A certain Wolf, in that soft, pleasant season, When gentle zephyrs freshen every flower, And animals leave home, for this good reason— They want to make their hay before the shower: A Wolf, I say, after rough winters rigour, Perceived a Horse newly turned out to grass.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I can say with the greatest truth that my ardent zeal for equity, the uprightness and generosity of my heart, and my confidence in the love of justice innate in every mind never appeared more fully and perceptible than in this wise and interesting memoir, in which I took, without hesitation, my most implacable enemies for arbitrators between a calumniator and myself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Admitting that no great cleverness is needed for serving in our Zemstvo, for example, yet I suffer from . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Zuweisungszettel allotment note Zuwendung für Lebensunterhalt subsistence money Zuwiderhandlung noncompliance zuzahlen pay extra zuzüglich 10 Prozent plus ten per cent zuzüglich Versicherung gegen Kriegsgefahr plus war risk insurance zuzüglich zu allen Kosten in addition to any expenses Zwang zur Abnahme des ganzen Sortiments full-line forcing Zwang zur Entscheidung pressure to take a decision Zwangsanleihe forced loan Zwangsauflösung compulsory liquidation Zwangskurs forced exchange Zwangsliquidation compulsory liquidation Zwangsmaßnahme arbitrary measure Zwangsmitgliedschaft compulsory membership Zwangsparen forced saving Zwangsregulierung forced execution
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Da ich mich zu jener Zeit für eine Karriere in der Daten-verarbeitung oder als Hochschullehrer für Wirtschaftsenglisch entscheiden musste, wählte ich eine Kombination von beidem.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

46 Z Zephyr Flower Expectation.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

“It’s an immoderate zeal for education, but once you’re educated, that’s enough.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(Weissenberg, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 1893, ht. 2, p. 135.)
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

The Honourable Mr Daines Barrington had the goodness to interest himself, with his usual zeal for every work of public utility, in procuring some necessary information, and suggesting some valuable hints, which were adopted.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

The initiation of girls in Azimba Land, Central Africa, has been fully and interestingly described by H. Crawford Angus ("The Chensamwali' or Initiation Ceremony of Girls," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 1898, Heft 6).
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

In some cases the bib was made deeper under the arms, so as to allow the garment to fall in regular zigzag folds, ending in a point, which was weighted with little pellets of lead in order to ensure a better falling of the folds.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

London, 1898. Hildebrandt, J. M., “Ethnographische Notizen über Wakamba und ihre Nachbarn,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , x. (1878).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

AMASA Z. FOSTER, Exchange Broker, 234 Pearl street.
— from The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector, at Sight by Henry C. Foote

So does Handel, in the beautiful Pastoral Symphony in the 'Messiah':— [ Listen ] and Gluck repeatedly, in the beautiful air of Rinaldo, in 'Armida':— [ Listen ] Graun, in his cantata, 'Der Tod Jesu' (The Death of Jesus), introduces into the first chorale consecutive fifths upon the words "Zur Frevelthat entschlossen" (On evil deed resolved), thus:— [ Listen ] Zur Fre-vel-that ent-schlos-sen. which, no doubt, was considered by some musicians as remarkably appropriate to the words, although, probably, they could not have heard it in the performance, had they not previously seen it in notation.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

Thomson then proves that if the angular momentum 165 thus considered be zero for every portion of the liquid at any one instant, it remains zero at every subsequent instant; that is, no physical action whatsoever could set up angular momentum within the fluid, which, it is to be remembered, is supposed to be frictionless.
— from Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

Coaches, Waggons, Carts, &c. are said to have been driven over it; and an Enthusiast preached to a motley congregation on the mighty waters , with a zeal fiery enough to have thawed himself through the ice, had it been susceptible of religious warmth.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

But, with all his zeal for enlightenment, Joseph was hampered by those old traditions of uniformity which he had received from his mother’s family.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice