floating fortress
Example Sentences
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Just like that Roger Moore film, Black Widow climaxes with a battle aboard a floating fortress designed by a megalomaniac genius.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2021
She is a monstrous, impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael
The floating fortress attacked the Cumberland, ramming that vessel, and breaking a great hole in its side.
From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Mann, Henry
She was a floating fortress, with men enough to make up the population of a town, and with stores, ammunition, and coal sufficient to last for a long term of active service.
From The Great War Syndicate by Stockton, Frank Richard
The Renown herself, whose ram had caused the fearful disaster, had not escaped without severe injury in the collision, which had shattered the mighty floating fortress in all its joints.
From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August
