bastille
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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.
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
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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
During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
The very day after her arrival she would have liked to go and attack the English in their bastilles, within which they kept themselves shut up.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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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