bastille

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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.

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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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The sally had been reinforced by troops from the "Paris" bastille, and when we approached the French were getting whipped and were falling back.

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

The besiegers surround the town with numerous redoubts or bastilles, furnished with machines for darting bolts and artillery pieces for bombarding, and all are defended with deep moats.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

They said they had resolved to attack the most important of the English bastilles on the Orleans side next morning—and there the spokesman stopped.

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

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

The operations of the siege had been suspended by the English, who sullenly kept to their bastilles.

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

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