bastille
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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.
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
"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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
It filled the bastilles of God, the convents and monasteries of pre-mediæval days.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
True they had their bastilles upon the north side of the river to fall back upon, since the Maid's counsel of destruction had not been followed.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
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
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
