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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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
Moreover, taxation was heavy, and inability to satisfy the collector subjected the defaulter to the bastinado.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
We left, too, with the full reputation for merciful dealing; as we had spared the poor soap-rioters the infliction of the bastinado.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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
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
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
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Al-Kirmani and other doctors prefer this as the more venerable custom, but in these days it is completely exploded, and the purist would probably be soundly bastinadoed by the eunuchs for attempting it.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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 Randall Parrish
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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