Berlioz, Glinka, Liszt, Wagner, modern French composers—Delibes, Bizet and others; those of the new Russian school—Borodin, Balakirev, Glazounov and Tschaikovsky—have brought this side of musical art to its zenith; they have eclipsed, as colourists, their predecessors, Weber, Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, to whose genius, nevertheless, they are indebted for their own progress.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The whole coast from hence to Guaxaca and along the shores of the kingdom of Guatimala presents no islands of any consequence until we reach the extremity of Veragua, towards the south, where, between Cape Dulce and Cape Mariato are the isles Zedzones, Mentuosa, Quibo, or Caybo, and Quicaras; the first are merely small barren rocks.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

The ambition of a semi-barbarous monarch and the inflammatory zeal of hordes of Mussulman fanatics, were sources of danger, which, however alarming, were at least plain and intelligible.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

The extent of this restricted territory was about five by six miles, and took in Zagarolo, Valmontone, Cave, Rocca di Cave, Capranica, Poli, and Gallicano.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

He was only twenty-five years old; he had belonged to the Brethren's Church about a year; he had spent some months as tutor in Zinzendorf's family; he had picked up only the weak side of the Brethren's teaching; and now, with all the zeal of youth, he set forth his views in extravagant language, which soon filled Wesley with horror.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

The Crown Prince made a trip in Zeppelin No. 3 and its originator was decorated with the Order of the Black Eagle.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith

Gray again interfered.—“You will not,” he said, “separate the mother and the infant?” Zilia de Moncada heard the question, (which, being addressed to the father, Gray had inconsiderately uttered in French,) and it seemed as if it recalled to her recollection the existence of the helpless creature to which she had given birth, forgotten for a moment amongst the accumulated horrors of her father's presence.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

Fanaticism of martyrs, and the interested zeal of missionaries 134.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

The fanaticism of martyrs, and the interested zeal of missionaries, by no means prove the truth of Religion 134.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'