Van Buelow knew a great deal about the Zionist movement.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

She, faire as fairest Planet ° in the skye, 164 Hir puritie ° to noe man doeth denye; The verie chamber that enclouds ° her shine Lookes lyke the pallace of that God deuine ° , Who leades the daie about the Zodiake ° , 168 And euerie euen discends to th'oceane ° lake; So fierce and feruent is her radiance ° , Such fyrie stakes she darts at euerie glance ° As might enflame the icie limmes ° of age, 172 And make pale death his seignedrie to aswage; ° To stand and gaze upon her orient lamps ° ,
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

He saw the deacon and the zoologist, and went up to them.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The variety and force of the arguments which he advances, the splendour of his diction, and the zeal with which he endeavours to excite the love and admiration of virtue, all conspire to place his character, as a philosophical writer, including likewise his incomparable eloquence, on the summit of human celebrity.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

and the orange and coral, and the pink chiffon garden dress, and the zebra, for travelling, and the blue and silver...."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I wonder how it is our alma mater—don’t speak of it after dark—dare display in public such noodles and patent dullards as that Z. Z—— Why, he is a European fool!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He ran like a deer across the zone of danger.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

hoion autika to tou pneumonos, eiper analogon tô megethei tou splanchnou gignoito, pollapla|| 72 sion estai dêpou tou kata tous nephrous, hôsth' holos men ho thôrax emplêsthêsetai, pnigêsetai d' autika to zôon.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But it is perfectly true that, between the preceptorial exhortation of Sokratês, and that of Protagoras or Prodikus, there was no great or material difference; and this Zeller seems to admit.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

It is mainly owing to the swollen and almost gelatinous nature of the ectocyst that the dendritic character of the zoarium is frequently concealed, for the method of branching is essentially the same as that of P. diffusa , although the zoœcia are not so distinctly elbowed.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

Some people actually do assert that Zeus behaves like this in the final fire!”
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The orbits varied in width and height, the cranial ridge was either single or double, either much or little developed, and the zygomatic aperture varied considerably in size.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

But when you be a-lost vrom the parish, zome mwore Will come on in your pleäzen to bloom an' to die; An' the zummer will always have maïdens avore Their doors, vor to chatty an' zee vo'k goo by.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

She pointed out each man to him, in the same way a keeper does at the zoological gardens.
— from Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw

Now, both railroads were in trouble; dividends were cut, and the stock which he had hoped to sell at a profit had dropped almost to zero; the mortgage loan on his house was due in a month; and he, a man earning only a moderate salary in a real-estate office, had nothing in the world wherewith to meet the emergency.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight

The latter was by no means as neat and clean as he had been wont to find in similar dwellings among the Zulus; because the Xosa has a sort of passion for grease—and dogs.
— from Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford

This seemed to me to be a rather good revenge on Apollo for his very ungodlike treatment of Clytie, and if half the attendant told me that day at the Zoo is true, this excessively fickle Olympian is probably sorry by this time that he treated her originally with such uncalled for disdain.
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs