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take ill



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Idioms and Phrases

see get sick .

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As things stand, I shall put up with no more affronts; and I shall be so far from taking ill words that I will not take ill looks.

But counsel ought to be preceded by prayer—and I have prayed—Will you take ill the supplication?

But, sire, soldiers do not reason thus, they never take ill luck into their calculations.

So I feel that some might misread my meaning, and take ill advantage thereof; and I keep my thoughts to myself, and to God.

He would say, what thou dost take ill in thy neighbour, do not thyself.

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