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• The fortress (Peschiera) has just surrendered. (10)
• His home would be a fortress, impregnable to tongues. (10)
• You never saw a fortress more unprepared for dread assault. (10)
• City, fortress, and battle-field resisted as the eddy whirls. (10)
• But it was in vain now that the French defended their splendid fortress. (19)
• The fortress of his popularity was bombarded a long while before it was assaulted. (16)
• The storming of the castle was very sincere, and the fortress was honestly defended. (9)
• The nature of your business concerns the fate of a great fortress and a brave general. (18)
• There must be a shelling of the fortress before the assault; suspicion must precede indignation. (16)
• A poor feast, she was yet a fortress, a point of succour, both shield and lance; a cover and an impetus. (10)
• In fact, I was not content to evacuate the fortress, if I were not to march out with all the honours of war. (6)
• The great brick fortress of Widdin has a strangely aggressive look in the pastoral landscape along the river. (20)
• She wore an aspect of the confident fortress, which neither challenges nor cries to treat, but commands respect. (10)
• The heat was intense and almost unbearable as we explored the streets and park and wandered through the fortress. (20)
• While he abandoned the fortress by one gate, Pepperell at the head of the victorious besiegers entered by another. (19)
• His look of a bygone awake-in-sleep old look, drearily known to her, was like a strip of sunlight on a fortress wall. (10)
• It was a most noble face; a fortress face; strong and massive, and honourable in ruin, though stripped of every flower. (10)
• Consequently there is nothing more to keep me in Washington, and I should now like your advice about coming to Fortress Monroe. (9)
• In the interval he had stormed her undefended fortress, the cake, from which altitude he shook a dolorous head at the guilty woman. (10)
• Veneration, friends, Self-worship, which is often self-distrust, Bar the good way to you, and make a dream A fortress and a prison. (10)
• Thus at length, on the 18th September 1759, the capital town and rock-bound fortress of New France fell into the hands of the English. (19)
• When finished, Louisburg fortress occupied an area of 100 acres, the harbour being defended by batteries on an island at the entrance. (19)
• By June 1758 the whole of this great force drew up before the fortress of Louisburg, within whose walls was a population of 4000 souls. (19)
• Quickly did the fire of the English ships, joined to that of the batteries, work destruction upon the outer walls of the grim fortress. (19)
• A bridge of boats connects the fortress with the town a short distance below the railway, and is actually the last bridge over the Danube. (20)
• Before he could reach the fortress, the commandant he had left there had summoned all the loyal citizens together and prepared for battle. (19)

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Definition of fortress:

• fortress, for’tres, n. a fortified place: a defence. | v.t. (_shak._) to guard. (0)

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