If we lived elsewhere, in that zone where the poets pretend always to dwell, we might be content, perhaps I should say drugged, by the sweet influences of an unchanging summer; but not living elsewhere, we can understand why the Young Lady probably now looks forward to the hearthstone as the most assured center of enduring attachment.
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner

In order that the good results of this lesson should not be wasted, I revisited the scene of the little engagement in the Zephyr a few weeks subsequently, and not long afterwards the British flag was again shewn in the district, by Captain A. H. Alington in H. M. S. Satellite , who interviewed the offending chiefs and gave them sound advice as to their conduct in future.
— from British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

The latter, extending into three zones, has its greatest extent in the most favored of all, the North Temperate.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

Lastly, the fecundity of the several breeds differs much; some generally producing twins or even triplets at a birth, of which fact the curious Shangai sheep (with their truncated and rudimentary ears, and great Roman noses), lately exhibited in the Zoological Gardens, offer a remarkable instance.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

If we lived elsewhere, in that zone where the poets pretend always to dwell, we might be content, perhaps I should say drugged, by the sweet influences of an unchanging summer; but not living elsewhere, we can understand why the Young Lady probably now looks forward to the hearthstone as the most assured center of enduring att
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

A living example in the Zoological Society's Gardens led Mr. Sclater to an identical conclusion, which was supported, as he pointed out, by the fact that this Ass has a different range to the African or Nubian Wild Ass.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

The use of the prehensile tail can frequently be studied in living examples in the Zoological Society's Gardens.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

The Dendritinæ are inhabitants of shallow water and tropical seas, while the other members of the genus Peneroplis abound in the Red Sea and the seas of other warm latitudes, especially in the zone of the great laminarian fuci.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

There is here also an American pastor, Dr. Thorburn, who is very popular, and whose people are building him a new church while he is absent on a visit to his own country; and what attracts a stranger still more, an excellent family of American ladies, engaged in the Zenana Mission, which is designed to reach Hindoo women, who, as they live in strict seclusion, can never hear of Christianity except through those of their own sex.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

About fifteen minutes after the planton had locked everyone in, The Zulu driftingly arrived before us; whereupon we attempted to give him his purchases—but he winked and told us wordlessly that we should (if we would be so kind) keep them for him, immediately following this suggestion by a request that we open the marmalade or jam or whatever it might be called—preserve is perhaps the best word.
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings