[33] This figure was like a barbed arrow, according to Zevort.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

You may tell yourself a thousand times that the moon at the horizon is as big as at the zenith—nevertheless you see it smaller at the zenith.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

What would be his civic functions and social status among the county families and landed gentry? Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus ), duly recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. ( honoris causa ), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

A wide sheet of navigable water would then roll between Antwerp and the Zeeland coasts, and Parma's bridge, the result of seven months' labour, would become as useless as a child's broken toy.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The registrars of the Lord Bishop of Beauvais, the Boisguillaumes, the Manchons, the Taquels, all those ink-pots of the Church who had been used for her death sentence, worked wonders when that sentence had to be annulled; all the zeal they had displayed in the institution of the trial they now displayed in its revision; they were prepared to discover in it every possible flaw.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

The Rev. Mr. Blanchet and associates, though zealous Catholics, are peaceable, industrious, indefatigable, and successful in promoting religious knowledge among the Canadian population and aborigines of this country.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

To her I communicated tidings, that on the event of Elizabeth's death, her own deliverance would be attempted; all the zealous Catholics would fly to arms, and that foreign forces taking advantage of the general confusion, would fix her upon the English throne, and re-establish the Catholic religion."
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

The foes are entered at the Elvira gate: False Lyndaraxa has the town betrayed, And all the Zegrys give the Spaniards aid.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue maintaining the necessity of the consummation of the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers in order to prepare magic for the eating up of the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the voice of Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with “That which was slain on the hill—that which ye seek, that which is yours.”
— from Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

—This shows method of treating lumbago and pains in the back of the body, affecting all the zones.
— from Zone Therapy; Or, Relieving Pain at Home by Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers

It must be aimed at the zenith of the place.
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne