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Bangplasor or Xalaburi
In the south are—Pakhlat or Nakhon-Khuen-Khan, Paknam or Sananthaprakan, Bangplasor or Xalaburi, Rajong, Chantaboun or Chantabouri, Thung-Jai, Phiphri or Phetxaburi, Xumphon, Xaya, and Xalang or Salang.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

BY OPTIMISM XI
BY OPTIMISM XI.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Banquet of Xenophon
And this is plain, both from his own writings, and from the Banquet of Xenophon.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Brudo of xx
Raphael Brudo, of [ xx ] Paris, Messrs. C. and G. Auerbach, and the late Mr. Mick George, all of whom helped me in various ways and extended to me their kind hospitality.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

borough of Xypetion
“In the archonship of Arrhenides, in the fifth presidency of the tribe Acamantis, on the twenty-first day of the month Maimacterion, on the twenty-third day of the aforesaid presidency, in a duly convened assembly, Hippo, the son of Cratistoteles, of the borough of Xypetion, being one of the presidents, and the rest of the presidents, his colleagues, put the following decree to the vote.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

baths of Xeuxippus
In the most gentle and honorable terms, he required the attendance of Paul in the baths of Xeuxippus, which had a private communication with the palace and the sea.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

banks of Xanthus
"Crook-foot," she cried, "my child, be up and doing, for I deem it is with you that Xanthus is fain to fight; help us at once, kindle a fierce fire; I will then bring up the west and the white south wind in a mighty hurricane from the sea, that shall bear the flames against the heads and armour of the Trojans and consume them, while you go along the banks of Xanthus burning his trees and wrapping him round with fire.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Battle of xxv
Haethfelth (Hatfield Chase, near Doncaster), Battle of, xxv , 131 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Battle of xxvi
Maserfelth, Battle of, xxvi , 154 , 155 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

by Oswy xxvi
Oswald's Tree, Oswestry, or Croes Oswallt (Cross Oswald), 154 n. Oswin, King of Deira, son of Osric, xxvi , 164 , 181 n., 185 n.; his love for Aidan, 165 , 166 ; his character and appearance, 164 , 165 , 166 ; his reign, 164 ; murdered by Oswy, xxvi , 164 , 166 , 191 , 384 ; monastery built in his memory, 165 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

be ours x
VIVIEN’S SONG at the l.l.a. examination In Algebra, if Algebra be ours, x and x 2 can ne’er be equal powers, Unless x =1, or none at all.
— from The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man by R. F. (Robert Fuller) Murray

based on XML
In September 1999 was released the first version of the Open eBook (OeB) format, based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and defined by the Open eBook Publication Structure (OeBPS), with a free version belonging to public domain and a full version to be used with or without DRM by the publishing industry.
— from The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Marie Lebert

bay of Xagua
It was on the southern coast of the island of Cuba, between the bay of Xagua and the island of Pinos, that the great Spanish Admiral, in his second voyage, saw, with astonishment, "that mysterious king who spoke to his subjects only by signs, and that group of men who wore long white tunics, like the monks of La Merced, whilst the rest of the people were naked.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

Book of xxvi
The English of the last named is taken from the First Prayer Book of [xxvi] Edward VI., published in 1549, and is the version of this old hymn which occurs in “The Fourme of Ordering Priestes,” the longer and older of the two renderings already referred to.
— from Hymns of the Early Church being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year by John Brownlie

banks of Xanthus
He desires Glaucus to recollect, why it is that they are honoured in Lycia with precedence at banquets, and with greater portions than the rest, why looked upon as deities, why endowed with great estates of pasture and corn land by the banks of Xanthus; it is that they may the more boldly face the burning battle, and be great in the eyes and in the minds of their companions.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

bays of Xanga
10° 1O' S. to Mozambique in 14° 50', the coast is somewhat bent in the form of a bow, in which space are the islands of Pujaros, Amice, Mocoloe, Matembo, Querimba, Cabras, and others, with the rivers Paudagi, Menluanc, Mucutii, Mucululo, Situ, Habe, Xanga, Samoco, Veloso, Pinda, Quisimaluco and Quintagone, with the bays of Xanga and Fuego, and the sands of Pinda.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

boasts Odyssey XVIII
[*]See Odysseus's boasts, "Odyssey," XVIII.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

be opened x
Tarvisium ( Treviso ), corn-warehouse at, to be opened, x. 27 .
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

below on xiii
Augustine's final crisis (see below, on xiii. 14) would be one such example.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule


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