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The child had fallen asleep, so the woman placed it on a heap of furs and lent a hand in fortifying the camp.

THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

Bruce was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds received at the hands of the enemy, as well as a Navy unit Commendation for his assistance in fortifying the infantry position where he was wounded.

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I remember the long, nightmarish evening that we spent in fortifying the building.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

The child had fallen asleep, so the woman placed it on a heap of furs and lent a hand in fortifying the camp.

The God Of His Fathers 1901

The child had fallen asleep, so the woman placed it on a heap of furs and lent a hand in fortifying the camp.

The God of His Fathers 1901

Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

General Grant was busily engaged in fortifying his new position at Hatcher's Run.

Foreign and Colonial Intelligence 1865

They did not give him thanks for the advantages they had, in fortifying their city, from the waters of the old pool, which were fashioned long ago, as Kishon is called an ancient river, Judg.v. 21.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

He was ardent in the defence of Mr. Jefferson's pet scheme of a gun-boat navy, and ridiculed the idea of fortifying

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

I must not be supposed, in saying this, to be leaving out of sight the virile exercise of logical and rational faculties; but that is another side of education; and the grave deficiency which I detect in the old theory was that practically all the powers and devices of education were devoted to what was called fortifying the mind and making it into

Cambridge Essays on Education Various