Striving, ere toiling Kilspindie, the fortalice to gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829] Reference

But the Baron at breakfast said never a word of the domestic economy of his fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

Two or three miserable huts, at the foot of the fortalice, held the bondsmen and tenants of the feuar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

It was at the sight of this little fortalice that the misery of her lot pressed hard on the poor Lady of Avenel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Matters had been fitly arranged by John Trumble and young Gledstanes in the quaint old fortalice of Hundelshope — now long passed away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Gladstone] Reference

The summit is converted into a rude fortalice — without one, no settlement can exist in Al-Hijaz — by a bulwark of uncut stone, piled up so as to make a parapet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Ferret and the intaking of the Reaver's fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

The glory of the little fortalice had now departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce] Reference

And keep thine ancient fortalice beyond the Western Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

I have seen a stronger fortalice carried in a summer evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company] Reference

Lord, King Edward of England, together with the fortalice, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference

Templars, which resembles a fortalice, rather than a place of worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre] Reference

This is he that forceth fortalice and penetrateth every impregnable place!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Close beside it is the Tower Dean, so called from an ancient fortalice of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principal Cairns] Reference

A lad was standing on the little lookout turret, on the top of a border fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower] Reference

It stood at one angle of the white fortalice of buildings which surrounded the "yard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

Scripture with his knife on the roof and walls of his fortalice, which were of sandstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference

Another shed was built just under the fortalice, on the lake side, for the safe housing of the live stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norsemen in the West] Reference

Percy pointed to the small outlying fortalice upon the knoll, on which also flew the flag of the bloody head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

The rest of the apartment was used as the living and sleeping room of the followers, and hinds, of the fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower] Reference

And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company] Reference

So in modern times it is part of the Wali or Governor's palace and is included in the Maroccan "Kasbah" or fortalice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

It has a grim square fortalice above it, now in ruins, and a stately castle to the south-east, built about the time of.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

In the charter giving Ochtertyre to the Murrays, in the year 1467, it is even then described as an "ancient fortalice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Strathearn] Reference

About noon the air grew clearer, and Capri reared her fortalice of sculptured rock, aërially azure, into liquid ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

All the population was devoted to him, and the tower of Bourges and the strong fortalice of Montrond offered him a safe asylum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

It has a grim square fortalice above it, now in ruins, and a stately castle to the south-east, built about the time of Braccio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

And these he impressed upon his dwelling-house, which looks backward to the mediæval fortalice and forward to the modern palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Tell them whatever thou hast a mind of the weakness of this fortalice, or aught else that can detain them before it for twenty-four hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ivanhoe] Reference

It had been built in the days when each mansion was a fortalice, and when safety from enemies was of more moment than the convenience of friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

The view of the old tower, or fortalice, introduced some family anecdotes and tales of Scottish chivalry, which the Baron told with great enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

~Thurles~, originally a Danish town and the scene of the battle between the Norsemen and Irish, afterwards became a fortalice of the Knights Templars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

We lay still inside our fortalice for awhile, listening, as well as the throbbing of our pulses would allow, to try and hear what our invaders were doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie] Reference

Persians were seen drawn up in line, their right resting on the walled village of Khoosh-Aub and a date-grove, their left on a hamlet with a round fortalice tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference

Higher up on the western bank of the Glendine tributary stands Temple Michael, an old fortalice of the Geraldines, which Cromwell battered down for "dire insolence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

The fortalice itself stood at the extremity of the spur, and a strong wall with a fortified gateway extended across the other end of the neck, touching the water on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce] Reference

The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyrie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference