Come along, Zaly, you're dropping from sheer weariness.
— from Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells

You will be here in a house as strict as holy; if your aunt really loves you, she will profit by my offer; at first you will have but small wages, but if by your conduct and zeal you deserve more, perhaps I will increase them."
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

Casa Cerrada, at Zayi, Yucatan, antiq., iv., 213 .
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

You may admit with some that real presence, which you are free to reject with the Calvinists and Zuinglians; you may join with the Socinians in denying the divinity of Jesus Christ; you may attach yourself to Episcopalians, to Puritans, or, if you please, to the extravagances of the Quakers; it is of no consequence, for you always remain a Protestant, for you protest against the authority of the Church; your field is so extensive, that you can hardly escape from it, however great may be your wanderings; it contains all the vast extent that we behold on coming forth from the gates of the Holy City.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

HOMS Boys' School Early in the present century a zealous young man became the acting pastor of the Homs church.
— from Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences by William S. Nelson

We may be full of courage and zeal; yet, if we are ignorant of truth and duty, we shall make sad work of it, running headlong, first into this extravagance, and then into that, disturbing the plans of others, and defeating our own, by a rash and heedless course of conduct.
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

I do hope you'll repent of all your zins—I do, indeed, zur; and if you shou'd, I'll come and zee you again as friendly as ever—I wool, indeed, zur.
— from Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton

It is, indeed, very humiliating to human nature to find so many of the wise, the talented, and the religious so confident and zealous, yet so erroneous.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

All hikers are warned to stay on designated trails— do not take short cuts across zigzags ; you may dislodge rocks that will injure someone below.
— from Yosemite National Park, California by United States. National Park Service