ill-doings

Whenever a Rood settled in town, disorder and ill-doings tapered off, though folk whispered that having a Rood in town merely focused the evil in one spot.

The Codex Continual » “Nine are the Candles”-An Excerpt 2008

Oh wait, they were getting fat and happy off the ill-doings of Ebbers, Sullivan and rest of the management.

Bernie Confesses: I am Dumb and Stupid 2005

Mr Mortimer Gazebee, rejected though he had been, still, went and came, talking much to the squire, much also to her ladyship, as to the ill-doings which were in the course of projection by Sir Louis; and Frank went about the house with clouded brow, as though finally resolved to neglect his one great duty.

Doctor Thorne 2004

He grieved bitterly over his own ill-doings, and knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him.

Framley Parsonage 2004

In your fate, O beautiful child, are wounds and ill-doings, and shedding of blood.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Newman reminded his countrymen that in 1852 a petition had been sent to the House of Commons from Lower Bengal, "among other grievous complaints," which "stated that by reason of the hardships inflicted on witnesses, the population" were averse from testifying to the ill-doings and tyranny of these police.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

And the fox confessed how shamefully he had ill-used the bear, and the cat, and the wolf, and Chanticleer's children, and many other ill-doings during his life; and when he had finished, he knelt before

The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition Unknown

He then must have his own house in good order who undertakes to order the affairs of his friends and the public, for any ill-doings on the part of husbands to their wives is far more likely to come out and be known to the public than the ill-doings of wives to their husbands.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Four years after his consecration he had permission from the queen "to arm himself against the ill-doings of papists and other disaffected persons in his diocese."

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See C. King Eley

In your fate, O beautiful child, are wounds and ill-doings and shedding of blood.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919