She does not run about stupidly and awkwardly, for she knows what she wants, she knows what she can do, she's as soft as a zephyr and as strong as a storm; she knows how to begin a thing carefully, and to have her own way.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He actually seemed to serve as a zest to Mr. Jaggers's wine.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He made Sheva the scribe, and appointed Zadok and Abiathar the high priests.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

manifestly evinces as much of Socrates, whom though that Oracle of Apollo confirmed to be the wisest man then living, and saved him from plague, whom 2000 years have admired, of whom some will as soon speak evil as of Christ, yet re vera , he was an illiterate idiot, as [204] Aristophanes calls him, irriscor et ambitiosus , as his master Aristotle terms him, scurra Atticus , as Zeno, an [205] enemy to all arts and sciences, as Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[102] These are the words of a great man; of a minister of state; and a zealous assertor of monarchy.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Also, certain changes in the curriculum of studies came about, for there were engaged new teachers who held new views and opinions, and confused their hearers with a multitude of new terms and phrases, and displayed in their exposition of things both logical sequence and a zest for modern discovery and much warmth of individual bias.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Owing to the divergent tendency of natural selection, the extreme amount of difference in character between species a14 and z14 will be much greater than that between the most different of the original eleven species.
— 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

Ajdabiya, Al 'Aziziyah, Al Fatih, Al Jabal al Akhdar, Al Jufrah, Al Khums, Al Kufrah, An Nuqat al Khams, Ash Shati', Awbari, Az Zawiyah, Banghazi, Darnah, Ghadamis, Gharyan, Misratah, Murzuq, Sabha, Sawfajjin, Surt, Tarabulus, Tarhunah, Tubruq, Yafran, Zlitan; note - the 25 municipalities may have been replaced by 13 regions Independence: 24 December 1951 (from Italy) National holiday: Revolution Day, 1 September (1969) Constitution: 11 December 1969, amended 2 March 1977
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It would appear from the Iscrizioni e Memorie di Firenze , by F. Bigazzi (1887), that the pillar of the cross was really erected to commemorate a victory over heretics, but that the cross itself was added by the Saints Ambrosio and Zenobio, “on account of a great mystery”—which mystery is, I believe, fully explained by the legend which I have given.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Let whoever will, be a saint and a zealot, and to his heart's content; only let him not bring harm upon another, and let him not rob me of my liberty!
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

453 Simyra appears as “Zimirra” in the Assyrian inscriptions, where it is connected with Arka, 454 which was not far distant.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

British Section arrived at Zeitoun Camp.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

Besides numerous works and text-books in systematic and anatomical zoölogy and life histories, he published popular lectures and essays in many different periodicals, recensions, reviews of books, translations, and even political articles.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 by Various