Satan now also hath an opportunity to plead against us, and to help forward the affliction, as his servants did of old, when God was but a little angry (Zech 1:15); but Jesus Christ our Advocate is ready to appear against him, and to send us from heaven our old evidences again, or to signify to us that they are yet good and authentic, and cannot be gainsaid.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

We retired to rest, the soft balmy air, like a zephyr, was blowing from the south.
— from Thirty Years on the Frontier by Robert McReynolds

Two considerations of importance: The whole of Irish history teaches one lesson, or, rather, impresses one fact: that every member of a clan took as much pride in the sept to which he belonged, and labored as zealously for its head, as he could have done had the advantage turned all to himself.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

I was by turns a bear, a lion, a zebra, an elephant, dogs of various kinds, and a cat.
— from Helen's Babies by John Habberton

Eef 'is foot hadda been also leetle as ze foot of M'syae, Meestare Bulky vould 'ave drown."
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

Not being a carnivore, it saw nothing appetizing about Albert, but it was energizing a Bandersnatch, and, like all Zarks, it was a purist.
— from Insidekick by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

In the bed adjoining lay a Zouave who had had his leg amputated.
— from Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington

[page 209] We be all lik' a zull's idle sheäre out, An' shall rust out, unless we do wear out, Lik' do-nothèn, rue-nothèn, Dead alive dumps.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

In our religion the object of worship must be conceived distinctly, in order to be ardently loved and zealously served.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte