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."
From Time Magazine Archive
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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
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 Mark Twain
As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
After a joyful meeting, they turned, riding right through the enemy's lines and along the fortified bastilles occupied by the English.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
They said they had resolved to attack the most important of the English bastilles on the Orleans side next morning—and there the spokesman stopped.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
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 William Patten
