R. David Zinsheimer, of Strassburg, applied to him in a sermon, Isa. xlii.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

But what did Zarathustra once say unto thee?
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But I can never hope to be that again with any woman; my decreasing hair forbids, if nozing else—but my way is to make myself indispensable—ze old dog, ze old standby, as you Americans say—the good old harbour to which you will come at last when tired of ze storms outside!"
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

Standing on that calm clear height, where the sun shines ever though it shines coldly, the wayfarer may look behind him at his own footprints of self-renunciation, below on his dark zones of storm, and forward to the final land where the mystery, the pain, and the yearning of his life will either be infinitely satisfied or infinitely quieted.
— from The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

Faint echoes backward from the world are born, Tongued by yon distant zone of slumbering hills.
— from Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

Hasseena on this ran down the hillock; I had not noticed her disappearance from the immediate vicinity of the hillock, as I was too much occupied hurriedly making my diminutive zareeba of stones.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld