Fortifying

Examples

• During the night, however, Beauregard fell back to the line which had been already selected, and commenced fortifying it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Austrians had been fortifying it for years. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• From the 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr Inspector, hastily fortifying himself with another glass, strolled out with a noiseless foot and an unoccupied countenance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Listen, Comrade Marty, Gomez broke out, the anis fortifying his anger. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This can be held with four thousand men, if they will turn their attention immediately to fortifying their positions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The work of fortifying was commenced at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Any one watching her might have seen that there was a fortifying thought within her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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