Often, as he grew older, his thoughts turned to the mystery of the high and guarded citadel from which his father had come down to join the tribesmen.

After heavy bombardments the Mughals captured the higher citadel.

Beyond the chaos, on tiered mountains that rose stupendously, he beheld the high and many-terraced citadels of the Masters.

Roughly in the middle of the city stood a high citadel called the Byrsa.

Blood fountained from the windows of the high citadel and ran down the streets like a river.

"And if people feel poetry is this high citadel that you can't get into, it's bad for poetry."

Off in the distance stand the even higher citadels of Peyrepertuse and Quéribus.

Convinced that this high citadel rendered him immune from the thing he feared, Wade uttered a hard laugh and put the skull away, deep in a desk drawer.

Other parts of the world developed other names for the high citadel or alcázar, which often reinforced a naturally strong site.

Its ethereal light was bathing the dizzy drop from the high citadel of Mdina, silvering the hillside and the valley across to the sea.