I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Conversely, Harden and Zilva have shown that the vitamine is destroyed by alkali even when dilute (one-fiftieth normal sodium hydrate) and kept in contact at room temperature; this alteration does not take place at once, but in the course of several hours.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Ziska," said Madame Zamenoy, calling aloud — "Ziska, come hither;" and Ziska entered the room.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

Come here an' zit a while below Theäse tower, grey and ivy-bound, In sheäde, the while the zun do glow So hot upon the flow'ry ground; An' winds in flight, Do briskly smite
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

And he calls himself a Zionist!
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

Les sauvages, Assiniboins, Crows, many more zat wee' come, he are ze troub', m'sieu'."
— from The War-Trail Fort: Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan by James Willard Schultz

Dollybel, Mollybel and Pollybel, Catilius, Matilius, and Patilius, Cinalene, Hinalene and Linalene, Bess, Chess, Hess and Zess, Didas, Fidas and Midas, Linalene, Winalene and Zinalene, Dillius, Millius and Fillius, Hestor, Lestor and Nestor, Are all good names for dolls.
— from Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

But there is one difficulty—" and he suddenly checked his apparent zeal, and assumed a thoughtful air.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton

At Mill Springs with seven regiments, two batteries, and a handful of cavalry, he assailed Zollicoffer—who was killed in action—overthrew him and his successor Crittenden, and in effect drove the Confederates across the river.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

Compare him and Ziska, and Ziska becomes hardly a man at all.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

Behind these influential men were an ignorant and corrupted clergy, who called the evangelical doctrine "an invention of hell"—"My dear confederates," said the councillor Mullinen before a full assembly in the month of July, "take care that this Reformation does not come here; at Zurich a man is not safe in his own house, and he is obliged to have a guard to protect him."
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné