bastille
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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.
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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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But he stood like the statue of a man-at-arms, and from the bastille of the Burgundians the arrows rained around him, who always watched, and was still.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
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
My counsel doth tell me to go against the English; but I know not whether against their bastilles or against this Fascot.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
Their bastilles were found to be full of victual and munitions; and they had abandoned their sick and many of their prisoners.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
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
Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
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