Even at the last moment had come the sudden struggle with May, and the zest of that strife still tingled in her veins.
— from The Splendid Fairing by Constance Holme

This led to an acquaintance: it could hardly be otherwise, for little Tergou had never held so many as two zealots of this sort before.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

But from this moment also the zeal of the Princesses Elizabeth and de Lamballe became redoubled.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

He found me and the Zigler on the veldt (Pretoria wasn't wholesome at that time), and he annexed me in a somnambulistic sort o' way.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

Happily, however, the abilities of Colonel Maitland, and the zeal of the troops under his command, powerfully aided by the professional skill of Lieutenant Goldesborough, of the navy, who was thoroughly acquainted with the various creeks, inlets, and cuts, with which the interior navigation of this country abounds, overcame every obstacle in their way.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

He finally joined the Methodists, as the zeal of that people was an attraction to his heated temperament.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

On the whole, therefore, it seems best to regard the Babil mound as the ziggurat of the great temple of Bel (called by some “the tomb of Belus”) which the Persians destroyed and which Alexander intended to restore.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Michaelangelo, at the zenith of the Italian Renaissance, standing at the parting of the ways, gathered up, as it seemed, the several arts into his representative genius, and left to the land that was soon to swamp the æsthetic spirit in the mire of a materialistic decadence the threefold heritage of his painting, his sculpture, and his song.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood