Word: citadel
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...must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence is not desired at the greatest social event of the college year. What are policemen and fences good for in making this understood if we furnish the enemy with the password to the citadel...
...weight of the financial rod might know by what regulations they are pressed to the wall. The complaints which have reached us have come from angry hearts and seething brains. While we can easily (far too easily) appreciate the feelings of these men we would counsel that the citadel of their enemy be attacked in a calm and methodical way. Regulations by the faculty are the only means of obviating this growing evil...
...until recently did not uncover anything of special importance. But it is just announced that he has been again successful. In the lower portion of the hill of Hissarlik he has opened a series of holes, corridors and vaults which, according to his confident belief, are ruins of the citadel of ancient Pergamos. Dr. Schliemann adds that the researches he has recently been prosecuting have convinced him that the views he has hitherto held respecting the sight of Ilium, and of many of the relics he formerly discovered, will require very considerable modification...
During his absence De Smythe had entered. The brace had had its usual stimulating effect, and he had decided to storm once more the citadel of Evangeline's heart. Flinging on the overcoat, he rushed out to catch...
...more exclusive motto than truth - truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine; all that is best in the creeds of all churches, whatever their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic...