bastille

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.

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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.

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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."

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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

But we saw other sights, too; for Lord Talbot was not idle on his side, but sent forth from other of the bastilles bodies of men to the aid of the defenders of St. Loup.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green

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

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid

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

She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.

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

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