By great and zealous exertions the entire Volscian nation was soon assembled under arms.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The Fall—The Serpent—Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological Explanation—Dr. Henry Dissents—Whence This Serpent?—XVIII. Dampness—A Race of Giants—Wickedness of Mankind—An Ark Constructed—A Universal Flood Indicated—Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark—How Did They Get There?—Problem of Food and Service—A Shoreless Sea Covered with Innumerable Dead—Drs.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various

On the 18th of December 1603 Steven van der Hagen left Holland for India with a strong armed fleet, consisting of the Vereenigde Provincien , Amsterdam , Dordrecht , Hoorn , and West Friesland , each of three hundred and fifty tons burden, the Gelderland and Zeelandia , each of two hundred and fifty tons, the Hof van Holland , of one hundred and eighty tons, the Delft and Enkhuizen , each of one hundred and fifty tons, the Medenblik , of one hundred and twenty-five tons, and a despatch boat named the Duifken , of thirty tons burden.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

We got a zero every time, and I don't mean a Jap Zero, either."
— from Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sidney Bowen

" These advisers hoped that good men, well known to the negroes, might control them for the country's good; and zealous efforts were made along this line in every State, but they were futile.
— from The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History by Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) Herbert

For, as for what concerns Manners, every one abounds so much in his own sense, That we may finde as many Reformers as heads, were it permitted to others, besides those whom God hath established as Soveraigns over his people, or at least, to whom he hath dispensed grace and zeal enough to be Prophets, to undertake the change of any thing therein.
— from A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

In vain the intrepid Grimaldi, in vain Lieutenants Amato, Legendre, Hubert, Pouza, Gomez, and Zanetti endeavoured to stem the torrent; numbers prevailed: we were compelled to retreat.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

Fanny designed a costume for Mrs. Gurr (a pretty Samoan girl) as Zenobia, Empress of the East.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

My dear Mr. Wallace,—I have been reading over again your paper published in 1855 in the Annals on "The Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species"; passages of which I intend to quote, not in reference to your priority of publication, but simply because there are some points laid down more clearly than I can find in the work of Darwin itself, in regard to the bearing of the geological and zoological evidence on geographical distribution and the origin of species.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace