All 18 Uses
citadel
in
The Maelstrom, by Neff
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- She pointed to a numbered trench set halfway between the outer curtain that protected Rowan's outlying homesteads and the citadel walls that enclosed Old College as though it were a single massive keep.†
Chpt 15
- If this occurred, the troops would no doubt find themselves inside the citadel, protecting a building in Old College or perhaps joining civilian patrols about Rowan Township.†
Chpt 16
- They exited the other side, over the moat's causeway and into the dark, open country that lay between the citadel that sheltered Old College and the outer curtain that protected outlying farms.†
Chpt 17
- The citadel walls and fortifications protecting Old College loomed behind them, white and gleaming beneath the moon.†
Chpt 17 *
- Once everything's situated, you can go back inside the citadel.†
Chpt 17
- Huge flares raced overhead from the citadel, screaming past like crimson comets to burst over the outer walls and signal that those forces should pull back.†
Chpt 17
- Max heard cheers from the trenches and from high on the citadel's battlements and the towers of Northgate.†
Chpt 17
- Max rode swiftly back toward the citadel, shouting at everyone—every knight and soldier—to flee inside Northgate.†
Chpt 18
- Thankfully, people were beginning to respond, to leave their positions and trot uncertainly toward the citadel.†
Chpt 18
- At last Max heard the great horns sound from within the citadel, a shattering call to retreat as hissing red flares shot out from every casting tower.†
Chpt 18
- Whole battalions hurried toward the citadel at full speed.†
Chpt 18
- Raising his spyglass, he saw that Prusias's palanquin and troops had regrouped and were moving again, creeping south toward Rowan's citadel.†
Chpt 18
- They scoured the smoking hills and trampled plains until they fell upon the citadel.†
Chpt 18
- Just one looked capable of razing Rowan to its foundations and yet thirteen were now advancing upon the citadel fifty yards at a stride.†
Chpt 18
- There was a rending crack as the first reached the citadel.†
Chpt 18
- Tugging on the reins, Max rode through the crowds along the ruin of the citadel walls.†
Chpt 18
- He was approaching the citadel's northwest section, riding in the shadow of the ruined walls, when the crowds finally began to thin.†
Chpt 18
- Ms. Richter had declared that all the land between the citadel and the outer walls would be transformed into groves and orchards to honor the fallen.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(citadel) a stronghold or fortress
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)