Fortress

With you here beside me I'm not afraid of anything. You're my fortress.

The fortress was secure from every kind of attack.

You can still see the remains of the fortress there.

They built the walls of the fortress without using cement at all.

The fortress was in the enemy's hands.

We are a fortress.

The fortress being out of supplies, its protectors had to give up.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.

One thousand two hundred and fifty-six soldiers destroyed the fortress of Alamut.