The indians commonly seen on the city streets are Zapotecs or Mixtecs, but at times Mixes come from their distant mountain homes with burdens on their backs, or parties of Tehuantepecanas attract attention, by their fine forms and striking dress, as they walk through the streets.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

This shell is found all over New Zealand on muddy beaches, and especially near mangrove bushes in Auckland Harbour.
— from Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Edward George Britton Moss

Then it arrived with the zoster , or mailed belt, and the mitrê , or mailed kirtle.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang

359. at once see, in the first place, that the sloping and slightly curved sides of the hyacinth leaf suffer a transformation into what we consider a more typical and “leaf-like” shape, the sides of the figure broadening out to a zone of maximum breadth and then drawing inwards to the pointed apex.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

‘Therefore the Right Honourable the Governor-general hereby declares that ‘Drigliejjie Singh, Rajah of Bulrampore; ‘Koolwunt Singh, Rajah of Pudnaha; ‘Rao Hurdeo Buksh Singh, of Kutiaree; ‘Kasheepershaud, Thalookdar of Sissaindee; ‘Zuhr Singh, Zemindar of Gopaul Kheir; and ‘Chundeeloll, Zemindar of Moraon (Baiswarah), are henceforward the sole hereditary proprietors of the lands which they held when Oude came under British rule, subject only to such moderate assessment as may be imposed upon them, and that those loyal men will be further rewarded in such manner and to such extent as, upon consideration of their merits and their position, the governor-general shall determine.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

Zinc ointment may be applied to surfaces that have been skinned.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

This did not in the least abate the zeal of Mary Burton and William Kane.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

We find cœnobia of this kind even among the monera, such as the zooglœa of many bacteria and chromacea.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel