floating fortress

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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

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

Here also the tide reaches or seems to reach the very edge of the turf; and when the light battery gallops this way, it is as if it were charging on my floating fortress.

From Oldport Days by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

All the men swung their hammocks on board their floating fortress, and were quite secure from any intrusion of the savages.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The aero-subs, darting outward from the side of the floating fortress like fish darting out of seaweed, were plunging up toward the surface of the Atlantic.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry