The author was one of the most celebrated adventurers of a period of remarkable adventure; his book breathes that ardor for discovery, that spirit of enterprise, which characterized the men of his time, when the manners of chivalry were united to zeal for commerce, and made subservient to the acquisition of wealth.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The fact is that the main ideas of the Zohar find confirmation in the Talmud.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Zinaida Fyodorovna considered me as a being of a lower order, and did not suspect that if any one in the house were in a humiliating position it was she.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” xxi , xxxiv ; account of his life, xxxiii-xliii ; his family, xxxiii ; born near Wearmouth, xxxiii , xxxiv , 386 ; his instructors, xxxiii , xxxiv , 222 , 257 n., 386 ; his ordination, xxxiii , 273 n., 386 ; his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiii , xxxiv , 137 n., 386 ; dates of his birth and death, xxxiv ; his autobiography, xxxiv , 386-389 ; his diligence, xxxiv ; his eyes dim in age, xxxiv ; his death, xix , xxxiv , xxxix-xliii , 391 ; his epitaph, xxxiv ; his learning, xxxiv , xxxv , xxxvi ; his style, xxxvi ; visits Lindisfarne, xxxvi ; visits York, xxxvi ; Egbert his pupil, xxxvi ; his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” xxxvi , 273 n., 342 n.; his influence, xxxvi ; his last illness, xxxvi , xxxix , xl , xlii , xliii ; his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, xxxvi , 4 n., 260 n., 285 n., 287 n., [pg 400] 288 n., 291 , 309 ; story of his visit to Rome, xxxvi ; story of his residence at Cambridge, xxxvi ; his writings, xxxvii , 311 n.; list of his literary works and compilations, 386-389 ; his studies, xxxvii , 386-389 ; his duties, xxxvii ; his character, xxxvii , xxxviii , xxxix ; his zeal for Catholic usages, xxxviii , xxxix ; his admiration for Aidan, xxxix ; dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, xlii , xliii ; buried at Jarrow, xl ; his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, xl ; translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, xl ; a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, xl ; his chronology corrected, 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 n., 20 n., 22 n., 23 n., 27 n., 28 n., 29 n., 42 n., 63 n., 68 n., 75 n., 94 n., 241 n., 254 n., 287 n., 314 n.; his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, 27 n., 99 n., 265 n.; his friendship for Acca, 161 n.; his “De Temporibus,” 170 ; his “De temporum Ratione,” 170 , 227 n.; his “History of the Abbots,” 213 n., 215 n., 257 n., 287 n.; uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, 227 n.; his “De Locis Santis,” 337 n., 338 n.; said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, 360 n.; his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” 364 n.; his “Ecclesiastical History,” see Ecclesiastical .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Zinaida Fyodorovna could not refrain from putting her head out.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Our Oehler grandparents were fairly well-to-do; for our grandmother hailed from a very old family, who had been extensive land-owners in the neighbourhood of Zeitz for centuries, and her father owned the baronial estate of Wehlitz and a magnificent seat near Zeitz in Pacht.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At last about eleven I hear the familiar footstep, and at the turn near the stairs Zinaida Fyodorovna comes into sight.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[ From an epistle of St. Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, to Ethelbald, king of England, we learn that among the Saxons the women themselves inflicted the punishment for violated chastity; "In ancient Saxony (now Westphalia), if a virgin pollute her father's house, or a married woman prove false to her vows, sometimes she is forced to put an end to her own life by the halter, and over the ashes of her burned body her seducer is hanged: sometimes a troop of females assembling lead her through the circumjacent villages, lacerating her body, stripped to the girdle, with rods and knives; and thus, bloody and full of minute wounds, she is continually met by new tormenters, who in their zeal for chastity do not quit her till she is dead, or scarcely alive, in order to inspire a dread of such offences.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

This very same spirit, this poor and questionable zeal for Christ, still works, and does so plentifully.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

"Your dear mother say I go to ze fazionable church.
— from The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Zell feebly called her.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

To display his zeal for Christianity, Mahomet tells his readers he encountered and slew the Turkish general in single combat, and performed such feats of daring, that had we not his own testimony for their truthfulness, they would not be deemed credible.
— from Claimants to Royalty by John Henry Ingram

Their testimony was a great truth and a much-needed one in the middle of the seventeenth century, when Churchmen were in danger of turning religion into a great machine of state police, such as the Greek Church became under the earlier Christian emperors, and when Puritans were inclined to smother all religious enthusiasm beneath their intense zeal for cold, rigid scholastic dogmas and confessions of faith.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

Side by side with the heroic figures of Henry I. (919-936), who refounded the shattered empire, and his still greater son, Otto I., who rebuilt it, we find spirited princesses, some of them, like Adelheid of Burgundy, foreigners, with great zeal for culture, who brought an appreciation of refinement and art to the German court.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

What I reproach Zola with is that he has no style; there is nothing you won't find in Zola from Chateaubriand to the reporting in the Figaro .
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

The zeal for codification found expression also in Aragon, Catalonia, Vizcaya, and Guipúzcoa, while the laws with regard to the Americas were gathered together, after various lesser publications had been made in earlier times, in the Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias , first issued in 1680.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Cortez razed the walls of ancient Mexico to the ground as he entered it, and his zealous followers committed to the flames whatever was light and combustible.
— from Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft