bastille
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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
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
"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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
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
Twelve formidable redoubts, called "bastilles," surrounded the town from the side of the Beauce and the side of the Sologne districts, and only slightly beyond range of the town's cannon.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
Six strongly-fortified posts, called bastilles, were formed at certain intervals round the town, and the purpose of the English engineers was to draw strong lines between them.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
