bastille
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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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
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
During the examination, she came near being struck by a volley of bolts darted at her from the bastille of St. Laurence.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
After an hour's halt, the English continued to retreat, previously setting fire to their bastilles, and carrying their prisoners with them.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
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
