Meanings of great bulwark in английском

Was not that very crowd the great bulwark of their safety?

The Press: the great bulwark of our liberties, and may it ever remain unshackled.

The great bulwark she had built up for herself lay wrecked at her feet.

Her eternal battlements of ice and granite were to constitute the great bulwark of his realm.

The great bulwark was three miles long.

That old Bible, in spite of pro-slavery interpreters, proved to be the great bulwark of human liberty.

To the great bulwark of the nation, I mean the mercantile and manufacturing part thereof, I likewise present my address.

From causes which we have already considered, the Established Church had been, since the Reformation, the great bulwark of the prerogative.

On the western slope the great bulwark dropped from granite heights to wooded ridges along the spines of which the road wound.

The site was well chosen, being sheltered from storms from the lake side by a great bulwark of wooded and rocky islands.

Could the Kowenstyn be pierced, the water, now divided by that great bulwark into two vast lakes, would flow together in one continuous sea.

They constituted the great bulwark of freedom, and upon the success or failure of their cause the future prospect of Europe and of mankind depended.

This is regarded as one of the great bulwarks of liberty.

After all, the greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

'Look,' he said, pointing to the sandy bottom under a great bulwark of submarine cliff.

"Yes," said Robert, "they're fine reeds, beautiful reeds, a greater bulwark to us just now than big oaks could be.