Paul had planted the Gospel among the Corinthians, by his holy and earnest preaching; Apollos , a zealous disciple of that great master, continued to cultivate it by frequent exhortations; and the grace of God, which their constant prayers, implored for that church, made the endeavours of both successful.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

The clergy could not forgive his application of the sacred riches to the defence of the state; but they applauded his theological learning and ardent zeal for the orthodox faith, which he defended with his tongue, his pen, and his sword.
— 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

In four coloured drawings, which I have seen, of hybrids between the ass and zebra, the legs were much more plainly barred than the rest of the body; and in one of them there was a double shoulder-stripe.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Enter BAJAZETH, BASSOES, the KINGS OF FEZ, MOROCCO, and ARGIER; ZABINA and EBEA.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

" THAT WRETCHED BOY Ivan Ivanich Lapkin, a pleasant looking young man, and Anna Zamblizky, a young girl with a little snub nose, walked down the sloping bank and sat down on the bench.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Tit. 2.14; a devoted adherent, a zealot, Ac. 21.20; 22.3.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

diligent, e , qui agit avec zèle et promptitude.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Then we must not listen to Homer or to any other poet D who is guilty of the folly of saying that two casks ‘Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots 10 ,’ and that he to whom Zeus gives a mixture of the two ‘Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times with good;’ but that he to whom is given the cup of unmingled ill, ‘Him wild hunger drives o’er the beauteous earth.’ E And again— ‘Zeus, who is the dispenser of good and evil to us.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But because we do aliud agere , zealous without knowledge, and too solicitous about that which is not necessary, busying ourselves about impertinent, needless, idle, and vain ceremonies, populo ut placerent , as the Jews did about sacrifices, oblations, offerings, incense, new moons, feasts, &c., but Isaiah taxeth them, i. 12 , who required this at your hands?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For all numbers are as zero in the presence of the Infinite.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

You see they can be no great things, women who take the name of X and a Z."
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

The Gaulish and Ligurian soldiers, who had faithfully served Hannibal during seventeen years, abandoned him not in his days of misfortune; re-united to their compatriots who had followed Mago, they formed still a third part of the Carthaginian army at Zama, in the celebrated day which terminated that long war to the advantage of the Romans, and displayed to the world the genius of Hannibal humbled before the fortune of Scipio.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

Equus , the horse, ass, and zebra: 3 species.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

Yet there rose the great bulwark—whose early destruction would have made all this desolation a blessing—unbroken and obstinate; a perpetual obstacle to communication between Antwerp and Zeeland.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

The very loneliness of the Old Ancient House added a zest.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

" I have devoted a space to this letter for several reasons; first, because the writer is a man of note and influence in his own country, and has plainly uttered what many of the Society of Friends even now feel, secondly, he has shown what was the prevalent sentiment among Friends not longer than seven years since, though I hope and believe a considerable change has taken place in the interval; and lastly, because, within a few months past, a well-known American, a zealous agent of the Colonization Society, has privately employed this very letter to induce abolitionists in England to look favorably on that Society.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

Tonga All, APLAA, Caribbean/Oceania, Australia - Oceania Trinidad and Tobago All, APLAA, North America/Caribbean, Central America Tunisia All, NESA, Near East/South Asia, Africa Turkey All, OREA, Europe/French Dependencies, Middle East Turkmenistan All, OREA, Russia/Eurasia, Central Asia Turks and Caicos Islands All, APLAA, North America/Caribbean, Central America Tuvalu All, APLAA, Caribbean/Oceania, Australia - Oceania Uganda All, APLAA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa Ukraine All, OREA, Russia/Eurasia, Europe United Arab Emirates All, NESA, Near East/South Asia, Middle East United Kingdom All, OREA, Europe/French Dependencies, European Union, Europe United States All, APLAA, Eurasia/North America, North America United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges All, Australia - Oceania Uruguay All, APLAA, South America/Global, South America Uzbekistan All, OREA, Russia/Eurasia, Central Asia Vanuatu All, APLAA, Caribbean/Oceania, Australia - Oceania Venezuela All, APLAA, South America/Global, South America Vietnam All, APLAA, East Asia/Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Virgin Islands All, APLAA, North America/Caribbean, Central America Wake Island All, APLAA, Caribbean/Oceania, Australia - Oceania Wallis and Futuna All, OREA, Europe/French Dependencies, Australia - Oceania West Bank All, NESA, Near East/South Asia, Middle East Western Sahara All, NESA, Near East/South Asia, Africa World All, APLAA, South America/Global, Oceans Yemen All, NESA, Near East/South Asia, Middle East Zambia All, APLAA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa Zimbabwe All, APLAA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The Perpetual Maintenance Battery , for working the cable at the bottom of the sea, consists of large plates of platinated silver and amalgamated zinc, mounted in cells of gutta-percha.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

"Does she know of the war already?" asked Zagloba.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz