His friend Epaphus, son of Zeus and Io, endeavoured to check his youthful vanity by pretending to disbelieve his assertion that the sun-god was his father.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

This latter muscle runs parallel to and above the great zygomatic, and is attached to the outer part of the upper lip.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

69 A commerce of mutual benefit exchanged the gold of Constantinople for the blood of Sclavonians and Turks, the Bulgarians and Russians: their valor contributed to the victories of Nicephorus and Zimisces; and if a hostile people pressed too closely on the frontier, they were recalled to the defence of their country, and the desire of peace, by the well-managed attack of a more distant tribe.
— 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

Nomen zelotypiae apud istos locum non habet, lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And Reform The Pagan Worship—To Rebuild The Temple Of Jerusalem—His Artful Persecution Of The Christians.—Mutual Zeal And Injustice.
— 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

Their own island was called Zuluan and it is not very large.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

There is probably as much passion and prejudice in the attack of Zosimus, as in the elaborate defence of the memory of Constantine by the zealous Dr. Howell.
— 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

Before dawn the demon let loose among a weakened multitude had begun to pick off victims, here in a triangle, there in a semicircle, again in a neat zigzag, as if with mathematical malice and caprice.... Flint, roused at daybreak by the fatal news, worked for hours in conjunction with the medical officer, dosing, segregating, attending to the removal of the dead, striving to stem the panic that might drive the people to scatter over the countryside, spreading the disease.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

I’ll help with zeal as I approve
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Miss Z—— arrived in the afternoon.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

Here most of the chinchona-plants have been established under the superintendence of Mr. Thwaites, who is assisted in their cultivation by Mr. McNicoll, a zealous and intelligent gardener from Kew.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

This celebrated serpent has enriched zoological annals in several points of interest.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

It had been but a protectorate of Zanzibar and its Sultan.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 23: Isaiah by Anonymous

We have in these pages followed their ideas—Saadia, Gabirol, Ibn Zaddik, Abraham Ibn Daud.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

287; Oenomaus at, ii. 300, iv. 91; chariot-races at, ii. 300, iv. 90 sq. ; worship of Thunderbolt Zeus at, ii. 361; girls' race at, iv. 91; image of Zeus at, iv. 91; victor's wreath of olive at, iv. 91, vi. 240; the sacred olive at, iv. 91, vi. 240, xi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

"We are ze Pale Faces," he would say, "and ze ozzers zey are Indians closing in from every corner of ze Far Vest for our scalps!"
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne