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
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
"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 Renown herself, whose ram had caused the fearful disaster, had not escaped without severe injury in the collision, which had shattered the mighty floating fortress in all its joints.
From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August
