A young man holding your position in Travers and Treason ought not to have to be sorry for having been locked up in prison for a week for maltreating a policeman!
A young man who has been locked up in prison for a week for maltreating a policeman can hardly expect to be entrusted with such concerns as those of Travers and Treason.
For some time he and his sister lived in great harmony, but at last they disagreed, and he, in addition to maltreatingthe lady in many ways, at last scorched the side of her face.
That is for abusing me; that is for your maltreating me.
What does concern me,' he says, 'is that you shall hereafter desist from maltreating a man half your size.
Had you possessed one atom of feminine feeling, you would have seen what a comfort the child is to me, and would have lavished tenderness upon her, instead of maltreating her.
I promise you satisfaction, and much greater satisfaction than you would have in maltreating a woman.
Vallejo gave a favourable answer, requesting the soldiers might be restrained from maltreating the inhabitants; but sent off an express to Cortes, soliciting a strong reinforcement or the immediate presence of the general.
Having marched for two days along the sea-shore, through a marshy uninhabited country, he arrived at some villages, where the inhabitants entertained him hospitably, but many of his soldiers straggled about robbing and maltreating the people.
But these Mexican troops injured the cause they were sent to support, becoming very disorderly, plundering and maltreating the people whom they were sent to defend, or to keep under subjection.
The brutal Barrett seemed to delight in maltreating these demented unfortunates.
He denied all the specific acts of cruelty alleged against him, such as maltreating and killing prisoners with his own hands.
I myself have witnessed frightful scenes, and on several occasions prevented him with all my physical strength from maltreating the beautiful, unfortunate child in my presence.
Like all vulgar-minded men, he could not refrain from maltreating those whom he designed to injure.
We can say that Belgium does not seek to avenge her unheard-of sufferings by maltreating the German victims of the war.
Since the Germans denied the atrocities of which their troops were accused, and, on the other hand, were accusing the Belgians of maltreating the wounded, such an inquiry could only have a happy result.
Very remarkable precautions to prevent masters from maltreating the slaves who had taken refuge in churches.
When Lord Clifford was in trouble for plundering his cattle and maltreating his tenants, Bishop Cantilupe inflicted personal chastisement upon him with a rod in the cathedral.
I suppose I am indebted for my incarceration to the oath of a worthless man, who was arraigned before me and fined for abusing and maltreating his lame, helpless brother.
While I am authorized thus in the name of the Secretary of War, I have the fullest authority to dismiss from the army any man, be his rank what it may, whom I find maltreating the freedmen.
The Prince of Conde, whilst cruelly maltreating the countries in revolt, had elsewhere had the prudence to observe some gentle measures towards the peaceable Reformers in the hope of thus producing submission.
Joined two by two, scorched in the sun, worn out by the heat and fatigue, they were lashed and goaded by a whip in the hands of one of their own number, who perhaps consoled himself with this power of maltreating others.
The next was in 1600, when Anton Ruiznieto was punished with abjuration de levi and three years' exile, for maltreating a crucifix and using offensive words to it.
In 1810 the Valencia tribunal is investigating Rosa Avinent, keeper of a tobacco-shop, for suspicion of maltreatingsome children in her house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maltreating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
