bastille
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Not far from the bastille of St. John-le-Blanc rose the Augustinian Convent, composed of massive buildings that were strongly fortified.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
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
She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler
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
