the zoologist interrupted.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now this Simon, who was without the wall, was a greater terror to the people than the Romans themselves, as were the zealots who were within it more heavy upon them than both of the other; and during this time did the mischievous contrivances and courage [of John] corrupt the body of the Galileans; for these Galileans had advanced this John, and made him very potent, who made them suitable requital from the authority he had obtained by their means; for he permitted them to do all things that any of them desired to do, while their inclination to plunder was insatiable, as was their zeal in searching the houses of the rich; and for the murdering of the men, and abusing of the women, it was sport to them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

And in reply to Winterbourne’s interrogation, “There’s Zurich,” she concluded, “I think Zurich is lovely; and we hadn’t heard half so much about it.”
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

" The porter did as he was bid, but as he led the dog to Zobeida it uttered piercing howls, and gazed up at her with looks of entreaty.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Then the gleams of lightning were very fierce, the thunder crashed very near; this storm had gathered immediately above Villette; it seemed to have burst at the zenith; it rushed down prone; the forked, slant bolts pierced athwart vertical torrents; red zigzags interlaced a descent blanched as white metal: and all broke from a sky heavily black in its swollen abundance.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He was usually delighted to have an “inside view” of the momentous world of motors but to-night he scarcely listened to Eddie Swanson's revelation: “If you want to go above the Javelin class, the Zeeco is a mighty good buy.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The Zuni Indians in New Mexico do the same thing with their holy turtle.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The marriage procession ( pĕrarakan ) then sets out, the women heading it ( pĕnganjor ) and the men following, the bridegroom carried upon somebody’s [ 381 ] shoulders ( di-sompoh ), and right and left the musicians beating drums, tabors, etc., whilst those who have any skill amuse the company with exhibitions of Malay fencing ( main silat ) and dancing, etc., to the accompaniment of the zikir intoned by their companions.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He commanded the plains, 13 too, to be extended, the valleys 5 I. 43-49 to sink down, the woods to be clothed with green leaves, the craggy mountains to arise; and, as on the right-hand side, 14 two Zones intersect the heavens, and as many on the left; and as there is a fifth hotter than these, so did the care of the Deity distinguish this enclosed mass of the Earth by the same number, and as many climates are marked out upon the Earth.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught."
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

But Micaiah replied, that Zedekiah, in a few days, should go from one secret chamber to another to hide himself, that he might escape the punishment of his lying.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The students of Lane Seminary at Cincinnati were thanked for their zeal in the cause of abolition.
— from The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 by John Wesley Cromwell

This Zicci is another Apollonius of Tyana, —nothing less will satisfy you.
— from Zicci: A Tale — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Name three general encouragements given by the prophet to Zerubbabel in Chapter 4 to rebuild the temple.
— from A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition by Frank Nelson Palmer

If you keep your mouth shut, and the devil doesn’t put his finger into the pie, I think, spite of all the Zorrillos, I shall be Eletto to-morrow.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

The fact that zinc is more volatile than magnesium gives reason for thinking that the metal in question will be more volatile than aluminium, and therefore for expecting its discovery by the aid of the spectroscope, &c. These properties were indicated by me for the analogue of aluminium in 1871, and I named it ( see Chapter XV. )
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

When the Achaeans were sacrificing several hecatombs at once to Zeus, in Aulis, they naturally could not do so in a temple, but under a fair plane tree, by a clear running stream.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang

@ is probably to be traced to the written form of the z in ``oz.''
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The road down the Zigzag is, as already mentioned, a trial to the nerves of timid people.
— from The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland by Samuel Cook