bastille

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

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

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

The heroic capture of the bastille of St. Loup, that two days before had fallen into the hands of the French, spread consternation among the ranks of the English.

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

This was a different thing from the ghastly march past the dismal bastilles.

From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

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

The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

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

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