A letter to the American Colonization Society through her Secretary, July 17th (1828): Until we can raise crops sufficient to supply a considerable number of new comers every year, such an arrangement (a vessel large enough to run down to Cape Palmas and occasionally to Sierra Leone) as will enable us to proceed farther to the leeward than we have ever done, in order to procure supplies, will be indispensably necessary; as there we can procure Indian Corn, Palm Oil, and live stock.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

At all events, we slew a number of neat cattle, eight or nine of which were sent on board the ships, where they answered a much better purpose than as many human carcasses.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

There were no frogs, no owls, no crickets even.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

Atomic Numbers Since the atom consisted of a positively charged nucleus at the center, and a number of negatively charged electrons outside
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) Atomic Weights; Energy; Electricity by Isaac Asimov

No treaties, whether between civilized nations or not, can ever be regarded as binding in perpetuity; with changing conditions, circumstances may arise which render it not only expedient, but imperative and honorable, to abrogate them.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

"In 1800 the number of native communicants enrolled in Protestant mission churches was 7,000.
— from Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer

The desire is for all the romance and the legends and the visions of supreme greatness which no other name can ever call up.
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford