What is "strongholds"

Usage examples of "strongholds".

The Delinks were not going to risk blowing up their own strongholds with their own heavy weapons.

These particular strongholds were in the fundamental line of attack and must be held at all costs.

A few ladies of the court remained, the rest having been sent to the protection of the eastern strongholds, but Eilonwy flatly refused to join them in their spinning and weaving chambers.

A week or more for her father to return to his strongholds and muster his people.

He ruled other such strongholds which he called after his daughter and his sister, his mother and her kin.

Even though the surprise and terror of their onslaught often breached every defense of the small clan strongholds, still they would soon speed off again into the surrounding wilderness.

Old ways and new ways, clans and chieftains and lords of strongholds need not be ever at odds, it seems.

The stewards of the strongholds plot to move against the young lord of Wallyn.

This city, and perhaps others on the coast, were the strongholds of those deities who cannot be fought by sword alone.