You may construe your author, indeed, but if with some translators you boast that you have left your author to speak for himself, that you have neither added nor diminished, you have in reality grossly abused him, and deceived yourself.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Affecting not to see the gentleman when he entered, Mr. Squeers feigned to be mending a pen and trying to comfort the boy he had so grossly abused.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I tell you I found him grossly insulting her, and I took the dog's whip from him, and thrashed him till my arm ached.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn