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
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
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
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
All the men swung their hammocks on board their floating fortress, and were quite secure from any intrusion of the savages.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
