The same system (with the religious sanction of a kind of zoolatry) is in force and has worked to the same result, in Africa, Asia, America, and Australia, while a host of minute facts make it a reasonable conclusion that it prevailed in Europe.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

The battle was renewed, and continued for long in doubt, the emperor being even in great danger of suffering a defeat; but at length a Portuguese shot the king of Zeyla in the belly by which he died, but his horse carried him dangling about the field, as he was tied to the saddle, and his army took to flight.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

294 Cetchwayo, king of Zululand, iii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

We lack typical specimens of R. m. zacatecae from the type locality for comparison and our knowledge of zacatecae is derived from Howell's (1914:39) description of it.
— from An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

The prophet Dusentscheuer, on the same day, the 12th September, sought the King of Zion in his palace, and said to him with an inspired air, "This is the commandment of the Lord to me: Go and say unto the chief of Israel, that he shall prepare on the Mount Zion (that is, the cathedral square) a great supper for all Christian brethren and sisters, and after supper he shall commission the teachers of my Word to go forth to the four quarters of the world, that they may teach all men the way of my righteousness, and that they may be brought into my fold."
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Ibn Batuta (Moorish traveller, circa A.D. 1330-1350), his account of Chinese juggling; his account of Khansa (Kinsay); of Zayton; in Sumatra; on Camphor; in Ceylon; at Kaulam; in Malabar; sees Rukh; his account of Maldives; dog-sledges; Market in Land of Darkness; on Silver Mines of Russia.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

[Pg 171] Every moment was enriched by an exhilaration that conquered other feelings, a kind of zest in defiance.
— from A Floating Home by Cyril Ionides