For, however well I may know that according to statistics every xth witness is punished for perjury, I will not be frightened at the approach of my xth witness though he is likely, according to statistics, to lie.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But when the news of Thermopylae was brought to the Greeks at Artemisium, that Leonidas had fallen, and Xerxes was in possession of the passes, they retired further into Greece, the Athenians protecting the rear on account of their bravery, and full of pride at their achievements.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

But as this chapter is already long, and as the question of genius had better wait till Chapter XXII, where its practical consequences can be discussed at the same time, I will say nothing more at present either about it or about the faculty of noting resemblances.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

For Akbar P. Hieronymo Xavier wrote in Persian two histories, Christi and S. Petri .
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

He was quite ready, however, to be excited and patriotic as they passed through the famous waters of Trafalgar, and curious to taste sherry at Xeres, where it proved exceedingly bad.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Josephine's daughter, Hortense, separated from her husband, Louis Bonaparte, and created Duchess of St Leu by Louis XVIII., was in Paris, much suspected by the Bourbons, but really engaged in a lawsuit with her husband about the custody of her sons.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Xerxes was in possession of the pass, and the Greek fleet was gone.
— from Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

But Chapter XXIV, which is probably a later addition, is dedicated to his praises as Samantamukha, he who looks every way or the omnipresent.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

I perceive there are still some to be found in Greece; the only one I know of in England is that of Sir Morris Ximenes, who, I presume, claims descent from the celebrated cardinal.
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

[Pg xvii] written in pure iambics, the Phaselus ille and Quis hoc potest uidere .
— from The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original by Gaius Valerius Catullus

The XXIVth Corps was on the march thither, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the XVth were in possession of the southern bank of the Doubs about Baume and Larnod; but the 1st Division had not succeeded in holding Quingey.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

The first message that reached Susa, with the news that Xerxes was in possession of Athens, caused so great joy among the Persians who had been left behind, that they strewed all the roads with myrtle, burnt perfumes, and gave themselves up to sacrifices and festivity.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus