citadel

• Every evening of the week the citadel was ablaze with light and humming with activity, the soldiers unwilling to stay away one night for fear of missing a good thing. —  The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
• This citadel was the Kremlin, the ancient abode of the Czars Footnote 52: From Book XLIV of the "History of the Consulate and Empire." —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• Temporary fortifications had been erected, the citadel was to be attacked and taken--Fort Pitt we may assume--and a mine was to be sprung. —  Pickwickian Studies
• And now the citadel is almost deserted. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• Near the citadel is the "Maison centrale des détenus," now only containing a few old men, too feeble for hard labour. —  Brittany ; Its Byways

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