But Hermippus tells us, that he himself was a teacher of grammar, and that afterwards, having met with the books of Democritus, he applied himself with zeal to philosophy, on which account Timon says of him:— The last of all the natural philosophers, And the most shameless too, did come from Samos, A grammar teacher, and the most ill-bred And most unmanageable of mankind.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
He was the first Christian king of all Mercia, and he was zealous in putting down idolatry (Florence of Worcester).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
Any intelligent young naval officer would have done it just as well, and would have acquitted himself with zeal and discretion, to gain the good opinion of the ministers.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and awe seized all the gods as they gazed.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
Then his mother got queer and dragged along for years as weak as a baby; and his wife Zeena, she's always been the greatest hand at doctoring in the county.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
III And souls received new power from God, And hearts with zeal were fired,
— from Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions by John Brownlie
–He has hardly been at the Prince's half an hour, when Zeusel sees him running back again into his medicinal warehouse....
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul
But while Grifonetto was breathing out his life upon the pavement of the piazza, his mother Atalanta and his wife Zenobia came to greet him through the awe-struck city.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds
"By heaven, your Highness must accept him," whispered Zabern in her ear.
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling
dem Tōdt, Ihr hā't gewiss Alle a Hēim, wu zu kummen, Un' fāhrt vun Amerika äuch nit aus Nōt.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener
And now all Hammersmith with zeal prepares To make a night of it when next we sing; We shall not waste our soft romantic airs, But the glad street with warlike strains shall ring Of blood and armaments and Fritz's whacking,
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 by Various
We must rise early, be at our books, off to our appointments, through winds, rains, and snows, cold and heat, with zeal and earnestness; preach with spirit and power, whether the audience is great or small, rich or poor, both early and late.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
St. Matthias received the Holy Ghost with the rest soon after his election; and after the dispersion of the disciples, applied himself with zeal to the functions of his apostleship, in converting nations to the faith.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler
When high-flown larks wer on the wing, A warm-aïr'd holiday in Spring, We stroll'd, 'ithout a ceäre or frown, Up roun' the down at Meldonley; An' where the hawthorn-tree did stand Alwone, but still wi' mwore at hand, We zot wi' sheädes o' clouds on high A-flittèn by, at Meldonley.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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