Word Finder - fortress

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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

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A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.

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To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.

She ran outside the walls of the fortress into the forest.

He led her through a fortress too ancient for her to date, its blackened walls and well-worn stones massive and thick.

The black fortress and dark skies made her heart drop to her feet.

We've taken steps for my home not to look like a fortress, but believe me, it is.

He never expected to see the blue sky again or the trees around the fortress, let alone sip sweet tea and nibble on berry scones.

I came from the east.  There's a fortress that way.

Ocean surrounded the small island, upon which a fortress sat, several hundred meters away, up a sloping hill on top of solid rock.

An hour later, Katie stood in a similar-looking fortress several times the size of the Caribbean Sanctuary.

At least from the peak, she'd see anything before it got to the fortress, even in the moonlight.

We should reach the fortress in the morning.  It looks like she's there, Gabe reported.

When she was dressed and ready, she left her room and walked through the fortress to the bottom floor.

Gabe tossed the brandy over the side of the fortress wall and caught her as she tried to escape.

He trailed them into the dark fortress but kept his distance, eyeing his surroundings with distaste.

With the former Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and the Special Assistant to the VP, not to mention the biofields, electromagnetic fields, and other beefed security measures, the compound at the top of the mountain was a fortress commanded by the President's own right-hand man.

Jenn turned and walked towards the fortress again.

Denouncing the temporal power of the pope he implored the emperor to deliver Italy, and especially Rome, from their oppressors; but, heedless of his invitations, Charles kept him in prison for more than a year in the fortress of Raudnitz, and then handed him over to Clement, who had been clamouring for his surrender.

The verdant pines outside the fortress wall were beautiful, and she watched their long pine needles stir in an early morning breeze.

The robed man led her into the fortress and wound his way through bright intersections, down stairs, and into a more opulent part of the building.

The fortress around the courtyard was four stories tall and lined with wooden doors indicating guest rooms.

Katie didn.t recognize the woman who greeted them and ushered them into the small fortress on an undeclared—hidden by magic—island in the Caribbean.

Landon was in the bottom floor of the fortress, waiting with a familiar face in the study.

He was far enough away from the Sanctuary's fortress not to cause a threat to those there, so long as the two people buffering him stayed close.

Darian walked through the fortress, retracing their steps from earlier, until they reached the foyer.

Sirian and Rissa wound through the fortress before disappearing into a door guarded by two men.

It was destroyed in 796, rebuilt by the crusaders in 1134 (their fortress and chapel remain, much ruined).

He made his way through the fortress to a bedroom and slammed the door behind them.

The guards on the fortress walls had bunched together to watch and draw poison- tipped arrows.

It was just after dawn, and the fortress was silent.

It was built on high ground, and the forest sloped downward and away from the fortress.

Taran glanced warily toward him as he led the horse toward stables nestled along one wall of the stone fortress.

It had been the night she left the forest fortress, the night she was captured.

Golitsuin it was who suggested taking refuge in that strong fortress and won over the boyars of the opposite party.

Rather than face this ordeal Alexius fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI., who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ahrenberg, and finally to the castle of San Elmo at Naples.

Mind, driven from the field of extension, erects its last fortress in the pineal gland.

A fortnight later Charles quitted Warsaw, to seek the elector; on the 2nd of July routed the combined Poles and Saxons at Klissow; and three weeks later, captured the fortress of Cracow by an act of almost fabulous audacity.

By the time the army reached the little Ukrainian fortress of Hadjacz in January 1709, wine and spirits froze into solid masses of ice; birds on the wing fell dead; saliva congealed on its passage from the mouth to the ground.

The frost broke at the end of February 1709, and then the spring floods put an end to all active operations till May, when Charles began the siege of the fortress of Poltava, which he wished to make a base for subsequent operations while awaiting reinforcements from Sweden and Poland.

Deidre bolted, silently willing a portal to appear as she sprinted into the fortress.

The air was hot and dry, the two suns too dim to shed much light into the black fortress.

The only innocent soul in Hell, for Wynn's was as black as the stone blocks of Hell's fortress.

The massive lake was roughly round with a panhandle on the side nearest the fortress.

His gaze drifted towards the fortress.

He led her through the stronghold and into the courtyard and garden area between the walls and the fortress.

You may not want to leave the fortress.

Meeting the Dark One so close to the fortress, then, was not an option.

Gabriel glanced towards the fortress.

It sounded as if half a legion of armed Immortals was chasing someone through the fortress.

His peace ruined, he rose and strode into the fortress.

Rhyn and several other Immortals spilled out of the fortress.

She ran up the gravel road leading to the wooden door in the fortress.