Examples of using "Festung" in a sentence and their english translations:
We are a fortress.
Gold can conquer any fortress.
The siege of the fortress lasted a long time.
the final refuge, the keep.
The soldiers soon overran the fortress.
One thousand two hundred and fifty-six soldiers destroyed the fortress of Alamut.
The fortress was in the enemy's hands.
We were looking at the ruins of the old fortress.
The fortress fell into the hands of the enemy.
We were looking at the ruins of the old fortress.
- The fortress being out of supplies, its protectors had to give up.
- From the moment that the fortress ran out of supplies, its defenders had to surrender.
Herod the Great built the Masada fortress and rebuilt the Temple.
The fortress being out of supplies, its protectors had to give up.
Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.