Their actual profits would be less, and the zemindars would take the opportunity of squeezing them by rack-renting and other recognized means of oppression, as has been the case in indigo-cultivation, where great disturbances have been caused among the ryots.
— from A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Charles Reginald Haines

When night came again he paced the sands for hours and then fell to work to drag by long and toiling zigzags to a favorable point on the southern end of the island the mast he had saved, and to raise there a flag of distress.
— from Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable

The water-skins and camel-tanks were all filled, for but little water had been left at the zareba; and the men, although they had scarcely eaten any food for the last forty-eight hours, started in good spirits, perfectly ready for another fight should the enemy try to stop them.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The ancient plough and awkward flail He banished long ago; The zigzag fence with ponderous rail He dares to overthrow; And wields, with sinews strong and hale, The latest style of hoe.
— from Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard

In the meantime we hear that the Russians are falling back on the Blonie line, and that Zuradov has already been evacuated, which may or may not be true.
— from The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Being the Second Volume of "Field Notes from the Russian Front" by Stanley Washburn

JUMBO’S BUSY LIFE AT THE ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, AND HIS LOVE FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
— from Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same Author by Matthew Scott

Action and Uses : Similar to, but less active than zinc sulphate, over which it has no advantage.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

From the middle of October 1914 they occupied that portion of the Belgian coast comprised between Lombartzyde and the Zeeland frontier.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart