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zeal of publishers editors
The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a remarkable change of sentiment with regard to "Don Quixote."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

zeal of publishers editors
The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a remarkable change of sentiment with regard to “Don Quixote.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

zeal of political excitement
No hand lacking the zeal of political excitement could have inflicted so uncompromising a gash as the one near it.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

zinc or positive element
c, c, c. Moulds suspended to the brass rod ( f ), and connected with the zinc or positive element of the battery ( a ), by means of the screw ( g .)
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

zinc or positive element
To connect the moulds with the zinc or positive element, stout copper wires or strips of thin sheet copper are employed.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

zeal of persecution everything
[468] In the early zeal of persecution everything was swept away in wholesale seizure, but, in 1237, Gregory IX.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

zenith or point exactly
Or at night, if you measure the angular distance that the polar star P is from the zenith, or point exactly over your head—that is, the angle P
— from Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time by Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir

zoarium of P emarginata
1 a. Part of a young, horizontal zoarium of P. emarginata from Rangoon (× 4, preserved in spirit).
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

zones or provinces each
Yet it seems possible that, by means of a due co-ordination of the materials and the application of the comparative method, the European area may eventually be divided into distinct zones or provinces, each characterized by its certain typical pictographic feature .
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

Zululand or Portuguese East
Even if there are a few now living [Page 38] in some remote nook of the Transvaal, or Zululand, or Portuguese East Africa, the chances are as 100 to 1 that they will not be suffered to bring back the species; and so, to Burchell's zebra, the world is to-day saying "Farewell!" THYLACINE OR TASMANIAN WOLF Now Being Exterminated by the Sheep Owners of Tasmania Species Of Large Mammals Almost Extinct The Thylacine Or Tasmanian Wolf, ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ).
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

zone of parkland extending
Here they locate them mainly in a long zone of parkland extending along the southern edge of the forest zone and in the valleys of the great rivers.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler


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