Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bagnio , 3.
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Examples
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Perchance when he is well past four-score, worn with long years of labor compared with which the slavery of the bagne were a blessing, and half-dead with dyspepsia, he too, will "growl like a collie dog"; but never a copper will the great world care whether he grumbles or grins.
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Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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The _bagne_ at Toulon, the destination of the members of the _chaine_, was respectably peopled when I visited it some years ago.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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This again will be still worse than the galleys; since religious consolation can alone redeem or ameliorate man in this state of durance; and as this makes no part of the French system, I cannot help thinking the _guillotine_ more merciful, than either their _bagne_ or their solitary cells.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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The only pursuits that seem to pervade the _bagne_, are those of
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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It is a frequent scene in the _bagne_, that of an execution.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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The only part of their habiliments, which seemed left to themselves to provide, was a covering for the head, the red or green cap being given them only upon entering the _bagne_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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However, he was executed at the bagne of Toulon four years later (1829).
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Bibi-Lupin, chief of secret police, arrested him in 1819 and returned him to the bagne, whence he escaped again in 1820, reappearing in Paris as Carlos Herrera, honorary canon of the Chapter of Toledo.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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At the instance of Abbe Bonnet he gave himself up, at the beginnng of the Restoration, and was sent to the bagne for ten years, returning in 1827.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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