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  • And, zo, who ist zist boy you keep seeing is zist dream?

    Chris Kelly: Why You Don't Care About JournoList 2010

  • On Charles V. objecting to this proceeding, the Privy Council, on the zist of April 1550, made answer that since "Cabot of himself refused to go either into Spayne or to the emperour, no reason or equitie wolde that he shulde be forced or compelled to go against his will."

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • As to the King, he is sometimes this, sometimes that [as he spoke, Houmain turned his hand outward and inward], between zist and zest; but while he is determining, I am for zist -- that is to say, I'm a Cardinalist.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • As to the King, he is sometimes this, sometimes that [as he spoke, Houmain turned his hand outward and inward], between zist and zest; but while he is determining, I am for zist -- that is to say, I'm a Cardinalist.

    Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830

  • To this an answer was received, ings, and on the zist April, by a addressed to the Princess, suting, mmute of Cabinet, declared not only that in consequence of her Royal that the two main charges were com -

    Sporting Magazine 1813

  • Zist, zist! "continued the young soldier, laughing and making a movement and a sound as if setting on the two above-mentioned animals to worry each other.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

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