fortresses
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It’s hard to find better musical evocations of rocky crags, ruined fortresses, or martial joie de combat than Mendelssohn’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River, separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
Then and earlier, therefore, it would have been safer for her not to be hated by her people than to have had the fortresses.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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