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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

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

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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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

The operations of the siege had been suspended by the English, who sullenly kept to their bastilles.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

It filled the bastilles of God, the convents and monasteries of pre-mediæval days.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

They said they had resolved to attack the most important of the English bastilles on the Orleans side next morning—and there the spokesman stopped.

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

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

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