This unnatural solitude gave birth to gloomy forebodings in the hearts of the invaders,-forebodings which were more than justified by the final result of that wholly unwarranted campaign.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The nation now calling itself British has Saxon, Teutonic, French, and Norse blood in its veins, as well as that of the original stock; but when the successive waves of invaders swept over the country, they usually exhausted themselves before reaching this remote corner, into which the oldest island stock was swept up.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
This district was the last stronghold of the British race, who had retreated before the Western invaders to the very extremity of the land.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton