In deference, perhaps, to the notions of Mr. Bracebridge he had made diligent investigations into the festive rites and holiday customs of former times, and had been as zealous in the inquiry as if he had been a boon companion; but it was merely with that plodding spirit with which men of adust temperament follow up any track of study, merely because it is denominated learning; indifferent to its intrinsic nature, whether it be the illustration of the wisdom or of the ribaldry and obscenity of antiquity.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

—Josephine was always a bad correspondent, but at this juncture was reading that stilted but sensational romance—"Caleb Williams;" or hearing the 242 "Achilles" of Paër, or the "Romeo and Juliet" of Zingarelli in the intervals of her imperial progress through Germany.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Sixty years ago—it is a long time, so no wonder things have changed—all clergymen were not zealous; indeed, there is reason to believe that the number of zealous clergymen was small, and it is probable that if one among the small minority had owned the livings of Broxton and Hayslope in the year 1799, you would have liked him no better than you like Mr. Irwine.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Odin has also been sought and found in the Scythian Zalmoxis , in the Indian Buddha , in the Celtic Budd, and in the Mexican Votan.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

He had betrothed his daughter to Lucius Icilius, who had been a tribune, a man of spirit and of approved zeal in the interest of the people.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The fairy-folk, under many names, in many tongues, are everywhere objects of human belief, in Central Australia, in New Zealand, in the isles of the Pacific, as in the British Isles, Lowland or Highland, Celtic in the main, or English in the main, I conceive the various beings, fairies, brownies, Iruntarinia , Djinns , or what you will, to be purely mythical .
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Weise in the manner customary in der Verantwortlichkeit des Absenders at the responsibility of the sender in der Vertragswährung in the currency of the contract in der vorgeschrieben Art in the manner specified in der Vorstadt lebende Bevölkerung suburban population in der Währung des Landes in currency of the country in der Zwischenzeit in the interval in deutscher Währung in German currency in die Höhe schießende Preise soaring prices in die Höhe treiben enhance in diesem Fall in that case in diesem Falle in that case in diesem Gebiet erfahren experienced in this area in dieser Hinsicht in respect thereof in Druck gehen to go to press in Druckbuchstaben in block letters in ein bereitgestelltes Fahrzeug into aq vehicle provided in eine Firma eintreten join a company in eine Linie bringen align in einem dringenden Fall in a case of urgency in einem Geschäft Kapital anlegen put capital into a business in einem Laden Stammkunde sein to patronize a shop in einem neuen Markt Fuß fassen to break into a new market in einem Seeschiff in a seagoing vessel in einen
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Life of Zoroaster in tom. ii. of the Zendavesta.
— 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

However, perhaps it would be fairer to commend this 2 writer’s intelligence and zeal in themselves, instead of blaming him for his omissions.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Thus, as I believe, a considerable number of plants, a few terrestrial animals, and some marine productions, migrated during the Glacial period from the northern and southern temperate zones into the intertropical regions, and some even crossed the equator.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Among the Zuni Indians there is no purchase price, no general exchange of gifts; but as soon as the agreement is reached, the young man must undertake certain duties: He must work in the field of his prospective mother-in-law, that his strength and industry may be tested; he must collect fuel and deposit it near the maternal domicile, that his disposition as a provider may be made known; he must chase and slay the deer, and make from an entire buckskin a pair of moccasins for the bride, and from other [pg 79] skins and textiles a complete feminine suit, to the end that his skill in hunting, skin-dressing, and weaving may be displayed; and, finally, he must fabricate or obtain for the maiden's use a necklace of seashell or of silver, in order that his capacity for long journeys or successful barter may be established; but if circumstances prevent him from performing these duties actually, he may perform them symbolically, and such performance is usually acceptable to the elder people.
— from Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex by William Isaac Thomas

Signor Polaloga entered zealously into the instruction of the young man, declaring that he had never before had so apt [59] a pupil.
— from Captain John Smith by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

The Greeks are said to have been in the Iberian peninsula long before the fall of Troy, where they came with a fleet from Zante, in the Ionian Sea, and in memory of that place, called the city they founded Zacynthus, which name in time became Saguntum .
— from A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele

[Pg 432] the village of Zurtila, in the intendancy of Oaxaca, on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera of Anahuac, between the parallels of 19 deg.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Ziemiecka insists that in any sound society the natural mission of woman is that of a wife and mother, and as the counsellor of man.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

He was reproached by the Pope Martin V. with lack of zeal in the interests of the papacy in not procuring the reversal of the statutes of provisors and of præmunire by which, amongst others, the papal power was held in check in England.
— from The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See by Hartley Withers

Dear Zeuch :-- "I think I accept all you say about the condition of the proletariat and the impossibility of the immediate revolution.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Zen ignored the ironic threat.
— from Doomsday Eve by Robert Moore Williams

Dr Whyte, who fell a martyr to his zeal in the investigation of the history of the plague, from a residence of some years [159] in the Levant and some time in Egypt, had good opportunities of being acquainted with the diseases of that country, informed me, that, by making those under his charge, frequently during the day, wash the eyes with cold water in the season of the ophthalmia, he never failed in preventing the disease.
— from Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India by McGrigor, James, Sir