bagnio
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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 Rafael Sabatini
It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
This man—possibly a refugee from the bagnio at Marseilles, or from the Italian galleys—was soon allowed to seat himself in an office of £1,000 per annum.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Dr. Berger, who supported for seven minutes a temperature varying from 109° to 110° C. in dry air, could remain only twelve minutes in a bagnio whose temperature rose from 41° to 51.75°.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various
After a month, she began to grow better, and had a mind to go to the bagnio.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
There were poor slaves of the stews, wretched servants of the bagnios, whose lives seem sweet and decorous when compared with those of a Sandwich or a Dashwood or a Duke of Grafton.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
Out of 5,758 persons confined in the bagnios in France, there were, according to Dr. Parry, in 1853, 391 illegitimate.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
In the same bagnios, there are chambers for hot baths, for such strangers as are not accustomed to bathe in cold water.
I soon reached what had once been bagnios; and a little farther on, in a kind of valley, between two gentle declivities, the amphitheatre.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Some were taken to the towns and kept in prisons called bagnios, waiting till their friends sent money to redeem them.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
