bastille
noun
a fortress in Paris, used as a prison, built in the 14th century and destroyed July 14, 1789.
bastile
-
a variation of
bastille.
Example Sentences
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You'll be wantin' to send me to a Lincoln bastile next.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
Madame Guyon was banished to a nunnery, which was a bastile arranged for ladies.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard
The next time Thoreau came over to the village for his mail he was arrested and lodged in the local bastile.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
From the comparison which I have drawn, the reader will perceive, that one month's imprisonment in this bastile, is worse than a year's imprisonment in the King's Bench.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt
A golden key that unlocks the bastile of logic.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
