The next one spoke with a simpering precision of pronunciation that was irritating and said: “If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
"'Yes, certainly,' I said, 'I zink zere is a zief. 'Shtrike a light!'
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang
After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct Zalu Zako was more at liberty to consider other matters, which resulted in an effort to quicken the collective will to recover the tribe’s country and possessions, symbolised in Zalu Zako’s mind by the delicate figure of Bakuma.
— from Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
At the supper that night, Madam Villenauve, with a great show of playful indignation, routed Madam Kadanoff from her accidental seat next to Bobby, and, in giving up the seat, which she did quite gracefully enough, Madam Kadanoff dropped some remark in choice Russian, which, of course, Bobby did not understand, but which Madam Villenauve did, for she laughed a little shrilly and, with an engaging upward smile at Bobby, observed: “I theenk I shall say it zat zees so chairming Monsieur Burnit is soon to marry wiz me; ees eet not, monsieur?”
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester
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