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VII and XLIII
The shabby and unornamented huts, built on piles, look very picturesque in these surroundings (see Plates VII and XLIII ).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

vi and xiii
Part I., vi. and xiii.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Vonitza and Xeromeros
2108 This district probably occupied the present cantons of Vonitza and Xeromeros.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Victor Aurelius XIV
In some places the river is big enough to support a ferry-boat, in others to turn a mill; in Pumpernickel itself, the last Transparency but three, the great and renowned Victor Aurelius XIV built a magnificent bridge, on which his own statue rises, surrounded by water-nymphs and emblems of victory, peace, and plenty; he has his foot on the neck of a prostrate Turk—history says he engaged and ran a Janissary through the body at the relief of Vienna by Sobieski—but, quite undisturbed by the agonies of that prostrate Mahometan, who writhes at his feet in the most ghastly manner, the Prince smiles blandly and points with his truncheon in the direction of the Aurelius Platz, where he began to erect a new palace that would have been the wonder of his age had the great-souled Prince but had funds to complete it.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

viiith and xiiith
c. 1—10, 25—30,) which are published by Muratori in the viiith and xiiith volumes of the Historians of Italy.
— 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

v año XX
iv, v; año XX , cap.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Vermont Auk XXV
ALLEN, F. H. Summer Birds of Southern Vermont, Auk, XXV, pp. 56-64; 86 species. VIRGINIA 1890.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

Vergil and Xenophon
There was a sporting chance of finding in Merriman's second-hand bookshop—out of bounds during term-time—an English version of Vergil and Xenophon.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

Vendemiaire an X
19 Vendemiaire, an X. (21st October 1802.)
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Virgil Aen xi
Virgil, Aen. xi.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Virgil and Xenophon
All the hard parts in Virgil and Xenophon come to me now.
— from Luck and Pluck; or, John Oakley's Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

V and XI
Pillsbury : Essentials of Psychology , Chapters V and XI.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

vii Appendix xxxii
vii., Appendix xxxii.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins


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