1 The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night's lodging.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE THREE LANGUAGES 2 This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantes like a scaffold to a malefactor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 3 At the expiration of a year the governor was transferred; he had obtained charge of the fortress at Ham.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 4 He turned towards the fortress, and looked at both sea and land.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 5 In a few hours my strength will be utterly exhausted; besides, perhaps I have not been missed at the fortress.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 6 de Villefort; but, like the feudal barons who rebelled against their sovereign, he dwelt in an impregnable fortress.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 7 The two friends walked out on the fortress.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 84. Beauchamp. 8 There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 9 Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 10 While there is hope of succor, this fortress will I defend, though it be to be done with pebbles gathered on the lake shore.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 11 As soon as the usual ceremonials of a military departure were observed, the veteran and his more youthful companion left the fortress, attended by the escort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 12 The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 13 It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 14 Lord of Thymbra, give us an enduring dwelling-place; grant a house and family to thy weary servants, and a city to abide: keep Troy's second fortress, the remnant left of the Grecians and merciless Achilles.
15 But good Aeneas seeks the fortress where Apollo sits high enthroned, and the lone mystery of the awful Sibyl's cavern depth, over whose mind and soul the prophetic Delian breathes high inspiration and reveals futurity.