bastille
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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
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
The good result of this provision was manifested on a memorable occasion, when the duke of Exeter was captain of the city of Paris, and Fastolfe captain of the bastille of St. Anthoine.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Joan now gave instructions that no aid should reach this portion of the English defences from the adjacent bastilles.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
It filled the bastilles of God, the convents and monasteries of pre-mediæval days.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Six strongly-fortified posts, called bastilles, were formed at certain intervals round the town, and the purpose of the English engineers was to draw strong lines between them.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
