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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And whom, casually, Thorfinn had now brought south from his fastness to greet his uncle.
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But the great condor, sulking on some remote ledge in the fastnesses of its preserve, fails to appear.
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Green and red and gold began to appear in the winter fastness around us.
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In our North London fastness we are as ignorant as snowflakes of such matters.
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It has been in its fastnesses for many years, each population evolving to its own rules.
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It was appropriate that he should end his days in the masculine fastness of an Elizabethan almshouse in London.
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Up there, amid mountain fastnesses, its waters are sweet.