Illus and Leontius were compelled, however, to flee to a remote Isaurian fortress, where Zeno besieged them for four years.

By the end of the century the pilgrimages had ceased, the remote fortress held no strategic military importance, and it gradually lapsed into ruin.

Accused of enriching himself at the expense of the kingdom, the disgraced minister was eventually taken to the remote fortress of Pignerol in the Savoy Alps, where he remained till his death in 1680.

The king resided in a remote fortress at the top of a mountain.

The sun was past its highest point by then, beginning to set, on a winter's day in Bassania in a remote fortress near the sands.

She rarely leaves her remote fortress except to engage in her hobby of mile-hile acrobatics on her broom.

Seek out northern Togo's remote clay-and-straw fortresses.

Lacy and the pilot hadn't been cen tral to the plans that were being set in motion, but the fact that someone had raided the remote fortress was of critical importance.

Makan escaped the defeat and found refuge in a remote fortress in the mountainous region of Sari.

Once there, they found Iaudas gone, having fled to the remote fortress of Toumar.