How To Use Fortress In A Sentence

Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
With its rock towers and domes, the mountain looked like a vast ruined fortress. Times, Sunday Times
The fortress at the entrance to the village was reduced by a sudden attack.
The station house was one of those fortresslike concrete structures, painted green on the outside, with heavy green entrance doors, and adorned with old-fashioned gas lamps near the entrance. Dancing with the Devil
Cities such as Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, and Yaroslavl grew around the old fortresses (kremlins) and monasteries that formed their centers and near the gates where artisans and traders peddled their goods.

It is as if the family has become a fortress. Times, Sunday Times
The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July.
World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses.
The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there. Christianity Today
When not on the beach, Rian enjoyed the children's playground, which offered a slide, swings, see-saw and fortress.
The French constructed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai.
They turned the ruins into a fortress and withstood all attacks for another three months. Whicker's War
On landing, the army hailed him as the true victor of Oran, a wave of acclamations following him as he advanced to the alcazar, where the keys of the fortress were put into his hands. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
In a cramped conference room known as the "submarine" inside the fortresslike New York Fed, more than a dozen employees who constituted the institution's AIG task force were working marathon days, crammed elbow to elbow around a long wooden conference table. AIG, a symbol of financial crisis, repays bailout loan and finds new foothold
It's the same reason U.S. airlines shy away from adding service in rival airline's fortress hubs -- the bigger incumbent can outmatch you in flights and fares to protect its markets, and likely has many business travelers locked into frequent flier programs and corporate contracts. For Fliers, 'Open Skies' Start Is Slow
The French constructed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai.
Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.
There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
I say tragic, because on every hilltop is a ruin of either a fortress or a church in which men sought security and there was no security. London To Paris To Rome
The old castle and fortress of Guevara is perched on the crown of what Captain Dalgetty would call a monticle, rising very abruptly out of the most arid and dry plain it was ever my fortune to visit.
Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice. Quogue-mire!
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
Now it resembled a low fortress wall with blocks of stone evenly cut and dressed, and white lines to guide devotees on moonless nights.
The imposing Iron Age fortress of Cissbury Ring was constructed some 2,300 years ago on top of a 600ft-high hill of the South Downs. Country diary: Cissbury Ring, Findon
Our guardianship is a sacred trust, which the Fortress of the Senate shall ever hold true. Asimov's Science Fiction
If we weren't touring some medieval fortress, drinking delicious red wine or visiting a duomo, we were on the bus headed to our next destination.
Within the walls of the keep were a motley of low, stone buildings that housed the garrison, supplies, and mounts of the soldiers, engineers and tradesmen that made up the residents of the fortress.
The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter.
By the ingenious means of using antimagnetic missiles Rhodan succeeded in breaking down the protective body screens of the Antis and invading their fortress. False Front
It was a stormy day in November, 2001, when Sharp and his men drove up to his beach fortress with a ton of boards, jetskis, and rescue gear.
He helped create and expand the Bastille legend, exhibiting in his waxworks insurgents, released prisoners, and a model of the fortress, carved from its ‘last’ stone.
They deem themselves protected against any attacks behind their fortressed walls. Fantasy or Reality �� Is There a Way Back?
At the center of the maneuvers is the USS George Washington, a floating fortress that can carry up to 70 aircraft and more than 5,000 sailors and aviators. US, South Korean Ships Drop Anti-Sub Bombs In Drills
Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
We can't build a fortress Britain. The Sun
Buchanan would end all foreign aid, build a Fortress America through protectionist trade barriers and return America to his beloved '5Os by keeping out Third World immigrants. Buchanan: Thunder On The Right
Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
With the front gate closed, the family house became a fortress.
Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress.
How does he gain by fortressing himself and his administration away from critics, skeptics, and questioners?
Most contemporary commanders used their troops in a slow, expensive, attritional warfare based on sieges of selected fortified cities or fortresses.
It is protected by a broad wet ditch, and in the caponiers are the magazines and store chambers of the fortress.
The ruling Ottoman elite added the Turkish Hospital in 1895 and a hammam (Turkish bath house) and fortress in the early twentieth century.
Incredibly sturdy, it had been built to serve as a nuclear bomb shelter if necessary, supposedly an impregnable fortress of civil defense.
High fortress walls with embrasures surrounded the town.
They will establish impregnable fortresses.
A paranoid fortress mentality has unfortunately gripped the government policy makers in the most underpopulated country on earth.
Similarly, in eastern Europe and the Baltic, crusaders constructed a range of fortresses from wooden blockhouses to the great monastery castles of the military orders.
