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written Ignace Nicolet XVI
[In the margin is written: "Ignace Nicolet."] XVI.
— from History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Consul Willshire Butterfield

While in Nevada XII
181-193 Private W. Faulkner, a Comrade in the Black Watch, Tells of Poe's Death—Johnny's Last Words—Paul MacWhelan Gives London Impressions of Poe's Death—Anecdotes that Johnny Poe Wrote While in Nevada. XII.—ARMY AND NAVY.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

what is natural X
The incontinence of passion is more curable than that of weakness; what proceeds from habit more than what is natural (X.).
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

W is not X
But either W is not X or Y is not Z, Hence either A is not B or C is not
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

worshipped in Norway x
38 Balder, the Norse god, and his lame foal, iii. 305 n. 1; his body burnt, x. 102; worshipped in Norway, x. 104; camomile sacred to, xi. 63; burnt at Midsummer, xi. 87; Midsummer sacred to, xi. 87; a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, xi. 88 sq. ; his invulnerability, xi. 94; why Balder was thought to shine, xi. 293; perhaps a real man deified, xi. 314 sq. —— and the mistletoe, x. 101 sq. , xi. 76 sqq. , 302; interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, xi. 93 sq. ; his life or death in the mistletoe, xi. 279, 283 ——, the myth of, x. 101 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

which is not xxx
Then, with that sound sense, which is not [xxx] the least element in the sum of his attractiveness, he utters a subtle warning against that all too common sin, judging one another: "If thou wilt ask how good is he or she, ask how much he or she loves: and that no man can tell.
— from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Rolle, Richard, of Hampole

which includes numerous xanthellæ
No pigment in the voluminous calymma, which includes numerous xanthellæ.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

W is not X
But either W is not X or Y is not Z, Hence A is not B.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair


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