Grandmother said that when she saw him opening the gate for me, she understood my zeal in missionary work.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The Language of Ziph , I may add, is another rude mode of disguising English, in use among the students at Winchester College.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

In this place the text of Zosimus is mutilated, and we have lost the remainder of his sixth and last book, which ended with the sack of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Poinsinet thinks that under the name are included Ingria, Livonia, and Courland; while Parisot seems inclined to be of opinion that under this name the island of Zealand is meant, a village of which, about three-fourths of a league from the western coast, according to him, still bears the name of Heinïnge.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Some of the Zamindars in Madura belong to this caste.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

139 Muduvar, 73 , 76 Muhammadan, 29 , 30 , 31 , 98 , 119 , 120 , 163 , 164 , 170 , 171 , 187 , 188 , 195 , 230 , 249 , 266 , 269 , 297 Mungoose, 98 Muni or Munisvara, 177 , 209 , 258 , 295 Munro, Sir Thomas, 34 Murrel ( Ophiocephalus ), 102 Museum, visit unlucky, 54 Musk in agricultural ceremony, 293 Mustard in evil eye ceremony, 119 Nāgarapanchami, 123 , 124 , 135 Nail-cuttings burnt against evil eye, 115 ; in lying-in chamber, 53 Nalke devil-dancer, 237 Nambiathy priest at snake shrine, 125 –6 Names, lucky and unlucky, 20 , 34 , 55 , 56 , 133 –4, 143 —— of holy persons drunk as charm, 187 Nandi (sacred bull), 154 , 304 , 308 Nāttukōttai Chetti, 117 Nayādi, curse, 119 Nāyar, 16 , 17 , 18 , 111 , 118 , 128 –9, 138 , 161 , 193 , 256 Nētra mangalya, 167 Nīm or margosa ( Melia Azadirachta ), 36 , 53 , 55 , 94 , 105 , 115 , 133 , 144 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 156 , 214 , 254 , 285 , 304 , 306 Nobili, Dr, and magician, 271 –2 Nudity, 37 , 104 , 151 , 224 –5, 227 , 309 Numbers, lucky and unlucky, 23 , 26 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 49 , 52 , 56 , 68 , 75 , 117 , 133 , 135 , 136 , 184 , 186 , 194 , 228 , 229 , 248 , 249 , 251 –2, 253 , 299 , 309 Oddē, 68 , 70 , 93 , 109 , 256 Odi cult, 226 –30 Odina Wodier , abode of devils, 286 ; milk-post, 49 Odiyan, 226 Offspring, desire for, 218 ; cocoanut broken on head, 146 ; diet of monkey flesh, 73 ; ear-boring ceremony on doll, 159 ; eating cakes, 54 ; offerings and vows, 40 , 72 , 124 , 132 , 133 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 147 –8, 150 , 151 , 155 , 158 –9, 164 , 166 , 185 ; snake songs, 128 [ 318 ] Oil, ceremonial use, 18 , 29 , 40 , 45 , 50 , 119 , 178 , 201 , 243 , 282 , 292 ; magic oil, 96 , 97 , 226 –9; marks on door, 119 ; omen, 40 ; reflection of image, 45 , 55 Oleander ( Nerium ), used in anointing body, 45 Omens, good and bad, 15 –7 Ordeal, charcoal, 286 ; fire, 146 ; iron, 52 , 154 ; oil, 146 , 197 , 264 , 282 ; rice, 285 , 288 ; sieve, 288 ; snake-bite, 123 Ordure, omen, 59 ; pelting with, 303 ; thrown into houses, 145 Owl, 65 –7 Paliyan, 69 , 78 , 81 , 94 Pallan, 117 , 133 Palli, 49 –50, 52 , 117 , 133 , 152 , 153 , 216 Palm-leaf book (graāndha), 18 , 225 , 253 , 275 , 293 ; charm, 43 , 189 , 246 , 253 ; scroll, 172 Palmyra palm, climbing, 84 ; fruits to ward off evil eye, 113 ; leaf charm, 187 ; many-branched tree worshipped, 177 –8 Palni shrine, 137 –8, 143 , 157 Pāampanmekkat (snake guardian), Nambutiri, 126 –8 Pāanan, 211 , 228 , 237 Pāanchagavyam, 79 Panchamritham, 78 Pandanus fascicularis , believed to harbour snake, 96 Pāndavas, 79 , 85 , 152 , 265 , 305 , 309 Pāndu kuli supposed to contain treasure, 215 –6 Paniyan, 68 , 83 , 231 , 260 Pāno, 221 Paraiyan (Pariah) Malayaālam, 83 , 225 , 227 –8, 232 , 246 , 255 Paraiyan, Tamil, 17 , 27 , 51 , 57 , 84 , 117 , 118 , 133 , 148 , 158 , 194 , 197 , 240 , 244 , 297 , 309 Parasurāama, 122 , 150 Parava devil-dancer, 237 Parivaram, 254 Partridge, 88 Pavai (sorcery effigy), 247 Peacock, 36 , 41 , 88 , 200 , 201 Pepper in magic ceremony, 253 Periyapālayam, leaf festival, 148 –51 Phaseolus Mungo , thrown into ant-hill, 136 Pig, 83 ; sacrifice, 56 , 65 , 165 , 189 , 201 , 211 , 284 , 305 Pigeon, 70 , 176 , 228 Pipal ( Ficus religiosa ), 118 , 133 , 138 , 288 Placenta, burial, 55 ; tied to tree, 81 Plague, 171 , 266 –7 Plantain, 65 , 78 , 117 , 121 , 131 , 147 , 160 , 185 , 202 , 212 , 251 , 252 , 293 , 294 Plumbago zeylanica , in magic, 228 Pollution and purification, 26 –7, 28 , 29 , 34 , 40 , 43 , 59 , 67 , 79 , 81 , 83 , 110 , 121 , 123 , 131 –2, 159 , 179 , 200 , 297 , 298 , 301 Pompada devil-dancer, 237 Pongal festival, 35 , 133 , 202 Porcupine, 85 Portuguese, spirits propitiated, 179 Possession of men by gods, 56 , 142 , 144 , 147 , 172 , 213 , 255 , 267 , 278 , 279 , 282 , 284 , 287 , 301 , 308 Pot broken at boundary, 37 ; to cure disease, 243 ; to scare away owls, 66 ; offered to cholera god, 176 ; to ward off evil eye, 112 , 113 , 114 ; worn as charm, 194 Prayogasara, 181 Pregnancy 44 , 53 –4, 70 , 85 , 100 , 246 Pregnant corpses exposed in jungle, 74 –5 Prehistoric stone celts offered at shrines, 178 Priapi to ward off evil eye, 112 , 113 , 114 Prophecy, 272 –7, 307 –8 Puberty, 46 , 57 –8, 117 , 255 –6, 284 Pulaya, 17 , 27 , 255 Pulluvan, 42 , 129 –32 Pumpkin, 295 , 302 Puri, car festival, 142 Quail, 88 Quivering of animals, 14 –5, 295 ; of human body, 13 Raāgi ( Eleusine Coracana ), 301 Rags tied to bushes and trees, 155 –6; to scare away owls, 66 ; torches, 147 Raāhu, 43 Rain caused by monsters in the air, 310 –1 Rāma, legends, 17 , 24 , 83 –4, 87 Rāmānuja, 297 Rāma tanka, 235 Rat-snake ( Zamenis ), 25 , 71 , 98 Red sanders ( Pterocarpus santalinus ), wooden figures carved at Tirupati, 159 Reptiles, omens, 70 –1; superstitions, 89 –100 Rice at agricultural ceremonies, 290 , 291 , 293 , 294 , 295 , 300 , 302 , 304 ; at Badaga festival, 116 ; at Koyi festival, 303 ; at meriah sacrifice, 201 , 202 ; at rain-making ceremony, 309 ; at Vishu festival, 18 , 289 ; effigies, 130 , 185 , 244 , 245 ; in fortune-telling, 283 ; in learning [ 319 ] alphabet, 30 ; in parturition, 54 ; offerings, 15 , 68 , 73 , 125 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 147 , 150 , 156 , 175 , 221 , 243 , 287 , 299 ; omens, 20 , 33 , 34 –5, 36 , 37 , 65 ; ordeal, 146 , 285 , 288 ; pot smeared with, 170 ; poured over bullock, 166 ;
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The Zafimanelo in Madagascar lock their doors when they eat, and hardly any one ever sees them eating.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The next one spoke with a simpering precision of pronunciation that was irritating and said: “If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I long now to receive Thee devoutly and reverently, I desire to bring Thee into my house, so that with Zacchaeus I may be counted worthy to be blessed by Thee and numbered among the children of Abraham.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

“It looks like poetry, sure enough, for it’s got the jaggy edges, but it doesn’t make any zip inside me same as poetry does.
— from The Daft Days by Neil Munro

Zara, I may mention, had very badly the habit of capture: this was the eighth time it had fallen.
— from A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

While I was ruminating on these affairs, three or four letters came to my hands, and perceiving one of them come from my worthy friend the Dean of Exeter, I eagerly broke it open, and was perfectly astonished to find myself charged with party zeal in my book; and that from thence the most candid reader might conclude the author to be both a Church and State Tory.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

"I am absorbed, and excavate zealously in my moral mines," he wrote to Peter Gast, "and it seems to me that I have become an altogether subterranean being—it seems to me, at this moment, that I have found a passage, an opening; a hundred times I shall be thus persuaded and then deceived."
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

Thus Spake Zarathustra is more than an answer to the Parsifal.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy