A splendid scarabæus was also sent to Mr. Stevens, who remarks, that “this insect was described in the ‘Zoological Review’ of Paris under the name of Mouhotia gloriosa , as a mark of respect to the late M. Mouhot, and stated to be one of the most magnificent known.”
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

It has already been stated that, besides diversions to a distance and of small bodies, large corps are often detached in the zone of operations of the main army.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

This mother has a way of drawing the troubled child out of discord into the zone of perpetual harmony.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The emperors of Delhi, in the zenith of their power, bestowed the epithet zamindar upon the Hindu tributary sovereigns: not out of disrespect, but in the true application of their own term Bhumia Raj, expressive of their tenacity to the soil; and this fact affords additional evidence of the proprietary right being in the cultivator ( ryot ), namely, that he alone can confer the freehold land, which gives the title of Bhumia, and of which both past history and present usage will furnish us with examples.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

One day in the Zoological Gardens, the Formosan deer ( Cervus pseudaxis ) approached me in a curious attitude, with his muzzle raised high up, so that the horns were pressed back on his neck; the head being held rather obliquely.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It would seem, then, that in these higher creatures the lower centres must be less adequate than they are farther down in the zoological scale; and that even for certain elementary [Pg 76] combinations of movement and impression the co-operation of the hemispheres is necessary from the start.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

FERRARO (Count), Italian colonel whom Castanier had known during the Empire, and whose death in the Zembin swamps Castanier alone had witnessed.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

On the other hand, as Mr. Muir supposes, Varenya , applied to evil spirits of darkness in the Zendavesta, is cognate with Varuna (Heaven); and the Vedic Indra, king of the gods—the Sun—is named in the Zoroastrian religion as one of the chief councillors of that Prince of Darkness.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better; this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That sport best pleases that doth least know how; Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Dies in the zeal of that which it presents.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But yet in countries where the North Star shines directly above the traveller's head, it is hard to walk by it; in fact, when the north is directly in the zenith, it is hard to determine the other cardinal points; fortunately the moon and great constellations aided the doctor in determining the route.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

It is divided into three zones, the uppermost of which contains a single row of hieroglyphics, in fair preservation, between a broad red band above and two narrow black bands below.
— from The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras by Thomas William Francis Gann

“I quite agree with you, uncle, for when I looked at the north star last night it seemed to me as directly in the zenith as it was possible to imagine.”
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The tropical forms all disappear in these zones, as the equatorial do in the tropical zones.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

Her refusal to have any conference with this divine inflamed the zeal of the earl of Kent; and he bluntly told her, that her death would be the life of their religion; as, on the contrary, her life would have been the death of it.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

Under existing arrangements, by which clashing of interests is avoided, the fishery at Malpe is divided into two zones, viz., the deep sea fished by the large Ratnagiri boats, and the shallow littoral water by the smaller local and Goa boats.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

What state could fall, what liberty decay, if the zeal of man’s noisy patriotism were as pure as the silent loyalty of a woman’s love?
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When at last he came, he told her that it was the most beautiful thing which could have happened—that Jacqueline should, have died in the zenith of their love.
— from The House of Dreams-Come-True by Margaret Pedler