bastille

Example Sentences

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Those grim bastiles held the bodies of their unconquered inmates; while their hearts lived but in the memory of those scenes, in which their fettered hands were debarred further portion.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

Very early next morning, those watching in Orleans saw the English quit their bastiles and set themselves before the walls in order of battle.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

No country has been swept cleaner of aristocratic institutions, and the old bastiles and prisons of a past tyranny.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Crowds rushed out from Orleans to destroy the unburnt bastiles, and dragged back the stores and cannon the English had been obliged to leave.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

But the captains, who had little faith in her revelations, preferred keeping the river between themselves and the chief bastiles of the enemy.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various