ill-treats

Updated: September 30, 2025

I shouldn't have known." Stella recoiled. "There is nothing to know," she said sharply, and Thresk pointed at her throat. "Nothing?" Stella Ballantyne raised her hand to cover the blue marks. "I I fell and hurt myself," she stammered. "It was he Ballantyne." "No," she cried and she drew herself erect. But Thresk would not accept the denial. "He ill-treats you," he insisted.

A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason - Witness for the Defence

Now this he could not do except at the expense of the convents; for in the larger and richer houses he has granted offices to those of his party and those under his control, while he dislikes and ill-treats the virtuous and grave religious from España.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 : 1604-1605 : Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century