He was tired too, and considered himself ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference

Sad; but then children are often shamefully ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

"So Mr. Arthur ill-used his first wife, my predecessor?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

When in 1528 he judged himself and his country ill-used by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

There is an opportunity to stand up for those who are ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

"I don't suppose Mrs. Gordon is aware that she is so ill-used!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

It is a boy's world; the girls here function mostly as ill-used toys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drugs, Sex, Whatever] Reference

Shelley thought that she too was oppressed and ill-used as he had been.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

And he actually acted and spoke as though he considered himself ill-used!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Henry of Navarre, the ill-used and betrayed victim of Catherine's policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

He appeared, on the whole, to consider himself an exceedingly ill-used person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference

According to her, her son was ill-used from the time he started till his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

They represented that Willis had been grossly ill-used, and explained the cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

It applies only to an ill-used man whose date (birth or death, &c.) was in 1506.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

The three are all austerely dressed, well-spoken women, who clearly feel ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mighty Fall] Reference

He was a pretty baby, and seemed to me the most ill-used of all, because the youngest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

That was in the era of bangs and frizzes and heads of hair that resembled ill-used dish mops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

But never feel ill-used, because that lessens your happiness and your power to help yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

After three chapters the mood was not quite the same; after a fourth I felt somewhat ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

For a minute they stood thus irresolute and then the lad bent and lifted the ill-used heather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

A woman named Allan was charged with assaulting a man because he had ill-used one of her boys.    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

Not that every dog is ill-used; no; for every rule has its exception, and every tyrant his favourite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

He has been trying to act as champion to an ill-used dog, and come off rather the worse in the encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

It's from poor dear Madge, and I'm bound to say that I think she's beastly ill-used, and very unfortunate. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Human nature relapses into the lower and baser instincts of its earlier existence, when neglected, ill-used and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

And when, in addition to her prettiness, she has the art to appear ill-used, there is no resisting her attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

Never in her life had she been so hurt -- never had she felt herself so ill-used since coming to this place to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Brahmana, that Devayani hath been ill-used, O fortunate one, in the forest by Sarmishtha, the daughter of Vrishaparvan. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

He was, and is, wont to pass whole days in the saddle, but, to an English eye, his horses seem unkempt and often ill-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

"I think that while there are ill-used women and children, it is certainly inconsistent to consider animals," said Theobald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Burghley, placed himself at the service of Mary and Philip, in the character of an ill-used and revengeful servant of Elizabeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

If he knows of some other man who was greatly ill-used and who died in 1506, then he must use another analytic phrase for that man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

And Kavya, hearing that his daughter had been ill-used by Sarmishtha speedily went out with a heavy heart, seeking her in the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

You will practise your music of course, and I trust to you for taking care of my instrument and not letting it be ill-used in any respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference