bagnio
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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 John Payne
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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 George Saintsbury
I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zibá being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomán—"the bagnio, the prison for galériens."
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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 Charles Loring Brace
This place is called the Sudatorio di San Germano; near the present bagnios, which are but poor little hovels, there are the ruins of a magnificent ancient bath.
From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by William Hamilton
When I see a young profligate squandering his fortune in bagnios, or at the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own death, and in a manner digging his own grave.—Goldsmith.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
The poor citizens went to the barbers, who acted as surgeons, and kept bagnios.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
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 Carl von Linn?
