Word: citadel
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...built of basalt columns laid crosswise, rather like the logs of a log cabin. Huge rough steps lead to a courtyard. Inside is another wall, and inside that a stone-roofed vault. The man-made islets are separated by shallow canals, some of them choked with tumbled blocks. The citadel itself is in fair condition, though so overgrown with jungle that few details are visible...
...that the only way to deal with their city's sin was literally to go gunning for it. They asked for permission to turn themselves and their aides into a pistol-packing vice squad, pledged to a "dirty war" on "the indecent elements which are attacking the very citadel of city life...
Very gradually, the Fabians and their allies persuaded British unions to form a Labor party, and gradually it wore down capitalism's power in capitalism's classic citadel...
...explorers who reached what is now Minnesota, Holand believes, were members of a long-range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...
Down the St. Lawrence, 150 miles from the doorway metropolis, lay Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...