In the end Zeus is forced to bring Persephone back from the lower world; but the goddess, by the contriving of Hades, still remains partly a deity of the lower world.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Mary smiled again, looked up at the standing quadroon, and replied in a low voice:— “Madame Zénobie is for the Union herself.”
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

So zealously, in fact, that little Jim almost loses his scalp.
— from The Little Washingtons' Travels by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

And this is what all this zeal is for —this and nothing else!"
— from Serapis — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

On the banks of the Zab, I found the remains of an ancient road, cut in many places in the solid rock.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

When the zelten is filled the sign of the cross is made upon it and it is sprinkled with holy water and put in the oven.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

He did not return for an hour and a half, and when he did, his expression had altered to one of decided triumph, though still mysterious and silent Zotique, in fact, the evening before, when he drove to Miséricorde in Josephte's little gig, found what he had suspected to be the truth, that Benoit and Spoon had bought every vote of the hamlet; and paid for them, in the interest of Libergent; but he still believed it possible,—Benoit being incapacitated, and Spoon, he felt sure, not likely to turn up—to bend this plastic material the other way with the same tool, and casting, therefore, aside all delicate distinctions, he succeeded, by a reasonable hour in the evening, in obtaining once more the adhesion of the hotellier and most of the population, giving—for he had no Government funds like his opponents—his own personal notes for the amounts, and enjoining on the tavern-keeper to have the whole of the suffrages polled early.
— from The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

So little was its real history known in Europe, even at the latter period, that Phile, who composed his metrical treatise, [Greek: Peri Zôôn Idiotêtos], for the information of the Emperor Michael XI.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Archbishop Trench, for example, says: “These servants are not, as Theophylact suggests, the angels (they are the reapers, ver. 30 ); but men, zealous, indeed, for the Lord’s honour, but zealous with the same zeal as animated those two disciples who would fain have commanded fire to come down from heaven on the inhospitable Samaritan village” ( Luke ix. 54 ).
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

On the 8th April 1822, they arrived at Mourzouk, and were civilly received by the potentate of that place, who however did not shew any great zeal in forwarding their arrangements.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park