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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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bastille, too, which our enemies had made to prevent us from going out by our Pierrefonds Gate on the landward side, was negligently built, and of no great strength. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

After an hour's halt, the English continued to retreat, previously setting fire to their bastilles, and carrying their prisoners with them.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

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 are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

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

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