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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

Before we could gather for a third assault the garrison of St. Prive were seen coming up to reinforce the big bastille.

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

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

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

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

After a joyful meeting, they turned, riding right through the enemy's lines and along the fortified bastilles occupied by the English.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

But we saw other sights, too; for Lord Talbot was not idle on his side, but sent forth from other of the bastilles bodies of men to the aid of the defenders of St. Loup.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green