"Mistreated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I can remember I have been treated nice everywhere I been. Ain't none of the white folks ever mistreated me. ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... our speech, and in general, this reproach is just, for there are many persons who do scanty justice to the vowel-elements of our language. Although these elements constitute its music they are continually mistreated. We flirt with and pirouette around them constantly. If it were not so, English would be found full of beauty and harmony of sound. Familiar with the maxim, "Take care of the vowels and the consonants will take care of themselves,"—a maxim that when put into practise has frequently led ...
— Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases • Grenville Kleiser
... might see, he stood there looking up at the distant figure until it was lost to view, cut off by the outjutting roof above him. That one sight, however, lifted a vast load from the boy's mind. His father, at least, was not mistreated. Evidently the man with him was the Don. And as evidently his father was treated more as ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
... knowed ye, an' I've craved ye, this many year. Some way, hit just seemed as how I couldn't he'p hit. The more ye mistreated me, the more I wanted ye. Hit shames me, but hit's true as preachin'. An' hit's true yit—even arter seein' yer bare futprint tracks thar on the Branch, alongside them of a man with shoes—the damned revenuer what got us. Ye showed 'im the place, Plutiny Siddon—cuss ye, fer a spy!... An' I craves ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily
... sets out to lure men to destruction. She knew she was bad, yet found plenty of excuses for herself. She often declared that she hated and despised men for the wrong they had done her. Imposed upon, deceived, mistreated in her early girlhood by the type of men who prey on women, at last she turned the tables, and armed only with her dangerous charm and beauty, started out to make the same slaughter of the other sex as she herself had suffered, together with many of ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow |
