Since October, 1889, her work has been more regular and has included arithmetic, geography, zoology, botany and reading.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

And it is a fabulous God whose scriptural biography is invested with so many ludicrous and abstruse incidents as to incite several hundred Christian writers to labor hard with a "godly zeal," by a reconstruction of "God's Word" and a rehabiliment of the ghostly texts, to effect some kind of a reconciliation of the story with reason and common sense—with what success the reader is left to judge.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

A like fate, it may be incidentally mentioned, has overtaken the efforts of the Portuguese missionaries to evangelise the natives of the east coast, where little now survives of their teachings but snatches of unintelligible songs to the Blessed Virgin, such as that still chanted by the Lower Zambesi boatmen and recorded by Mrs Pringle:— Sina mama, sina mamai, Sina mama Maria, sina mamai ... Mary, I'm alone, mother I have none,
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

“I should like very much to hear the poetry that has cost Nais her reputation,” said Zephirine; “but after receiving Amelie’s request in such a way, it is not very likely that she will give us a specimen.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

New Zealand birds are rarely gregarious, but the Zosterops made a great migration, in large flocks, from the South Island to the North Island in 1856, and the Maori name for the bird is `The Stranger' (Tau-hou).
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

" Colobus kirkii ," writes Mr. H. H. Johnston, in 1886, "had disappeared from nearly every part of the island of Zanzibar, but a rumour prevailed that it still lingered on a clump of forest as yet unvisited by hunters.
— from A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) by Henry O. (Henry Ogg) Forbes

Next the women proceeded to Zainul Beg and reddened his fingers also, then Nadir Sharif, then all the other family members.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

Taking my way home, very tired, with fragments of airs from “Czar und Zimmermann,” in which I had just been playing, the “March” from “Lenore,” and scraps of choruses and airs from the “Thurm zu Babel,” all ringing in my head in a confused jumble, I sprung up the stairs (up which I used to plod so wearily and so spiritlessly), and went into the sitting-room.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Could I brush thy cheek As zephyrs brush a rose leaf, words are weak To tell the bliss in which my soul would bask.
— from Poems of Power by Ella Wheeler Wilcox