bagnio

Example Sentences

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This man—possibly a refugee from the bagnio at Marseilles, or from the Italian galleys—was soon allowed to seat himself in an office of £1,000 per annum.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

The most valiant, the most devoted, will die in the bagnio, in the Peninsula Ducos, in the Ile des Pins.

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

After a month, she began to grow better, and had a mind to go to the bagnio.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

Before I left the city, I went into a bagnio, where I caused my beard and eye-brows to be shaved, and put on a calender's habit.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

He offered to purchase a ship in Algiers, and pretend to turn merchant, by which means, he said, he could contrive to get us out of the bagnio and the country.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis