Mighty fortress

Usage examples of citadel.

Even before they had cleared the inner fortifications, Alec caught sight of the citadel above.

Persian Gulf, Bush said in a 1999 speech at the Citadel, was an impressive accomplishment, but also one that had taken six months of planning, amassing of military forces and supplies, and preparation.

Havrevulen would lead the second column, coming up along the blue path, directly into the armoury, attacking the main strength of the forces inside the citadel.

It seemed to him that the power of flight was upon him, and that he flew to that mountain and hung in air beholding it near at hand, and a circle as the appearance of fire round about it, and on the summit of the mountain the likeness of a burg or citadel of brass that was green with eld and surface-battered by the frosts and winds of ages.

The citadel frowned down upon Borel, who frowned right back as he cast and rejected one plan after another for penetrating not only the citadel but also the ruling caste whose stronghold it was.

We must be far below the ground level of the citadel, thought Borel, stumbling along in his socks and feeling most clammy and uncomfortable.

The boy had not been this frightened in a long time, not since he and Bozo had taken part in the attack on Kuur, the underground citadel of the Mind Wizards on the Far Side of Callisto.

Sire Vaide Sorrilier, third Dominus of the Citadel of Cados, had been watching its slow tumble for the past two hours.

The citadel was deemed one of the strongest forts in Flanders, strengthened with a new work contrived by the famous engineer Coehorn, who now defended it in person.

It might have been taken across wastes by caravans, forged into pagan funeral-masks, plundered from fallen citadels, buried in secret hoards, dug up by thieves, seized by pirates, made into jewels, and coined into specie of diverse realms.

And we shall sacrifice to you and Troopman Halom and Sirai Dorche, too, who died on the trek that the rest of us might win free to the citadel.

The others should have already made it to their grates--they were supposed to meet up in the ductwork and make their way to the gateway in the center of the citadel.

Citadel and are bound now for the Echopraxia and an evening of pleasure.

Everywhere, in the embattled citadel, soldiers felt an unnatural rigor seize their flesh, all power slip from their limbs, as their minds became prisoners within their own bodies.

Sir Huhmfree Gawlin, bide the night in the citadel and ride with his reply on the morrow.