bastille

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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

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

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

During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours.

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

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

The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.

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

Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid