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XXXVIII Reception Day
Buckstone and Laura’s Strategic Coquetry CHAPTER XXXVIII Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her CHAPTER XXXIX Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation CHAPTER XL Col. Sellers’ Career in Washington—Laura’s Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About CHAPTER XLI
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

XV ROCHEFOUCAULT Duke
ROCHE-AYMON, Grand Almoner of Louis XV. ROCHEFOUCAULT, Duke de la, Liberal, President of Directory, killed.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

xlviii represents Domitian
[ Thus Pliny, in his Panegyric on Trajan, xlviii., represents Domitian as "ever affecting darkness and secrecy, and never emerging from his solitude but in order to make a solitude."
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

XIII relations discovered
114, 284-5, 537, 539 Cobbe, F. P., I. 374 Cochlea, theory of its action, II. 169 Cognition, see knowing Cohen, H., I. 365 Coleridge, S. T., I. 572 , 681 Collateral innervation, see vicarious function Comparison, Chapter XIII : relations discovered by comparison have nothing to do with the time and space order of their terms, II. 641; mediate, 489, 644; see difference , likeness Composition, of Mind out of its elements, see Mind-Stuff theory ; differences due to, I. 491 Comte, A., I. 187 Conceivability, I. 463 Conceptions, Chapter XII : defined, I. 461 ; their permanence, 464 ff.; do not develop of themselves, 466 ff.; abstract, 468 ; universal, 478 ; essentially teleological, II.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

XML RHINE DAUGHTERS
When the Rhine maidens appear swimming around the rock in which lies the gold, they sing these cabalistic words and this melodious music: [ Listen ] [ XML ] RHINE DAUGHTERS.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Xylosteana Rosana DITULA
Rusticana TORTRIX Icterana Viburnana Forsterana Heparana Ribeana Cinnamomeana Corylana LOZOTÆNIA Sorbiana Musculana Costana Unifasciana Fulvana Roborana Xylosteana Rosana DITULA
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

XV Rosalie Disappears
CHAPTER XV Rosalie Disappears Things had happened in Tinkletown that night.
— from The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon

XVIII REFLECTIONS Deborah
XVIII REFLECTIONS Deborah re-
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

XIV RADWIN DOESN
CHAPTER XIV RADWIN DOESN'T SEE HIS BEST
— from The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

XXX Rash Denunciation
Outrages are No Reasons 267 XXIX — How Mr. Bourassa Paid His Compliments to the Canadian Army 277 XXX — Rash Denunciation of Public Men 288 XXXI — Mr. Bourassa's Dangerous Pacifism 302 XXXII — A Most Reprehensible Abuse of Sacred Appeals to the Belligerent Nations 307 XXXIII — A Case For True Statesmanship 321 XXXIV — After-the-War Military Problem 324 XXXV —
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

Xisuthros return descended
"Meanwhile those who had remained in the vessel not seeing Xisuthros return, descended too and began to seek him, calling him by his name.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various


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