After this a battle was fought between Siwald and Ragnald in Zealand, warriors of picked valour being chosen on both sides.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

He’s a—” Perfectly unreluctantly Rae Malgregor dropped the fluff of lace and ribbons into Zillah’s lap and reached out with cheerful voraciousness to annex the young man’s picture to her somewhat bleak possessions.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

WIND An aerial phenomenon, superinduced by an ephemeral agitation of the nebular strata, whereby air, (hot or cold), impelled into transitory activity, generates a prolonged passage through space, owing to certain occult ethereal stimuli, and results in zephyrs, breezes, blows, blow-outs, blizzards, gales, simoons, hurricanes, tornadoes or typhoons.
— from The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Gideon Wurdz

Colonel ALL It's clear that medieval art alone retains its zest, To charm and please its devotees we've done our little best.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

Dollar had only been thinking so when the call came through, to supply just the object which gives a run its zest, and nothing else mattered in the least.
— from The Crime Doctor by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Observers have reported seeing a jackal pursued by an ostrich and running in zigzag fashion for his burrow.
— from The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis by Gerald Breckenridge

Imagine, therefore, the terrors of the Catholics whose [Pg 75] lives would already have been rendered unendurable, had the laws existing against them been put into full force, when they not only observed a rapidly increasing zeal among magistrates and judges in their proceedings against Romish recusants, but heard, on what appeared to be excellent authority, that additional, and most cruel, legislation against them was to be enacted in the Parliament shortly to be opened.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

In all requests, include “Zip Code” in return address.
— from Careers in Atomic Energy by Loyce J. McIlhenny

It is also recorded in Zanzibar, German East Africa, Uganda, East Tropical Africa (Neave).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald