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bastile
noun 1verb 1name 1
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4ADJ.
fast, sentimental, wooden
VERB + BASTILE
ages, stands
BASTILE + NOUN
t'imprison
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
Obsolete spelling of bastille.
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.
verb
1
Obsolete spelling of bastille.
Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?
[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
name
1
Obsolete form of Bastille.
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H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.
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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
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―The devil it is! ſaid I—but I vvill go to then thouſand Baſtiles firſt— […]
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Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?
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[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
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All the doleful stories of prisoners of earlier or later ages, in the Bastile, including much sentimental balderdash, are drawled out by a very stupid and would-be effective writer, for the purpose of
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