bastille
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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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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
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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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He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."
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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 Lang, Andrew
