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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.

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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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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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The good result of this provision was manifested on a memorable occasion, when the duke of Exeter was captain of the city of Paris, and Fastolfe captain of the bastille of St. Anthoine.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

The operations of the siege had been suspended by the English, who sullenly kept to their 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

Or she might march up the right bank, and attack the English where they were strongest and had many bastilles.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by William Patten

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

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