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
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."
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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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Furthermore she learned in the morning that the capture of the bastille of St. Loup had an immense result.
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
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
Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
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
Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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