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zone The Eighth Circle
The zone : The Eighth Circle, in which the fraudulent of all species are punished, lies between the precipice and the Ninth Circle.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

zeal the exultant Crusaders
With wilder zeal the exultant Crusaders battle, and with greater fury the enraged infidels.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

z two embryonic cells
z two embryonic cells, k nuclei of the merocytes, which wander about in the yelk and eat small yelk-plates (d), k smaller, more superficial, lighter nuclei, k apostrophe a deeper nucleus, in the act of cleavage, k asterisk chromatin-filled border-nucleus, freed from the surrounding yelk in order to show the numerous pseudopodia of the protoplasmic cell-body.)
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

zealous than erudite conjured
Violent cogitation for five minutes ensued, and at last our friend, more zealous than erudite, conjured up what he termed, “them here new lot, called Christians.”
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Zerrahn the excellent conductor
Carl Zerrahn, the excellent conductor upon that occasion, is on his way home from Germany (his old home) with new stock of zeal and of new music, and the oratorio rehearsals will at once begin.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

zeal to exalt Christ
When all our bishops become distinguished for their meekness and simplicity, for the fervour of their love, their spirit of evangelical piety, and their unquenchable zeal to exalt Christ, and rescue dying sinners from the iron grasp of the god of this world, we shall then indeed see a return of primitive days, and evidences of a truly apostolic church.
— from Gleanings by the Way by John A. (John Alonzo) Clark

Zempoallan they enformed Cortez
These men had in their eares and noses bored holes, with rings of golde hangyng thereat, for so was the vse of Zempoallan : they enformed Cortez that the Cittie was neare at hande.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara


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