take amiss
Example Sentences
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George R. Tracy San Clemente, Calif. Not all vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
No person there can take amiss our not visiting.
From The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Nelson, Horatio
Good Captain Brown will not, I hope, take amiss his old acquaintance Jo.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
And the queer thing was that she did not take amiss my infatuation, especially when you consider that she was the enemy of every passion that could not be made directly subservient to our work….
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
Three more words about thee, the world will still not take amiss from me!
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
