bastille

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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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

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

We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge.

From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

The besiegers surround the town with numerous redoubts or bastilles, furnished with machines for darting bolts and artillery pieces for bombarding, and all are defended with deep moats.

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

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

Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

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

The very day after her arrival she would have liked to go and attack the English in their bastilles, within which they kept themselves shut up.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black