bastille
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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
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
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
The besiegers surround the town with numerous redoubts or bastilles, furnished with machines for darting bolts and artillery pieces for bombarding, and all are defended with deep moats.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
It filled the bastilles of God, the convents and monasteries of pre-mediæval days.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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
For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
Twelve formidable redoubts, called "bastilles," surrounded the town from the side of the Beauce and the side of the Sologne districts, and only slightly beyond range of the town's cannon.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
