bastille
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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
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
Finally the bastille of St. Loup hove in sight.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
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
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
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
