bastion

• The New York Post isn't really known as a bastion for good journalism. —  FUGville Weblogs
• Alabama is widely known as a bastion of progressive thought and technological innovation, so it's no surprise that they would be the ones to have an online poll that decides which Fox game is going to be televised in their market. —  Bucstats.com
• Some attribute it to an Italian, and with considerable show of reason, for a bastion was built at Turin as early as 1461. —  Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, ;C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.
• It is most probable that the transition from the tower to the bastion was a very gradual one, and that the change was perfected in several countries at about the same time Fortifications, like other arts and sciences, greatly flourished in Italy under the Medicis, and that country furnished Europe with its most skilful engineers. —  Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, ;C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.
• There are huts, fields, orchards, and streams, and about a league from the foot of the bastion is a large village Pachatupec?" —  Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance

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