The castle, with its stirring chronicle, is a feudal fortress dominating the plain, and forming the chief rampart of the town's defences.
Proudly perched above the city is the Alcazar, a stout fortress of the Goths, the residence of the mighty Cid, and afterwards a palace of kings.
Guns and ammunition are made in the city, which is the chief fortressof the country, and an important military centre.
Chastity is a young woman in a castle; she is worshipped by angels, and the walls of the fortress are surrounded by men in armour.
On the way to the fortressall Spanish houses and plantations, storerooms and churches, were burned down and at last the fortress itself was reached.
The Portuguese did not await this attack, but surrendered their fortress and fled toward the mountains.
Helm had been working the whole year in digging a narrow passage under the walls, leading behind the fortress in the direction in which there were no sentries.
The great fortress which commanded the Veluwe, and which was strong enough to have resisted Count Hohenlo on a former, occasion for nearly a whole year, was the scene of much hard fighting.
That fortress was stormed in vain, but the city was thoroughly sacked.
The Spaniards hated helmets and proof armour, while the English trooper, in casque, cuirass, and greaves, was a living fortress impregnable to Spanish or Italian light horsemen.
Near the hospital-gate, on the east, was an external fortress guarding the road to Warnsfeld.
Surely they could not have conceived in their wildest dreams of its present use, a mobile fortress for a tribe of cannibals?
He'd also discovered a similar one upon thefortress of Shimdoog, the night before when he'd gone exploring and Miran had followed him.
Still more direct and easy was the approach through northwestern Samaria along the Wady Arah, past the famous old fortress of Megiddo.
The strong western border fortress of Gazara^{(61)} was captured after a short but energetic defence.
Recent excavations have further revealed the great strength of thisfortress city.
To the southeast, with the aid of the Kenites, the Judahites succeeded in conquering the border fortress of Arad, seventeen miles southeast of Hebron.
The highest area, which included several acres, rose nearly three hundred feet above the surrounding valleys, and it was, therefore, the largest and in many ways the strongest natural fortress in all Palestine.
Here it ran close to the important cities of Edrei, the famous fortress on the upper Yarmuk, and Ashteroth-Karnaim.
According to Pliny, it was, next to Jerusalem, the strongest fortress in the land.
Another, apparently the main branch, turned to the northeast, passed through the Wady Arah, and emerged upon the Plain of Esdraelon beside the famous old fortress of Megiddo.
At an early period the Egyptians had established at the eastern part of the Wady Tumilat a fortress (known as the "Wall of the Prince"), for it was the most vulnerable spot on all the Egyptian frontier.
It is, therefore, the chief gateway and at the same time the natural fortress which guards northern Gilead.
He soon, however, abandoned this stronghold for the more inaccessible fortress of Machaerus, built by his father, Janneus, on a hill in the middle of a deep ravine which led up on the eastern side of the Dead Sea.
At one time they were in possession of David's own city, Bethlehem, and he was obliged again to take refuge in the border fortress of Adullam.
This border fortress was the scene of repeated sieges.
The letter which the courier brings to the governor of a fortress is sometimes an order.
He was brought up in the country, and then thrown into a fortress which goes by the name of the Bastille.
That when once taken, he shall be shut up in a fortress from which her secret shall never escape.
About six versts from the fortress there lived a certain 'friendly' prince.
He reported himself to me in full uniform, and announced that he had been ordered to remain in the fortress with me.
It was only on the next morning that he came to the fortress and proceeded to ask that the name of the thief should be told him.
From the fortress she could see the very same hills as she could from the village--and these savages require nothing more.
The village which lies behind the fortress has become populous.
It was like this: in spite of Pechorin's prohibition, she went out of the fortress and down to the river.
Our fortress was situated in a lofty position, and the view from the rampart was superb.
In two bounds he was in the courtyard; at the gate of the fortress the sentry barred the way with his gun; Kazbich jumped over the gun and dashed off at a run along the road.
In the distance beyond the river, through the tops of the thick lime trees which overshadowed it, lights were glancing in the fortress and the village.
He used to bring rams to our fortress and sell them cheaply; only he never would haggle; whatever he demanded at first you had to give.
On my return to the fortress I related to Maksim Maksimych all that I had seen and experienced; and I sought to learn his opinion on the subject of predestination.
The people from the fortress gathered round him, but he took no notice of anyone.
On our arrival at the fortress the devil put it into my head to repeat to Grigori Aleksandrovich all that I had heard when I was eavesdropping behind the fence.
