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

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)

"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

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)

The Renown herself, whose ram had caused the fearful disaster, had not escaped without severe injury in the collision, which had shattered the mighty floating fortress in all its joints.

From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August