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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

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

Joan advanced to the edge of the boulevard of the bridge, so near to the bastille of the Tournelles, that the voice of the besieged could be heard by the besiegers.

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

And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

But we saw other sights, too; for Lord Talbot was not idle on his side, but sent forth from other of the bastilles bodies of men to the aid of the defenders of St. Loup.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green

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

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