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
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
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not far from the bastille of St. John-le-Blanc rose the Augustinian Convent, composed of massive buildings that were strongly fortified.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
In less than a year the greater part of the northern walls, with gates, bastilles and fosses, was completed—the greatest feat, says Froissart, the provost ever achieved.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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