General Grant was busily engaged in fortifying his new position at Hatcher's Run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference

I remember the long, nightmarish evening that we spent in fortifying the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homage to Catalonia] Reference

The child had fallen asleep, so the woman placed it on a heap of furs and lent a hand in fortifying the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Of His Fathers] Reference

Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

He was ardent in the defence of Mr. Jefferson's pet scheme of a gun-boat navy, and ridiculed the idea of fortifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

A single glassful of gin, whiskey, or brandy, instead of "fortifying" against such infection, actually knocks down the "fortifications" which nature has reared against its power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

That's because challenges still remain, such as fortifying the cells 'durability and reliability and the need for better on-board storage of hydrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home:blogs] Reference

"fortifying" to restore to what we eat the nutrients that industrial processing takes away from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

"fortifying" or "rectifying" -- as it is variously called -- the natural material with sulphate of ammonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

I smooth my hair down and take a fortifying breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Season] Reference

Otherwise called Gedon, the city that Cendebeus was fortifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

Letter of the Marquis de Lafayette on the subject of fortifying the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Keep fortifying this image with the mental suggestions that are needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

Malaysians are fortifying papaya against the devastating ringspot disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crops With Attitude] Reference

M691 A City loan of £10,000 for fortifying Sheerness, 21 June, 1667. 1375.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

What matters is connecting with opposition on the island and fortifying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of The Cubans] Reference

After thus fortifying ourselves, we proceeded to the residence of a Mr. Storey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

But under the surface, the island has been quietly fortifying its political system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleaning the Straits] Reference

Vast sums of money and immense labor have been spent in fortifying this stronghold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference

The cabinet minister leant back into his chair and took a fortifying swig of his drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spending cuts: When ministers talk of lynch mobs, you know they're scared] Reference

I could barely keep my head up at the restaurant but that red currant sauce was fortifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Kosick: An American Vegetarian in Germany] Reference

By properly fortifying the entrance of this harbour, it might be rendered perfectly impregnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

The business of fortifying the fortunate -- long a healthy one in Latin America -- is better than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bulletproof Lifestyle] Reference

I imagine that in the morning he had sung to himself some good old fortifying hymn, like "Rock of Ages.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

There is a great deal of garden lore about kelp meal's growth-stimulating and stress-fortifying properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

This can be held with four thousand men, if they will turn their attention immediately to fortifying their positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

His basement looks like a hardware store; lately he's been fortifying his home in case an 8.0 temblor hits the Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hacker Hemingway] Reference

During the night, however, Beauregard fell back to the line which had been already selected, and commenced fortifying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

A large amount of money has recently been spent in fortifying Corregidor until it is now considered practically impregnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference

And the girl who sits in the box with Mr. Snivel, so cautiously fortifying herself with the curtain, is none other than Anna.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

From the 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Next door to the McDonalds, there was a bar called Sammy's, and during my lunch break I went there for a fortifying vodka tonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Meadow Simms] Reference

If that were not the case, then the plan of fortifying Flushing would not have called forth such an outburst in Paris and London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

If it is for his interest that you should suffer longer, he is capable of fostering your malady instead of fortifying your strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

Our men immediately began fortifying the position, but our sentries reported that German patrols had been seen encircling the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

We could have marched to Staunton without opposition, and taken possession of the very strongholds the enemy is now fortifying against us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Abouhadjad commenced his reign with fortifying his towns, raising a strong army, and allying himself with the King of Tunis, whose daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference