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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now this bastille, as I have said, had never been strongly builded, and, in some sort, was not wholly finished.

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

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

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

Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

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

Joan now gave instructions that no aid should reach this portion of the English defences from the adjacent bastilles.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower