[Be] sly and artful in his behaviour to some, and imperious and cruel to others; being under a kind of necessity to ill-use all the persons of whom he stood in need, when he could not frighten them into compliance, and did not judge it his interest to be useful to them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I went for her, when I saw he meant to ill-use thee ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
If they don't give a damn about ill-use of their own creations, they could at least give a damn about the kids. ❋ Steve Hulett (2008)
Then by ill-use of God's Law, Jews turn these poor Gentiles, through guilt and despair, to hatred for God. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But that is no reason why you should ill-use them: but only why you should pity them, and be kind to them, and hope that some day they will wake up, and be ashamed of their nasty, dirty, lazy, stupid life, and try to amend, and become something better once more. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They fight every kind of animal, goats, birds, even quails and larks, which are very plucky, and want to fight; but they pull them off if they want to ill-use one another too much. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He preached it to his daughter that the fellow might ill-use her in some way. ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘And I was just coming in to tell you that I would always cling to you, and never desert you, ill-use me how you might!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘I suppose the old man down here did ill-use her?’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
But when a woman has no one to help her, is she to bear everything without turning upon those who ill-use her? ❋ Unknown (2004)
They might ill-use her; they might scold her,; they might turn her out of the house; but no consideration would induce her to think of Tom Tringle as a lover. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If he loves you, why does he let his mother ill-use you, and treat you with scorn? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Burton Crescent, making his way through the passage into the outer air, he did so because he feared that Lupex would beat him or kick him, or otherwise ill-use him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Those whom he hated he did not ill-use beyond the limits of justice. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He felt sure that the man would ill-use her and make her wretched. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘You little darling,’ I said, for Annie’s tears always conquered me; ‘if all the rest ill-use me, I will not quarrel with you, dear. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
She had never thought that he had been such a one as that, to ill-use her, to lay a hand on her in violence, to refuse to take an answer. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That little men should have ventured to ill-use you, has hurt your pride. ❋ Unknown (2004)
