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xlvii Navaho use
Nantahala , myths concerning 303 , 408 Nanticoke , association of, with Delawares 497 Nanticoke , modern remnants of 498 Nanticoke , separation of, from Delawares 18 – 19 Nashville , attack on 63 Nashville , conference at (1792) 72 Nashville founding of 56 Natchee , tribe of Creek 498 – 499 Natchez , blood of, among Cherokee 234 Natchez , enslavement of 233 Natchez , surrender of post at 81 National committee , establishment of 107 National council , enactment by 86 – 87 National council , establishment of 107 Navaho , myths of 443 , 447 – 448 , 468 , 501 Navaho , publication of memoir on xxix Navaho , study of paternities and cults of xlvii Navaho , use of language of, as trade language 188 Necromancy , development of lxxxv–lxxxvi Necromancy , see also Magic .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

X now used
Finally they came around to that inexhaustible subject for conversation, the mysterious life of the soul, the hidden things, the Unknown, that theme for which Shakespeare has given us an oft-quoted and oft-abused device, which one of them, Mr. X., now used to point his remarks.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

XXII Not until
They lay hidden and watched the water until darkness hid it from their eyes; and, slowly and soberly, they took the trail back to their village, overcome by an awareness of having been blessed by the gods. 216 CHAPTER XXII Not until the day following his escape from the subterranean river, did Torres reach San Antonio.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

XV Not until
XV Not until the silken flap of the tent had fallen behind Jeanne did power of movement and speech return to Philip.
— from Flower of the North: A Modern Romance by James Oliver Curwood

X Not until
CHAPTER X. Not until the tenth day out from Honolulu was Mr. Stuyvesant so far recovered as to warrant the surgeons in permitting his being lifted from the hot and narrow berth to a steamer-chair on the starboard side.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

xxxiii Noteworthy use
“Nature,” xxxi , xxxii Naucratis, Greek settlements at, 53 Nautical Almanac, 45 Nebulæ, discovery of, 52 Nelson, bust of Miss Horatio, 70 Newton, Professor Alfred, 49 A.W., 50 Sir Edward, 50 F.J., 50 Lieutenant-General H.P., 50 R. Milnes, 50 William, 49 General W.S., 50 New York, tunnel under river in, 27 Nomenclature of Kinship , xxvi “Nonconformist,” 48 Northbrook, first Baron, 4 first Earl of, 3 Norwich, Roman Catholic Cathedral at, 60 Noteworthy Kinsfolk, Number of in Each Degree , xxxiii Noteworthy, use of term in present work, xiii , xiv Noteworthies, Proportion of to the Generality , xviii Noteworthiness , xi Marked and Unmarked Degrees of , xxxv
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton

X no unknown
And to Z's suggestion that, if the Act was carried into execution, and proved a good one, they might have nothing to say against the Quakers at the next election, X, no unknown quantity, but Franklin himself, replies with this burst of eloquent exhortation which makes us half doubt Franklin when he says that he was not an orator: O my friends, let us on this occasion cast from us all these little party views, and consider ourselves as Englishmen and Pennsylvanians .
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

XI NATURE UNDER
SLEIGHING IN THE HIGHLANDS X. A WINTER THUNDER-STORM XI. NATURE UNDER GLASS XII.
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

XXVI ni un
--Ne termine jamais un nom substantif singulier, p. XXVI; ni un nom adjectif singulier masculin, p. XXVII.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés


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