What is "unfortified"

Usage examples of "unfortified".

Following the retransfer of Colonel Silas Thayer to Earth, the inspired leadership of Major Wayne Jackson and his indefatigable and exceptionally able assistants, notably CLU President Boles, transformed the technically unfortified and thinly settled key world of Roye within twelve years into a virtual death trap for any invading force.

It strikes one as remarkable that the German cannon were even on that day directed against an unfortified city.

There had been other planters who had made the double mistake of incurring the enmity of their native labor and of living in unfortified houses.

She remembered idly reading that the centuries-old unfortified border between the two largest North American nations was now effectively patrolled by both sides, and that fences and guards were being erected all along it.

Although my first instinct was to lock the door behind me, I realized it was quite unnecessary here, and I treated myself to the unusual sensation of simply walking away from the unfortified house.

He presses me sore, and the starved woman part of me is passionate and weak and I may yield, and if his lips touch mine, who can say but that the fire within me will destroy him, the unfortified, and bring all my plans to dust and nothingness?

But that night, or rather just before the following dawn when their camp was still unfortified, we poured down upon them from our hills.

We may pass over the crimes committed from a distance, so to speak, on unfortified towns, with fieldpieces, long-range guns, aeroplanes, and Zeppelins, merely noting that the Germans were the first to fire shells into the centre of towns indiscriminately.

As he coasted along he landed at the Meropid Cos and sacked the city, which was unfortified and had been lately laid in ruins by an earthquake, by far the greatest in living memory, and, as the inhabitants had fled to the mountains, overran the country and made booty of all it contained, letting go, however, the free men.