bastille
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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.
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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
Below them rose the English bastille towers; beyond, the walls, towers, and steeples of Orleans.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
My counsel doth tell me to go against the English; but I know not whether against their bastilles or against this Fascot.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
Six strongly-fortified posts, called bastilles, were formed at certain intervals round the town, and the purpose of the English engineers was to draw strong lines between them.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
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