The white side of the fortress surfaced briefly, a breaching white whale, before waves splashed up the sides and it rolled back down into the deeps.
This fortress is as ancient as the town, said to have been built about the middle of the twelfth century, and is situated on an elevation at the foot of which flows the Moskva, but there is nothing remarkable in the style excepting its antiquity. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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The New Forest had become virtually a fortress of barbed wire and road blocks.
Parts of Shaker Heights — where I lived for 11 of the years when those changes supposed to be occurring — may look like Mission Hills with its castellated stone fortresses. 2009 April 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Meer Baber Beg has placed his fortress in a very respectable state of defence, quite adequate to repel the desultory inroads of his predatory neighbours; but commanded by and exposed to enfilade from the hills about it, on one of these hills he has built a tower as a kind of outwork, but it is very weak and of insignificant size. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
The trade fairs, like the Pitti Uomo men's event this week, are held in a cluster of ancient fortress buildings with red tile roofs, octagonal rotundas and vast "dogana," or customs centers. NYT > Home Page
The perpetrators likely had ties to organized crime, according to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist," who says most art thieves are common crooks -- the class of criminal who would probably be flummoxed by Washington's high-profile museums, which are fortresslike and ringed by bollards. Heist-proof museums? U.S. buildings aided by design, location
Beyond the dying fortress, Kaem stood on the balcony of his quarters watching with barely conce-aled glee as the battle moved into its final stages. Waylander
And shortly, in her armies' unremitting retreat, the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege.
But he had other things in mind - plans that had been consuming his soul since he had escaped from La Fortaleza, the once impregnable fortress that had fallen a little over a year ago.
Those who mock France for building forts that were supposedly "outflanked" should know the "impregnable" modern US fortifications at Manila, and Britain's Fortress Singapore, were both taken from the rear by the Imperial Japanese Army. Eric Margolis: Four Myths About World War II
A permanent wine exhibition housed in a medieval fortress where all the best Italian wines can be tasted and purchased. Collins Traveller-Tuscany and Florence
The B - 52H is the US Air Force's long-range, large-payload multi-role bomber and is known as the Stratofortress or the Buff (Big Ugly Fat Fellow).
Angry demonstrators filled the streets and city squares surrounding Cairo's fortresslike ministry of interior, which oversees the police, chanting against Egypt's interim ruling military regime and lobbing rocks at police. Egypt's Police Face Fallout From Riot
It could scarce be called a housewarming; for there was, of course, no fire, and with the two open doors and the open window gaping on the night, like breaches in a fortress, it began to grow rapidly chill. The Silverado Squatters
So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
From 1816, General Aleksey Yermolov set out to subjugate the mountain peoples, building forts south of the Terek and founding the fortress city of Grozny “Menacing”. The Return
Aechaeologists have also uncovered a protected , well - fortified passage between aand a fortress on thea hill nearby.
The revolutionary zeal of her martyred men and women, which neither fortress nor katorga could suppress, was my inspiration in the darkest hours. My Disillusionment in Russia
Germany, the place of his imprisonment was discovered by Blondel, his minstrel, who sang beneath the fortress a _tenson_ which he and Richard had composed in common, and to which Richard responded. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
Forus not to dothis would only endorse the proposition that the American electorate is intellectually obtuse and morallyderelict and we surround ourselves in a steel fortressof delusion and denial andany awareness of the grossest atrocities committed by leaders we choose. We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations. Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
The chancellery complex, in fact, is not a dayuan as such; it is not an introverted fortress with a courtyard in the middle, although many embassy and chancellery buildings are fortified in one way or another.
Even as his minions were, with his approval, flingingsuspected agitators into the Fortress of Peter and Paul, raiding the houses of liberal noblemen, and condemning writers andintellectuals to Siberian exile, a part of Alexander was still the sensitive Sasha, the boy with the mild, lamblike eyes. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
The ruling Ottoman elite added the Turkish Hospital in 1895 and a hammam (Turkish bath house) and fortress in the early twentieth century.
A cannon ball struck the wall of the fortress and the building shuddered underneath us.
Game 7 - Regicide Fortress (all civs are allowed and civs can be different). Making dock is NOT allowed .
In the darkness, the other unlit buildings were mere shadows compared to the Fortress.
We sat in a circle, surrounded by decayed fortress walls.
The horses of the dozen riders were lathered, as they galloped across the drawbridge and into the fortress.
Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
The cub painted a high-light picture of his poor little room, its oil-stove and the one chair, and of the death's-head tramp who kept him company and who looked as if he had just emerged from twenty years of solitary confinement in some fortress dungeon. Chapter 39
It went onto the slopes of Pia Fortress and counted five fortalices, as attested by the maps of the seventeenth century.
He'd worry about the manacles when they got closer to the fortress.
Second, the relative ease with which it is possible to define forts and fortresses allows us to consider the impact of the revolt on military dispositions.
By far the most remarkable sight in the fortress is the late works performed by that little enterprizing adventurous animal calld Man. Letter 290
Fear of terrorist attack has turned the conference centre into a fortress.
The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there. Christianity Today
It's like a Gothic fortress pumped up on steroids, a scary building that was apparently designed with the idea of imbuing recruits with a bit of the honor code of the medieval knight. CounterPunch
Above the mighty fortress of earth, dark cumulous nimbus clouds clash violently against each other invoking the worst of all storms and hindering all whom dare to cross by air.
Beyond loomed the fortress, all its lineaments blurred, softened, qualitied like a dream by the flooding moonlight. Sir Mortimer
Most of Spain's European dependencies, in Italy and the Netherlands, went to the Austrians; and the Dutch kept their barrier fortresses.
Its leaders contended that the defensive power of their multi-gunned B17 Flying Fortresses, operating in formation, would permit precision bombing in daylight without unacceptable losses.
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
This fortress could withstand a siege for years if necessary.
Robert threw himself energetically into building a complex polygonal motte and bailey fortress out of wood there.
The USSR's main Black Sea naval base was one of the world's strongest fortresses.
Events, however, were precipitated in such a way that, without waiting for the opening of hostilities, the Turkish general in command of the fortress of Belgrade turned his guns on the city; this provoked the intervention of the powers at Constantinople, and the entire civilian Turkish population had to quit the country (in accordance with the stipulations of 1830), only Turkish garrisons remaining in the fortresses of [) S] abac, Belgrade, The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
The fortress at the entrance to the village was reduced by a sudden attack.
The fortress on the hill covered the harbour area beneath.
Six years ago the bank was being admonished for its narrow focus, its fortress mentality, and its lack of responsiveness.
The BBC's John James in Bouake says Mr Gbagbo is holed up inside the fortress-like presidential mansion, with his last remaining allies and the Republican Guard.
We have to turn this place into a fortress again. The Sun
Spiralling down out of the mountains, we debouched out of a river valley and saw the great fortress rock rising sheer and white out of the ocean.
Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. A Book of Miracles
These were the fortresslike offices of the reformist newspaper Khordad, where journalists saw themselves on a mission to liberalize Iranian thinking. Let the Swords Encircle Me
Inside the wall, four families contending with one another and with a great, golden fortress. A Plague of Angels
The gods were wroth at so presumptuous an offer, but when they would have indignantly driven the stranger from their presence, Loki urged them to make a bargain which it would be impossible for the stranger to keep, and so they finally told the architect that the guerdon should be his, provided the fortress were finished in the course of a single winter, and that he accomplished the work with no other assistance than that of his horse Svadilfare. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
It took fifteen minutes in order to find an opening in the fortress, a large hole blasted in the side of it.
The fortress was ditched in all around.
Singapore, an island at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, was considered a vital part of the British Empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress.
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
Nor was there any attempt to replant the vineyard, or make the grounds around the Fortress in any way flourish. COLDHEART CANYON
The Fortress is hundreds of feet above the flatland around it. BARRACUDA 945
Finish saying to toward Li Ge Zhu's way:"At the opening when we plea for help evil knife fortress' choosing to sapient about private survival is also a mutual consciousness!
The charter references to ‘fortress-work’ imply fortified strongholds rather than dykes.
The novel Fortress Besieged represents Qian Zhongshu's greatest literary understanding of existentialism philosophy.
The disjunction between the Flighthawk and the Mega-fortress was one of the hardest things for the pi-lot to get used to. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
We need a little bit of luck to go our way and turn our home ground into Fortress Memorial.
He created a pool of black water to bring her to his fortress so that he could dispose of her, knowing she presented a threat.
The size and fortress-like nature of the compound stood out in the area, though many of the houses in Abbottabad, built by ex-servicemen and business people, also have high walls. Fugitive's House in a 'Very Peaceful Area'
Sharing a hilltop with the fortress is the restored Palace of the Dukes of Braganza, a Renaissance castle that will host exhibitions and concerts during 2012. Within Portugal's Cradle
He awoke to a subliminal judder and then a hollow, deep boom that rocked through the fortress and was not so much heard as felt.
The fortress was delivered up to the enemy.
Fear of terrorist attack has turned the conference centre into a fortress.
Agency heads privately complained that the White House was a 'fortress' that was unwilling to accept input and that micromanaged their departments. Wonkbook: Democrats' demands and other economic and policy news
At the siege of Metz in 1944, during the liberation of France, for example, heavy coast artillery pieces and field guns shelled the fortresses there.
He had a delicately masoned stone plaque built into a wall by the fortress bearing his coat of arms and the year of construction.
Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have “resurrected” other patients who were lost in the void. Exploring the Noir and the Grotesque
That was the night the Lady Lilith took occupancy of the Goga Fortress. COLDHEART CANYON
Dominating the local coastline, no one could fail to be impressed by this tremendous Norman fortress.
No nation can erect a fortress against influenza - not even the world's wealthiest country.
Positional warfare - that is, the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses and fortified lines - played a major role in seventeenth and eighteenth-century warfare.
His two female companions, Zombie and Eeyore, swig from a bottle of pricey Tejava tea and pass a smoke while lying on a blanket surrounded by a fortress of backpacks, bedrolls and scrawled signs asking for money. San Franciscans Try to Take Back Their Streets
The Black Fortress could magically teleport itself around the surface of the planet.
But an eggshell is a fortress compared to the feathers and gossamer skin that shield this minute nestling from all the evils of the world. Birdology
Situated on the proximities of the military fortress of same name, the Imbuhy community lives in state of war with the army since 1995, due to an action of reintegration of possession impetrated on Justice by the militaries, that wish to expel from the place 32 families that live there from more than a century. CMI Brasil
In fact, almost every castle, fortress, town or village had some sort of arena.
Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders.
Physically it ws contained in the former Foreign Legion fortress, but its smell was of a prison. SKORPION'S DEATH
Old City, bounded by stone walls which once formed part of a fortress, is divided into four quarters, Armenian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
It's a long joyless ride to Metrel district then they be careful to avoid outriding patrols of the enemy on their way back to the fortress. Running from the Deity
For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency.
The city is semicircled by the Sar Mountains and surmounted by an old Turkish fortress; the mountains are the frontier with Albania and Kosovo.
Serene, then, and confident, the heavy cruisers rushed out to englobe the Boskonian fortress. Gray Lensman
The church is entirely destroyed to-day, together with many other buildings, including a strong fortress called S. dementi, because the Duke The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)
The Megafortress shuddered, then started to yaw hard to his left. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
a polyclinic, which is converted into a fortress for the health of this community. CASTRO SPEECH AT VALLE DEL PERU POLYCLINIC
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay. The Tribes Triumphant
That Pilate resided in one of these two castles when Jesus was brought before him can scarcely be doubted; and the early tradition which locates the pretorium in the fortress of Antonia is well supported by history and archæology. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
Inside the wall, four families contending with one another and with a great, golden fortress. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Since the Soviet Union was itself largely closed and compartmentalized, the nuclear cities stood within concentric layers of defenses like fortresses within fortresses, like nested Russian dolls. How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
With shrapnel now in his back also, from German Focke-Wulf 190 fighters that shot down his Flying Fortress, shooting parachuting crew members as they drifted down over French hayfields. He Drank
The ruler could not on his own initiative build fortresses, hire troops or alter the judicial system.
But, as in a beleaguered fortress, all disputes and disagreements stop at the wall. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
The Buddha noticed the great fortresses that were being built by the Magadhan ministers in preparation for the coming war with the Vajjians, and prophesied the city’s future greatness. Buddha
The missile continued to rise, finally leveling and falling at an impossibly slow rate, until it had completely carried over the fortress before crashing to the ground.
The castle moat divided this species of barbican [Footnote: A barbican is a tower or outwork built to defend the entry to a castle or fortification.] from the rest of the fortress, so that, in case of its being taken, it was easy to cut off the communication with the main building, by withdrawing the temporary bridge. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
He could see things between the trees that didn't belong in any of the bestiaries he had in the Fortress. COLDHEART CANYON
I told them about those three ships -- we imagine huge floating fortresses, but Columbus 'ships were shockingly tiny for an open ocean crossing, two small caravels and the flagship Santa María, a carrack -- making their way out of Palos that morning, on a voyage longer and more dangerous than a modern trip to the moon. Jesse Larner: Some Thoughts on Columbus Day
If the French were cantoned along and to the east of that great river, the corps would be in a good position to cover the operations already in progress against the remaining Silesian fortresses and at the same time protect the planned sieges of the important ports of Danzig, Köslin and Strälsund on the Baltic coast. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
In March 1628 a Spanish army besieged its key fortress of Casale, while a Piedmontese force occupied the remainder of the duchy.
Budding archaeologists will be able to ‘excavate’ a medieval burial site as well as parts of a Roman fortress, a Viking city and Victorian workers' cottages.
Although fierce warriors, they were untutored in guerrilla warfare and fought from fixed fortresses, which American artillery and infantry invariably overwhelmed. An Insurgency and Its Lessons
Mr. Finlay suggests that in part it arose out of the fragments from Alexander's kingdoms, recombining: partly out of the Isaurian land pirates already established, and furnished with such astonishing natural fortresses as existed nowhere else if we except those aërial caves -- a sort of mountain nests on the side of declivities, which Josephus describes as harbouring The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
Nonetheless, the Palamidi Fortress, a citadel dominating the town, is worth a visit.
The first occupants, builders of the oldest fortress, were people belonging to the cultural group of the urnfields people, a name given to them by archaeologists from their custom of cremating their dead and burying the ashes.
The argument against it being Roman in origin is that there are no Roman fortresses or other military structures along its route.
If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1 FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
In 1665, Nikofor Chernigovsky converted the town into a fortress.
The real Castle of Otranto, built by the Aragonese who eventually repelled the Turks, is a photogenic, perfectly preserved, white fortress, with turrets and gunwales and surrounded by a waterless moat and accessible only by drawbridge. Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well
The result was his first novel, Digital Fortress, a techno-thriller laced with conspiracy.
A claxon sounded from the fortress wall and massive steel doors slid back. Gold of Kings
The development also owes $360 million on a so-called mezzanine loan that was originated by Fortress Investment Group LLC. Trump, Lenders Suspend Legal Row
Fortresses were redesigned to take advantage of the defensive potential of modern firearms and techniques for besieging and reducing fortresses were refined.
Then we climbed into a nearby 2,000-year-old broch, a multistory stone fortress with double wails and one of best preserved from the pre-Viking era.
Alexander the Great was unsuccessful in his aims to capture the hilltop fortress here, the ruins of which remain to be explored.
Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
Now it resembled a low fortress wall with blocks of stone evenly cut and dressed, and white lines to guide devotees on moonless nights.
It was more of a fortress, with ballistae and cannons ruling the top, and bridges, which connected the five towers.
The ruler could not on his own initiative build fortresses, hire troops or alter the judicial system.
This is a medieval walled village, with a fortress towards its northernmost point.
Those who were decoyed into these staterooms endured them with disgust while the boat was at anchor; but when the paddle-wheels began to revolve, and dismal din of clang and bang and whirr came down about their ears, and threatened to unroof the fortress of the brain, why, then they fled madly, precipitately, leaving their clothes mostly behind them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
Poictou subdued the strong fortresse of Tailbourg, which was iudged before that time, inexpugnable: but earle Richard oppressed them that kept it so sore with streight siege, that first in a desperate mood they issued foorth, and assailed his people verie valiantlie, but yet neuerthelesse they were beaten backe, and forced to retire into their fortresse, which finallie they surrendred into the hands of earle Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Dark forms capered amidst the flames, pausing only to hack at the battered forms of those that had tried in vain to defend the fortress.
Nor was there any attempt to replant the vineyard, or make the grounds around the Fortress in any way flourish. COLDHEART CANYON
The solution was to build the great Victorian fortress prisons, many of which remain in use today. The Prisons We Deserve
The force was almost wiped out when an errant 2,000-pound bomb pulverized a section of the massive fortress wail.
The interior of the tower is now dry and a vast and fully lit undercroft spreads out on both sides of the early river gateway to the fortress.
Mansart himself made way with the old _tourelles_ and the balustrade which rounded off the angles of the walls of the main buildings and substituted a series of heavy, ugly _maisonettes_, more like the bastions of a fortress than any adjunct to a princely dwelling. Royal Palaces and Parks of France
On 21 November 1739 his forces stormed the fortress of Portobello in Panama.
The muscular bronze statue of King Afonso brandishing a broadsword outside his 10th-century fortress is a fitting place to start a stroll through the city. Within Portugal's Cradle
The brewery's bar sits above the Roman road which led out of the legionary fortress across the river between Toft Green and Micklegate.
The archaeologists excavated an ancient fortress.
Ascending the steep and shady avenue, we arrived at the foot of a huge square Moorish tower; forming a kind of barbican, through which passed the main entrance to the fortress. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
We can't build a fortress Britain. The Sun
The Portuguese involved in the lucrative Sandalwood trade with Timor, built Fortresses on Pulau Solor (Solor island) eastern of flores island. and at Pulau Ende (Ende island) south coast of central of Flores. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
At last Linton, leaving Bowse in charge of what he called the fortress, proceeded with Raby and Mitchell, carrying the remainder of the water to aid those who either could not or would not move. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea
The French constructed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai.
He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress.

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