According to Sweet the original home of the Aryans is placed in central or northern Europe, rather than in Asia, as was once assumed.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Less fortunate, however, than even their prototypes the Cyclops, the whole tribe was extirpated a few ages after by Brutus the parricide, who, with a valour to which mere bulk could offer no effectual resistance, overthrew Gog-Magog and Termagol, and a whole host of others with names equally terrible.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

His fertility is more amazing than his intensity, for no critic of nearly equal rank has enriched English literature with so many valuable and enduring judgments on so great a variety of subjects.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

It is a truism that life is full of coincidences, but whether these events comprised a coincidence, or not, each reader must decide for himself, according to his cynicism or his faith in human nature.
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

That the population, predominantly Illyrian but in good part also Celtic, opposed no energetic resistance to the Romanising, has already been mentioned; the old language and the old habits disappeared where the Romans came, and kept their ground only in the more remote districts.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

Varahran found himself once more overmatched, and could offer no effectual resistance.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

This point, in front of Wood's Holl, is the southern limit of the French explorations on the coast of New England, reached by them on the 20th of October, 1606.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

THE CRADLE Original N EAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few guests the night would stay; And these could seldom much afford to pay.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD NEW EDITION, REVISED HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, NEW YORK AND TORONTO SOPHOCLES Born at Colonos probably 495 B.C. Died 406 B.C.
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

If the British attacked him during this march, his columns could offer no effective resistance until they deployed and faced the British line, and while doing so they would be sure to suffer greatly.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Edward Parrott