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1. We are a fortress.
2. The fortress was in the enemy's hands.
3. The fortress was secure from every kind of attack.
4. You can still see the remains of the fortress there.
5. From the moment that the fortress ran out of supplies, its defenders had to surrender.
6. Herod the Great built the Masada fortress and rebuilt the Temple.
7. This house is no fortress or castle, but it still instills a sense of security.
8. One thousand two hundred and fifty-six soldiers destroyed the fortress of Alamut.
9. The fortress being out of supplies, its protectors had to give up.
10. With you here beside me I'm not afraid of anything. You're my fortress.
11. They built the walls of the fortress without using cement at all.
12. For many years, the abbey was turned into a fortress, happily joining in itself martial and religious architecture.
13. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
14. Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.