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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

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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its rear communicated with the bastille by a drawbridge, under which ran a swift and deep strip of the Loire.

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

My counsel doth tell me to go against the English; but I know not whether against their bastilles or against this Fascot.

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

All round the outside of the town, on the right bank, the English had built strong redoubts, which they called bastilles.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

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

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

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