bastille
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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
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally the bastille of St. Loup hove in sight.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
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
Dunois was pleased, for the army had begun to get restive and show uneasiness now that it was getting so near to the dreaded bastilles.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
After an hour's halt, the English continued to retreat, previously setting fire to their bastilles, and carrying their prisoners with them.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
