bastille

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

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

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

Wishing to turn their enthusiasm to immediate account, Joan proposed to turn about on the spot and attack the bastille of St. Loup.

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

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

The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

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

She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.

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