What is "maltreated"

Usage examples of "maltreated".

Louis, horribly maltreated, is dragged to the foot of the stairs, where he lies as if dead:" previous to this, "he was forced to give a considerable contribution, and to refund all penalties collected by him before the Revolution as the local lord of the manor.

Achard de Vagogne, seeing a man maltreated by armed men, approaches, in order to make peace.

Etienne is attacked at the entrance of the court-room and nearly knocked down He is so maltreated that he is obliged to seek shelter in the guard-room.

Most of the representatives who were maltreated the evening before, write that they will not return, while others, who are present, declare that they will not vote again "if they cannot be secure of freedom of conscience in their deliberations.

Witnesses dare not give testimony for fear of being maltreated or pillaged by the criminals.

In this perilous enterprise they are occasionally joined by the Flatheads, the persecutions of the Blackfeet having produced a close alliance and cooperation between these luckless and maltreated tribes.

They also had been plundered and maltreated by the Crows, those universal freebooters.

Here lived the savages who had robbed and maltreated Reed, when bearing his tin box of despatches.

Of course, we were there to defend their money and civic rights, to defend them not only from the Soviet or Socialism but from the maltreated, dissatisfied Romanian workers and small farmers who needed repressing with a bloody hand.

By standing there we were exposing the girls to the possibility of being maltreated in the most appalling fashion.

The robots are often maltreated and subjected to aggression of all possible kinds, but they are always willing to turn the other steel cheek.

A brain-searing roar as of the cosmos being ripped to tatters smashed into his already maltreated eardrums.