It might be that she had suffered cruel ill-usage in this. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
British subjects and to remonstrate against their ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
He died at Halsted poorhouse from the effects of the ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
I told him, he might be assured, that the severity and ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Tala and Langi returned to Pulotu and told about their ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
English character, and reports ill-usage without a word of bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
He was too weak from misery and ill-usage to finish the blissful result. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
I am sorry that our dear Charles begins to feel the dignity of ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The poor woman did not long survive his ill-usage and neglect, and died in 1782. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
General making their Complaints of ill-usage and throwing (it) out of the Windows. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
It made us heartsick to look at them, so emaciated were they from ill-usage and neglect. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
When the cat's monologue of ill-usage faded, Claire turned her attention back to Jacques. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
The heads have all of Stuart's pearly gray and rose tones unimpaired by ill-usage or restoration. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
At last the dog determined to stand this ill-usage no longer, and, one day, he ran away from home. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Fairy Book] Reference
She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questioning and ill-usage through the whole evening. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
In the event of such ill-usage they throw it back on their injurers: "You dared not touch us before.". From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Yet, on the other hand, I felt certain that as long as I obeyed, I should be free from actual ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
To be depressed by the weight of the ill-usage which he had borne was a part of the play which he had to act. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Lion of Granpere] Reference
Horses that had been frightened and angered by ill-usage became, under his treatment, mild and easily governed. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
Some of the recent arrivals looked as if ill-usage had been exhausted upon them before they were brought hither. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The pillars look very rusty and weather-worn, and are much battered with the ill-usage which they have received. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
What he said to his wife, Alice did not hear; but her heart was swelling with the ill-usage to which she herself was subjected. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
At last they could bear the ill-usage no longer, and they thought of a plan to get rid of the king and queen and their eldest son. From Wordnik.com. [True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk] Reference
A brief struggle against the memory of bitter ill-usage and fierce wrong inflicted by her mother, and Mary drew a deep free breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Smarting under a sense of ill-usage, he became more severe upon the government, and perhaps did ascribe to them more than was true. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Others surrounded and spat on Langi, and hence the proverb for ill-usage, or rudely passing before chiefs: "It is spitting on Langi.". From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
He wore a long rusty black coat, and a high rusty black waistcoat, and trousers that were brown with dirty roads and general ill-usage. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
"Mrs. Smith's compliments to Mrs. Brown, begs to return the teapott to the latter -- in consequence of the ill-usage it has received in her hands.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference
A complaint of his master's ill-usage was made to the justices, and that worthy was at last obliged to sell him to another; but Annesley gained little by the change. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
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