Fastnesses [noun]

Edwin had to brace himself again, for an assault upon the fastness of the stationmaster.

And in the incredibly small and incredibly dirty fastness of the stationmaster, they indeed found a Bradshaw.

After journeying for several days through a desert country, they reached Sechele's mountain fastness.

Twice she heard large bodies moving in the tangled fastness about the clearing, but what made the sounds remained a mystery.

Siegfried, the hero of the Nibelungen Lied, dwells in the mountain fastness of Geroldseck.

She wrote to her husband from her mountain fastness, warning him against high-balls in hot weather.

The wild bull had been driven from the plains, and could be found in no nearer fastness than the northern mountains now.

Let us keep only just enough to feast upon to-night in the fastness of Allange under the dome of the stately old oak trees.

Till the introduction of artillery, indeed, such a fastness would have been practically impregnable.

The Thursar's bane wrung from an ox the high fastness of his two horns.