, the scope of the work has as far as possible been restricted to the folklore of the Malays of the Peninsula.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I was rockin' out to some new music I'd downloaded from the Xnet the night before -- lots of people sent M1k3y little digital gifts to say thank you for giving them hope.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

And now that I thought of it, I was damned proud that they were using the Xnet to do it.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Cf. Juvenal , x. i. 509 Curtius (vii. 23) gives an account of the massacre by Alexander of the descendants of the Branchidae, who had surrendered to Xerxes the treasures of the temple of Apollo near Miletus, and who, to escape the vengeance of the Greeks, had accompanied Xerxes into the interior.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Upon this one of the company said to Xantus, that certainly this varlet was very necessary to him, for he was more calculated than any one else to exercise the patience of a philosopher.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

c. 63, 64, 80, in Muratori, tom. xiii.,) the imprisonment of Boniface VIII., and the election of Clement V., the last of which, like most anecdotes, is embarrassed with some difficulties.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

All that time, they'd been questioning him, demanding that he rat me out, explain the Xnet, the jammers.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk.... XI The long and the short of it is, gentlemen, that it is better to do nothing!
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Memorandum that in the yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraign Lord King Edward the iiij th , the Thurtein in the xviij tin day of ffeverir, it was concluded in a Chapitre of the office of Armes that where a nobleman is descended lenyalle Ineritable to iij. or iiij.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

200 In sailing up it in vessels which ply as tenders, to the distance of 10 stadia, we come to the Letoum, and proceeding 60 stadia beyond the temple, we find the city of the Xanthians, the largest in Lycia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Mr Deane for want of the quarter sermons and for not geving the xl tie part of his lyving of the parsonage of Pickering to the poore people of the said parishe Agnes Poskett wif of William Poskett of Pickering for a scold."
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

In the skulls of Liophis meremii and Liophis cobella , [409] of which Dr. Wucherer says, ‘Dentition similar to Xenodon,’ the former had teeth gradually increasing a trifle posteriorly, but nothing like fangs.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

From Sardis in each direction his orders sped: to Clearchus, to join him there with the whole of his army; to Aristippus, to come to terms with those at home, and to despatch to him the troops in his employ; to Xenias the Arcadian, who was acting as general-in-chief of the foreign troops in the cities, to present himself with all the men available, excepting only those who were actually needed to garrison the citadels.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

With regard to X then all the members of our population must belong to one or other of three classes.
— from Mimicry in Butterflies by Reginald Crundall Punnett

than the x th century,)—yet will persons engaged in the public Services of God's House have been prone, from the very earliest age, to insert memoranda of the kind referred to, into the margin of their copies.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

An Ethiopian king, of the XXIV th dynasty, who conquered Egypt at the close of the XXII d dynasty, when it was divided into thirteen petty kingdoms.
— from The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks by Charles E. Moldenke

TOAD AND PRICKLY PORKY PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER X. THE RUNAWAY CABBAGE XI.
— from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Will he consecrate his life exclusively to love, to Ximena, to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the luxuries which his wealth can procure for him?
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba