Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Dies ist zwar ein altes Projekt, aber zum ersten mal werden jetzt endlich die Mittel dafür zur Verfügung gestellt.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

* Note: Heyne in his Disquisitio in Zosimum Ejusque Fidem.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Readers who desire to obtain a more precise knowledge of the term are referred to the discussions in 'Zur Einführung des Narzissmus' and the essays on metapsychology in Kleine Schriften zur Neurosenlehre , Vierte Folge.— Translator. ]
— from Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud

“Is M'sieur deaf in zee ears?”
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

It is curious how easily the river may be divided into “zones”, each with its usual habitués quite distinct from those of other zones.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

4to.--This work of uncommon labour and research, treats of the geography, physical, and natural history of Russia, divided into zones, each of which will be separately described, when the work is completed.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

| | Buch XI, 33 | Daί es aber Engel gibt, die gesόndigt | haben und in die tiefste Tiefe dieser | Welt verstoίen sind, die ihnen zu | einer Art von Kerker wurde, darin sie | bis zur bevorstehenden letzten | Verurteilung am Tage des Gerichtes
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

"My friend, sir," the second man went on, "is vat you call chippy because you come plomp into his bed of cabbage, very fine vegetable, vich remind him of his youthful days in ze ever-to-beloved Homeland."
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang

[95] In passing, Humboldt also touches on environment in the first volume of his chef-d’oeuvre, Kosmos , assigning it, however, but a modest rôle: “ Es würde das allgemeine Naturbild, das ich zu entwerfen strebe, unvollständig bleiben, wenn ich hier nicht auch den Mut hätte, das Menschengeschlecht in seinen physischen Abstufungen, in der geographischen Verbreitung seiner gleichzeitig vorhandenen Typen, in dem Einfluß, welchen es von den Kräften der Erde empfangen und wechselseitig, wenn auch schwächer, auf sie ausgeübt hat, mit wenigen Zügen zu schildern.
— from The Theory of Environment An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and Its Present Status, part 1 by Armin Hajman Koller

I had returned from a walk in the country, on a glorious sunshiny morning of the Andalusian winter, and was directing my steps towards my lodging: as I was passing by the portal of a large gloomy house near the gate of Xeres, two individuals dressed in zamarras emerged from the archway, and were about to cross my path, when one, looking in my face, suddenly started back, exclaiming in the purest and most melodious French: “What do I see?
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Eltern, die ich zärtlich ehre, Mein Herz ist heut' voll Dankbarkeit!
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle