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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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great
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Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive.
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There's a great white fortress of a monastery crowning the top of the island.
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And shortly, in her armies' unremitting retreat, the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege.
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The great and impregnable fortress is accessible by means of four highways built on lofty viaducts.
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They retook the cursed city of Anlec and cast up a great fortress in the rubble.
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Arthur's great fortress lies further north at Cadbury, a huge hill which still bears the remnants of a formidable fortress.
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Kinks in the tail now and then, like the great square stone fortress cathedral of St Giles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age.
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Now she saw a different, more pleasing aspect of the fortress .
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Only thirty succeeded in arriving at the gates of the fortress of the legendary Simorgh.
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Some of the more interesting pubs are along the Grassmarket, just below the fortress .
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The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into an imposing dark fortress .
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Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.
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Without relationships, a man could be a fortress within himself, dedicated to a career and a dream.
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Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.