Meaning of bastile | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of bastille.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear⟳, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.”

“Thither arriv'd th' advent'rous Knight / And bold Squire from their Steeds alight, / At th' outward Wall, near which [there] stands / A Bastile built t'imprison hands; / By strange enchantment made to fetter / The lesser parts, and free the greater. / For though the Body may creep⟳ through, / The Hands in Grate are fast enough.”

“―The devil it is! ſaid I—but I vvill go to then thouſand Baſtiles firſt— […]”

“But Nigel was somewhat immured within the Bastile of his rank, as some philosopher, (Tom Paine, we think⟳,) has happily enough expressed that sort⟳ of shyness which men of dignified situations are apt to be beset with, […]”

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