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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"Why are you incarcerating him in your private bastile, Don Mike?"
From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
"From what you said I thought he was in the bastile!"
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
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
There are two small rooms, with low ceilings supported by massive arches; the arches and ceilings are whitewashed, otherwise the rooms would pass for cells in the dungeons of a bastile.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
The latter part of this censure is judiciously correct; but the epithet "bastile" is perhaps too harsh for some ears.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 by Various
