35 collocations for misuses

But that spider is misusing her powers and making her serve him in a most wicked capacity against her will.

We misuse the word, for we fail to draw the necessary distinctions.

And when I see how man misuses the dog, his best friend; how he ties up this intelligent animal with a chain, I feel the deepest sympathy with the brute and burning indignation against its master.

He had some excuse, since they had become a scandal, had misused their wealth, and diverted it from the purposes originally intended.

Error is man's own fault; he falls into it only when he misuses the divine gift of knowledge, which includes its own standard.

Among the calumnies perpetually thrown out at me, is one which I cannot pass in silence, because it charges me with ingratitude to the United States, saying that I misuse the generosity of your country, which granted me protection and an asylum, upon my accepting the condition not to meddle any more with politics, but to abandon the cause to which I have devoted my lifeto retire from public life, and to lay down my head to rest.

A great hatred for Buck Gowdy surged through me as I felt her beside me in the seat and studied one after the other her powerful attractionsthe hatred, not for the man who misuses the defenseless girl left in his power by cruel fate; but the lust for conquest over the man who had this girl in his hands and who, as she feared, was searching for her.

" "That she was an unworthy object of either pity or affection is very clear: she misused his goodness of heart, gnawed incessantly at his slender purse, and quickly plunged him into a slough of difficulties nigh equal to her own.

As I am somewhat acquainted with the terrible history of that Order, I thought to find the explanation of this striking fact, in the historical ambition of that Order to rule the worldthis, their everlasting standard idea, to which they in all times sacrificed everything, and misused even the holiest of all religion, as an instrument to that ambition.

You have burlesqued my person, grossly betrayed my confidence, and misused my hospitality.

Not that he would misuse such information.

I have misused my life and have no strength with which to meet trouble.

No more so, than the physician is uncharitable, when he says,'If you go on misusing thus your lungs, or your digestion, you will ruin them past all cure.'

I write not this any ways to upbraid, or scoff at, or misuse poor men, but rather to condole and pity them by expressing, &c. 2260.

A humbler and better mood slowly dawned with unconscious change, and he began to ponder with himself wherein he had been misusing the money given him: either he had been misusing it, or God had not given him enough, seeing it would not reach the end of his needs; but he could think only of the poor he had fed, and the child he had adopted, and surely God would overlook those points of extravagance.

It never really struck her that he might misuse the authority she indifferently left in his hands.

For time misused they pine and waste, And love's sweet pleasures never taste.

" All about the room the privates were sacreligously misusing my property.

But man, that selfish and heartless creature, misuses this quality of the brute to be more content than we are with mere existence, and often works it to such an extent that he allows the brute absolutely nothing more than mere, bare life.

General Smuts has warned not only the Empire, but the whole world of the gigantic threat to civilization that lies in the present division of Africa between various keenly competitive European Powers, any one of which will be free to misuse the great natural resources at its disposal and to arm millions of black soldiers for aggression.

Veronica, you are strangely misusing the rights which I have allowed you to take.

As the young lord turned to him, Lady Constancecrushed and brokensaid, "Couldst thou not see why I have so misused my better self; have thine eyes been blind all these years not to see how I have loved thee, Cedrictheetheewith all my heart and soul?" "I would not hear thee prate of anything so sacred as love,'tis sacrilege.

" "Now, Uncle, like Rosalind, you have simply misused your whole sex in your special pleadings, both for and against.

Why, then, was this horrid trade to be kept up?To give the planters truly the liberty of misusing their slaves, so as to check population: for it was from ill-usage only that, in a climate so natural to them, their numbers could diminish.

He did what he called a harem dance for them, misusing his stomach outrageously, and the incongruity of that by a descendant of the Prophet took all the sting out of the situation.

35 collocations for  misuses