Twas but a few, [55] A ragged herd-boy, here and there, With his long stick and naked feet; A ploughman wending to his care, The field from which he hopes the wheat; An early traveller, hurrying fast To the next town; an urchin slow Bound for the school; these heard and past, Unheeding all,—"Shell-bracelets ho!" Pellucid spread a lake-like tank Beside the road now lonelier still, High on three sides arose the bank Which fruit-trees shadowed at their will; Upon the fourth side was the Ghat, With its broad stairs of marble white, And at the entrance-arch there sat, Full face against the morning light, A fair young woman with large eyes, And dark hair falling to her zone, She heard the pedlar's cry arise, And eager seemed his ware to own.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

It was the advice of some of them to throw us all into the sea wrapped up in a sail; for their purpose was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon as the robbery was discovered; but the captain (who was the one who had plundered my beloved Zoraida) said he was satisfied with the prize he had got, and that he would not touch at any Spanish port, but pass the Straits of Gibraltar by night, or as best he could, and make for La Rochelle, from which he had sailed.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

While she was holding the office of priestess of Hera, Zeus seduced her, and being discovered by Hera, touched the girl and changed her into a white cow, while he swore that he had no intercourse with her.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Spinelloccio, hearing from within the chest all that Zeppa said his wife's answer and feeling the morrisdance [395] that was toward over his head, was at first so sore despited that himseemed he should die; and but that he stood in fear of Zeppa, he had rated his wife finely, shut up as he was.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Next day, early in the morning, he came down to the Forum in a very mean habit, and with many tears repeated the (438) declaration from a writing which he held in his hand; but the soldiers and people again interposing, and encouraging him not to give way, but to rely on their zealous support, he recovered his courage, and forced Sabinus, with the rest of the Flavian party, who now thought themselves secure, to retreat into the Capitol, where he destroyed them all by setting fire to the temple of Jupiter, whilst he beheld the contest and the fire from Tiberius’s house 715 , where he was feasting.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

For if these also, like Heracles the son of Amphitryon, had appeared before all men's eyes and had lived their lives to old age in Hellas, I mean Dionysos the son of Semele and Pan the son of Penelope, then one would have said that these also had been born mere men, having the names of those gods who had come into being long before: but as it is, with regard to Dionysos the Hellenes say that as soon as he was born Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him to Nysa, which is above Egypt in the land of Ethiopia; and as to Pan, they cannot say whither he went after he was born.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Zabulon shall dwell upon the sea, And heaven for the ship's security, And unto Zidon shall his border be.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Shortly after, Zara saw her lover's servant ride up the road, at considerable speed; and as it wanted but half-an-hour to dinner-time, Digby, who marked his coming also, retired to dress.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

In other letters which are undoubtedly genuine, he refers to his future career with ardour, and writes not a word as to the bullying to which his Corsican zeal subjected him.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Also he know him for ze stranger mans; but ze stranger he does not know Sibou, whose face was last winter mauled by a bald-faced grizzly to whom he did not give ze trail.
— from The Lady of North Star by Ottwell Binns

And in the eighth year Zeus sent Hermes to the goddess, to bid her let Ulysses go.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Zulannah shook her head and turning it so that the wounds and distortion were hidden, leant against the wall.
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest