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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."

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

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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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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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

Twelve formidable redoubts, called "bastilles," surrounded the town from the side of the Beauce and the side of the Sologne districts, and only slightly beyond range of the town's cannon.

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

She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

All round the outside of the town, on the right bank, the English had built strong redoubts, which they called bastilles.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

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

Dunois was pleased, for the army had begun to get restive and show uneasiness now that it was getting so near to the dreaded bastilles.

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