bagnio
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On the Dutch tiles at the bagnio was a rude picture representing Jacob in hairy gloves, cheating Isaac of Esau's birthright.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
Any place where men have builded a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery—hence a center of life.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
Dr. Berger, who supported for seven minutes a temperature varying from 109° to 110° C. in dry air, could remain only twelve minutes in a bagnio whose temperature rose from 41° to 51.75°.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various
Would it not be better to have chimneys, with a moderate degree of warmth, than a heat like that of a bagnio, with blind and sore eyes, and a black sooty house?
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
The penalty of resistance was too well known to need exemplification; thousands of Christian slaves in the bagnios at Algiers bore witness to the consequences of an independent policy.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley
They are afterwards carried into the kilns, which at this place have exactly the appearance of bagnios, with ovens built of boulder stones.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
Some were taken to the towns and kept in prisons called bagnios, waiting till their friends sent money to redeem them.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
Out of 5,758 persons confined in the bagnios in France, there were, according to Dr. Parry, in 1853, 391 illegitimate.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
There were poor slaves of the stews, wretched servants of the bagnios, whose lives seem sweet and decorous when compared with those of a Sandwich or a Dashwood or a Duke of Grafton.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
