It seems that the Catholic clergy made haste to use this impostor to point their moral against learning, and to identify him as first-fruit of the Reformation; while the Reformers, with equal zeal, hurled him back upon the papists as outcome of their idolatries.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The Varings, who were then in pay in Constantinople, have told here in the North that there went a report among well-informed people that the empress Zoe herself wanted Harald for her husband, and that she chiefly blamed Harald for his determination to leave Constantinople, although another reason was given out to the public.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Verrechnungsstelle der Banken banker's clearing house verringern diminish verrufene spekulative Wertpapiere cats and dogs versagen; verfehlen fail Versammlung der Belegschaft staff meeting Versammlungsfreiheit freedom of assembly Versandabteilung; Expedition mailing department Versandabteilunjg shipping department Versandanschrift mailing addresss Versandanweisungen shipping instructions Versandanweisungen erteilen to give instructions for dispatch Versandanzeige advice of dispatch Versandanzeige forwarding advice Versandanzeige shipping advice Versandanzeige; Verladeschein dispatch note Versandart mode of dispatch Versandaufkleber forwarding label Versandauftrag mail-order Versandauftrag shipping order versandbereit ready for despatch Versandbescheinigung certificate of dispatch Versanddatum mailing date Versandgeschäft mail-order business Versandgroßhändler mail-order wholesaler Versandhaus mail-order house Versandhaus; Versandgeschäft mail-order business Versandhaus; Versandunternehmen mail-order establishment Versandhaus; Versandunternehmen mail-order firm Versandhauskatalog mail-order catalogue Versandhauswerbung mail-order advertising Versandkatalog mail-order catalogue Versandkosten forwarding charges Versandkosten forwarding expenses Versandkosten mailing expenses Versandland country of dispatch Versandpapiere shipping documents Versandpapiere shipping papers Versandschachtel mailing carton Versandtag; Versandtermin date of dispatch Versandvorschriften forwarding instructions Versäumnisurteil judgement by default Versäumnisurteil judgment by default versäumte es anzuzeigen failed to inform versäumte es zu handeln failed to act verschenken give away verschieben postpone Verschiebung postponement verschieden miscellaneous verschiedenartig various verschiedene Regeln miscellaneous provisions Verschiedenes sundries verschiffen; Schiff ship verschifft shipped Verschiffung shipment Verschiffungshafen port of shipment Verschiffungskosten
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Das Herz bedarf ein zweites Herz. /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For upon the bounteous earth Zeus has thrice ten thousand spirits, watchers of mortal men, and these keep watch on judgements and deeds of wrong as they roam, clothed in mist, all over the earth.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

hôst', ei men tas prôtas te kai stoicheiôdeis alloiôtikas dynameis zêtoiês, hygrotês esti kai xêrotês kai psychrotês kai thermotês; ei de tas ek tês toutôn kraseôs genomenas, tosautai kath' hekaston esontai zôon, hosaper an autou ta aisthêta stoicheia hyparchê; kaleitai d' aisthêta stoicheia ta homoiomerê panta tou sômatos moria; kai taut' ouk ek methodou tinos all' autoptên genomenon ekmathein chrê dia tôn anatomôn.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Thus Harald escaped out of Constantinople and sailed thence into the Black Sea; but before he left the land he put the lady ashore and sent her back with a good escort to Constantinople and bade her tell her relation, the Empress Zoe, how little power she had over Harald, and how little the empress could have hindered him from taking the lady.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And when the empress Zoe heard of this she became angry and raised an accusation against Harald that he had misapplied the property of the Greek emperor which he had received in the campaigns in which he was commander of the army.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Dafur jederman grawen solt, Wenn ers zu Hertzen nemen wolt.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Zeuxis acknowledged himself conquered by exclaiming, “Zeuxis has deceived birds, but Parrhasius has deceived Zeuxis himself.”
— from Woman and Puppet, Etc. by Pierre Louÿs

"With Symington," Eugene Zuckert has pointed out, "it was principle first, efficiency second."
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

Evidently Zoe had overheard the remark, for she turned in their direction with a bright look and smile; then springing up came quickly toward them, and taking possession of a low chair near at hand, "Was it Max you were talking of, Violet?"
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

"Ay, I be English, zur," he replied with a strong West Country burr, "God help me!"
— from The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams

In their young wisdom they believed their guardian teachers had looked with perverted eyes upon the travelers of the hill, and with over earnest zeal had given them too dark a character.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, September 1849 by Various

Captain Jonas, Captain Benjamin, and Captain Phineas were now old men; even Zenas Henry's hair had thinned and whitened above his temples, and Abbie, once so tireless, was becoming content to drop her cares on younger shoulders.
— from Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

So far he had been utterly unconnected in any way with the crime, though his excessive zeal had attracted attention at the time.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

The longest specimen (AMNH 58364) is a female from El Zamarano, Honduras, having a body length of 703 mm., a tail length of 164 mm. and a total length of 867 mm.
— from A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by John Wellman

The wealthy devotee brings his huge luminary of wax, the eager zealot, his seven-branched candlestick; and even the mendicant pilgrim is by no means satisfied that sufficient light is thrown upon the deceased unless he hangs up his little lamp of smoking oil.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving