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* * * The wording of it came from the British Foreign Office, but the text had been revised in the Zionist offices in America as well as in England.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous
Unlike powder and ball, which destroy themselves in creating destruction, zet is indestructible; it can be regathered into the zetbai and used over and over again.
— from Adrift in the Unknown; or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm by William Wallace Cook
Ashby, Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna in Papers of the British School at Rome, I, p. 205, thinks Pedum can not be located with certainty, but rather inclines to Zagarolo.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
Although so many of the Felidae breed readily in the Zoological Gardens, yet conception by no means always follows union: in the nine-year Report, various species are specified which were observed to couple seventy-three times, and no doubt this must have passed many times unnoticed; yet from the seventy- three unions only fifteen births ensued.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin
The wall hid the burning zone of twilight; a greenish blue reigned in the zenith.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja
All of the workings of the Tiptop that are in copper ore, it should be remembered, are in the country rock on the foot wall side of the series of faults in which the silver ore occurs, and no drift or crosscut had been run into that zone below 80 feet from the surface.
— from Old Mines of Southern California Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
If this were the case for the Earth, the noonday sun for London would be, at the spring equinox, 38½° high as at present, but its altitude day by day would increase with great rapidity, and before the end of April, the Sun at noon would be right in the zenith, and 13° above the horizon at midnight.
— from Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
The name, however [Pg 28] , seems to have been an ill-omened one, for its second bearer did not survive a month, its burial being recorded in the Zuiderkerk on August 25th.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell
But you had best retire into the zenana.
— from The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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