It should seem, that the zeal of our ancestors boiled higher, and that they branded every unbeliever as a rascal.
— 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

Notwithstanding that of late one vicar there, for covetousness of the brass, which he converted into coined silver, plucking up many plates fixed on the graves, and left no memory of such as had been buried under them, a great injury both to the living and the dead, forbidden by public proclamation, in the reign of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, but not forborne by many, that either of a preposterous zeal, or of a greedy mind, spare not to satisfy themselves by so wicked a means.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Two independent armies should not be formed upon the same frontier: such an arrangement could be proper only in the case of large coalitions, or where the forces at disposal are too numerous to act upon the same zone of operations; and even in this case it would be better to have all the forces under the same commander, who accompanies the principal army.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Strategy directs armies to the decisive points of a zone of operations, and influences, in advance, the results of battles; but tactics, aided by courage, by genius and fortune, gains victories.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

I understand by diversions those secondary operations carried out at a distance from the principal zone of operations, at the extremities of a theater of war, upon the success of which it is sometimes foolishly supposed the whole campaign depends.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

In each of these cases Napoleon possessed the ability to make such arrangements that his columns, starting from points widely separated, were concentrated with wonderful precision upon the decisive point of the zone of operations; and in this way he insured the successful issue of the cam
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

[Pg 419] Trophonius Zeus, oracle of, at Lebadea, ii.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

It would be highly unpatriotic of the news agency to send him a bill in the zone of operations, and he can classify his record copies of his material RESTRICTED so that the owners of the material would have no legitimate business acquiring copies that could later be taken into court to support a claim.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

[Pg 230] in a zone of operations, and demanded a right to be heard?
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It is identified by geographers with the little island of Zmievoi or Oulan Adassi, the ‘Serpents Island.’
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But for the physiologist, who knows that every individual being is so evolved—who knows further, that in their earliest condition the germs of all plants and animals whatever are so similar, "that there is no appreciable distinction amongst them which would enable it to be determined whether a particular molecule is the germ of a conferva or of an oak, of a zoophyte or of a man;" [U] —for him to make a difficulty of the matter is inexcusable.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Page 28 [28] Before I could betray a confidence like this, I must be a more zealous ornithologist or a more unfeeling man,—or both at once.
— from A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

o' trees an' the spires o' kirks when I zoom out over a wooded slope with a big cleared field in the middle o' the woods.
— from A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Rutherford G. (Rutherford George) Montgomery

For he was an Olympian victor; and thereby became Basileus, or Zeus, of Olympia, and had the thunder-making as part of his official duties.
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

Accordingly, unwilling to confine his gratitude to mere feelings or verbal expressions, he gave full current to the new-born zeal of office, and endeavoured to express his sense of the honour conferred upon him by an unmitigated activity in the discharge of his duty.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

He cheats Zeus out of a fair share of the sacrificial victim, so as both to provoke and justify a retaliation which he cannot be always at hand to ward off: the retaliation is, in his absence, consummated by a snare laid for Epimêtheus and voluntarily accepted.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

As we get down into the zone of olives again, a warmer air meets us—the rain has been left behind, and we are once more in sunshine; passing the picturesque village of Selva, with its church perched on the very top of a hill, we soon find ourselves at Inca—a large and prosperous-looking town of fine stone houses and shops.
— from With a Camera in Majorca by Margaret D'Este

Love is deemed the tenderest ( zärteste ) of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The relations or predictions which had for their object Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Zorobabel, or other ancient personages, were applied to Jesus.
— from Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'