The next one spoke with a simpering precision of pronunciation that was irritating and said: “If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

It is superfluous to add that the outrages upon women were no less universal in Zutphen than they had been in every city captured or occupied by the Spanish troops.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

[75] For the curious in Austrian philosophy and philology, I subjoin the original of the above, which loses, unhappily, its zest in plain English, as it would in good German.—
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

Lying there on his back, the outlaw looked up into Zeke’s face, and recognized it, and cursed this unexpected foe obscenely.
— from Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily

H.C.K. WYLD, B.Litt., Professor of English Language and Philology, Liverpool University ISRAEL ZANGWILL 9.
— from Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919) by Society for Pure English

And I wonder afresh at the patience and charity of those who go on lecturing, unabated in zest, to boys of whom one in ten may perhaps, fifteen years later, begin to grasp their message.
— from Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

When Sancho II. fought against his sister locked up in Zamora, he offered her Vallisoletum in exchange for the powerful fortress she had inherited from her father.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

to-day has led us in zigzag directions over fallen timber some twelve miles.
— from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford