And as for Zametov...” “At last he sees through him!” thought Raskolnikov.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And I remember that then, by the death-bed of that poor old woman, I felt aghast for Zinaïda, and longed to pray for her, for my father—and for myself.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

There can be no -157- other country so fatal to the antiquarian: for zest and labor are superfluous, and a long course of incomparable luck must drive him, for very satiety, from the field.
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

[115] The birth of Apollo and Artemis from Zeus and Lêtô is among the oldest and most generally admitted facts in the Grecian divine legends.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

Anything from zero always leaves zero.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

I have known him from a boy, as an interesting youth, and as a gentleman by education and association, and know that when he entered the Army as a Private he was honored and beloved, and from zeal and love of country he left a comfortable home and lucrative place.
— from Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864 by Henry C. (Henry Coddington) Meyer