Then he was in Zenith.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

After another contest for the honour of yielding precedence, Chichikov succeeded in making his way (in zigzag fashion) to the dining-room, where they found awaiting them a couple of youngsters.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Last Wednesday I attended a woman in Zasip—and she died, and it’s my fault that she died.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This tingeing is its sensitive body, the wie ihm zu Muthe ist , the way it feels whilst passing.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Markt werfen dump auf den Namen des Ausstellers in the name of the drawer auf den Namen des Begünstigten in the name of the beneficiary auf den Namen des Inhabers in the name of the holder auf den Namen des Überbringers in the name of the bearer auf den neuesten Stand bringen update auf den neusten Stand bringen update auf den Tisch legen; Tisch; Tabelle table auf denen sie beruhen on which they are based auf denen sie beruhen können on which they may be based auf der Bank hinterlegen deposit at the bank auf der Börsenliste listed auf der Rückseite on the back auf der Rückseite on the back side auf der Rückseite on the reverse side auf der Tagesordnung erscheinen appear on the agenda auf die die Dokumente sich beziehen können to which the documents may relate auf die Option verzichten to abandon an option auf die Seite bringen abstract auf diese Weise in so doing auf diese Weise ihm zur Verfügung gestellt so placed at his disposal auf eigene
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

He said, that "these were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They watch with particular interest the flight of the extremely soft paper from the upper gallery, and take pleasure in watching its zigzagging journey down to the very stalls, where it infallibly settles on some head which is quite unprepared to receive it.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He said, that “these were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The dull and obstinate understanding of Gallus embraced, with implicit zeal, the doctrines of Christianity; which never influenced his conduct, or moderated his passions.
— 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

“Why not?” demanded the captain, with a look of supreme contempt, “what if Zanzibar was ruined?
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

One English officer described the ravages of modern artillery fire, not only upon all men, animals and buildings within its zone, but upon the very face of nature itself: "In the trenches crouch lines of men, in brown or gray or blue, coated with mud, unshaven, hollow-eyed with the continual strain."
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish

And with indefatigable zeal she collected the signatures to it of a very large number of the most distinguished men in England; among them were such names as those of Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Morley, John Bright, Leslie Stephen, W. Lecky, B. Jowett, John Ruskin, Dean Stanley, and Canon Liddon.
— from Great Testimony against scientific cruelty by Stephen Coleridge

If this last be followed up the valley, it will be seen to cross first the Reuss, and then a tributary stream (the Maïenreuss ) descending through a gorge on the right, after which it zig-zags up a hill to the village of Wasen (the church of which village is seen crowning the eminence in the centre of our view), and then it continues its course up the valley, passing through a small village, and disappearing over the shoulder of a hill on the right bank of the river.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

And when I was in Zealand, some time back, a wonderful illness came upon me, which I had never heard of any one having before; and this illness I have still.”
— from Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser

"Zure as vate, when I zits down tu my tea, cumes a message from one are t'other on 'em, an' oop I goes.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

"What is Zog like?" Cap'n Bill questioned.
— from The Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum