bastinado

Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian �this James A. Reed of Missouri�what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out!

From Time Magazine Archive

Aye, from the beginning, though not by the bastinado.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Good heavens!" thought I, "I have suffered the bastinado and the bowstring, but both were merciful compared to this.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick