“Two of the smallest, daintiest hands in Dresden,” as Kleist relates, crowned him with laurel at a soirée in the house of the Austrian ambassador after the preliminary reading of the “ Zerbrochenen Kruges. ”
— from Sleep Walking and Moon Walking: A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

Pushing rapidly over the Zebdâny plain, we reached, in three hours, the French road, and, crossing it, ascended a long valley, bare and grey with cliffs and a few oak bushes.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

18 The globes of this edition were supplied with the usual brass meridian circles, wooden horizon circles, on the surface of which was pasted the printed representation of the zodiacal signs, the names of the months, and of the principal winds or directions.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

The immense prestige of imported Chinese art and ideas, together with the powerful role of the Zen clerics as virtually the only group sufficiently educated to oversee relations with the continent, meant that early on, Zen's cultural role became as telling as its spiritual place.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

This pictorial representation of the zodiac was probably the origin, as M. Dupuis suggests, of the Arabian and Egyptian adoration of animals and birds, and has led in the natural progress of events to the adoration of images by both Christians and pagans.
— from The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney

" 138 "A PEEP INTO THE PUMP ROOM; OR, THE ZOMERSETSHIRE FOLK IN A MAZE," OCTOBER, 1817 147 ROBERT OWEN, AUGUST 21, 1817 151 "SALES BY AUCTION!
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

It is called " A Peep into the Pump Room , or the Zomersetshire folk in A Maze."
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

"A PEEP INTO THE PUMP ROOM; OR, THE ZOMERSETSHIRE FOLK IN A MAZE," OCTOBER, 1817.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton