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

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

"Adzooks," quoth Tom, "is it possible that such a little fellow as this could ill-use such a strapping dame as you."

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

Now he would have friends to love him, and nobody would scorn and ill-use him any more.

From Aunt Friendly's Picture Book. Containing Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim by Kronheim, Joseph Martin

Heathcliff pretended not to believe her, but Isabel was her brother's heir, and to marry her, inherit Edgar's money, and ill-use his sister, would, indeed, be a fair revenge on Catharine's husband.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)