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We had, also, to reckon with the new danger that bastinado floggings might persuade the Greek into betraying us.
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He decreed the estate to the cousin, and consoled the other for his loss by inflicting the bastinado.
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Signor me no signors, nor casa me no casas: but get you hence, or you are like to taste of the bastinado.
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And we saw a Turkish soldier punished with the bastinado,—a sight which did not do me any good, and which made Smith very sick.
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Will not that trumpery colonel make up his mind to start soon, if he is so ready to give the bastinado to poor folk?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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