Is it from those Etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the equator (for Jordan yearly overflows when the snow melts in Mount Libanus), or from those great dropping perpetual showers which are so frequent to the inhabitants within the tropics, when the sun is vertical, and cause such vast inundations in Senegal, Maragnan, Oronoco and the rest of those great rivers in Zona Torrida, which have all commonly the same passions at set times: and by good husbandry and policy hereafter
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Any progress which was made in connection with the navy was confined to developments of organisation, and to the exchange of German rights in Zanzibar and Witu for the islet of Heligoland.
— from The German Fleet Being The Companion Volume to "The Fleets At War" and "From Heligoland To Keeling Island by Archibald Hurd

In the contemplation of beauty of form and of mechanical beauty, and in the intellectual delight of tracing and elucidating relationships and criticising appearances, there is also for many a great reward in zoological study.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Do not let us expose ourselves to the reproach of too much haste, as in 1529," was the general remark in Zurich.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Your "indefinite" answers are perhaps not the least valuable part; for Botany has been followed in so much more a philosophical spirit than Zoology, that I scarcely ever like to trust any general remark in Zoology without I find that botanists concur.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Every general judgment proceeds from heaven; it is only as a theocratic God, that God reigns in Zion and Jerusalem.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

“Bang! Clemente, over he go right into zee air.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap

“Do you think that none other than Germans ride in Zeppelins?” H2 anchor
— from The Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

im Denderatempel geweiten Räume,” in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (1882).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

It was during the third century b.c. that this characteristic culture of Gaul reached its zenith, and gave definite shape to the beautiful curved designs known as those of Late-Celtic Art.
— from Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by E. (Edward) Anwyl