Treats

Examples

• The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If the familiar little man treats my mother in that way, how will he treat ME? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He treats it lightly himself, though it sometimes makes his friends anxious about him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You see how he treats me,' the Secretary answered, with a patient and yet proud air. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These pictures are all battle scenes, and only one solitary little canvas among them all treats of anything but great French victories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The last time I was in London, my mistress gave me two treats. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She treats me as a time waster. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She does not scold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which is quite proper, you know, and treats me with respect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He made little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He always treats you with such delicate gallantry and attention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It likes things undisturbed, settled, and treats them as such without due warrant. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The least desirable treats each lesson as an independent whole. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This excellent woman treats me with an excessive civility which is plainly the offspring of down-right terror. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• No genuine politician ever treats his constituents as reasoning animals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The fifth and last book treats of the revenue of the sovereign, or commonwealth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• At the same time he treats the general principles of bot any, the distribution of plants, the nourishment of the plant through leaf as well as root, the sexuality of date palm and terebinth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And if he treats you mercifully, and if I can say it was my doing----' I listened eagerly for more, but she stopped at those words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Every day there was a free tea somewhere, the children had never had so many treats in their lives. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typist: Steven