On the south side of the Loire, all those half-ruined bastilles smoking and silenced, which once had threatened not the city only but all the south of France; on the north the remaining bands of English drawn up in order of battle.
The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.
The approaches to the place were occupied in force, and bastilles closely connected one with another were constructed around the walls.
For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.
Their bastilles were found to be full of victual and munitions; and they had abandoned their sick and many of their prisoners.
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.
But these bastilles were not the chiefest danger to the city, or rather I should say, it was not these which were the chiefest cause of peril, since no help could reach the garrison from that side.
But we saw other sights, too; for Lord Talbot was not idle on his side, but sent forth from other of the bastilles bodies of men to the aid of the defenders of St. Loup.
For this purpose they crossed the river in boats, and after some severe fighting, in which the Maid was wounded in the heel, both the English bastilles of the Augustins and St. Jean de Blanc were captured.
When this was done the main body of the French would attack the weakened bastilles on the south bank and overcome them.
What the Chancellor has told you is true, but if the men in the bastilles go to the aid of those in the great fort we intend to cross the river, and fall upon them.
The English had built a line of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans--fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.
English bastillesand holds on the left bank, and, beyond the glittering river and the broken bridge, the towers and walls of Orleans.
This they did, because they were faithless and slow of belief, and feared that so great a company as ours might in nowise pass Meun and Beaugency, towns of the English, and convey so many cattle through the bastilles on the right bank.
Thus Matters stood, and it was the Maid's mind to march her men and all the cattle clean through and past the English bastilles on the right side of the river, and by inspiration she well knew that no man would come forth against us.
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.
The east, north, and west of the city were covered by the bastilles or huge towers which the besiegers had thrown up, and from which they could bombard the place; and the pressure on the devoted city waxed ever stronger.
After a joyful meeting, they turned, riding right through the enemy's lines and along the fortified bastillesoccupied by the English.
The guards of the republican Bastilles were paid by the prisoners they contained; and, in many places, the tax for this purpose was levied with indecent rigour.
Successively thebastilles of St. Loup, St. Jean le Blanc, and the Augustinians fell before her.
But the circuit which they had thus to occupy was so vast that the intervals between the bastilles were too great for his amount of forces to secure.
He had cast up a still more complete line round the city, fresh reinforcements enabled him to make the bastilles more numerous, and famine began to menace the place with all its horrors.
But the royal troops and the companies of mercenaries will move upon and easily capture the other bastilles where the English, in their hurry to hasten to the defence of an important post, will have left but feeble garrisons behind.
Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.
The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.
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.
The English had built a fence of strong fortresses calledbastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.
The English will know enough to retire from it and fall back on the bridge bastilles when they see us coming.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bastilles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
