We adopt this as a fair statement of what should be their Decennial natural increase in all the States; and, by natural increase, we mean increase from births.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
In vain did he endeavour to stimulate literature by the reorganization of the Institute, and by granting Decennial prizes for the chief works and discoveries of the decade.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Or take the question of population," Mullins went on, warming up again as a born statistician always does at the proximity of figures, "how many of you know, how many of you can state, what has been the Decennial percentage increase in our leading cities-?"
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock