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  • Fortified, they took the bus to the edge of the city.†   (source)
  • In English it said the ration consisted of eighteen fortified biscuits of baked wheat, animal fat and glucose, and that no more than six should be eaten in a twenty-four-hour period.†   (source)
  • Joe looked out over the square, scanning the buildings ranged around him as if they were enemy fortifications.†   (source)
  • A powerful emotion had risen in Harry's chest at the sight of Dumbledore, a fortified, hopeful feeling rather like that which phoenix song gave him.†   (source)
  • She fortified herself with an energy drink and gummy worms, and when the caffeine and sugar kicked in, she felt invincible.†   (source)
  • Alex got to her feet and took a fortifying breath.†   (source)
  • Fortified by the former (and never in the company of the latter), our senior class then rode the subway back to Boston, where— once again, falsifying our age—we gained admission to the striptease performances that were much admired by our age group at an establishment known as Old Freddy's.†   (source)
  • I pull her up on my hip and they drive off toward Fortification Street, and Baby Girl and me, we giggle like a couple a schoolgirls.†   (source)
  • Fortified by his good time at the Pickwells', Maniac returned to the McNabs'.†   (source)
  • She needed a few more makeshift weapons, and a way to fortify the locks on her windows and doors.†   (source)
  • Well fortified with grease, we left the pub and walked through town, dodging tractors and shouting to each other over the din of generators until the streets gave way to fields and the noise faded behind us.†   (source)
  • They are to raise a hundred bowmen each and fortify Moat Cailin.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked out at the towering stone bastions that loomed ahead-impenetrable fortifications surrounding the complex ....a strangely earthly defense for a spiritual world of secrets, power, and mystery.†   (source)
  • It begins, 'When Caesar noticed that the enemy was remaining for several days at the camp fortified by a swamp and by the nature of the terrain, he sent a letter to Trebonius instructing him'—'instructing him' isn't actually in the text but it's understood; you know about that.†   (source)
  • The earthen wall of the fortification that faced the river was bare and ugly, and the houses beyond were no more than plain wooden boxes.†   (source)
  • It's a fort, as in heavily fortified.†   (source)
  • Scopes were sending high-res shots of an Italian fortified town.†   (source)
  • Just for a change (since we haven't had one of these in so long) I'll recount a little discussion between Mr. and Mrs. van D. last night: Mrs. van D.: "The Germans have had plenty of time to fortify the Atlantic Wall, and they'll certainly do everything within their power to hold back the British.†   (source)
  • Fortifying supply lines, seeing to the wounded, reorganizing their troops.†   (source)
  • Fortified, they turned eastward and started across the plains.†   (source)
  • They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment.†   (source)
  • There had been other places, remote villages like this one, houses, abandoned farms, even a fortified castle once.†   (source)
  • Paul spent the night frantically helping to build fortifications — dirt walls and ditches that could protect them from musket fire.†   (source)
  • It was slow going, but I felt fortified by the coin I held.†   (source)
  • I always came away from him feeling fortified and comforted.†   (source)
  • And so, as Jaimito snored away, Dede began devising a little exercise to distract her mind and fortify her spirit.†   (source)
  • For a while she simply stands there before tending to the shampooing of her hair, the soaping of her softening, slightly shrinking fifty-three-year-old body, which she must fortify each morning with calcium pills.†   (source)
  • Outside the main courtyard stood large fortifications—towers, walls, and antisiege weapons—but most of these had been smashed to ruins.†   (source)
  • "Fortifications," a soldier explained to a cart man.†   (source)
  • The inside of the army compound was fortified with sniper hides, guard towers, and fighting positions.†   (source)
  • They stockpiled ammo and weapons, prepared IEDs, and fortified houses.†   (source)
  • Ustinov noted that he often fortified himself before driving his car to the woods east of Moscow.†   (source)
  • King Hezekiah, who ruled the southern kingdom, prepared for the attack feverishly, making great improvements in the fortifications of Jerusalem, improving its supply of drinking water.†   (source)
  • When Clara had emerged from her mother's womb, Nana had cradled and washed her, and from that time on she had felt a desperate love for this fragile creature whose lungs were always full of phlegm, who was always on the verge of losing her breath and turning purple, and whom she had had to revive so many times with the warmth of her huge breasts because she knew that this was the only cure for asthma, much more effective than Dr. Cuevas's fortified syrups.†   (source)
  • But Luma faced the perennial struggle of fortifying the ranks of each team with newcomers, few of whom had ever played organized soccer, and finding a way to get all of her players—rookies and veterans—to play together as a team.†   (source)
  • Then she summoned her last strength and obliged her husband to talk to her without evasion, to confront her, to argue with her, to cry with her in rage at the loss of paradise, until they heard the last rooster crow, and the light filtered in through the lace curtains of the palace, and the sun rose, and her husband, puffy with so much talk, exhausted with lack of sleep, his heart fortified with so much weeping, laced his shoes, tightened his belt, fastened everything that remained to him of his manhood, and told her yes, my love, they were going to look for the love they had lost in Europe: starting tomorrow and forever after.†   (source)
  • Lindberg gave a sly smile before he fortified himself with a few more sips of brandy.†   (source)
  • They say they've fortified the graben villages to the point where you cannot harm them.†   (source)
  • Except for my brother Dom, fortified with the constitution of a bull, we were ill for much of the voyage.†   (source)
  • Someone had taken the carts from the store and tried stuffing them in the lanes, as if to create a kind of fortified wall against any unwanted visitors.†   (source)
  • Rarely did Adam leave an observation post without first helping with fortification efforts, such as filling sandbags.†   (source)
  • But the Gard—it's fortified—why don't they stay up here?†   (source)
  • Katie drew a fortifying breath and reached for her bags.†   (source)
  • "She needed some fortification," Heath said, but he's never been good with words over two syllables, so it sounded like fortfi-ka-shun.†   (source)
  • Three thousand men under General Thomas were to take part in fortifying the Heights.†   (source)
  • The building was not here thirty, forty years ago, a large brown structure, tall and broad and defined by a sense of fortification—fences and ramps, cameras angled from the brickwork.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka paused again and fortified himself with a huge breath for a piercing ejaculation of grief.†   (source)
  • It's hard not to be distracted by the sight of a set of high-fortified walls—Luke says they belong to the ancient medieval village of Sarlat, and that we can go there to shop if I want to.†   (source)
  • Thus fortified, Jackie nervously broached the subject to JFK over dinner one night.†   (source)
  • There were huge fortified portholes along the sides, and various openings below the waterline that both drew in and expelled water.†   (source)
  • What we must do, here in this sorry little cottage, is find all the herbs of a strength-giving virtue and combine them in a tonic to fortify the healthy.†   (source)
  • The Japanese had heavily fortified these island outposts; to capture them, Marines would have to mount offensive thrusts into the teeth of an armed and waiting enemy.†   (source)
  • Objections were overcome, new arguments cast and dismissed, strategies fortified.†   (source)
  • After dark, fortified with strong green tea and three plates of dhal chana, a curry of yellow lentils, from a roadside stand, Mortenson lay back in his nest on top of the truck and watched individual stars pinprick the fabric of twilight.†   (source)
  • The citadel walls and fortifications protecting Old College loomed behind them, white and gleaming beneath the moon.†   (source)
  • Another two months to fortify and hide it from the prying eyes of aux patrols.†   (source)
  • Attolia had still not reached the top of the pass, Eddis's soldiers fought bitterly, and Sounis had wanted to fortify his citizens for the war ahead.†   (source)
  • For this eighteenth-century German philosopher he feels a respect that rises not out of agreement but out of appreciation for Kant's formidable logical fortification of his position.†   (source)
  • ON OCTOBER 9, 1963, we were picked up in a heavily fortified police van.†   (source)
  • Think we'll find something decent to eat soon, or should I fortify myself with a candy bar?†   (source)
  • He crawled inside this strangely fortified acreage and stood up, listening, his eyes darting in every direction, scanning the darkness-which was not complete darkness.†   (source)
  • THE BELL Tower was a round concrete fortification about the size of the arena in a provincial bull ring.†   (source)
  • With little food, energy, hot cups of tea, or fortifying doses of herbs, no one had the strength to fight these nuisances.†   (source)
  • Indeed, once they held the fortified city, the barbarians would be able to strike at their leisure at any of the other towns.†   (source)
  • Toward the end, we start making mega wishes and fortifying them with handfuls of pennies.†   (source)
  • They would eat supper; then fortified, go on — really, nothing; nothing really — finding, to their pleasant surprise, that the deeper their former life sank in the black muck of ignorance, the higher their present life seemed to spring.†   (source)
  • Eariy said slowly, "To move this entire Corps, in the face of a fortified enemy?"†   (source)
  • The nations of Europe are encircled by fortified places.†   (source)
  • Vivienne was keen to show me how they'd fortified it over the past centuries.†   (source)
  • They call him Saladin ... Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his back propped against the headboard, the gun at his side, and stared at the shadowy mass of his fortifications.†   (source)
  • And these more or less costive attitudes were fortified by a refusal to grant the poet any more license than any other citizen; and they were further induced by having to conduct oneself as a poet in a situation of ongoing political violence and public expectation.†   (source)
  • Benedict Arnold—the Appalachee general—had fortified the city.†   (source)
  • Once, when ordering the capture of a heavily fortified Japanese position, he had screamed to his staff that he didn't care if it took a shipload of dog tags to do it.†   (source)
  • As they crossed the fifty yards which separated the two checkpoints, Leamas was dimly aware of the new fortification on the eastern side of the wall—dragons' teeth, observation towers and double aprons of barbed wire.†   (source)
  • It is better fortified now.†   (source)
  • It was the day of her English lesson at Brooklyn College, and in order to become fortified for the dreadful trip by subway and for the session itself, she made herself eat.†   (source)
  • Within the last few years it has been heavily fortified, and there has been extensive construction of submarine pens under the direction of Russian technicians.†   (source)
  • Fortified.†   (source)
  • Eugene felt the Pacific wind like a fortification, he could storm it or lean onto it, just the same; it could stop his breath and keep him from falling too.†   (source)
  • "Well," Rod answered slowly, "unless somebody comes down with a better scheme, or unless we find really good caves, we've got to fortify this spot the best we can ....so we'll do this.†   (source)
  • ...the surest means will be to endeavour to fortify him against temptation, not to remove it out of his way.   (source)
  • But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large.   (source)
  • And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French;   (source)
  • calculated to rouse and fortify the mind   (source)
  • "I have always understood," said Bilbo in a frightened squeak, "that dragons were softer underneath, especially in the region of the-er-chest; but doubtless one so fortified has thought of that."   (source)
    fortified = with features added to protect against enemies
  • Some vicious Ebola or Marburg splice, one of the fortified hemorrhagics.†   (source)
  • It looked like a heavily fortified military base.†   (source)
  • He's moving towards Martina Franca, a fortified town near the city of Brindisi.†   (source)
  • Its few entrances heavily fortified, its heart safely enfolded in the mountain.†   (source)
  • Every one of them has been fortified with rebel-manned machine gun nests.†   (source)
  • Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?†   (source)
  • His favorite sour red, but fortified, three times as potent as he was used to.†   (source)
  • The more coffee Amanda drank, the more fortified she felt to deal with her mother.†   (source)
  • You might not know it, but his house is heavily fortified with magic.†   (source)
  • He grimaced and fortified himself with energy from the belt of Beloth the Wise.†   (source)
  • And on the far side, not a mile distant, he saw the fortified towers of a Pakistani army post.†   (source)
  • Thus fortified, Booth spies fellow actor John Matthews in front of the theater.†   (source)
  • Doran Martell has called his banners and fortified the mountain passes.†   (source)
  • He and nearly all his men were killed in a cavalry charge against a fortified line and machine guns.†   (source)
  • The town was "amazingly strong ...almost impregnable, every avenue fortified," he wrote.†   (source)
  • Easy had to cross rough, exposed ground against a heavily fortified ridge.†   (source)
  • If I'd known it was nerves I could have fortified ol' Bobby with some vitamins.†   (source)
  • The Germans fortified it and made it impregnable.†   (source)
  • When he was penniless, which was most of the time, he got people in the back of the market to give him the chicken heads that they were going to throw away and he would take them to Nigromanta to make her soups, fortified with purslane and seasoned with mint.†   (source)
  • This age-old bond between library and Capitol had been fortified recently by the construction of a physical connection—a long tunnel beneath Independence Avenue that linked the two buildings.†   (source)
  • He wasn't really paying attention to it, but his hands had constructed a three-story compound with fortified walls, a moat, and a drawbridge.†   (source)
  • They're fortified with vitamins!†   (source)
  • Murtagh's entire mind was fortified.†   (source)
  • Their ultimate goal was to wipe out the Xenorians entirely, keeping perhaps a few dozen for display in specially fortified zoos, with windows of unbreakable glass.†   (source)
  • Snow was smaller than Stone, a single fortified tower and a timber keep and stable hidden behind a low wall of unmortared rock.†   (source)
  • So she had decked him with a right jab fortified with a golf ball—which led to more bloodshed and a new entry in her casebook.†   (source)
  • Five more tiers-each of which was defended by a fortified gate-carried them past the fields and into the city proper.†   (source)
  • The eastern side of the city was heavily fortified, and the enemy probably thought that's where the attack would be launched.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Roran studied the layout of the city with its fortified houses-which grew progressively higher toward the citadel-and the gridlike arrangement of streets.†   (source)
  • Outside the walls, life continued at an exaggerated pace, but if anyone were to somehow gain access to the manor in spite of the fortified walls and high gate, they would find it deserted, all occupants trapped in the past.†   (source)
  • Many if not all of the two hundred mosques in the city became fortified bunkers, since the insurgents knew that Americans respected houses of worship as sacred and therefore were reluctant to attack there.†   (source)
  • The jetty that divided the inner and outer harbors had been fortified with a long stone wall, thirty feet tall and almost a mile long, with towers every hundred yards.†   (source)
  • The Section had its offices at Kungsholmen, but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in Östermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office.†   (source)
  • Beside him, Harold Murphy's machine gun was fully loaded and ready, and a dozen signal flares were lined up on the wall, and the radio was working, and the beach was mined, and the tower itself was high and strong and fortified.†   (source)
  • That night, he had fortified both the knotted hawthorn and the handle to Roran's hammer with several spells that would prevent either piece from breaking, except under the most extreme stress.†   (source)
  • The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three.†   (source)
  • Ask him how having an entrance to Blackcliff will help him break into the most fortified prison in the south.†   (source)
  • In literary matters, Ezra Pound advised against accepting the opinion of those "who haven't themselves produced notable work," and it is advice I have been privileged to follow, since it is the good opinion of notable workers and not just those in my own country-that has fortified my endeavour since I began to write in Belfast more than thirty years ago.†   (source)
  • This was a choice that answered Clyde's own deep need for protection, a place on the safe side of the fortified wall.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix's prohibition on the use of magic apparently did not extend to the spells that fortified Murtagh's limbs.†   (source)
  • This was an Attolian megaron, a fortified room on a hilltop, when your emperor's present palace was an empty plot of land in the Sidosians' territory.†   (source)
  • The president fortified its rigidity this morning by wrapping the brace and his thighs in a thick layer of Ace bandages.†   (source)
  • They know we're coming and they've got the route fortified with belt after belt of trenchwork, mine fields, and firing positions.†   (source)
  • Instead of striking at the enemy where they were well fortified, they would lure the enemy out to strike at them, as had been done at Bunker Hill.†   (source)
  • To which Umaroth added: Nor was Ilirea this heavily fortified during the war between our kind and the elves.†   (source)
  • I'd tried drinking port for a while just to see how it would feel, how it would sound, a port glass, a fortified wine, and now I used the port glass for my vodka, pouring it syrupy cold and opal.†   (source)
  • It's a fortified megaron in the old style, which means it's not as easy for me to move through as her palace is, for example, or the megaron in Sounis's capital.†   (source)
  • Once it is fortified.†   (source)
  • By the ruddy light of the fires, Eragon saw a sea of flashing spearpoints and gleaming helmets surging against the base of the large, well-fortified city, the walls of which teemed with tiny figures busy firing arrows at the army below, pouring cauldrons of boiling oil between the merlons of the parapet, cutting ropes thrown over the walls, and pushing away the rickety wooden ladders the besiegers kept leaning against the ramparts.†   (source)
  • How will a secret entrance to Blackcliff help you free my brother from the most fortified prison in the south?†   (source)
  • Brutal, deadly, and dangerous combat aimed at an underground, heavily fortified, nonretreating enemy.†   (source)
  • Be that as it may, the famously cautious William Howe, who, supposedly, would never risk a frontal attack on a heavily fortified rebel position, because of the painful lesson learned at Bunker Hill, was about to disprove that theory, and with the full agreement of his commanders.†   (source)
  • Adorning his fingers were four large rings, one of which bore the royal seal of Surda carved into the face of an amethyst: an antlered stag with sprigs of mistletoe wound between his feet standing over a harp and opposite an image of a tall, fortified tower.†   (source)
  • So I sent you to Blackcliff with an even more impossible task: Find me a secret entrance into the most well-guarded, heavily fortified Martial fort outside of Kauf Prison.†   (source)
  • As with so many of Sounis's and Attolia's strongholds, the one large room that had been the entirety of some minor prince's home had come to be the main hall of a fortified residence.†   (source)
  • No longer would the Japanese soldiers mount banzai charges; now they were ordered to fight from heavily fortified underground tunnels and caves.†   (source)
  • The former riverbed and the road that ran along it were defended by a heavily fortified gate at the bottom of the mountains, and that gate was further defended by the chasm of the Seperchia River between it and Attolia.†   (source)
  • While the American army controlled the land around Boston, the British, strongly fortified in the city and on Bunker Hill, had control of the sea and could thereby supply their troops and send reinforcements.†   (source)
  • By the time he was finished, Iwo Jima would become the most heavily fortified island of World War II.†   (source)
  • The center, fortified with the redoubts, would render it very difficult, if not impossible, to cut our way through....Should this event take place, and by the by I don't think it very improbable, your Excellency will be reduced to that situation which every prudent general would wish to avoid, that is of being obligated to fight the enemy to a disadvantage or submit.†   (source)
  • He was astounded by its many overlapping swirls and heavy rectangles and triangles, each figure denoting a weapon emplacement or a fortified blockhouse.†   (source)
  • At eight-thirty A.M. a thin line of unprotected American boys would arise and rush directly at the most fortified mountain in the history of the world.†   (source)
  • We have maintained our ground against the enemy under [a] ...want of powder, and we have disbanded one army and recruited another within musket shot of two and twenty regiments, the flower of the British army, when our strength has been little if any superior to theirs, and at last have beat them in a shameful and precipitate manner, out of a place the strongest by nature on this continent, strengthened and fortified in the best manner and at an enormous expense.†   (source)
  • In 1943, there were reasonable military officers in the Pacific who expressed serious doubts whether "any fortified island could ever be assaulted by amphibious forces.†   (source)
  • As Joseph Reed wrote in explanation, with Lord Howe trying every day to "get up" against the wind, "it became a serious consideration whether we ought to risk the fate of the army, and perhaps America, on defending the circle of about three miles fortified with a few strong redoubts, but chiefly open lines."†   (source)
  • Mike, Harlon, Franklin, Ira, Rene, and Doc no doubt pay close attention to the strange little fortified volcanic mountain down near the beach where they'll rush ashore.†   (source)
  • Now the 3,000 men of the 28th would begin their dangerous advance southward toward the volcano, while the other 33,000 Marines on the island would fight their way north across the island's main mass, toward the airfields and the high fortified ground on the northern rim.†   (source)
  • It would be a battle of attrition on terrain that had no front lines; where the attackers were exposed and the defenders fortified; where Japanese infiltrators stalked the night; where every rock, every ditch, every open stretch of ground could conceal a burrowing, suicidal enemy.†   (source)
  • Suribachi's interior had been hollowed out into a fantastical seven-story subterranean world, fortified with concrete revetments and finished off with plastered walls, a sewer system, and conduits for fresh air, electricity, water, and steam.†   (source)
  • He would later write: "The prolonged aerial bombardment of Iwo Jima, which was a daily occurrence for over seventy days, had no appreciable effect in the reduction of the enemy's well-prepared and heavily fortified defensive installations."†   (source)
  • But as Tarawa had shown (and as future battles were to show again), no amount of aerial bombing or naval bombardment—regardless of how obliterating it might look from a bombardier's sights or from the deck of a destroyer—was going to dislodge these deeply entrenched Japanese from their obsessively fortified Pacific islands.†   (source)
  • Easy Company rolled in on the twelfth wave at 9:55 A.M. Easy was part of Harry the Horse's 28th Regiment, whose special mission was to land on Green Beach One—the stretch nearest Mount Suribachi, just four hundred yards away, on the left—and then form a ribbon of men across the narrow neck of the island, isolating the fortified mountain and ultimately capturing it.†   (source)
  • And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†   (source)
  • He watched the news some more, drinking Scotch to fortify himself, but spacing his intake.†   (source)
  • Washington's men took them all to work on the blasted fortifications.†   (source)
  • It's too narrow on top for any decent sized fortification.†   (source)
  • Escarpment, a vertical fortification, or else a steep cliff-face.†   (source)
  • The castle was the only thing visible over the fortifications.†   (source)
  • "First we fortify," he whispered with glee, "then we fight.†   (source)
  • While he did, Roran rolled the dead soldiers through the trampled mud, away from the fortifications.†   (source)
  • THEY FOUND LEO AT THE TOP of the city fortifications.†   (source)
  • "Fortify, fortify, and never let them in again," he urged a friend at home.†   (source)
  • But the camp needs fortifying, and it'll help keep them from brooding.†   (source)
  • The captain broached a cask of firewine to fortify the oarsmen.†   (source)
  • Half a mile west rose the fortifications of Camp Jupiter.†   (source)
  • He drank a cup of dreamwine to fortify himself.†   (source)
  • Everyone should prize whatever will tend to create or fortify that temper in the courts.†   (source)
  • Scouts and outriders will screen our march, and we'll fortify our camps by night.†   (source)
  • Three miles of open country and farmland separated the outer walls from the inner fortifications.†   (source)
  • Substantial funds—nearly $1 million—were voted for harbor fortifications and cannon foundries.†   (source)
  • She resolved to enjoy the quiet, to use the time to heal and fortify herself for what must come.†   (source)
  • The Austrians fire their guns straight out, and the shells fall upon our fortifications.†   (source)
  • Sleep came easily as the wind whistled through the fortification and the fire crackled.†   (source)
  • Should she get to the main fortifications, Sounis will bring his army up the other side of the pass.†   (source)
  • verily their fortifications appear to be the works of seven years.†   (source)
  • To the left was Fort Putnam, named for Rufus Putnam, who marked out most of the fortifications.†   (source)
  • We can fortify it and whip up a good defense.†   (source)
  • Automatically the fortifications of the port area of Latakia came into focus in Mark's mind.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the houses were too far apart to form a defensive perimeter by just fortifying the spaces between buildings.†   (source)
  • The castle's magical fortifications have been strengthened over the summer, we are protected in new and more powerful ways, but we must still guard scrupulously against carelessness on the part of any student or member of staff.†   (source)
  • I checked in across the hall with T.J.—who handed me the Skofnung Sword and promised to remain on standby in case I needed cavalry reinforcements or help charging enemy fortifications.†   (source)
  • He took another fortifying gulp of tea, then said, 'Well, we set off righ' after term ended —' 'Madame Maxime went with you, then?'†   (source)
  • I miss the old days, when you just walk out to Fortification Street and there be the farmers with they wheelbarrows calling out, "Sweet potatoes, butter beans, string beans, okra.†   (source)
  • I lay motionless all day long to conserve what little strength I had left, putting out my hand only once, around midday, to fortify myself with a rusk and a mug of water sparingly portioned out.†   (source)
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