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

"That's the conning-tower of this here little floating fortress," chuckled MacNutt, at her shoulder.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William

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

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

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)