Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinading
Literary usage of Bastinading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1871)
"Dost thou know how to give me a bastinading? ... and 'Osman said, ' He gave me
a bastinading in the city of El Karak; and I want to return it. ..."
2. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"... fell from his horse, and 'Osmán gave him a bastinading. He returned, and
informed the King ; and the ... Dost thou know how to give me a bastinading ? ..."
3. Inner Rome: Political, Religious, and Social by Clement Moore Butler (1866)
"These persons, arrested on suspicion, were subjected to tortures in the stocks,
by hunger, and by bastinading, to force them into confession of a conspiracy ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... and made nothing of carrying Mr Brown and Mr Crosse on their back, and Mr
Crosse very humourously knighted his Lady by bastinading her with his sword. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"Their humanity to animals is strangely opposed to their cruelty to man ; and they
would think less of beheading or bastinading a whole province, ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... being reasonably apprehensive that they might convince him of his fitness for
the post, by a bastinading on the soles. A pleasant park was assigned him, ..."
7. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1838)
"He charged Eaton with violating the laws of the country, by bastinading his subjects.
The chastisement of Famin was acknowledged. ..."
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