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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"You shall see now," said Mole, sternly, "how I can despise such trivialities as your bastinado."
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge
The tax-gatherer also threatened the bastinado; and as the man who likes that punishment, or who could soften the heart of a Turkish tax assessor, has yet to be discovered, Yussuf invariably paid.
From Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Mundy, Talbot
All such matters, with a plentiful bastinado for stupidity and swank, are the privilege of the diarist.
From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher
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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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
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.
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
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
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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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
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
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 Brann, William Cowper
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
