Such news instantly made Zinaida Fyodorovna's eyes look red.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The moon could not be seen at all, being nearly in my zenith.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Note 5511 ( return ) [ Gibbon, according to Sir J. Malcolm, has greatly mistaken the derivation of this name; it means Zoolaktaf, the Lord of the Shoulders, from his directing the shoulders of his captives to be pierced and then dislocated by a string passed through them.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"My name is Mr. Zwiebel," his visitor announced, "and I came to see you about a business matter.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

In a moment, I had dismissed all fear of Neilson, in my zeal for his reformation, and, stepping up to him with a friendly good-afternoon, into which I insinuated all the approval I could conscientiously bestow upon so forbidding a creature, I handed him, from my basket, a bunch of violets.
— from My Fire Opal, and Other Tales by Sarah Warner Brooks

Ze night I make ze Christmas pie!
— from Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg

“The rule I go by,” he said, “is this: that no nation is more zealous for their honour than the English; that if they are put into a great passion they forget their particular interests and animosities.”
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

I have never placed him, according to his number, in my zoological collection; he remains by himself, in the chamber of honor.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About

The only fact which I consider worthy of being chronicled is the following: On one occasion, when quite a novice in Marine Zoology, while observing a beautiful group of Serpulæ seated on a stone, I saw issuing from out one of the tubes a kind of very fine dust, of a rich crimson hue, which continued to arise [318] for nearly an hour in spite of repeated efforts to disperse it by aid of a camel-hair pencil.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

One lovely, cold day, in the month of March, with ice on some of the pools, and the wind blowing from the north, I mounted Zoe to meet John midway on the moor, and had gone about two-thirds of the distance, when I saw him, as I thought, a long way to my right, and concluded he had not expected me so soon, and had gone exploring.
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

This has at any rate been noted in Mesoplodon , Ziphius , and Hyperoodon .
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard