bastille

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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

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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Meanwhile Marcel had reached the bastille of St. Antoine, where he was met by Maillart and the royal partizans.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

The besiegers surround the town with numerous redoubts or bastilles, furnished with machines for darting bolts and artillery pieces for bombarding, and all are defended with deep moats.

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

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

Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

After a joyful meeting, they turned, riding right through the enemy's lines and along the fortified bastilles occupied by the English.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower