bastinado
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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
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Upon being asked whether he had ever drunk any, he was so imprudent as to admit that he had, thereby condemning himself out of his own mouth to the bastinado.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
He had expected that chains and the bastinado, if not worse, would certainly follow, but he had made up his mind to go through with it—if need be to die—for Hester’s sake.
From The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story by Arthur Twidle
“But your highness will probably be tired; and as I have now told how it was that I suffered the bastinado, you will perhaps wait till to-morrow for the history of the bowstring.”
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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 Thomas Stevens
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thinking that they might be related to the catchpole that was bastinadoed, we asked them the occasion of their grief.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Al-Kirmani and other doctors prefer this as the more venerable custom, but in these days it is completely exploded, and the purist would probably be soundly bastinadoed by the eunuchs for attempting it.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
And so rotten is society,—so prostrate does it cower before the golden calf— that the buccaneer, instead of being bastinadoed or beheaded, is crowned with bays!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
May I be bastinadoed if it hasn't been three months since my eyes beheld the last specimen!
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Andrew Lang
