I had at this time so won their hearts by the "formality" of my behaviour and language, that I firmly believe they would have resisted to the knife any attempt which might have been made to arrest or otherwise maltreat me.
And women are proverbially faithful by nature, you know--even clinging to the men who maltreat them.
But in our own country, I think women maltreat themselves more frequently.
I had at this time so won their hearts by the “formality” of my behaviour and language, that I firmly believe they would have resisted to the knife any attempt which might have been made to arrest or otherwise maltreat me.
The apprentice replied by drawing forth his purse, and besought the fellow to whom he gave it not to maltreat his companion.
They may maltreat her horribly if they discover that they have the maid instead of the mistress, and by the maid's device.
It is certainly not fair to slander and maltreat those people, who were originally brought in to fill the need of man-power and who have contributed much towards making the Pacific Coast what it is to-day.
What we insisted on was that it is unwise to maltreat the Japanese on the surmise that they are unassimilable.
But you saw no person strike or maltreat this man who lies dead here?
He wished to govern England in law and order, and not to maltreat the natives.
They crushed their vassals by incessant tallages, or demands for money over and above the rent in money or service that was due, and allowed their Norman stewards and underlings to maltreat the peasantry as much as they chose.
Bishop, seeking to escape, "here are those rascal fellows who did maltreat me so in Sherwood.
He tends them, and slays instead any robbers who would maltreat or kill the does.
The river was narrow and easy to pass, and he directed Diego Flores de Valdes, Admiral of the Fleet, to receive the standards and the arms, and to go in the boat and see that the soldiers did not maltreat them.
Soon they began to hustle and maltreat her, with cries of "Down with the gipsy!
In 1410, when the Queen-regent Doña Catalina was in Segovia, there was revealed a sacrilegious attempt by some Jews to maltreat a consecrated host.
No such idea exists or will enter into the heads of the Americans," answered Franklin, "unless you maltreat them quite scandalously.
The Old Christians began to maltreat the Moriscos, who ceased their labors and commenced to sell their movables, while their creditors and holders of censos became alarmed and proceeded to collect their claims with rigor.
They surround the condemned and march with them to the brasero, to protect them from the populace which, in some places, is accustomed to maltreat and even to kill them, against which the inquisitors give special instructions.
Smith and his comrades, so far from being encouraged to maltreat the Indians, were often hampered in making a necessary self-defence, by a fear of offending an arbitrary government at home.
You shall use the utmost diligence and care that, in all places you may pass through inhabited by friendly Indians, none of your men should use violence, or maltreat the natives.
Then the officers and newly-appointed magistrates began tomaltreat those who showed discontent at the governor's imprisonment.
He may maltreat you at his pleasure, batter you with his arguments, kick you with inferences, and knock you down with conclusions, and no help for it all!
Mudbury would find it easier to maltreatmy things than myself.
Was he to be enticed once again into Lombard Street, in order that the clerks might set upon him in a body and maltreat him?
Public utilities are likewise administered by white men who often maltreat Negroes.
These poor people have been brought up to hate and maltreat every body who does not agree with their opinions.
The will of the proud, insolent Arab was supreme, whether his demands were reasonable or otherwise; having bought his wives cheap, he might maltreat or divorce them at pleasure.
He may maltreat her and insult her by the presence in her own house of his mistress.
