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)

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

Yes, we may so ill-use our bodies that the watchman sleeps at his post!

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

The Federals thought the members of the Council wanted to abscond, and they were even about to ill-use them, when some one recognised Delescluze.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.