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

The Turkish governor of Tripoli was obliged to suppress the insulting epithets of the Moslems towards European ladies when they first 16began to reside there, by the infliction of the bastinado.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)

Moreover, taxation was heavy, and inability to satisfy the collector subjected the defaulter to the bastinado.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George