CHAPTER XXXVIII SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE Nearing four in the afternoon.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

xx., st. lviii.: ­ Qual vento a cui s'oppone o selva o colle Doppía nella contesa
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

On Monday morning, August x, St. Lawrence’s day, in the year abovesaid, the fleet, having been supplied with all the things necessary for the sea, 25 (and counting those of every nationality, we were two hundred and thirty-seven men), made ready to leave the harbor of Siviglia.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

XXIV Say, lad, have you things to do?
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Ms Galvez caught me staring at it and handed me a permission slip on smeary Xeroxed school letterhead.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

X. So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Practice XVIII Studying to Be a Spy XIX Last Preparations XX "Second Looie Ellis" XXI
— from Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

[Pg 90] X. ST. LEGER'S EXPEDITION.
— from Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Samuel Adams Drake

XXII SPECTACULAR LIGHTING Artificial light is a natural agency for producing spectacular effects.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

[Pg xvi] Captain Ellesdon of Lyme Regis 315 CHAPTER X. Stephen Limbry of Charmouth, Ship-master 318 CHAPTER XI.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

Though his first enterprise thus miscarried, Xenophon soon laid plans for a second, employing the whole army; and succeeded in bringing Asidates prisoner to Pergamus, with his wife, children, horses, and all his personal property.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

CHAPTER XXII STUDYING LINE AND COLOUR IN RUSSIA ROM Hungary we continued our quest of line and colour of folk costume into Russia.
— from Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank