Sample Sentences for
citadel
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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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    There can be no mistake, Aemon has had letters from the Citadel, findings in accord with his own.†  (source)
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    You have four people to storm the giant's citadel!†  (source)
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    Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease.†  (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 word means 'citadel'—or more precisely, 'the city on the hill.'†  (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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    You cannot open a Portal to the Adamant Citadel unless the Iron Sisters allow it.†  (source)
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    They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.†  (source)
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    At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.†  (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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    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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    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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