bastille

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

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

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

This bastille on the edge of the sandy desert was a queer sort of fold for a shepherd to build.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

Who covered France with mourning, threw families into despair, filled the republic with bastilles, made the republican system so odious, that a slave laden with fetters would have refused to live under it?

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet

Nay, more of them now written, consigning men to a hundred bastilles instead of one.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid

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

My counsel doth tell me to go against the English; but I know not whether against their bastilles or against this Fascot.

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