Persians

Examples

• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The population had either to fly or submit to the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Would the Scythians go back and destroy the Persians to make sure of them while the Greeks on their part destroyed the bridge? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The centre and left of the Persians crumpled up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Susa is in the hands of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thereafter Heraclius slowly relinquished all Syria, which he had so lately won back from the Persians, to his new antagonists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By all the laws of the Medes and Persians, said Maurice, kissing her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. Plato. The Republic.
• They sided with the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All through the night the Arabs smote in the name of Allah, and pressed upon the shattered and retreating Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Macedonia does, indeed, arise in the background of this incurably divided Greece as the Medes and Persians arose behind the Chaldean Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I, for my own part, feel gratitude to the gods that they do not put it into the minds of the Persians to march against the Lydians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If Athens fell, then Hippias was to be its tyrant, under the protection of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In accordance with the suggestions of Histi?us the Scythians rode off in search of the Persians, and so left the Greeks safe in either event. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After 479 B.C. (Plat?a) the spirit seems to have gone out of the government of the Medes and Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At the outset of the war the Persians had this supreme advantage, they were practically masters of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He set himself to make mischief, and was able to stir up a revolt against the Persians among the Ionian Greeks on the mainland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a whole day this little band had held the pass, assailed in front and rear by the whole force of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only a few people too old to move and a few dissentients remained in the town, which was occupied by the Persians and burnt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He would prefer, he said, to see the Persians completely destroyed before definitely abandoning their cause. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Turks and Persians as well as Arabs became Emirs, and the army was reorganized upon Sassanid lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Persians were guided into Marathon by a renegade Greek, Hippias, the son of Peisistratus, who had been tyrant of Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Persians had sailed round Salamis and held the sea on the other side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the ninth century B.C. a people called the Medes, very closely related to the Persians to the east of them, appear in the Assyrian inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whether in Europe or in Asia, among Greeks or Persians, all was indifferent to him: Wherever he found men, he fancied he found subjects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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