But in your composition, whom do you mean by Pan, and whom by Zeus unless you and I are they, that is, you are Zeus and I am Pan?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The islets y and z are the outer ones of the group; between which and the western shore there is a space of fourteen miles in extent, quite free from danger, with regular soundings between nine and twelve fathoms on a sandy bottom.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

If Y and Z are groups which behave very differently, then there is apparently no tautomerism and a definite formula can be given to the compound.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Thrum, thrum, thrum, thrum, Come, come, come, come, My dearest be not coy, For if you are (zit, zan, zounds) I Must without your favour die.
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

'Yes; he has spoken of you--that is, if you are Zalia, the daughter of an oil-merchant of Rhodes?' "'I am that woman,' she exclaimed, 'I am that woman!
— from The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander by Frank Richard Stockton

"And that is your answer, Zóra-bee?" said Máma Luteefa, somewhat scornfully.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 2 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

"Go to the devil!" said I. "You are Zachariah Longstraw?" said another man, tapping me on the shoulder.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

You will be rewarded with large dividends if you are zealous in making yourself comfortable.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

If Y and Z, with the fact staring them in the face [45] that B holds the king of hearts and A the remaining four—for we are all agreed that this is clear—took any active steps to induce trumps to “come out,” they must have been rampant lunatics; even if Y and Z were not lunatics, but as ardent admirers of the antepenultimate lead, and anxious for its success, at any cost to themselves, merely did their best to ensure the “coming out” of the trumps, how B got the opportunity to discard the king of hearts would still be involved in Stygian darkness.
— from The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play by John Petch Hewby

Imperial Yeomanry At Zandfontein, on the 25th: Capt. G. M. H. Stirling, Essex Regiment; Lieut.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke