bastilles
- plural of bastille.
Example Sentences
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When their footfalls had died out in the distance down the empty stone corridors an uncanny silence and solemnity ensued which was dismaler to me than the mute march past the bastilles.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Twain, Mark
The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
They said they had resolved to attack the most important of the English bastilles on the Orleans side next morning—and there the spokesman stopped.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Twain, Mark
Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
