When the king had made these appointments, and Ziba had worshipped him, and promised to do all that he had bidden him, he went his way; so that this son of Jonathan dwelt at Jerusalem, and dieted at the king's table, and had the same care that a son could claim taken of him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetising sauce.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then it became yet stiller and more mysterious, and everything hearkened, even the ass, and Zarathustra’s noble animals, the eagle and the serpent,—likewise the cave of Zarathustra and the big cool moon, and the night itself.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As the wall quickly approached completion, owing to the activity and zeal of the Tarentines, and the vigorous co-operation of the Carthaginians, Hannibal next conceived the idea of taking the citadel also.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

After this, arriving at Zacynthus and Cephallenia, he took a body of heavy infantry on board, and sending for some of the Messenians from Naupactus, crossed over to the opposite coast of Acarnania, to Alyzia, and to Anactorium which was held by the Athenians.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In four coloured drawings, which I have seen, of hybrids between the ass and zebra, the legs were much more plainly barred than the rest of the body; and in one of them there was a double shoulder-stripe.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

They all asked Zaira and myself to dinner, and I accepted the invitation of the first comer, M. Dinidoff, and promised to dine with the rest on the following days.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The abbot Martin left the army at Zara, proceeded to Palestine, was sent ambassador to Constantinople, and became a reluctant witness of the second siege.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

After a long series of scandal, the apostolic see was reformed and exalted by the austerity and zeal of Gregory VII.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetizing sauce.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lagos J. Brooks, a catalogue of the anatomical and zoological museum, pt. 1, p. 54, July, 1828, appears to be a nomen nudum .
— from A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Ineffably brilliant was the smile on the countenance of the angel; and Zephon, startled, yet entranced, looked again on that bleeding heart.
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

The two men moved away haltingly, then at a zigzag trot, and finally at a slow run.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

Therefore, two days after their arrival at Zara, they set sail for Nona, together with their shipwrecked guests.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

It is not, however, believed that they indulge any other intrigue than an amiable zeal among the Catholic laity to add to their own comfort and prestige.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

Parliament was called upon to appropriate £8,000,000 to defray the cost of the Afghan and Zulu wars.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

This passage, too, acquires additional zest and relish, on a second perusal of the play, when it is known that the son so much commended is chiefly in fault.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

In his exercises with the square and cube of the numbers he easily will discover that to multiply by ten it suffices to change the position of the figures—that is to say, to add a zero.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori