Meanings of spoil by in English

This is too fine to spoil by going to bed.

Steam until tender, but do not spoil by overcooking.

But it will not spoil by an hour's keeping.

Jomswickinga S. on the division of spoil by the law of the pirate community of Jom.

Though she was dying to know what had brought her daughter home, the story would not spoil by keeping.

It won't spoil by keeping.

The concession, granted to a Frenchman, François Blanc, was too valuable to spoil by having Monaco come under French law!

Touchett didn't take proper care of it, but it was the sort of place you could hardly spoil by letting it alone.

Her father waited for her to speak, too good a lawyer to spoil by superfluous words the effect of a well-calculated appeal.

The moon in its wanderings must be a sort of exasperation to cunning beasts, likely to spoil by untimely risings some fore-planned mischief.

There are thousands of very pretty girls who have no love for beauty save their own, which they do their best to spoil by self-homage.

Each time it is spoilt by the amount of litter and debris.

The hero, spoilt by fortune and blasé, is ever growing more reckless.

But I expect they will all be spoilt by this hot sun.

Some of our Clothes also Spoiled by them, and papers &c. &.

Was the girl going to be spoilt by the possession of wealth?