bastille

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.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge.

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

The very day after her arrival she would have liked to go and attack the English in their bastilles, within which they kept themselves shut up.

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

And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

A ring of bastilles was erected round the doomed town, and cannon discharged huge balls of stone against its ramparts.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

The operations of the siege had been suspended by the English, who sullenly kept to their bastilles.

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

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