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
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.
Make poetry of what you please for me; But how if Mrs. Halm should take amiss Your breaking of her furniture to pieces?
From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
He certainly will not take amiss my sending him the part.
From Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 by Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von
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 De Mille, James
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