bagnio
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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
Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zibá being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomán—"the bagnio, the prison for galériens."
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Then he put a torch in his hand, bid him mix with the crowd at the bagnio door, and follow them till he came into a hall, where they were to celebrate a marriage.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
I soon reached what had once been bagnios, and a little farther on, in a kind of valley between two gentle acclivities, the amphitheatre.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
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
There were poor slaves of the stews, wretched servants of the bagnios, whose lives seem sweet and decorous when compared with those of a Sandwich or a Dashwood or a Duke of Grafton.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
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
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
