"braza" hidden in books

British Resident at Zante and

British Resident at Zante, and Lt.-Gov. of Jersey.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

boy ran after Zhilín and

So the boy ran after Zhilín, and said: "Don't go!
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Belton Richard Augustus Zantzinger and

It was found that there were at the fort about two hundred regular troops, composed of Companies A, B, C, and H of the Second Artillery, and Company A of the Fourth Infantry, with Majors Francis S. Belton, Richard Augustus Zantzinger, and John Mountford, Lieutenants John Breckenridge Grayson, Samuel McKenzie, John Charles Casey, Thomas C. Legate, Edwin Wright Morgan, Augustus Porter Allen, and Benjamin Alvord, and Surgeons Henry Lee Heiskell and Reynolds.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

boom rope at Z and

The sheet rope is rigged in the manner shown in No. 8, the boom block being fastened at Y (No. 1), boom rope at Z, and the snap-hook caught in the staple P in deck (Fig. 1).
— from Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various

but rather a zest a

I am not recommending a kind of silly mildness, interested only in improving conversation, but rather a zest, a shrewdness, a bonhomie, not finding natural interests common and unclean, but passionately devoted to human nature—so impulsive, frail, unequal, irritable, pleasure-loving, but yet with that generous, sweet, wholesome fibre below, that seems to be evoked in crisis and trial from the most apparently worthless human beings.
— from Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson

bishop Rohan at Zabern and

On the 10th of July, 1789, the peasants destroyed the park of the bishop, Rohan, at Zabern, and killed immense quantities of game.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

Burton remained at Zenzibar and

Speke had returned alone, Burton remained at Zenzibar, and she says, "I was very sore "because Burton, according to report, was not thinking of coming home, to his love, but of going for the source of the Nile once more.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

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