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

When filled to the edge with warriors, it sailed o’er the waters, You’d deem it a floating fortress, or warlike abode of a monarch.

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Mr. Charles Johnson went up to Kenowit directly, taking the Bishop's yacht, the Sarawak Cross, as his floating fortress.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette

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