The Tartar pedigree of the house of Zingis gave a different cast to flattery and fable; and the historian Mirkhond derives the Seljukides from Alankavah, the virgin mother, (p. 801, col. 2.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

With these words, she takes out of her bosom a paper which she gives me; I recognize the handwriting of Zanetto Steffani.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"On no account will I allow it," said the curate; "your mightiness must remain on horseback, for it is on horseback you achieve the greatest deeds and adventures that have been beheld in our age; as for me, an unworthy priest, it will serve me well enough to mount on the haunches of one of the mules of these gentlefolk who accompany your worship, if they have no objection, and I will fancy I am mounted on the steed Pegasus, or on the zebra or charger that bore the famous Moor, Muzaraque, who to this day lies enchanted in the great hill of Zulema, a little distance from the great Complutum."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then he should listen only to his own zeal and should bear his exile without a murmur; that exile is one of his duties.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But the patriarch Nicholas refused his blessing: the Imperial baptism of the young prince was obtained by a promise of separation; and the contumacious husband of Zoe was excluded from the communion of the faithful.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

That was an honour reserved for individuals particularly formidable to the evil powers,—Adam, Jacob, Hercules, or Zoroaster.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I hold in my hand the magic hammer of Zéchiélé!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

* Note: Compare the seventh book of Von Hammer, Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches.—M.] I. For every war, a motive of safety or revenge, of honor or zeal, of right or convenience, may be readily found in the jurisprudence of conquerors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

One of his sketches showed us the house of Mozart, others the houses of Zoroaster and of Bernard Palissy, who were country neighbors in one of the landscapes of this immense planet.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

This is in Jeremiah the 29th chapter, verses 10, 11 and in the 31st chapter he adds, 'Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and of the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The victims were before the hearth of Zeus A household-expiation: since the king O' the country, Herakles had killed and cast From out the dwelling; and a beauteous choir Of boys stood by his sire, too, and his wife.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

O Strength, and thou, O Force, the hest of Zeus,
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

Here rest the chiefs of the once mighty House of Douglas, and, not far away, of the English Warden who desecrated their tombs and was overtaken and slain at Ancrum Moor; among minor clans “Ye race of ye House of Zair”—Kerrs and Pringles; and, later in date but of the same stubborn 40 and trusty Border stuff, Tom Purdie, the reclaimed poacher and faithful watchdog and factotum of the Laird of Abbotsford.
— from The Scott Country by John Geddie

Whom they refused, dishonoured, and slew, him God raised up and made King upon his holy hill of Zion.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

The Jews, indeed, were indifferent as to its fall; for they knew that the possession of the inner town was of slight importance to them, and that its fall would not greatly facilitate the attack upon what was the natural line of defense--namely, the heights of Zion and Moriah.
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Simon, son of Gioras, occupied the hill of Zion with 10,000 Jews and 5,000 Idumeans, and confronted both the other leaders.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

They played an arrangement that had “Old Zip Coon” in it.
— from Back Home by Eugene Wood

The tomb of David and the tombs of his successors were hewn in the rocks of the gorge which separated the city from the height of Zion (p. 177).
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker