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
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
Its rear communicated with the bastille by a drawbridge, under which ran a swift and deep strip of the Loire.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Twain, Mark
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 Twain, Mark
For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert
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 Kimball, Katherine
Joan now gave instructions that no aid should reach this portion of the English defences from the adjacent bastilles.
From Joan of Arc by Gower, Ronald Sutherland
Or she might march up the right bank, and attack the English where they were strongest and had many bastilles.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by Patten, William