Her sentence was imprisonment for life in a fortress and she endured it in Glatz, on the frontier of Silesia and Bohemia.
Franz was a wild Pandour, a reckless leader of irregular cavalry, who for his sins was shut up for life in the Spielberg, the famous prison fortress near Brünn, where he committed suicide.
At that time the war was in full progress and the garrison of the fortress consisted of only nine hundred discontented men of the militia.
The fortress was besieged and captured by the French just before the famous battle of Austerlitz, which was fought in the neighbourhood.
The sentence passed upon him was perpetual imprisonment in chains and it was endured in thefortress of Lichtenau in Hesse-Cassel.
Maroncelli was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment and Silvio Pellico to fifteen, both to be confined under the rules of carcere duro in the fortress of Spielberg.
Trenck was cashiered and sent to the fortress of Glatz.
Finally, be it said, each tower is a little fortress by itself.
The task is next to see the doings of the people who give to the unyielding fortress its significance and life.
The vast tower pointing upward speaks even to the thoughtless, "Fortress and city, trade and tourney endure only for the instant--the things of the Spirit abide forever.
To stop passage up the Claire a heavy chain of iron was stretched across the river and stone piers were sunk at shallow places, thus forcing boats to pass close under the fortress in range of descending missiles.
Many a fortresshas been lost because he has been careless or unfaithful.
Guest, and the meaning now, so far as I know, universally held by scholars is "The Fortress by the Lake.
The possession of the Tower fortress was always regarded by the English monarchs as of the highest importance, as it enabled them to overawe the citizens, and also furnished a safe retreat for the sovereign's own person.
Besides the Palace of Westminster and the fortress abode of the Tower of London, there were within the City of London other places which were frequently used as royal residences.
During the succeeding nine hundred years the fortress was besieged no less than twelve times, and on several occasions was captured by invaders.
For the succeeding four years a relentless siege was laid to the fortress by the combined land and naval forces of Spain and France.
Forthwith the English took possession in the name of Queen Anne and, strengthening the fortifications, have held the fortress ever since.
It is a situation which has never been prolonged to such an extent in the whole history of fortress warfare.
We hear that the inhabitants of the fortress of Ghuznee communicated with the enemy without; and by a coalition have driven our troops from all other parts than the citadel and the Cabul gateway.
On the return of this chief to Cabul he was put in irons in prison, and was to have been sent to the fortress of Ghuznee; he obtained his release when the insurrection of the 2d of November took place.
The Shah resides in the Bala Hissar, and his guns from that fortress were constantly firing; the Affghans in the city were doing the same from six in the morning.
It contains the ruins of a fortress built by the English while this part of France was in their possession.
We passed close by the Rip-Raps, a ledge of rocks half way between Fortress Monroe and the opposite shore.
I had renewed my courage with food my friends carried; and now, with Carlos' help I conducted our party to the trail, going to the fortress on the mountain.
I went far enough to convince my mind that the blacks were making direct to that castle fortress on the mountain, whose high walls now and anon came into view.
Rouen was at first about to be laid waste, but the policy of the bishop preserved it from destruction, while the wisdom of the rovers converted it into a fortress of the greatest strength.
In Paris they had got possession of a tract of ground equal to one-third of the whole city, and had covered it with towers and battlements, and within the unapproachable fortress lived a life of the most luxurious self-indulgence.
The present aspect of the north of Gerona forms a fair pendant to the description Charles Didier gives of its sisterfortress to the side of France, Figueras.
View of the Remains of a Moorish Fortresson the River PLATE XXXVI.
Was not government a fortress built around property?
Consider the situation: "Your harbors are blocked up, your cities fall one after the other; fortress after fortress, battle after battle is lost.
At a meeting of backwoodsmen in a log house used for a church, he told them in a lurid speech that the proposed "Federal City" (now the District of Columbia) would be the armed and fortified fortress of despotism.
It is not right," said he; "to make a fortress of the house of prayer.
Maude had, in the meanwhile, been placed in the strong fortress at Oxford; but no sooner had Stephen recovered from his illness, than he collected his army, and marched southward.
The old fortress of the Douglases, the castle of Thrieve, loomed up behind him through the wavering heat of the morning.
His destination was La Bahia or Goliad, a strong fortress garrisoned by Americans under Colonel Fanning.
But the American settlers in the surrounding country fled, and Fannin heard that five hundred women and children, followed by the enemy, were trying to reach the fortress of Goliad.
