Show yourself a brave man, as a Spartan should; and do you, allies, follow him like men, and remember that zeal, honour, and obedience mark the good soldier, and that this day will make you either free men and allies of Lacedaemon, or slaves of Athens; even if you escape without personal loss of liberty or life, your bondage will be on harsher terms than before, and you will also hinder the liberation of the rest of the Hellenes.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Jess halted to let the little procession go by, when suddenly she perceived John Niel among these men and recognised the Zulu Mouti on the box.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

When I asked him if the insurrection had really happened he shrugged his shoulders in a tired manner and replied, “ Tchort znayet!
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

“My art,” replied the Zingaro, “tells me naught that concerns myself.”
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

Innocent endeavoured by such means to keep up the devotion of pilgrimages, which had given birth to the crusades, [192] and might again revive the zeal and ardour for holy wars.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

ix. 9, 10), we must acknowledge to be well-founded—that the Fathers, having in their controversies with the Jews sometimes met a reference to Zerubbabel, forced it upon the Jews, even when the latter themselves refused it.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

I then caught him, and mounted, and returned to Zante.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

[316] Dit schijnen mij als roosen te zijn.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

I was careful not to make any reference to Zarlah, as I felt that my second meeting with her would put me in a much better position to approach Almos on this extremely delicate subject and lay before him my plans.
— from Zarlah the Martian by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood

Certain charts of the Middle Ages represent the Zodiac as an arch in the heavens, and place some of the constellations, such as Andromeda, the Lyre, Cassiopea, and the Eagle, in the same region as the Seraphim, the Cherubim, and the Thrones.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion