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 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

When filled to the edge with warriors, it sailed o’er the waters, You’d deem it a floating fortress, or warlike abode of a monarch.

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

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)