Pussy’s Playmates 221 XX. Pussy and the Hare 230 XXI.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

Benet Cely, Thomas Wyntreshull squyer, and othere aboughte xxvij persones, and the hedes of the lordes sent to London.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

Begun in the Palais Royal, this revolution was continued and virtually concluded at the neighbouring Tuileries, where the Swiss Guard, fighting as faithfully for the restored monarchy as they had fought for the monarchy of Louis XVI., perished at the hands of the insurgents.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

His [Pg xxi] physicians agreed that he had few weeks to live, and he felt that he was dying, little divining that the agony was to be prolonged for ten horrible years.
— from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

To confine ourselves to the xxxv plastic arts, the historian of Greek art discovers survivals , forms and motives which had been employed in previous centuries and earlier civilizations, in exact proportion to the accuracy of his researches, and to the number of his elements for comparison.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez