Sentence Examples

1. I suppose it was designed to appear like a prison or a fort, the sort of place where people go in and never come out.
2. At half-past twelve the travellers caught sight for an instant of Fort Halleck, which commands that section and in a few more hours the Rocky Mountains were crossed.
3. The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
4. Fernando leads the way round the side of the fort and down a flight of carved basalt steps that follow the curve of the promontory.
5. The fort overlooks the docks across a sheltered bay.
6. I asked Abit to hold down the fort and ran up the stairs.
7. Still, enormous effort has been taken to restore the fort.
8. It was formerly defended by a noble fort, which has since become a state prison its commerce has dwindled away, and Passepartout in vain looked about him for such a bazaar as he used to frequent in Regent Street.
9. The fort itself, a chunky and stout building of dark grey stone, stands proud on a low promontory.
10. Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.