bastille
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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
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
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
We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
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
All round the outside of the town, on the right bank, the English had built strong redoubts, which they called bastilles.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
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
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
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
