bastille
Example Sentences
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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
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
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
From Time Magazine Archive
It follows, then, that we must begin with the bastille St. John, and that will give the English time to—" Joan turned and said: "Give yourselves no uneasiness about the bastille St. John.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Twain, Mark
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