"Ill-use" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strike a defenceless wean!—Dinna greet, my lamb; I'll no let him meddle ye.—Jock Gilmour, how daur ye lift your finger to a wean of mine? But I'll learn ye the better o't! Mr. Gourlay'll gie you the order to travel ere the day's muckle aulder. I'll have no servant about my hoose to ill-use ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill-use it, but gradually—very gradually—I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the ...
— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various
... a puddingless one? Well, in my house neither pudding nor kindness in suitable quantities shall be withheld from him, so don't ill-use him more than you feel is absolutely necessary ...
— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp
... I said, for Annie's tears always conquered me; "if all the rest ill-use me, I will not quarrel with you, dear. You have always been true to me; and I can forgive your vanity. Your things are very pretty, dear; and you may couch ten times a day, without my interference. No doubt your husband has paid for all this, with the ponies he stole from Exmoor. Nobility of ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... conduct drove him into a frenzy if persisted in. He was a torment to those who behaved humbly towards him, cynical with those who denied his superiority, and a very nice fellow towards those who had the courage to ill-use him. ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... and not by right that you lay hands on the property of the Church, of which you make such ill-use. In this land you are stronger than I, but know that as soon as I may I will send you a champion whom you will fear more than you ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... Will they ill-use thee? If I thought—but no, it cannot be— Thou art so swift, yet easy curbed; so gentle, yet so free. And yet, if haply, when thou'rt gone my lonely heart should yearn, Can the hand which casts thee from it ...
— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education
... see. How could you ill-use the world?" There was faint irony in her voice now. A change seemed to have come ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the day would never come when he should neglect or ill-use his darling; Sylvia smiled a little, without much attending to, or caring for, the words that were detaining her, tired as she was; John and Jeremiah chuckled over the joke; but the words came up again in after days, as ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell |
