What is "fastnesses"

Usage examples of "fastnesses".

I ordered out a flock of Destroying Angels, and they hunted the man far into the fastnesses of the Nevada mountains.

Its only fixed manifestation is in the Fastnesses, retreats to which people may retire and spend the night or a lifetime.

The Foretellers of the Fastnesses are not the only people on Winter who can see ahead.

Election of council-members from the Indwellers of Handdara Fastnesses is not uncommon.

I would go east to the Fastnesses, and gather information from the Foretellers, perhaps.

A high and efficient servant of the Overland, an outlaw among outlaws and yet their relentless scourge, Slade was at once the most bloody, the most dangerous and the most valuable citizen that inhabited the savage fastnesses of the mountains.

These Sultans of the fastnesses were turbaned with tumbled volumes of cloud, which shredded away from time to time and drifted off fringed and torn, trailing their continents of shadow after them.

He said they prosecuted their search in the fastnesses of the mountains during nine days, without success.

There were living in the fastnesses of the mysterious interior of the Louisiana Purchase many tribes of Indians who had never looked in the face of the white man.

At last the key that was to open the mountain fastnesses of the heart of the continent had been found.

And, with her helpless infant clinging to her, she rode with the men, guiding them with unerring skill through the mountain fastnesses and lonely passes which the white men saw for the first time when their salient features were pointed out to them by the intelligent and faithful Sacajawea.

They who made peace with the demons long ago, exchanging secrets, before retreating into their mountain fastnesses and hiding for ever behind their insect masks.

Togctha and Farand, the lovers lost to each other for eternity, the winter hearts that howl in the deep fastnesses of Laederon and beyondwe have all heard those mournful cries, in our dreams.

Togctha and Farand, the lovers lost to each other for eternity, the winter hearts that howl in the deep fastnesses of Laederon and beyond - we have all heard those mournful cries, in our dreams.