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
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
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
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
Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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 Robert Black
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
