"Bagnio" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... assure you, Mr. SPEC, I was very near being qualify'd to have given you a faithful and painful Account of this walking Bagnio, if I may so call it, my self: For going the other night along Fleet-street, and having, out of curiosity, just enter'd into Discourse with a wandring Female who was travelling the same Way, a couple of Fellows advanced towards us, drew their ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... suggested, is evidently a corruption of Mu'mil—"the workman, the employee."[EN11] I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zib being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomn—"the bagnio, the prison for galriens." On the coast-town I procured some specimens of heavy red copper which had been dug out of a ruined furnace; the metal is admirable, and it retrieves to a certain extent the lost reputation of ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton
... comes, to the bagnio he goes, And orders the landlord to bring him a whore; No scruple came on him his gown to expose, 'Twas what all his life he had practised before. He made himself drunk with the juice of the grape, And got a good clap, but committed ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift |
