Here the young Trojan prince first beheld Helen, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and sister of the Dioscuri, who was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and the loveliest woman of her time.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The Arcadian Artemis (the real Artemis of the Greeks) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin-sister of Apollo.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Yet, even as the thought passed through his mind, Spring seemed once more to regain possession of her kingdom, and everything around him grew golden-green, and trees, shrubs, and herbage started to wave and glimmer under the soft, warm breath of the vernal zephyrs, and larks took to pouring out their souls in endless, ringing strains, and siskins, circling high over sunken ponds, uttered their cry, then skimmed the hillocks in silence, and handsome black rooks stalked among the tender green of the short corn-shoots, or settled among the pale-white, smokelike ripples of the young rye, whence at intervals they protruded their heads.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

“That’s a fetching little girl, Avdotya Romanovna,” remarked Zossimov, almost licking his lips as they both came out into the street.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

noche y sacudirse el polvo de los zapatos a la salida de la ciudad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I ran into the yard, sick with terror; and called for Zillah, as loud as I could.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I tried to get an idea of it while my wife and daughter visited the princess in the zenana, a lady of charming graces and a fluent speaker of English, but I did not make it out.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

If a herald or an ambassador carry a false message from our city to any other, or bring back a false message from the city to which he is sent, or be proved to have brought back, whether from friends or enemies, in his capacity of herald or ambassador, what they have never said, let him be indicted for having violated, contrary to the law, the commands and duties imposed upon him by Hermes and Zeus, and let there be a penalty fixed, which he shall suffer or pay if he be convicted.
— from Laws by Plato

From her thrift and energy she gained from him the nicknames of Lady Zulsdorf, and Lady of the Pigmarket; thus one of his last letters is addressed to 'my heartily beloved housewife, Catharine, Lady Luther, Lady Doctor, Lady Zulsdorf, Lady of the Pigmarket, and whatever else she may be.'
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

48, 49.—Zurita, Anales, lib. 17, cap.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

At this work the Kaffirs were quite at home, and bore on their shoulders huge pieces of sea-lion, enough to last any man but a Zulu at least a week.
— from Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

[23] Zurita, Anales, lib. 20, cap.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

brother of Porrex, the two sons of Leir FIRE WORSHIPPERS, of ancient Persia, See Parsees FLOLLO, Roman tribune in Gaul FLORA, Roman goddess of flowers and spring FLORDELIS, fair maiden beloved by Florismart FLORISMART, Sir, a brave knight, FLOSSHILDA, one of the Rhine daughters FORTUNATE FIELDS FORTUNATE ISLANDS (See Elysian Plain) FORUM, market place and open square for public meetings in Rome, surrounded by court houses, palaces, temples, etc FRANCUS, son of Histion, grandson of Japhet, great grandson of Noah, legendary ancestor of the Franks, or French FREKI, one of Odin's two wolves FREY, or Freyr, god of the sun FREYA, Norse goddess of music, spring, and flowers FRICKA, goddess of marriage FRIGGA, goddess who presided over smiling nature, sending sunshine, rain, and harvest FROH, one of the Norse gods FRONTI'NO, Rogero's horse FURIES (Erinnyes), the three retributive spirits who punished crime, represented as snaky haired old woman, named Alecto, Megaeira, and Tisiphone FUSBERTA, Rinaldo's sword G GAEA, or Ge, called Tellus by the Romans, the personification of the earth, described as the first being that sprang fiom Chaos, and gave birth to Uranus (Heaven) and Pontus (Sea) GAHARIET, knight of Arthur's court GAHERIS, knight GALAFRON, King of Cathay, father of Angelica GALAHAD, Sir, the pure knight of Arthur's Round Table, who safely took the Siege Perilous (which See) GALATEA, a Nereid or sea nymph GALATEA, statue carved and beloved by Pygmalion GALEN, Greek physician and philosophical writer GALLEHANT, King of the Marches GAMES, national athletic contests in Greece—Olympian, at Olympia, Pythian, near Delphi, seat of Apollo's oracle, Isthmian, on the Corinthian Isthmus, Nemean, at Nemea in Argolis GAN, treacherous Duke of Maganza GANELON of Mayence, one of Charlemagne's knights GANGES, river in India GANO, a peer of Charlemagne GANYMEDE, the most beautiful of all mortals, carried off to Olympus that he might fill the cup of Zeus and live among the immortal gods GARETH, Arthur's knight GAUDISSO, Sultan GAUL, ancient France GAUTAMA, Prince, the Buddha GAWAIN, Arthur's knight GAWL, son of Clud, suitor for Rhiannon GEMINI (See Castor), constellation created by Jupiter from the twin brothers after death, 158 GENGHIS Khan, Tartar conqueror GENIUS, in Roman belief, the protective Spirit of each individual man, See Juno GEOFFREY OF MON'MOUTH, translator into Latin of the Welsh History of the Kings of Britain (1150)
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Blake, after embarking at Ayamonte on July 8th, had two days later returned to Cadiz with the two Albuera divisions of Zayas and Lardizabal.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

"Hardly any king," says Snorro, "was ever so well obeyed; by one class out of zeal and love, by the rest out of dread."
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Zey are looking for me, but I go by night, I sleep in ze haystack—zis I show.
— from Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh