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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

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

It follows, then, that we must begin with the bastille St. John, and that will give the English time to—" Joan turned and said: "Give yourselves no uneasiness about the bastille St. John.

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

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

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

Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

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

This was a different thing from the ghastly march past the dismal bastilles.

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