Ergo membra debilia, et penuria alibilis succi marcescunt, squalentque ut herbae in horto meo hoc mense Maio Zeriscae, ob imbrium defectum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She looked up at the sun and saw that it was slightly past the zenith on its downward path.
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer

M. Reinach claims that the primitive elements of the Orphic myth of the Thracian Dionysos-Zagreus—divine serpents producing an egg whence came the horned snake Zagreus, occur in dislocated form in Gaul.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

So far as Christianity is concerned it would puzzle the most zealous of its defenders to indicate a single direction in which it did anything to encourage the slightest modification of the spirit of intolerance.
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

This living energy of Jehovah, not only as belonging to the past but discovered in the new zeal of Israel, Deborah saw, and in virtue of the revelation she was far before her time.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

The nine months which have elapsed since the launching of the spiritual world-encompassing Crusade have witnessed the entry of the Knights of Bahá’u’lláh in well-nigh four score and ten territories throughout the planet, representing virtually three-fourths of the total number of areas, exclusive of the Soviet zone of influence, destined to be opened in the course of the entire decade and swelling the roll of sovereign States and Dependencies enlisted under the banner of His Faith to two hundred and thirteen.
— from Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957 by Effendi Shoghi

Such is the epic at the zenith of its development and as it receives expression in the Homeric poems.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

Connecticut sent 250 men, but Massachusetts, being beyond the zone of immediate danger, would give no assistance.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

Zoon : Oomuz, I doubt not.
— from Plays of Near & Far by Lord Dunsany

Coming in still closer, the investigator would have reached the police cordon, which was trying to check the desperate enterprise of those who would return to their homes or rescue their more valuable possessions within the ‘zone of imminent danger.’
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells