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

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

We left, too, with the full reputation for merciful dealing; as we had spared the poor soap-rioters the infliction of the bastinado.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various