H2 anchor CHAPTER XIV Fanny seemed nearer being right than Edmund had supposed.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

XXX Faire seemely pleasaunce ° each to other makes, With goodly purposes ° there as they sit: And in his falsed fancy he her takes 265 To be the fairest wight that lived yit; Which to expresse he bends his gentle wit, And thinking of those braunches greene to frame A girlond for her dainty forehead fit, He pluckt a bough; ° out of whose rift there came 270 Small drops of gory bloud, that trickled down the same.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

he mentioned the warning sent to Xerxes from Salamis to retreat, as well as his finding the bridges unbroken, which, as he falsely pretended, was due to him—"for the present, able to do you great service, I am here, pursued by the Hellenes for my friendship for you.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Florence MacCabe takes a crubeen and a bottle of double X for supper every Saturday.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

X For shame!
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Allies of various sorts came to the Carthaginians, among them Xanthippus from Sparta.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

X For some time after Betty had left him George remained staring at the fire.
— from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp

[Footnote 107: See Footnote 101.] LESSON CXXXIII REVIEW—MEAL COOKING MENU Rolled Beef Steak Stuffed Baked Potato Drop Biscuits See Lesson XIV for suggestions regarding the preparation of the lesson.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

They represented themselves, Talbot as a merchant whose property had been confiscated in consequence of his inability to meet his portion of a forced loan, and subsequently sent to Xalapa for some remarks he had made on the tyrannical course of the government.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 5, May 1849 by Various

[Pg xii] First settlement of Loyalists in the British Provinces—especially of Upper Canada,—their adventures and hardships, as written by themselves or their descendants 208-270 First settlement of the first company of Loyalists at the close of the Revolutionary War, in and near Kingston, Upper Canada, by the late Bishop Richardson, D.D. 208 First settlement of Loyalists in Nova Scotia, by a gentleman of that Province 211 Colonel Joseph Robinson, his adventures and settlement, by the late Hon. R. Hodgson, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island 213 Robert Clark, his sufferings in the Revolutionary War, and settlement in the Midland District, U.C.; by his son, late Colonel John C. Clark 216 Captain William B. Hutchinson, his sufferings and settlement in Walsingham, County of Norfolk, U.C.; by his grandson, J.B. Hutchinson, Esq.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

xempt from such follies in our day.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

[216] CHAPTER XIII FAIRVIEW SENDS A PROTEST There were two occupants of the room.
— from The Spirit of the School by Ralph Henry Barbour