bastinado

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These called off the little hounds with threats of the bastinado.

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He had heard how they bastinado men for small faults, and he had probably 159 seen it, too; for at the time of which I write he was a captive in Turkey.

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"May I die of the bastinado, if I ever felt any such thing!" said Lazaro, proudly.

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Do so, brave don, lest I call you to account, and return your wages with a bastinado.

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None can any longer inflict the “bastinado,” nor capital punishment for crimes of a graver nature; these are reserved for the Councils or Boards at the capital and the chief towns of each province.

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