bagnio
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As it was thought that I might be ransomed, the Moors placed me in a bagnio, and I was not forced to labour like those captives who had no hope of redemption.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
One died; the other, Trinquet, was restored to life and the bagnio.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
From the Arabic word hammam, a bagnio or bath.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The most valiant, the most devoted, will die in the bagnio, in the Peninsula Ducos, in the Ile des Pins.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
This man—possibly a refugee from the bagnio at Marseilles, or from the Italian galleys—was soon allowed to seat himself in an office of £1,000 per annum.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
The bagnios and dance halls were ablaze; the bar-rooms crowded with hilarious or quarrelsome humanity, the gambling tables alive with excitement.
From Keith of the Border by Randall Parrish
But no part of it pleased me better than the apartments destined for the bagnios.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
They are afterwards carried into the kilns, which at this place have exactly the appearance of bagnios, with ovens built of boulder stones.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?
I soon reached what had once been bagnios; and a little farther on, in a kind of valley, between two gentle declivities, the amphitheatre.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Some were taken to the towns and kept in prisons called bagnios, waiting till their friends sent money to redeem them.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
