Quotes: Z

Zany

Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.

Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.

Your part is acted; give me leave at distance To zany it.

Zareba

“Ah,” he moralizes, “what wonderful instinct on the part of this little creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troops after Osman Digma.”

Zeal

I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert with little care what shall be established.

Zealant

To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious.

Zealot

Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array against zealots for the other.

In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale, Annandale, every parish was visited by these turbulent zealots.

Zealotry

Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French.

Zealous

He may be zealous in the salvation of souls.

Zenith

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star.

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star.

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

It was during those civil troubles . . . this aspiring family reached the zenith.

Zephyr

As gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet.

Zephyrus

Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes.

Zest

Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.

Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.

Zigzag

The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag.

Zigzaggery

The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches.

Zodiac

By his side, As in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword.

Zoilism

Bring candid eyes the perusal of men's works, and let not Zoilism or detraction blast well-intended labors.

Zone

An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.

Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.

Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.

Zoneless

The reeling goddess with the zoneless waist.

In careless folds, loose fell her zoneless vest.

Zoomorphism

To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoomorphism.

Zymogen

The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment, though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives birth to the ferment.