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XXXV Lo compassed
XXXV Lo! compassed by his grove of oaks, Petrovski Palace!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

xxx Lands Cherokee
Lake Chapala , Cherokee in vicinity of 146 Lamar, M. B. , attitude of, toward Texan Indians 145 Land cessions , Cherokee 34 , 45 – 46 , 53 – 54 , 60 , 61 , 68 – 69 , 80 – 81 , 84 – 85 , 97 , 98 , 102 , 106 , 123 , 139 , 150 , 153 Land cessions , Chickasaw 86 Land cessions , laws against 107 , 141 , 134 , 138 , 218 – 219 Land cessions , publication of paper on xxx Lands , Cherokee, fixing of boundaries of 138 Lands , Cherokee, lottery of 117 Lands , East Cherokee, adjustment of title to 173 – 174 Lanman, Charles , on Charley’s escape and surrender 131 Lanman, Charles on Cherokee myths 417 – 418 , 431 – 432 , 438 – 439 , 443 – 444 , 450 , 475 Lanman, Charles on Georgia gold lottery 117 Lanman, Charles on Junuluska 164 Lanman, Charles on Southern gold fields 221 Lanman, Charles on Col. W. H. Thomas 162 Lanman, Charles , visit to East Cherokee by 166 Lark , Cherokee name for 281 Laurel in Cherokee lore 422 Lawson on cairns in eastern United States 491 Lawson on English conduct toward Indians 38 Lawson on “flying stag” 463 Lawson on gambling by Indians 465 Lawson on gatayûstĭ game 434 Lawson on heating and lighting of townhouse 230 Lawson on Indian marriage customs 482 Lawson on Indian regard for snakes 457 Lawson on Indian storehouse 433 Lawson on lake in South Carolina 200 Lawson on oppossum 449 Lawson on peaches among Cherokee
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

xxvi Little Carpenter
Lipan , study of language of xxvi Little Carpenter on Shawano wars 371 , 372 Little Deer , myths concerning 250 – 251 , 262 – 264 Little Men , myths concerning 252 – 254 , 295 , 297 , 435 , 436 , 438 Little People , myths concerning 289 , 333 – 334 , 430 , 455 , 464 Little Tennessee towns , burning of (1788) 65 Little Turtle , defeat of St Clair by 212 Lizards in Cherokee myth and lore 306 – 307 , 407 Locomotive , myth concerning 351 Lone peak , myth concerning 335 Long Hair , chief of Ohio band 79 Long island , battle near 48 Long island , cession of 85 Long island , treaty of (1777)
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

XXIV La confesión
XXIV La confesión Entre tanto Rosario, con el corazón hecho pedazos, sin poder llorar, sin poder tener calma ni sosiego, traspasada 25 por el frío acero de un dolor inmenso, con la mente pasando en veloz carrera del mundo a Dios y de Dios al mundo, aturdida y media loca, estaba a altas horas de la noche en su cuarto, puesta de hinojos, cruzadas las manos, con los pies desnudos sobre el suelo, la ardiente sien apoyada en el 30 172 borde del lecho, a obscuras, a solas, en silencio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

XXXVII Liberty CHAPTER
The Quadroon’s Story CHAPTER XXXV -- The Tokens CHAPTER XXXVI -- Emmeline and Cassy CHAPTER XXXVII -- Liberty CHAPTER XXXVIII -- The Victory CHAPTER XXXIX -- The Stratagem CHAPTER XL -- The Martyr CHAPTER XLI -- The Young Master CHAPTER XLII -- An Authentic Ghost Story CHAPTER XLIII -- Results CHAPTER XLIV --
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

XI LOTHAW CHAPTER
I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI LOTHAW CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

x liberica C
Among other hybrids (many were still under trial in 1919) may be mentioned: Coffea excelsia x liberica ; C. Abeokutæ x liberica ; C. Dybowskii x excelsa ; C. stenophylla x Abeokutæ ; C. congensis x Ugandæ ; C. Ugandæ x congensis ; and C. robusta x Maragogipe .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

X LEEKS CHAP
X . LEEKS. CHAP.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

X Luther Calvin
M. Audin , a French historian, whose histories of Leo X., Luther, Calvin, and Henry VIII., are known to those who have sought an acquaintance with the Catholic view of those personages and their times, died on the 21st February, in his carriage, near Avignon.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

XVII LE CHEVALIER
[Pg 170] CHAPTER XVII LE CHEVALIER BAYARD
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

XXI LUDUS CHARTARUM
You, then, ask your father on this matter, although he is yet a young man, and do you, Morobulus, ask yours, although an old man, and you will understand from them that my opinion is the true one. 185 XXI LUDUS CHARTARUM SEU FOLIORUM— Card-playing or Paper-games Valdaura, Tamayus, Lupianus, Castellus,
— from Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives by Juan Luis Vives

xiv Locustra changed
Page xiii, “Pertinaceous” changed to “Pertinacious” (Pertinacious Rats) Page xiv, “Locustra” changed to “Locusta” (Locusta migratoria)
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles

XVI LANDING CLOSE
129 CHAPTER XVI LANDING CLOSE TO METZ Tom had his hands full in trying to get back to his course again.
— from Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines; Or, The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach

XX legend CAR
, No. 5 ); draughtsmen of stag’s horn (p. 131 , figs. 176 , 177 ); a wooden peg, roughly cut, length, 2½ inches; a bucket stave, with marks of two bands on outside surface, and furrow for bottom on inside, length, 7⅝ inches; a single-piece leather shoe ( plate XXXV. , No. 7 ); a silver Scottish 20 shilling piece, obv., crowned head of king , to left in field XX —legend, CAR·D·G·MAG·BR·FR·ET·HIB·REX.—
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

XII Lorenzo Corsini
The founder of the chapel, Clement XII., Lorenzo Corsini (1730—40), is buried in a splendid porphyry sarcophagus which he plundered from the Pantheon.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

XXVIII Linn County
Early Experiences in Stage and Express 244 Chapter XXVIII Linn County Libraries 248 Chapter XXIX Wages and Prices in County from 1846 to 1856 253 Chapter XXX Some of the First Things in Cedar Rapids and Linn County 256 Chapter XXXI Society in the Early Days 261 Chapter XXXII Southern Influence 267 Chapter XXXIII Some Township History 270 Chapter XXXIV
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer


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