Ehrenbreitstein
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Since Coblenz was too small to hold them, they massed on green fields beneath the crags of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress surveying the Rhine, and the Moselle.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the opposite bank is the spectacular fortress of Ehrenbreitstein.
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The Nazis began shelling the city from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress across the Rhine.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is kept from being too principal by an important group on each side of it; the boats, on the right, and Ehrenbreitstein beyond.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
AS the vine flourishes, and the grape empurples close up to the very walls and muzzles of cannoned Ehrenbreitstein; so do the sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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