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
It would clearly be impossible to take amiss anything that this woman might choose to say.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver
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 Mrs. Thomson
Perhaps he is armed with a club, and may take amiss the use of an instrument that has to be poked into his ears, or what not.
From Anthropology by R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett
This was one of those enigmas in which the Delphian oracle usually spoke, saying things with a double meaning, and which men were apt to take amiss.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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