The imbedded Toad in the fir-tree, mentioned by me in the Zoologist , I saw, and, as stated there, I counted the rings of the tree.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

The beet root sugar made in the Zollverein in 1851 was about 45,000 tons.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

The only return on your part will be that care of yourself which will find a shield in my honour ' (here he very awkwardly struck his breast, and grinned a ghastly smile), 'and that confidence I can command in the government whose good faith is not misplaced in the zeal I have testified to serve it.'
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Speckbacher arrived too late to defend Innsbruck, and, enraged at the ill-laid plan of defence, threw a body of his men into the Zillerthal in order to prevent the Bavarians from falling upon Hofer's rear.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel