Just then some one got sight of the market clerk, Zelarchus, making his way off towards the sea, and lifted up his voice aloud, and the rest responding to the cry as if a wild boar or a stag had been started, they rushed upon him.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

So far as regards minor coincidences, Zeller makes out as good a case for his Pythagoreans, as Hilgenfeld for his magians.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"Do you know a man called Zirknitz, Miss Horley?" Polly turned round with a smile.
— from The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

Ees, vriends," he went on, looking around and asking, with that glance, the sympathy of all present, "to berry my zon, my clever zon, my only zon."
— from The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Quiller-Couch

I have myself seen hermaphrodite flowers in Cucurbita , [199] Mercurialis , Cannabis , Zea Mays , and Aucuba japonica , as well as in many Restiaceæ , notably Cannamois virgata and Lepyrodia hermaphrodita .
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

—May contain zinc, magnesium, and other substances.
— from A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bernard D. Bolas

At Fort Massac he met Captain Zebulon M. Pike, whose tact in dealing with intoxicated Indians he commended.
— from The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert

Disharmony was common among the ethnic groups: negro, mulatto, mestizo, Creole, Zapotec, Méxica, Chichimeca, Yaqui.
— from The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record by Paul Alexander Bartlett

My house is your own, if you can put up with scant room and such attendance as we can supply; my child, Zóra, must be your hostess.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor