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xlv etc Note
Life of CALIGULA, cc. xliv., xlv., etc.] Note 475 ( return ) [ A.U.C. 794.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

xvi etc Note
Note 692 ( return ) [ Cassius Severus is mentioned before, in AUGUSTUS, c. lvi.; CALIGULA, c. xvi., etc.] Note 693 ( return ) [ A.U.C. 785.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

x exist No
[For example, “Some x exist”, “No y′ exist”, &c.]
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

x exist No
pg029 Similarly we may represent the three similar Propositions “No xexist”, “No y exist”, and “No y′ exist”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

x exist No
Some x exist No x exist Some x′ exist No x′ exist Some y exist
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

XXXVI Edmund now
XXXVI Edmund now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that Fanny could tell, or could leave to be conjectured of her sentiments, and he was satisfied.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

XIX EARLY NEW
THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION (1643-1654) 297 XIX. EARLY NEW ENGLAND LIFE 318 XX. CRITICAL ESSAY
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

xliv ex no
Nat., Mamm., pls. 7, 8 (1824); Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xliv., ex. no., p. 2 (1875).
— from A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) by Henry O. (Henry Ogg) Forbes

XIII ERE Nessus
CANTO XIII ERE Nessus yet had reach'd the other bank, We enter'd on a forest, where no track Of steps had worn a way.
— from The vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. by Dante Alighieri

x Egge Norse
x Egge = Norse words in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

X Early next
p. 233 CHAPTER X. Early next day the effects of our audience began to manifest themselves.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

xix_394 E noveltyis
[xix_394] E noveltyis .
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

X Either narrow
Y is like a little V upon a little I. X Either narrow or wide (fig. 159 ).
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

XXI EXPERIMENT Newton
[299] CHAPTER XXI EXPERIMENT Newton, Watt, Ericsson, Rowland, as boys were constructive . . .
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

XIV Early next
CHAPTER XIV Early next morning, the morning watch of sailors, whose custom was to fetch the day’s supply of water for the galley and cabin, discovered that the barrels were empty.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London


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