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
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
On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
From Time Magazine Archive
It can not choose but pass under the bastille of St. Loup.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
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
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
