Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinades
Literary usage of Bastinades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal Classics Library by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"I saw wealth accumulated in the hands of a few, and the multitude poor and destitute.
I have seen all the son of heaven bastinades, for the most trivial ..."
2. French Belles Lettres from 1640 to 1870 ...: Humor, Sentiment, Romance by Prosper Mérimée, Gustave Flaubert, Constantin-François Volney, Alphonse de Lamartine, Scarron (1901)
"I saw wealth accumulated in the hands of a few, and the multitude poor and destitute.
I have seen all the son of heaven bastinades, for the most trivial ..."
3. Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1904)
"... which consists in blackening his face to make a moustache for Sganarelle and
devoting his back to the bastinades! Think of it! this man, ..."
4. Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1904)
"... which consists in blackening his face to make a moustache for Sganarelle and
devoting his back to the bastinades! Think of it! this man, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"her cheeks; and while it was raining and snowing blows, boxes, cuffs, and bastinades
on poor Sister Marie, seated on her ..."
6. Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America by John Wells Foster (1887)
"We all directed our eyes thither, and, shocking to relate ! saw our unfortunate
countrymen driven by force, cuffs, and bastinades to the place where they ..."
7. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"He is as tender of his foreparts as a crocodile is of his belly, but bold enough
of his back, which makes him despise kicks and bastinades with wonderful ..."
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