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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

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

Wishing to turn their enthusiasm to immediate account, Joan proposed to turn about on the spot and attack the bastille of St. Loup.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

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

The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

In less than a year the greater part of the northern walls, with gates, bastilles and fosses, was completed—the greatest feat, says Froissart, the provost ever achieved.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

A ring of bastilles was erected round the doomed town, and cannon discharged huge balls of stone against its ramparts.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt