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She walked along the ancient walls of the citadel that once protected the entire city.citadel = fortified place
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The New York Stock Exchange is a citadel of capitalism.citadel = stronghold or fortress (figurative use)
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The citadel stood on a high hill, overlooking the town like a watchful guardian.citadel = fortified place
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A strong citadel it was indeed, and not to be taken by a host of enemies, if there were any within that could hold weapons; unless... (source)citadel = fortress
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Just east of it was the Bala Hissar Fort—the ancient citadel that the warlord Dostum had occupied in 1992—on the Shirdarwaza mountain range, the same mountains from which Mujahedin forces had showered Kabul with rockets between 1992 and 1996, inflicting much of the damage I was witnessing now.† (source)
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The rolling hills, crowded with their heavy fruits and fields of grain, the bright citadel he would build.† (source)
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Incredibly, though, not even a citadel of this magnitude could dwarf the piazza before it.† (source)
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Douglas Brinkley writes, "Downtowns which used to consist of one ugly skyscraper surrounded by 200,000 Baptists are now glitzy, multi-towered citadels, show-casing the buildings of such world-class architects as Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier."† (source)
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There can be no mistake, Aemon has had letters from the Citadel, findings in accord with his own.† (source)
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Now, it appeared shabby and outmoded compared with the long, low, antiseptic citadels of glass, metal, and tinted block constructed by rich Northerners who for the past fifteen years had been "discovering" the Timucuan River.† (source)
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The walled citadel of Saint-Malo blooms out of the distance.† (source)
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They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.† (source)
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Twenty-foot-high gates opened for them, and a road of polished purple stone led up to the main citadel—a white-columned rotunda, Greek style, like one of the monuments in Washington, D.C.—except for the cluster of satellite dishes and radio towers on the roof "That's bizarre," Piper said.† (source)
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There still reverberated in her mind the crashes of the two impregnable citadels of her life, thundering to dust about her ears.† (source)
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We had one more tune-up, which resulted in a win over The Citadel, and then we faced FSU again.† (source)
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And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.† (source)
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