Examples from literature

• Around the fortress are seven circular mounds, which at first suggest the idea of being the work of mound-builders. 
• Have we destroyed the fleets of our enemies, fired their towns, and laid their fortresses in ruins? 
• The fortress is separated from the town by a small bay, across which a wooden bridge has been built. 
• The sultan immediately dispatched an army of two hundred thousand men to the relief of his beleaguered fortress. 
• Yet at this moment the great fortress and arsenal lay at their mercy.