bastille

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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."

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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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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.

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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.

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On the crest of their bastille, over against our Pierrefonds Gate, matches were lighted and men were watching in double guard, and the same on the other side of the water, at the Gate Margny. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew