He had come to that place where, whatever the shock or the ill-turn of fortune, he could accept it, and even in that first moment of loss he realized that, for Jean at least, the fortune was not ill. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He looks to me like a man that's calc'latin 'to do some kind of ill-turn to somebody. ❋ Various (N/A)
I never knew who had served me this ill-turn with Monseigneur, but I always suspected Mademoiselle de Lillebonne. ❋ Various (N/A)
We are to set up Horatius Vir in effigy for inventing the Normal Schoolmaster, and by-and-by we shall be called on to do the same ill-turn for Elihu Mulciber for getting uselessly learned (as if any man had ideas enough for twenty languages!) without any schoolmaster at all. ❋ Various (N/A)
Pritchard, married a sister of mine, and the settlement is too near the border for them to do an ill-turn to a Canadian; still, with that uniform, it may be best for you to keep close and not show yourself, whilst I visit my old friends and lay in what is needful. ❋ Alfred H. Engelbach (N/A)
He could never have got her, and he knew it – old Auguste and young Paul would have incontinently riddled him with bullets had he ventured near the house as a suitor, – but he hated Carey none the less, and watched for a chance to do him an ill-turn. ❋ Lucy Maud (1920)
But think of me always as your friend, and believe that if I can prevail upon my brother to overlook the ill-turn you did him when you entered the service of this child "-- and she pointed to Madonna Paola --" I shall send for you from Rome, for in Pesaro I fear you have little to hope for. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Carey none the less, and watched for a chance to do him an ill-turn. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Nevertheless, may his house be destroyed, for he has done me an ill-turn with his foolery. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)
A blunder by Hiram, an ill-turn of Fate, will ruin us yet. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
Democrates was not mournful if it lay out of his power to do a second ill-turn to his country. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
For my part, I am always glad to do an ill-turn to that snivelling friar, my nephew, and the more so when I can seriously oblige a friend; and, as you have perhaps guessed, the Duke dares not ask for your return while I show a fancy for your company. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Miss Calhoun was conscious of a vague feeling that she had served Baldos an ill-turn when she put him into this position. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
'It is as well, perhaps,' said Saxon, 'that we gave them the slip, for that young springald might have smelled a rat and played us some ill-turn. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
"And who is your father, young man?" asked the sheriff, not unkindly; "I should think you were doing him an ill-turn in taking to poaching at your early age." ❋ Unknown (1892)
Nor in truth did he require any admonition from Mr. Cossey, Senior, to make him anxious to do Colonel Quaritch an ill-turn if the opportunity should serve. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Poor little harmless Maggie, who had never done her an ill-turn in her life. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
'The man has done me more than one ill-turn,' said Larralde after a pause, and he drummed on the table with his cigarette-stained fingers. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)
