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XXXVIII Edna still
XXXVIII Edna still felt dazed when she got outside in the open air.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

XIX e siècle
Arago , l'un des plus grands savants du XIX e siècle (1786-1853).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

xxix enjoy some
How be it, I trust it shall not be long to; and seeing my darling is absent, I can do no less than to send her some flesh, representing my name, which is hart flesh for Henry, prognosticating that hereafter, God willing, you may [Pg xxix] enjoy some of mine, which He pleased, I would were now.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

Xn etc stands
X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name — Xristos .
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

X ENTER SIR
TUPPENCE ENTERS DOMESTIC SERVICE CHAPTER X. ENTER SIR JAMES PEEL EDGERTON CHAPTER XI.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

X Enjolras shrugged
I had one in 1830 when we had a dispute with Charles X.” Enjolras shrugged his shoulders.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

xiii expressly says
But Augustine (De Cura pro Mort. xiii) expressly says: "The dead, even the saints do not know what is done by the living or by their own children," as a gloss quotes on the text, "Abraham hath not known us" (Isa. 63:16).
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

xxiii every syllable
Our Lord breathed out a prayer for His murderers so fervent, and so full of pathos, that it will continue to soften and melt the flinty human heart, to the end of time; and He also poured out a denunciation of woes upon the Pharisees (Matt, xxiii.), every syllable of which is dense enough with the wrath of God, to sink the deserving objects of it "plumb down, ten thousand fathoms deep, to bottomless perdition in adamantine chains and penal fire."
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

XVI e siècle
Viollet-le-Duc, E. E. "Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du XI e au XVI e siècle," Art.
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews

XIII e Siècle
Paris : Merlin, Roman en Prose du XIII e Siècle , edited by Gaston Paris and Jacob Ulrich (Paris, 1886), 563.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

XIV e siècle
, “Les sources de l’histoire des arts dans la ville d’Avignon pendant le XIV e siècle,” in Bulletin Archéologique , 1887, p. 249; Verlaque, Jean XXII, sa vie, ses œuvres (Paris, 1883); Robert André-Michel, “Les fresques de la garde-robe au palais des papes à Avignon,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 1914-16, vol. 56, p. 293.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

x E Substituting
= x' + E Substituting this value of x in equation I. y²-3(x' + E)² + D²-2D(x'
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

XX e siècle
Les Meilleurs Fruits au début du XX e siècle.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick


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