bastinado
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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
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The enormous iron dock groaned and clanged under the mad bastinado.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
Just at the third milestone I felt a shock on the soles of my feet as if I had been receiving the bastinado.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
The "Traveller's Narrative,"419 per contra, says, "The heavenly-cradled Crown Prince pronounced no sentence with regard to the Bab, but the Mullahs ordered a bastinado."
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham
Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl.
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As a reprisal for this disturbance, the Austrian Government, not content with executions and bastinadoes, decreed the sequestration of the lands of those Lombard emigrants who had become naturalised in Piedmont.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
Having no straps, the solid sole of the sandal flaps up and mildly bastinadoes the wearer every step that is taken.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
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Thinking that they might be related to the catchpole that was bastinadoed, we asked them the occasion of their grief.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
May I be bastinadoed if it hasn't been three months since my eyes beheld the last specimen!
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Parrish, Randall
The Maghrabis, but for our interference, would have bastinadoed the Rais, who, they said with some reason, ought to have known better.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The light trees bent beneath our charge and bastinadoed the wagon as it went over them.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister.
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Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
