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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

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

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

They soon left the bastille behind them and met near St. Laurent, an advance post that covered the convoy.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

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

The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.

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

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

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