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He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."

From Time Magazine Archive

Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

As that bastille commanded at once the roads to the Sologne district and to Berry, and the Loire above Orleans, it had rendered difficult the provisioning and reinforcing of the town.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

The besiegers surround the town with numerous redoubts or bastilles, furnished with machines for darting bolts and artillery pieces for bombarding, and all are defended with deep moats.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

The bastilles, raised at distances of from two to three hundred fathoms from each other, completely encircled the town, and cut it off from the roads and the upper river.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

Their bastilles were found to be full of victual and munitions; and they had abandoned their sick and many of their prisoners.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid