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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

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

And, right in the middle of the causeway to Margny, two arrow-shots from our bridge end, he is letting build a great bastille, and digging a trench wherein men may go to and fro. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

But we saw other sights, too; for Lord Talbot was not idle on his side, but sent forth from other of the bastilles bodies of men to the aid of the defenders of St. Loup.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green

The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.

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

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

Their bastilles were found to be full of victual and munitions; and they had abandoned their sick and many of their prisoners.

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

Who covered France with mourning, threw families into despair, filled the republic with bastilles, made the republican system so odious, that a slave laden with fetters would have refused to live under it?

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet