fastness

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The question remained whether the Islamists would fight to hold Gao and Timbuktu or withdraw farther north into the trackless desert wastes and mountain fastnesses of the Sahara.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2013

At night, it retreats to its separate fastnesses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 1990

In the dank fastnesses of the jungle along the banks of the Rio Parima, towards whose source the white men were hacking their way,, stirred unearthly strains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Darul Islam's leader is Kartosuwirjo, a 46-year-old mystic, who holds court in the rugged mountain fastnesses of western Java.

From Time Magazine Archive

The timberwolf and woodland caribou also disappeared from their last Appalachian fastnesses in the first years of this century, and the black bear very nearly followed them.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson