Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt das Glück dir nimmer zu —If thou canst not renounce the world, the genius of happiness never salutes thee.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It will be a surprise to the reader, as it was to me, to learn that the distance from Australia to New Zealand is really twelve or thirteen hundred miles, and that there is no bridge.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Mitteln ausgestattet of moderate means nur nomineller Teilhaber nominal partner nur zum Inkasso for collection only nur zum Teil bezahlt partly paid nur zum Teil fertiggestellt partly finished nur zum Teil genutzte Hypothek open mortgage nur zum Teil wahr partly true nur zur Abrechnung; nicht übertragbar not negotiable nur zur Verrechnung for account only nur zur Verrechnung for deposit only nutzbar machen; nutzen utilize Nutzbarmachung; Nutzung utilization Nutzen benefit Nutzen utility nutzen utilize Nutzen ziehen benefit Nutzen ziehen benefit from sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

p. 30 sq.; Westcott Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible s.v.; Ginsburg The Essenes , London 1864, and in Kitto’s Cyclopædia s.v.; Derenbourg L’Histoire et la Géographie de la Palestine p. 166 sq., 460 sq.; Keim Geschichte Jesu von Nazara I. p. 282 sq.; Hausrath Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte I. p. 133 sq.; Lipsius Schenkel’s
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The fairy-folk, under many names, in many tongues, are everywhere objects of human belief, in Central Australia, in New Zealand, in the isles of the Pacific, as in the British Isles, Lowland or Highland, Celtic in the main, or English in the main, I conceive the various beings, fairies, brownies, Iruntarinia , Djinns , or what you will, to be purely mythical .
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

[ 104 ] At dawn on Saturday, March sixteen, 196 1521, we came upon a high land at a distance of three hundred leguas from the islands of Latroni—an island named Zamal [ i.e. , Samar].
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

You have nothing? ZOE: Is he hungry? STEPHEN: (Extends his hand to her smiling and chants to the air of the bloodoath in the Dusk of the Gods.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

New Zealand in its endemic plants is much more closely related to Australia, the nearest mainland, than to any other region: and this is what might have been expected; but it is also plainly related to South America, which, although the next nearest continent, is so enormously remote, that the fact becomes an anomaly.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Of a schoolmaster neither learning nor zeal is expected; resignation, humility, and inaction only are asked.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

New Zealander , inhabitant of New Zealand, a group of two islands lying southeast of Australia.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the case of an earthquake on the South Island of New Zealand, in 1848, a fissure having an average width of eighteen inches could be clearly seen extending in a direction parallel to the [Pg 240] mountain chain for a distance of sixty miles, and during a later earthquake in the same region, in 1855, a fracture was formed that could be clearly traced for a distance of nearly ninety miles.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

"The New Zealanders in France," by Colonel Hugh Stewart, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., who served through the campaigns in Gallipoli and France with the N.Z. Infantry.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

the Maori name for the Bastard Trumpeter (q.v.) of New Zealand, <i>Latris ciliaris, Forst., family Cirrhitidae.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

N. Z. Inst. xix. 34.)
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

There are variants, Swagger (more general in New Zealand), <i>Swaggie, and Swagsman.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Now Zeleia is situated at the farthest extremity of the country lying at the foot of Ida, and is distant 190 stadia from Cyzicus, and about 80 1353 from the nearest sea, into which the Æsepus discharges itself.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Then the wise bird goes to sleep, and wakes up again only to resume with new zest its persistent and varied efforts, by which it becomes acquainted with all the details of its environment.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Whether the rate of incidence has increased during recent years; ( c ) How New Zealand compares with other countries in this respect; (2) To inquire into and report upon the underlying causes for the occurrence of septic abortion in New Zealand, including medical, economic, social, and any other factors; (3) To advise as to the best means of combating and preventing the occurrence of septic abortion in New Zealand; (4) Generally to make any other observations or recommendations that appear appropriate to the Committee on the subject.
— from Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand by D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan