fastness

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Ferrell is exactly right as Buddy, who as an infant at an orphanage found his way into Santa’s bag and became the first human to penetrate into the fastness of his North Pole workshop.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

MycoWorks says that its material meets the performance standards of cowhide in durability, color fastness and tensile strength.

From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2022

He’s put in harness and becomes the member of a dogsled team hauling mail to prospectors drawn to the frigid fastness of the Yukon in the hunt for the yellow stuff.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2020

As I poured, she outlined the reason for the mystery summons that had brought me from my fastness in the Welsh hills.

From Nature • Nov. 5, 2019

He had not our dire incentive for the success of that Regiment—a noncommissioned officer in a hated regiment in a precarious fastness only a few hundred feet from a growing and volatile enemy.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson