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."
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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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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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From Constantinople to Lisbon, from Kamschatka to Amsterdam, every bastille is ready to receive me.
From Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The bastilles, raised at distances of from two to three hundred fathoms from each other, completely encircled the town, and cut it off from the roads and the upper river.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
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
Six strongly-fortified posts, called bastilles, were formed at certain intervals round the town, and the purpose of the English engineers was to draw strong lines between them.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
