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    fortification


    1. As for the actual wall, one look at the marvel of fortification and it was no wonder why their predecessors thought it was insurmountable


    2. But that board seems to have no direct jurisdiction over the committee, nor any authority to correct those whose conduct it may thus inquire into; and the captains of his majesty's navy, besides, are not supposed to be always deeply learned in the science of fortification


    3. Orion had explained that Guardians obtained a kind of fortification of strength, endurance, and magic, from the earth, the Power that was in the earth


    4. Joseph explained the fortification plan; Ruby organized the work groups and explained the strategy


    5. After about another hour, there was a shout from the enemy and they suddenly pulled back and ran for the fortification as our reinforcements finally arrived and swooped down on them


    6. We destroyed the little Inka fortification and started south again


    7. He had been quite worried when he got the letter, since it arrived while my tumen was besieging the Inka fortification and he thought that perhaps George had become prescient


    8. There was a fortification not far from the capital, but it was still under construction and had also been abandoned


    9. He motioned to one of his staff and the man moved forward a little and began haranguing us much like had happened at the small fortification when I was still with the Maya tumen


    10. “I needed a little fortification before being browbeaten by the master

    11. about with square stones for fortification; and they did so


    12. It was named in honor of the wife of English king George III, and it represents the most relevant fortification in the Bahamas


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


    14. Nevertheless, at the present time, that magnificent example of fortification with details of construction and renovation from the 16th to the 20th centuries, instructs visitors of the attractive and inspiring evolution of Spanish military engineering in the Caribbean


    15. fortification in San Juan, it constitutes a splendid and marvelous example of axioms and precepts of defense by land


    16. Not only was the house splendidly fitted out, it also served as a refuge and fortification in which my father could retreat from what in many ways for him was a hostile world out there


    17. “Just concentrate your fortification and armament efforts on here, The Queen of Waves, and Winghoof Estate


    18. 11 And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the mount Sion and about with square stones for fortification; and they did so


    19. After the passengers were within the confines of the living fortification, the war party


    20. The small fishing town had a stonework fortification that surrounded it, with several wooden structures that had naturally grown up with time outside the walls

    21. They should bring back information as to enemy strength and position as well as the fortification of the city


    22. instructions for fortification? Do you think he paced about, shouting,


    23. � Its role is to be a mobile armored gun system capable of engaging enemy tanks, field fortification, enemy troops and soft targets


    24. � Thankfully for the LCMAC-1 and its occupants, the German fortification works that would turn much of the French coast into the so-called �Atlantic Wall� were still months away


    25. Digging and fortification work went on until late at night around the hilltops defended by what was now calling itself ‘Task Force Dows’, with strict orders not to use any lights and not to smoke a cigarette unless sitting at the bottom of a trench or bunker


    26. One of the samurai of the column was on hand to observe the work and direct the fortification work


    27. interaction and how it creates structure through boundary fortification


    28. That was what happened when he saw the Godly support for the believers, so how would it be with God’s Envoy (cpth) who is His successor on earth and His ambassador to all of creation?! For more illustration of this point we say that the word ‘peace’ in the statement, “communication with Al’lah and peace are through him” serves to show that Al’lah the Almighty kept him safe from every mutinous devil and from all the evil in creation due to his continuous recourse to Him and the fortification by his Provider of all of Creation and the oblivious humankind and oblivious jinn-kind


    29. In the center of the clearing stood a large rock formation, and around the rocks extended a manmade fortification


    30. Rampart: A low outer wall of earth, around a fort as a defense; a fortification

    31. Within a few years, a major fortification had been erected along the treeline to keep Indian raiding parties out


    32. “A new era for monasticism in the Sinai started in the sixth century AD, when the emperor Justinian ordered the construction of a formidable fortification to fence St


    33. We parked the car at the side of the road took our bags, crossed a garden with cypresses and walked to the entrance at the side of the fortification


    34. Tryphon, a small chapel outside the fortification


    35. Gates are typically the weakest points in a fortification; get enough ramming, bombardment, and a heavy enough massing of troops and any gate can fall; except maybe these gates


    36. It was an odd battle plan that called for the destruction of one’s best defensive fortification to be accomplished as fast as possible, but that was the plan


    37. They saluted as one and I left them with, “Godspeed my friends!” before I made my way towards the western side of the fortification line, watching the field of battle take shape as I did so


    38. A spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock


    39. "Il est necessaire d'etre vigilant, mon enfant," the other observed, dropping a fold of his cloak, and looking the soldier close in the face as he passed him, still continuing his way toward the British fortification


    40. The fa ç ade was battered, or inclined, at ground level, the slight protrusion giving an impression of fortification; but above were elegant pointed-arch two-light windows with a trefoil

    41. The castle was not a military fortification


    42. Volodya, without a shudder, gazed upon this terrible place of which he had thought so much; on the contrary, he did so with an æsthetic enjoyment, and a heroic sense of self-satisfaction at the idea that here he was—he would be there in another half-hour, that he would behold that really charmingly original spectacle—and he stared with concentrated attention from that moment until they arrived at the north fortification, at the baggage-train of his brother's regiment, where they were to ascertain with certainty the situations of the regiment and the battery


    43. "Has not the inventor of the wheelbarrow, by the simple and practical contrivance of a wheel and a couple of boards, accomplished more than the inventor of modern fortification?


    44. Here again near the entrance to the Pelasgic fortification, is where we should expect a priori to find the oldest religious foundations "outside the Polis


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    Synonyms for "fortification"

    fortification munition garrison castle trench bastion citadel defending fortifying

    "fortification" definitions

    defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it


    the art or science of strengthening defenses


    the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)