bastinado
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
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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)
"May I die of the bastinado, if I ever felt any such thing!" said Lazaro, proudly.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery
He will surely bastinado our comedian out of his laureate periwig.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl.
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As a reprisal for this disturbance, the Austrian Government, not content with executions and bastinadoes, decreed the sequestration of the lands of those Lombard emigrants who had become naturalised in Piedmont.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
Having no straps, the solid sole of the sandal flaps up and mildly bastinadoes the wearer every step that is taken.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
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Had the friar ventured abroad, there would have been little doubt that he would have been well bastinadoed by the populace.
From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles
And one of these did openly tell me the Dey had forbidden any stranger to be carried out of the town, on pain of having his vessel confiscated and being bastinadoed to his last endurance.
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
The Maghrabis, but for our interference, would have bastinadoed the Rais, who, they said with some reason, ought to have known better.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Al-Kirmani and other doctors prefer this as the more venerable custom, but in these days it is completely exploded, and the purist would probably be soundly bastinadoed by the eunuchs for attempting it.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister.
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Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
