The crisis in which the ascending force reaches its zenith is followed quickly, or even without the slightest pause, by a reverse or counter-blow not less emphatic and in some cases even more exciting.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The despotic power of the husband is modified in practice through influence of the wife's friends: Rehme , in ZVR.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

"Woher gewann er [says Fischer], der Sohn eines Dorfbarbiers,… eine solche sichere und eingelebte Anschauung, ich möchte sagen, Fühlung fürstlichen Wesens, wenn nicht Herzog Karl, ein Meister in der Kunst fürstlichen Repräsentierens, ihn zum Modell gedient hätte?"]
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

His literary fame reached its zenith, and brought with it the friendship of the best intellectual forces of southern Russia, and with the aid of Princess Ryépnin (cousin to the minister of public education) and Count Uvároff, he obtained the post of drawing-master in Kíeff University.
— from A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Yes, my friend Reinecke is ze model of efficiency--of German efficiency.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

Mwesa, only a few years old at the period of the escape, had at first remained in Zanzibar during his father's absence, but at the age of twelve he, too, had travelled with the Englishman's caravan, and had picked up a smattering of English as well as of the dialects of the tribes through whose countries he had passed.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

CHAPTER X Ferdinand of Coburg and the Court of Sofia The glory of the Coburg family reached its zenith at the time of Leopold I and the Prince Consort.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise

This found even greater favour with the public than its predecessors, and with it Scott’s poetical fame reached its zenith.
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews

In 1879 he was paralyzed, and spent the last years of his life in forced retirement in Zürich.
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle