A couple of inches of concrete laid over a garden-path or a sheep-track, with the cracks filled in with tar, represents the zenith of road construction in this country of ninety odd million inhabitants.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

In B. musculus , the darker subspecies, B. m. brunneus , B. m. nigrescens , and B. m. pullus , occur in zones of rather constant high relative humidity, whereas the paler subspecies infernatis , musculus , handleyi , and to a less extent grisescens and pallidus , occur in zones of lower relative humidity.
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

Co-operation in act, including not only correct moral action, but a constant endeavor to instruct ourselves, more and more, in divine lore, with an earnest zeal of rising continually in spiritual life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

About the middle of the sixteenth century, a Mongol tribe, strong and stalwart from late successful wars, and full of the fierce zeal of recent converts to Moslemism, appeared at the northern gate of India, and in a short time overspread the country and established the Mogul Empire, with its capital at Delhi.
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

By this means Ortelius joined the Nile to the Zaire or Rio Congo, and the Vistula to the Wolga and the Dnieper.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

Eli was gruff-voiced, lowering-eyed, unkempt, big; he could swim with the dogs, outdare all the reckless spirits of the Cove with the punt in a gale, bare his broad breast to the winter winds, travel the ice wet or dry, shoulder a barrel of flour; he was a sturdy, fearless giant, was Eli Zitt, of Ruddy Cove.
— from The Adventures of Billy Topsail by Norman Duncan