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 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 Henry Mann
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 Harry Bates
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 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
She is a monstrous, impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Raphael Semmes
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