Or here of a ship at sea, in the distance: ­ And on through zones of light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep. ( To the Rev. F. D. Maurice. )
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Often from these downs, the poet must have watched— Below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on through zones of light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep. {112} From his own window, he could catch— The voice of the long sea-wave as it swelled, Now and then in the dim-gray dawn.
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine: For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro' zones of light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep, We might discuss the Northern sin Which made a selfish war begin; Dispute the claims, arrange the chances; Emperor, Ottoman, which shall win: Or whether war's avenging rod Shall lash all Europe into blood; Till you should turn to dearer matters, Dear to the man that is dear to God; How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
— from Maud, and Other Poems by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In their turn the Germans brag mightily of the deeds of their Zeppelins over London, and smaller British towns.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

On leaving the village Bompard rode his mule beside that of the president, and said to the latter; rolling his eyes in a most extraordinary manner: “Tartarin, I must speak to you...” “Presently...” said the P. C. A., then engaged in a philosophical discussion with the young Swede, whose black pessimism he was endeavouring to correct by the marvellous spectacle around them, those pastures with great zones of light and shade, those forests of sombre green crested with the whiteness of the dazzling névés .
— from Tartarin On The Alps by Alphonse Daudet

The gross and satyr-like estimate of women he displays; his primping enjoyment of apparel; the gusto with which he converses of things to eat and drink—of ale, and wine, and capons; his distrust of the minions of the law; his knowledge and horror of arrest and imprisonment, and his frankly animal zest of life, all suggest Shakespeare's knowledge of the book as well as the man.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson

An army of collectors, all the world over, are constantly busy in searching for material for the zoologists, on land and sea.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

Chronos, or time, being measured by the apparent motion of the heavens, is figured as their child; Time, the universal parent, devours its own offspring, yet is again itself in the high faith of a human soul, conscious of its power and its endurance, supposed to be baffled and dethroned by Zeus, or life; and so on through all the elaborate theogonies of Greece and Egypt.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

Zócc o li a scácca fáua, a kind of galoshes or chopinoes, open in the midst, tied with ribands, and close at the heeles.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

He had the same zest of living as Sidney, but with this difference—the girl stood ready to give herself to life: he knew that life would come to him.
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart