How To Use Citadel In A Sentence

Ovid also [278] makes Janus say that the Janiculum was his citadel. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
Alroy still lingered, and for some hours the warriors of his staff might have been observed lounging about the citadel, or practising their skill in throwing the jerreed as they exercised their impatient chargers before the gates. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist. New Dan Simmons Story
It was full of jars and dried plants and reminded her of Gwenell's apothecary at the Citadel. MEDALON
As the citizenry hurried up the steep streets of Citadel in a tide of rumour and fear, the family made its own way to the assembly ground. A TIME OF WAR

The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.
At The Citadel, first-year students, called knobs, are closely supervised every waking minute. Failing at FAIRNESS
If the Citadel's desecration had cut him to the core, then Tavern Street was like rubbing salt into the wound. TREASON KEEP
But through the wide streets and through the narrow ones, under the archways into the market gardens, across the bridge and into the square where the "glockenspiel" played its old tinkling tune, everywhere the Citadel looked down and always The Rat walked on in his dream. The Lost Prince
He wished the Citadel was easier to read, easier to understand. TREASON KEEP
Why, the old Peer, pox of his tough constitution, (for that malady would have helped him on,) has made shift by fire and brimstone, and the devil knows what, to force the gout to quit the counterscarp of his stomach, just as it had collected all its strength, in order to storm the citadel of his heart. Clarissa Harlowe
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
Those who dwell in my heart, which you call a citadel, enter by that road. The Puppet Crown
The best-preserved section of Roman wall is in the north-east of the town, along the Rue de la Citadelle.
The massive ramparts of the Citadel overlook the whole city.
As well as levelling the town, the quake has also destroyed what remained of the ancient city and its sixteenth century citadel.
The citadel is under the command of the baron of Auchinleck; he, with his brave followers, being the first to hail the burning of the accursed Barns of Ayr. The Scottish Chiefs
In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
The virtual citadel is endowed with the most important information concerning the history and the present of our bimillenary city.
I confess," replied Wallace, "that an armed citadel is not the most pleasant abode for a lady; but at present, excepting perhaps the church, it is the safest; and I would not advise your lady to remove hence, until the plain be made as free as this mountain. The Scottish Chiefs
He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries. 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
By many this isolated rock is considered the arx or citadel of Veii; but the existence of so many sepulchral caves in it is, as Mr. Dennis says, conclusive of the fact that it was the Necropolis of the ancient city, which must therefore, according to Etruscan and Roman usage regarding the interment of the dead, have been outside the walls. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
The great city walls were not breached until 146, and it took a week of street fighting for the Romans to work their way to the citadel.
I had watched from the Citadel as the procession made its way on a roundabout route through the streets of Mainport.
And nowhere upon the inspired pages of the fourth Evangelist, nor in that great Epistle to the Colossians, which is the very citadel and central fort of that doctrine in Scripture, is there more emphatically stated this truth than here, in these incidental allusions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition.
As might be expected in the age of New Labour, the image of the 21 st-century Dome as a citadel of shampoo and long legs has its attractions for luvvies and policymakers.
In the process, he blazed a trail followed by a slew of hedge funds that rely on quantitative strategies — so-called quants — such as D.E. Shaw Group, AQR Capital Management and Citadel Investment Group. Pioneering Fund Stages Second Act
Do you know, however, 'continued he musingly,' that at Sparta (which is now Palaeochori) -- at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle, upon which are still legible the letters. The Assignation
Each city was laid out on a grid plan with a high citadel and a lower city of domestic dwellings.
I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined. Chapter 2
And he laid his hand, as Drayton might have said, on that stout bastion, hornwork, ravelin, or demilune, which formed the outworks to the citadel of his purple isle of man. Westward Ho!
Although the citadel is located only about 50 miles from Cusco, the Inca capital, it was never found and destroyed by the Spanish, as were many other Inca sites.
He retired from the Navy in 1979 to accept an offer to be president of the Citadel military college in South Carolina.
As the heat fades from the Italian summer, now's the ideal time to find out why, by taking advantage of the local airport and catching the funicular railway up to Bergamo's medieval citadel.
I watched the Citadel guard drilling in the exercise hall.
Historians have stated that its completeness, setting, size and sheer magnificence make it the finest citadel on earth.
After the initial skirmishes of the battle, the French withdrew to their massive citadel.
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A fortress brigade of elite fanatics holds this citadel, which is dug into the bedrock below, and protected above with reinforced concrete, and has all around fire from machine guns, cannon, mortars, and grenade throwers housed in steel turrets. The Niagara Front
He played tight end at The Citadel and led the nation in touchdown receptions — in 1959. Maguire will take reduced role in ESPN college football coverage
Tom Wood ruled the vast Citadel Theatre Shoctor Stage as he is wont.
Its citadel is not within frail human flesh, or within the truest and noblest human heart. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Through the arch of the inner gateway mined buildings are visible, scattered across a grassy plateau with the citadel on higher ground at the far end.
The squat stone buildings of the public granaries clung to a cliff low down on the citadel island. A TIME OF WAR
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
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It was this land side, containing the citadel and other works, which so impressed outsiders with the idea of impregnable strength. The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
The best-preserved section of Roman wall is in the north-east of the town, along the Rue de la Citadelle.
You can visit historical landmarks such as Fort Louisbourg and Halifax Citadel.
The citadel is entered through a tunnel in the walls. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
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And he laid his hand, as Drayton might have said, on that stout bastion, hornwork, ravelin, or demilune, which formed the outworks to the citadel of his purple isle of man. Westward Ho!
GAINESVILLE, FL - NOVEMBER 22: Head coach Kevin Higgins of the Citadel Bulldogs shouts instructions to the offense during the game against the Florida Gators at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on November 22, 2008 in Gainesville, Florida. FanHouse
The most controversial proposal is for a three-storey museum under the Forbidden City, a sprawling citadel dating from the Ming Dynasty.
The walled citadels in some early cities developed into elaborate palisades, walls, and moats to protect the multitude of Iron Age and medieval cities throughout much of the country.
Deep structural changes will be necessary in developing countries if literacy is to go beyond the citadels of the elites.
This promised a fate worse than death: if not entryism by extremist groups, then a withdrawal into a run-down citadel from which insults, but nothing more attractive, would be hurled at the outside world.
Atrocity stories filtered through, of the Mamelukes bursting into the citadel; of the destruction, the rampage; the plundering.
We passed the demilune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Novels by Eminent Hands
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and a liberal ideology to the citadel of Senate power, but whose personal and political failings may have prevented him from realizing the ultimate prize of the presidency, died at his home in Hyannis Port last night after a battle with brain cancer. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 26, 2009
To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
Wallace refused to resume the dignity he had resigned, the reinvestment of which had been extorted from the lords in the citadel. The Scottish Chiefs
He actually broke into the city, but could not take the citadel.
Ma foi," said the commandant, "c'est un negotiant, un bourgeois" -- take him away to the citadel, we will examine him to-morrow, at present we must dress for the comedie -- "Allons. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832
One tight crawlway wormed through the citadel walls to debouch near the Postern of Fate. The Tower of Fear
Above the town, where the cemetery now stands, is a likely site for a citadel, and on examining it from the sea I noticed, sure enough, a few blocks of prehistoric structure of the so-called Cyclopean type underneath a corner of the cemetery wall. Alone
The regional headquarters have already shifted to another neighbourhood and the decision was finally taken two years ago to sell off the citadel so that a new facility could be built.
Nonetheless, the Palamidi Fortress, a citadel dominating the town, is worth a visit.
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The story runs that Camillus, having carried his _cuniculus_ under the Temple of Juno within the citadel, overheard the Etruscan _aruspex_ declare to the king of Veii that victory would rest with him who completed the sacrifice. Pagan and Christian Rome
The ancient king with his atheling band sought his citadel, sorrowing much: Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
From here one could see the citadel of Degannwy, which was the official entrance to the kingdom of Gwynedd. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
Massachusetts; the establishment of a citadel in Boston; the stationing of a fleet in its harbor; the experiment of martial law; the transportation of "incendiaries" to England, and the prohibition of the Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
This sprawling citadel, looming high above the Andalusian city, boasts a dazzling array of mosaics, with tiles arranged in beautiful, intricate patterns, and is a testament to the beauty of mathematics.
Saturnius, from the ancient city of Satur'nia, of which it was the citadel; it was afterwards called the Tarpeian mount, and finally received the name of Capitoline from a human head [11] being found on its summit when the foundations of the temple of Jupiter were laid. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquiti
Outside this was a citadel, fortified like the inner bailey, but containing a greater number of buildings.
The royal citadel, to strengthen the defences, was begun in 1666 and the dockyard at Devonport was developed in William III's reign.
An arc of white light shone through the carefully planned refractors near its crest, making the Citadel look like an archer's bow drawn to the sky.
The Citadel was ablaze with light, adding its own unique essence to the celebrations. HARSHINI
Downtown today is a strange and atmospheric four mile area cut off like a citadel from the rest of the region by a moat-like ring of freeways.
People have always thought of vitrified forts as Iron Age but the dates we found make this citadel far more important.
So reluctantly Shams ad Daulah turned over the citadel to the atabeg of Mosul. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
Looking at the strong outlines in the early city plats and plans, we too readily imagine Charleston girded with a stone citadel.
Its revival of The Mystery of Irma Vep was also a success and will be remounted at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre next season.
We drove two hundred kilometers to Bam, a sprawling walled city and citadel begun two thousand years ago by the Parthians.
At the age of 32, she managed to enter one of the citadels of high fashion.
The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.
The central citadel system consists in armoring that part of the waterline which is abreast of the engines and boilers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
The mosque in the citadel is rather disappointing. Three Months in the Soudan
The standard of liberty had been raised by him on the carse of Gowrie, and he carried it in his victorious arm from east to west, from the most northern point of Sutherland to the walls of Stirling; but there, the garrison which the treason of the late regent had admitted into that citadel gave a momentary check to his career. The Scottish Chiefs
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-- Almost every Greek city has its own formidable citadel, its own "acropolis," -- for "citadel" is really all this word conveys. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
Aeneas highlights what he calls the deception of the Greeks: an Argive solider had allowed himself to be captured, and he leads on the Trojans with an act and a tale, enticing them to bring the horse inside the citadel. Felix hominum
They become His temple, and their hearts are a holy of holies in which His blessed presence ever abides, and from that central citadel He works, enduing the man who has received Him with power. When the Holy Ghost is Come
The citadel is entered through a tunnel in the walls. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
At this point the palace-organized economy seems to have ceased, though parts of the citadel continued to be occupied until about 1050 bc.
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Can't we just line-up the outgoing cabal of treasonous conspirators (if indeed the welfare dependant electorate chooses to 'outgo' them - by no means certain, imho) against the wall of the Citadel on the day of the Queen's Birthday Parade and have a contingent from the Brigade of Guards shoot the the whole feckin'lot of 'em, as the Band of The Royal Marines plays Colonel Bogey, followed by Beyond Dull Care as their rancid carcasses are removed in a City of Westminster shit-cart. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The town, climbing the hill, assumed the proportions of a mighty citadel; the forest tree-tops were prismatic, emerald balls flung beneath the illumined Merveille; and the Cathedral was set in a daffodil frame; its aerial _escalier de dentelle_, like Jacob's ladder, led one easily heavenward. In and out of Three Normady Inns
Once the guardians of the citadel granted permission to open the gates, is it any surprise that the marauding hordes came storming through?
Diabolus recaptures the city but cannot take the citadel, and is presently defeated by Emmanuel.
The Casbah, citadel, has always been the. beating heart of Algiers, capital of Algeria.
The ruins of the Machu Picchu citadel, 130 km northwest of Cuzco, Peru, on July 6, 2011.
The citadel's rough, sheer pale-brown outer walls and ramparts resemble a giant sandcastle built on the edge of the sea.
Aleppo's citadel and ancient souks are remnants of one of the oldest continually occupied cities on earth. Times, Sunday Times
At the age of 32, she managed to enter one of the citadels of high fashion.
Do you know, however, "continued he musingly —" that at Sparta (which is now Palæochori), at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle upon which are still legible the letters ΛΑΞΜ. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
It seems that this caring does not extend outside the confines of our own country, our island, our citadel.
It was a perfect little citadel of the slightly snide, superior Edinburgh middle classes. Times, Sunday Times
Once dreaded as cesspools of infection, hospitals began to be seen as temples of healing and citadels of science, affording them a new moral identity.
The citadel is entered through a tunnel in the walls. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
Venice retained the essential positions of her colonial empire in the Levant, Negrepont and Crete, and the strong citadels of Modon and Coron; her patrician families kept most of their signories in the Archipelago, as did the other Latin states in Greece which were products of the Crusade.
Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for, refuge and for the future be inexpugnable.
The citadel is placed on a high steep rock which completely overlooks the town, but the whole is commanded by a ridge of hills within cannon-range of the citadel. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
We passed the demilune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Novels by Eminent Hands
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Victory eluded the British for three months, until Wolfe successfully landed men on the Plains of Abraham above the citadel.
The just proposed 'Citadel shaped' kinko's self help store in Kandahar is infuriating and intruiging many locals. Latimes.com - News
But her report says the citadel ‘puts Stirling firmly on the map at a time when Picts, Scots, Britons and Angles ruled their separate kingdoms in the four quarters of mainland Scotland’.
The South American country is seeking the return of some 4,900 artefacts from the Inca citadel, including ceramics, cloths and metalwork.
At least on the floor he was spared the bevy of animals which formed a furry citadel around Paula. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
A deep moat that surrounds the citadel has kept it from being damaged.
The court was told that he had gained the trust when he served at Salvation Army citadels.
The citadel the "Phacus," which is close to the city, stands in the marsh itself, projecting like an island, and is built on a huge substructure which is strong enough to carry a wall and prevent any damage from the infiltration from the water of the lagoon. The History of Rome, Vol. VI
It continues to use the citadel for band practices and Saturday night variety shows, and maintains some 20 low-rent flats there.
During World War II it was dismantled and stored in order to prevent damage during the construction of the new Citadel, and was rededicated at Greenwich in 1951.
From the citadel the impregnability of Ani's site is even more striking: on a peninsula at the confluence of two rivers, only one side of the city was accessible by land.
I am called upon, my Lord, to go to the citadel, to see the going away of the ice; an object so new to me, that I cannot resist the curiosity I have to see it, though my going thither is attended with infinite difficulty. The History of Emily Montague
Lemuel Struthers, the widow of Struthers's Shoe-polish, who had returned the previous year from a long initiatory sojourn in Europe to lay siege to the tight little citadel of New York.
And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The very famous and ancient Anglo-Saxon language, whose citadel is supposed to be confined to the charmed circle over which Bow Bells presides, is just about to conquer the continent of Australia, and I am inclined to think that the people who are fighting against it are fighting against fate. Australian Politics
One artistic work that stupendously manages this neat feat of perspective is the musical Cabaret, currently on the boards of the Citadel Theatre.
Presumably, it was meant to honour the Salvation Army citadel that stood there until the 1990s.
The citadel was solid.
They soon grew tired of the siege, bound their commander, and lowered him down the walls of the citadel to a summary execution.
The city fell immediately, but the citadel held out.
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The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century.
Scotland being again rescued from the vengeance of her implacable foe, the disaffected lords in the citadel affected to spurn at her preservation, declaring to the regent that they would rather bear the yoke of the veriest tyrant in the world, than owe a moment of freedom to the man who (they pretended to believe) had conspired against their lives. The Scottish Chiefs
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Gawn had been assigned as his adjutant on his return to the Citadel. TREASON KEEP
Alexander placed Ada on the throne of Caria as his satrap in the smoldering ruins of the city and stationed enough troops nearby to drive out the last of the Persians from their citadels. Alexander the Great
A short distance before Banyas, once a Phoenician port, 34 miles south of Latakia, we saw the enormous citadel of Marqab towering atop a mountain.
Lying at the town's highest point, the site resembles a small citadel, hovering above its surroundings and visible from the streets below.
Herat was visible from here, spread below her like a child's board game: the Women's Garden to the north of the city, Char-suq Bazaar and the ruins of Alexander the Great's old citadel to the south. A Thousand Splendid Suns
The eyes of Telenews 'ace reporter and the telephoto lens of his cameraman stared down from a scooter at the furiously smoking, sputteringly incandescent surface of Triplanetary's ancient citadel; while upon dozens of worlds thousands of millions of people packed themselves tighter and tighter around tens of millions of visiplates and loudspeakers in order to see and to hear the tremendous news. First Lensman
Next week, the odds are that she will have to abase herself before the conservative and relatively euro-skeptic wing of her own party if, as seems likely, the Christian Democrats lose control of the conservative citadel of Baden-Württemberg. Euro Zone Letting Slip a Grand Chance
Their society is technologically advanced, and vast dirigibles called aëro: cruisers carry diplomatic missions to other citadels; yet a core of unscientific superstition still persists.
Peter's army stormed the citadel and sacked the city, killing several thousand inhabitants and local Byzantine troops.
The ruins of a Moorish alcazar or citadel crown a rocky mound which rises out of the centre of the town. The Alhambra
The Europe they had come from lay out there beyond the Irish Sea, Europe of strange tongues and valleyed and woodbegirt and citadelled and of entrenched and marshalled races. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The walls of the passage were solid and rough, hewn from the granite outcropping upon which the Citadel stood.
Visitors will enter the building at the base of a two-story, ovular glass tower that rises like an outward-sloping citadel at the corner of the building. Suburban 'Green'
We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel.
A fortified citadel has stood on this spot since the Phoenicians ruled Malta, back in 1000 BC.
The War Cabinet would use a bombproof citadel known as PADDOCK at Dollis Hill with supporting bunkers at Cricklewood and Harrow.
Meanwhile, private client wealth care company Citadel expressed caution about what it termed Manuel's very optimistic revenue estimates for the next three years. ANC Daily News Briefing
There is another in France, Willis; but the Troy I mean is, or rather was, in Asia Minor, capital of Lesser Phrygia, sometimes called Ilion, its citadel bearing the name of Pergamos. Willis the Pilot
For such a man to assault the Government citadel, garrisoned by aristocrats, and buttressed by wealth, seemed mere madness.
To this end 10,000 troops were quartered on the land, in great citadels at Leith, Ayr, and Perth, and a score of smaller forts.
[Footnote 17: In Servian, Belgrade is called Beograd, "white city;" -- poetically, "white eagle's nest."] [Footnote 18: I think that a traveller ought to see all that he can; but, of course, has no right to feel surprised at being excluded from citadels.] [Footnote 19: One of the representatives of the ancient imperial family is the Earl of Devon, for Urosh the Great married Helen of Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
A perfect citadel of a boy, with a General Chasse sitting in that bomb-proof casemate, his heart, letting blow after blow come thumping about his head, and never thinking of giving in. Roundabout Papers
Here an ancient citadel coils around an old port and bijou restaurants crowd around a modern marina.
In the twelfth century, the great Kurdish conqueror Saladin built the Citadel, a fortress on a hill above Cairo, using the labor of captured Crusaders.
Nine of the citadel's original fourteen towers still stand, named after the guilds that raised the money to build and maintain them.
[37] Khelat (more properly Khelat-i-Nussear Khan, "the citadel of Nussear Khan," by whom it was strongly fortified in 1750,) is the principal city and fortress of the Brahooes or Eastern Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
This 16th century bastioned city is unique in the feminine quality among the masculine citadels of Rajasthan.
Hardened by his visions and experience with the Citadel, he is no stranger to killing and has dispatched his fair share of assassins.
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The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.
He gets mail as an alumnus of the Citadel, was raised in tidewater Carolinas, claims to be a Rear Heroes or Villains?
'This citadel wouldn't happen to have a hot bath, perchance ? THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel.
It was only when he had almost reached the citadel that he leapt on his horse and rode off.
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A hundred years ago, during the Tsarist Russian occupation, kibitkas, or horse wagons, were leaving the Citadel's gallows filled with Polish political prisoners.
'As I remember, the one who dwelt in the citadel when I passed through the Chaos Realm in my youth -- he was no Lord of Chaos, but a kind of ser - vant to the Lords. The Weird of the White Wolf
But in the old Citadel in the enormous city, they still exist: two Masters, some journeymen and the apprentices, all locked up in their tower, doing the biddings of the judges and the autarchs, inflicting pain and ending lives.
Hair rising accounts of bright ideas of turning the Rock Citadel into a Disney style theme park have thankfully been quashed, (for now anyway) and citizens mercifully have had to stop writing on the mirror wall, an old form of self expression resorted to in a time before internet blogging … so the Rock Citadel will have more time. Kottu
Wheels clattered and slipped as the procession made its way up the switchback road to the Citadel.
The citadel is warded against magical intrusion-we can't just 'pop' in and out, even if such a thing were easily possible. EXCERPT: The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin
The city fell immediately, but the garrison held out in the citadel.
He was still inside the citadel, propped up against a wall behind a massive trebuchet, a stationary artillery weapon that could fling much larger weights, and over much greater distances than a catapult.
The Emperor is lodged in the Kxeiai lin, which is in the centre of the city, like a kind of citadel, surroaudcd by high wails, — « The Royal Military Chronicle
In the hour of dawn, as the first rosy fingers of light spread out upon the sea, shining on whitecaps and gilding the wings of gulls as they sailed over the heights where the water met the cliffs of northmost Karthay, a dwarf mage roused from his tortured sleep in the castle all folk around knew as the Citadel of Night. Dalamar the Dark
Properties in the medieval walled city are like gold dust; those with views of the citadel are also rare, and carry a premium. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever there was fighting around Limoges one permanent complicating factor was the rivalry between city and citadel.
Here now is Fort Cornelius, and there is the moat, the sugar-basin is the citadel, and the tongs is the first trench, the decanter will represent the tall tower towards the south-west angle, and here, the wine glass -- this is me. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
The author is now writing "Citadel," the final book in this trilogy, but in the meantime, "The Winter Ghosts," a slim and affecting novel, once again reanimates the history of France's persecuted Cathar sect. Anna Mundow reviews 'The Winter Ghosts' by 'Labyrinth' author Kate Mosse
Thiessen's play was among the top-three revenue generators at the Citadel last season.
In the original Persian text, the citadel is rendered as the Arg-i Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for, refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. The Meditations
The citadel is entered through a tunnel in the walls. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
He excelled in that specious, though apparently heedless raillery, which is so apt to slip without suspicion into a lady's ear; and he could ply his suit, under this disguise, with such seeming artlessness and unconcern, that a lodgement in the citadel was sometimes effected ere the garrison was aware of the intrusion. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
The citadel is entered through a tunnel in the walls. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
In its heyday, the city was enclosed by a wall some 8km in circumference, enclosing at one corner a citadel that contained a ziggurat, temples, and palaces.
For thee fair streams of a father's pouring and lustral waters are in store, for thee Achaea's host is waiting, eager to reach the citadel of Ilium. Iphigenia at Aulis

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