She is the Zinaida Nikolaevna whom you know.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had, years previously, fought against Tshaka, but since his tribe, the Abambo, had made submission, and had been incorporated into the Zulu nation, he had served his new master with faithfulness and zeal.
— from Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

These appendages in the Zoantharia never present the bipinnate arrangement which is observable in the Alcyonaria .
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

They were with me then, they were under me for years; they never wavered in their zeal, nor had I once, in our long association together, ever to find fault with them or their work, not even in later days, when the holders of the public purse set the pruning knives clicking and the military vote suffered so severely 157 as to necessitate much extra work on the part of those who remained on the staff.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

And, if the members, above all, if the rulers, of that communion would restrain their zeal within the same bounds (though they 218 would not, we say, be equally justified in this zeal) neither public peace, nor Christian charity, would suffer by it.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

In the Zillah, North Mooradabad, the land is broken up at the end of June.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

He had often, he said, himself regretted that he had not spent some time in study during his youth: he would neither have shot nor hunted with less skill, and he might have made the roof of Saint Stephen's echo to longer orations than were comprised in those zealous Noes, with which, when a member of the House during Godolphin's administration, he encountered every measure of government.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Both gunboats, having watched the Camel Corps safely into the zeriba, now returned with the current and renewed their attack upon the Arabs.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

Oon yn ay oppatihua in tlalticpacqui, zan nicuicanitl ayaho onnichocaya niquelnamiqui Nezahualcoyotl aya ho.
— from Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

I regret very much that in consequence of our being ordered to be paid off at Chatham, instead of Portsmouth, as we always hoped and expected, I shall be unable to submit to your inspection the zoological notes and drawings which I have made during our cruise.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

It is called here "Mosunda a maluzé," or leech of the rivers; "Luba" is the Zanzibar name.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone