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

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

She is a monstrous, impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

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