bastille
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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
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
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
The sally had been reinforced by troops from the "Paris" bastille, and when we approached the French were getting whipped and were falling back.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
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
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
They said they had resolved to attack the most important of the English bastilles on the Orleans side next morning—and there the spokesman stopped.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
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
