bastinadoing

The Tickler always creeped the hell out of me, because I always envisioned him bastinadoing the victim's feet until they reached the edge of insanity or death.

Casting clues and possible solutions 2009

This time my friend Loll Mahommed, who had received, as the reader may remember, such a bastinadoing for my sake, headed the attack.

Burlesques 2006

The heart of the Pasha was touched: “I will have no more bastinadoing, O Skinflint Beg; you have tortured these poor people so much, and have got so little from them, that my Royal heart relents for the present, and I will have them suffer no farther.”

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

I declare, on my conscience, the master was in the act of bastinadoing a little mulatto boy; his feet were in a bar, and the brute was laying on with a cane; so we witnessed the howling of the poor boy, and the confusion of the brute who was administering the correction.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

In general, it may be said that bastinadoing in Tunis is a matter of form, many of the strokes ordered to be inflicted being never performed, and those given being so many taps or scratches.

Travels in Morocco 2003

There are four capital punishments: beheading, hanging, strangling and bastinadoing to death.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

Shîr Ali, holding this sort of language, gave me such an insight into the advantages of my situation that I could dream of nothing but bastinadoing, and getting money.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Hanging and strangling are seldom used; and bastinadoing to death, is only inflicted when the crime is highly aggravated.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

_ -- Jesus, Annas, Caiaphas, and four Jews striking and bastinadoing Christ.

"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

Waiting seemed the only thing, waiting till I could fling my shoes at whom I would, and sit on my throne to behold the bastinadoing of Krak.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898