| 1. | They saw no one, and the bastion seemed abandoned. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | They knew all they wished to know the bastion was guarded. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | As Athos had foreseen, the bastion was only occupied by a dozen corpses, French and Rochellais. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | And bowing to all the astonished persons present, the young men took the road to the bastion St. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | Without reckoning that as the bastion was not built yesterday all the rest of the building was badly shaken.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | "And what bastion is it" asked a dragoon, with his saber run through a goose which he was taking to be cooked. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | A small white cloud, which had attracted Dantes' attention, crowned the summit of the bastion of the Chateau d'If. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | In fact the Rochellais had made a sortie during the night, and had retaken a bastion of which the royal army had gained possession two days before. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | "Well, monseigneur," replied the latter, "three Musketeers and a Guardsman laid a wager with Monsieur de Busigny that they would go and breakfast in the bastion St. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are placed on bastions by day or by night,-. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 11. | The way in which bastions ought to project beyond the walls of the towers to defend the outer talus so that they may not be taken by artillery. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 12. | Then was heard a great noise of fagots being removed and of the groaning of posts these were the counterscarps and bastions of Athos, which the besieged himself demolished. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |