retreated to the mountain fastnesses of the island, from whence they made frequent excursions to harass the English. Maj.-Gen. SEDGWICK, one of the British officers, in a letter to Secretary ...

For nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes ...

in the dark fastnesses of the night. For my lost love.' It ends by saying of Mr Major: 'I taught him how to ignore rules, How to take risks, How to measure risk and live with it, and love it ...