The Polish alphabet also contains a dotted z (here represented by plain z ) which is pronounced like zh .
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It often falls out, that being displeased at some action that civility and reason will not permit me openly to reprove, I here disgorge myself, not without design of public instruction: and also these poetical lashes, “Zon zur l’oeil, ion sur le groin, Zon zur le dos du Sagoin,”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Entonces cogió sus zapatos, salió fuera de la ciudad y los arrojó en un acueducto; pero los zapatos fueron a obstruir el conducto del agua con que se surtía la población de Suez.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Cómo hallaron los pescadores los zapatos?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

However, he thought it not safe to fly, nor did he esteem it a fit thing for him to do; but calling to mind the actions he had done from his youth, and recollecting his courage, as if he had been excited by a divine fury, he covered himself and those that were with him with their shields, and formed a testudo over both their bodies and their armor, and bore up against the enemy's attacks, who came running down from the top of the city; and without showing any dread at the multitude of the men or of their darts, he endured all, until the enemy took notice of that divine courage that was within him, and remitted of their attacks; and when they pressed less zealously upon him, he retired, though without showing his back to them till he was gotten out of the walls of the city.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The valleys of the west side are within an entirely different plant life zone, typified by dense climax forests.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

They may even make file transfers with protocols like ZMODEM, Kermit, and XMODEM impossible.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

His words about his schoolmaster had, perhaps, less zest in them than his words concerning his cousin.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

m highest point: Mount Makarakomburu 2,447 m Natural resources: fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates, lead, zinc, nickel Land use: arable land: 1% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 1% forests and woodland: 88% other: 9% (1993 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"I like chicken, I do," said proud little Zay with appealing eyes, but no tears; "and then I lost all my pennies!"
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

6,962 m Natural resources: fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium Land use: arable land: 9% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 52% forests and woodland: 19% other: 19% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It had lain in the eyes belonging to the golden curl, in poor little Zora's eyes, might conceivably lie in half a dozen others.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

As she was well read and highly accomplished, there were many subjects on which we could converse in common, as she was wonderfully familiar with the best works of the English and French writers of the day, and knew them quite as well as those of Tourguéneff, Panaeff, Longenoff, Zernina, and others who were barely known to me by name.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

So saying the black-skinned Jehu started off across the patio , leaving Zeb Stump sole “master of the stole.”
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

A spur of the Kymore, like that of Rotas, here projects to the bed of the river, and was blazing at night with the beacon-like fires of the natives, lighted to scare the tigers and bears from the spots where they cut wood and bamboo; they afforded a splendid spectacle, the flames in some places leaping zig-zag from hill to hill in front of us, and looking as if a gigantic letter W were written in fire.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

growled the old barbarian, discharging his pistol at poor little Zela, who fell dead without a groan, with the purple blood streaming from her white bosom, which I saw heave its last convulsive throb around the death-shot.
— from The Romance of War; or, The Highlanders in Spain, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

But see how He feels about poor lost Zell, when I, her own sister, was almost hating her," and, reaching her hand to the table, she took her Bible and read Christ's words to "a woman of the city, which was a sinner."
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

After he had buried poor little Zora away in accordance with the customs of her people, and paid his racing bets and general liabilities,--to do which he had found it necessary to sell most things, including the very horse he had matched against Major Erlton's,--he had suddenly found out, rather to his own surprise, that the idea of starting again on the old lines was utterly distasteful to him.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel