take amiss
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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
Young gentleman," said he at last, "before we man the windlass I have to beg you'll not take amiss any questions I may put.
From A Marriage at Sea by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Why should my shepherd take amiss, That oft I wake thee with a kiss?
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
But before you go allow me to offer you a suggestion which I am sure you will not take amiss.
From A Castle in Spain A Novel by James De Mille
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?"
From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by Mikl?s J?sika
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