I shut up Zenobia in the room where the ladies were to make their toilette, and at five minutes past seven the joyous company arrived.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

male: NA% female: NA% Czech Republic Government Country name: conventional long form: Czech Republic conventional short form: Czech Republic local long form: Ceska Republika local short form: Ceska Republika Government type: parliamentary democracy Capital: Prague Administrative divisions: 13 regions (kraje, singular - kraj) and 1 capital city* (hlavni mesto); Brnensky, Budejovicky, Jihlavsky, Karlovarsky, Kralovehradecky, Liberecky, Olomoucky, Ostravsky, Pardubicky, Plzensky, Praha*, Stredocesky, Ustecky, Zlinsky Independence: 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And zee schulle undirstonde, zif it lyke zou, that at myn hom comynge, I cam to Rome, and schewed my lif to oure holy fadir the Pope, and was assoylled of alle that lay in my conscience, of many a dyverse grevous poynt: as men mosten nedes, that ben in company, dwellyng amonges so many a dyverse folk of dyverse secte and of beleeve, as I have ben.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

24:038:015 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death?
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 24: Jeremiah by Anonymous

“No—no—no,” said Uncle Zachie, “it was Scantlebray.”
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“Do so, do so,” urged Zenas, in relief.
— from Dick Merriwell's Pranks; Or, Lively Times in the Orient by Burt L. Standish

I cannot think that, in this age of infidelity and disorder, God can design to deprive a Christian state of a line of sovereigns uniformly zealous in the defence of truth; but the purposes of Heaven are inscrutable, as the recent suppression of the Society of Jesus has most strangely proved; and should our dynasty be extinguished I am consoled by the thought that the rule will pass to one of our house.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton