France has enough to do and sees more of a future in Tongking and China, besides the fact that the French spirit does not shine in zeal for colonization.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

This having been done, steps were taken to ransom our three comrades, so as to enable them to quit the bano, and lest, seeing me ransomed and themselves not, though the money was forthcoming, they should make a disturbance about it and the devil should prompt them to do something that might injure Zoraida; for though their position might be sufficient to relieve me from this apprehension, nevertheless I was unwilling to run any risk in the matter; and so I had them ransomed in the same way as I was, handing over all the money to the merchant so that he might with safety and confidence give security; without, however, confiding our arrangement and secret to him, which might have been dangerous.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To spend your life writing documents that are opposed to your own ideas," Zinaida Fyodorovna went on, clasping her hands in despair: "to submit to authority, congratulate your superiors at the New Year, and then cards and nothing but cards: worst of all, to be working for a system which must be distasteful to you—no, George , no!
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He said this in jest, but after he had said it, tears glistened in Zinaida Fyodorovna's eyes and then in his.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

After another contest for the honour of yielding precedence, Chichikov succeeded in making his way (in zigzag fashion) to the dining-room, where they found awaiting them a couple of youngsters.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

“Zis is ze finest silk magazin in Paris—ze most celebrate.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

That old fable of the Indian woman has become a truth by the deep and deadly science of Rappaccini and in the person of the lovely Beatrice." Giovanni groaned and hid his face "Her father," continued Baglioni, "was not restrained by natural affection from offering up his child in this horrible manner as the victim of his insane zeal for science; for, let us do him justice, he is as true a man of science as ever distilled his own heart in an alembic.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

F. Kluge, in Techmer’s Internationale Zeitschrift für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, vol.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Tempest , iii. 2. 50 He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Und wenn man's fühlt, so hilft kein Rat; / Weisheit ist immer zu früh und
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Schellhas, “ Die Göttergestalten der Mayahandschriften ,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 1892.
— from A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

(In: Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Geographie.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

But the most agreeable company had lost its zest for Marie Antoinette; and she was really become afraid of large assemblies, and scarcely ever saw a group of persons collected together without fearing some plot against the King.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

Jagor, F., “Bericht über verschiedene Volksstämme in Vorderindien,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , xxvi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

The Church of England Zenana Society sends its candidates to Mrs. Pennefather for training, and she is glad to accept them, believing that a variety of companionship is needed by those who, in zeal for their personal work, might lose the broad sympathy for all kinds of Christian labor, which is an invaluable cultivation for wise and useful laborers.
— from Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft

In zoölogy, for instance, it is of some importance to know at what particular period of history, in what country, and for what purposes certain animals were tamed and domesticated.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

London, 1898. Hildebrandt, J. M., “Ethnographische Notizen über Wakamba und ihre Nachbarn,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , x. (1878).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

When matters came to that pass, the wine of life lost its zest for this young man, and he became a victim to melancholia, that terrible disease for which there is rarely—if any cure.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume