bastinado
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
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Moreover, taxation was heavy, and inability to satisfy the collector subjected the defaulter to the bastinado.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
He spared the delinquent the bastinado; but he gave him six months in prison, and condemned him in damages against the Grand Transasiatic Company.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
“But your highness will probably be tired; and as I have now told how it was that I suffered the bastinado, you will perhaps wait till to-morrow for the history of the bowstring.”
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Thomas Stevens
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 Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Owen Wister
Had the friar ventured abroad, there would have been little doubt that he would have been well bastinadoed by the populace.
From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston
And so rotten is society,—so prostrate does it cower before the golden calf— that the buccaneer, instead of being bastinadoed or beheaded, is crowned with bays!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Andrew Lang
