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

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)

"That's the conning-tower of this here little floating fortress," chuckled MacNutt, at her shoulder.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William

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

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