The legs and hands are cut off pilferers, heads are cut off sometimes and preserved in salt and camphor, and the bastinado is an ordinary punishment for lesser crimes.
Mahomet Lamarty volunteered to procure a criminal who would submit to thebastinado for a peseta.
I could not help observing that frequent pairs, doubtless cousins or other relations, wandered to unusual distances among the sand-hills, and that sometimes the confusion of a distant bastinado struck the ear.
Moreover, with a wise severity, it punishes all parties concerned in a quarrel, where blood is drawn, with a heavy fine and the bastinado de rigueur.
Get ye gone, or thebastinado and the bowstring shall be your portion.
By day Rachel and Miriam walked in the precincts of the monastery, hoping to catch sight of him; nearer than ninety cubits they durst not approach under pain of bastinado and exile.
The bastinado is regarded in England as a practice of peculiar barbarity, but in Turkey the belief in its good effects still largely prevails.
Anyone among the numerous boys, girls, and servants who failed in getting ready for the prayer without being able to plead serious illness was sure to receive the bastinado or whip from my stem uncle.
FN#472] This was a simplebastinado on the back, not the more ceremonious affair of beating the feet-soles.
Said Abu Sir, "Did I not come to thee and didst thou not make me out a thief and bastinado me and dishonour me before the world?
But he did not want the bastinado again, and the pilaf pleasantly tickled his nostrils.
My brother was then taken as a slave by one of the Bedouins, who put him under the bastinado for several days, to oblige him to ransom himself.
There you are mistaken, Mr Vizier, for I have suffered both the bastinadoand the bowstring.
The sultan was white with rage; my life hung upon a thread; when the Circassian maliciously observed, "The bastinado might induce her to retract.
When I stated the treatment I had received, and the further threat of the bastinado and the bowstring, his rage was beyond all bounds.
Now go on, and if you offend again, you shall have the bastinado till your nails drop off.
She threatened you, Zara, with the bastinado and the bowstring.
I, "I have suffered the bastinado and the bowstring, but both were merciful compared to this.
He then cried with a loud voice, "Bring in purses of gold, and let also the fellah and rods for the bastinado be brought in.
Even when a tragic element enters the scene, and the bastinado is represented, the sculptor, catching the bantering spirit of the people among whom he lives, manages to insinuate a vein of comedy.
When the King heard this, he was enraged with sore rage; and bade bastinado the sorcerer and clap him in jail, whilst he himself cast the crown from his head and beat his face and smote his breast.
And now be thou quick to make good that wherein thou hast offended: else will we so bastinado thee and so hunt thee to thy goose-pen with dogs as men use to do with calves that know not how to behave themselves.
At which I was so enraged that I shot both dogs dead, and did so bastinado my mistress that had given me cause for this fool's trick that she ran away from me, doubtless because she could no longer love so horrible a mask.
The bastinado was repeatedly applied under his own eye, merely for an expression indicating reverence for the Word of God.
The ecclesiastics were encouraged by this to bastinado and imprison all who refused to comply.
The merchant who bought me threatened me with the bastinado and violenced me and took my maidenhead, after which he sold me to another and he again to a third.
Thereupon he will commit me to the Chief of Police, saying, "Strip him of his clothes and torment him with the bastinado till he confess and give up the hundred dinars in his possession.
Bash me this unlucky rogue's neck and bastinado him soundly!
His Highness then suggested a choice of eating fifty raw onions, or eating fifty sticks (the Oriental mode of expression when speaking of bastinado strokes), or paying the fifty tomans.
The fine was not paid, on which a charge of contumacy was made, and this was punished by the cruel bastinado and imprisonment.
I would bastinado the farrier," she said vindictively.
They be enough for a brave man, and death or the bastinado sufficient punishment.
By the great Fo, I should be delighted to bastinado you within an inch of your life!
The bastinado is the best thing in the world for children," continued the elder, frowning upon his offspring.
If fines to the maximum of the prisoner's purse are excepted, the usual way of satisfying the law for almost any offence, the next most common punishment is the bastinado applied on the bare soles of the feet.
When an option is left to the prisoner of undergoing the bastinado or paying a fine, he generally selects the sticks, which he feels much less than the anguish of disbursing the smallest sum in cash.
I did not live to bastinado Krak; nor would I now had I the power.
To-morrow the cadi shall curb thine excess of zeal, and peradventure a taste of the bastinado will cause thee to remember that a man's harem is sacred.
Fond gull, whom I would undertake to bastinado quickly, though there were a musket planted in thy mouth, are not you the young drover of livings Academico told me of, that haunts steeple fairs?
I am fallen again into the same dream and illusion that happened to me a month ago, and must expect again the bastinado and grated cell at the mad-house.
If you want proof of what I advance, look yourself and see whether or no I tell you the truth ;" with that, stooping down and baring his shoulders, he shewed the caliph the scars and weals which the bastinado had left.
To be sure, I received the bastinado daily, but I stood it like a man.
The bastinado is very painful, I am told, and you probably know it by personal experience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bastinado" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
