ill-turn

He had come to that place where, whatever the shock or the ill-turn of fortune, he could accept it, and even in that first moment of loss he realized that, for Jean at least, the fortune was not ill.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I never knew who had served me this ill-turn with Monseigneur, but I always suspected Mademoiselle de Lillebonne.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

He looks to me like a man that's calc'latin 'to do some kind of ill-turn to somebody.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Pritchard, married a sister of mine, and the settlement is too near the border for them to do an ill-turn to a Canadian; still, with that uniform, it may be best for you to keep close and not show yourself, whilst I visit my old friends and lay in what is needful.

The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach

We are to set up Horatius Vir in effigy for inventing the Normal Schoolmaster, and by-and-by we shall be called on to do the same ill-turn for Elihu Mulciber for getting uselessly learned (as if any man had ideas enough for twenty languages!) without any schoolmaster at all.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

He could never have got her, and he knew it – old Auguste and young Paul would have incontinently riddled him with bullets had he ventured near the house as a suitor, – but he hated Carey none the less, and watched for a chance to do him an ill-turn.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

But think of me always as your friend, and believe that if I can prevail upon my brother to overlook the ill-turn you did him when you entered the service of this child "-- and she pointed to Madonna Paola --" I shall send for you from Rome, for in Pesaro I fear you have little to hope for.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

Carey none the less, and watched for a chance to do him an ill-turn.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea 1908

Nevertheless, may his house be destroyed, for he has done me an ill-turn with his foolery.

The Valley of the Kings Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

A blunder by Hiram, an ill-turn of Fate, will ruin us yet.

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903