Copper may be separated, in a state of great purity, from ANTIMONY , ARSENIC , BISMUTH , LEAD , IRON , TIN , ZINC , &c., as it exists in bell-metal, brass, bronze, gun-metal, mosaic gold, and other commercial alloys, by fusing it in a crucible for about half an hour, along with copper scales (black oxide) and ground bottle-glass, or other like flux.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
In zone therapy we divide the body longitudinally into ten zones, five on each side of a median or central line.
— from Zone Therapy; Or, Relieving Pain at Home by Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers
Moulay Idriss was not built over the grave of the Fatimite prophet, first of the name, whose bones lie in the Zerhoun above his sacred town.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton
In the centre behind the fighting line were two guns of the Royal Artillery, the other having been left in the zareba, while the centre of the square was filled with camels carrying water, ammunition, and cacolets or swinging beds for the carriage of the wounded.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It was translated by Lefébure in the Zeitschrift für Aegyptische Sprache , 1883, pp. 27-33.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Atkins was looking at the baby leopards in the zoo, ever so far away.
— from Yellowstone Nights by Herbert Quick
Five minutes later, the few soldiers who had been left in the zaguán were disarmed by the servants, bound with cords they had themselves brought for a far different purpose, and deposited on the steps of the neighbouring cathedral, where they were left to their fate.
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard
VI S ymptoms of restless impatience which had appeared almost as soon as the signing of the Armistice began to grow with intensity among all soldiers who had been long in the zone of war.
— from Back to Life by Philip Gibbs
Left by their escort on the following day—as their English brethren had been left in the Zuurveld of Lower Albany—to take root and grow there or perish, the heads of families assembled, and their leader addressed them.
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Thereunto sigheth the evening gale To freshen the cheeks which love made pale; This is why bloometh the scented flower, To gladden with grace love's secret bower: Love is the zephyr that always blows,
— from Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
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