bagnio

Example Sentences

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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 Spence, Lewis

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 Payne, John

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 Lissagary, P.

He is extremely proud and rash, and not in any way a practical man; but he is not a person who ever would do anything to be sent to the bagnio or the galleys.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

One died; the other, Trinquet, was restored to life and the bagnio.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.