“For some reason when it thunders I think of that grandfather,” Zina went on.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Soon as the morn, in orient purple dress'd, Unbarr'd the portal of the roseate east, The monarch rose; magnificent to view, The imperial mantle o'er his vest he threw; The glittering zone athwart his shoulders cast, A starry falchion low-depending graced; Clasp'd on his feet the embroidered sandals shine; And forth he moves, majestic and divine, Instant to young Telemachus he press'd; And thus benevolent his speech addressed: "Say, royal youth, sincere of soul report Whit cause hath led you to the Spartan court?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

398 This river is now called Ghasir, a tributary of the Great Zab.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

His suspicions are unsupported by fact or argument; and we can only esteem the generous zeal of the sophist of Antioch for the cold and neglected ashes of his friend.
— 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

At that time General Zachary Taylor was in chief command in Florida, and had his headquarters at Tampa Bay.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The oldest among the gods of heaven is Dyaus (identical with the Greek Zeus).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The Roman Jupiter, who is so frequently confounded with the Greek Zeus, is identical with him only as being the head of the Olympic gods, and the presiding deity over Life, Light, and Aërial Phenomena.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

By the drawing backwards and upwards of the corners of the mouth, through the contraction of the great zygomatic muscles, and by the raising of the upper lip, the cheeks are drawn upwards.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

By reflection the water reproduced the brilliant sparkles, so that the boat appeared to be floating between two glittering zones.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

William Ernest Henley [1849-1903] H2 anchor THE BLACKBIRD Ov all the birds upon the wing Between the zunny showers o' spring,- Vor all the lark, a-swingen high, Mid zing below a cloudless sky, An' sparrows, clust'ren roun' the bough, Mid chatter to the men at plough,— The blackbird, whisslen in among The boughs, do zing the gayest zong.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

When the room was ready, one of her two girls, Zezefôrn or Falôom, would precede her to it, bearing wax tapers in their hands.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

VINCENT had left the Gasthaus zur Post , the old-fashioned inn outside Klein-Laufingen, at which he had taken up his quarters for the night, a little before nine, and walked down the street, with his mind finally made up as to the course he meant to take, although he shrank from the coming interview almost as intensely as Mark himself.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

[179] The Grundriss zur Geschichte der Provenzalischen Literatur (Elberfeld, 1872) and the Chrestomathie Provençale (3d ed., Elberfeld, 1875) of this excellent scholar will not soon be obsolete, and may, in the peculiar conditions of the case, suffice all but special students in a degree hardly possible in any other literature.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

The military police at Guard Posts 1, 2, and 4 blocked off all roads leading into the test site, and the men at Guard Post 8, the only access to the ground zero area from the Base Camp, ensured that no unauthorized individuals entered the area (9; 12).
— from Project Trinity, 1945-1946 by Carl R. Maag

It was a lovely day; the sky was of the most intense blue, without a cloud or speck to dim its brilliancy; the sea calm as a mirror, and reflecting the hue of the bright canopy above, was of so crystal a clearness that the eye seemed capable of piercing to its very lowest depths; the sun shone forth with glowing splendour, and the wind of the gentle zephyr, which came from the west, blew with a balmy softness, incapable of ruffling the water, or of forcing through it the pirate brig.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

This liberal acknowledgment renders it the more extraordinary, that in the appellation which it was judged proper to give to this extensive group, the French admiral had not rather thought of doing honour to the original discoverer, or to the Gulde Zeepaard , than to his own ship; more especially, as his examination was far from being complete.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders