bastille
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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.
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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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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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First we must take a supporting work called a boulevard, and which was otherwise nameless, before we could assault the great bastille.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
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
Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
