, 1907, No. 55; The Secret of the Totem , ch. iv; N. W. Thomas, Arunta Totemism , in Man , 1904, No. 68; P. W. Schmidt, Die Stellung der Aranda unter der Australischen Stämmen , in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 1908, pp. 866 ff.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
I kept on checking my email to see if Zeb had replied.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
That watch of his I wound up with such indefatigable zeal that it had very soon to be sent to the watchmaker's in Calcutta.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
Sheppard, A. L. : Scurvy in Zhob, Baluchistan, Indian Jour.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
Ægimurus is the small island Zembra, near Cape Bon; near it is also another small low rocky island.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
France has enough to do and sees more of a future in Tongking and China, besides the fact that the French spirit does not shine in zeal for colonization.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal
Soon after I had settled in Zurich I began to write down my various ideas about things at which I had arrived through my private and artistic experiences, as well as through the influence of the political unrest of the day.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
“I have ze idea—it come to me in a moment—zat ze silk in zis magazin—“ that we did not wish to buy any silks to-day, and I also intended to tell you that we yearned to go immediately to the palace of the Louvre, but enjoying the happiness of seeing you devour four breakfasts this morning has so filled me with pleasurable emotions that I neglect the commonest interests of the time.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The tether at Honath's neck twitched, and then his captors were soaring in zig-zag bounds down into the hollow toward the Judgment Seat.
— from The Thing in the Attic by James Blish
Today, interest rates are based on fear--fear that government will resort to measures, as it has in the past, that will send inflation zooming again.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents
“I only saw her statue in zinc, seven yards high.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill
Jerusalem will be rebuilt, together with the glorious temple, and the Lord shall visit His Saints in Zion.
— from Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, "That Mormon" by Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus) Rich
And Polly read Mrs. Beaton’s Cookery-book with such assiduity, and Maggie carried out her directions with such implicit zeal and good faith, that really most remarkable meals began to grace the Doctor’s board.
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade
The officer was a lieutenant of the American forces stationed in Zamboanga, the oldest and most important city in Mindanao, the headquarters of the United States military district in the Philippines known as the Department of Mindanao and Jolo.
— from Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme
At the end of a week, just as the time was drawing near when some account might be expected from Marchdale-court, Rachel, gliding softly into Zorilda's apartment with a packet in her hand, "This is for you, my dear young lady; but it is not the letter which you were hoping for from the North." Zorilda started, and remembering the caution which she had received from Algernon at parting, concluded this to be the communication against which he had warned her in the slip of paper which he thrust under her door just before he left Henbury.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill
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