bagnio

Example Sentences

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Then he put a torch in his hand, bid him mix with the crowd at the bagnio door, and follow them till he came into a hall, where they were to celebrate a marriage.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

He was guided in this task by Colonel Charrière, general director of the New Caledonian Penitentiary, who declared the criminals of the bagnio much more honourable than the political convicts.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

He is extremely proud and rash, and not in any way a practical man; but he is not a person who ever would do anything to be sent to the bagnio or the galleys.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

She had in the bagnio a room which was very dark, being without any window to admit the light.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)