A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town.
1 Pougatcheff went off to inspect the fortress ; Alexis followed him; I remained.
2 The rugged fortress lay swathed in the softness of the creamy light.
3 The fleets in vain thundered against the solid sea-front of the fortress .
4 Far in the night the occasional guns from the Southern fortress ceased.
5 To-morrow the garrison at the fortress marches in review before the Prince.
6 It was a joyful meeting at the island - fortress in the blue Mediterranean.
7 But this was not the whole ruin; the fortress had a citadel.
8 They focused on making it a fortress first, and a home second.
9 Never in its twelve hundred years had that island fortress been taken.
10 The fortress was stormed in spite of the most stubborn Russian resistance.
11 No sentry can know the face of every soldier in the fortress .
12 What, alone in your fortress , Madame; alone with the spirit of darkness.
13 The Burpers must think that the blockhouse is safe in their castle - fortress .
14 But the others were flagging, especially as soldiers continued flooding the fortress .
15 I have seen the accursed Holkerstein; I have penetrated within his fortress .
16 Others burned the remains outside the fortress - like embassy building in central Cairo.
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Fortress в диалектах
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