But as our present system is mainly calculated for the interests of our great manufacturing cities, and, at all events, has been brought about by their influence, and is strictly in conformity with their demands, we cannot resist the insertion of an extract from an eloquent speech of a most able, humane, and zealous minister of the Free Church in Glasgow on the moral and religious state of the working-classes in that vast and rapidly-increasing city, which now has little short of 400,000 inhabitants within its bounds.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

He received those great discoveries with wonder and delight, though they overturned some cherished theories, and manifested an honest and zealous indignation against the traducers of Galileo’s fame.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

But for years and years to come, in many a home at Zanzibar, whither Stanley now took his party by sea, the story of this great journey was told, and all the men were heroes and the refrain of the natives was chanted again and again— "Then sing, O friends, sing: the journey is ended; Sing aloud, O friends, sing to this great sea.." Stanley had solved the problem of the Congo River at last.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

Myra, Adari, Hodak and Zolan milled about for a moment, then joined Kumiko at the portal.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

And then the Great Water Spirit was more angry and he cried and blew, and tears came from his eyes, and snow blew out of his mouth, and he asked Zit to help him.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

145 Forgetting this, many an honest and zealous parent and teacher does irreparable harm when he finds the boy’s moral code at variance with the man’s.
— from The Boy and His Gang by Joseph Adams Puffer

The transverse arches were decorated with lozenges (wards as they would be called in modern Arabic) having a zigzag outline ( Plate 18 , Fig. 1).
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

'The father of this unsightly woman,' he said, 'was Menecrates; and he and Zenothemis were friends in days when both were men of wealth and rank.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian