ill-use

Example Sentences

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"She did not ill-use me. Indeed, I do not believe that she ever knew that I was there at all. Is that not peculiar?"

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Sir, it is by force and not by right that you lay hands on the property of the Church, of which you make such ill-use.

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

I have not the slightest wish that you should ill-use them.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

Did the law give so much power to Mr. Thornton? and, provided he did not ill-use me, would it make me for four years the captive of his pleasure?

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia

The children wanted to play with it, but the duckling thought they were going to ill-use him, and rushed in his fright into the milk pan, and the milk spurted out all over the room.

From Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various