bastinado
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
No allusion, in fact, is ever made to torture, whether by the bastinado or otherwise; the evidence of witnesses and the results of cross-examination are alone depended upon for arriving at the truth.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The tax-gatherer also threatened the bastinado; and as the man who likes that punishment, or who could soften the heart of a Turkish tax assessor, has yet to be discovered, Yussuf invariably paid.
From Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Mundy, Talbot
If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado.
From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl.
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And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
Having no straps, the solid sole of the sandal flaps up and mildly bastinadoes the wearer every step that is taken.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
As a reprisal for this disturbance, the Austrian Government, not content with executions and bastinadoes, decreed the sequestration of the lands of those Lombard emigrants who had become naturalised in Piedmont.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
And one of these did openly tell me the Dey had forbidden any stranger to be carried out of the town, on pain of having his vessel confiscated and being bastinadoed to his last endurance.
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
But he was the Hhaha Sheikh, and the Shedma Sheikh complained to the Governor of his man having been bastinadoed by the other Sheikh.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by Richardson, James
The Maghrabis, but for our interference, would have bastinadoed the Rais, who, they said with some reason, ought to have known better.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The light trees bent beneath our charge and bastinadoed the wagon as it went over them.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister.
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Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
