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XL RELISH FOR
UPON CICERO CHAPTER XL — RELISH FOR GOOD
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Xenophon returning from
Then Xenophon, returning from the right wing to the left, addressed the soldiers.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

X rays for
Otherwise we would never have such inventions as X rays, for instance.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

xi return Footnote
xi. return Footnote 26: All editions up to and including 1851.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

xv return Footnote
and xiv.-xv. return Footnote 10: An allusion to the myth that when souls are sent to occupy a body again they drink of Lethe that they may forget their previous existence.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

XI Returning from
H2 anchor CHAPTER XI Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

XIII RECIPES FOR
CHAPTER XIII RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES Trying out fat.
— from Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife by Marion Mills Miller

XLII Rules for
CHAPTER XLII Rules for the government of the Board of trustees and employés of the public library [Slightly modified from the rules of the Erie (Pa.) public library.]
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

XIV Recipes for
102 Article XIII., Tips for Horns, etc. 113 Article XIV., Recipes for Preserving Preparations, 114 Tanning Hides, etc. 117 -126 Extra Formulas 127 -129 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Silently corrected typographical errors.
— from Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2) by T. J. McConnaughay

xebecs Rotterdam flat
Extremely slow was my advance, for at first I would not leave any ship, however remotely small, without approaching sufficiently to investigate her, at least with the spy-glass: and a strange multitudinous mixture of species they were, trawlers in hosts, war-ships of every nation, used, it seemed, as passenger-boats, smacks, feluccas, liners, steam-barges, great four-masters with sails, Channel boats, luggers, a Venetian burchiello , colliers, yachts, remorqueurs , training ships, dredgers, two dahabeeahs with curving gaffs, Marseilles fishers, a Maltese speronare , American off-shore sail, Mississippi steam-boats, Sorrento lug-schooners, Rhine punts, yawls, old frigates and three-deckers, called to novel use, Stromboli caiques, Yarmouth tubs, xebecs, Rotterdam flat-bottoms, floats, mere gunwaled rafts—anything from anywhere that could bear a human freight on water had come, and was here: and all, I knew, had been making westward, or northward, or both; and all, I knew, were crowded; and all were tombs, listlessly wandering, my God, on the wandering sea with their dead.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

XIV Resulting Forms
Of the Sculpture of Mountains: First, the Lateral Ranges 137 " XIII.— Of the Sculpture of Mountains: Secondly, the Central Peaks 157 " XIV.— Resulting Forms:
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

X Reason for
Mr. Plant’s Industry and Power to Endure Continuous Strain—Labor of Examining and Answering his Enormous Mail—Letter from Japan—Mail Delivered Regularly to him at Home and Abroad—His Private Car, its Style, Structure, Hospitality, and Cheering Presence—Numerous Calls—The Secret of his Endurance—The Esteem and Love of the Southern Express Company for its President—Mr. Plant Enjoys Social Life—He is a Great Lover of almost all Kinds of Music—Mr. Plant a Medical Benefactor—Some of the Progress Made in the Healing Art—Bishop of Winchester’s High Estimate of the Value of Health—Dr. Long’s Opinion of the Gulf Coast as a Health Restorer—Unrecognized Medicines {viii} in Restoring Lost Health—Nervousness among the American People—The Soothing and Strengthening Effect of Florida Climate—Mr. Plant’s Part in Facilitating Travel and Providing Comfortable Accommodations for the Invalid 102-116 CHAPTER X. Reason for Submitting Press Sketches of Mr. Plant— Descriptive America , December, 1886— City Items , December, 1886— Railroad Topics — Home Journal , New York, March, 1896—F. G. De Fontain in same Journal—Ocala Evening Times , June, 1896— Express Gazette 117-140 CHAPTER XI.
— from The Life of Henry Bradley Plant Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company by G. Hutchinson (George Hutchinson) Smyth

XXII Richard Ford
p. 160 CHAPTER XXII Richard Ford The most distinguished of Borrow’s friends in the years that succeeded his return from Spain was Richard Ford, whose interests were so largely wrapped up in the story of that country.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

X row four
But when it comes to the maturation of the sex-cells of this female, the pair of X -elements are separated in the usual way with the result that half of the mature ova contain a normal X and half a defective X (row four).
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer


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