X .--THE ASS LOADED WITH SPONGES, AND THE ASS LOADED WITH SALT.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

THE MAGIC INVASION OF SEOUL 188 XXXIX THE AWFUL LITTLE GOBLIN 191 XL GOD’S WAY 194 XLI THE OLD MAN IN THE DREAM 196 XLII THE PERFECT PRIEST 198 XLIII THE PROPITIOUS MAGPIE 200 XLIV THE ‘OLD BUDDHA’ 202 XLV A WONDERFUL MEDICINE 204 XLVI FAITHFUL MO 205 XLVII THE RENOWNED MAING 208 XLVIII THE SENSES 210 XLIX WHO DECIDES, GOD OR THE KING?
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

X. The author leaves Doctor Irving and engages on board a Turkey ship—Account of a black man's being kidnapped on board and sent to the West Indies, and the author's fruitless endeavours to procure his freedom—Some account of the manner of the author's conversion to the faith of Jesus Christ.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

XIV TO ANDREW LANG Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair, Who glory to have thrown in air, High over arm, the trembling reed, By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed: An equal craft of hand you show The pen to guide, the fly to throw: I count you happy-starred; for God, When He with inkpot and with rod Endowed you, bade your fortune lead For ever by the crooks of Tweed, For ever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The abhorred pedantic sanhedrin, It should be yours to wander, still Airs of the morn, airs of the hill, The plovery Forest and the seas That break about the Hebrides, Should follow over field and plain And find you at the window-pane; 80
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 14 by Robert Louis Stevenson

[Footnote 15: Fleeching = coaxing.] H2 anchor CHAPTER X. TALES AND LEGENDS.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

X Then at length Belisarius, on his part, made his preparations to enter the city as follows.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius

Page 73 CHAPTER X THREATS AGAINST LARRY Second edition-time was close at hand, but no news regarding Mr. Hamden Potter had come in from either Newton or Mack.
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis

CHAPTER XI tanding at last on the summit of the great Ziggurat, Nelson found himself staring up at the fearsome golden image of the dread demon Beelzebub.
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

XXIV ToC A LITTLE ROMANCE October 8, 1913.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

[121] purchase of Italian edition of Vespucci's letter, xix ; his theory of Vespucci's first voyage, xxvi ; theory that Iti was Bermuda disproved, xxvii ; theory about Little Venice disproved, xxviii ; theory about Lariab, xxx ; theory about the voyage of Pinzon and Solis disproved,
— from The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career by Amerigo Vespucci

XXV THE ANAESTHETIC Like a white moth caught heavily, heavily, In the honeyed heart of some white drowsy flower, I lay behind the leaves of apathy, Where not the reddest pang has any power.
— from The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor

XXIII Torch and lamp and sunset-red Fell three-fingered on the bed.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

CHAPTER X. TOLD AT LAST.
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight