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    citadel


    1. ones, sometimes limited at a single citadel, and the


    2. of the citadel in Sant Martin


    3. With Creelman and Armstrong, I moved down toward Caney, and turned to view the shelling of the citadel from the Ducrot


    4. This citadel resembled a French chateau rather than the Moresque forts of Spain; but the guns made little impression upon it, and I rode back to El Pozo, where Battery A, Captain Grimes, was entrenched on a ridge opposing San Juan


    5. At first the guns had accomplished little; but as the infantry closed in on the citadel, several well-planted shell burst within


    6. Colonel Haskell fell early in the day, wounded in three places, and Chaffee's Brigade, the 7th, 12th, and 17th, lost heavily as they advanced against the citadel under a heavy fire from the town, besides the direct resistance from the fort and surrounding trenches


    7. The 25th Infantry suffered severely, ascending the hill; and though the citadel was the key to Caney, its capture had by no means ended the fight


    8. After all, he had told him he had to enter the Holy Gardens and pay his respects in the Citadel of God to reaffirm his people’s faith in him, and be rewarded with the Forge of Stones


    9. Theodore and I were on the western side of the citadel within the walls and we eventually fought our way up to the ruins of the round tower


    10. We reluctantly pulled back a few yards from the enemy, who were now packed tightly around the highest point in the citadel (some sort of large, uncompleted building) and looked to the horn blower in surprise

    11. There was quite a bit of gold in the palace and in their main temple, and even more was found in the ruins of the citadel, but the looting auxiliaries had taken all from the private homes


    12. That bothered me, but I knew he was right, so the next day I convinced cousin Theodore to accompany me while I showed them all the sights in the city and citadel, Sacsahuaman


    13. Tlapac wanted to know what the name of the citadel meant


    14. sanctuary of the citadel, the pair slowly walking hand-in-hand


    15. a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, but neglected the guardianship of the temple


    16. That rectangular citadel, painted a striking brick red, was a fortification constructed by the Danish between 1672 and 1680


    17. From a medieval style round tower of stone in the beginning, it was transformed, in the tides and currents of history, into a six-level citadel of defense, exceptionally fortified, endowed with six “garitas” (sentry boxes) at the outer angles of bastions along the city walls


    18. 20 So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country but neglected the guardianship of the temple


    19. what had once been a towering citadel, but was now only a


    20. “On to the citadel, then,” I said

    21. door deep within the citadel


    22. There was much to attract one's attention in this city, and Ganid never grew weary of visiting the citadel which stood almost two thousand feet above the sea


    23. One evening as they strolled about Corinth out near where the wall of the citadel ran down to the sea, they were accosted by two public women


    24. With the introduction of RNA enzymes and nucleotides from the moss which thrived around the small freshwater lake inside the citadel and by altering the grass and floras DNA, they’d created a hardy form of plant life that required little or no light as photosynthesis was accelerated within the plant


    25. As time went by, the cattle that had been previously slaughtered outside and the meat fetched in, could now be brought in alive and live off the modified roots and grass on the field within the citadel, which also supplied the occupants with fresh milk as well as meat, although there was a problem as the cows never lived for more than a couple of weeks


    26. However, news on TV and radios had informed people about sporadic fighting between liberation forces and small pockets of Khmer Rouge fighters, so with a heavy heart, three years after he’d arrived at the citadel, Tighe told Norm and the others of his intention to return to the outside world and join the fighting, as a government soldier and quash the Khmer Rouge once and for all


    27. Tighe left the citadel on 3rd June 1982 and set off to join an infantry battalion at Siem Reap


    28. He would return many times to the citadel to visit his adopted family, Norman and Theary, his father and mother, but especially his younger brothers Norman Jnr and Tu


    29. The citadel now had modern domed buildings and powered by hydro–electric, methane and solar with plastic fullerene coloured panels that blended in with the green tree canopies, thus invisible from the ground and air, which gave enough electricity to sustain a large city, let alone a village of seventy


    30. A faster elevator was added to the back of the lab and the entrance to Ta prohm temple and both entrances could be monitored, and operated, from the monitors scattered about within the citadel

    31. Norman Jnr and Tu had returned to the citadel when Theary had died


    32. Norman Jnr had noticed his father looking strained, ‘too much work’, thought Jnr, but when he tried to convince his father to leave the citadel his father said,


    33. This was usually a route that only Tighe used, as now people rarely left or came to the citadel


    34. They knew that with Norm, Boran and the other citadel scientist’s help, they could design and build their ‘Theory computer’


    35. The work started the following day after the newcomers were settled into the citadel with another welcome party


    36. This was a tricky microscopic procedure, but with the help of his friend Professor Rom Pyett, an eminent neuro surgeon and resident of the citadel, and Rumbles ‘cell sniffer’ as he called the instrument for detecting the presence of cells, along with a Visual Reality scope and MRI micro scanner, they successfully removed two microscopic cells from Patty’s unborn infant causing no damage to either mother or baby


    37. Some of the scientists and technicians in the citadel still felt doubtful over whether they should be replicating a human, however, having the chance to meet their holy prophet in their lifetime was a chance too good to pass up, after several hours of debate they agreed and set about the project in hand


    38. They did not have to wait long, two days later a buzz alerted the citadel that someone was at the temple elevator


    39. Norman only spoke Khmer nowadays, everyone in the Citadel except for Patty and Anne spoke Khmer, and most of the inhabitants never understood English at all, including Srey Dar, so when Nick’s replicant suddenly spoke, only Norman and Boran understood


    40. He took his first tentative steps and walked slowly and feebly to the window of the citadel and gasped

    41. Tighe had just woken up when Norman phoned and told him that they had a problem and asked Tighe to go to the Citadel


    42. Tighe hoped that Pon would soon be found and apprehended; meanwhile he would wait for Tar, and go to the citadel


    43. He went over to the slab and shone the light from his mobile phone, and put his head into the small gap which was deceptively wide, he crawled under the slab and into a small compartment and stared down the maintenance shaft, illuminated by the citadel lights, He crawled farther along and saw the metal rungs of a ladder at the side of the elevator


    44. Tighe had gone into the citadel and waited for his signal from above


    45. “He knows about the citadel” said Tighe


    46. They walked to the edge of the precipice and their jaws dropped as the stood and looked over the citadel and its inhabitants


    47. The intercom was only one way from the cave to the citadel, so there was no way to let Tighe know that two foreigners were in the cave and so he had only one course of action


    48. She hurried out into the citadel shouting “Lord Buddha


    49. The citadel occupants carried the three unconscious men to the laboratory area and into the hospital ward


    50. Other members of the citadel started erecting screens around the hospital corridors and laboratory leaving a lit corridor leading to the temple elevator











































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    Synonyms for "citadel"

    bastion citadel fortification castle fort stronghold

    "citadel" definitions

    a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle