tout' auto to zêtoumenon ouk eirêkasin, alla to gignomenon eipontes monon oiontai tên aitian apodedôkenai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

In the Alexandrian Age these poems were arranged in chronological order, apparently by Zenodotus of Ephesus, at the beginning of the 3rd century B.C.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

It happened occasionally in Wundt's experiments that the reaction-time was reduced to zero or even assumed a negative value, which, being translated into common speech, means that the observer
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Zeno of Elea, a subtle dialectician, was severely reprimanded by Plato as a sophist, who, merely from the base motive of exhibiting his skill in discussion, maintained and subverted the same proposition by arguments as powerful and convincing on the one side as on the other.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The tree itself was called Pau-sengi , which Rumphius seems to interpret as a corruption of Buwa-zangi , ‘Fruit of Zang,’ or E. Africa.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The dry zone of eastern Argentina is the special field of the vine.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

We were riding quickly across these ugly marshy wastes, when a curious animal crossed our path, a zorillo , or epatl , as the Indians call it, and which Bouffon mentions under the generic name of mouffêtes .
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Some light is thrown upon the obscure history of the post-exile period by the references to the mixed marriages which aroused the reforming zeal of Ezra and culminated in the exclusion of Ammon and Moab from the religious community—on the ground of incidents which were ascribed to the time of the "exodus" (Deut. xxiii.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In the progress of day, "Shorn of his glory through the dim profound, With melancholy aspect looks the orb Of stifled day, and while he strives to pierce And dissipate the slow reluctant gloom, Seems but a rayless globe, an autumn moon, That gilds opaque the purple zone of eve, And yet distributes of her thrifty beam.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various

Nowhere can the existence of a great fracture and vertical displacement of the strata be more clearly determined than along this remarkable line of depression; and it is one which is also coincident with a zone of earthquake and volcanic disturbances.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

THE TECHNICALITIES OF PRINTING, AS USED BY SHAKSPERE Nature endows no man with knowledge, and although a quick apprehension may go far toward making the true lover of Nature a Botanist, Zoologist, or Entomologist, and although the society of ‘Men of Law’, of Doctors, or of Musicians may, with the help of a good memory, store a man’s mind with professional phraseology, yet the opportunity of learning must be there; and no argument can be required to prove that, however highly endowed with genius or imagination, no one could evolve from his internal consciousness the terms, the customs, or the working implements of a trade with which he was unacquainted.
— from Shakspere & Typography by William Blades

And beyond the zones of entanglements and chevaux de frise and man-traps the beet and potato-fields were sown with mines which were to be exploded by electricity when the enemy was fairly over them, and blow that enemy, whole regiments at a time, into eternity.
— from Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

In analysis, zinc occurs either as a metallic deposit on a platinum foil or dish, or as a brittle bead, obtained by reducing a zinc compound with soda on charcoal.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

His successor, Gustavus Friedrich, was a weak-minded man; the agent, Brauer, detested the Brethren; and now Brauer laid down the condition that the settlers at Herrnhaag must either break off their connection with Zinzendorf or else abandon the premises.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton