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."
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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.
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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.
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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various