After nineteen years of desultory work, in which he showed far more zeal in gathering Highland legends than in gaining clients, he had won two small legal offices which gave him enough income to support him comfortably.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It will be instructive to say a word in the first place upon a preliminary question which has been debated with much zeal in Germany.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ju pli ili malpacis, des malpli zorge ili gardis la mondon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

CHAPTER VIII PROGNOSIS The outcome of scurvy, as we encounter it in peace time in the Temperate Zone, is generally favorable, so that it plays but an insignificant rôle in our mortality statistics.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

While from the other boat his young wife keeps her eyes fixed on him, and believes that he is ‘an active member of the Zemstvo,’ just as in a year she will believe that the Zemstvo is good-for-nothing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Mrs. Zarubkin, I—” “Get out of here
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[See note 82 .] 102 In Lithuania the name okolica or zascianek is given to a settlement of gentry, to distinguish them from true villages, which are settlements of peasants.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

v 1 [AN; b5] give a zero in school, not let an opponent get more than zero in games.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Clemens Alexandrinus, again, after describing the animal-worship of the Egyptians, mentions cases of zoolatry in Greece.(1)
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Mr. Blyth put down his palette, brushes, and mahl-stick—tucked up his cuffs and smiled—took a little trial skip into the air—and, running down the room with the slightly tremulous step of a gentleman of fifty, cleared Zack in gallant style; fell over on the other side, all in a lump on his hands and feet; gave the return “back” conscientiously, at the other end of the studio; and was leapt over in an instant, with a shout of triumph, by Zack.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

"Zeb," said the Major, sinking heavily into his chair and leaning head on hand, "Sergeant Zebedee, I go about to do a thing I never thought to do.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

But in no respect were the labours of Linné more beneficial to the science and to Zoology in general, than when he undertook to describe the animals of his own country.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

When travelling up the Zambesi, I gave Sharp's Somali boy a Van Houten's cocoa-tin to open, telling him to make cocoa.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

'I speak for Captain Holzbach, of ze Imperial German Navy,' said Hahn.
— from The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas by Herbert Strang

Zoroastrianism is generally a closed religion and members are almost always born to Zoroastrian parents.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency