Sentence examples for fortress from from inspiring English sources

A stony fortress from the street, the library warms up once you step inside.

Before his execution, however, he died in the Peter-Paul Fortress from shock and the effects of torture.

On this site, Mr. Gatward-Ferguson announced triumphantly, Mr. Jackson filmed footage to create the Isengard fortress from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".

The remains of the fortress from which the town was defended from the Turks in 1551 are on the hill to the northeast.

The fence is not so much a cage but a fortress from which the (flighted) birds can fly in and out, their nests safely tucked inside.

To build his love nest, Chamberlain leveled a mountaintop, creating his fortress from -- as Ebony reported in January 1974 -- "enough redwood for 17 average homes".

Wa Army camps, perched on hilltops like fortresses from another era, are visible from the Thai side of the border.

In the other kind, they turn those same skills to raising their own exclusive fortresses, from where they rain down erudition and abuse on one another.

Millions of pounds were issued in loans: for the recruitment of continental troops, to subsidise Europe's newly appointed monarchs, and to help the Dutch build a line of fortresses from Ostend to Mainz.

NOT so long ago, it seems, nations were able to hide their armaments, misdeeds and fortresses from the eyes of nosy civilians, while militaries could pry into most corners of the globe from spy satellites, knowing they could control who could take a peek.

Catching it off guard, he took in rapid succession six fortresses from Piriyapatna to Arkalgud.