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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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

First we must take a supporting work called a boulevard, and which was otherwise nameless, before we could assault the great bastille.

From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

True they had their bastilles upon the north side of the river to fall back upon, since the Maid's counsel of destruction had not been followed.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green

Joan now gave instructions that no aid should reach this portion of the English defences from the adjacent bastilles.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.

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

The very day after her arrival she would have liked to go and attack the English in their bastilles, within which they kept themselves shut up.

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

Who covered France with mourning, threw families into despair, filled the republic with bastilles, made the republican system so odious, that a slave laden with fetters would have refused to live under it?

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet