bastinado

Example Sentences

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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

The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Judge how much your bastinado can affect me," he said, with superb disdain.

From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge

All such matters, with a plentiful bastinado for stupidity and swank, are the privilege of the diarist.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher