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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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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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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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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But such a spirit as that of Yoshida-Torajiro is not easily made or kept a 136 captive; and that which cannot be broken by misfortune you shall seek in vain to confine in a bastille.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.

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

And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Dunois was pleased, for the army had begun to get restive and show uneasiness now that it was getting so near to the dreaded bastilles.

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