An excellent, good-hearted fellow, I assure you; a very active, zealous officer too, which is more than you would think for, perhaps, for that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Note 23 ( return ) [ The Latins aggravate the ingratitude of Alexius, by supposing that he had been released by his brother Isaac from Turkish captivity This pathetic tale had doubtless been repeated at Venice and Zara but I do not readily discover its grounds in the Greek historians.
— 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

The assembly of such formidable powers by sea and land had revived the hopes of young 49 Alexius; and both at Venice and Zara, he solicited the arms of the crusaders, for his own restoration and his father's 50 deliverance.
— 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

He declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell as ze sanctity of its alliances ...” he spoke this last word with particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He had become a wanderer, but a wanderer possessed of the carpet of Fortunatus, and with a youth, a vigour, a zest for life sharpened to finer issues than had been the nature of Theophilus Joy.
— from Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes

"The present Lord Badenoch is an honest and a brave man," replied Wallace; "and as I obey the power which gave him his authority, I am ready, by fidelity to him, to serve Scotland with as vigorous a zeal as ever; so, noble Sinclair, when our rulers cast not trammels on our virtue, we must obey them as the vicegerents of Heaven."
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Jehoram gained a victory at Zair (probably Sela, or Petra), but could not retain supremacy over the Edomites.
— from Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Weismann, ‘Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Daphnoiden,’ Leipzig, 1876-79, Abhandlung VII, and ‘Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie,’ Bd. XXXIII.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

Genesis, 4,22: the reporter) is said to have been seen in | Authorized Version: And Zillah, she all | also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of | every artificer in brass and iron… | | Vulgata:
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

His accustomed acumen, vigilance, and zeal, were promptly put in requisition.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

105 We sat down among the rocks, by a little pool, so rich in animal, vegetable, and zoöphytic—or whatever is the right word—life, that I became entranced in the study of it, and, when Arthur proposed returning to our lodgings, I begged to be left there for a while, to watch and muse alone.
— from Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll