bastinado

Example Sentences

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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

They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

No allusion, in fact, is ever made to torture, whether by the bastinado or otherwise; the evidence of witnesses and the results of cross-examination are alone depended upon for arriving at the truth.

From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado.

From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel