bastinado

Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian �this James A. Reed of Missouri�what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out!

From Time Magazine Archive

He had heard how they bastinado men for small faults, and he had probably 159 seen it, too; for at the time of which I write he was a captive in Turkey.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John

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 Verne, Jules