bastille
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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
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
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
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
Dunois was pleased, for the army had begun to get restive and show uneasiness now that it was getting so near to the dreaded bastilles.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
