Fastnesses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FASTNESSES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FASTNESS, the quality of being fast
• a secure place well protected by natural features
• the ability of a material or dye to maintain its colour without fading or washing away

Words related to FASTNESSES

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Words that contain FASTNESSES

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How to use FASTNESSES in a sentence

• He bearded the rebels in their mountain fastnesses, till they laid down their arms and fell at his feet.
• In consequence, an army of forty thousand infantry and twelve thousand cavalry and artillery drove the Arabs, in 1840, to their remotest fastnesses.
• The only mode of access to many of the estates in the mountainous districts, is by mule paths winding about, amid fastnesses, precipices, and frightful solitudes.
• All accepted it, except a few, who either took refuge in the dominions of Rome, or fled to the mountain fastnesses of Kurdistan.
• Besides, no great detachments could have been made to regulate the administration of the provinces, or to pursue the insurgent corps into the fastnesses of the mountains.
• Winter was already at hand when Llewelyn and his brother were at last shut up amidst the fastnesses of Snowdon.
• Into the river empty other, tributary, rivers rising in the bleak and lofty fastnesses of the mountains to right and left.
• They made short work of the red men who melted away to the fastnesses of the Mogollons, first setting fire to the depot, the troops in close pursuit.
• Besides, the chances were ten to one in my favour that they would none of them quit their own fastnesses.
• It was the fore-runner of many others, plunging deeper and deeper into the fastnesses of the foothills, and even into the passes of the very mountains themselves.
• League upon league, the rich land fell away to the west, there to end at a wall of high mountains into whose fastnesses no one had ever ventured.
• No scout had penetrated those dismal fastnesses which the legend of camp reputed to be haunted.
• Safe in the mountain fastnesses behind the fort, they refused to act as slaves.
• At last got out of these dark fastnesses and ascended a range of lofty hills where I found a good carriage road.
• Grizzly bears, and other wild creatures, find their homes in the recesses of these fastnesses.
• There was life in those walled fastnesses of his nature which long ago he had denied.
• Our readers remember the adventures of our young friends in the fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains.
• Surrounded by the fastnesses of the front range of the Rockies, Peg-Leg Eldridge and his band selected this lonely station as best fitted for the transaction in hand.
• The posse was maintaining a due southwest course that was carrying them into the fastnesses of the main range of the western continent.
• In the Civil War Lord Hertford, foiled in his attempt on Dunster, found Minehead a serviceable stepping-stone to security amid the Welsh fastnesses.
• If defeated or retreating, her armies could always find refuge in distant fastnesses.
• They were forced to flee from their farms and take refuge in caves and dens and the fastnesses among the hills.
• Before the British could make another attack, he would be off into the wild, inaccessible fastnesses of the Eagle Hills, where they would have to catch him who could.
• The greater portion, indeed, of the pack had been overwhelmed by the avalanche, and the rest, frightened and scared, had fled to their fastnesses in the woods.
• Presently the driver struck to his right and plunged into the fastnesses of the Bois de Boulogne.
• There was a pitched battle with great slaughter, but the Celts had no cavalry, and the end was that Donald withdrew to his fastnesses.
• The Tartars fled to fastnesses whence they could not be pursued.

Similar words containing FASTNESSE without suffix s

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