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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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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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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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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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They had come by forest paths from Choisy way, and anon all our guns on the boulevard of the Pierrefonds Gate burst forth at once against the English bastille over against it. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

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

Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

In less than a year the greater part of the northern walls, with gates, bastilles and fosses, was completed—the greatest feat, says Froissart, the provost ever achieved.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

The bastilles, raised at distances of from two to three hundred fathoms from each other, completely encircled the town, and cut it off from the roads and the upper river.

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