It's the only defensible place in the city.

We only moved in ten hours ago, and yet we've already got the place defensible!

General Wheeler's choice of this location to make a stand remains controversial, given the availability of safer and more defensible places in Cawnpore.

Then I shall look for some valley, some cove, some sheltered, defensible place, and there we will settle.

I don't know,' he said eventually, 'that even a dwarf could make this place defensible.

Grol provided a defensible place to garrison troops and a freehaven for Spanish raids.

"But we are hardly ready for it yet, and this is no very defensible place."

They lived in small hamlets located in defensible places.

Harald would choose such a defensible place, if he had any choice.

"It's the most defensible place on the island," Carlos said.