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It is almost the only frugiferous nocturnal bird yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls.— Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
Preussen are luxuriantly grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough; and the soil generally is reckoned fertile, though lying so far northward.— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02
Triglaph, or Triglyph Idol, (derivation of Triglaph wholly unknown to me -- I use Triglyph only for my own handiest epithet), last set up, on what is now St. Mary's hill in Brandenburg, in 1023, belonged indeed to a people wonderfully like the Saxons, -- geographically their close neighbours, -- in habits of life, and aspect of native land, scarcely distinguishable from them, -- in Carlyle's words, a "strong-boned, iracund, herdsman and fisher people, highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially, and inhabiting a moory flat country, full of lakes and woods, but with plenty also of alluvial mud, grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough" -- in all things like the Saxons, except, as I read the matter, in that 'aversion to be interfered with' which you modern English think an especially Saxon character in you, -- but which is, on the contrary, you will find on examination, by no means Saxon; but only Wendisch, Czech, Serbic,— The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford

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