They depended upon the fastness of the fort for their safety. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : a mountain fastness. ,the fastness of democratic institutions. From Dictionary.com.
But fastness is nothing unless you have accuracy too. From Wordnik.com. [Test Your Reaction Time] Reference
Between their mountain fastness and the dearly loved spring lay the host of the Philistines; but their love for their leader feared no enemies. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Golden Deeds] Reference
During the long and taxing journey up into the high mountain fastness where the Huntress’s people dwell, I came to view this less as an epigram and more as an axiom. From Wordnik.com. [Duet « A Fly in Amber] Reference
"But that's a different kind of fastness," Alice objected. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There] Reference
` But that's a different kind of fastness, 'Alice objected. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Looking Glass] Reference
They affect a fastness which is painful to see in boys so young. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference
In photography the "fastness" of a lens is determined by it's largest aperture setting. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
When Alice objected, "But that's a different kind of fastness," he replied, "It was all kinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing Gold] Reference
= Directions for testing fastness of Color in Sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Good blue shades of considerable fastness can thus be got. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
It increases the fastness of the colours to washing and soaping. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
In the fastness of the mountain, with his sphynx-like, stony face. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
What is meant by the expression "fastness of color of two fabrics"?. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The direct blues as a rule have a good degree of fastness to light. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
One might walk along the edge of the brook into this hillside fastness. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Then he turned slowly, so as to face the group of intruders on his island fastness. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
And lo! from the narrow fastness of Pelorus the North wind comes down and reaches us. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
With regard to the fastness of the shades produced the following may be considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
We shall capture the whole band, together with their famous fastness, and rescue Zuleika. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
What her mother had always called obstinacy and perversity were now stead-fastness in the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
In comparing the fastness of two fabrics it is necessary to have the rubbing equal in all cases. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Two per cent of stannous chloride added to the mordant gives brilliancy and fastness to the colour. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
At the present time she could not hope successfully to wage war upon them in their arboreal fastness. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The treated shades thus obtained are notable for considerable fastness to washing, soaping and light. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
In comparing the fastness of color of two fabrics it is necessary to have the rubbing equal in all cases. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
It filled Christopher with curiosity and a desire to explore the grey fastness and trim level lawns beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The samples were tested for fastness to light by exposing them for nine days with the following results. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Reaching the top, they followed the ridge trail for half a mile, then struck off into the mountain fastness. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Anyway, there was Krok lording it over as much of Bohemia as he could control, from his fastness of Vyšehrad. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
He gave every support to the many who gathered together in the isle as to a fastness, and encouraged the plans of Hereward. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
"It's a turrible thing to have killed the wrong man," said the conscience-stricken illicit distiller in his mountain fastness. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The Sun temple, the convent of virgins, and the other institutions of the Incas at Cuzco, were transferred to this mountain fastness. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
The amido-azo bodies, whose compounds with the phenols are also distinguished by their great fastness, are in this respect an exception. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
These operations may be repeated several times, especially when a full shade having a good degree of fastness is desired, as, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
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