Quotes About Fortification

It was no difficult to protect a citadel that had never been stormed.

It followed that anyone who could strengthen a fortification, repair a boat, power an oar, pay others to do these things, or even bring up a child who might someday do them, would be serving the state.

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the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies when necessary'.

defence' might simply mean the duty of manning the walls in the event of an attack.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Fence your mind against negative thoughts; build a high wall against evil ones.

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

When you have a chest of jewels, you don't walk around it. You plant yourself on the lid with a weapon in your hand.

A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,

Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was to repeatedly try and fail. Failure-disappointment-was a poison in my blood. Despair was the antidote.

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Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.

Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Because the land was at peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. In those days no one made war with him, because the LORD had given him rest.