take amiss
Example Sentences
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Three more words about thee, the world will still not take amiss from me!
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"Right, Brunck�; contradict me tomorrow at table, in the king's hearing, and I will reply in a manner which you must only feign to take amiss."
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"Dear Johanna, you must not take amiss what he says," Helena began, with a furtive smile.
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And the wretched Libor, bowing almost to the earth, made hurried answer, "How could I possibly take amiss anything that his Highness the Khan, my lord and master, may choose to do?"
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It was a great relief to me to find that you did not take amiss what I wrote about wall painting, and that you quite understood that I could only become so wrathful regarding a matter which interests me in the highest degree.
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