bagnio
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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
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 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 P. Lissagary
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
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
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 Andrew Lang
I soon reached what had once been bagnios, and a little farther on, in a kind of valley between two gentle acclivities, the amphitheatre.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
But no part of it pleased me better than the apartments destined for the bagnios.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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 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 Stanley Lane-Poole
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