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 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

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

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