bagnio

Example Sentences

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These prisoners," he ran on, judging that the moment of reaction in Asad's mind was entirely favourable to the preferment of the request he had to make, "are not in the bagnio with the others.

From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael

The most valiant, the most devoted, will die in the bagnio, in the Peninsula Ducos, in the Ile des Pins.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

He offered to purchase a ship in Algiers, and pretend to turn merchant, by which means, he said, he could contrive to get us out of the bagnio and the country.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

From the Arabic word hammam, a bagnio or bath.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zibá being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomán—"the bagnio, the prison for galériens."

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir