"Maltreat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... own private gait. I think I never heard of any one in as mean a situation. I must reach the lake of Bouchet, where I meant to camp, before sundown; and, to have even a hope of this, I must instantly maltreat this uncomplaining animal. The sound of my blows sickened me. Once, when I looked at her, she had a faint resemblance to a lady of my acquaintance who formerly loaded me with kindness; and this increased my ...
— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker
... that God gave man "dominion over the beasts of the field" does not imply a denial of animal rights, any more than the supremacy of a human government conveys the right to oppress and maltreat its citizens. ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... attention! German officers say that the French maltreat prisoners. This is a lie. German prisoners are as well treated as unfortunate ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... Roughs will enter the pleasure grounds in the upper part of the city, in which a pic-nic or social gathering is going on, for the sole purpose of breaking up the meeting. They fall upon the unoffending pleasure-seekers, beat the men unmercifully, maltreat, insult, and sometimes outrage the women, rob all parties who have valuables to be taken, and then make their escape. Pleasure parties of this kind are usually unprovided with the means of resistance, while their assailants are well armed. It sometimes ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... of words, one may search for the bizarre and unusual rather than for the truly picturesque. Stevenson at times seems to have lapsed. When he says that Modestine would feel a switch "more tenderly than my cane;" that he "must instantly maltreat this uncomplaining animal," meaning constantly; and at another place that he "had to labor so consistently with" his stick that the sweat ran into his eyes, there is a suspicion of a desire for ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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