For I already possess, by the grace of God and the Emperor, and because the Empress too was zealous in my behalf, all those blessings to gain which a flatterer would leave nothing unsaid, so that, if I were speaking before obtaining these, perhaps I should have to dread that unjust suspicion.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Like the Zattianys, it may be a large family.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

We shall therefore give a somewhat full account of its peculiar fauna, and endeavour to elucidate some of the causes to which its zoological isolation may be attributed.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

Now vor me I can zing in my business abrode, Though the storm do beät down on my poll, There's a wife-brighten'd vier at the end o' my road, An' her love vor the jaÿ
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

If she knows anything about Van Zwieten, I may be able to make use of her knowledge.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

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

The central zone is marked by Ammonites Noricus (see Fig. 287).
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

“No, no!” gasped Zerah; “I must be alone.
— from Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires (vol. 3 of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

To show that I am not singular in my opinion as to the present state of Zululand, I may be allowed to quote a few short extracts taken at random, from half-a-dozen numbers of the “Natal Mercury.”
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

What moments may I seize, in which, without wounding the feelings, or parading my zeal, I may be allowed to speak a few words of piety? Lord , let me have the opportunity to help another to love Thee!
— from Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life by Adrien Sylvain

Enoch’s walking with God was the cause of his being so soon wafted to the place of a full fruition of him; he hath as much delight in such as in heaven itself; one is his habitation as well as the other; the one is his habitation of glory, and the other is the house of his pleasure: if he dwell in Zion, it must be a “holy mountain” (
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock