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... Protector) was endeavouring to get the Emperor to poison a federal refugee from Wei, about whose succession the powers were at the moment quarrelling. He said: "There are only five recognized punishments: warlike arms, the axe, the knife or the saw, the branding instruments, the whip or the bastinado; there are no surreptitious ones like this now proposed." The result was that Lu, being of the same clan as the Emperor, easily succeeded in bribing the imperial officials to let the refugee prince go. The grateful prince eagerly offered Tsang ...

— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker

... of inexperience, for one word of command from the General could have sent her the way many others had gone, to an unrevealed fate. Thus matters waxed hot between her defiance and his forbearance, until visions of torture—thumb-screws and bastinado—passed so vividly before her eyes that she yielded, as individual force must, to the collective power which rules supreme, and reluctantly consented to leave the fair Philippine shores in May, 1897, in the ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... them to some Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by applying the bastinado to his subjects." ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

Words linked to "Bastinado" : beat, cudgel, falanga, torturing, torture