zealotin a sentence
zealot with a lowercase "z"
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"Not so," replied the immitigable zealot.† (source)
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To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you."† (source)
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Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.† (source)
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Some of the guards thought of the camerlegno as a beato-a religious zealot whose love of God bordered on obsession-but even they agreed ....when it came to fighting the enemies of God, the camerlegno was the one man who would stand up and play hardball.† (source)
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I make no claims to have a life in Christ, or with Christ—and certainly not for Christ, which I've heard some zealots claim.† (source)
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But the company of this sweet, if peculiar, guest pleased her the way a zealot pleases his teacher.† (source)
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Jack had seen Denker the teacher as not much different from the strutting South American little Caesars in their banana kingdoms, standing dissidents up against the wall of the handiest squash or handball court, a super-zealot in a comparatively small puddle, a man whose every whim becomes a crusade.† (source)
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With obvious reference to such enemies, Houston told the Legislature in his first general message in 1860: notwithstanding the ravings of deluded zealots, or the impious threats of fanatical disunionists, the love of our common country still burns with the fire of the olden time ....in the hearts of the conservative people of Texas......Texas will maintain the Constitution and stand by the Union.† (source)
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They saved the bulk of their contempt and zealotry for the young, especially the poor women.† (source)
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Ishmael's grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons.† (source)
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Instantly, for all but the zealots like Gottlieb, Terry, Martin, and the bio-physics assistant, research was halted.† (source)
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The Chinese Communist Party leaders themselves were sufficiently embarrassed by Qian's zealotry that they fired him a year later.† (source)
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She was a small, wiry woman with the eyes of a zealot and though pushing forty, wore her hair in two long plaits.† (source)
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That day it was yuletide, and it struck me that Ned Land badly missed celebrating "Christmas," that genuine family holiday where Protestants are such zealots.† (source)
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Even so, he and his unit threw themselves into the task with a devotion that matched the religious zealotry of their adversaries.† (source)
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I have been a Catholic, a revelationist, a neo-Marxist, an interface zealot, a Bound Shaker, a satanist, a bishop in the Church of Jake's Nada, and a dues-paying subscriber to the Assured Reincarnation Institute.† (source)
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