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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.

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

The sally had been reinforced by troops from the "Paris" bastille, and when we approached the French were getting whipped and were falling back.

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

Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

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

A ring of bastilles was erected round the doomed town, and cannon discharged huge balls of stone against its ramparts.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

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