I could put up with anything but the mishandling of my devoted golf clubs.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
Have you seen the kick and tug at the straps of the mettled pony in stables that betrays the mishandling of him by his groom?
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Language is in a certain sense every one's business; but it is especially the business, as their appellation denotes, of men of letters; and a primary duty of their high vocation is to be jealous of any careless or impertinent meddling with, or mishandling of, those little glistening, marvelous tools wherewith such amazing structures and temples have been built and are ever a-building.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert